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  2. The Checkers (American band) - Wikipedia

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    The Checkers were an American doo-wop quintet (later quartet) formed in 1952. The original members were John Carnegie (Tenor/Lead), Charlie White (Tenor/Lead), Irwin "Teddy" Williams (Tenor), James Turner "Buddy" Brewer (Baritone), and Bill Brown (Bass/Primary Lead). The group, only having recorded 25 singles (with 1 going unreleased) for the ...

  3. Checkers - Wikipedia

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    Checkers [note 1] ( American English ), also known as draughts ( / drɑːfts, dræfts /; British English ), is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve forward movements of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Checkers is developed from alquerque. [1]

  4. FactCheck.org - Wikipedia

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    Launched. December 2003; 20 years ago. ( 2003-12) FactCheck.org is a nonprofit [1] website that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics by providing original research on misinformation and hoaxes. [2] It is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of ...

  5. The Checkers (Japanese band) - Wikipedia

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    Years active. 2021 -. Subscribers. 82.3k [1] Total views. 31,951,574 million times [1] Last updated: January 15, 2024. The Checkers (Japanese: チェッカーズ) was a very popular Japanese band in the 1980s. They were a pop icon of their time as kids copied hair styles and fashion of the band members.

  6. Fumiya Fujii - Wikipedia

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    29,626,026 million times [1] Last updated: January 15, 2024. Fumiya Fujii (藤井 フミヤ, Fujii Fumiya, born July 11, 1962) is a Japanese musician, actor and former lead singer of The Checkers born in Kurume. His younger brother is Naoyuki Fujii, a musician and former sax player for The Checkers. His eldest son is Fuji TV announcer Kōki ...

  7. Checkers speech - Wikipedia

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    United States v. Nixon. The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made on September 23, 1952, by Senator Richard Nixon ( R - CA ), six weeks before the 1952 United States presidential election, in which he was the Republican nominee for Vice President. Nixon had been accused of improprieties relating to a fund established by his backers ...

  8. Marion Tinsley - Wikipedia

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    Marion Franklin Tinsley (February 3, 1927 – April 3, 1995) was an American mathematician and checkers player. He is considered to be the greatest checkers player who ever lived. [1] Tinsley was world champion from 1955–1958 and from 1975–1991 and never lost a world championship match. He lost only seven games (two of them to the Chinook ...

  9. English draughts - Wikipedia

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    English draughts. English draughts ( British English) or checkers ( American English ), also called straight checkers or simply draughts, [note 1] is a form of the strategy board game checkers (or draughts). It is played on an 8×8 checkerboard with 12 pieces per side.