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4 unusual facts about Argo


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Tim Severin commissioned the recreation of a Bronze Age galley, and in 1984 retraced the voyage of Jason.

Argo-class submarine

After refit at La Spezia, Velella sailed on 25 November 1940 and passed the Strait of Gibraltar on 1 December for an Atlantic patrol to Bordeaux on 25 December.

ARGO-HYTOS

The product portfolio was expanded to hydraulic filters for the mobile and industrial hydraulics, which were produced in a former cigar factory in Kraichtal/Germany.

Kure Software Koubou

One year after being founded, KSK released their first game Argo for the NEC PC-88.


2006 Toronto Argonauts season

With the season on the line, QB Michael Bishop and LB Chuck Winters teamed up to lead the Boatmen to one of the greatest come-from-behind victories in recent Argo memory.

Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Other labels the orchestra has recorded for include Argo, Capriccio Records, Chandos Records, Decca Records, EMI, Hänssler Classic, Philips Records, and Hyperion Records.

Andrei Sen-Senkov

Recent publications include Slash (Moscow, 2008; in collaboration with Alexei Tsvetkov Jr.) published at Dmitry Kuzmin's ARGO RISK Press, and A God Suffering from Astrophilia (New Literary Observer Press: Moscow, 2008); a collection of his work in English translation is forthcoming.

Argo Bromo Anggrek

Argo Bromo was taken from a mountain named Mount Bromo, located in the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park, East Java.

Since December 2010, the coach of Argo Bromo Anggrek is replaced with a series of Sembrani like a plane and other standard executive class train (K1) because the K9 with the purple striped and white exterior is being renovated at Industri Kereta Api, Madiun, East Java.

Banned from Argo

"Our lady of Communications" (Uhura) wins "a shipwide bet" by altering Argo's planetary communication system so that video transmissions viewed on Argo will make all people on the screen appear to be nude.

Harley Usill

After Argo's parent company was absorbed by Polygram in 1979, Usill ended his connection with Argo and established ASV the following year.

Investigative News Network

In 2012, INN developed "Project Largo", a WordPress theme and CMS platform for news websites based on NPR's Project Argo that is used by member organizations in New Orleans, Connecticut, Maine, Iowa, Oklahoma and elsewhere.

Jordan Bayne

Argo played the festival circuit screening at the Napa/Sonoma Film Festival, NewFilmMakers, Soho House and Sedona Film Festival among others.

Bayne's debut as a writer/director came with the 2007 short Argo, starring Jordana Spiro.

Lula Reed

Reed and Thompson recorded for the Chess Records subsidiary Argo between 1958 and 1960, before returning to Cincinnati and starting to record for King's subsidiary Federal label in 1961.

MV Argo Merchant

Because of her checkered career and sinking, Argo Merchant was featured in the "worst ship" category in the 1979 publication, The Book of Heroic Failures.

Paul Twomey

Following his departure from NOIE, Dr Twomey created a consultancy with Ira Magaziner (Domestic Policy Adviser to former US President Bill Clinton) called Argo P@cific.

Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano

They ran back together to stop any bloodshed, only to find out that the Legion has already marched up on the Argo II crew, but they manage to escape safely.

After the arrival of the Argo II, Reyna, Octavian and the seven demigods gather together to discuss the prophecy of the Seven, as well as talking about the quests that happened in the previous books (Jason, Piper and Leo's quest to free Hera, que queen of Olympus and Percy, Hazel and Frank's quest to free Thanatos).

Sergio De Santis

Some of the De Santis' short stories have been published in magazines, such as Linea d’ombra and Nuovi Argomenti, and in the anthologies Decalogo, (Rizzoli) and Luna nuova (Argo).

Space Battleship Yamato

In the English Star Blazers dub, the ship is noted as being the historical Yamato, but is then renamed the Argo (after the ship of Jason and the Argonauts).

Sverdrup Gold Medal Award

2008 Dean Roemmich For major contributions to the measurement and understanding of the ocean’s role in climate, and for leading the development and implementation of the Argo profiling float array.

Techniscope

Recent films shot with 2-perf 35mm "Techniscope" include I'm Yours (2012), Silver Linings Playbook (2012) and Argo (2012).

The Ramsey Lewis Trio at the Bohemian Caverns

The Ramsey Lewis Trio at the Bohemian Caverns is a live album by the Ramsey Lewis Trio which was recorded in 1964 at the Bohemian Caverns nightclub in Washington D.C. and released on the Argo label.

Warner Communications

Warner also reused its 1972-1984 title featuring the Saul Bass logo for the 2012 films Magic Mike and Argo, updating the byline to reflect the studio as "A Time Warner Company."


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