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unusual facts about Étude Op. 10, No. 12



Article Four of the United States Constitution

A republican form of government is distinguished from a pure democracy, which the Founding Fathers wanted to avoid; as James Madison wrote in Federalist No. 10, "Hence it is that such pure democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."

Bautzen railway station

In 1950, together with the sheds at Löbau and Zittau, trains were still leaving here hauled by locomotives of classes state railway times, which were 35 to 45 years old.

Bostryx elatus

reported on specimens collected near Mayoc and Locroja 3700 m, 12°41’S 074°26’W in Huancavelica Region and added Palmira 2300 m, 13°35’19’S 073°11’25’W in Apurímac Region.

Codex Basilensis A. N. III. 12

The codex was available to Erasmus for his translation of the New Testament in Basel, but he never used it.

Annaclara Cataldi Palau, “A Little Known Manuscript of the Gospels in ‘Maiuscola biblica’: Basil. Gr A. N. III. 12”, Byzantion 74 (2004): 463-516.

GWR No. 12

In 1972, it was condemned and was then bought for preservation and moved to the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton.

Henry Street High School

Killed in a midair collision during training, Dec. 10/98.

Lake Wobegon Trails

This bicycle trail continues beyond milepost 143.5 as the Soo Line Trail, crossing the Mississippi River at the Blanchard Dam, changing from asphalt to gravel at U.S. 10 south of Little Falls, and extending to Onamia.

Mike McNally

Dec. 10, 1924: Traded by the New York Yankees to the Boston Red Sox for Howie Shanks.

Miracle of the gulls

LDS, prolific journal writers, often cast this disaster in Biblical terms like the 8th plague of locusts.

Nikolai Myaskovsky

The Symphony No. 12 was inspired by a poem about the collectivization of farming, while No. 16 was prompted by the crash of the huge airliner Maxim Gorky and was known under the Soviets as the Aviation Symphony.

Political faction

Similarly, in the tenth installment of the Federalist Papers, James Madison defines a faction as "a number of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community." In plain English this is a group that pursues self-interest at the expense of the common good.

Road running

These events include current events such as the Self-Transcendence 6- & 10-day and 3100 mile races in New York, Trans-America, Trans-Gaul, Trans-Korea, Trans-Europe race and the cross Germany race - the Deutschlandlauf.

Sd.Kfz. 10

1966 all were sold to the highest bidders at Kalix airfield and they ended up in he villages surrounding Kalix and Boden.

When war broke out in September 1939, Sweden maintained a policy of neutrality. To support this policy a rapid upgrade of aging military equipment was necessary.

The halftracks were would be used in sub-arctic climate and all twelve Demags were, in the autumn of 1940, delivered along with twelve guns to the 8th Artillery regiment (A8) in the northern city of Boden, close to the arctic -circle.

Snowbody Loves Me

The cartoon contains much music arranged from familiar Chopin pieces; notably, the Revolutionary Étude; the Grande Valse Brillante in E-flat major; and the Fantaisie-Impromptu.

Teresa Giudice

In 2012, Giudice joined the cast of the reality competition The Celebrity Apprentice 5 (also known as The Apprentice 12), ultimately raising $70,000 for her selected charity, The NephCure Foundation.

Travels in Constants, Vol. 12

12 features three songs, "Untitled", "Quiet Stereo Dee" (an alternate version of "Stereodee" from 4 Satin, the 1997 EP), and "Arundel" (a cover of a Papa M song from the 1999 album, Live from a Shark Cage), all recorded at Sub Station Studio in Cowdenbeath, Scotland in 1999, and produced by Michael Brennan Jr. and Kevin Lynch.

Wilmington 10 -- U.S.A. 10,000

1978's Wilmington 10—USA 10,000 examined the impact of racism and the short-comings of the criminal justice system by examining the history of the nine black men and one white woman who became known as the "Wilmington Ten."

Wilmington 10 - U.S.A. 10,000 is a 1979 documentary film directed by Haile Gerima.

Winterland, San Francisco, CA, 12/31/77

At the time of this concert, the New Riders' lineup consisted of John Dawson on guitar and vocals, David Nelson on guitar and vocals, Buddy Cage on pedal steel guitar, Stephen Love on bass and vocals, and Patrick Shanahan on drums.


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