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The Rentals are an American rock band fronted by vocalist Matt Sharp. Sharp has been the only consistent member since the group's inception. The band's best selling single is "Friends of P" (1995). The Rentals released two albums,Return of the Rentals (1995) and Seven More Minutes (1999) on Maverick Records before quietly splitting in 1999 following a world tour. The group reformed in 2005 and have since released several EPs and two more full-length albums,Lost in Alphaville and Q36. Lost in Alphaville released August 26,2014,on Polyvinyl Records. Q36 was released June 26,2020. Numerous musicians have appeared with the group on recordings and in live shows. The group's most recent iteration consists of Sharp,Nick Zinner,and Ronnie Vannucci Jr.
Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARP) are anti-racist skinheads who oppose white power skinheads,neo-fascists and other political racists,particularly if they identify themselves as skinheads. SHARPs aim to reclaim the original multicultural identity of the original skinheads,hijacked by white power skinheads,who they sometimes deride as "boneheads".
Matthew Kelly Sharp is an American songwriter and musician. Until 1998,he was the bassist for the alternative rock band Weezer,which he cofounded in 1992. He appears on their first two albums,the Blue Album (1994) and Pinkerton (1996). In 1994,Sharp founded the Rentals,who have released four albums. Sharp has also released an EP and an album as a solo artist.
Cecil James Sharp was an English-born collector of folk songs,folk dances and instrumental music,as well as a lecturer,teacher,composer and musician. He was the pre-eminent activist in the development of the folk-song revival in England during the Edwardian period. According to Folk Song in England,Sharp was the country’s "single most important figure in the study of folk song and music."
Phillip Allen Sharp is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J. Roberts for "the discovery that genes in eukaryotes are not contiguous strings but contain introns,and that the splicing of messenger RNA to delete those introns can occur in different ways,yielding different proteins from the same DNA sequence". He has been selected to receive the 2015 Othmer Gold Medal.
Solomon Porcius Sharp was an American attorney and politician,serving as attorney general of Kentucky and a member of the United States Congress and the Kentucky General Assembly. His murder by Jereboam O. Beauchamp in 1825 is referred to as the Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy or "The Kentucky Tragedy."
James"Hap" Sharp was an American race car driver who drove in six Formula One Grands Prix. He was most famous however,for being a co-owner and driver of the revolutionary Chaparral sports racing cars built by Jim Hall and Sharp in Midland,Texas. In 1962 Jim Hall and Hap Sharp formed Chaparral Cars,Inc. and immediately began the design and construction of Chaparral 2,a mid-engined car with an aerospace inspired semi-monocoque fiberglass chassis.
General Glory is the name of two DC Comics characters. The persona is mostly used by writers as a parody of Marvel's Captain America with exaggerated "patriotic values" and a sidekick called Ernie,who was similar to Bucky. General Glory first appeared in Justice League International #46 as a 1940s style hero placed in a modern world,resulting in cultural differences and personality issues. Whereas Captain America is patriotic,heroic,and rational,General Glory is so blindly patriotic that it approaches the point of fault,unwilling and psychologically unable to believe that his country or international peacekeeping organizations have a dark side. He was introduced as a comic foil for the jingoistic Green Lantern corps member Guy Gardner in the early 1990s.
Scott Sharp is an American professional racing driver in the United SportsCar Championship. He is the son of six-time SCCA champion Bob Sharp. Sharp is best known for his years as a competitor in the Indy Racing League.
In the American education system,a superintendent or superintendent of schools is an administrator or manager in charge of a number of public schools or a school district,a local government body overseeing public schools. All school principals in a respective school district report to the superintendent. The role and powers of the superintendent vary among areas. According to Sharp and Walter,a popularly held opinion is that "the most important role of the board of education is to hire its superintendent."
Philip Riley Sharp is an American politician and nonprofit executive who served in the United States House of Representatives as a Democratic representative from Indiana from 1975 to 1995.
David Sharp was an English mountaineer who died near the summit of Mount Everest. His death caused controversy and debate because he was passed by a number of other climbers heading to and returning from the summit as he was dying,although a number of others tried to help him.
They Died with Their Boots On is a 1941 American black-and-white Western film from Warner Bros. Pictures,produced by Hal B. Wallis and Robert Fellows,directed by Raoul Walsh,that stars Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland.
Joseph Henry Sharp was an American painter and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists,of which he is considered the "Spiritual Father". Sharp was one of the earliest European-American artists to visit Taos,New Mexico,which he saw in 1893 with artist John Hauser. He painted American Indian portraits and cultural life,as well as Western landscapes. President Theodore Roosevelt commissioned him to paint the portraits of 200 Native American warriors who survived the Battle of the Little Bighorn. While working on this project,Sharp lived on land of the Crow Agency,Montana,where he built Absarokee Hut in 1905. Boosted by his sale of 80 paintings to Phoebe Hearst,Sharp quit teaching and began to paint full-time.
Lauriston Sharp was a Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Cornell University. He was the first person appointed in anthropology at the university,and he created its Southeast Asia Program,research centers in Asia and North and South America,a multidisciplinary faculty and strong language program. He was a founding member of the Society for Applied Anthropology and a founding trustee of the Asia Society.
Jacobsoniidae are a family of tiny beetles belonging to Staphylinoidea. The larvae and adults live under bark,in plant litter,fungi,bat guano and rotten wood. There are around 28 described species in three genera:
A sharpshooter is one who is highly proficient at firing firearms or other projectile weapons accurately. Military units composed of sharpshooters were important factors in 19th-century combat. Along with "marksman" and "expert","sharpshooter" is one of the three marksmanship badges awarded by the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps. The United States Navy and the United States Coast Guard use a ribbon with an attached "S" device to note a sharpshooter qualification.
Robert Phillip Sharp was an American geomorphologist and expert on the geological surfaces of the Earth and the planet Mars. Sharp served as the chairman of the Division of Geological Sciences at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 1952 to 1968. He built the modern department and especially recruited new faculty in geochemistry,tectonic geomorphology,planetary science,and field geology.
The Seminole in the American Civil War were found in both the Trans-Mississippi and Western Theaters. The Seminole Nation in the Trans-Mississippi Theater had split alliances. However,the majority of the tribe in the Western territories joined the Union Army under the leadership of Billy Bowlegs. Others,such as John Jumper,supported the Confederacy. The Florida Seminole participated in some skirmishing in central Florida. They were likely at the Battle of Olustee in February 1864.
Richard Simon Sharp has been the Chairman of the BBC since February 2021. A former banker,he worked at JP Morgan for eight years,and then for 23 years at Goldman Sachs. Sharp was an advisor to Boris Johnson during his tenure as London Mayor,and to Rishi Sunak as Chancellor. He has donated more than £400,000 to the Conservative Party.
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- ↑ Sharp, James Roger; Sharp, Nancy Weatherly (Jan 1, 1999). American Legislative Leaders in the South, 1911-1994. Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313302138 . Retrieved Sep 22, 2019– via Google Books.
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