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2 unusual facts about Alive


Alive, She Cried

Alive, She Cried is a live album by the American rock band The Doors; the title of the album is taken from a line in the song "When the Music's Over".

Live-Loud-Alive: Loudness in Tokyo

The opening theme is taken from "The Planets" by Gustav Holst, performed by the Orchestre National de l'Opera de Montecarlo, conducted by Antonio de Almeida.


1958 riots in Ceylon

In revenge, a Sinhalese gang tried to burn down the Hindu Kovil; unable to set fire to the building, they pulled out a Brahmin priest and burned him alive instead.

2009 Jarama Superleague Formula round

(Craig Dolby) to pass 3 cars to keep his slim title bid alive.

Arthurdactylus

It was in 1994 named by Eberhard Frey and David Martill in honor of Arthur Conan Doyle, who featured large reptilian pterosaurs in his novel The Lost World, about a professor finding prehistoric animals still alive on a plateau in South-America.

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea

Elizabeth reveals that Sally is alive, and that a local artist named Sander Cohen (T. Ryder Smith) may have information regarding her whereabouts.

Boutros Khawand

It is widely believed that he is still alive in one of the Syrian jails, most probably in Mezzeh prison or in the "Sab' Bahrat" (Seven Seas) prison (controlled by the Syrian Air Force intelligence service) in Damascus although some reports stated that he was later transferred to Tadmor prison.

Cacophony Society

Although in San Francisco the 'official' Cacophony label is presently not used often, Zombie attacks, Peewee Herman day (commemorating Paul Reubens' arrest in a pornographic theater) and other goofs are alive and well.

CIA activities in Bolivia

A telegraphic code was arranged between La Paz and Higueras with the numbers 500 representing Guevara, 600 meaning the phrase "keep alive" and 700 representing "execute".

Clyne Gardens

Glynn Vivian planted three notable trees still alive in front of the castle - one Wellingtonia 'Sequoiadendron giganteum' and two Monterey Cypress 'Cupressus macrocarpa', one a fastigiate form which is also one of the tallest recorded in Britain.

David Gundlach

Set in the 1930s, a Tennessee hermit throws his own funeral party while still alive.

David Hayward

Maria Santos (died in August 1997; brought back in May 2002) - alive.

Dax Cowart

Instead, Cowart was subjected to medical treatments, which he likened to being "skinned alive" on a regular basis, including being dipped in a chlorinated bath to fight infection and having the bandages covering his body regularly stripped and replaced.

Dead or Alive 5 Plus

Dead or Alive 5 Plus (stylized as Dead or Alive 5+ and abbreviated to DOA5+) is a fighting game in the Dead or Alive series, developed by Team Ninja in partnership with Sega AM2 and released by Tecmo Koei for the PlayStation Vita in March 2013.

Dionisio Foianini

As of 1995, Foianini was still alive, in the town of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.

Donovan's Brain

The September 1968 episode of Star Trek, "Spock's Brain" features the disembodied brain of Mr. Spock kept alive in a box attached to a control panel.

Dunlop cheese

The Dunlop Cheese factory was sited near Dunlop railway station in what is now a housing estate, the memory of Dunlop cheese production being kept alive by the name 'Creamery Row'.

Dzyarzhynsk

The Lithuanian Twelfth Schutzmannschaft (auxiliary police) Battalion's 1st Company, led by Lieutenant Z. Kemzura, massacred between 1,000 and 1,900 Jews from the city on October 21, 1941, shooting them and throwing them into a pit; many were buried alive.

False killer whale

The species was thought extinct until Reinhardt confirmed it was alive when he described a large pod at the Kiel Bay in 1861.

Garnet Bailey

Bailey, and his fellow Flight 175 passenger Mark Bavis are mentioned in the Boston-based Dropkick Murphys song "Your Spirit's Alive." Denis Leary wore a Bailey memorial T-shirt as the character Tommy Gavin in the season 1 episode "Immortal" and the fourth season episode "Pussified" in the TV series Rescue Me.

Henry Miller

Dearborn, Mary V. The Happiest Man Alive: A Biography of Henry Miller, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.

Hubbs' beaked whale

Carl Leavitt Hubbs, a noted American ichthyologist, published a description of a whale found alive in the surf near his office at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, in 1945.

Israr Ullah Zehri

In August 2008, the Asian Human Rights Commission reported that five women (including three teenagers) in a remote village in Balochistan had been beaten, shot and buried alive in a ditch for the 'crime' of having wished to choose their own husbands.

Jean l'Héritier

A note written by the papal legate in Avignon indicated that L'Héritier was still alive in 1552.

John Baker Saunders

In 2002, Mad Season vocalist Layne Staley would also die from an overdose of heroin, leaving Barrett Martin and Mike McCready as the only members of Mad Season still alive.

Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration

During this review, the music to "Praise to the Man" (a song commemorating Joseph Smith, Jr. written after his death) is played in the background while the people the riders pass seem to show on their faces that this is the last time they'll see Joseph alive.

Keep Yourself Alive

"Keep Yourself Alive" was largely ignored upon its release and failed to chart on either side of the Atlantic.

Keepin' the Summer Alive

Of the new songs, "Keepin' the Summer Alive" and "Livin' With a Heartache" were written by Carl Wilson and Randy Bachman (of The Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive).

King Biscuit Time

A magazine spin-off, King Biscuit Time edited by Donald Wilcock, has won several awards from the Blues Foundation, including the "Keeping the Blues Alive Award", and features interviews and biographies of major blues personalities.

Leva-me aos Fados

In the "Stones World", the Portuguese singer interprets the themes "Brown Sugar" and "No Expectations", later sung alive and in duet with Mick Jagger in 2007 during the concert by the band in the Alvalade XXI Stadium.

Luu Huynh

His latest film, “The Legend is Alive” released in 2009 to wide acclaim won a total of six Golden Kite Awards, including a tie for Best Film.

Marco Antonio Firebaugh High School

He received the honor of having a school named after him while alive; other examples include Earl Warren, for which Warren High School in Downey, California was originally named, and John Glenn, for which John Glenn High School in Norwalk, California was named.

Meir Har-Zion

Sharett, who suspected that Dayan had advanced knowledge of the raid, and who deplored such actions, noted critically in his diary: "The dark soul of the Bible has come alive among the sons of Nahalal and 'Ein Harod".

Miklós Nyiszli

One day, after the gassing of a new shipment of prisoners, Nyiszli was summoned by prisoners working in the gas chambers who had found a girl alive under a mass of bodies in a gas chamber.

Nathan Petrelli

Later, he and Tracy meet up with Claire and an injured Peter Petrelli, who reveals to him not only that their father Arthur Petrelli is still alive, but that he has absorbed his powers.

Saint Bashnouna

Having refused, Bashnouna was burned alive on 24 Pashons, 880 A.M. (19 May 1164 AD) His relics were buried at the Church of Saint Sergius in Cairo.

Sampooranathevan

Mayon replied that, she, Paradevathai, fell in love with you even though her husband was alive.

Sylvia Hollamby

Sylvia's worst fears become reality as Shell is found alive and heavily pregnant in Amsterdam, and extradited back to G-Wing.

The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

Dee brings all the dead in a nearby cemetery alive and they start to attack them, Josh hits Dee with a Hummer distracting Dee long enough to escape with Scathach, Sophie and Nicholas Flamel by using a leygate (a teleportation device where two or more lines of energy, ley lines, cross the world) to go to Paris which is Nicholas Flamel's old home.

The Boy from New York City

As part of a collaboration with Everfree Radio's MandoPony, actress Michelle Creber did a cover of the song, as well as one of "Wanted Dead or Alive" by rock group Bon Jovi.

The Elfin Knight

Omnia Performed this song, on Alive! (2007), as "The Elven Lover"

The Fiend

Thus the Fiend discovers that she is alive and kills her husband and her son, but with the help of her grandmother, the water of life, and holy water she brings them back and kills the fiend.

The Need to Feel Alive

The Need to Feel Alive is the second full-length album released by Forever Changed.

To Know That You're Alive

To Know That You're Alive is the fifth full length studio album by the Christian rock band Kutless.

Trojden I, Duke of Masovia

In 1310, when his father was still alive Trojden received the small region Czersk.

Turban Cowboy

Peter is invigorated by their jump and keeps up skydiving despite Lois' concern, even as his jumps usually result in accidents like falling on Meg at dinner, falling on a ninja that killed a woman, and falling on the castle of the Pig King from Angry Birds with only one pig left alive.

Twice as Nice

Trey Songz the forth single from Nelly's M.O. Album, Co-wrote "Keep Our Love Alive" with Matthew Koma for Afrojack, have songs on the up-coming Travie McCoy album and completed a large number of songs with Matthew Koma for his yet to be released debut album.

Veerapandiya Kattabomman

In his Tinnevelly Gazetteer of 1917, H. R. Pate notes the presence, in Kayatharu, of "a great pile of stones of all sizes, which represents the accumulated offerings by wayfarers of the past hundred years. Folk songs recalling the heroism of the Poligar leaders remain alive in Tamil Nadu to this day..."

Wave Race 64

Tomonobu Itagaki, the creator of the Dead or Alive series, included a jet-ski mode on the game Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 because he is a great fan of Wave Race 64.

West Stanley Pit Disaster

Ex-manager of Newcastle United F.C. Kevin Keegan's grandfather was in the Stanley pit disaster and was one of the few who got out alive.

Western fiction

Many of these novels were fictionalized stories based on actual people: Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, Jesse James, Wyatt Earp (who was still alive at the time) and Billy the Kid.

Zeus B. Held

After writing and producing the groundbreaking album by Gina X Performance “Nice Mover”, (followed by three more Gina X albums), his first UK production credits were with Fashion and Dead or Alive, he produced Pete Wylie's "Sinful" album and an LP by Men Without Hats for Polygram US which yielded a number one in many European countries and a US Top 20 hit with "Pop Goes The World".


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