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2 unusual facts about ''Skins''


A Fistful Of...4-Skins

Following the breakup of the line-up that recorded the band's previous album, The Good, The Bad & The 4-Skins, Hoxton Tom McCourt had assembled a new line-up (the fourth overall) including former The Last Resort singer Roi Pearce, and future Skrewdriver guitarist, Paul Swain.

The 4-Skins

Most of the original four band members were or had been skinheads, thus the double meaning of the band's name.


2008 Continental Cup of Curling

TSN televised every draw of the Continental Cup, with the men's team games and the women's feature skins games on tape-delay (while broadcast live on TSN2) and the remainder of the draws live.

Beaufort Hospital

Gilbert Spencer (Stanley Spencer's younger brother who also served as a medical orderly) recalled his first terrifying moments at Beaufort when he was surrounded by a 'ward full of wounded Gallipoli soldiers, their skins sunburnt and their clothes bleached and the soil of Suvla Bay still on their boots.' (1)

Brandon Hill, Bristol

In the popular television series, Skins, Brandon Hill features on a number of occasions; including, Cassie's suicide attempt and as the rendez-vous point for Sid and Cassie at the climax of the first series.

Ceruletide

Ceruletide was discovered and its structure elucidated in 1967 by Australian and Italian scientists from dried skins of the Australian green tree frog (Litoria caerulea, formerly Hyla caerulea).

Chapman Rocks

The feature is named after Thomas Chapman, English trunk-maker of Southwark who in 1795 discovered a method of processing fur seal skins for use in the hat trade, thus initiating the industry in London.

Choiseul Pigeon

Today, five skins and a partial skeleton are kept in the American Museum of Natural History, while a single skin and the egg are kept at the Natural History Museum at Tring.

Danzaburou-danuki

Danzaburou was a human merchant's name in Echigo, and in Meireki 3 (1657), there were on sale for-breeding small tanuki that were used in the Sado gold mines for taking skins for the sides of bellows, and afterwards Danzaburou, who started taking care of the tanuki in Sado, was sidely respected by the islands, and there is a theory that the tanuki itself was worshiped like an ujigami.

Dimitri Leonidas

His most recent role was in the 2009 horror/slasher Tormented starring alongside Alex Pettyfer, Georgia King and former Skins stars April Pearson and Larissa Wilson.

Eber Bunker

Bunker and William Raven led a second expedition to Dusky Sound in New Zealand before returning to England with seal skins, in addition to whale oil.

Effy Stonem

On her official Skins page, Effy claims she is distantly related to the 18th century French aristocrat called Cecile DeLacroix, who was beheaded during the French Revolution.

Erythromycin/isotretinoin

This leads to an accumulation of the skins natural oils and bacteria (Propionibacterium acnes) in the skin (which feed on the oils and keratin) which further inflame the gland causing acne.

Faunus

The Christian writer Justin Martyr identified him as Lupercus ("he who wards off the wolf"), the protector of cattle, following Livy, who named his aspect of Inuus as the god who was originally worshiped at the Lupercalia, celebrated on the anniversary of the founding of his temple, February 15, when his priests (Luperci) wore goat-skins and hit onlookers with goat-skin belts.

Felis chaus furax

A single skin collected near Jericho in 1864 prompted him to describe the new subspecies Felis chaus furax as this skin was smaller than other Egyptian jungle cat skins.

Frank Perdue

Perdue Farms developed a specialized chicken-feed that included marigold blossoms, which imparted a characteristic golden yellow hue to the skins of his chickens.

Franky Fitzgerald

In "Grace", Franky is playing the part of Viola/Cesario in Grace's production of Twelfth Night.

Gaetuli

They were clad in skins, lived on meat and milk, and the only manufacture connected with their name is that of the purple dye that became famous from the time of Augustus, and was made from the purple shellfish Murex brandaris found on the coast, apparently both in the Syrtes and on the Atlantic.

Henry Luke White

His collections of 8500 bird skins and over 4200 egg clutches were donated to the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne where they are known as the H. L. White Collection.

Holly Earl

This was followed by her first film role as May Bailey in Possession (2002) directed by Neil LaBute. She has then gone on to appear in the popular UK shows Doctor Who, Skins and Cuckoo.

Kalsoy

In old Faroese folklore it was believed that on Twelfth Night the seals came out of the sea, stripped off their seal-skins and became human beings, dancing on the shore.

Kathryn Prescott

In providing her "Top Ten Playlist" on the Skins official website, Prescott named Röyksopp, The Cardigans and Metallica as her favourite music.

KD Player

Skins made for KD Player are known to have conflicting support issues with Nokia phones although this has not been clearly explained.

Klaf

During Talmudic times, salt-water and barley (or flours) were sprinkled on the skins which were then soaked in the juice of afatsim (gall nuts, or Oak apples).

Letitia's Thorntail

It is only known from two old male specimens from Bolivia (though localities for old skins often are unreliable, and it is possible they came from elsewhere).

Malabar large-spotted civet

In 1987, two skins were obtained near Nilambur in northern Kerala, an area that is dominated by cashew and rubber plantations.

Metal Dungeon

The only two male African American skins available looked exactly like Will Smith and Samuel L. Jackson.

Ollie Barbieri

Ollie Barbieri (born 12 November 1991) is a British actor, best known for his role as JJ Jones in the hit British TV drama Skins.

Pieter Schouten

Among the cargo brought back on the Spanish prize included 1,600 chests of sugar, 3,000 animal skins, large amounts of sarsaparilla, balm oil and several chests of silver.

Prehistoric Beast

As for the subsequent documentary Dinosaur!, Phil Tippett, while making Prehistoric Beast, received assistance from ILM stop-motion animators Randy Dutra (who made the dinosaur molds and skins) and Tom St. Amand (who made the inner articulated metallic skeletons of the dinosaurs).

Richard Ploog

When Of Skins and Heart was released internationally (Carrere for Europe, Capitol for North America) it was re-titled as The Church with "Tear It All Away" replacing original track "Fighter Pilot...Korean War".

Roper River Scrub Robin

The description was based on two skins obtained in 1910, supposedly from the tropical monsoonal Roper River region of the eastern Top End of the Northern Territory of Australia.

Rudolph Foods

Lee’s Pig Skins is based in New Hebron, Mississippi, and was founded in 1978 and incorporated in 1988.

Samson Dyer

Dyer applied for British citizenship six years later, and stated to the Governor, Sir John Cradock, that he was permanently employed culling seals and had prepared skins of some 24,000 seals over four seasons.

San Luis Obispo Creek

North American beaver (Castor canadensis) have been thought to be non-native to San Luis Obispo Creek but Bolton recorded in "Anza's California Expeditions" that in April 1774, Father Cavaller of Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa gave Juan Bautista de Anza "thirty-odd beaver skins" along with other local gifts including fine Indian baskets and "the skins of eight bears, the animals for which the region was renowned".

Shagreen ray

Shagreen is a form of roughened untanned leather, typically dyed green and commonly made of the skins of sharks and rays.

Skins game

The Continental Cup of Curling is the best-known bonspiel to utilize the skins format.

The TSN Skins Game was an annual tournament which featured skins games.

It is currently sponsored by Telus and is officially known as the Telus World Skins Game, hosted at a different golf course each year within Canada.

Skins Pure

While in its first six series Skins was a teen drama focusing on the life of Bristolian teenagers, Pure like previous episode Fire is a filmically and tonally distinct drama revisiting one of the show's characters as they adjust to adulthood.

Skins Rise

While in its initial six-year run Skins was a teen drama about the lives of Bristolian teenagers, Skins Rise like the two previous episodes, Skins Fire and Skins Pure, is a filmically and tonally distinct drama which revisits one of the show's characters as they face adulthood.

Soconusco

In 1486, Aztec emperor Ahuitzotl conquered it; the area was then required to send cotton clothing, bird feathers, jaguar skins and cacao as tributes.

The Cliffs

Joshua Fisher (1707-1783) settled in Lewes, Delaware, marrying Sarah Rodman, and as a young man started a hat-making business using the locally plentiful animal skins.

Thyrocopa nihoa

Included are numerous pellets of Lepidoptera frass, several kinds of plant parts and fragments, parts of dead insects, cast larval skins of insects, the larval cases of two species of Hyposmocoma, and representatives of terrestrial Mollusca of the families Tornatellinidae and Endodontidae.

Tom Meeten

He has also appeared in numerous other T.V. shows, including How Not to Live Your Life, The IT Crowd, Saxondale, Miranda and Skins.

Turquoise-throated Puffleg

Two skins are simply labelled "Bogotá" - a common practice in the 19th century and not necessarily directly related to the actual locality where they were taken.


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