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Hull may refer to:

Structures[link]

• Hull (watercraft), the body or frame of a ship
• Chassis of an armored fighting vehicle
• Fuselage of an aircraft
• Hull (botany), the outer covering of seeds

In mathematics[link]

• Affine hull, in affine geometry
• Convex hull, in geometry
• Carathéodory's theorem (convex hull)
• Holomorphically convex hull, in complex analysis
• Injective hull of a module
• Linear hull, another name for the linear span
• Skolem hull of mathematical logic

Places[link]

England

• Kingston upon Hull (often abbreviated to Hull), a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire named after the River Hull
  • River Hull, river in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England
  • Hull City A.F.C., English football team
  • Hull F.C., rugby league club formed in 1865, based in the west of the city
  • Hull Kingston Rovers (Hull KR), rugby league club formed in 1882, based in the east of the city
  • Hull Stingrays ice hockey team (formerly the Humberside Seahawks).
  • The University of Hull, a university in England
  • Port of Hull, a major passenger and freight port in Kingston upon Hull

Canada

• Hull, Quebec, a former city in Québec (now part of the city of Gatineau)
• Hull (provincial electoral district), provincial electoral district in Quebec
• Hull—Aylmer, a Canadian federal electoral district

French Polynesia

• Îles Maria, an island in the Austral Islands, formerly called Hull Island

Kiribati

• Orona, an island that was formerly called Hull Island

Slovakia

• Hul, Nové Zámky District, known as Hull in Hungarian

United States

• Hull, Georgia
• Hull, Illinois
• Hull, Iowa
• Hull, Massachusetts
• Hull, Texas
• Hull, West Virginia
• Hull, Marathon County, Wisconsin
• Hull, Portage County, Wisconsin

Other uses[link]

• Hull House, settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, USA
• USS Hull, any of four U.S. Navy ships
• Hull–White model of interest rates, in economics

See also[link]

• List of people with surname Hull
• All pages beginning with "Hull"
• All pages with titles containing "Hull"
• Hulk (ship)

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Sierra Hull
Background information
Born	(1991-09-27) September 27, 1991 (age 20)
Occupations	Musician, Songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, Mandolin, Guitar
Years active	2007–present
Labels	Rounder
Associated acts	Alison Krauss, Barry Bales, Ron Block, Chris Thile
Website	http://www.sierralhull.com Sierra Hull discography at MusicBrainz

Sierra Hull (born September 27, 1991) is an American bluegrass singer and mandolinist and guitarist.

Hull was signed to Rounder Records at the age of 13^[1] and released her debut album, Secrets, in 2008 at the age of 16. The album peaked at #2 on the Billboard Top Bluegrass Albums chart.^[2] Her second album, Daybreak, was released on March 8, 2011.^[3]

Biography[link]

Sierra Hull was born and raised in Byrdstown, Tennessee and attended Pickett County High School before accepting a Presidential Scholarship^[4] to study at the Berklee College of Music.

Hull began playing the mandolin at the age of eight and put out the album Angel Mountain at 10. Hull was soon playing jam sessions with other musicians in her family, and by 2001 she was entering local talent contests. Her parents, Stacy and Brenda, took her to numerous bluegrass festivals and it was during an International Bluegrass Music Association festival that she came to the attention of Rounder Records chief talent scout Ken Irwin.^[5] At age 11 she was mentored and befriended by Alison Krauss, herself once a child prodigy on the fiddle.^[6]

She has a brother, Cody, and is a distant cousin of former United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull.^[7] Hull has already received five International Bluegrass Music Association nominations in the past three years.

Music career[link]

[edit] Secrets

Hull's debut album on Rounder Records, released in May 2008, was co-produced by Alison Krauss and Ron Block which follows a self-released CD Angel Mountain, in 2002. The production by Hull and Ron Block paid tribute and honored the tradition and style of bluegrass music. The album contained 3 original songs penned by Hull. She was just 15 when she recorded the album and released at just 16.

[edit] Daybreak

On her 2011 second release on Rounder Records, the 20-year-old has composed seven of the 12 songs and it was produced by Alison Krauss & Union Station bassist Barry Bales. The album features collaborations with Bryan Sutton on guitar and Randy Kohrs on dobro. Guest singers include Dan Tyminski, Shawn Lane and Ronnie Bowman.

The themes on Daybreak are largely relationship oriented and surround universal subjects like love won and lost.^[8]

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

Other singles[link]

Music videos[link]

References[link]

Ben Westwood

Westwood while playing for Warrington in 2007
Personal information
Nickname	Predator
Born	(1981-07-25) 25 July 1981 (age 30)[1] Bradford, West Yorkshire, England
Height	189 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	104 kg (16 st 5 lb) [2]
Playing information
Position	Centre, Second-row
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1999–02	Wakefield Trinity	38	8	1	0	34
2002–	Warrington Wolves	140	82	70	0	468
	Total	178	90	71	0	502
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2004–2010	England	7	2	7	0	22

Ben Westwood (born 25 July 1981) is an English professional rugby league footballer for the Warrington Wolves of Europe's Super League. An England international representative forward, he previously played for the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats before moving to Warrington in 2002 and winning the 2009 Challenge Cup with them.

Playing career[link]

Super League[link]

Westwood in action for England against New Zealand at the 2008 Rugby League World Cup

A talismanic player for the Wolves who has been top tackler at the club for the past two seasons and top tackler out of marker for the past three, Westwood was Warrington's Players' Player of the Year and Fans Player of the Year in 2007. A conversion from the centres to the pack at the start of 2005 transformed his career and has pushed him to the verge of international honours, winning a call up to the Great Britain standby squad for the 2006 Tri-Nations. He began his career at local team Normanton Knights, before being scouted for the Wildcats.

He was named in the Super League Dream Team for 2008's Super League XIII.^[3]

Westwood played for Warrington in the 2010 Challenge Cup Final victory over the Leeds Rhinos.^[4]

He also enjoyed a good year in 2011 despite injuries.

England[link]

In September 2008 he was named in the England training squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup,^[5] and in October 2008 he was named in the final 24-man England squad.^[6]

In 2011 Westwood has established himself within the elite England squad and featured in all of England's Gillette [Four Nations] matches. The tournament earned him the reputation of a hard-working and aggressive back-rower who thrives on intensity.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Warrington Wolves profile
• International Statistics at englandrl.co.uk
• Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org

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The Housemartins were an English indie pop band that was active in the 1980s.^[1] Many of the Housemartins' lyrics were a mixture of Marxist politics and Christianity, reflecting singer Paul Heaton's beliefs at the time (the back cover of London 0 Hull 4 contained the message, "Take Jesus - Take Marx - Take Hope").

Career[link]

Formation[link]

The band was formed in late 1983 by Paul Heaton (vocals) and Stan Cullimore (guitar), and they initially performed as a busking duo. Note that throughout his tenure with the band, Heaton idiosyncratically billed himself as "P.d. Heaton".

The Heaton/Cullimore duo recorded a demo tape with Ingo Dewsnap of Les Zeiga Fleurs, which brought them to the attention of Go Discs.^[2] They then expanded by recruiting Ted Key (bass), former guitarist with The Gargoyles, and Justin Patrick [drummer on loan from Udomsuksa!] who was then replaced by Chris Lang. The band's membership changed considerably over the years. Key left at the end of 1985 and was replaced by Norman Cook (the future Fatboy Slim). Drummer Chris Lang was replaced by Hugh Whitaker, former drummer with The Gargoyles, who in turn was replaced with Dave Hemingway.^[1]

The band often referred to themselves as "the fourth best band in Hull", referring to Hull, their home base. The three bands that were "better" were Red Guitars, Everything but the Girl and The Gargoyles.^[1]

Break[link]

In 1986, having recorded two John Peel sessions, the band broke through with the single "Happy Hour", which reached #3 in the UK Singles Chart.^[3] The single's success was helped by a claymation animated pop promo of a type that was in vogue at the time, featuring a cameo by television comedian Phill Jupitus, who toured with the band under his stage name of 'Porky the Poet'.

Caravan of Love[link]

At the end of 1986 they had their only UK #1 single on 16 December with a cover version of Isley-Jasper-Isley's "Caravan of Love".^[1] It was knocked off the top spot by Jackie Wilson's "Reet Petite" on 23 December, denying the Housemartins the coveted Christmas #1 single.

The a cappella style of "Caravan of Love" was not to the taste of all Housemartins' fans, although a cappella material had always been part of the band's repertoire. "Caravan of Love" was first performed by the band in their second Peel session in April 1986, prior to their initial chart success. At Peel's suggestion, the band then recorded another session (under the name The Fish City Five), consisting entirely of a cappella performances, and on at least one occasion (at The Tower nightclub in Hull, the same concert at which they were filmed as the Housemartins for the BBC programme Rock Around the Clock) played support act for their own performance under this alternative name. The "Caravan of Love" single featured four a cappella gospel songs on the B-side.

Split[link]

The band split in 1988, but the members have remained friends and have worked on each other's projects. Norman Cook has enjoyed significant success with Beats International and then as Fatboy Slim, while Heaton, Hemingway and roadie Sean Welch formed The Beautiful South.

In August 2009, Mojo magazine arranged for The Housemartins' original members to get together for a photo-shoot and interview, for the first time in many years, but in the interview all the members maintained that the band would not re-form.

In December 2009, Cullimore co-wrote songs for (and appeared in) a pre-school music series called The Bopps, which first showed on Nick Jr. in the UK in April 2010.

[edit] London 0 Hull 4 re-release

London 0 Hull 4 was re-released on 22 June 2009, with a bonus disc featuring tracks released as additional content on 12-inch singles and demo tracks.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

Singles[link]

• "Flag Day" (October 1985)
• "Sheep" (March 1986, UK # 56)
• "Happy Hour" (May 1986, UK # 3)
• "Think for a Minute" (September 1986, UK # 18)
• "Caravan of Love" (November 1986, UK # 1)
• "Five Get Over Excited" (May 1987, UK # 11)
• "Me and the Farmer" (August 1987, UK # 15)
• "Build" (November 1987, UK # 15)
• "There Is Always Something There to Remind Me" (April 1988, UK # 35)^[1][3]

Compilation albums[link]

• The Housemartins Christmas Box Set (November 1986) UK # 84
• Now That's What I Call Quite Good (April 1988) UK # 8
• The Best of the Housemartins (March 2004)
• Live At The BBC (2006, Universal)
• Soup (December 2007) UK # 15^[1][3]

Videography[link]

(does not include "live" appearances on TV programmes)

• "Sheep"
• "Happy Hour"
• "Think for a Minute"
• "Caravan of Love"
• "Five Get Over Excited"
• "Me and the Farmer"
• "Build"
• "There Is Always Something There to Remind Me"
• "We're Not Deep"

Biography[link]

• The Housemartins: Now That's What I Call Quite Good by Nick Swift (1988) ISBN 0-7119-1517-2

References[link]

External links[link]

• Fan site
• The Housemartins's channel on YouTube