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unusual facts about All Black



Anna Stanley

Stanley is married to current medical surgeon and former Auckland and All Black rugby union player, Jeremy Stanley.

Gerard Beale

He is a relative of All Black great Zinzan Brooke and was named in New Zealand 19-man squad for the 2011 ANZAC Test.

Grant Kereama

In 2005 it was revealed that Kereama was the donor of a kidney for former All Black, Jonah Lomu.

Ki-o-rahi

The men's team included 22-test All Black veteran Wayne Shelford who led the team to a 57-10 test win against Ki-o-Rahi Dieppe Organisation, the French Ki-o-Rahi federation.

Lorraine Downes

In 1986 Lorraine Downes married Murray Mexted, a New Zealand rugby All Black, with whom she had two children (son Hilton and daughter Jasmine), before divorcing in 2001.

North Harbour Rugby Union

Nick Evans (former All Black, rumored to moved to North Harbour but moved to Auckland instead, now playing for Harlequins in England

Shon Siemonek

After leaving high-school Siemonek continued his rugby union career at Hutt Old Boys Marist Rugby Football Club in Lower Hutt where he played with the All Black Piri Weepu, and Hurricane Jeremy Thrush.

Tim Natusch

Natusch was actively discouraged from entering rugby league by his then union coach John Mills, an uncapped All Black who in 2009 joined Graham Henry's All Black coaching staff in an advisory role.

Warren Gatland

His first game as an All Black was in 1988, when he is said to have introduced a hybrid Australian Rules-Gaelic football game to the training sessions, which was well received by the other players.


see also

Adam Davenport

Davenport is preparing to mount a stage revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night with an all-black cast starring Alfre Woodard.

Afrofuturism

All Black Everything, a song in Lupe Fiasco's Lasers (album), All Black Everything, also brings Afrofuturism to the front.

Ali Williams

In 2009 Williams released his biography "Ali: Tall Book of Tales",It was during this time in which he spoke of an incident involving Clint Brown then TV anchor for 3 News who was stripped naked by Williams and members of the All Black team and had his eyebrows shaved off after becoming heavily intoxicated on a flight from South Africa to Australia.

All Black and Hairy

All Black and Hairy is the first and only album by Gravedigger V released in 1984 before the band disbanded.

Bill Hickman

Bill was to do all his own driving; portraying one of two hit men, he drove an all black 1968 Dodge Charger 440 Magnum R/T through the streets of San Francisco, using the hills as jumps.

Charlie Oliver

He spent the final years of his life in Australia and had a son-in-law, Dave Gillespie, who was also an All Black.

ChoiceTV

In Sep 2012 Choice TV started to air their own TV Morning show called Brunch which April Ieremia and former All Black Josh Kronfeld hosted.

Clint Brown

Ali Williams, former All Black lock, makes reference to this event in his book "Ali Tall Book Of Tales".

Colored Players Film Corporation

During its brief time operating, the production company released four films, including A Prince of His Race (1926), a remake of Timothy Shay Arthur’s Ten Nights in a Bar Room (1926) with an all black cast, Children of Fate (1927), and finally The Scar of Shame (1929).

Crispus Attucks High School

In 1955, the school's basketball team, led by future professional star and Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson, gained fame by winning the Indiana state championship, becoming the first all-black school in the nation to win a state title.

Eli M. Black

United Farm Workers president Cesar Chavez said that his career was proof that management could work with farm labor "for the betterment of all." Black served as a trustee of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The American Jewish Committee, the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, Babson College, the Jewish Guild for the Blind, and the Jewish Museum.

Emil Newman

He had 15 titles in 1943, including "Musical Direction" for the all-black musical Stormy Weather and the 20th Century Fox wartime film Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas, 19 in 1944, 17 in 1945 and 16 in 1946, including Hugo Friedhofer's Academy Award score for The Best Years of Our Lives, which he also conducted.

Ethel Waters

In 1933, Waters made a satirical all-black film entitled Rufus Jones for President, which featured then-child performer Sammy Davis Jr. as Rufus Jones.

Firefight at Yechon: Courage and Racism in the Korean War

Bussey joined the Tuskegee Airmen, an all-black air unit, which protected Allied bombers on missions over Europe during World War II in over North Africa, Italy and finally Germany.

Flournoy Earkin Miller

Miller also starred in the 1930 version of Lew Leslie's Blackbirds on Broadway, and in the all-black Western Harlem on the Prairie (1937).

Frano Botica

Botica joined the Wigan rugby league club in British league in 1990 in what was an exodus of All Black backs to rugby league including Matthew Ridge (Manly-Warringah), John Gallagher (Leeds) and John Schuster Newcastle).

Gayraud Wilmore

As a Buffalo Soldier, he served with the all-black 92nd Infantry division in Italy.

Gloria Idahota Williams

Williams has worked with Talawa Theatre Company and was directed by Paulette Randall in an All black production of Medea at the Barn Theatre for Black History month.

Grant Nisbett

Nisbett was the lead Sky Sport commentator for Sky Sport during the 2011 Rugby World Cup and called the final with former All Black Grant Fox and former New Zealand cricketer Ian Smith, who was on the sideline.

Hank DeZonie

A 6'6" forward/center, DeZonie attended Clark Atlanta University in the 1940s and then joined the Rens, an all-black travelling basketball team named after the Harlem Renaissance.

Harry H. Johnson

In 1944 he was promoted to Major General and made commander of the all-black 2nd Cavalry Division, which was dismounted and performed various service and support functions in the North African Campaign from February, 1943 to May, 1944.

Hortense Spillers

While at the University of Memphis, she was a disc jockey for the all-black radio station WDIA.

Indian Jungle Crow

The Indian Jungle Crow (Corvus culminatus) is an all-black species of Jungle Crow found in the plains of India where it is very common and readily distinguished from the House Crow which has a grey neck.

Jack Afamasaga

Afamasaga originally began playing Rugby union in his youth, playing for the 1st XV team at Waiopehu College in Levin (the same high school attended by former All Black Carlos Spencer) and working his way up through several representative teams before he was eventually selected by the Wellington Hurricanes in their schoolboy team.

Julieanna Richardson

But an encounter with William Thompson, a veteran of World War II's all-black Tuskegee Airmen, convinced Richardson that the HistoryMakers was about more than just celebrities.

Kavanagh College

Brian Verdon McCleary (1891–1980) - All Black (1924–1925) played on the Invincibles tour; New Zealand and Australasian amateur and professional light-heavyweight and heavyweight boxing champion (Christian Brothers)

Knut Schreiner

As Euroboy, Schreiner usually appeared on stage in an all black attire, sporting a Schutz-Staffel Totenkopf officer's hat.

M. Athalie Range

Athalie Wilkinson graduated from all-black Booker T. Washington High School in Overtown, Miami.

Nick Hathaway

He wrote several musical shows, including an adaptation of "West Side Story" set in Shakespeare's time, an all-Black "Finian's Rainbow," and the Book of Job in swingtime (considered for development by Cordova).

Norm Hadley

All Black phenomenon, Jonah Lomu was #1 for his exploits in 1995 and the entire Western Samoa team came in at #2 for their efforts in the 1991 tournament.

Norma Donaldson

During the 1970s, she was a popular Broadway star and was most famous for portraying the loveless chorine Miss Adelaide, opposite Robert Guillaume, in an all-black revival of Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls in 1976.

Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste

The Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste (OSK) is an all-black Congolese orchestra located in Kinshasa.

PF Flyers

Towards the end of the film, the character Benny (Mike Vitar) wears an all-black pair of Center Hi's - the narration tells us they are "guaranteed to make a kid run faster and jump higher."

Rhodesian Armoured Corps

These were introduced by Darryl Winkler in an effort to engender an esprit de corps within his squadron – and echoed the all black look of the British Royal Tank Regiment (although the appearance of Frank Sinatra in the 1965 film Von Ryan's Express readily springs to mind).

Ric Salizzo

It was during this period that Salizzo formed production company Pasta Productions with friend and former schoolmate, All Black Sir John Kirwan.

Robert Deans

Bob Deans (1884–1908), rugby union player, All Black, and member of the 1905 Original's squad

Robbie Deans (born 1959), current Crusaders (Super 14) coach; former rugby union player and All Black, as well as a former All Blacks coach

Robert Russa Moton Museum

The all-black R.R. Moton High School, named after Robert Russa Moton, a noted educator from neighboring Amelia County, did not have a gymnasium, cafeteria, or teachers' restrooms.

Sheep moth

The sheep moth has a 5.5-8.5 centimeter wingspan and a relatively slender body and (FW) wings that pink with a yellow streak in the middle and (HW) yellowish with variable black markings with an all-black form near Mount Shasta.

The Adventure of Iron Pussy

Donning an all-black Spandex outfit and mask one night, Iron Pussy uncovers Mr. Henry's plot – he's making a mind-control drug.

The Big Tall Wish

The all-black principal cast was a novelty for television in 1960.

The Feederz

A fan's post to the Nirvana newsgroup, alt.music.nirvana, revealed that Cobain had taken a bumper sticker from the Feederz' Teachers in Space LP and proudly stuck it on his all-black Fender Stratocaster, made famous at the 1991 Reading Festival (see Reading and Leeds Festivals) in England, where Nirvana performed with Sonic Youth.

The Zulus

They played in an all black kit and decorated themselves with beads and feathers and, instead of using their own names, they adopted Zulu names such as Ulmathoosi.

Uncle John's Bathroom Reader

For example, a woman sues Bill Clinton because aliens have told her that he will enslave all black women.

Zero Cipher

In 2006, Duncan became endorsed by Vigier guitars, who made him a custom all-black "Indus" model.