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Contest (other)
Contest may refer to: * Competition * Will contest * Contesting, amateur radio contesting (radiosport) Film and television * ''Contest'' (2013 film), an American film * Contest (1932 film), a German sports film * "The Contest", a 1992 season 4 episode of ''Seinfeld'' * ''The Contest'', episode of ''Baywatch'' 1996 * ''The Contest'', episode of ''Harry's Law'' 2012 * ''The Contest'', episode of ''Alpha House'' 2014 * ''The Contest'', episode of ''Lassie'' 1954 * '' The Con Test'', an Australian game show which airs on Network Ten * "Contest" (''Bottom''), an episode of the British sitcom ''Bottom'' Other uses * Contest, Mayenne, a village and commune of the Mayenne ''département'' in France * ''Contest'', a ship sunk in ''CSS Alabamas Indian Ocean Expeditionary Raid in 1863 * ''Contest'' (1804 ship), an Australian ship sunk in 1807 * HMS ''Contest'', the name of various ships of the British Royal Navy * ''Contest'', a novel by Matthew Reilly * The Contest (DC Comics), a com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Competition
Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, individuals, economic and social groups, etc. The rivalry can be over attainment of any exclusive goal, including recognition. Competition occurs in nature, between living organisms which co-exist in the same environment. Animals compete over water supplies, food, mates, and other biological resources. Humans usually compete for food and mates, though when these needs are met deep rivalries often arise over the pursuit of wealth, power, prestige, and fame when in a static, repetitive, or unchanging environment. Competition is a major tenet of market economies and business, often associated with business competition as companies are in competition with at least one other firm over the same group of customers. Competition inside a compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contest (Bottom)
"Contest" is the third episode of the first series of British sitcom '' Bottom''. It was first broadcast on Tuesday 1 October 1991. Synopsis With Eddie having spent most of their remaining £11.80 on a second-hand copy of ''Parade'' magazine, he and Richie spend a night watching Miss World on the television. Plot The episode begins with Richie placing his head in the oven in a suicide attempt. He has left a suicide note on the table for Eddie to read. It is revealed that this is in fact a ploy to guilt-trip Eddie into buying him a drink. Unfortunatey, Eddie enters the room, places his briefcase on top of the note and proceeds to read the newspaper instead of finding Richie's fake suicide note. When he notices Richie with his head in the oven, he shrugs indifferently, and Richie relents. It emerges that while Eddie has been out at the office trying to claim his dole money, Richie has spent all day making an inexpensive dinner for the pair (everything has been grown, found or fora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CONTEST
CONTEST is the United Kingdom's counter-terrorism strategy, first developed by Sir David Omand and the Home Office in early 2003 as the immediate response to 9/11, and a revised version was made public in 2006. Further revisions were published on 24 March 2009, 11 July 2011 and June 2018. An Annual Report on the implementation of CONTEST was released in March 2010 and in April 2014. The aim of the strategy is "to reduce the risk to the UK and its interests overseas from terrorism so that people can go about their lives freely and with confidence.""CONTEST: The United Kingdom’s Strategy for Countering Terrorism". Home Office. July 2011. The success of this strategy is not linked to total elimination of the terrorist threat, but to reducing the threat sufficiently to allow the citizens a normal life free from fear. The definition of 'Terrorism' is set out within the Terrorism Act 2000, and the Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) unit has been set up to implement CONTEST. CONT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Contest (DC Comics)
''The Contest'' is a comic book story arc that occurred in 1994 written by William Messner-Loebs and drawn by Mike Deodato. It compiled a segment of the second volume of the DC Comics ''Wonder Woman'' comic book from issues #90 through #93 and issue #0 into a collected book edition. Storyline Two tribes After discovering that the witch Circe caused her island home to disappear, Wonder Woman forced her to return the island and her fellow Amazons to their original location. When she goes to the island she discovers the buildings demolished and is shot at with an arrow by an unknown assailant. Wonder Woman, also known as Diana, then finds her Amazon sisters and is told what had happened to the island during its disappearance. She is told that during one past night the island was invaded by an outside Amazon tribe called the Amazons of Bana-Mighdall. A huge tribal war was held lasting several days for command of the island. During the battle the witch Circe appeared in the skies abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Reilly
Matthew John Reilly (born 2 July 1974) is an internationally bestselling Australian action thriller writer. ". Retrieved 10 January 2009 . Retrieved February 2, 2021. Early years Reilly was born on 2 July 1974 in Sydney, Australia, the second son of Ray (an employee at the Corrective Services NSW, Department of Corrective Services) and Denise, a mathematics teacher. He grew up with his brother Stephen in Willoughby, New South Wales, Willoughby, an affluent suburb on the North Shore (Sydney), lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Reilly graduated from Sydney's St Aloysius' College (Sydney), St Aloysius' College[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Contest
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Contest'': * or ''Gunboat No. 16'' was a 14-gun vessel launched in 1797 and broken up in 1799. * was a 5-gun gun-brig, previously the Dutch ''Hell-hound''. She was captured in 1799 and broken up in 1803. * was a 14-gun schooner purchased in 1799 and broken up later that year. * was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1804; she foundered in 1809. * was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1812 and wrecked in 1828. * was a 12-gun brig launched in 1846 and broken up in 1868. * was a composite screw gunboat launched in 1874 and scrapped in 1889. * was a launched in 1894 and sold in 1911. * was an destroyer launched in 1913 and sunk by SM U-106 SM ''U-106'' was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. ''U-106'' was Ship commissioning, commissioned on 28 July 1917, under the command of ''Kapitänleutnant'' Hans Hufnagel, and participated in one wart ... in 1917. * was a destroyer launched in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contest (1804 Ship)
'' Contest '' was an Australian sloop wrecked in 1807. She was a sloop of some 44 tons (bm), built in Port Jackson, New South Wales, by James Underwood, owned by Kable & Co, and registered on 20 July 1804. On 28 February 1807 she was sailing for Newcastle, New South Wales, but the wind would not allow her to make the harbour and so she continued north. A little short of Port Stephens, New South Wales, a heavy storm drove ''Contest'' ashore, where she was smashed to pieces. All the crew were saved but no cargo was salvageable.''Australian Shipwrecks - vol 1 1622-1850'', Charles Bateson Charles Bateson (4 August 1903 – 5 July 1974) was a maritime historian, journalist and author. Early life Charles Henry Bateson was born in Wellington, New Zealand, son of Charles Bateson, a company manager born Liverpool, England, and mo ..., AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, p44 References Shipwrecks of the Hunter Region Maritime incidents in 1807 1807 in Australia 1788–185 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CSS Alabama's Indian Ocean Expeditionary Raid
CSS ''Alabama''s Indian Ocean Expeditionary Raid commenced shortly after the Confederate States Navy ship left the Cape of Good Hope and cruised across the Indian Ocean ultimately exiting via the Sunda Strait into the Java Sea from where she proceeded through the Karimata Strait past the west coast of Borneo before turning west towards Singapore. The raid lasted from about the end of September 1863 to the end of November 1863. The primary area of operation during this Expeditionary warfare, expeditionary raid, was the central Indian Ocean, across the Tropic of Capricorn, steaming east toward the Dutch East Indies. Raid overview CSS ''Alabama'' worked its way east from the Cape of Good Hope through rough weather, passing the islands of St. Peter Island and Île Saint-Paul, St. Paul Island in the Indian Ocean, which are about halfway to the Strait of Sunda. ''Alabama'' crossed the Tropic of Capricorn and conferred with the captain of an English Barque, bark, learning that USS ''W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contest, Mayenne
Contest is a commune in the Mayenne department in north-western France. The town is in the center of Lower Maine. Its village is 6 km south-west of Mayenne and 12 km north of Martigné-sur-Mayenne. The name of the locality is attested in the form Constet in 1207. The place name honors the bishop of Bayeux of the sixth century, Contextus.Albert Dauzat et Charles Rostaing, Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieux en France, Paris, Larousse, 1963 Notable Persons * Jacques Felix Jan de La Hamelinaye (1769–1861), general, retired to Contest at his retirement. * Bertrand Denis (1902–1986 in Contest), MP. * Louis Rouland (1907–1940), French aviator born in Contest. * Jean Yanne (1933–2003), actor, humorist, director. Born Roger-Jean Gouyé, from a family of clog makers who in the eighteenth century lived in the forest of Mayenne. His grandfather René-Jean Gouillet was born in Contest on 13 March 1789, and died in Fougères on 11 October 1855. See also *Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Con Test
''The Con Test'' is an Australian game show which premiered on 7 February 2007 on Network Ten. It was filmed in Sydney and was hosted by Andrew G and Brigitte Duclos. Format and Rules The show followed the same general rules and gameplay as the UK show '' PokerFace''. Six contestants began the game facing a total of up to 28 questions for a chance to win $50,000. Before the game, there was a segment of the show called "The Grilling" where each contestant gave a brief description about themselves (their age, occupation, achievements and qualifications). Some contestants made false claims about their personal status. Their opponents then replied to them with criticism about their claims. Just before the first two commercial breaks, the viewers were told which two contestants will reveal whether what they were saying was true or false. The truths about the two selected contestants were revealed just before the start of rounds two and three. Players started by answering several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Contest
A will contest, in the law of property, is a formal objection raised against the validity of a will, based on the contention that the will does not reflect the actual intent of the testator (the party who made the will) or that the will is otherwise invalid. Will contests generally focus on the assertion that the testator lacked testamentary capacity, was operating under an insane delusion, or was subject to undue influence or fraud. A will may be challenged in its entirety or in part. Courts and legislation generally feel a strong obligation to uphold the final wishes of a testator, and, without compelling evidence to the contrary, "the law presumes that a will is valid and accurately reflects the wishes of the person who wrote it". A will may include an '' in terrorem'' clause, with language along the lines of "any person who contests this will shall forfeit his legacy", which operates to disinherit any person who challenges the validity of the will. Such no-contest clauses a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lassie (1954 TV Series)
''Lassie'' is an American television series that follows the adventures of a female Rough Collie dog named Lassie and her companions, both human and animal. The show was the creation of producer Robert Maxwell and animal trainer Rudd Weatherwax and was televised from September 12, 1954, to March 25, 1973, making it the ninth longest-running scripted American primetime television series. The show ran for 17 seasons on CBS before entering first-run syndication for its final two seasons. Initially filmed in black and white, the show transitioned to color in 1965. Production Narration Wrather's wife, Bonita Granville Wrather, who was the series' associate producer, narrated numerous episodes throughout the run of the series, usually the beginning and/or ending of multi-part episodes. Writers Many early episodes were written by Robert Maxwell under the pseudonym Claire Kennedy. In later years, the writing partnership of Robert Schaefer and Eric Freiwald was responsible for over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
