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unusual facts about ''Slate'' magazine



Alexandra Slate

Slate later signed with Hollywood Records and began working on her album Edge of a Girl with Rob Cavallo.

Altillac

It used local materials to allow it to have a regional air: stones of various colours and a slate roof.

Autonomous sensory meridian response

Coverage of this conference, as reported in Slate magazine, mentioned musician and journalist Rhodri Marsden introducing ASMR (alternatively called Auto-Sensory Meridian Response) as a type of nonsexual role-playing video on YouTube.

Babelsberg Studio

In 2008 Studio Babelsberg and Hollywood producer Joel Silver formed a strategic alliance to produce feature films from the Dark Castle production slate at the world’s oldest film studio.

Betws-y-Coed

The Conwy Valley Line was constructed by the London and North Western Railway with the primary aim of transporting dressed slate from the Blaenau Ffestiniog quarries to a specially built quay at Deganwy for export by sea.

Budweiser Gardens

In late 2005, Pollstar magazine, a concert industry publication, listed Budweiser Gardens as 21st on its list of top arena venues in the world, based on ticket sales for the first nine months of 2005.

Bullet Witch

Scores have ranged from a 3 out of 5 by X-Play, to a 77 out of 100 from GameBrink, an average 6.5 of 10 from Game Informer, a 7.8 out of 10 from Game Chronicles, to an 8.5 out of 10 from Play.

Caran d'Ache

"Caran d'Ache" comes from the Russian word karandash (карандаш), meaning pencil (of Turkic origin; "karadash" meaning black stone — used for writing on a "karatash" meaning black slate).

Collective for Living Cinema

Many people affiliated with the Collective for Living Cinema were or have gone on to be quite influential in media, such the late Alf Bold, the former programmer of the Arsenal Kino in Berlin, Judith Shulevitz, the columnist for the New York Times and Slate, and John Sloss, the attorney and film producer who has produced more than 40 films, including Far From Heaven, Before Sunset, Personal Velocity, and The Fog of War.

Cyberia, London

Following the launch of .net magazine in 1994, Ivan Pope and Steve Bowbrick founded Webmedia, an early web development company, in the basement.

Dead Loretta

During this time, the band shared the stage with various international acts, including Pete Doherty's side project Littl'ans, legendary Smashing Orange front man Rob Montejo, Brian Jonestown Massacre collaborator Christopher Tucker, and Rolling Stone Magazine featured band The Singles.

Dick Morley

and engineer, his peers have acknowledged his contributions with numerous awards from groups such as Inc. magazine, the Franklin Institute, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and the Engineering Society of Detroit .

Douglas v Hello! Ltd

The Douglases and OK! Magazine claimed for breach of confidence, invasion of privacy, breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 and intention to damage and conspiracy to injure.

DRUM! Magazine

It was the first magazine to feature artists such as Tré Cool (Green Day), Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Travis Barker (Blink-182) and others on its covers.

Équipe démocratique de Saint-Léonard

It also fielded a full slate of candidates for council, the most prominent of whom were incumbent councillor André Chrétien and former councillor Jules Lauzon.

Fast Romantics

In September 2009, the band was selected by Spin Magazine and John Varvatos as one of three global finalists in the magazine's "Free the Noise" competition.

Fell Exhibition Slate Mine

A non-stop video presentation illustrates modern state-of-the-art slate mining in Europe (length approx. 12 minutes) taking place in the Rathscheck slate mine near Mayen.

Fort Peck Dam

Fort Peck Dam is probably best known for being the subject of a photograph of the spillway taken by Margaret Bourke-White while still under construction that was the cover photo of the first issue of Life magazine on November 23, 1936.

George Frisbie Hoar

His autobiography, Autobiography of Seventy Years, was published in 1903; it first appeared in serial form in Scribner's magazine.

Groupon

When the company reported in the second quarter of 2012 that its revenues had declined along with customer growth and the amount of money existing customers spent on the site, Slate tech journalist Farhad Manjoo said Agrawal had been vindicated.

Houserville Site

Located in College Township near the community of Houserville, the site lies on the summit and sides of a knoll above Slate Cabin Run.

Joshua Cooper Ramo

Joshua Cooper Ramo was a former senior editor and foreign editor of Time magazine and later Vice Chairman at Kissinger Associates, the consulting firm of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

Judith Shulevitz

Before that, she was one of the founding editors of Slate, the culture editor, and a daily columnist for the magazine.

Laurys Station, Pennsylvania

Laurys Station was initially known as "Slate Dam," after the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company built a large dam here in 1830.

Lost Colony Entertainment

It has produced numerous music videos and television pilots, as well as a slate of feature films in conjunction with Bang Productions, the production company headed by producer John Edmonds Kozma (Nick Cassavetes' "Kentucky Rhapsody").

Muskingum County Courthouse

It was designed by T.B. Townsend and H. E. Myer, and built in 1877 with stone, brick, and slate in the Second Empire architecture style.

New York City Breakers

Soon after, the NYCBs began appearing on everything from "Soul Train", "Ripley's Believe It or Not!", "P.M. Magazine", "CBS Evening News", "Good Morning America", "Amnesty International Gala", "That's Incredible!", and "NBC's Salute to the Olympics" just to name a few.

Nielsen BookScan

Slate noted that Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was available from Amazon in 130 different editions; prior to BookScan there was no way to tabulate total sales.

Octopus wrestling

H. Allen Smith wrote an article for True magazine in 1964, collected in Low Man Rides Again (1973), about a gentleman named O'Rourke whom he dubs the "Father of Octopus Wrestling".

OMG

OMG! Magazine, a news, entertainment and lifestyle magazine serving gay, lesbian and trans-gender audiences in print and online.

Pankration

"Amateur Pankration" was first introduced to the martial arts community by Greek-American combat athlete Jim Arvanitis in 1969 and later exposed worldwide in 1973 when he was featured on the cover of Black Belt magazine.

Patricia Telesco

Articles by Telesco have appeared in several mainstream publications such as Cosmo, Woman's World, and Cats' Magazine, and in such Neopagan publications such as Circle Network News and popular websites such as The Witches' Voice.

Queer Arts Festival

Performing artists include internationally renowned pianist Sara Davis Buechner, JODAIKO Taiko Drummers, and comedians James Howell & Morgan Brayton, along with a slate of local and international guest performers.

Ruben J. Ramos

On February 22, 2013, Ramos announced that he is running for the position of Mayor of Hoboken in the November 2013 elections against incumbent Dawn Zimmer, together with a slate of candidates for City Council.

Shell gorget

Adena cultures created gorgets from slate and copper, but the Hopewell Exchange System brought exotic shells from the Gulf northward.

Sir Edmund Buckley, 1st Baronet

He became involved in slate quarrying at the Hendre Ddu Slate and Slab Co. for which was built the Hendre-Ddu Tramway.

Slate-coloured Hawk

This corridor is about 700 km wide, and includes the confluence areas downstream of the major rivers: Rio Negro, Madeira, Tapajós, Xingu, and the outlet section of the Tocantins River in the southeast Basin's neighbouring river system, Araguaia-Tocantins.

Sony Pictures Animation

On its first anniversary, Sony Pictures Animation announced a full slate of animated projects in development: Open Season, an adaptation of a Celtic folk ballad Tam Lin, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Surf's Up, and a feature length version of the short film The ChubbChubbs!.

The Cult of Alien Gods: H. P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture

The Cult of Alien Gods: H. P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture is a 2005 book by Jason Colavito, a contributor to Skeptic magazine, and published by Prometheus Books.

The Dark House

Edward Środoń, an unemployed zootechnician from Mosty with a dark past and a growing drinking problem, tries to start over with a clean slate.

Thomas Assheton Smith II

He was the son of Thomas Assheton Smith I (1752–1828), who made his fortune in the Welsh slate industry and was a noted patron of cricket in the early years of MCC from the 1787 English cricket season.

Un Nos Ola Leuad

It was an almost entirely Welsh speaking village and owed its existence to the slate quarrying industry.

William Lawrie

William Lawrie - Gaelic, Uilleam Labhruidh/Laobhrach (1881–1916) was born into a slate quarrying family in Ballachulish, Argyll and was the son of Hugh Lawrie, (Eòghann Thomais Uilleam) who gave him his first lessons on the Highland bagpipes.

William Louis Dickinson

Dickinson was reelected by nine points in 1966, when Democratic gubernatorial nominee Lurleen Burns Wallace (running as a stand-in for her husband) led her party's slate to statewide victory by easily defeating Martin.

William McConnel

The company leased the land on which the Bryn Eglwys slate quarry stood and took over slate extraction operations.

Word Magazine

Word won awards from I.D. Magazine and Print Magazine, among others and was placed in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center and the Museum of the Moving Image.

Zeulenroda-Triebes

Zeulenroda-Triebes is situated in the south of Greiz in the mountains of the Thuringian Slate Mountains (Thüringer Schiefergebirge), on the border with Saxonia.


see also

James Bidlack

He was interviewed regarding his involvement with this project by Slate Magazine and the book The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank (2005) by David Plotz.

Sack tapping

Jack Shafer, writing in Slate magazine in 2010, commented that despite the media describing sack tapping as "the latest dangerous craze", the practice was not new and had existed for some time, and the recent focus was simply "sensationalist journalism".

The Way of the Master

In reporting on the debate, Slate magazine pointed out that Cameron's declaration to prove God would have made him the first to accomplish this feat in many centuries of religious thought, besting scholars such as Thomas Aquinas.

Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower

Author Jonathan Ames created a "Most Phallic Building" contest which followed an article he wrote for Slate magazine, in which he claimed that the Tower was the most phallic building he'd ever seen.