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4 unusual facts about Astro


Astro-Creep: 2000 – Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head

In 1995, "More Human than Human" won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video and was considered by Rob to be his favorite White Zombie video.

The Song "Electric Head Part 1" was referenced in the manga series "Black Lagoon" and used in the Japanese dub of the anime series (a different, instrumental track was used in the English dub).

Also, as with the previous two albums, many of the songs feature snippets of dialogue from horror and cult films including The Omega Man, Shaft, The Haunting, The Curse of Frankenstein and To the Devil a Daughter.

Television in Malaysia

However, Astro is the first broadcast company in Malaysia that introduce the IPTV services, branded as Astro B.yond IPTV in collaboration with Maxis and Time.


12 Hits from Hell

During the intervening years several of the tracks from the August 1980 sessions were released in various mixes on compilation albums: "Where Eagles Dare" and "Halloween" appeared on Legacy of Brutality (1985), "Night of the Living Dead", "Vampira", "Skulls" and "Astro Zombies" appeared on Misfits (1986), and "Horror Hotel", "Halloween", and "Halloween II" appeared on Collection II (1995).

Ami Yoshida

She has collaborated with a number of other musicians, among them Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M (with whom she performs as Cosmos) and Utah Kawasaki (with whom she makes up Astro Twin).

Ananda Krishnan

Currently, he has business interests in media (Astro, Johnston Press Plc), satellite (MEASAT), oil and gas (Bumi Armada, Pexco), telecommunications (Maxis, Aircel, Axis, Sri Lanka Telecom).

Andy Andy

Andy Andy better known as "El Astro de la Bachata" (born Angel Villalona in Azua de Compostela) is a Dominican musician from the famed Villalona family.

Assume Vivid Astro Focus

"assume vivid astro focus XIV" (in collaboration with Elmgreen and Dragset), Galeria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Fall/Winter, 2005

Astro art

Art, science, and technology often meet as equal partners for Astro artists while they are creating new work.

Astro Boy

Astro Boy (along with some of his supporting characters) appear in a series of "edu-manga" that tell biographies of famous personalities such as Helen Keller, Albert Einstein and Mother Teresa.

In 1987, the Chicago-based comics publisher Now Comics issued their own version of Astro Boy, with art done by Canadian artist Ken Steacy, and again done without Osamu Tezuka giving input.

While the 2003 anime did poorly in North America, having received poor distribution and having been heavily edited, including the removal of its orchestrated soundtrack and much of Astro's childlike innocence, it was better received in the UK on the BBC, where it ran in syndication for almost three years as well as other parts of the world such as Dubai based MBC 3.

Astro Hua Hee Dai

It is the fourth in-house Chinese channel provided by Astro, after Astro Wah Lai Toi, Astro AEC and Astro Shuang Xing, and was launched in November 2007 with other channels such as Astro Xiao Tai Yang, Chutti TV, Makkal TV, KBS World & Asian Food Channel.

Astro Invader

An Astro Invader machine appears in the music video for the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song You Got Lucky.

Astro Pops

Leaf has also expanded the Astro Pops franchise to include Astro Pop Asteroids (smaller bite-sized pieces), and Astro Pops Sodas.

Astro Pops were first made in 1963 after two rocket scientists working on the space program in El Segundo, CA decided to quit their jobs and create the Astro Pop, modeling the pop after a three-stage rocket.

Astro Wars

Astro Wars was an electronic table top game made in Great Britain in 1981 by Grandstand under licence from Epoch Co., who sold the game in Japan under the title Super Galaxian (スーパーギャラクシアン).

In concept Astro Wars has similar themes to arcade games Galaxians or Gorf in as much as the player controls a ship (called earth ship) at the bottom of the screen and fires up at rows of ships.

Buzz Lightyear attractions

The queue area is awash in the chartreuse, white, and bright blue hues of Buzz Lightyear himself (voiced by Pat Fraley, who does voice for Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters attraction).

Daniella Sya

She is famous for her show SPIN which was aired on ASTRO Hitz.tv and also as a radio announcer for Red FM and Lite FM.

Don Neroman

Among the more distinctive aspects of his work was study of the Lunar Apogee, as well as Astrogeography techniques that were later developed and popularized by American astrologer Jim Lewis as Astro*Carto*Graphy.

Game Boy

It was available in two standard colors; Gold and Silver, as well as numerous special editions- an Astro Boy edition with a clear case with an Astro Boy picture on it, an Osamu Tezuka World shop edition with a clear red case and a picture of his characters, a solid yellow Pokémon Center Tokyo version, a clear 'skeleton' Famitsu edition which had only 5,000 units released, and a clear yellow edition separate from the Pokémon Center Tokyo version.

Hitz.fm

hitz.fm has a sister station which is a music TV channel called Astro hitz, formerly known as Astro Hitz.TV on Astro.

Iwao Takamoto

He was responsible for the original character design of such characters as Scooby-Doo, The Jetsons dog Astro, and Penelope Pitstop.

Jeff Yang

Yang is also known for his books, including Once Upon a Time in China: A Guide to the Cinemas of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action (with Jackie Chan), Eastern Standard Time: A Guide to Asian Influence in American Culture, from Astro Boy to Zen Buddhism, and Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology.

Juliana Evans

She started her career at the age of 12 as a host of a TV program called E-Zone broadcast on Astro Ria channel, and later made her debut by hosting a program on TV3 called Remaja.

Lego Mars Mission

It was a harsh struggle for a long while, with both sides on a stalemate, until one of the Astro machines, named the Crystal Reaper, accidentally stumbled across the cracks forming the surface of the Alien Hive on Olympus Mons.

Macarthur Astronomical Society

These are held regularly at two locations: the Dudley Chesham Sports ground at The Oaks, owned by Wollondilly Council; and a property at Belanglo Forest, owned by International House, University of Sydney, for the purpose of telescopic observing and astro-imaging.

Major Astro

In the mid-1960s Major Astro aired Astro Boy, the first anime syndicated for broadcast in the U.S..

Major Victory

Major Victory (Marvel Comics), a name used by Marvel Comics character Vance Astro of the Guardians of the Galaxy

Masayoshi Urabe


He has played with many underground musicians in Japan, including Chie Mukai (Ché-SHIZU), Kan Mikami (Sanjah), Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro, C.C.C.C.), Junko (Hijokaidan) and the psychedelic rock group Kousokuya.

Maurício de Sousa

In 2012, Mauricio published a two-issue story arc in the Monica Teen comic book featuring some of Osamu Tezuka's main characters, such as Astro, Sapphire and Kimba, joining Monica and her friends in an adventure in the Amazon Rainforest against a smuggling organization chopping down hundreds of trees in the jungles of the Amazon.

Meldac

They also made Heiankyo Alien and Mercenary Force for the Game Boy in addition to Uchuu Race: Astro Go!

Nidhamu

Nidhamu is a recording by the jazz musician Sun Ra and his Astro-Intergalactic-Infinity Arkestra, documenting their first visit to Egypt.

Osamu Tezuka's Star System

He stars as the title character in his own manga as a thief (à la Lupin III), and even star as the English cyborg private detective Sherlock Homespun (sometimes written Sherlock Holmespan) in the 1980 Astro Boy Anime and in the Game Boy Advance game Astro Boy: Omega Factor.

Royal College Astronomical Society

Meetings and actives of the society at the a society room known as The Astro Conference Room, an Astronomy Library was added later with contributions from the Asia Foundation and the American Center.

Sapul sa Singko

A new OBB was also launched again coinciding the return of the official theme song of TEN: The Evening News, entitled "Astro" by Radioactive Sago Project, and from 2 hours, it became 3 hours, beginning at 5am and ended at 8am.

Space Quest IV

The Astro Chicken theme music is a variation on the Chicken Reel, a traditional folk song best known for its use in animated cartoons.

Starsailor

Astronaut, literal Ancient Greek translation, from astro for star, and naut for sailor

Straight-Jacket

Things turn sour for the film idol when a fellow actor, Freddie Stevens (Jack Plotnick) (famous in the film for portraying "Captain Astro" in a succession of Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon-type serial films), decides to steal the lead in Ben-Hur from Guy by taking a picture of Guy exiting a gay bar.

Tom Leahy

Tom Leahy, Jr., played Major Astro on Major Astro, a children's television show in Wichita, Kansas

Until Death Do Us Part

He drives in a Right hand drive Chevrolet Astro modified with electronics and communications equipment, including a police scanner to monitor all Japanese law enforcement frequencies, a bulletproof exterior and a color changing machine that allows the Astro to switch colors to avoid being detected by police or criminals.

Victor V. Tikhomirov

In 2004, pursuant to a resolution of the Geneva Graduate Institute of Business and Management, a nine-magnitude star in the Capricornus constellation was named after Tikhomirov and noted in the Ross Astro-Databank.

Vince Ferragamo

Ferragamo capped off his college career by leading the Huskers to a victory over Texas Tech in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl in the Houston Astrodome.

Walk Among Us

Glenn Danzigvocals, guitar on "Vampira", "Devils Whorehouse", "Astro Zombies", overdubbed guitar on all tracks except "Mommy Can I Go Out & Kill Tonight?"

Zoran Simović

He manages the astro pitch in Kocasinan borough of Bahçelievler district in İstanbul.


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