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unusual facts about Affliction: Day of Reckoning



Adieu False Heart

In light of her 2011 retirement announcement, and the revelation of her affliction with Parkinson's disease in 2013, which has left her unable to sing, this album is likely to be Linda's final release of new music.

Affliction: Banned

The event saw victories by former UFC Heavyweight Champions Andrei Arlovski and Josh Barnett, with Barnett avenging an earlier loss to Pedro Rizzo, and by former UFC Light-heavyweight Champion Vitor Belfort.

The card at Banned featured many of the top MMA heavyweight fighters.

Catherine Neilson

She also starred in two films by Ken Russell: The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner (1990), which included a nude scene, and Prisoner of Honor (1991).

Constantine Ó Nialláin

This latter affliction made Francis Lavalin Nugent refuse, at considerable controversy, to send him as a missionary to Charleville {in northern France} in 1621, because his lack of teeth made his speech virtually unintelligible.

Dan Lauzon

Lauzon was originally scheduled to fight Chris Horodecki at the Affliction: Day of Reckoning event on January 24, but Chris was denied his license for failing his physical.

John Haney Rogers

Near the end of his life, Rogers was suffering from Mercury poisoning, a common affliction resulting from the use of mercury to extract gold from low-grade ore, and parts of his feet had been amputated, presumably from mercury-induced gangrene.

John Tedder, 2nd Baron Tedder

Near the end of his life he developed Parkinson's disease (the same affliction from which his father died).

Kirill Sidelnikov

Sildelnikov fought for the first time on North Americain soil at Affliction: Day of Reckoning, losing to Paul Buentello.

Milton Kessler

Kessler had a brief bout with thyroid cancer, an affliction he shared with poet Paul Blackburn.

Musicophilia

In a review for The Washington Post, Peter D. Kramer wrote, "In Musicophilia, Sacks turns to the intersection of music and neurology -- music as affliction and music as treatment."

Nagore Shahul Hamid

Hajrath Shahul Hamid Badusha Kaadiri cured king Achutappa Nayak(1529–1542 A.D.), a Hindu ruler of Thanjavur of his physical affliction believed to be caused by a sorcery.

Pride

According to buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, Pride (along with hatred, obsession, arrogance, envy and greed) is a mental toxin, a mental affliction, that is often responsible for a mental state of anger, jealousy or envy, and therefore resulting in unhappiness.

Robert Horry

His first child, and daughter, Ashlyn, was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder called 1p36 deletion syndrome, an affliction that develops when part of the first chromosome is missing.

Scourge

Semi-literal usages such as "the scourge of God" for Attila the Hun (i.e. "God's whip to punish the nations with") led to metaphoric uses to mean a severe affliction, e.g. "the scourge of drug abuse".

The Amity Affliction

In 2013 The Amity Affliction was part of Warped Tour in the United States with Chad Hasty (Glass Cloud) on drums, percussion due to Ryan Burt severely damaging his cornea during a set in Portland, Oregon.

The Amity Affliction discography

The Amity Affliction have released three studio albums named Severed Ties, released in 2008, Youngbloods in 2010 which debuted at number 6 on the ARIA Charts, and Chasing Ghosts in 2012 which debuted at number 1 on the ARIA charts.


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