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unusual facts about Alarm


No. 11 Squadron RAF

In February 2003 it was announced that some of No. 11 Squadron's Tornado F3s had been modified to carry the ALARM missile (as EF3s) to widen their capabilities to include suppression of enemy air defence SEAD.


Alarm Call

"Alarm Call" is a song by Björk released as the fourth single from her third studio album Homogenic, peaking at #33 in the UK.

Alarm in Peking

Alarm in Peking is a 1937 German adventure film directed by Herbert Selpin and starring Gustav Fröhlich, Leny Marenbach and Peter Voß.

Anthony Davie

He is currently manager/tour manager for Los Mondo Bongo (celebrating the music of Joe Strummer) which includes Joe Strummer's post-Clash bandmates Pablo Cook (percussion) and Smiley Culture/Steve Barnard (drums) from The Mescaleros, as well as bassist Derek Forbes (Simple Minds), guitarist Steve Harris (Gary Numan) and vocalist Mike Peters (The Alarm), plus Ray Gange of Rude Boy film fame DJing.

Antoine Godin

Initially there was no alarm, for this group was assumed to be an American Fur Company supply train led by Lucien Fontenelle, which had failed to arrive in time for the rendezvous.

Bob Keane

Keane embarked upon a career selling burglar alarm systems, mainly to celebrities, and oversaw the music career of his two sons, known professionally as The Keane Brothers.

Brady's Bend, Pennsylvania

The alarm was brought to Pittsburgh, and Colonel Brodhead sent three of the "brother officers" from Fort Pitt about June 10, 1779, to reconnoiter the Seneca country.

Ceanothus fendleri

The Navajos combined this shrub and green gentian to make a medicine applied internally or externally, for "alarm and nervousness".

Christopher Nugent

No fresh evidence of his treason was adduced, and Wallop heard with alarm that it was intended to set him at liberty.

Colin Crompton

An attempt by producer Johnnie Hamp to reproduce the atmosphere of the working men's clubs in a television studio, Crompton was famous for ringing a hand-operated fire alarm bell and telling the audience to "give order" when making announcements from "the committee" in between acts.

Connah's Quay High School

When Prince Andrew, Duke of York visited the school to declare the new block officially open, the opening ceremony was interrupted by a fire alarm caused by a hot tea urn.

Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted

This was also the song that was playing before the Emergency Broadcast System False Alarm of 1971 on WOWO.

Fallschirmjäger-Regiment Hübner

Fallschirmjäger Regiment Hübner - or Kampfgruppe Hübner - was formed as an alarm unit in August 1944, attached to Fallschirmjäger Division Erdmann in September 1944, and operated as an independent Battle Group from November 1944 until March 1945, when it was formally designated Fallschirmjäger Regiment (FJR) 24 and subordinated to the 8. Fallschirmjäger Division.

Fiach McHugh O'Byrne

The rebel lookout on the peak of Lugnaquilla sounded the alarm, and Grey ordered his men to descend into the glen with a drum roll.

Gayant

“In 1479, the French threatened the town of Douai then Burgundian. In the small hour of 16 June 1479, day of the Maurand Saint, the French troops tried to penetrate in the city by the Door of Arras, the gatekeeper gave alarm and thus saved the city. The gatekeeper declared that the godly man had prevented it in dream; the relics of the saint stored with the Collegial Saint-Heart were then walked in the city.”

Gerard Stembridge

He has directed such films as Guiltrip, Black Day at Black Rock, Alarm and About Adam.

Giles Alington, Lord of Horseheath

He attended the King as Master of Ordnance at the siege of Boulogne-sur-Mer, noted on the inscription of a clock which he brought from that siege, and affixed over the offices at Horseheath Hall, in which was contained the alarm bell of the garrison of Boulogne.

Greater Racket-tailed Drongo

A special alarm note is raised in the presence of Shikras that has been transcribed as a loud kwei-kwei-kwei...shee-cuckoo-sheecuckoo-sheecuckoo-why!.

Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm

Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm is a video game based on the Flash cartoon series Happy Tree Friends developed by independent software developer Stainless Games and published by Sega.

Hardware Platform Interface

Because a wide variety of alarm display hardware, such as LEDs, audible alerts, text display panels, etc. are used on different hardware platforms, it is difficult for an application program to be written to display alarm information in a platform-independent way.

Home Security Store

In July 2011 the company announced they were releasing the Visonic Powermax Wireless Alarm System, which they co-developed in cooperation with Visonic.

Kenley

Hammond Innes' book Attack Alarm was based on his experiences as a Royal Artillery anti-aircraft gunner at RAF Kenley during the Battle of Britain.

Liometopum luctuosum

L. luctuosum are also often confused with the Tapinoma sessile since they have the same coloration, are similar in size, and produce an alarm pheromone with a very similar odor.

Little Crow

The Lamsons were separated, and each went the nearly 12 miles to Hutchinson, Minnesota to raise the alarm.

Mehrabad International Airport

On 19 June 2005, a Northwest Airlines DC-10 en route from Mumbai to Amsterdam made an emergency landing at Mehrabad Airport due to an indication of a fire in the cargo hold, which turned out to be a false alarm.

MV Craigantlet

The lighthouse keeper raised the alarm, and Craigantlet's crew was rescued via airlift by a Sea King from 819 Squadron based at the stone frigate HMS Gannet at Glasgow Prestwick International Airport.

Ned Christie's War

According to author Loren D. Estleman, Ned slept at his cabin most nights, but he "took to the brush" when the alarm was raised.

Noise By Numbers

Noise By Numbers is pop punk band featuring Dan Schafer (Screeching Weasel, the Queers, the Methadones, Sludgeworth) and Jeff Dean (The Bomb, All Eyes West, Four Star Alarm, The Story So Far, Dead Ending).

P-70 radar

The P-70 also used a fully coherent transmitter and an MTI system capable of compensating for wind and other forms of passive interference such as chaff, overall the P-70 managed to achieve a low false alarm rate.

Paul Revere's Ride

He would await the signal across the river in Charlestown and be ready to spread the alarm throughout Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

Purified in Blood

January 21, 2006 the band won the Alarm Award 2006 for Best Live Band, competing with huge Norwegian bands such as Madrugada, Kaizers Orchestra and Turbonegro.

RAF Kenley

Hammond Innes' book Attack Alarm, published in 1941, was based on his experiences as a Royal Artillery anti-aircraft gunner at RAF Kenley during the Battle of Britain.

Reginald Teague-Jones

As 1918 dawned, a reinvigorated Turkish force, the Ottoman Army of Islam under Enver Pasha began advancing on Baku, much to the alarm of the British, who envisaged Enver's army crossing the Caspian, sweeping through Transcaspia (Russia's southernmost Central Asian possession) and on to India by way of Afghanistan.

Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai

In 1855, Captain W. S. Jacob of the East India Observatory in Madras found orbital anomalies in the binary star 70 Ophiuchi that he claimed are evidence of an extrasolar planet—the first exoplanet false alarm.

Richard Barlow

His early work included an effort to sound the alarm about the now-discredited Pakistani nuclear scientist and proliferator, Abdul Qadeer Khan.

Robert Sigl

He also directed the episode "The Lost Daughter" for the extremely popular action series Alarm for Cobra 11 and succeeded in creating an atmosphere that was compared by critics to Twin Peaks.

Royal Postgraduate Medical School

An article entitled 'Human Guinea Pigs: A Warning' published in 1962 in the journal Twentieth Century by Maurice Pappworth, a Liverpool-born physician, caused public alarm and bitter controversy among members of the medical profession.

Samsung Galaxy Express

Based on Vlingo, S Voice enables the user to verbally control 20 functions such as playing a song, setting the alarm, or activating driving mode; it relies on Wolfram Alpha for online searches.

Schreckstoff

One of the most well-studied chemical alarm signals is schreckstoff, the use of which is widespread in the superorder Ostariophysi (e.g., minnows, characins, catfishes, etc.).

Seth Fisher

Becker and Mayer publishers posthumously released a project titled Backpack Alarm, written by Shar Levine and Leslie Johnstone and featuring illustrations by Fisher.

Smoke detector

In Australia, for example, a public information campaign suggests that smoke alarm batteries should be replaced on April Fools' Day every year.

Steve Reich: Triple Quartet

Alan Pierson conducts Alarm Will Sound and the Ossia Ensemble from the Eastman School of Music, which perform Reich's 1978 Music for a Large Ensemble.

The Brothers Bloom

The brothers tell Bang Bang to set off a small explosive in Prague Castle that will trigger the fire alarm, allowing Penelope to sneak in and steal the book.

Torpedo gunboat

A number of torpedo gunboats, such as the Alarm class and the Dryad class, were built for the Royal Navy during the 1880s and the 1890s; similar vessels were also constructed or otherwise acquired by a number of European nations and Japan.

Violet Club

One track led to an intermediate design, the so-called Type A thermonuclear design, similar to the Alarm Clock and layer cake hybrid designs of other nuclear powers; although these designs are now regarded as large boosted fission weapons, and no longer regarded as thermonuclear weapons that derive a very large part of their energy from a fusion reaction, designated by the British as Type B, but as hybrids.

WakeMate

Competing products to the WakeMate include the aXbo alarm clock, the Sleeptracker wristwatch, and the Zeo Personal Sleep Coach.

WGU-20

Afterwards, reception reports (some from as far away as Texas) were sent a special QSL card featuring Paul Revere on a horse, raising the alarm.


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