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unusual facts about "Burk" ''sic


Peter Camani

Peter Camani is a Canadian artist and sculptor who has created an unusual residence, castle, and sculpture garden on an old farm near Burk's Falls, Ontario, Canada, which is most commonly known as Screaming Heads.


Bryan Burk

A graduate of USC's School of Cinema-Television, Bryan Burk began his career working with producers Brad Weston at Columbia Pictures, Ned Tanen at Sony Pictures and John Davis at FOX.

Cat-Tails for Two

Figuring the ship will have plenty of Mexican mice, i.e. "Mexican food" (Benny: "It gives me the heartburn and I love it!"), they climb on, only to find an unkempt mouse calling himself "Speedy Gonzalez sic: Fastest Mouse in All Mexico".

Cosmik Debris

It concerns the Mystery Man, a typical guru or psychic, offering to help the narrator reach Nervanna sic for a "nominal service charge," and the narrator's refusal to buy into his act, "Look here, brother, who you jiving with that cosmik debris?" When the Mystery Man gets pushy, Zappa as the narrator tells how he snatched the crystal ball, hypnotized the Mystery Man, stole his stuff and blew his mind.

Côte-Rôtie AOC

Around the same time, the British also discovered the wines with the purchase logs of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol providing one of the earliest English records of "Côte-Rôty" (sic) wine.

Dolinsk-Sokol

Dolinsk-Sokol (appearing in various forms as Sokol, Dolinsk-Sokol, Dolinsk Sokol, Solok sic) is a military air base in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia located 8 km south of Dolinsk.

Edwin Stead

Edwin Stead was the grandson of Sir Edwyn Stede (sic), who had been knighted by Charles II.

Eliza de Feuillide

She is believed to have been inspirational for a number of Austen's works, such as Love and Freindship (sic), Henry and Eliza, Lady Susan and Mansfield Park.

Ezekiel Isaac Malekar

“According to Rabbi sic Hillel, the Torah can be capsulated into only one commandment: ‘What is hurtful and hateful to you, do not do to another.’ Everything else is footnote.”

Fannie Lou Hamer

:"All of this is on account we want to register sic, to become first-class citizens, and if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings - in America?"

Farringdon station

In stream of consciousness lyrics, the electronica group Underworld refer to the station as the "tubehole on Farringdon Street" (sic) in their 1993 track Dirty Epic.

Giant sequoias near Kölpin

--sic, the signposting is not very precise--> metres west of the L 9 state road.

Henry Burk

During the time that Burk served in Congress, the Boer War was raging in South Africa.

High Royds Hospital

The band Kasabian named their third album, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum sic, after the hospital after hearing about it on a TV documentary.

I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground

In an earlier version of this song (Okeh, 1925) the banjo is even more remarkable in its halting rhythms, and the singer decided he would "rather be a lizzard sic..."

John Bellers

Karl Marx mentions Bellers in Chapter 25 of Das Kapital, quoting Bellers' argument that "the labour of the poor is the mines sic of the rich".

John Thunstone

The blade is inscribed with a text from Judges chapter 5 in the Vulgate, "Sic pereant omnes inimici tui" — "thus perish all your enemies".

KRXL

KRXL was founded by Sam & Vera Burk in 1967, as an outgrowth of their successful AM station KIRX.

Made in Canada

The company's cash cows are two series, The Sword of Damacles (sic), a parody of mythological adventure series such as Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and Beaver Creek, a parody of Canadian period dramas such as Anne of Green Gables and Road to Avonlea.

Mark C. Hunter

Andrew Lambert, “Review of Mark C. Hunter, To Employ and Uplift Them: The Newfoundland Naval Reserve Unit sic, 1899-1926,” Mariner’s Mirror 96, no. 1 (February 2010): 116-117.

Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Ḥarrānī al-Battānī

In the fictional Star Trek universe, the Excelsior-class starship USS Al-Batani sic NCC-42995, mentioned on Star Trek: Voyager as Kathryn Janeway's first deep space assignment, is named after him.

National Catholic Welfare Council

Bishop Louis Walsh of Portland, Maine, a member of the administrative board, saw in the Consistorial Congregation's action "a dangerous underhand blow from Boston, aided by Philadelphia, who both realized at our last meeting that they could not control the Bishops of this country and they secured the two chief powers of the Consistorial Congregation, Cardinals De Lai and Del Val sic to suppress all common action."

Newfie

In March 2006, an Edmonton police officer was disciplined for using the word Newphie sic to describe the apprehension of an individual under the Mental Health Act.

Nile Valley Civilizations

Festus Ugboaja Ohaegbulam, Towards an understanding of the African experience from historical and contemporary perspectives, University Press of America (1990); Runoko Rashidi, Introduction to the study of African clasical sic civilizations (1992), Walter Arthur McCray, The Black Presence in the Bible: Discovering the Black and African Identity of Biblical Persons and Nations, Urban Ministries Inc, (1995), etc.

Patrick Miller of Dalswinton

He attempted to interest various European navies in his design for a super warship, but only Sweden showed any notable interest; their great naval architect Chapman called it the "English (sic) sea-spook".

Perivaldo Dantas

He had been subjected to a three-week follow-up by Portuguese TV channel SIC, and that and posterior footage resulted in the making of a documentary.

Pforth

PForth started out as HFORTH, which was used in connection with the Hierarchical Music Specification Language, a music experimentation language developed by Phil Burk, Larry Polansky and David Rosenboom.

Philip Dumaresq

Mrs. Dumaresq died in 1720 at Hertford, and desired to be buried at Easthampstead ‘as near my dear father as may be.’ Her will of 25 December 1715, with two codicils of 2 (sic) December 1715, and 24 October 1717, was proved at London on 20 December 1720.

Pixie Williams

The A-side was written by Ruru Karaitiana whilst he was on board a troop ship during World War II, and was recorded in September and October 1948 for release in February the following year by the Ruru Karaitiana Quintette (sic) with Williams on vocals.

Port Victor

Victor Harbor (sic) is the later named of the town originally laid out as Port Victor.

Pradeep Rohatgi

The initial discovery of the synthesis of cast aluminum matrix composites including Al-graphite, Al-SiC, and Al-International Nickel Company in Suffern, New York.

Providian

In a March 1999 memorandum published by the San Francisco Chronicle, the founder of the company, Andrew Kahr, asked company executives about its customers: "Is any bit of food too small to grab when you're starving and when there is nothing else in sight? The trick is charging a lot, repeatedly, for small doses of instrumental siccredit." Many critics contended that the extended credit makes the borrower poorer than before the credit was extended.

Roger Naslain

Professor Naslain and his colleagues designed and experimentally validated the Chemical Vapor Infiltration (CVI) process, one of the very few techniques used in the world to manufacture large parts from C/SiC and SiC/SiC composites for aerospace applications.

Saint-Pol-Roux

It was under this title that he was a dedicatee of André Breton's Clair de Terre (also dedicated to "ceux qui comme lui s'offrent le magnifique plaisir de se faire oublier (sic)", or "those who like him offered themselves the great pleasure of making themselves forgotten"), and Vercors's Le Silence de la mer ( calling him "le poète assassiné", or "the assassinated poet").

San Isidro Partido

San Isidro is the national capital of Rugby and home to two of the most important rugby clubs in the country - SIC (San Isidro Club) and CASI (Club Atlético San Isidro).

Sarracenia rosea

Wherry sent specimens to Louis Burk, a Philadelphia horticulturalist, who confirmed Wherry's field observations in greenhouse-grown plants.

SIC Insurance Company

SIC Insurance is the leading provider of non-life insurance products in Ghana with an estimated Market share of over 25%.

SIC K

Music videos are normally broadcast on SIC K, for example, "Love the Way You Lie" which is performed by American rapper Eminem featuring Barbadian singer Rihanna.

Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades

"Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades" is a 2004 single by the rock band Brand New from their second album Deja Entendu.

Sicmonic

Sicmonic (stylized as (Sic)monic) is an American heavy metal band from Phoenix, Arizona, consisting of Taylor Hession, Ray Goodwin, Ryan Gero, Jason Williams and Zack Sewell.

SIX Swiss Exchange

SIX Interbank Clearing AG, running the Swiss Interbank Clearing (SIC) system providing interbank clearing or Real Time Gross Settlement on behalf of the central bank of Switzerland the Swiss National Bank.

Standard Industrial Classification

The SIC system is also used by agencies in other countries, e.g., by the United Kingdom's Companies House.

Sweevo's World

Among the other characters inhabiting Knutz Folly are the Goose Which Laid The Golden Erg (sic), the Horrible Little Girls ("Minxes"), and the Goose-Stepping Dictators.

The Bee Gees Sing and Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs

(1967's Bee Gees' 1st was the international debut album), released under the artist title "Barry Gibb & the Bee Gee's sic".

The Hookers

The Hookers have described their own sound as combining the “thunder of Blue Cheer, the speed of Motörhead and the teachings of Anton Lavey” (sic).

The Ladder of Divine Ascent

--sic? the CathEnc has 'Bibliotheque Rationale', which seems to be an ORC error--> and was probably brought from Florence by Catherine de' Medici.

There Is a Happy Land

It is also a favorite song of Krazy Kat, the main character from George Herriman's eponymous newspaper comic strip (1913-1944), where the song's opening verse is often willingly misspelled as "There is a heppy lend fur fur away... sic".

Twyford, Hampshire

In Thomas Moule's English Counties 1837 edition, Twyford is referred to as: "on the river Itchin sic, 3 miles S. from the City of Winchester, contains 169 houses and 1048 inhabitants. The church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary,is a vicarage, value £12 12s. 8d., in the patronage of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In the chancel is a mural monument, with a bust, by Joseph Nollekens, in memory of Dr. Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of St. Asaph, who died in the year 1788."

Yue Lao

Yue-Laou (sic) appears as a character in Robert W. Chambers' short story "The Maker of Moons" from the collection of the same name in 1896.


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