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unusual facts about ''The Host''



Picacho Peak State Park

Picacho Peak features prominently in the novel The Host by Stephenie Meyer, serving as a guide to the main character in the first act of the story.

The Body Snatchers

The Host (2008), a novel by Stephenie Meyer that depicts a world wherein the human population has already been taken over by parasitic aliens


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2010 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship

Baltimore, Maryland was selected as the host for the final and semifinals, which were held at M&T Bank Stadium, the home field of the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League.

Ain Mosni

On a TV program called 'Music Makers' that aired in 2005 on the Nigerian Television Authority Abuja, the host asked him what the name 'Rogueman' meant.

Albert Raisner

He was the host of the hit show Age Tendre et Tetes de Bois, which aired from 1961 to 1967 and featured world-renowned artists including The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Stevie Wonder, Isaac Hayes and French singers Johnny Hallyday and Claude Francois.

Alexander Treadwell

In 2004, Treadwell was the host state chairman of the Republican National Convention that nominated President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for re-election.

Backyard Wildlife Habitat

A study published in 2004 of the effect on Battus philenor in the San Francisco area found that gardens where the host plants were more than 40 years old, the gardens were as good as natural sites, where the host plants were less than eight years old the species was unlikely to visit, and in between the butterflies laid eggs but these had an inferior survival rate.

Barry Reisman

Barry Reisman is the host of The Barry Reisman Show, currently an hour-long, Monday-Friday radio program playing on WWDB, 860 kHz AM, in Philadelphia, featuring klezmer and other Jewish music.

Bilateral investment treaty

The distinctive feature of many BITs is that they allow for an alternative dispute resolution mechanism, whereby an investor whose rights under the BIT have been violated could have recourse to international arbitration, often under the auspices of the ICSID (International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes), rather than suing the host State in its own courts.

Bonk's Adventure

In episode #60 of GameCenter CX (known as "Retro Game Master" outside of Japan), Shinya Arino, the host of the show, played through the PC Engine version of the game and successfully cleared it.

Cheung Yuk

At the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, Cheung and his new partner Jiang Huajun captured the silver medal in the mixed doubles, with a set score of 1–4, losing out to the host nation's duo Xu Xin and Guo Yan.

CheyTac Intervention

On the Discovery Channel TV show Future Weapons April 9, 2007 episode "Massive Attack" the host Richard Machowicz, a former United States Navy SEAL, made 3 out of 6 shots, hitting a human-sized sheet of metal at a distance of 2,530 yards (2,313 m) at Arco Pass in Idaho.

Chuck Scarborough

Scarborough was the host of the syndicated programs Images – A Year in Review and Memories...Then and Now in the late 1980s-early 1990s, and also co-anchored the NBC network documentary series Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow with Maria Shriver and Mary Alice Williams.

David Cantero

Between 2004 and 2010 he was the anchor for the weekend editions of Telediario, and between 2007 and 2009, the host of TVE's news magazine Informe Semanal, after which he anchored the La Entrevista program of the now-defunct channel Cultural.es.

Dirofilaria tenuis

tenuis is introduced to the definitive host (either a raccoon or, as in some rare cases, a human) as a larva when the vector, most commonly an Aedes or Anopheles mosquito, takes a blood meal and the parasite enters the host through the bite wound.

Ereka Vetrini

Ereka is the host of the HGTV program Kidspace, a spokesperson for the TRIA Laser Hair Removal system, and host of Yahoo's Easy Does It.

Eucharistic miracle

Another claim states that a church in the village of Exilles, Italy, was plundered by a soldier and the monstrance (with the host still inside) was taken.

Gail Potocki

The 208 page hardcover book also includes essays from Richard Metzger, the host of BBC's Disinformation: the Series and neuroscientist Marina Korsakova-Kreyn.

Galactosomum

The genus is inaccurately known as a species in popular culture, due to its mention by Luis Sera in Resident Evil 4 via a note in the Castle sewers as an example of a parasite which controls, or alters, the behavior of the host.

Gung Haggis Fat Choy

By 2005, the event had grown to a fundraising dinner serving 570 people, and co-hosted by Shelagh Rogers - the host of CBC Radio's "Sounds Like Canada" morning flagship show.

Hale Koa Hotel

Glenn Medeiros is the host and performs at the hotel's twice weekly luau.

HeliOS

Others include the keyboard, mouse, RS232 and Centronics servers (built into the host I/O server), the null server (like Unix's /dev/null), and the logger server (like Unix's syslog).

Hrvatski Top Model

Croatian top-model Tatjana Jurić fills the host role of Tyra Banks in the original series as the head of the search as well as a mentor for the 16 girls that have been chosen to live in a house together in Zagreb.

Jack Korpela

Korpela then became the host of After Burn, WWE Experience and Free for All when Josh Mathews became the commentater of former WWE program, ECW on Syfy.

Joe Farago

He has appeared in at least 25 movies and television series, and replaced Gene Rayburn as the host of the 1985 game show Break the Bank, having previously appeared as a celebrity guest three times during the show's first two weeks.

John A. Gambling

He is survived by his wife, two daughters and his son, John R. Gambling, the host of The John Gambling Show, the current morning show on WOR.

John Paul Ospina

In 2005, he becomes the host of Citytv Bogotá’s Mucha Música, his country’s most important music show at the time.

Katherine Albrecht

Albrecht is the host of a two-hour radio talk show on Saturday afternoons on WSMN (1590 kHz) in Nashua.

Langenargen

Langenargen is the host city of Match Race Germany part of the World Match Racing Tour.

Lorne Frohman

Frohman is the host of Distinguished Artists, an in-depth one-hour interview show where guests have included Russell Peters, Sara Polley, David Cronenberg, Eugene Levy, Vivica A. Fox, Ivan Reitman, Sandra Shamas, Smothers Brothers, Joan Rivers, Mort Sahl and many more.

Lusophony Games

However, on 14 October 2006, the president of the organizing committee for the 2009 Lusophony Games, José Vicente de Moura, mentioned the possibility of the ACOLOP proposing four or five core sports to be included on every future edition, plus the prerogative for the host country to propose three of four more to a maximum of nine sports.

Mark Critch

He has also been a guest on CBC Radio One's Madly Off in All Directions, the CBC Television show Republic of Doyle, and is the host of CBC TV's Halifax Comedy Festival.

MGM Parade

After Walter Pidgeon became the host, the format was slightly altered to include edited multi-part versions of "classic" MGM feature films, including Captains Courageous and The Pirate, as well as a biography of Greta Garbo.

Miracle Systems

The QXL ran the SMSQ Qdos-compatible operating system and used the host PC's disks, screen, keyboard, serial and parallel ports via an MS-DOS "server".

Modern pentathlon at the 2011 Pan American Games – Qualification

There is a quota of 40 athletes (24 male, 16 female) (however one spot over quota for each gender was allowed); Mexico as the host country is guaranteed a full team of four athletes (two men and two women).

Nicolas Putvinski

Hence, he is the first designer to appear on the show who had designed something for the host, supermodel Heidi Klum wore in her professional life.

Outline of Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Kitts and Nevis is the smallest nation on Earth to ever host a World Cup event; it was one of the host venues of the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

Petter Schjerven

Schjerven has previously worked as the host and scriptwriter for "Midt i smørøyet" and as the producer of the radio program "Holger Nielsens metode" on NRK P3, among other things.

Pilica, Silesian Voivodeship

Jews are first mentioned in Pilica in 1581, when they are accused of insulting the host.

Plasmodium pelaezi

Schizonts are mostly round with a single mass of pigment and render the host cell nuclei spherical.

Preet Banerjee

Preet Banerjee (born September 27, 1977) is the host of the television show Million Dollar Neighbourhood on the Oprah Winfrey Network, a personal financial expert, and winner of the reality TV series The Ultimate W Expert Challenge, which aired on the W Network in Canada during the summer of 2009.

Prologue and Tale of Beryn

The Host suggests that they spend the day in pleasure, but to rise early the next morning for the return journey to Southwark (191–230).

Samantha Brown

Samantha Elizabeth Brown (born March 31, 1970) is an American television host, notable for her work as the host of several Travel Channel shows including Girl Meets Hawaii, Great Vacation Homes, Great Hotels, Passport to Europe, Passport to Latin America, Great Weekends, Green Getaways, Passport to China, and Samantha Brown's Asia.

Stephen Hudson

He was the host at a celebrated party in Paris on 18 May 1922, when Marcel Proust met James Joyce (without the slightest rapport); other guests included Sergei Diaghilev, Igor Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso.

Survivorman

The title refers to the host of the show, Canadian filmmaker and survival expert Les Stroud, who used survival skills and knowledge to survive alone for up to ten days (seven days during the first three seasons and ten days during seasons four and five), in remote locales where he brings with him little or no food, water, or equipment.

Swimming at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

Great Britain, with two of the individual finalists, won the gold while Germany took silver and Austria won bronze over the host Swedes.

The Unkabogable Praybeyt Benjamin

The television trailer premiered in the talk show Gandang Gabi, Vice! where Vice Ganda is also the host.

Troy Stradford

Stradford currently works as a Sports talk show host on WFTL 640 Sports radio weekdays from 10AM-12PM and as the host of the Gameday Insiders heard weekends on WFTL 640 and WFTL 850 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Violet click beetle

One of the host trees at Windsor blew down in the Great Storm of 1987, but was re-erected solely as a host for the violet click beetle.

Vpx

Vpx enhances HIV-2 replication in humans by counteracting the host factor SAMHD1.

Werner Höfer

He gained popularity as the host of the Sunday TV discussion show Internationaler Frühschoppen, modeled on NBC's Meet the Press and running from 1952 to 1987.

Wunderteam

Referee Ivan Eklind was criticized for partiality toward the host nation, especially after he also refereed the final which Italy also won.