* Nevada City Film Festival — Started in 2001, the festival has grown from a showcase for local filmmakers to an international film festival hosting notable filmmakers from around the country including director Mike Mills ( Thumbsucker, The Beginners ), director Jonathan Krisel ( Portlandia ), actress and comedian Natasha Leggero ( Last Comic Standing ), and Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim of Tim & Eric's Awesome Show, Great Job!

Started the First and Second Battle of Kalinga-Apayao on 1942 to 1945 between the local Filipino troops and Igorot resistance against the Japanese.

Started the First and Second Battle of Kalinga-Apayao on 1942 to 1945 between the local Filipino troops and Igorot resistance against the Japanese.

Started in 1913 by local farmers to produce cheddar cheese and pasteurized milk, it was taken over by the Milk Marketing Board in 1937.

Started his career in politics as a journalist, director of local newspaper La Tribuna and owner of Diario de Costa Rica, principal newspaper at the time, where he directed his major political campaigns.

Started as a wireless paging and GSM mobile operator, it currently provides a wide range of services including nationwide GSM mobile network, long-distance, local calling, data communication, Internet services and IP telephony in mainland China, and has operated a CDMA network in Macau since 18 October 2006.

Started by Ian Danzig along with fellow programmers and local Toronto musicians, the group worked through 1991 to produce their first issue at the beginning of 1992, with monthly issues being produced ever since.

Started at Willington Parkside School in County Durham, The Edge existed in varying incarnations of Jeff Walker, Gem ’ s high-spirited, best friend also on guitar, with a local doctor ’ s son Michael Chesters on drums.

Started in 1992 as a spinoff of the local University of Texas Health Science Center, MHMRA proved to be a success as it focused on handling complex Medicare and Medicaid paperwork for patients, in a system which greatly cut down on administration costs and sped the approval process.

Started by local climber Jonathan Copp in 2005, the festival predominantly screens films on adventure and the outdoors.

Started in 1973 by local resident Liz Christy, it was the first community garden in New York.

Started the Allied Invasion of Jalajala on January to August 1945, local military forces of Filipino soldiers under the Philippine Commonwealth Army 4th, 41st, 42nd, 43rd, 45th, 46th and 47th Infantry Division and the Philippine Constabulary 4th Infantry Regiment was recaptured and invaded the municipal town of Jalajala and aided the helpful of all local Rizaleño guerrilla resistance fighters under the Colonel Marking's Guerrillas and the Hunters ROTC Guerrillas in the defeated and attacking the fought against the Imperial Japanese armed forces and the Makapili collaborating rebels.

Started of the Allied Philippine Invasion at General Tinio in Nueva Ecija on 1944 to 1945 between the Imperial Japanese ground forces and the Philippine Commonwealth ground troops and helping various guerrilla groups and Hukbalahap resistance, When the local Filipino troops and officers of the ongoing Philippine Commonwealth Army and the incoming 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Philippine Constabulary has came liberated and invading the town municipalities at General Tinio in Nueva Ecija and came aiding by the various guerrilla groups and Hukbalahap resistance fighters and defeats Imperial Japanese troops on 1944 to 1945 and aftermath in World War II.

Started by local businessmen, this station originally broadcasted from a 1, 000 foot tower in Lehigh Acres which increased to 1, 500 feet in 1983.

Started by the local chapter of the Rotary International Club, this school has played a pioneering effort in advancing the educational needs of the people around Ranibennur taluk.

This situation came to a head with the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, a pivotal event described in Nat Brandt's book The Town That Started the Civil War.

Started in 1912 in White River as a community celebration, Frontier Days continues today as a yearly event and attracts people from around the world.

Started in 2001, the juried, one-day event has become quite popular and, like the Oyster Festival, is also open to the public at no charge.

Started in 1957, the event brings together thousands of people to participate in traditional games, watch the dog-sled and snowmobile races and dance ( jig ) the night away in town.

Started as a Socialist political event, the holiday blended in the culture of many countries, primarily Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet bloc.

Started in 1950, the annual event takes place over three weeks in February.

Started in 2005 by AU-president Stuart Leslie of the University of York and his counterpart from the then York St John College, it is hoped to be continued as an annual event.

Started in 2002 by a group of game designer-programmers, the event featured a shared game engine technology worked on by other designer-programmers for a single long weekend.

Started in the 1980s, the Parade of Champions is an event during which the top 5 schools of the Special Group and the winner of Group A repeat their parades in the Sambadrome.

Started in 1985, this slalom snowboard race through the natural half pipe has evolved into an international event.

Started in 1995 as an offshoot of LIVE / WIRE, the Maze of Games has been the largest event at one or both of those conventions every year since.

Started 14 games at RDE, declared inactive vs. San Francisco, Dec. 3, with a knee injury and vs. Carolina, Dec. 31, with the Saints having clinched a playoff berth … Posted five or more tackles in seven contests ... Ranked 14th in the NFL with a career-high 10. 5 sacks and added 56 tackles ( 35 solo ), two pass defenses, three forced fumbles and a fumble recovery … Had a sack in each of the first three games, and added a fumble recovery at Green Bay, Sept. 17 … Notched five stops, a career-high two sacks and a forced fumble at Tampa Bay, Nov. 5 … Had a pair of sacks again at Atlanta, Nov. 26 – where he also deflected a pass and forced a fumble – and had two more sacks at Dallas, Dec. 10 … Was also a force in the postseason, with eight stops in the NFC Divisional Playoffs vs. Philadelphia and seven tackles at Chicago in the NFC Championship.

** Started the first CPR teaching course for medical professionals ( 1950 ).

Started in 1990, and expanded in 1995, it currently allows no more than 15 % of the district's public school enrollment to use vouchers.

Started over 100 years ago as an electrical company, LUS has expanded into a full service utilities company.

Started as a USM hospital in 1982, the Health campus has expanded after the School of Medical Science was moved from the main campus to the present site which is 73 hectares.

Started as a television channel in the United States, the brand was expanded into different areas.

Started in 1825, by Quaker brothers Cyrus and James Clark, as a business making sheepskin rugs and slippers, using out-workers in the village, it has expanded to become a global shoe brand, with operations in Europe, the United States and the Far East.

Started in Peru on June 23, 1988 in the middle of a coup d ' état, the company has grown and expanded not only in Peru, but also in Cuba, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Mexico, Colombia and Thailand.

Starr expanded into animation in the 1980s, as he noted, " Started writing television scripts in the early 1970s, and in 1984 I was asked to develop and write the bible for the animated television show Thundercats, and also act as the story editor and head writer.

Started in Istanbul, the discount markets expanded to Ankara and İzmir.

Started by guitar player Larry " Ovid " Stevens when they were students at W. W. Samuell High School in Dallas, the band secured a minor hit in 1968 ( reaching number 56 ) with a cover of the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band song " Smell Of Incense ," nationally released on the Stax subsidiary label Hip Records.

Started in 1952, it was the second revival of such a study ( the first two of its kind being Projects Sign and Grudge ).

* It Started in Paradise ( 1952 )

* Bruce Lee, 李小龍, actor in martial arts films and founder of Jeet Kune Do Started at the school in 1952.

Started in 1952 as the opening and closing act for Las Vegas headliners, sometimes dancing around the headliner.