Van Dam held many championships during his professional wrestling career:
Ron Killings
Ron Killings (born March 19, 1972 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American professional wrestler and rapper.
He has also worked for TNA wrestling from 2002-2007.
He is a former WWE United States champion and former two time WWF Hardcore Champion.
Dolph Ziggler
Nicholas Theodore "Nick" Nemeth (born July 27, 1980) is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to the WWE where he performs under the ring name Dolph Ziggler.
Nemeth signed a contract with the WWE in 2004 and competed in their developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW). He debuted on the main roster in 2005 and played the role of Kerwin White's caddy. HE was sent back down to OVW and later called back up where he was a member of The Spirit Squad, performing under the ring name Nicky.
Ziggler is a two-time World Heavyweight Champion, one-time World Tag Team Champion with The Spirit Squad, two-time Intercontinental Champion, one-time United States Champion, Mr. Money in the Bank in 2012, and the 22nd Triple Crown Champion. In 2015 he is with Lana who was with Rusev (another WWE superstar).
Spiral
A spiral is a special curve in mathematics. This curve starts at a point, and then goes around the point, but gets farther and farther away from it. This is different from a circle (which is always at the same distance or an ellipse. A spiral is an "open" curve, unlike circles and ellipses which are closed curves.
A two-dimensional spiral may be described most easily using polar coordinates. There the radius "r" is a continuous monotonic function of angle θ ("theta"). The circle would be regarded as a degenerate case. With the circle, the function would not be strictly monotonic, but constant.
Some of the more important sorts of two-dimensional spirals include:
For simple 3-d spirals, a third variable, "h" (height), is also a continuous, monotonic function of θ. For example, a conic helix may be defined as a spiral on a conic surface, with the distance to the apex an exponential function of θ.
The helix and vortex can be viewed as a kind of three-dimensional spiral.
For a helix with thickness, see spring (math).
The study of spirals in nature have a long history, Christopher Wren found out that many shells form a logarithmic spiral. Jan Swammerdam observed the common mathematical characteristics of a wide range of shells from "Helix" to "Spirula" and Henry Nottidge Moseley described the mathematics of univalve shells. D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson's "On Growth and Form" gives extensive treatment to these spirals. He describes how shells are formed by rotating a closed curve around a fixed axis, the shape of the curve remains fixed but its size grows in a geometric progression. In some shell such as "Nautilus" and ammonites the generating curve revolves in a plane pirpendicular to the axis and the shell will form a planer discoid shape. In others it follows a skew path forming a helico-spiral pattern.
Thompson also studied spirals occurring in horns, teeth, claws and plants.
Spirals in plants and animals are frequently described as whorls.
A model for the pattern of florets in the head of a sunflower was proposed by H Vogel. This has the form
where formula_2 is the index number of the floret and formula_3 is a constant scaling factor, and is a form of Fermat's spiral. The angle 137.5° is related to the golden ratio and gives a close packing of florets.
The spiral also represents infinity. Starting at a single point, and revolving outwardly until the end of the universe. Because of this, some civilizations believe that the Spiral is a pathway to the afterlife.
The spiral plays an important role in symbolism. It appears in megalithic art, notably in the Newgrange tomb or in many Galician petroglyphs such as the one in Mogor. See also triple spiral.
Scholars are still talking about the subject, but many of them now believe that the simple spiral in Chinese art may be a symbol of the sun. Roof tiles from the Tang Dynasty with this symbol have been found west of the ancient city of Chang'an (modern-day Xian).
The spiral is the most ancient symbol found on every civilized continent. Because it appears at burial sites across the globe, the spiral most likely represented the "life-death-rebirth" cycle. Similarly, the spiral symbolized the sun, as ancient people thought the sun was born each morning, died each night, and was reborn the next morning.
Spirals are also a symbol of hypnosis. This most likely comes from the cliché of people and cartoon characters being hypnotized by staring into a spinning spiral (One example being Kaa in Disney's "The Jungle Book"). They are also used as a symbol of dizziness, where the eyes of a cartoon character, especially in anime and manga, will turn into spirals to show they are dizzy or dazed. The spiral symbolizes the double helix structure of DNA, representing biological evolution, and the spiral structure of a galaxy.
Brian Kendrick
Brian David Kendrick (born March 29, 1979) is an American professional wrestler best known for his time with the WWE as "Brian Kendrick" and "The" Brian Kendrick. currently working for Total Nonstop action wrestling
Mike Knox
Michael Shawn Hettinga (born on July 17, 1978) is an American professional wrestler that is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). He is best known for working with WWE on all three brands (Raw, SmackDown and ECW) from 2006 to 2010. He was released from his WWE contract on April 23, 2010. He had a dark match in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in May, 2012.
Goldust
Dustin Patrick Runnels (born April 11, 1969) is an American professional wrestler and author. He currently works with the WWE under the ring name Goldust where he is one-half of the WWE Tag Team Champions with his half-brother Cody Rhodes. He is the son of former professional wrestler "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes and the half brother of Cody Rhodes. During his time with WWE he won multiple titles including the World Tag Team Championship one time with Booker T, the WWE Hardcore Championship seven times and the WWE Intercontinental Championship three times.
Rhodes has also wrestled for World Championship Wrestling, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and All Japan Pro Wrestling.
Royal Rumble (2007)
Royal Rumble (2007) was the twentieth yearly Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event made by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It took place on January 28, 2007 at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas.
Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American author. He lives in New York City. His works are about American life in the 20th century and 21st century.
Libra (novel)
Libra is a novel (book) by Don DeLillo. It was written in 1988. The book is about the life of Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Tardienta
Tardienta is a municipality in the province of Huesca in Aragon, Spain.
Carmine (color)
Carmine is the general term for a particularly deep red color. Some rubies are colored the color shown in the color chart below as "rich carmine". The deep red color shown at right as "carmine" is the color of the raw unprocessed pigment, but lighter, richer, or brighter colors are produced when the raw pigment is processed, some of which are shown below.
The color carmine comes from the pigment "carmine", which is a deep red color obtained from the carminic acid produced by some scale insects, such as the cochineal and the Polish cochineal, and is used as a general term for a particularly deep red color. The pigment carmine is used in the manufacture of artificial flowers, paints, rouge, yogurt, cosmetics, food additives, and crimson ink.
The first recorded use of "carmine" as a color name in English was in 1523.
Taupe
Taupe refers to a dark grayish-brown color. The word "taupe" derives from the Latin name for the European Mole, "Talpa europaea".