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Dart may refer to:

Media[link]

• Dart (comics), an Image Comics superhero
• Dart (G.I. Joe)
• Dart Feld, a The Legend of Dragoon character
• Wraith dart, a starship in the Stargate franchise
• Dart, a Fire Emblem character

Natural science[link]

• DART ion source
• DART radiative transfer model
• Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis
• Diversity Arrays Technology, a genotyping technology
• Love dart, an object created by snails and slugs
• Some moth species in the family Noctuidae

Business[link]

• Dart Container, a cup and container manufacturer
• Dart Container Line, a defunct shipping consortium
• Dart Drug, a drug store chain
• Dart Group, a UK airline and industrial holding company
• Dart Industries, the entrepreneurial holdings of Justin Whitlock Dart
• Dart National Bank

Public transit systems[link]

• DART First State, a transit system in Delaware, United States
• Dallas Area Rapid Transit
• Des Moines Area Regional Transit
• Dublin Area Rapid Transit
• Dial-a-Ride Transit

Land vehicles[link]

• Dennis Dart, a bus model
• Dodge Dart, an American car produced 1960-1976
• Dodge Dart (2013), an American car debuting 2012
• Goggomobil Dart, an Australian car produced 1959-1961
• Dart, a South Devon Railway Eagle class locomotive

Aerospace[link]

• Dart (rocketry), part of a sounding rocket
• DART (satellite), a NASA spacecraft
• Dart Aircraft, a 1930s British aircraft manufacturer
• Culver Dart, a 1930s American light aircraft
• Rolls-Royce Dart, a turboprop engine

Ships[link]

• MS Dart 3, a ferry operated 2000-2006
• MS Dart 7, a ferry operated 1999-2000
• Dart sailboats such as Dart 16 and Dart 18

Computing[link]

• Dart (programming language)
• DART Internet, an internet service provider
• Microsoft DaRT, a suite of software
• Data Access in Real Time, an operating system
• Dynamic Analysis and Replanning Tool, an artificial intelligence program used by the U.S. military

Geography[link]

• Cape Dart, Antarctica
• Dart Island, Australia
• River Dart, a river in Devon, England
• Little Dart River, a tributary of the River Taw in Devon, England

People[link]

• Doc Corbin Dart (born 1953), American alternative musician
• G. F. J. Dart (fl. 20th century), Australian educational reformer and scholar
• Justin Whitlock Dart (1907-1984), American entrepreneur and owner of Dart Industries
• Justin Whitlock Dart, Jr. (1930-2002), American disability activist
• Raymond Dart (1893–1988), Australian anatomist and anthropologist
• Rollin Dart (born 1925), American banker and president of Dart National Bank
• Thurston Dart (1921-1971), British musicologist
• William A. Dart (1814–1890), New York lawyer and politician

Other uses[link]

• Dart (missile), a projectile weapon also used for gaming
• Dart (sewing)
• Direct Action and Research Training Center, an American community organizing network
• Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team, a Singapore Civil Defence Force team
• Disaster Assistance Response Team, a Canadian Forces team
• A type of kite in geometry

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Michael van Gerwen (born 25 April 1989 in Boxtel, Netherlands) is a Dutch professional darts player, nicknamed Mighty Mike. He is the youngest player in history to win a major televised tournament in either the BDO or the PDC, winning the 2006 Winmau World Masters at the age of 17. He is also the youngest player ever to compete at the BDO version of the World Professional Darts Championship, competing in the 2007 tournament at the age of 17 years, 257 days.

Youth career[link]

Michael reached the final of the Primus Masters Youth event at the age of just 14 in 2003. He then started to amass youth titles in 2005 including the German Open, German Gold Cup, Norway Open, Northern Ireland Open, Swedish Open and the Dutch National Youth Championship which he also defended in 2006. He also won the Men's events in the Norway and Northern Ireland Opens in the same year that he took the youth titles.

BDO career[link]

He picked up several Open titles and rose up the BDO/WDF World Rankings having climbed as high as third, even before he reached his 18th birthday.

Michael reached the semi-finals of the Bavaria World Darts Trophy in 2006. Despite losing to Martin Adams, the Dutch youngster came within one dart of the perfect nine dart finish, just missing double twelve. He did manage the highest possible checkout of 170 during the tournament.

He managed to eclipse that performance at the 2006 Winmau World Masters by becoming the youngest ever champion. Having trailed 1–4 and 2–5 to Adams, he came back to win the title and take Eric Bristow's record as the youngest ever winner at the age of 17 years 174 days.

His early career success led to inevitable speculation that he may join the other professional circuit of darts, the Professional Darts Corporation. However, during the 2006 World Darts Trophy, van Gerwen held a press conference to make it clear that he wanted to stay with the BDO/WDF. [1] He also finished top of the DDF (Dutch Darts Federation) Rankings – which would have secured him a place at the PDC World Championship if he chose to accept. He had already committed to playing at Lakeside, so the place went to Rico Vonck who finished second in the rankings.

Van Gerwen was the bookmakers pre-tournament favourite to win the 2007 Lakeside World title, but his hopes were ended in the first round by Gary Robson.

On the night of the 2007 BDO World Championship Final it was announced on Dutch television that van Gerwen, along with Jelle Klaasen and Vincent van der Voort would be switching to the Professional Darts Corporation.

PDC career[link]

Michael started at 88 in the PDC World Rankings. Although he was a BDO player he was eligible for certain PDC events in his home country even before he switched to the PDC. This included the Open Holland in 2006, in which he took the title.^[2]

He made his PDC debut on 20 January at the Stan James Players Championships in Gibraltar and beat Andy Hamilton before losing in the last 16 to fellow countryman Roland Scholten. In the second Players Championship the following day, he beat Raymond van Barneveld in the early rounds only to lose to Alan Warriner-Little in the quarter finals.

He followed up his victory over van Barneveld by beating 13 times World Champion Phil Taylor by 3 sets to 0 on the opening night of the Masters of Darts tournament. All three sets went to a deciding leg which van Gerwen clinched with 14, 12 and 12 darts. He went on to reach the semi-final of the tournament and achieved a perfect nine dart finish against van Barneveld, but lost the match.^[3]

Michael has yet to deliver any success on in UK-televised tournaments, having made his debut at the 2007 UK Open falling in the last 32 to Colin Osborne. He failed to qualify for the 2007 Las Vegas Desert Classic and was defeated in round two of the World Matchplay in Blackpool by Ronnie Baxter 12–14, having been one leg from victory at 12–10. One of the Dutchman's more impressive achievements on Sky however came in a 2008 PDC World Darts Championship first round defeat to Taylor; notably he had one dart at double 12 to win the match and knock out the 13 time world champion, to end a phenomenal record of Taylor reaching every PDC World Championship Final. However, Taylor's record was later ended in the Quarter Final losing 5–4 in sets to Wayne Mardle.

Michael ended his long wait for a tournament victory by beating his Dutch compatriot Vincent van der Voort 6–3 in the final of the Players Championship in Taunton on 11 April 2009 and earned him £6,000 towards the Order of Merit.

van Gerwen was defeated 6–4 by Arron Monk in the final of the inaugural PDC Under-21 World Championship during the 2011 PDC World Championship.

He made it to the last 16 of the PDC World Championship for the first time in 2012 by beating Colin Osborne and Mervyn King.^[4] Michael lost nine out of the first ten legs in his last 16 game to trail 0-3 to Simon Whitlock, but produced an incredible comeback to level the match at 3-3. He couldn't maintain his form, however, as he lost all three legs in the deciding set to exit the tournament 3-4.^[5]

van Gerwen was named Young Player of the Year at the PDC annual awards ceremony on 3 January 2012, for winning four PDC Unicorn Youth Tour events during 2011 and his World Championship run.^[1]

In 2012, He won the first Players Championship of the season, defeating Dave Chisnall in the final 6-1.

Majors titles[link]

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
2006	Winmau World Masters	Martin Adams	7–5

References[link]

External links[link]

• Michael van Gerwen official web site
• Michael van Gerwen's profile and stats on Darts Database

The Felice Brothers are a folk rock/country rock band from Upstate New York founded in 2006.^[1]

History[link]

The Felice Brothers got their start as a band playing in the New York City subway.^[2] The sons of a carpenter, they would play together on Sundays at their father's afternoon barbecues.^[3] They stayed in a little apartment in Brooklyn^[2] and would play in the subway stations at 42nd Street and Union Square and in Greenwich Village.^[4] The three brothers originally hail from Palenville, New York^[2] in the Catskill Mountains.

Now they tour the country, traveling in their "Short Bus".^[1] Their 2006 self-released debut album was Through These Reins and Gone^[3] followed by Tonight At the Arizona released in 2007.^[2] Through These Reins and Gone made it onto Radio Woodstock WDST's top 25 albums of 2006. About their album Adventures of the Felice Brothers Vol. 1 James Felice said, "We put one record out on an English label, and we've released all the other stuff ourselves" (on their label 'New York Pro').^[3] The Felice Brothers have played at Levon Helm's Midnight Ramble in Woodstock, New York and also toured with Bright Eyes in the fall of 2007.^[4]

2008[link]

On January 7, it was announced The Felice Brothers had signed a record deal with Team Love Records.^[5][6] They toured the United States extensively during the spring (February through mid-April), to promote their new album. The Brothers played at Mountain Jam at Hunter Mountain again this year. They also played at the 2008 Clearwater Festival, Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tennessee, the Philadelphia Folk Festival in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, All Points West Music and Arts Festival at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, and Outside lands music and arts festival in San Francisco, the latter two festivals being inaugural events.

In August, the band performed at the legendary Newport Folk Festival. Due to torrential rains, high winds, and lightning storms, power was cut to the entire Newport, Rhode Island area. As the stage the band was performing on had no generators, the band played unplugged. They performed for over an hour with such songs as "Frankie's Gun!" and a sing-a-long to "This Land Is Your Land".

2009[link]

The Felice Brothers joined Old Crow Medicine Show, Justin Townes Earle and the Dave Rawlings Machine for a nine-city package tour called The Big Surprise Tour, after the lead track from the Yonder is the Clock album. Kicking off on August 4, 2009 at the Casino Ballroom in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, the tour travelled around the eastern United States before wrapping up at the World's Fair Park in Knoxville, Tennessee, on August 14, 2009.^[7]

2010[link]

The Felice Brothers opened for the Dave Matthews Band at four concerts in Canada and the US, starting at the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto on June 1, 2010. They also appeared at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco on October 3. In late September and early October the band reunited for four shows with Conor Oberst. All the shows were in California. They appeared at the End of the Road Festival, Larmer Tree Gardens, Dorset, England in September.

2011[link]

The Felice Brothers released the single "Ponzi" on March 29. It was the first single off of their newest album "Celebration, Florida" which released on May 10 on Fat Possum (USA) and May 23 on Loose Music in the UK.

Personnel[link]

The band has five main members: Ian and James Felice, their friend Christmas Clapton, previously a traveling dice player, fiddle player Greg Farley and drummer Dave Turbeville. At other times, they have featured a horn section in the band, composed of local Hudson Valley musicians. Ian is the main vocalist and plays the guitar and piano. James contributes vocals and plays the accordion, organ, and piano. Christmas plays the bass guitar. Simone Felice was the drummer as well as a vocalist and a guitarist. Simone is also an author, having released books entitled Goodbye Amelia, Hail Mary, Full of Holes and Black Jesus. Simone Felice left the Felice Brothers in 2009. He now leads his own band - The Duke & the King (named after the duo of con-artists in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) with Robert "Chicken" Burke. They released their debut album - Nothing Gold Can Stay on Ramseur Records August 4, 2009, followed by Long Live the Duke & King in 2010. Simone's self-titled debut album was released in 2012.

Discography[link]

Cultural references[link]

• The end of the song "Frankie's Gun!" is featured in the British sitcom Outnumbered's 2009 Christmas Special, where all the family are seen singing along to it in the closing sequence.

• The song "Whiskey In My Whiskey" is playing on the jukebox in Merlotte's bar in episode 7 of the first season of True Blood on HBO.^[9]

• The song "Her Eyes Dart Round" is featured in episode 7 of the fourth season of Skins on E4. Also, "Frankie's Gun!" is featured in the credits to the third season's finale.

• "Frankie's Gun" can be heard on the bar jukebox in the film The Messenger.

• "The intro to "Frankie's Gun" is looped during the final episode of the second season of Eastbound and Down, when Kenny returns to his brother's house in North Carolina.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website