Dame Jean was at one time a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, patron of the Dandie Dinmont Club, a breed of dog named after one of Sir Walter Scott's characters ; and a horse trainer, one of whose horses, Sir Wattie, ridden by Ian Stark, won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Alaric was forced by his magnates to meet Clovis in the Battle of Vouillé ( Summer 507 ) near Poitiers ; there the Goths were defeated and Alaric slain, according to Gregory of Tours, by Clovis himself.

In 1900 Spalding was appointed by President McKinley as the USA's Commissioner at that year's Summer Olympic Games.

A prototype of the full computer was shown to the public for the first time at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in 1984.

The 7800 was initially released in southern California in June 1984, following an announcement on May 21, 1984 at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show.

Atari was a sponsor of the 1984 Summer Olympics and planned to push the 7800 aggressively in time for Christmas that year.

Atari Corp. then showed the Lynx to the press at the Summer 1989 CES as the " Portable Color Entertainment System ", which was changed to Lynx when actual consoles were distributed to resellers.

Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

The first use of this torch was for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

Badminton was a demonstration event in the 1972 and 1988 Summer Olympics.

The later usage was in part attributed to the choices of gold, silver and bronze to represent the first three Ages of Man in Greek mythology: the Golden Age, when men lived among the gods ; the Silver age, where youth lasted a hundred years ; and the Bronze Age, the era of heroes, and was first adopted at the 1904 Summer Olympics.

Summer holidays were spent in Scotland and in the English Lake District where Beatrix developed a love of the natural world which was the subject of her painting from an early age.

During the Summer, the hour long programme News 24 Sunday was broadcast both on BBC One and the BBC News Channel at 09: 00, to replace The Andrew Marr Show, which is off air.

* RAI International: In Summer 2004, this Italian government controlled channel was denied permission to broadcast independently in Canada on the grounds that it had acted and was likely to act contrary to established Canadian policies.

Croquet was an event at the 1900 Summer Olympics and roque, an American variation on croquet, an event at the 1904 Summer Olympics.

Their debut album Memories of Summer as a Child was released on January 20, 2009.

This was the only appearance of cricket at the Summer Olympics.

Apart from his lengthy teaching career at Berkeley ( during which a number of international students began to appreciate and apply his methods ), Alexander was a key member of faculty both of The Prince of Wales's Summer Schools in Civil Architecture ( 1990 – 1994 ) and The Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture

In 1975 Donna Summer recorded a song which she brought to her producer Giorgio Moroder entitled " Love to Love You Baby " which contained a series of simulated orgasms The song was never intended for release but when Moroder played it in the clubs it caused a sensation.

Due to the association of the breed with Germany, the dachshund was chosen to be the first official mascot for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, with the name Waldi.

Following the 2004 Summer Olympics, President Romano Prodi pointed out that the combined medal total of the European Union was far greater than that of any other country and called for EU athletes to fly the European flag at the following games alongside their own as a sign of solidarity ( which did not happen ).

Summer of Night ( 1991 ) recounts the childhood of a group of pre-teens who band together in the 1960s to defeat a centuries-old evil that terrorizes their hometown of Elm Haven, Illinois.

In the US, there is a center of Post Keynesian work at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, dubbed " The Kansas City School ", together with the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, which has run a Post Keynesian Conference and Post Keynesian Summer School, together with a group blog, Economic Perspectives from Kansas City.

Kitson and Emerick, who appeared together on Last of the Summer Wine as Police Constables Cooper and Walsh from 2003 to 2010, reprised their roles in an improvised stage play.

In the United States, Ritola joined the Finnish-American Athletic Club and trained together with Hannes Kolehmainen, who had moved to the United States after the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Clift and Taylor appeared together again in Raintree County and Suddenly, Last Summer.

In the Summer of 1987 Moby Grape, along with It's a Beautiful Day, Fraternity of Man, and the Strawberry Alarm Clock, got together for a couple of shows.

In 2007, the foundation established the Annual Meeting of the New Champions ( also called Summer Davos ), held annually in China and alternating between Dalian and Tianjin, bringing together 1, 500 influential stakeholders of what the foundation calls Global Growth Companies, primarily from rapidly growing emerging countries such as China, India, Russia, Mexico, and Brazil, but also including fast movers from developed countries.

Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, they competed together as one nation for the last time at the 1992 Summer Olympics as a " Unified Team " winning the gold.

In Summer 2007, Sympatico packaged its Security suite and wireless home networking modem together with its high speed offering as Sympatico Total Internet.

If necessary, the three can fuse together to Burning Summer, a mix between a spider and a dragon with a tri-pronged mouth and three eyes matching the colors of the three sisters.

This movie was the first of a long-standing collaboration between the famous director and Turturro, which includes work together on a total of nine films — more than any other actor in the Lee oeuvre -- including Mo ' Better Blues ( 1990 ), Jungle Fever ( 1991 ), Clockers ( 1995 ), Girl 6 ( 1996 ), He Got Game ( 1998 ), Summer of Sam ( 1999 ), She Hate Me ( 2004 ), and Miracle at St. Anna ( 2008 ).

Givati, together with the Golani Brigade, Engineering Corps and the Armored Corps, participated in Operation " Summer Rains.

It was a warm-up for the Human Be-In the following January, which brought 30, 000 together and established media attention to hippie culture that then led to The Summer of Love.

Starting in 2011 all summer courses offered by Aarhus University for Bachelor's, Master's and PhD students will be gathered together and expanded to provide more diversity in a new framework: AU Summer University.

The L. A Watts Summer Games are a three-day athletic tournament that brings together more than 5, 000 students from 200 California schools.

John Jacob Astor represented Great Britain in rackets at the 1908 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal in the men's doubles competition together with Vane Pennell, and winning bronze in the men's singles event.

The Fastbacks reunited for a one-off live performance at the West Seattle Summer Music Festival, featuring the core trio of Kurt, Kim and Lulu, along with Mike Mussburger on drums, their first official show together since their break-up a decade ago.

Ritt and Newman worked together on four other movies, Paris Blues, The Long, Hot Summer, Hud and Hombre.

Fire Island is featured prominently in Ann Brashares's 2008 novel The Last Summer ( of You and Me ), about two sisters and a friend who grow up together, vacationing on the island every summer.

Luke tried to get Lucky and Summer back together.

Born Jeannette Josephina Maria Timmer in Amsterdam her greatest success was when she won the gold medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1948 Summer Olympics, together with Xenia Stad-de Jong, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs and Fanny Blankers-Koen.

Born Gerda Koudijs in Rotterdam, her greatest success was winning the gold medal in the 4 x 100 m relay at the 1948 Summer Olympics, together with Xenia Stad-de Jong, Netty Witziers-Timmer, and Fanny Blankers-Koen.

The school's gymnasium underwent renovation in 2010, and was used as a training venue for gymnastics in 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, together with that in the Year 5-6 campus.