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The divisional winners in each conference would play one another in the third round for the right to advance to the Stanley Cup Final.
This style is still used for deciding the teams in the playoffs in the American Hockey League.
Deepak Chopra (; born October 22, 1946) is an Indian medical doctor and writer.
He has written about spirituality and topics in mind-body medicine.
Chopra says that he has been influenced by the teachings of Vedanta and the Bhagavad Gita, as well as by Krishnamurti Jiddu, and by the field of quantum physics.
Chopra has written more than 40 books.
They range from spiritual and health topics; including bestsellers on aging, the "Seven Spiritual Laws of Success," the existence of God, arguments for the afterlife and world peace.
He has also written novels and edited collections of spiritual poetry from India and Persia.
1987 Creating Health
1988 Return of the Rishi
1989 Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine
1991 Unconditional Life: Mastering the Forces That Shape Personal Reality
1991 Perfect Health: The Complete Mind/Body Guide
1993 Ageless Body, Timeless Mind : The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old
1993 Creating Affluence: Wealth Consciousness in the Field of All Possibilities
1994 The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfilment of Your Dreams
1995 The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons in Creating the Life You Want
1995 The Return of Merlin: A Novel
1995 The Path to Love: Spiritual Strategies for Healing
1997 The Path to Love: Renewing the Power of Spirit in Your Life
1997 The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents: Guiding Your Children to Success and Fulfillment
1999 Everyday Immortality: A Concise Course in Spiritual Transformation
1999 Lords of Light: A Novel
2000 The Angel is Near: A Novel
2000 How to Know God : The Soul's Journey into the Mystery of Mysteries
2001 The Deeper Wound: Recovering the Soul from Fear and Suffering, 100 Days of Healing 2001 Grow Younger, Live Longer: 10 Steps to Reverse Aging
2002 Manifesting Good Luck Cards: Growth and Enlightenment
2003 Golf for Enlightenment: The Seven Lessons for the Game of Life
2003 The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence
2003 Synchrodestiny: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to Create Miracles
2003 Manifesting Good Luck: Love and Relationships, 50 Card Deck
2004 The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
2004 Fire in the Heart: A Spiritual Guide for Teens
2005 Peace Is the Way : Bringing War and Violence to an End
2005 The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga: A Practical Guide to Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit
2006 Ask The Kabala: Oracle Cards/Kabala Guidebook
2006 Power Freedom and Grace: Living from the Source of Lasting Happiness
2006 Life After Death: The Burden of Proof
2006 Kama Sutra: Including the Seven Spiritual Laws of Love
2007 Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment
2008 The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore
2008 Why Is God Laughing?
The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism
Music CDs
1998 A Gift of Love: Love poems inspired by Rumi
2001 Soul of Healing Meditations - A Simple Approach to Growing Younger
2002 A Gift of Love II: A Musical Valentine to Tagore
2004 Chakra Balancing: Body, Mind, and Soul
1995 Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
1995 The Way of the Wizard
2003 God and Buddha - a dialog
2004 Soul of Healing - Body, Mind, and Soul Vol.
The Chopra Center for Wellbeing
The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of government and chief executive of Israel.
The prime minister holds the de facto most senior office in the state and is usually the leader of the majority party or coalition in the Parliament of Israel.
The current Prime Minister is Naftali Bennett who took office in June 2021.
Living former Prime Ministers
Lists of Israeli people
The Abukuma River (阿武隈川, Abukuma gawa or Abukumagawa) is a river in the Tōhoku region of Japan.
It has a length of 234 kilometers.
It is the second longest river in the Tōhoku region of Japan and the 6th longest river in Japan.
It rises from springs in the peaks of the Nasu Mountains.
It collects water from tributaries leaving the Ōu Mountains and the Abukuma Highlands (阿武隈高地).
Then, it empties out into the Pacific Ocean as a major river.
It has a 5,390 km² area watershed.
About 1.2 million people live along its basin.
The Agano River (Aganogawa) is a river which flows from Fukushima Prefecture to Niigata Prefecture in Japan.
It is called the Aga River or the Ōkawa River  in Fukushima.
It is 210 km long with 7,710 km² watershed.
Niigata Minamata disease
The Arakawa River () is one of the principal rivers flowing through Tokyo, the capital city of Japan.
The point of origin is on Mount Kobushi in Saitama Prefecture, and the Arakawa empties into Tokyo Bay, spanning 173 kilometers.
The drainage basin covers 2,940 square kilometers.
The widest section of the river ranges 2,537 meters at around Gonari Bridge and ranks number one in the nation.
Potomac Sister River page
Arakawa River Association
The  is called "Chikushijirō" as a nickname.
This river flows through Kumamoto, Ōita, Fukuoka and Saga prefectures in Japan.
It rises under the Mount Aso, is 143 km long and is the longest river of Kyūshū.
It enters to the Ariake Bay.
The Replacements were an American rock band.
They began in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1979, and are best known for being early pioneers of alternative rock.
The Replacements became popular locally after playing live for the first time.
This was because of Tommy Stinson's young age.
He was still 13.
He had learned to play bass guitar at 11 .
Early shows were good but soon because impossible to control.
The band became known for their rowdy, angry, and often drunken live shows.
They often came up on stage too intoxicated to play.
They were banned permanently from Saturday Night Live after performing drunk before a national television audience on January 18, 1986.
As one critic said, the band could quite often be "mouthing profanities into the camera, stumbling into each other, falling down, dropping their instruments, and generally behaving like the apathetic drunks they were."
The Replacements—when sober—got critical praise for their live shows.
Part of the suspense of seeing the Replacements play, was that the audience never knew until the start of a concert if the band would be sober enough to play.
It was not unusual for the group to play entire sets of cover versions, ranging anywhere from Bryan Adams's "Summer of '69" to Dusty Springfield's "The Look of Love" to Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog."
Musicians from Minneapolis, Minnesota
The  flows from Yamanashi Prefecture to Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan.
It is 128 km long and has a drainage area of 3990 km².
With the Mogami River and the Kuma River, it is regarded as one of the three most rapid flows of Japan.
This river is not well known by people over the world.
It is near Mount Fuji.
The  is a major river in the western part of Tottori Prefecture.
The river flows east-northeast for 1004m beginning from Mikuniyama in Nichinan in southern Tottori Prefecture.
At Kofu, the river turns north-northwest before finally discharging into Miho Bay at Heizu near Yonago.
Approximately 60,800 people use the water from the Hino River.
The  is a river which flows from Gifu Prefecture to Toyama Prefecture in Japan.
It is called Miya River (宮川 Miya-gawa) in Gifu.
It is 120 km long and has a watershed of 2,720 km².
The  is a river in Niigata Prefecture in Japan.
It flows into the Shinano River,  which is the longest in Japan.
It is a good river for sport fishing and maybe rafting but not for swimming.
The  is a tributary of the Kiso River in Gifu and Mie Prefectures in Japan.
Along with the Nagara and Kiso rivers, the Ibi is the third of the Kiso Three Rivers of the Nōbi Plain.
It is one of Japan's first class rivers.
The former Tōkaidō post station of Kuwana-juku was on the western banks of this river during the Edo period.
Steely Dan is an American jazz rock band.
They are from Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
They were active from 1971 to 1981.
They reunited in 1993 to play their music live at concerts.
Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
Countdown to Ecstasy (1973)
Pretzel Logic (1974)
Katy Lied (1975)
The Royal Scam (1976)
Aja (1977)
Gaucho (1980)
Everything Must Go (2003)
Mastodon is an American heavy metal band from Atlanta, Georgia.
This band was formed in 1999.
Remission (2002)
Leviathan (2004)
Blood Mountain (2006)
Crack the Skye (2009)
The Hunter (2011)
Once More 'Round the Sun (2014)
Emperor of Sand (2017)
Hushed and Grim (2021)
Official Mastodon website
Mastodon's official MySpace
2000s establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Anthony (Tony) Chimel  is an American professional wrestling ring announcer.
He currently works for the SmackDown, Superstars and NXT brands as a ring announcer.
He has also been the ring announcer for the ECW before it went defunct in 2009.
The Latin alphabet in Turkic countries is the common alphabet officially used in most countries with Turkic languages.
Turkic languages can also be written in Arabic, Persian and Cyrillic.
After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, most of the newly independent Turkic Asian countries put back the Latin alphabet.
There are small differences between each country's alphabet.
List of Turkic countries with Roman (Latin) alphabet
Officially using only the Roman since 1928.
Azerbaijan.
Officially using only the Roman since 1991.
Turkmenistan.
Officially using only the Roman since 1999.
Uzbekistan.
Officially using only the Roman since 2005, but still using the Cyrillic.
Using both Roman and Cyrillic.
Kyrgyzstan.
Letters of Latin alphabet
The Turkish alphabet used in Turkey, based on Latin capital and lower case letters, has 29 letters (but other countries like Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have more letters).
Unusual among languages that use the Latin alphabet, Turkish has both a dotted and dotless version of the letter "I".
Of these 29 letters in the Latin alphabet of Turkey, 8 are vowels (A, E, I, İ, O, Ö, U, Ü); the 21 others are consonants.
The letters Q, W, and X of the English alphabet do not occur in this Turkish Latin alphabet, and, in fact, were once illegal in Turkey.
Johanson, Lars & Csató, Éva Agnes 1998.
The Turkic languages.
Routledge, London.
Lewis, Geoffrey 2002.
The Turkish language reform: a catastrophic success.
Listeria is a genus of bacteria with about ten species.
It is named after Joseph Lister.
Listeria are very common, they occur almost everywhere.
Two of the ten species are pathogens: they can cause a disease called listeriosis in decaying food.
In 2011, 21 people died from listeriosis by eating cantaloupes from a Colorado farm.
In 1998, hot dogs and possibly deli meats made by Bil Mar Foods, a subsidiary of Sara Lee Corp., also had listeria and killed 21 people.
In 1985, listeria in Mexican-style soft cheese was linked to 52 deaths.
American Eagle is a clothing store in the United States and Canada.
Most people who buy clothing from American Eagle are teenagers and young adults.
The store opened in 1977 and the headquarters is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
American Eagle website
1970s establishments in Pennsylvania
American Eagle Airlines, airline division of AMR Corp. and marketing brand used for flights operated by this carrier and Executive Airlines
American Eagle Outfitters, a U.S. clothing retailer
Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States
The Church of Scotland is the national church of Scotland, established by law.
It is Presbyterian.
The Presbyterian Church of Scotland is  distinguished from the Anglican Church in a number of ways.
It does not have bishops or archbishops; nor is the British monarch its head.
The leading minister is called the Moderator, who is the chair of the General Assembly for one year.
Ministers of the Kirk, as it is called, may be called Rectors.
The Scottish Presbyterian church was formed when it broke away from Rome in 1560.
Its theology (beliefs) were based on the ideas of John Knox, a disciple of John Calvin.
The free kirks tend to take the Bible more literally.
God made the world
and all its creatures
with men and women made in His image.
By breaking His laws people have broken contact with God,
and damaged His good world.
This we see and sense in the world and in ourselves.
The Bible tells us the Good News that God still loves us
and has shown His love uniquely in His Son, Jesus Christ.
He lived among us
and died on the cross to save us from our sin.
But God raised Him from the dead!
In His love, this living Jesus invites us
to turn from our sins
and enter by faith into a restored relationship with God
Who gives true life before and beyond death.
Then, with the power of the Holy Spirit remaking us like Jesus,
we – with all Christians –
worship God,
enjoy His friendship
and are available for Him to use
in sharing and showing
His love, justice, and peace
locally and globally
until Jesus returns!
In Jesus’ name
we gladly share with you God's message for all people –
You matter to God!
1560s establishments in Europe
1560 establishments
Malcolm Mitchell Young (6 January 1953 – 18 November 2017) was a Scottish-born Australian guitarist.
He was the rhythm guitarist for the band AC/DC.
Young left AC/DC in April 2014 to receive treatment for dementia.
In September 2014 the band's management announced that his departure would be permanent.
Young died on 18 November 2017 at the age of 64 at Lulworth House in Elizabeth Bay.
Young's elder brother George Young died a few weeks earlier, on 22 October 2017.
ACDC.com Official website
ACDCRocks.com
The company was founded in 1807 by Adam and Charles Black in Edinburgh.
It moved to the Soho district of London in 1889.
In 1851, the company bought the copyright of Walter Scott's Waverley Novels for £27,000.
In 1902, it published P. G. Wodehouse's first book, The Pothunters.
People know the company best for being the publisher of the Who's Who, printed every year since 1897 and also, since 2002, the Whitaker's Almanack.
ACBlack.com corporate history
Bloomsbury Publishing corporate structure
Whitaker's Almanack
Publishing companies of the United Kingdom
1807 establishments
1800s establishments in the United Kingdom
Lush was an English band.
They were active from 1988 to 1996.
Disturbed is a rock band from Chicago, Illinois.
They were formed in 1994 and have sold over 11 million albums in the United States alone and almost 20 million around the world.
All of Disturbed's albums have been number one on the Billboard 200.
Four of their albums have been number one on their first week on the Billboard 200.
Disturbed's original name was Brawl, and had a different singer.
David Draiman joined Brawl, and changed the name to Disturbed.
In 2000, Disturbed released their first CD, called The Sickness.
Since 2000, The Sickness has sold over 4 million copies in the United States.
In 2002, Disturbed released a DVD called M.O.L..  This has music videos and videos of the band while on tour.
Later in 2002, Disturbed released another CD, called Believe.
After Disturbed finished a tour in 2003, they fired bassist, Steve Kmak.
In 2005, Disturbed released another album called Ten Thousand Fists.
One of Disturbed's songs, "This Moment" was put in the movie Transformers.
In 2008, Disturbed released another album, called Indestructible.
Some of the songs from Indestructible were put on the video game Rock Band.
Dan Donegan – guitars (1996–2011, 2015–present)
Mike Wengren – drums (1996–2011, 2015–present)
David Draiman – vocals (1996–2011, 2015–present)
John Moyer – bass (2004–2011, 2015–present)
Steve "Fuzz" Kmak – bass (1996–2003)
1994 establishments in Illinois
Survivor is a rock band from Chicago, Illinois.
They were active from 1978 to 1989.
They reunited in 1993.
Their best-known single was Eye of the Tiger, which was the theme song to the movie Rocky III.
Herne Bay is a small seaside town in Kent, South East England.
The town has a population of about 35,000.
It is near Canterbury, Whitstable and the historic villages of Herne and Reculver.
Up until 1978, the town had the second-longest pier in the United Kingdom.
However, in 1987 it was destroyed by a storm.
Murten (French: Morat) is a city in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.
It is a historic city on the south side of Lake Morat.
The name of the city first appears in 515 as Muratum.
The name is probably related to Celtic Moridunum.
This is made from Mori (lake), and dunum (castle, fortification).
The city used to be part of the duchy of Burgundy.
It got city rights in 1337.
Today, about 6,000 people live there.
Almost all of the old parts of the city still exist.
In 2000, about 77% of the people spoke German, 13% spoke French, and about 2% spoke Italian.
About 19% of the people living there are foreigners.
On 1 January 1975 the former municipality of Burg bei Murten merged into the municipality of Murten.
It was created on 1 January 1991 by the former municipality of Altavilla and on 1 January 2013 by the former municipality of Büchslen.
On 1 January 2016 the former municipalities of Courlevon, Jeuss, Lurtigen and Salvenach merged into Murten.
The panorama of the battle of Morat
Photo Gallery from Morat
Municipalities of Fribourg
Herne, Germany
Herne, Kent, England, near the town of Herne Bay, Kent
Herne Bay, English seaside town in southeastern Kent
A  NOT gate (also often called Inverter) is a logic gate.
Each NOT gate has only one input signal.
Logically with NOT gates, the input and the output swap, so if you input 1 it outputs as 0; likewise if you input 0 it outputs as 1.The NOT gate negates the values of data or signal in its input.
It will always output the opposite signal.
Its main function is to interchange logic.
The Not Gate on All About Circuits
Paul Breitner (born 5 September, 1951) is a former German football player.
|1970-71||rowspan="4"|Bayern Munich||rowspan="4"|Bundesliga||21||2
|1971-72||30||4
|1972-73||32||4
|1973-74||26||7
|1974-75||rowspan="3"|Real Madrid||rowspan="3"|La Liga||29||3
|1975-76||25||6
|1976-77||30||1
|1977-78||Eintracht Braunschweig||Bundesliga||30||10
|1978-79||rowspan="5"|Bayern Munich||rowspan="5"|Bundesliga||33||12
|1979-80||32||10
|1980-81||30||17
|1981-82||29||18
|1982-83||22||9
|1972||7||1
|1973||6||0
|1977||0||0
|1978||0||0
|1979||0||0
|1980||0||0
|1981||8||3
|1982||12||2
Total||48||10
Bobby Convey (born May 27, 1983) is an American soccer player.
He plays for San Jose Earthquakes.
|2000||rowspan="5"|DC United||rowspan="5"|Major League Soccer||22||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||24||0
|2001||12||1||1||0||colspan="2"|-||13||1
|2002||26||5||0||0||colspan="2"|-||26||5
|2003||19||2||1||0||colspan="2"|-||20||2
|2004||5||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||5||0
|2004/05||rowspan="5"|Reading||rowspan="2"|League Championship||18||0||2||0||2||0||22||0
|2005/06||45||7||0||0||0||0||45||7
|2006/07||rowspan="2"|Premier League||9||0||3||0||0||0||12||0
|2007/08||20||0||2||0||2||1||24||1
|2008/09||League Championship||6||0||1||0||2||0||9||0
|2009||rowspan="2"|San Jose Earthquakes||rowspan="2"|Major League Soccer||26||1||1||0||colspan="2"|-||27||1
Total||46||1
Bruce Arena (born September 21, 1951) is a former American soccer player.
He played for Tacoma Tides and the United States Men's national team.
Arena graduated from Cornell University in 1973.
He last coached the United States Men's national team.
Total||1||0
American soccer coaches
New York Red Bulls managers
Sportspeople from Surrey
Miklós Fehér is a former Hungarian football player.
|1995/96||rowspan="3"|Győri||rowspan="3"|Championship I||8||2
|1996/97||29||8
|1997/98||25||13
|1998/99||rowspan="2"|Porto||rowspan="2"|Portuguese Liga||5||0
|1999/00||5||1
|1999/00||Salgueiros||Portuguese Liga||14||5
|2000/01||Braga||Portuguese Liga||26||14
|2001/02||Porto||Portuguese Liga||0||0
|2002/03||rowspan="2"|Benfica||rowspan="2"|Portuguese Liga||16||4
|2003/04||13||3
Total||25||7
Åge Hareide is a former Norwegian football player.
He has played for Norway national team.
|1975||rowspan="7"|Molde||rowspan="4"|First Division||9||3
|1976||22||9
|1977||21||7
|1978||19||2
|1979||Second Division||0||0
|1980||First Division||22||0
|1981||Second Division||0||0
|1981-82||rowspan="2"|Manchester City||rowspan="2"|First Division||16||0
|1982-83||8||0
|1982-83||rowspan="2"|Norwich City||rowspan="2"|First Division||12||0
|1984||rowspan="4"|Molde||rowspan="4"|First Division||17||3
|1985||22||3
|1986||18||3
|1987||15||1
Moussa Hojeij is a Lebanese football coach and former player.
He played for the national team between 1998 and 2002.
Currently he is the manager of Lebanese club Nejmeh.
Lebanese footballers
Paul Mariner (22 May 1953 – 9 July 2021) was an English football player.
He played for England national team from 1977 until 1985.
Mariner died on 9 July 2021 from brain cancer, aged 68.
|1973-74||rowspan="4"|Plymouth Argyle||rowspan="2"|Third Division||41||14
|1974-75||46||20
|1975-76||rowspan="2"|Second Division||38||15
|1976-77||10||7
|1976-77||rowspan="8"|Ipswich Town||rowspan="8"|First Division||28||10
|1977-78||37||11
|1978-79||33||13
|1979-80||41||17
|1980-81||36||13
|1981-82||25||8
|1982-83||37||13
|1983-84||23||12
|1983-84||rowspan="3"|Arsenal||rowspan="3"|First Division||15||7
|1984-85||36||7
|1985-86||9||0
|1986-87||rowspan="2"|Portsmouth||Second Division||33||5
|1987-88||First Division||23||4
|1977||3||1
|1978||2||0
|1980||8||4
|1982||11||5
|1983||4||2
|1985||1||0
Total||35||13
Reculver is a small coastal town in Kent, South East England near Herne Bay and a few miles north of Canterbury.
Its main features are the ruins of a Roman fort, a ruined medieval church which is constantly threatened by coastal erosion.
Whiststable is a small seaside town in Kent, southeast England.
It is a few miles north of Canterbury, near Herne Bay.
The town is famous for its oysters which have been collected there since the Roman period.
A pier is a raised walkway across water.
It can be a simple light wooden structure which has no effect on the current and tides, or a major structure with buildings and as long as a mile out to sea.
In the United States, these may be referred to as docks.
A pier can be made of wood, concrete, or other materials.
Phillip Jack Brooks (born on March 26, 1978), better known by his ring name CM Punk, is an American retired mixed martial artist and
professional wrestler.
He is currently signed with  All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and is best known for his time with the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) where he worked for them from 2005 until his abrupt walk-out from the company on January 27, 2014.
During his time there, he was credited as being "the longest-reigning WWE Champion of the modern era" and held the championship for 434 days.
He is also recognized as the sixth-longest reigning champion of all time.
He was also a one-time ECW Champion, three-time World Heavyweight Champion, two-time WWE Champion, one-time World Tag Team Champion with Kofi Kingston, one-time Intercontinental Champion, Mr. Money in the Bank in 2008 and 2009 (the only wrestler to win the match twice), and won the Slammy Award for Superstar of the Year in 2011.
After he retired from professional wrestling, Punk signed a deal to fight with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), and he began to pursue a career in mixed martial arts.
He planned to begin fighting for them in 2015.
Early career (1999–2000)
He started out wrestling in a backyard wrestling federation called the Lunatic Wrestling Federation along with his friends and his brother Mike Brooks in the mid-late 1990s and used the ring name CM Punk as a member of the Chick Magnets with his tag team partner CM Venom after another wrestler had skipped out on the card.
He actually wanted to become a professional wrestler unlike his friends and thought of it more than just simple fun.
Punk distanced himself from his brother Mike and has not spoke to him since after he found out that Mike was stealing thousands of dollars from the company.
He left LWF to be trained to become a professional wrestler by Ace Steel, Danny Dominion and Kevin Quinn at the "Steel Dominion" wrestling school in Chicago.
He also competed at Steel Domain Wrestling in St. Paul, Minnesota and met Scott Colton, later known by the ring name Colt Cabana.
Punk and Colton would later become best friends.
Punk began competing for the promotion Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South.
He won the IWA Mid-South Light Heavyweight Championship 2 times and the IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship five time, defeating the likes of A.J. Styles, Colt Cabana and Eddie Guerrero.
He feuded with wrestlers like Colt Cabana and Chris Hero.
During his feud with Hero, they competed in a 55-minute TLC match, a 93-minute two out of three falls match, and many 60-minute time limit draws.
During the feud with Cabana, Punk wrestled him in many different matches.
The matches he had with Cabana would lead Punk to being hired by Ring of Honor.
He chose not to compete for Mid-South anymore from February 2003 until May 2004 because he said that he was protesting the mistreatment of Chris Hero from Ian Rotten.
Punk returned to the company and performed as both a wrestler and commentator.
He stayed with the company until 2005 when he was signed by the World Wrestling Entertainment.
His last match in the company was against Delirious which ended in a 60-minute time limit draw
On August 1, 2003, Punk joined the Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE for the final day of their 2003 Fire Festival at Korakuen Hall.
At the event, Punk teamed with C.W. Anderson, Josh Daniels, and Vansack Acid in losing effort against the team of Ikuto Hidaka, Jun Kasai, Naohiro Hoshikawa, and Tatsuhito Takaiwa.
Ring of Honor and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2002-2006)
In 2002, Punk joined Ring of Honor.
He feuded with Raven and their feud was considered to be one of the best feuds of ROH in 2003.
The feud was based around Punk's straight-edge lifestyle and him comparing Raven to his alcoholic father.
Their feud ended when Punk defeated Raven in a steel cage match at The Conclusion.
During that time, Punk joined NWA Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and was a member of Raven's stable, The Gathering along with Julio Dinero.
Punk would begin to climb the ranks in ROH.
He was able to come in second at the Second Anniversary Show during the tournament to crown the first ROH Pure Champion, losing to A.J. Styles in the finals.
He also was able to win the ROH Tag Team Championship twice with Colt Cabana as a member of the Second City Saints.
Both of their championship wins were against the Briscoe Brothers who they defeated.
Around October 2003, Punk was hired to become the first head trainer at the Ring of Honor wrestling school.
On February 25, 2004, before a TNA show, Punk was involved in a physical fight with Teddy Hart outside of a restaurant which was broken up by Sabu.
The scuffle was reportedly because of an ROH show where Hart performed three unplanned spots which put many other wrestlers in danger of injury.
Around the time of the fight, Punk and Dinero had stopped showing up on TNA shows,which lead to speculation that he was fired because of the incident.
Punk would say that the scuffle had nothing to do with his TNA career.
He said that the reason he and Dinero had stopped showing up on TNA pay-per-views was because TNA officials believed that they did not connect with the fans as heels.
Punk decided to quit TNA in March 2004 during the Rob Feinstein controversy, after he had an argument with the TNA offices over his ability to work for ROH after a TNA order that their contracted wrestlers were no longer allowed to wrestle in ROH.
When Punk returned to ROH, he wrestled ROH World Champion Samoa Joe for the championship in a three match series.
The first match between the two was held on June 12, 2004 at World Title Classic in Dayton, Ohio.
The match would end in a 60-minute time limit draw when neither Punk nor Joe were able to pin or cause the other to submit within the time limit given.
The second match was supposed to be held on December 4, 2004 but because of Steve Corino being pulled from a match with Joe by Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE, it was rescheduled to be held on October 11, 2004 for October 16 in Punk's hometown of Chicago.
At the event titled Joe vs. Punk II on October 16, Punk and Joe fought to another 60-minute time limit draw.
Joe vs. Punk II became Ring of Honor's best-selling DVD at the time and the match between Punk and Joe was also given a five-star rating by Dave Meltzer's Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
The series ended after Joe defeated Punk in their third and final match on December 4, 2004 at All-Star Extravaganza 2 where there was no time limit.
World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE (2005-2014)
Ohio Valley Wrestling (2005–2006)
Punk started in the WWE's developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling and debuted on September 8, 2005 in a six-man tag team dark match where he teamed with Nigel McGuinness and Paul Burchill in a losing effort to the team of Deuce Shade, Elijah Burke and Seth Skyfire.
On November 9, 2005, Punk defeated Ken Doane to become the OVW Television Champion.
Brent Albright was supposed to face Doane but lost his chance when Punk hit him with a steel chair.
This led to Punk feuding with Albright.
On January 4, 2006, Punk was involved in a Three-Way Dance match with both Doane and Albright.
He lost the championship when Punk submitted to Albright's finishing move, the Crowbar.
The feud ended on February 1, 2006 when a double turn occurred.
Albright turned heel by allowing the Spirit Squad to beat Punk which turned Punk face.
During John Cena's WrestleMania 22 entrance, Punk made a small appearance as a gangster and rode on the side of a 1930s era car to the ring.
Matt Cappotelli, the OVW Heavyweight Champion at the time, vacated the championship in February 2006 after he found out that he had a brain tumor.
After Cappotelli vacated the title, OVW held a tournament to crown a new champion.
Punk was able to reach the finals and faced Brent Albright.
Albright defeated Punk in the finals to become the new champion.
Punk and Albright feuded again and Punk was able to defeat Albright in a strap match on May 3, 2006 to become the champion.
He also became one-half of the Southern Tag Team Champions when he teamed with Seth Skyfire and defeated Shad Gaspard and the Neighborhoodie at a house show on July 28, 2006.
They lost the championships to Deuce Shade and "Domino" Cliff Compton on July 28, 2006 and Punk feuded with Skyfire.
Skyfire was supposed to face Punk in a match for the OVW Heavyweight Championship but he was attacked before the match by Charles "The Hammer" Evans.
Chet Jablonski replaced Skyfire in the match and defeated Punk to win the championship.
After Punk lost the championship, he was called up to WWE's main roster full-time.
Main roster
ECW (2006–2008)
Punk debuted in the WWE on the ECW brand in a match against Justin Credible on August 01, 2006.
He made his televised debut on the July 4 episode of ECW on Sci Fi.
During his debut, he cut a short pre-taped promo where he talked about his straight edge lifestyle.
His first televised match was on August 1, 2006 at the Hammerstein Ballroom where he defeated Justin Credible.
During his time there, he started a winning streak.
He started a feud with Mike Knox over Knox's girlfriend, Kelly Kelly.
Punk was able to qualify for the Extreme Elimination Chamber at December to Dismember after he defeated Knox in their first match.
He competed in the Survivor Series match where he teamed with D-Generation X and the Hardy Boyz to defeat Rated-RKO, Knox, John Morrison and Gregory Helms.
During the Chamber match, Punk was the first person eliminated by Rob Van Dam.
He then began a feud with Hardcore Holly.
On January 9, 2007, Holly was able to snap Punk's six-month unbeaten streak after he defeated him.
When his feud with Holly was over, Punk started a feud with Matt Striker.
Striker defeated Punk which gave Punk a second loss on his record.
Punk defeated Johnny Nitro and earned a chance to compete in the Money in the Bank ladder match at WrestleMania 23.
Punk didn't win the match though as it was won by Mr. Kennedy.
Punk turned heel by joining the New Breed alliance on the April 10, 2007 ECW on Sci Fi.
He turned face again two weeks later when he kicked the New Breed's leader Elijah Burke in the head and cost them a four on four elimination match.
Punk delivered his finishing move, the Go To Sleep, to Burke and sarcastically apologized before he left the ring.
Punk would defeat Burke in a singles match at Judgment Day and teamed with The ECW Originals (Tommy Dreamer and The Sandman) to defeat The New Breed (Elijah Burke, Matt Striker and Marcus Cor Von) in a six-man tag team tables match at One Night Stand.
When then-ECW Champion Bobby Lashley was drafted to Raw, he was stripped of the championship and ECW held a tournament to decide the new champion.
Punk defeated Marcus Cor Von on the June 19 episode of ECW on Sci Fi.
Punk was supposed to face Chris Benoit at Vengeance: Night of Champions next but Benoit legitimately no-showed the event after he killed his family and himself.
He was replaced by Johnny Nitro and Nitro defeated Punk for the vacant championship.
Punk was able to challenge for the title again at The Great American Bash against Nitro (who changed his ring name to John Morrison at this point) but was again defeated by Morrison.
Punk challenged Elijah Burke and Tommy Dreamer in a triple threat match.
The match was to determine who the next competitor in Morrison's 15 Minutes of Fame Challenge, in which Punk won.
Punk was able to defeat Morrison a week later for an ECW Championship title match at SummerSlam.
Morrison defeated Punk at SummerSlam when Morrison used the ropes for a leverage pin.
During the September 1, 2007 (aired September 4) ECW taping, Punk was able to defeat Morrison in a "last chance" title match to win the ECW Championship.
Punk successfully defended his championship against Elijah Burke at Unforgiven, Big Daddy V via disqualification at No Mercy, The Miz at Cyber Sunday, John Morrison on the November 6, 2007 episode of ECW, and in a triple threat match against The Miz and John Morrison at Survivor Series.
On the January 22, 2008 episode of ECW, Punk was defeated by Chavo Guerrero for the ECW Championship in a No Disqualification match after Edge ran in and speared Punk.
At WrestleMania XXIV, he competed in the Money in the Bank ladder match and defeated Chris Jericho, Montel Vontavious Porter, Shelton Benjamin, John Morrison, Mr. Kennedy and Carlito.
Raw & World Heavyweight Champion (2008–2009)
On the June 23, 2008 episode of Raw, Punk was drafted to the Raw brand during the 2008 WWE Draft.
During his first night on Raw, Batista beat down the World Heavyweight Champion Edge and left him lying in the ring.
Punk then ran down the ramp to the ring with referee Mike Chioda.
He then cashed in his Money in the Bank contract, hit Edge with the Go to Sleep and pinned him to become the new World Heavyweight Champion.
Punk defended the title for the first time later in the night against JBL.
Punk was able to hold the championship until Unforgiven on September 7, 2008.
Before Punk was able to compete in the Championship Scramble match, he was attacked by The Legacy (Randy Orton, Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase with Manu).
Orton ended the attack by punting Punk in the head.
This led to Punk being unable to compete in the match and having to forfeit the title.
In the match, Punk was replaced by Chris Jericho, who was able to win the match and the title.
Punk had a rematch against Jericho eight days later on the September 15 episode of Raw but he was unable to regain the title in a steel cage match.
On the October 27, 2008 episode of Raw, Punk and Kofi Kingston were able to defeat Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase to win the World Tag Team Championship.
Punk and Kofi were also members of Team Batista at Survivor Series where they lost to Team Orton.
After Survivor Series, Punk entered the number one contender Intercontinental Championship Tournament.
Punk was able to defeat Snitsky and John Morrison in the first two rounds.
On December 13, 2008, John Morrison and The Miz defeated Punk and Kingston for the World Tag Team Championship at a live event.
Punk defeated Rey Mysterio the next day at Armageddon to win the tournament.
On the January 5 episode of Raw, he received an Intercontinental Championship title match against William Regal.
The match ended in a disqualification, when Regal grabbed the referee's shirt.
Due to this, Stephanie McMahon gave Punk a rematch the next week.
The rematch ended in a disqualification but this time it was Punk that got disqualified.
He was awarded another rematch on the January 19 episode of Raw but this time it was a No Disqualification match.
Punk was able to win the match and the championship.
When he won the championship, Punk became the nineteenth Triple Crown Champion.
He also became the person to accomplish the Triple Crown in the fastest amount of time, which broke Kevin Nash's old record.
On the March 9 episode of Raw, Punk was defeated for the championship by John "Bradshaw" Layfield.
Punk was able to win the Money in the Bank ladder match at WrestleMania XXV and became the first person to win the match twice.
At the 2009 WWE Draft on April 13, 2009, he was drafted from Raw to SmackDown.
He began a feud with Umaga because of Umaga's multiple surprise attacks when Punk was attempting to cash in his Money in the Bank Contract.
The feud resulted in a Samoan strap match at Extreme Rules.
The match was won by Punk.
When the pay-per-view was about to end, Punk ran down to the ring, cashed in his Money in the Bank contract and defeated Jeff Hardy to win the World Heavyweight Championship.
On the June 15 episode of Raw, Punk defended his championship in a Triple Threat match against Edge and Hardy.
At The Bash, Punk lost to Hardy by disqualification when Punk kicked the referee after he was affected with a storyline eye injury and claimed that he could not see the referee, but because the titles do not change hands from disqualification, Punk retained the championship.
When Hardy believed that Punk was faking his eye injury, he called him out on it.
This led Punk to turn heel and said that he was the moral superior to fans of Hardy because of his drug-free lifestyle.
Punk lost the championship to Hardy at Night of Champions.
Punk and Hardy had a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match at SummerSlam where Punk won the championship back.
After the match, Punk was attacked by The Undertaker.
Punk's feud with Hardy ended on the August 28 episode of Friday Night SmackDown when Punk defeated Hardy in a steel cage match where the loser of the match would have to leave the company.
The match earned a Slammy Award for "Shocker of the Year" in 2009.
At Breaking Point in Montreal, Punk competed in a submission match against The Undertaker.
Punk defeated The Undertaker in the match to retain the World Heavyweight Championship.
The Undertaker originally won the match with his Hell's Gate submission hold.
The SmackDown general manager Theodore Long restarted the match after announcing that the ban that the former general manager Vickie Guerrero set on his move was still in effect.
Punk won the match with the Anaconda Vise when the referee Scott Armstrong called for the bell even though the Undertaker did not submit (similar to the Montreal Screwjob which happened in the same arena in 1997).
Punk was defeated by The Undertaker in a Hell in a Cell match for the World Heavyweight Championship at Hell in a Cell.
Punk had a rematch against The Undertaker on Smackdown and had another rematch at Bragging Rights in a Fatal Four Way match which also involved Batista and Rey Mysterio but he lost both matches.
The Straight Edge Society & New Nexus (2009–2011)
He changed his character in a more menacing direction on the November 27 episode of SmackDown, when he revealed that he had converted Luke Gallows, who had the former gimmick of the mentally incompetent wrestler Festus, to the straight-edge lifestyle which had got rid of his mental problems.
He continued to support his straight-edge philosophy, he began to present himself as a cult-like savior to the crowd.
He also grew out the hair on his head, face and chest in an allusion to Jesus.
Through the month of January, he began to convert planted members of the audience to the straight-edge lifestyle by making them take a pledge of allegiance to him and then shaving their head as a sign of renewal and devotion.
After he converted multiple people who were not seen again, one of the converts Serena began accompanying Punk and Gallows and they later formed the Straight Edge Society.
While leading the stable, he was also the mentor of WWE NXT rookie Darren Young.
At one point, Young was going to join the Straight Edge Society but he chose not to join before he was about to have his head shaved.
Punk would occasionally give sermons and even gave sermon while competing in both the Royal Rumble and Elimination Chamber matches.
During the Chamber match, Punk was eliminated by Rey Mysterio, who he was feuding with going into the PPV.
This raised tensions between the two as Mysterio prevented him from winning a Money in the Bank qualifying match which then lead to Punk interrupting Mysterio's celebration of his daughter's ninth birthday and singing his own version of "Happy Birthday to You" to her.
Mysterio challenged Punk to a Street Fight at WrestleMania XXVI but he lost to Gallows.
A stipulation was added by Punk that if Mysterio lost, he would have to join the Society.
Mysterio defeated Punk at WrestleMania and a rematch took place at Extreme Rules where if Punk lost, he would have to have his head shaved like his disciples.
Punk was able to win the match after outside interference from a fourth member of the Society who kept his face covered.
A third and final match was held at Over The Limit with both of the previous stipulations put on.
At the event, Punk was defeated by Mysterio and had his head shaved bald.
Punk felt embarrassed by having his head shaved and he considered himself to be always pure unlike his followers, Punk appeared under a mask to cover his bald head on the May 29 episode of SmackDown.
At Fatal 4-Way, Punk challenged for the World Heavyweight Championship against Mysterio, The Big Show and the champion Jack Swagger but lost when Kane attacked Punk after Kane accused Punk of being the person who attacked The Undertaker.
Punk was unmasked by Big Show on the July 16 episode of SmackDown while Punk was healing from an arm injury.
On the July 23 episode of SmackDown, Big Show unmasked the fourth member of the Straight Edge Society and it was revealed to be Joey Mercury.
This incident led to a handicap match at SummerSlam.
In the match, Big Show defeated the Straight Edge Society when Punk abandoned them.
Punk was defeated in a singles match against Big Show at Night of Champions.
A little while after, Serena was released from her WWE contract after she reportedly did not "live out" her straight edge persona in public.
Mercury had also suffered an injury which caused the group to shorten.
Gallows showed signs of dissent and Punk defeated Gallows in a match on the September 24 episode of SmackDown.
The ended the group.
Punk was traded back to Raw when he was swapped with Edge.
Punk competed in an interbrand tag team match at Bragging Rights after he injured Evan Bourne to take his place, but the team lost.
It was later reported that Punk had been suffering from a hip injury and he would need to stop competing for a while.
To stay on television, Punk appeared and began commentating on Raw starting on November 22.
During his commentary time, Punk showed favor toward heels and criticized John Cena because of his actions with The Nexus.
Punk left commentary after he attacked John Cena with a chair on both Raw and SmackDown.
Punk revealed that he had joined The Nexus and this was the reason that he had attacked Cena.
Punk would command the group to attack Randy Orton and blamed him for Punk's first World Heavyweight Championship reign in 2008 ending.
The incident led to a match at WrestleMania XXVII where Orton defeated Punk.
They also had a Last Man Standing match with The New Nexus barred from ringside at Extreme Rules which Punk also lost.
WWE Championship reign (2011-2013)
Within a week, Punk went on to defeat John Cena on Raw, Rey Mysterio at Capitol Punishment and Alberto Del Rio in a number one contendership match.
Punk would then reveal that his contract with the WWE would expire at Money in the Bank and promised that he would leave the company with the WWE Championship; some of his speeches and mannerisms were very similar to his final months with Ring of Honor.
After Punk made a scathing on-air speech about the way that the WWE is run and about its owner Vince McMahon, he was suspended (storyline) from televised WWE events but he was brought back the following week after John Cena insisted.
When Punk returned, he didn't appear with the other members of Nexus and the stable was quietly dissolved.
This helped Punk turn back into a fan-favorite.
Punk would go on to defeat John Cena at Money in the Bank to become the WWE Champion during his final night under a WWE contract.
On July 21, he made a surprise appearance at a joint WWE-Mattel panel at the San Diego Comic Con.
During his appearance, Punk mocked the Chief Operating Officer Triple H and also offered a match to the WWE Championship tournament finalist Rey Mysterio as long as the match took place in Punk's hometown of Chicago.
The WWE Championship tournament was won by Mysterio on the July 25 episode of Raw but he lost to Cena later in the night.
When Cena won, Punk returned to upstage Cena's WWE Championship victory celebration which lead to a title dispute.
Triple H later supported the fact that both Punk and Cena's claims as the WWE Championship as legitimate and he scheduled a match between the two at SummerSlam to decide who would become the undisputed WWE Champion.
At SummerSlam, Punk was able to win the match but he lost the championship shortly after when Kevin Nash attacked Punk and Alberto Del Rio cashed in his Money in the Bank contract.
On Raw the next night, Punk accused Nash of working with Triple H to try and keep Punk away from the WWE Championship.
After many confrontations between the two, Punk and Nash demanded that they face each other at Night of Champions and Triple H agreed.
Triple H would later change the match and would book himself to replace Nash instead after Punk continued to verbally attack him and his wife Stephanie McMahon.
Punk was defeated by Triple H in a No Disqualification match after The Miz, and R-Truth attacked both of them.
At Hell in a Cell, Punk competed in a Triple threat Hell in a Cell match against Alberto Del Rio and John Cena but he was defeated.
After the match, Punk was again attacked by The Miz and R-Truth.
At Vengeance, Punk teamed up with Triple H in a match against The Miz and R-Truth but they lost after Nash attacked Triple H. The loss helped switch Punk's anti-establishment voice from Triple H over to John Laurinaitis, who became the interim Raw general manager.
Punk didn't like the promotion that Laurinaitis received and called him a boring yes man.
On October 31, Punk forced his way into a match against Del Rio at Survivor Series.
In the match, Punk defeated Del Rio to win back the WWE Championship.
He defended the championship throughout the year, defeating Del Rio in a rematch on the November 28 episode of Raw as well as defeating both Del Rio and The Miz in a triple threat TLC match at TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs.
On the December 26 episode of Raw, Punk was defeated in a gauntlet match by Dolph Ziggler which made Ziggler become the number one contender for the WWE Championship.
If Punk was able to win the gauntlet match, he would have earned the right to face Laurinaitis in a match.
On the January 2 episode of Raw, Punk was defeated by Ziggler via countout after Laurinaitis interfered in the match.
Throughout January, Laurinaitis would continue to mess up Punk's matches and cause him to lose to Ziggler.
This eventually led to Punk attacking Laurinaitis.
Punk defeated Ziggler in a match at Royal Rumble to retain his championship even with Laurinaitis acting as the outside enforcer.
On the January 30 episode of Raw, entered a feud with Chris Jericho after Jericho attacked Punk and Daniel Bryan during their Champion vs. Champion match which helped Bryan gain the win.
On the February 6 episode of Raw, Jericho explained why he attacked Punk, saying that the WWE roster were imitations of himself and he singled out Punk for claiming that he was  the best in the world, a moniker that Jericho had used during the last time that he was in WWE.
Punk competed in an Elimination Chamber match at Elimination Chamber.