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5 unusual facts about 180


180-degree rule

In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Gollum has a conversation with himself or with his other personality.

180-line television system

The Berlin Summer Olympic Games were televised, using both fully electronic iconoscope-based cameras and intermediate film cameras, to Berlin and Hamburg in August 1936.

American-180

A semi-automatic only variant called the American SAR 180/275 is still produced on a custom basis by E&L Manufacturing of Riddle, Oregon.

Hanriot H.180

Ten more were purchased by the Second Spanish Republic for use in the Spanish Civil War, and 50 aircraft originally ordered by the French government were diverted to Turkey as part of a military aid agreement.

Parker 180

The "180" is a play on 180°, because the pen was meant to be used in either a rightside-up or upside-down orientation to modify the width of the line drawn by the pen.


Aishalton

Lethem, the regional capital of the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo region, is situated 180 km north west of Aishalton; and Dadanawa Ranch is located approximately halfway between these two centres.

Amanda Staveley

In 1996, at the age of 22 and without any training, Staveley borrowed £180,000 and bought the restaurant, Stocks, in Bottisham between Cambridge and Newmarket.

Argentine beef

On 8 March 2006, after unsuccessfully trying to control the rising prices of beef in the internal market (26% since the beginning of that year), the Argentine government banned beef exports for 180 days (with the exception of pre-arranged shipments and the Hilton Quota).

Battle of Dublin

The garrison consisted of roughly 180 men drawn from the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the IRA's 1st Dublin Brigade, commanded by Commandant Paddy O'Brien, armed for the most part only with small arms, (rifles, five Thompson submachineguns and two Lewis light machine guns) apart from one captured armoured car, which they named "The Mutineer".

Baybay

VSU is the only university in the region recognized by the Department of Tourism in the entire Visayas region as a tourist site for its resorts, convention facilities, and most of all its 180-degree view of Mount Pangasugan and the Camotes Sea.

Çamoluk

Being 180 km inland, in a valley of the upper Kelkit River, Çamoluk is different in landscape, climate and lifestyle from the city of Giresun and the other districts on the Black Sea coast.

Carl Fredriksens Transport

The group accepted all refugees, but charged those who could afford it 180 kroner.

Chadormalu

The mine is situated in an otherwise uninhabited stretch of the Dasht-e Kavir desert about 180 km northeast of Yazd and 300 km south of Tabas about 40 km off the Yazd - Tabas road.

Christine Ladd-Franklin

In 1948, Bertrand Russell wrote: "I once received a letter from an eminent logician, Mrs. Christine Ladd-Franklin, saying that she was a solipsist, and was surprised that there were no others. Coming from a logician and a solipsist, her surprise surprised me." (Russell, p. 180).

Dacheng Mountain

Covering an area of more than 1,180,000 m², Dachengshan is north of the Phoenix Peak on the central of Tangshan.

David Ford

However Ford had much greater transfer appeal and finished 180 votes ahead of Meehan at the end of a dramatic three-way fight for the last two seats, with the SDLP's Thomas Burns just 14 votes ahead of Ford.

Dukagjin highlands

Edith Durham described Theth as a "bariak" of some 180 houses and also observed that it was almost free from the tradition of blood feud (known in the Albanian language as Gjakmarrja) which so blighted other parts of the Albanian highlands.

Empress Dowager Bo

In 180 BC, after the death of her mistress, Emperor Gao's wife Grand Empress Dowager Lü, and after the officials then slaughtered the Lü clan, they offered the throne to Prince Heng over his nephew Emperor Houshao -- whom they accused of not being imperial blood.

Empress Lü

Empress Lü (Houshao) (呂皇后, personal name unknown) (died 180 BC), wife of Emperor Houshao of Han

Fordsburg Square

The workers did not just withdraw their labour but the a portion of the 20,000 white woprkers and the 180,000 black miners took over areas of Johannesburg and they were in control of Benoni, Brakpan suburbs of Fordsburg and Jeppe.

George Sotter

In a recent episode of Antiques Roadshow on PBS, filmed in Philadelphia, a Sotter oil painting was appraised $120,000-$180,000, much to the delight of its visibly stunned owner.

Gifford Pinchot State Park

Approximately 180 million years ago, the diabase intruded into older Triassic sedimentary rocks of the Gettysburg Formation, consisting of red sandstone and shale.

Granat

The instruments could localize bright sources in the 6 to 180 keV range to within 0.5° using a Rotation Modulation Collimator.

High-speed rail in Portugal

The Northern Line was modernised to allow trains to run at 220 km/h between Lisbon-Alverca, Vila Franca de XiraSantarém, PombalAlfarelos and MealhadaEspinho, and to allow full use of the tilting to achieve speeds between 140–180 km/h in the remaining intermediate sections.

Hubert Maga

In the entire south, Maga received 24,000 votes compared to the 180,000 who voted for him in the Borgou Department, obtaining 97.3 percent of the 78 percent turnout.

IBM 1442

The 1442 Model 7 attached to an IBM System/3 or IBM 1130, read 400 cpm and punched 180 columns per second.

Il mondo della luna

The Gotham Chamber Opera presented Il mondo della luna at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City in January 2010, transforming the planetarium into an opera house using the 180-degree dome and projections courtesy of NASA; the director was Diane Paulus.

Kim Driscoll

With Kim Driscoll as Mayor, the Salem Waterfront, Salem Harbor and the entire Salem Maritime National Historic Site have seen a 180 degree turnaround from other administrations.

Lee Dong-wook

Running Man - Guest (SBS, 2013 (episodes 133, 134, 136) - 2014 (episode 179, 180))

Liu Hong

Emperor Houshao of Han (died 180 BC), personal name Liu Hong (劉弘), fourth emperor of the Western Han Dynasty

Low hurdles

The high school record in the 180 yard low hurdles dates to 1964 when three boys, Earl McCullouch from Long Beach Polytechnic High School, Don Castronovo from Oceanside High School in Oceanside, New York and Steve Caminiti from Crespi Carmelite High School in Encino, California separately ran the 180 yard low hurdles at 18.1.

Mack Supronowicz

A native of Schenectady, New York, Supronowicz was 6 foot, 1 inch, and 180 pounds.

Maine Huts and Trails

Maine Huts and Trails is a non-profit public service organization that aims to create a 180-mile network of cross-country ski trail stretching between the Mahoosuc Range in western Maine to Moosehead Lake, the state's largest water body.

Marlbrook, Herefordshire

The Cadbury factory at Marlbrook processes 180 million litres of fresh milk, 56,000 tonnes of sugar and 13,000 tonnes of cocoa liquor each year to produce milk chocolate crumb which is blended with cocoa butter, refined and turned into milk chocolate at other factories.

Marsh Tapaculo

It inhabits areas of tall (60–180 cm), dense vegetation dominated by sedges (such as Eleocharis) and grasses.

Maryland Route 478

Westbound MD 180 provides access to westbound US 340 toward Harpers Ferry and Charles Town.

Nador railway stations

The construction of the 117 kilometer track to Taourirt cost 1.776 million dirham (approximately 180 million).

Necklace carpetshark

The necklace carpetshark, Parascyllium variolatum, is a carpetshark of the family Parascylliidae found around Australia between latitudes 37°S and 41°S, at depths down to 180 m.

New York State Route 12E

In the center of the hamlet, the highway intersects with NY 180, a road leading to Dexter in the south and the Thousand Islands region in the north.

Philip Jeck

He is perhaps best known for his work Vinyl Requiem with Lol Sargent (a performance for 180 Dansette record players, 12 slide-projectors and 2 movie-projectors) which won the Time Out Performance Award in 1993.

Pongrac

An Early Iron Age burial ground has been identified in the northwestern part of the settlement, part of a burial ground extending to Sveti Lovrenc in the adjacent Municipality of Prebold and numbering over 180 burial mounds.

Radio Solar Telescope Network

The USAF/RSTN system is currently being upgraded in frequency to a bandwidth from 25 MHz to 180 MHz by the Solar Radio Spectrometer (SRS) system at Palehua, Hawaii; San Vito dei Normanni, Italy; Sagamore Hill, Massachusetts; and RAAF Learmonth, Western Australia.

Saint Publius

In the Orthodox Church however his feast day is observed on March 13, and according to an epistle of Saint Dionysius, Bishop of Corinth, he is placed as the successor of Saint Narcissus of Athens, dating his martyrdom to the period of the persecution under Marcus Aurelius (161-180).

San Fabiano

When Count Giuseppe and Countess Giovanna Fiorentini bought the San Fabiano farm estate, there were some 300 people farming the land, producing 180,000 liters of wine yearly, breeding Chianina cows, producing meat for the local specialty, the Fiorentina steak, pigs, pheasants and chickens.

Siege of Calcutta

Yet when the garrison was mustered, everyone, including Captain-Commandant Minchin, was surprised to find only 180 men fit for duty, and only 45 were British.

Spaceflight radiation carcinogenesis

These limits are applicable to all missions in low Earth orbit (LEO) as well as lunar missions that are less than 180 days in duration.

Stade des Lumières

On 13 October 2008, the project was agreed upon by the French government, the General Council of Rhône, the Grand Lyon, SYTRAL, and the municipality of Décines for construction with approximately 180 million of public money being used and between €60–80 million coming from the Urban Community of Lyon.

Tirupathi Prakash

He has acted in more than 180 Telugu movies including Varasudu, Abbai Garu, 'Master, 'Nijam, Mayajalam, Seema tapakay, Gudumba Sankar, Ranga the Donga, Jambalakidi Pamba, Suswagatam, Sankar Dada MBBS, Hitler and Alasyam Amrutham.

U.S. Route 85 in Texas

The route then follows I-10 and US 180 through the towns of Vinton and Anthony before crossing the New Mexico state line into the town of Anthony, NM in Doña Ana County.

Verbrennungskommando Warschau

Stalina avenue, 2,180 kilograms from military prison at Zamenhofa, 1,029 kilograms from Wolska 60 Street, 1,120 kilograms from Sowinski Park, 600 kilograms from Dzielna 47 Street, 600 kilograms from Franaszek Factory, 192 kilograms from Okopowa 59 Street, and 120 kilograms from "Dobrolin" Wolska Street among several other locations.

Zagrebački električni tramvaj

These 35 lines go to following areas in Zagreb County: cities Velika Gorica (268, 302-305, 307-311, 313, 315, 319-325, 330, 335) and Zaprešić (170, 172, 180, 181, 182) and municipalities of Luka (174), Bistra (175-177), Jakovlje (178), Klinča Sela (165, 169) and Stupnik (111, 164).


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