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unusual facts about A-Square



1888 in archaeology

December: Discovery of three villages by Richard Wetherill and his brother-in-law Charlie Mason while tracking stray cattle: Cliff Palace, Spruce Tree House, and Square Tower House; now part of Mesa Verde National Park.

1943 VFL season

In the spiteful round 1 match between Essendon and South Melbourne, a vicious brawl broke out in the last quarter when South Melbourne's Jack "Basher" Williams felled Ted Leehane (apparently in a square-off retribution for Leehane's similar action against Williams in the 1942 Preliminary Final) which involved a dozen players, team officials, trainers, fans, and police.

1975 Davis Cup

A protest march was organized in Båstad by the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League on September 18, ending at the town square, where former prime minister Tage Erlander and Sweden's former ambassador to Chile Harald Edelstam addressed a crowd of some 3,000.

Baskerville House

A sculpture of the Baskerville typeface, Industry and Genius, in honour of John Baskerville stands outside the main entrance to Baskerville House in Centenary Square.

Belgium–Israel relations

In February 2010, a plaque honoring King Albert I, husband of Elizabeth of Bavaria, was unveiled at Albert Square in Tel Aviv in the presence of the Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai and Ambassador Bénédicte Frankinet.

Billy Bowden

Bowden was involved in an incident at the 2006 Brisbane Ashes test while standing at the square leg fielding position, when knocked to the ground by a ball hit by Geraint Jones.

Chūnin

The release was announced at on June 9, 2013 during a release event for the band's latest single "Te o Tsunagō / Kindan no Karma", held at Lazona Kawasaki Plaza Ruefer Square Grand Stage (in Kanagawa Prefecture).

Coaching stock of Ireland

Two reflective Fluorescent Red 3M Scotchcal 12 inch square panels were applied at each body end.

Copenhagen interpretation

# The description of nature is essentially probabilistic, with the probability of a given outcome of a measurement given by the square of the modulus of the amplitude of the wave function.

David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood

Lord Harewood was born at his parents' London house, 2 Orme Square, Bayswater, London, the eldest son of the 7th Earl of Harewood and his first wife, Marion Stein.

Eidsvolls plass

Eidsvolls plass ('Eidsvoll Square') is a square and park in Oslo, Norway, located west of the Parliament of Norway Building, south of Karl Johans gate and east of Studenterlunden and the National Theatre.

El Día que Murió el Silencio

A handsome and mysterious stranger, played by Darío Grandinetti, walks into the town square of Villaserena one day and strategically places loudspeakers around the town, blaring a variety of musical tunes.

Eldon Square Shopping Centre

Eldon Square is mentioned in the song "Samantha Pope" by Honeycrack.

Factions in the Frankfurt Assembly

The group met at the Pariser Hof, a hotel in the Schillerplatz square (today An der Hauptwache, after the Hauptwache building) that was recorded as Zum Schwarzen Bock in 1709 and was where Schiller stayed in 1784 during the premiere of his Intrigue and Love.

Falgore Game Reserve

It covers an area of about 1000 square kilometers and is traversed by the River Kano.

Freedom Square, Tbilisi

In 2005 Freedom Square was the location where U.S. President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili addressed a crowd of around 100,000 people in celebration of the 60th anniversary marking the end of World War II.

G. Ware Travelstead

Travelstead managed to persuade the London Docklands Development Corporation and the Government of Margaret Thatcher that a new financial services district of ten million square feet, located at the old West India Docks, was viable.

Giovanni Gallini

On 28 June 1774, with Johann Christian Bach and Carl Friedrich Abel, he purchased premises in Hanover Square, where the three men built a splendid concert hall—the Hanover Square Rooms—95 feet by 30.

Golden Square, Victoria

Leading AFL player manager Ricky Nixon also started his playing career at Golden Square before playing VFL football with Carlton, St Kilda and Hawthorn.

Gordon Square

In August 2000, the east side of the square was used to film part of the bus chase sequence for the movie The Mummy Returns.

Ketagalan Boulevard

On 21 March 1996, when Chen Shui-bian was the mayor of Taipei, Chieh-shou Road was renamed Ketagalan Boulevard and the surrounding square was renamed Ketagalan Square in honor of the Ketagalan Taiwanese aborigines originally living in the Taipei area.

Kim Il-sung Square

Kim Il-sung Square is a large city square in the center of Pyongyang, DPRK (North Korea), and is named after the country's founding leader, Kim Il-sung.

Kon Ka Kinh National Park

Besides the biological diversity of the flora and fauna here, Kon Ka Kinh plays an important role in the protection of the upstream of the Ba River and the Dak Pne River, which supply water for tens of square kilometres of crops areas of Gia Lai Province and Kon Tum Province.

Lichfield Heritage Centre

The museum is located on the south side of the market square on the second floor of St Mary's Church in the centre of Lichfield, Staffordshire in the United Kingdom.

Long March 5

The new production facility would have an area totaling more than half a million square meters at the cost of RMB 4500 million (USD 650 million), with the first stage of the construction scheduled to be completed by 2009.

Makedonija Zasekogaš

The whole project finished with a big concert on the square Macedonia in Skopje.

Massimiliano Gioni

In 2002, at 29, he opened a one-meter-square space, The Wrong Gallery, in Chelsea with Ali Subotnick (then of Parkett) and Maurizio Cattelan; when they lost the lease, they reopened in the Tate Modern.

Mogus Wolde Mikael

If it was not clear by this point to Mengistu that he was being squeezed out of power, after a mass rally in Revolution Square in Addis Ababa (better known by its older name, Meskel Square, which was later restored after Mengistu's fall), when General Tafari Benti gave a speech for reconciliation between the various revolutionary factions, he was flanked by Captains Almayahu Haile and Mogus.

Osadia

Tollwood Festival, Munich / Sydney Mardi Gras, Australia / Trafalgar Square Festival, London, UK / Juste pour rire/Just for laughs, Montreal, Canada / The Esplanade Festival, Singapore / NZ International Festival, Wellington, New Zealand / Kleines Fest im Grossen Garten, Hanover / Daidogei World Cup, Shizuoka, Japan / Hogmanay, Edinburgh, Scotland / Festes de la Mercè, Barcelona

Peter Menegazzo

Partner in the Nebo Consortium (with Jack Cowin, founder of Hungry Jack's, and Queensland grazier Peter Hughes), Menegazzo became one of Australia's largest landholders, and the third-biggest cattle owner, with the $417.5 million plus debt sale, gaining 115,000 square kilometres and a herd of half a million cattle.

Piazza Unità d'Italia

The square itself has occasionally been used as a concert venue, with Green Day using the square as a venue for a show on their 99 Revolutions Tour in 2013.

Place Vendome

Place Vendôme, a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France

Plaza Zabala

The street surrounding the square is named as Ring Durango, in honor of the town Vizcaya of Durango, where Zabala was born.

Radcliffe Square

The square is named after John Radcliffe, a student of the university who became doctor to the King, made a large fortune, and left a significant legacy to the University and his college (University College), which is nearby in the High Street to the south.

Raoul Nordling

A play area in the 11th Arrondissement, the "Square Raoul Nordling" is named in his honour, as is a street in Neuilly.

Rodney Adler

Adler has involved himself in various causes, including helping to promote the "Turn Friday Night Into Family Night" initiative of charismatic rabbi Shmuley Boteach, reportedly discussing the initiative with Pope Benedict in May 2010 during the Pope's weekly audience in St Peter's Square.

Square root biased sampling

Square root biased sampling is a sampling method proposed by William H. Press, a computer scientist and computational biologist, for use in airport screenings.

Square-tailed Drongo

This species is similar to the Fork-tailed Drongo, but is smaller, and the shorter tail lacks the deep fork which gives the latter species its name.

Square, Inc.

The original inspiration for Square occurred to Jack Dorsey in 2009 when James McKelvey (a St. Louis friend of Dorsey at the time) was unable to complete a $2,000 sale of his glass faucets and fittings because he could not accept credit cards.

St. Basil's Church

Saint Basil's Cathedral, a Russian Orthodox cathedral erected on the Red Square in Moscow

Thayer Street

While Harvard Square has long been controlled by chain restaurants and stores, many businesses on Thayer remain independent, such as Avon Cinema, Blue State Coffee, Rockstar Body Piercing, East Side Pockets, and NAVA- New And Vintage Apparel with certain notable exceptions such as Johnny Rockets, Starbucks, Au Bon Pain, Urban Outfitters, Chipotle, and CVS Pharmacy.

The Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation

In May 2010, the JBJSF partnered with the Tiger Woods Foundation and was announced as one of the grantees from the proceeds of the 2010 AT&T National which was held at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, PA.

Toronto Normal School

St. James Square became the No. 6 Initial Training Centre for the Royal Canadian Air Force, and a number of barracks and other auxiliary buildings were constructed on the site.

Torsion spring

Determining the force for different charges and different separations between the balls, he showed that it followed an inverse-square proportionality law, now known as Coulomb's law.

Tower Grove East, St. Louis

Like Tower Grove Heights, these residences were built on the four-square plan.

Valkyrie plass

The Common Tunnel of the Oslo T-bane system passes beneath Valkyrie plass, and there was a station beneath the square from 1912 to 1985.

Vinohrady

The main square of west Vinohrady is "náměstí Míru" (Peace Square) with Prague 2 town hall, Vinohrady Theatre, Gothic Revival Saint Ludmila Church (Josef Mocker, 1892) and a station of A metro line.

Wabi-sabi

Jack Dorsey, the billionaire founder of Twitter and Square is known to evangelize the Wabi-sabi philosophy of design.

White Square

White Square Office Center was co-developed by AIG/Lincoln and Coalco, as the first phase of the White District development.

Yellow Bird

Yellowbird, a covert operation after the June 4 crackdown in Tiananmen Square in 1989 that helped dissidents flee overseas via Hong Kong


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A.C.D. Asti

During the festivities of San Secondo was organized, Racecourse Market Square, a square between the noble Genoa, which had already honors in his four league championships, the Milan Cricket and Football Club, Sport Torino Bold and the Andrea Doria.

Academic dress in the United Kingdom

One is known as the 'Dan Dare' or 'Mickey Mouse' cap which is a skull cap with a narrow rim around the top for bachelors; the other was known as the tricorn or upside-down iron, which was basically a mortarboard but with a triangle instead of a square for the top board for masters.

Aspasia Annia Regilla

Regilla and Herodes Atticus are commemorated, with two streets named after them Herodou Attikou Street and Rēgíllēs Street and a Square named after them in downtown Athens.

Bodrog Monastery

The present church of the monastery was built around 1370, according to a triconch plan (Having apses with semi-domes on three sides of a square chamber), at a time when this architecture was spreading to Moldavia and Wallachia, the other Romanian provinces.

Buntline

Clewlines and buntlines, lines used to handle the sails of a square rigged ship

Burton Agnes Hall

The plan attributed to John Smythson presents a square block with bay windows and a small internal courtyard.

Carrefour De Lodéon

The name of the show is a double entendre: it may refer to the Carrefour de l'Odéon, a square in Paris located in the 6th arrondissement, and the last name of the host.

Charles Alverson

During a break from the WSJ in 1967, he was a "square" (or non-addicted) resident of the anti-drug cult Synanon in Santa Monica, California, for six months.

Covering problem of Rado

A typical setting is a finite family of convex figures in the Euclidean space Rd that are homothetic to a given X, for example, a square as in the original question, a disk, or a d-dimensional cube.

Dos de Mayo Uprising

The place where the artillery barracks of Monteleón was located is now a square called the Plaza Dos de Mayo, and the district surrounding the square is known as Malasaña in memory of one of the heroines of the revolt, the teenager Manuela Malasaña, who was executed by French troops in the aftermath of the revolt.

Egertorget

Egertorget, formerly known as Egertorvet, is a square in Oslo at the intersection of Karl Johans gate and Øvre Slottsgate.

Eye, Herefordshire

Eye has a historic small church with a square tower and some wonderful effigies; beside it is Eye Manor, noted for its fine decorated plaster ceilings.

François Just Marie Raynouard

In the 16th arrondissement of Paris, a street and a square have been named after him.

Fuat Sezgin

On 24 September 2012, Melih Gökçek, Mayor of Municipality of Metropolitan Ankara, announced that a square in Ankara was named in honor of Fuat Sezgin.

Furlong

Blocks in central Logan, Utah, and in large sections of Phoenix, Arizona, are similarly a square furlong in extent (eight to a mile, which explains the series of freeway exits: 19th Ave, 27th, 35th, 43rd, 51st, 59th ...).

Grand Socco

Grand Socco (meaning "Big Square", officially known as Place du Grand 9 Avril 1947 but that name is rarely used) is a square in the medina area of central Tangier, Morocco and the larger of the Petit Socco which make up the medina of the city.

Hahn/Cock

He pointed out the irony that the cockerel, an unofficial national emblem of France, was standing in a square commemorating a famous British victory over the French.

Hippodrome of Constantinople

Today it is a square named Sultanahmet Meydanı (Sultan Ahmet Square) in the Turkish city of Istanbul, with a few fragments of the original structure surviving.

Hugh Latimer

A square, Latimer Square, is named after the man and is located in central Christchurch, New Zealand.

Humble Administrator's Garden

Named after a Chinese folk expression, "Where there are bamboo groves there are houses," and "With a Parasol tree (Firmiana simplex) in his yard, one is assured of a phoniex's coming and good fortune." It is a square pavilion with a hipped gable roofline and flying eves.

Internal clock

Electronic oscillator, an electronic circuit that produces a periodic, oscillating signal, often a sine wave or a square wave

John Michael Kohler

Today, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, which occupies a square block in downtown Sheboygan (containing Kohler's restored Gilded Age home along with modern buildings), is a tribute to this founding member of a distinguished family.

Jón Leifs

A square in Bergholz-Rehbrücke (Nuthetal, Germany), where he lived with his family from the 1930s until 1944, is named after him.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

In Paris, a street and a hotel near the Sorbonne are named after him as are a square and a street in his birthplace, Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat.

Karposh's Rebellion

Karposh Square, a square across the Stone Bridge on the other side of Macedonia Square in Skopje is named after Karpos, where the leader of the uprising was executed by the Ottomans.

Kirzhach

An open gallery connects the cathedral with the nearby Savior church, which has a square tower and a tent-like belfry.

Krazy Maze

For example, landing on the "A" square of the left track results in the instruction "Forgotten lunch. Back to start"; landing on the B square results in "Tiger snake on road. Extra spin to get past." The two tracks diverge at square one and rejoin at square 89.

Lemon basil

The setup is simply a Mason jar filled with water and a square of mesh with holes large enough to hold the plant in place while the roots grow.

Leon Thau

Having worked with Michael Bentine in It's a Square World and The Sandwich Man, he produced and directed Michael Bentine's Potty Time.

Lewis Carroll identity

In linear algebra, the Lewis Carroll identity is an identity involving minors of a square matrix proved by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll), who used it in a method of numerical evaluation of matrix determinants called the Dodgson condensation.

Listed buildings in Cuddington, Cheshire

It is a square area with brick, slated buildings in one and two storeys on the north and west sides, a boiler house, a mash house.

Montse Armengou Martín

In The Spanish Holocaust film, in Zafra, Extramadura the daughter of the last Republican mayor is interviewed in the village square - a square that contains a monument to a Francoist commander, Captain Castejón.

Pancha Rathas

The Draupadi Ratha, which is the last in the line, is a square structure, which resembles a village hut with thatch roof.

Qutb Shahi Tombs

The tombs are domed structures built on a square base surrounded by pointed arches, a distinctive style that blends Persian, Pashtun and Hindu forms.

Rawak Stupa

The Rawak Stupa exemplifies a development from the stupa on a square base that emerges in and is seen elsewhere in the region, such as at Niya, to one on a cruciform-shaped base owing to the addition of staircases protruding out from the base on each side.

Routh–Hurwitz stability criterion

German mathematician Adolf Hurwitz independently proposed in 1895 to arrange the coefficients of the polynomial into a square matrix, called the Hurwitz matrix, and showed that the polynomial is stable if and only if the sequence of determinants of its principal submatrices are all positive.

Sai-ji

Each occupied a square site of approximately 300 m by 300 m situated symmetrically on both sides of the Suzaku Avenue (Suzaku-ōji, present-day Senbon-dōri), just north of the great Rashōmon gate along the southern edge of the city.

Saint Roland

Sometimes St. Roland is also said to be patron saint of Riga, Latvia, while statue of other Roland in full armor stands in a square in the old city.

Saint-Henri, Montreal

Louis Cyr - strongman who served as a police officer in Saint-Henri, commemorated with a park, a square, and a statue

Shops at Don Mills

Storefronts face a network of private internal streets, and the centre layout is centred around a square which includes interpretive historical plaques and commissioned art by Douglas Coupland.

Square engine

a square four engine, which is a U engine in which two parallel-twin engines are coupled together

Square peg in a round hole

Sejong the Great of Korea commented, in 1443, that using Chinese characters for Korean was “like trying to fit a square handle into a round hole”.

Squariel

Squarial, a square-shaped satellite TV aerial used by BSB in the UK

University of Colorado School of Medicine

It occupies the former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center located on a square mile of land eight miles east of downtown Denver at the junction of Interstate 225 and Colfax Avenue.

Vanbrugh College

The main college building, three storeys high and constructed in the 1960s in the CLASP system, consists of four blocks arranged within a square.

William Gates Building, Cambridge

The William Gates Building, or WGB for short, is a square building that houses the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, on the University's West Cambridge site in JJ Thomson Avenue south of the Madingley Road in Cambridge, England.