Wilfrid Reid "Wop" May, OBE, DFC (March 20, 1896 – June 21, 1952) was a Canadian flying ace in the First World War and a leading post-war aviator. He was...
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up wop in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wop is a pejorative slur for Italians. Wop or WOP may also refer to: "Wop" (song), a song by J. Dash WOP!, a...
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Doo-wop (also spelled doowop and doo wop) is a subgenre of rhythm and blues music that originated in African-American communities during the 1940s, mainly...
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Louis McPherson (born October 17, 1995), known professionally as Lil Wop, is an American rapper from Chicago, Illinois who was signed to 1017 Records...
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"Doo Wop (That Thing)" is a song by American rapper and singer Lauryn Hill from her debut solo studio album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998). It...
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hired First World War flying ace and leading post-war aviator Wilfrid "Wop" May of Canadian Airways to help in the hunt by scouting the area from the air...
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Doo Wop 50 was videotaped live at The Benedum Center For The Performing Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on May 11 & 12, 1999. It showcased many doo-wop groups...
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to 1915 to get his high-school diploma. There he befriended Wilfrid R. "Wop" May. Brown enlisted in 1914 as an Officer Cadet at the Army Officers' Training...
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Fort Vermilion (Wop May Memorial) Aerodrome (TC LID: CEZ4) is located 2.3 nautical miles (4.3 km; 2.6 mi) east northeast of Fort Vermilion, Alberta, Canada...
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United States Air Force Pararescue (redirect from That others may live)
teams. With Canada's entry into WWII in 1939, former Canadian fighter ace Wop May was put in charge of training operations and took over command at the No...
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up doo-wop in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Doo wop or doo-wop is a vocal-based rhythm and blues music style. It may also refer to: "Doo Wop (That Thing)"...
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Tutti Frutti (song) (redirect from A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-wop-bam-boom!)
his first major hit. With its energetic refrain, often transcribed as "A-wop-bop-a-loo-mop-a-lop-bam-boom!" (a verbal rendition of a drum pattern that...
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The Legends of Doo Wop is a music group of 1950s doo-wop singers. The original members included Jimmy Gallagher of the Passions, Tony Passalaqua of the...
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Sopwith Camel piloted by Canadian novice Wilfrid Reid "Wop" May of No. 209 Squadron, Royal Air Force. May had just fired on the Red Baron's cousin, Lieutenant...
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Fauquier Martin Hartwell Tom Lamb Nate Jacobsen Hugh Lamprey Beryl Markham Wop May Grant McConachie Russel Merrill Welland Phipps F.E.Potts Bob Reeve Donald...
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premiered on Peacock. Queen of the Oil Patch (2018) Blind Ambition: The Wop May Story (2021) Dangerous Breed: Crime. Cons. Cats (2022), produced by Blumhouse...
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Doo-Wops & Hooligans is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars. It was released on October 4, 2010, by Atlantic and Elektra Records...
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(Arkangel) "Barón Rojo" (Barón Rojo) "Wop May" (Stompin' Tom Connors), Richthofen is mentioned in the song "Roy Brown and Wop May" (John Spearn) "Crimson Rider"...
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Doo Wop is a 2004 French romantic drama film directed, produced and written by David Lanzmann. It won the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival...
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English archbishop Wop May (1896–1952), Canadian pilot Zakhar May (born 1969), Russian rock musician Maye (disambiguation) Mays (disambiguation) Mayne...
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Wopmay orogen (category Articles with failed verification from May 2016)
short-lived Calderian orogeny. The formation was named for Wilfrid Reid "Wop" May, OBE, DFC (April 20, 1896 – June 21, 1952), a Canadian flying ace in the...
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the airport was named after Canadian Wop May, former bush pilot and WW1 flying ace. It was to Fort Vermilion that May flew to in 1929 with lifesaving drugs...
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War I veteran Wop May was a bush pilot flying a Bellanca aircraft who was involved in the hunt for Johnson. Contrary to the film, May, who was portrayed...
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aircraft in Australia. It is now based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Wilfrid R. "Wop" May used a 594 to make his January 1929 mercy flight with diphtheria antitoxin...
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Stompin' Tom Connors (category Use mdy dates from May 2020)
before Charles was born. His father was a Catholic of Irish ancestry, and "may have been Métis or ... Micmac." Isabel Connors and Thomas Joseph Sullivan...
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Wildwoods Shore Resort Historic District (redirect from Doo Wop Motel District)
District, or Doo Wop Motel District, is an area in The Wildwoods, New Jersey, that was home to over 300 motels built during the Doo-Wop era of the 1950s...
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Vocal harmony (section Doo-wop groups)
well as horror punk (which cites influence from both heavy metal and doo-wop). While some bands use backup singers who only sing when they are on stage...
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John Letts Sydney Tyndall Liversedge William E. G. Mann John G. Manuel Wop May Thomas L. Purdom Francis James Ralph Harry Gosford Reeves George R. Riley...
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1919 in aviation (section May)
war ace Wop May piloted the craft. An early, if not the earliest, instance of an aircraft used in this way. (Police in Atlantic City, Wyoming, may have used...
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