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= = = = rooms and bungalows = = = =
as of 2012 rooms cost from $ 550 up to $ 15 @@ 380 for a night in one of the presidential bungalows a typical room as of august 2015 is $ 1 @@ 045 a night each of the rooms has their own balcony and is designed in the beverly hills hotel colors of peachy pinks and greens apricots and yellows several of the more expensive rooms have private patios <unk> and their own kitchens
five bungalows were originally added to the gardens in 1915 to provide for families who could return each year with their own staff as of 2015 the hotel has 23 bungalows set out across the gardens bungalows 14 @@ 21 are known as bachelor 's row due to their association with film stars and their affairs including warren beatty and orson welles in 1990 a private pool and jacuzzi were added to bungalow no 5 to accommodate businessman walter annenberg no5 had been a favorite of elizabeth taylor and richard burton who had a standing room service order for two bottles of vodka at breakfast and two more at lunch taylor also liked no3 where she stayed during her marriage to eddie fisher marilyn monroe favored no 1 and no 7 no1 the most secluded of the bungalows features an interior described by cnn as creamy lush and traditional decorated in the manner of one 's wealthy grandparents no 7 has become known as the norma jean dietrich ordered a 7 feet ( 2 @@ 1 m ) by 8 feet ( 2 @@ 4 m ) bed added to no 10 the bungalow where john lennon and yoko ono stayed in the 1970s in 2011 two presidential bungalows were established replacing the tennis courts with each containing three bedrooms and a private swimming pool and shower
howard hughes permanently kept a bungalow at the hotel however it was a secret whether he was on the premises or not often the only person who knew hughes was at the beverly hills was the hotel 's chef hughes would awaken him in the middle of the night to prepare food for him it has been alleged that several of the bungalows are haunted guests have reported hearing what is believed to be harpo marx playing the harp and seeing an apparition of sergei rachmaninoff
= = gallery = =
= the boat race 1992 =
the 138th boat race took place on 4 april 1992 held annually the boat race is a side @@ by @@ side rowing race between crews from the universities of oxford and cambridge along the river thames oxford 's cox andrew probert was the oldest competitor in boat race history at the age of 38 years and 86 days oxford won by one @@ and @@ a @@ quarter lengths the closest margin of victory for twenty years the race also featured the first german competitor in the history of the event in dirk bangert umpired by former cambridge rower roger stephens mike rosewell writing in the times described the race as one of the greatest races since 1829
in the reserve race cambridge 's goldie defeated oxford 's isis while cambridge won the women 's boat race
= = background = =
the boat race is a side @@ by @@ side rowing competition between the university of oxford ( sometimes referred to as the dark blues ) and the university of cambridge ( sometimes referred to as the light blues ) first held in 1829 the race takes place on the 4 @@ 2 @@ mile ( 6 @@ 8 km ) championship course on the river thames in southwest london the rivalry is a hotly contested point of honour between the two universities followed throughout the united kingdom and broadcast on several international television networks oxford went into the race as reigning champions having won the 1991 race by four @@ and @@ a @@ quarter lengths with cambridge leading overall with 69 victories to oxford 's 67 ( excluding the dead heat of 1877 )
the first women 's boat race took place in 1927 but did not become an annual fixture until the 1960s up until 2014 the contest was conducted as part of the henley boat races but as of the 2015 race it is held on the river thames on the same day as the men 's main and reserve races the reserve race contested between oxford 's isis boat and cambridge 's goldie boat has been held since 1965 it usually takes place on the tideway prior to the main boat race
president of the cambridge university boat club max <unk> said of the previous year 's race we were burned on that day badly burned it was worse than other defeats because we thought we could win oxford just rowed through us with every stroke they took they destroyed our belief in ourselves his crew mate nick <unk> focused on the approach to this year 's race this year it 's heads down and get on with the job we know that if we don 't cross the line first on the day nobody could care less who we are
beefeater gin sponsored the event prior to this year 's race they had announced a £ 1 million deal to continue their close involvement for a further three years
= = crews = =
aged 38 years and 3 months cambridge 's cox andrew probert was the oldest competitor in the history of the boat race oxford 's crew featured four returning blues and two former isis crew members while cambridge saw three old blues participate the oxford boat was made up from five britons an australian an american and a yugoslav cambridge was represented by seven britons an american and dirk bangert the first german to participate in the event oxford 's crew were coached by steve royle and patrick sweeney and assisted by the former east germany olympic coach jürgen gröbler while cambridge were guided oxford 's successful coach of 1991 john wilson <unk> bert green and jim cobb provided advice to the oxford and cambridge coxes respectively
= = race = =
the race commenced at 2 @@ 35 pm oxford won the toss and elected to start from the middlesex station the boats raced side @@ by @@ side for the first three @@ and @@ a @@ half miles of the race for fourteen minutes neither crew held a lead of more than half @@ a @@ length over the other and umpire roger stephens was forced to issue warnings to both coxes for steering too close to one another the dark blues held a slight early advantage but cambridge pulled ahead at hammersmith bridge oxford edged ahead at barnes bridge and passed the finishing post in a time of 17 minutes 44 seconds one @@ and @@ a @@ quarter lengths ahead of cambridge the closest finish in the last 20 years oxford 's yugoslav rower boris <unk> had to be lifted from the boat at the end of the race the beefeater gin trophy was presented to the winning boat club president by raymond seitz
in the reserve race cambridge 's goldie won by three @@ and @@ a @@ quarter lengths over isis their fifth victory in six years cambridge won the 47th women 's boat race by one @@ third @@ of @@ a @@ length in a time of 6 minutes and 20 seconds their third victory in four years
= = reaction = =
mike rosewell writing in the times complimented all of the race participants the 18 individuals involved produced one of the greatest races since 1829 former oxford coach daniel topolski writing for the observer described the oxford 's win as scintillating and noted that the crews were locked in combat for fully three and a half miles christopher dodd writing in the guardian suggested that the promise was delivered a rare race
oxford 's number five and great britain international peter bridge noted gröbler 's impact we really felt the strength that we had built up over six months under jürgen 's methods he continued [ cambridge ] were slower off the start than we expected which was nice referring to cambridge 's lead at hammersmith bridge their number seven steve fowler said we were feeling good but we should have closed the door there and then we should have killed them on the bend cambridge cox probert conceded to his counterpart liz chick she steered very well oxford coach gröbler stated it was wonderful both crews were very good and so disciplined i like these university students cambridge coach wilson lamented we failed to capitalise at hammersmith and they grew in confidence thereafter
= mnm ( professional wrestling ) =
mnm ( mercury nitro and melina ) was a villainous professional wrestling stable in world wrestling entertainment ( wwe ) and ohio valley wrestling ( ovw ) that consisted of joey mercury ( previously joey matthews ) johnny nitro and their manager melina perez
mercury and nitro first began teaming together in 2004 in ovw wwe 's developmental territory in louisville kentucky melina who at the time was nitro 's actual girlfriend joined them as their manager in february 2005 while working in ovw mercury and nitro captured the ovw southern tag team championship on one occasion
mnm were called up to the smackdown roster in april 2005 in which mercury and nitro went on to win the wwe tag team championship while in wwe their ring personas was that of a trio of hollywood celebrities complete with a red carpet ring entrance that had them accompanied by paparazzi the duo lost the title in july 2005 after their third and final reign ended in may 2006 nitro and melina blamed mercury for the loss and attacked him splitting the team nitro and melina were let go from the smackdown roster and debuted on the raw brand in november 2006 mnm reunited for a brief period before mercury was released from his contract in march 2007
= = concept = =
partly inspired by paris hilton the concept behind the group was that they were hollywood celebrities upon their debut on smackdown they claimed to be the hot new team on the scene because of their good looks and celebrity status
as part of their in @@ ring personas mnm had a distinctive ring entrance they walked to the ring on a red carpet while members of the paparazzi took photos of them the male members of mnm usually wore fur coats to the ring as they took them off melina suggestively rubbed their abs while removing the title belts from their pants where they hung in an exaggerated phallic fashion melina has a signature entrance which involves her doing a split on the ring apron from the floor then bending forward and crawling under the bottom rope
= = history = =
= = = ohio valley wrestling ( 2004 2005 ) = = =
mnm was formed in the former world wrestling entertainment ( wwe ) farm territory ohio valley wrestling ( ovw ) melina perez johnny nitro 's real @@ life girlfriend was introduced into the company in 2004 as his ex @@ girlfriend an ally of matt cappotelli with whom nitro was engaged in a scripted rivalry almost immediately however perez betrayed cappotelli and sided with nitro together they introduced joey matthews to become mnm while in ovw nitro and matthews won the ovw southern tag team championship once holding it for over two months
= = = smackdown and dissolution ( 2005 2006 ) = = =
mnm was called up to wwe 's smackdown roster in april 2005 with matthews undergoing a name change to joey mercury they made their debut during carlito 's interview segment carlito 's cabana where they interrupted an interview between carlito and rey mysterio and attacked mysterio this provoked a feud between mnm and mysterio and his partner eddie guerrero over the wwe tag team championship two weeks later in their debut match on the smackdown brand they defeated mysterio and guerrero to win the wwe tag team championship after guerrero refused to tag into the match while nitro and mercury held the championship melina was placed in an angle with heidenreich she publicly mocked him and was the impetus for an attack on him by nitro and mercury in july mnm were scheduled to face heidenreich in a two @@ on @@ one handicap match but attacked him before the match started road warrior animal saved heidenreich from the attack and as a result heidenreich and road warrior animal challenged mercury and nitro for the tag team title at the great american bash mnm lost the match and the championship
the loss of the tag team championship was seen as bad publicity by melina so she introduced jillian hall a storyline spin doctor to repair their image hall got them a cover article in smackdown magazine and began to introduce the team before and aid them during matches in september 2005 hall left the group to join john bradshaw layfield ( jbl ) who had lost a match to rey mysterio
on the october 28 episode of smackdown mercury and nitro were placed into a tag team title fatal four @@ way match against the teams of the mexicools ( super crazy and psicosis ) william regal and paul <unk> and the wwe tag team champions legion of doom 2005 ( heidenreich and road warrior animal ) during the match mercury and nitro were able to perform the snapshot on heidenreich to win the championship for a second time mnm successfully defended the championship against eddie guerrero and batista in december they began a feud with the mexicools who earned the right to face mnm at armageddon for the wwe tag team championship before armageddon however on the december 16 episode of smackdown mnm lost the tag team championship to batista and rey mysterio a storyline was begun before the match where melina attempted to seduce batista into forfeiting the match the storyline played over to the next episode of smackdown when before mnm invoked their rematch clause melina held a press conference in the ring where she claimed that batista had sexually harassed her during the tag team match mark henry aided mnm in winning back the wwe tag team championship the following week mnm defeated batista and mysterio in a steel cage match to retain the championship henry 's aid henry was only with the group a short time before his contract was sold to daivari in storyline they went on to successfully defend the championship against the mexicools and the team of matt hardy and tatanka in early 2006
in april 2006 mnm were placed in an angle in which they found themselves in a losing streak against the team of paul london and brian kendrick in non @@ title tag team matches singles matches and even a six @@ man tag match london and kendrick defeated the duo every time at the judgment day pay @@ per @@ view in may 2006 mnm lost the tag team championship to london and kendrick after the match nitro and mercury started brawling disbanding the group later that night melina lost a singles match against jillian hall and after slapping general manager theodore long in anger she and nitro were fired from the smackdown brand in storyline off @@ screen nitro and mercury did not get along and wwe management decided to split the tag team and send nitro and melina to the raw brand in addition mercury was about to begin serving a suspension for violating the wwe wellness program
= = = reunion ( 2006 2007 ) = = =
after serving his suspension and a brief stint back in ovw mercury returned to wwe reuniting mnm in late november 2006 to answer an open challenge put out by the hardys ( matt and jeff ) for the december to dismember pay @@ per @@ view at the event mnm lost to the hardys mnm and the hardys met again at armageddon as part of a four @@ way ladder match which also included the teams of dave taylor and william regal and paul london and brian kendrick during the match which saw london and kendrick retain the wwe tag team championship mercury was legitimately injured when he was struck in the face with a ladder necessitating a trip to the emergency room where his broken nose received 15 stitches the facial injury was worked into the angle and when mercury returned wearing a protective covering on his face the rivalry between the teams intensified with mnm actively seeking to injure one or both of the hardys even going so far as to attack and perform a snapshot on matt on exposed concrete following a match mnm lost to the hardys at the royal rumble and again at the no way out pay @@ per @@ view in february which concluded the feud
= = = post @@ breakup = = =
after their feud with the hardys was over nitro and melina continued to team on raw while mercury wrestled in singles competition on smackdown on march 26 2007 through wwe 's official website it was announced that mercury had been released from his contract
mercury returned in 2010 first as a member of cm punk 's straight edge society and later began working as a trainer in florida championship wrestling ( later renamed nxt wrestling ) he most recently worked alongside the authority and as part of j & j security former wwe world heavyweight champion seth rollins 's personal security
melina and nitro 's association began to fizzle out when melina became the wwe women 's champion and began garnering attention as a singles performer melina was released from her contract in 2011
during the 2007 supplemental draft nitro moved to the ecw brand renamed john morrison in the ecw brand & would go on to capture the ecw world championship morrison formed a partnership with the miz capturing both the wwe tag team championship and the world tag team championship he also gained his third wwe intercontinental championship shortly after his alliance with the miz morrison departed from wwe in 2011 and signed with lucha underground in 2014 as johnny mundo
currently under his mundo character nitro and melina had a brief reunion when melina debuted in lucha underground at ultima lucha attacking alberto el patron during his match with mundo allowing mundo to pick up the win she departed from lucha underground shortly after her debut
= = in wrestling = =
double @@ team finishing moves
snapshot ( delayed flapjack ( mercury ) / elevated ddt ( nitro ) combination )
double @@ team signature moves
double baseball slide
simultaneous leg drops to the throat and leg
entrance theme
paparazzi by jim johnston
= = championships and accomplishments = =
ohio valley wrestling
ovw southern tag team championship ( 1 time )
pro wrestling illustrated
tag team of the year ( 2005 )
world wrestling entertainment
wwe tag team championship ( 3 times )
wwe women 's championship ( 1 time ) melina
= new york state route 9n =
new york state route 9n ( ny 9n ) is a north south state highway in northeastern new york in the united states it extends from an intersection with us route 9 ( us 9 ) ny 29 and ny 50 in the city of saratoga springs to a junction with us 9 and ny 22 in the clinton county village of keeseville at 143 @@ 49 miles ( 230 @@ 92 km ) in total length ny 9n is the longest letter @@ suffixed route in the state it is concurrent with its parent route for 1 mile ( 1 @@ 6 km ) in the village of lake george and for three blocks in the hamlet of elizabethtown
much of ny 9n runs alongside either a river or a lake it follows the hudson river through northern saratoga county and southern warren county the entirety of lake george 's western shoreline the west edge of lake champlain between ticonderoga and westport and the ausable river from keene to keeseville the other portions of ny 9n pass through predominantly rural and mountainous regions of the adirondack mountains