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5 unusual facts about "Wash" Custis


Danube Technologies

With his brother Laszlo, Victor Szalvay founded Danube Technologies, Inc. in Seattle, Wash.

Wash up

Wash-up period, the period immediately before Parliament is dissolved, when outstanding Parliamentary business is concluded

WASH-1400

The Union of Concerned Scientists released a 150-page report critiquing the WASH-1400 report, and in June 1976, the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment held hearings on the validity of the report's findings.

Wash-up period

The last time an election was called with no wash-up period was 1924, when Parliament was dissolved immediately on 9 October and the general election held 20 days later.

If a Bill does not receive Royal Assent before Parliament rises, it will be lost, although a new Bill could be reintroduced after the general election.


Abalak

The town itself lies in a seasonal wash — a Kori (Hausa) or Wadi (Arabic) — which retains underground water even during the long dry season.

Akhnoor

It was prescribed by a local Hindu priest that she wash her eyes with the holy water of the Chenab River.

Alexander Macomb House

Two of Martha Washington's grandchildren were part of the First Family: Nelly Custis (born 1779) and "Wash" Custis (born 1781).

All Good?

The music video version of this song takes place at a car wash and features a cameo appearance from actor Frank Vincent.

Battle of Big Dry Wash

The Battle of Big Dry Wash was fought on July 17, 1882, between troops of the United States Army's 3rd Cavalry Regiment and 6th Cavalry Regiment and members of the White Mountain Apache tribe.

Boneless

Mogu, "boneless" wash painting, a type of painting by ink washes without outlines

Cecilia Suárez

She has since been in films such as Sexo, pudor y lágrimas, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Travesía, The Air I Breathe, Dreaming of Julia and Wash and Wear, and television series such as Todo por amor, Fidel, For the People and Capadocia.

Cloth menstrual pad

When changing cloth menstrual pads away from home, some women place the soiled pads into a waterproof or Ziploc bag to keep them from drying out and to contain or prevent odor and then wash the pads when convenient.

Coward of the County

The movie added several characters not mentioned in the song, including: Car-Wash (Noble Willingham), a friend of the Spencer family, Violet (Ana Alicia), a local girl who also loved Tommy, and Lem Gatlin (Joe Dorsey), father of the Gatlin boys (brothers Jimmy Joe, Paul, and Luke).

Craig Heyward

In the mid-1990s, Heyward showcased his sense of humor in a series of television commercials for Zest body wash, introducing a generation of American men to the modern version of the Luffa that is now a fixture in many showers and bathtubs.

Dirty Dick

Nathaniel Bentley, commonly known as Dirty Dick, was an 18th-century merchant who owned a hardware shop and warehouse in London, and is one of the people who is considered as a possible inspiration for Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations after he refused to wash following the death of his fiancée on their wedding day.

Dishmaker

Barbara Wheaton did not want to wash dishes and wanted a more durable, disposable dish (Zetter 2005).

Dishwashing

Dishwasher Pete, or Pete Jordan, is a fanzine author whose goal was to wash dishes in every state in the United States.

Dosmatic U.S.A.

Dosmatic manufactures injectors and pumps for the following market applications: Animal Health, Bio-Decontamination, Diesel Fuel Additives, Firefighting & Prevention, Food Processing, Golf Course Management, Horticulture, Pest Control, Printing, Vehicle Wash, Waste-water treatment and other specialty applications.

Emery County, Utah

Evidence of these people can still be found in numerous pictograph and petroglyph panels, such as those in Temple Mountain Wash, Muddy Creek, Ferron Box, Black Dragon Canyon, and Buckhorn Wash-all sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Flush toilet

1911: Philip Haas of Dayton, Ohio, developed the flush rim toilet, which depended on multiple jets of water from a ring with downward-pointing perforations to thoroughly wash every portion of the bowl, as described in US Patent Number 1,107,515.

Hand washing

Symbolic hand washing, using water only to wash hands, is a part of ritual handwashing featured in many religions, including Bahá'í Faith, Hinduism, and tevilah and netilat yadayim in Judaism.

Herbal Essences

Famous late 1990s-early 2000s commercials featured Ruth Westheimer, in which she would let her try their body wash.

Hospital warehouse

), protective equipment (gloves, gowns, masks, etc.), personal care products/toiletries (wash basins, bedpans, diapers, shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrushes, patient belonging bags, drinking cups, etc.), feeding tubes, foley catheters, respiratory supplies and orthopedic supplies (crutches, arm slings, splints, etc.

Joanna Kavenna

The first, historical strand is based on the real-life Hungarian-born Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, a doctor working in 19th-century Vienna, who realised that the spread of child-bed or puerperal fever could be prevented if doctors would wash their hands between patients.

Kinlichee Creek

Kinlichee Creek (also known as Ganado Wash and Kin(-)Li(-)Chee Creek) is a stream located in Apache County, Arizona, northeast of the census-designated place of Ganado.

Little Lithodendron Wash

Little Lithodendron Wash (also known as Carrizo Wash or Little Carrizo Wash) is a stream located in Navajo County, Arizona, east of Sun Valley and west of the ghost town of Adamana.

Mojave Road

The eastern end of the Mojave Road begins at the edge of the Colorado River north of Needles and the western terminus lies beyond the Rasor Off-Highway Vehicle Area and the Afton Canyon Natural Area near the Manix Wash.

Mr. Bubble

In The Simpsons episode "My Sister, My Sitter", Lisa tells Bart that he can use Mr. Bubble to wash his hands and says "It's like giving your fingers a bubble bath."

MV Treasure oil spill

The 12-week rehabilitation process, which cared for over 20,000 birds, required over 130 international team members supervising over 45,000 volunteers, 400 tons of fish to feed the penguins, 7,000 tons of beach sand used in bird pens, and 302 25-liter containers of Detergent used to wash the oil off the penguins' feathers.

Pacoima Wash

In 2007, the wash was cleaned up after being cited as a fertile breeding ground for mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus.

Paul Assaiante

Assaiante was a squash professional at the Princeton Club of New York and director of racquet sports at the Baltimore Country Club, the Apawamis Club in Rye, N.Y., and the Bellevue Athletic Club in Seattle, Wash.

Puroslam

Mimicking the opening rhythm of the Rose Royce song "Car Wash", the audience slowly starts to clap, in unison, gaining in volume until the funk rhythm overwhelms the funkless rhymes of the poet.

Rorippa sinuata

The Zuni people use an infusion of plant used as a wash and smoke from the blossoms is used for inflamed eyes.

Rucker Canyon

The wash drains into the southern region of the slightly north-west by due south Sulphur Springs Valley, east of north-south running U.S. Route 191 and the small communities of Elfrida, McNeal, and Sunizona.

Sacramento Wash

I-40 joins the central section of the wash proper at Yucca, Arizona and the interstate follows the valley and wash west to meet the Colorado River at Needles.

Saya Saung

The art scholar and painter Min Naing, biographer of Ba Nyan, documents that after Ba Zaw returned to Burma in 1930 from three years of studies at the Royal College of Art in London that he began to teach watercolor “wash” painting to Saya Saung.

Sea foam

Between 27 and 28 January 2013, the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, had masses of foam wash up on land from ex-tropical cyclone Oswald.

Sikh practices

# Wash your mind clean with Sewa, selfless service to the community by doing manual work at the Gurdwara by cleaning the dishes, washing the floors, painting the walls; working in Community Centres; in old peoples homes, etc.

Sir Nobonk and the Terrible Dreadful Awful Naughty Nasty Dragon

The story of Sir Nobonk is a generic parody of Medieval-type stories about knights and dragons (similar to Don Quixote or the much-later Shrek), set within a Medieval world with modern anachronisms for comic purposes (such as garden hoses for knights to wash out their armour).

Tadres Reserve

The reserve follows the northeast - southwest flow of the Tadrès valley, a Kori or seasonal wash and ancient river bed south of the Aïr Mountains.

Thermopylae

In a Greek myth is mentioned that Heracles had jumped into the river in an attempt to wash off the Hydra poison infused in the cloak that he could not take off.

Thirthahalli

Parashurama tried to wash the blood stains off the axe by dipping it in various rivers, but a sesame-sized blood stain remained on his axe, until he dipped his axe in the Tunga river near Thirthahalli.

Uinta Basin Replacement Project

Big Sand Wash – Roosevelt Pipeline - The Big Sand Wash – Roosevelt Pipeline will deliver project M&I water to Roosevelt, Utah as well as project irrigation water to the lower portions of Lake Fork drainage systems.

Valley Glen, Los Angeles

It is home to Los Angeles Valley College, Ulysses S. Grant High School, and The Great Wall of Los Angeles, a half mile-long mural painted on one of the concrete sides of the Tujunga Wash, a flood-control channel, portraying the history of California.

Vithoba Temple, Pandharpur

A dip in the holy river Chandrabhaga on whose banks Pandharpur resides, is believed to have power to wash all sins.

Washing the Ethiopian white

Satirising the mistress of the future George IV, it shows Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey, sitting in an arm-chair while two ladies wash her face, which has the complexion of a mulatto.

You've Come a Long Way, Baby

"Gangster Trippin" contains samples of "Entropy", written and performed by DJ Shadow (Josh Davis), and "Beatbox Wash", written and performed by the Dust Junkys (Sam Brox, Ganiyu Pierre Gasper, Stephen Jones, Nicholas Lockett and Myke Wilson).


see also

Battle of Sailor's Creek

Most Confederates surrendered, including generals Ewell, Kershaw, Custis Lee, Seth M. Barton, James P. Simms, Meriwether Lewis Clark, Sr., Dudley M. Du Bose, Eppa Hunton, and Montgomery D. Corse.

Bernie Custis

Custis was recruited by Coach Reaves Baysinger, who was replaced by Ben Schwartzwalder after a 1–8 season.

Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough

These were John Law (1745–1810), bishop of Elphin; Thomas Law (1759–1834), who settled in the United States in 1793, and married, as his second wife, Eliza Custis, a granddaughter of Martha Washington; and George Henry Law (1761–1845), bishop of Chester and of Bath and Wells.