Upon Champion's decision to close the plant in 1997, the employees of Champion purchased the plant and formed Blue Ridge Paper Company.

General Henry Champion, second largest shareholder in the Connecticut Land Company, first acquired Andover Township in the drawing for lands held at Hartford in 1798.

Springfield also became known as " The Champion City ".. a reference to the Champion brand of farm equipment manufactured by the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company, which was later absorbed into International Harvester in 1902. International remains in Springfield as Navistar International, a producer of medium to large trucks.

Eureka housed the " Big Four " mines — Bullion Beck and Champion, Centennial Eureka, Eureka Hill, and Gemini-and later the Chief Consolidated Mining Company.

In 1935 the Starr Piano Company sold some Gennett masters, and the Gennett and Champion trademarks to Decca Records.

After that, he worked for the Champion Papers and Fibre Company, where his bosses encouraged him to get involved in conservative politics for the company's benefit.

The Champion ( Combined ) Reapers and Mowers, produced by the Champion Interest group ( Champion Machine Company, later Warder, Bushnell & Glessner, absorbed in IHC 1902 ) in Springfield, Ohio in the second half of the 19th century, were highly successful in the 1880s in the United States.

On April 30, 1912, in New York, Carl Laemmle of IMP, Pat Powers of Powers Motion Picture Company, Mark Dintenfass of Champion Film Company, William Swanson of Rex Motion Picture Company, David Horsley of Nestor Film Company and Charles Baumann and Adam Kessel of the New York Motion Picture Company merged their studios and the Universal Film Manufacturing Company was incorporated.

* The Bellanca Sales Company acquires the assets of the Champion Aircraft Company, creating the Bellanca Aircraft Corporation.

Jones has worked for many companies, including the Miller Brewing Company, Haggar Clothing, Pacific Coast Medical Enterprises, and Epson America, and represented the NFL and Champion Products as spokesman for their Throwback campaigns.

A large paper mill ( once part of Champion International Paper and now the Blue Ridge Paper Company ) in Canton was the primary source of considerable dioxin and particulate matter pollution discharged into the Pigeon River.

In 1902 the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and Deering Harvester Company, along with three smaller agricultural equipment firms ( Milwaukee ; Plano ; and Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner — manufacturers of Champion brand ) merged to create the International Harvester Company.

The most widely accepted theory of where the name Jimmy comes from is a Royal Signals boxer, called Jimmy Emblem, who was the British Army Champion in 1924 and represented the Royal Corps of Signals from 1921 to 1924.

Cockrell distinguished himself at the Battle of Champion Hill, launching a counterattack that temporarily ousted troops of XVII Corps off the hill.

Based in Madison, Wisconsin, the Madison Scouts was one of the thirteen founding member corps of Drum Corps International ( DCI ) and is a two-time DCI World Champion.

Based in Rosemont, Illinois, the Cavaliers was one of the thirteen founding member corps of Drum Corps International and is a seven-time DCI World Champion.

Based in Concord, California, the corps is a member of Drum Corps International ( DCI ) and is a fifteen-time DCI World Champion.

Based in Santa Clara, California, the Santa Clara Vanguard is one of the thirteen founding member corps of Drum Corps International ( DCI ) and is a six-time DCI World Champion.

Based in Anaheim, California the corps was a charter member corps of Drum Corps International ( DCI ) and the first DCI World Champion.

Based in Allentown, Pennsylvania The Cadets was one of the thirteen founding corps of Drum Corps International ( DCI ) and is a ten-time DCI World Champion.

Based in Bloomington, Indiana, the corps was the 1991 Drum Corps International ( DCI ) Open Class ( now World Class ) World Champion.

At the end of the summer season, Drum Corps International ( DCI ) World Class corps compete to earn the title of DCI World Class Champion ( formerly DCI Division I World Champion ).

Cyclist Jamie Staff ( BMX cycling World Champion and Track cycling multi medal winner ) lives in the area.

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (, Anatolij Evgen ' evič Karpov ; born May 23, 1951 ) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion.

Athlon is the ancient Greek word for " Champion / trophy of the games ".

The first official World Chess Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, claimed his title in 1886 ; the current World Champion is Viswanathan Anand.

The best known CAMRA award is the Champion Beer of Britain, which is selected at the Great British Beer Festival, other awards include the Champion Beer of Scotland and the Champion Beer of Wales.

As of April 2012, the Association Croquet World Champion is Reg Bamford of South Africa.

As of 2011, the Golf Croquet World Champion is Mark McInerney ( Ireland ) and the Women's Golf Croquet World Champion is Rachel Rowe ( England ).

The annual National Champion in the Football Bowl Subdivision is then instead traditionally determined by a vote of sports writers and other non-players.

Corum is the last survivor of the Vadhagh race and an incarnation aspect of the Eternal Champion, a being that exists in all worlds to ensure there is " Cosmic Balance ".

* Laigle, Mathilde, Le livre des trois vertus de Christine de Pisan et son milieu historique et littéraire, Paris, Honoré Champion, 1912, 375 pages, collection: Bibliothèque du XVe siècle siècle ( this book is the translation of an American thesis of Mathilde Laigle, Columbia U. )

Inspired by the Enlightenment, the original version of the Declaration was discussed by the representatives on the basis of a 24 article draft proposed by the sixth bureau ,< ref > The original draft is an annex to the report of the August 12th report ( Archives parlementaires, 1, sup > e </ sup > série, tome VIII, débats du 12 août 1789, p. 431 ).</ ref >< ref > Archives parlementaires, 1 < sup > e </ sup > série, tome VIII, débats du 19 août 1789, p. 459 .</ ref > led by Jérôme Champion de Cicé.

A major source of on-line material is the Critical Rationalist website and also the Rathouse of Rafe Champion.

Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain.

Any World Champion is automatically awarded the GM title

The Seventh Doctor is Time's Champion ( as well as someone who makes frequent deals with or wages against Death to save his friends ) and the audio play Master states that the Master is Death's champion.

In 1884, the Norwegian Axel Paulsen was named Amateur Champion Skater of the World after winning competitions in the United States.

It was popularized by and named after 1981 World Champion Denise Biellmann.

He also continued boxing, and was named Heavyweight Champion of the British Army in 1918.

He gained sufficient prestige from his naval exploits to be named the official Champion of Queen Elizabeth I. Clifford became extremely wealthy through his buccaneering, but lost most of his money gambling on horse races.

At age three, Secretariat was again named Horse of the Year, and won Eclipse Awards as the American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse and the American Champion Male Turf Horse.

A group of smaller Johnson County ranchers led by a local settler named Nate Champion began to form the Northern Wyoming Farmers and Stock Growers ' Association ( NWFSGA ) to compete with the WSGA.

Gilles ' son, also named Jacques, won the Indianapolis 500 and CART championships in 1995 and became Formula One World Champion in 1997.

Chase County was named after Champion S. Chase, who served as mayor of Omaha for seven years and was Nebraska's first Attorney General.

The town is named after General Henry Champion, early owner.

It was named after Henry Champion, who in return for his gratitude, commissioned a bell for the town church.

It is the premier event for the Tennessee Walking Horse, during which the breed's World Grand Champion and some 20 World Champions are named.

In 2001 and 2004, it was named the AAA division Champion Fair in the state of Tennessee.

In 1994 and 2000, it was named first runner-up for the Champion Fair in the AAA Division, and in 1988, received the award for Most Outstanding Fair in Tennessee.

It is named after former Boerne High School teacher and principal Samuel V. " Sam " Champion, who died on January 8, 2007 after a long battle with brain cancer.

Over the years seven different circuits have been used, two of which are named after the famous Ferrari World Champion racing driver Mike Hawthorn.

Additionally, the marching band was named the Bands of America St. Louis Super Regional Class A Champion in 2008.

The closest Champion Section Brass Band is the Yorkshire Imperial Urquhart Travel Band, formerly of the Yorkshire Imperial Copperworks based in Stourton, from which the band is named.

In 1971, Nat Fleischer, perhaps boxing's most famous historian and also editor and founder of Ring magazine, named Marciano as the all-time 10th greatest Heavyweight Champion.

In 1998, Ring named Marciano as the 6th greatest Heavyweight Champion ever.

Since a Championship Game would not exist in the NFL until 1933, the team with the best regular season record was named the NFL Champion.

Their rover Jack Worrall was twice named Champion of the Colony.

Funny Cide won the Eclipse Award for 3 Year Old Male of the Year, the first New York-bred to do so ( Saratoga Dew was named American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly of 1992 ).

She was named 1996 Junior World Champion by the International Tennis Federation.

Lucía Méndez ( born Lucía Leticia Méndez Pérez ) began her career in 1972 when a very important newspaper from Mexico City " El Heraldo " launched her as " El Rostro " meaning " the face ", she won this title ; she also appeared in an uncredited role in a film named Vuelven los campeones justicieros also known in the USA as The Champion Five Return.