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Amon Adonai Santos de Araújo Tobin, known as Amon Tobin, is a Brazilian electronic musician, composer and producer. He is noted for his unusual methodology in sound design and music production. He has released eight major studio albums under the London-based Ninja Tune record label. He has also released two albums under the alias Two Fingers with collaborator Doubleclick. His latest release, A Living Room , was released on September 23, 2022.
Christopher Arthur Amon was a New Zealand motor racing driver. He was active in Formula One racing in the 1960s and 1970s, and is widely regarded as one of the best F1 drivers never to win a championship Grand Prix. His reputation for bad luck was such that fellow driver Mario Andretti once joked that "if he became an undertaker, people would stop dying". Former Ferrari Technical Director Mauro Forghieri stated that Amon was "by far the best test driver I have ever worked with. He had all the qualities to be a World Champion but bad luck just wouldn't let him be".
Amon G. Carter Stadium is an open-air football stadium on the campus of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. It is the home stadium of the TCU Horned Frogs football team. It is named after Amon G. Carter, a prominent Fort Worth businessman, newspaper publisher, and city booster. Amon G. Carter stadium has several popular nicknames, the most popular being "The Carter" and "Hell's Half Acre".
Amon Amarth is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Tumba, formed in 1992. The band takes its name from the Sindarin name of Mount Doom, a volcano in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Their lyrics mostly deal with Viking mythology and history, and so they have been sometimes erroneously labeled "Viking metal", although the band insists they play melodic death metal.
Chris Amon Racing, also known simply as Amon, was a Formula One team established by New Zealand driver Chris Amon. It competed as a privateer team in the 1966 Italian Grand Prix, then as a constructor in its own right in the 1974 Formula One season.
Isufu "Ike" Quartey is a Ghanaian former professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2006. He held the WBA welterweight title from 1994 to 1998, and challenged once for IBF junior-middleweight title in 2000.
Ghana competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Thanks to in order of using the traditional Korean Hangul alphabet, Ghana was second in the parade of nations following Greece, which has traditionally led the march since 1928.
Victor Zilberman is a retired boxer from Romania. He competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1968. He also won 8 national senior titles and two silver medals at the European Amateur Boxing Championships.
David Kotey, popularly called "D.K. Poison", is a former world featherweight boxing champion between 1975 and 1976. He is the first Ghanaian professional boxer to win a world title.
Alfred Kotey was a Ghanaian professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2012. He held the WBO bantamweight title from 1994 to 1995 and at regional level the Commonwealth flyweight title from 1989 to 1990. As an amateur he represented Ghana at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Samuel Kotey Neequaye is a Ghanaian professional boxer who held the WBA-NABA lightweight title in 2013. As an amateur he represented Ghana at the 2008 Olympics.
Nii Amon Kotei was a Ghanaian sculptor, painter, musician, surveyor, and graphic artist. He is mostly remembered and celebrated as the designer of the coat of arms of Ghana. He was one of Ghana's leading artists.
The Beatles was the nickname for an Islamic State terrorist group composed of four British militants. The group was named after the British rock group the Beatles by their hostages, and the group's members were even nicknamed after the band's members: "John", "Paul", "George", and "Ringo".
Alexanda Amon Kotey, known as Jihadi George, is a former British citizen who in 2021 in a U.S. Federal Court pleaded guilty to "hostage-taking resulting in death and providing material support to the Islamic State group from 2012 through 2015".
El Shafee Elsheikh, known as Jihadi Ringo, is a Sudanese Islamist terrorist who took part in atrocities of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant as one of the four so-called Jihadi Beatles. He was found guilty of eight charges of hostage taking and murder by an American court in 2022 and later sentenced to eight life sentences without the possibility of parole.
The men's welterweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1976 Summer Olympics. The weight class allowed boxers of up to 67 kilograms to compete. The competition was held from 18 to 31 July 1976. 31 boxers from 31 nations competed.
Emmanuel Nii Ashie Kotey is a Ghanaian judge and academic. He has been a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana since his appointment in 2018.
Clifford Nii Amon Kotey also known as Nii Kotey Amon III was a Ghanaian diplomat and a traditional ruler. He was Ghana's ambassador to Morocco from 2009 to 2013. He is currently the Asere Djaasetse of the Ga ethnic group.
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- ↑ "Amon Kotey's burial today" (July 8, 2010) Daily Graphic.
