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unusual facts about Battleship/Connect Four/Sorry!/Trouble


Battleship/Connect Four/Sorry!/Trouble

Connect Four - a strategy game traditionally played by two people in which the players take turns in dropping alternating coloured discs into a seven-column, six-row vertically-suspended grid in attempt to make a line of consecutive pieces in their colour


1982 Winchester 400

Catching a huge break when Mike Eddy encountered trouble, Rusty Wallace made the most of his first "Winchester 400" start as he scored the win in the 1982 running of the fall classic.

1987 French Grand Prix

Andrea de Cesaris (Brabham BT56) then collided with Stefan Johansson, the McLaren requiring a pit stop for a damaged nosecone; the debris of his car caused some trouble to Mansell who ran into them.

Adam Mohuczy

From 1912 to 1916 he served aboard a training ship, armored cruiser General-Admiral class Gerzog Edinburgski, next, armoured cruiser, Rossiya, battleship Tsarievitch, and submarines Akula, Bars and S-12.

Alan Robson

He has also appeared on dozens of hit TV shows as an expert on the paranormal, including Larry King Live and appeared in the BBC One documentary series Trouble in Store.

Ambati Rayudu

He ran into trouble with the son of Shivlal Yadav, resulting in an ugly spat where Rayudu was attacked by Arjun Yadav with stumps after the latter was dismissed.

Andy's Gang

The green puppet, Froggy the Gremlin, appeared in a puff of smoke ("Hi Ya, Kids, Hiya, Hiya, Hiya!") and was always interrupting the story and causing trouble.

Birmingham Zulus

The trouble in the Britannia Stadium started when a group of about 200 Birmingham fans tore down fencing separating them from Stoke fans.

Buicken – store gutter gråter ikke

Bent's glass work factory is in trouble, and Ken steps in and finds new investors.

Canberra Cavalry

Marcus Knecht was wearing 51 but fans pointed out that he should have the number 4, in allusion to the game Connect Four; and, this became his catch-cry.

Churchill Barriers

On 14 October 1939, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk at her moorings within the natural harbour of Scapa Flow in a nighttime attack by the German U-boat U-47 under the command of Günther Prien.

Cornelius Burges

The proceeding caused him trouble and expense, and deepened his hostility to the party of William Laud.

Cuniberti

Vittorio Cuniberti, an Italian military officer who envisioned the concept of the all big gun battleship, best exemplified by HMS Dreadnought.

Curtin Government

The British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse sent to defend Singapore were sunk soon afterwards.

Deep Sea Monster Reigo

The film, set in World War II, depicts the story of the real-life Japanese battleship, the Yamato, which is confronted in the Pacific Ocean by giant monsters, including the most fearsome of them all, Reigo.

Erich Bey

Promoted to Rear Admiral, on Christmas Day, 25 December 1943, Bey led a task force consisting of the battleship Scharnhorst and the Z29, Z30, Z33, Z34 and Z38 out of Alta Fjord in Operation Ostfront.

Erina Mano

She's sent to Japan as a spy for the Queen of England, and ends up passing an idol audition, so she has trouble with her espionage duties.

Felix A. Sommerfeld

The task brought Sommerfeld close to General Hugh Lenox Scott and American Secretary of War, Lindley Miller Garrison, both of whom he assisted numerous times when American citizens found themselves in trouble in Mexico.

Fighting Trouble

Fighting Trouble is a 1956 film starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys.

French ship Bouvet

Bouvet, a Jauréguiberry-class battleship sunk by a mine in the Dardanelles during WWI

George Bridgeman, 4th Earl of Bradford

Edwin Rowland Moon as pilot, was forced to land with engine trouble.

German destroyer Z16 Friedrich Eckoldt

Several Bristol Beaufort aircraft spotted Lützow and her escorts and one managed to surprise the ships and torpedo the pocket battleship early on the morning of 13 June.

Günther Hessler

On 2 October 1936 he was appointed watch officer on the Aviso Grille, Adolf Hitler's state yacht, and on 30 March 1938 transferred to the battleship Gneisenau.

HSwMS Sverige

Her cost was approximately 12 million kronor in 1912, and the entire sum was raised in public in a nationwide fundraising campaign that gained over 15 million (approximately 650 MKr, in 2005 Kr) The fundraising was done because of the Karl Staaff government's reluctance to spend money on a new battleship.

Note that while the ship is listed as a battleship in Jane's Fighting Ships, 1938 edition, technically it is a Coastal Defence Ship, a class which was commonly used in Nordic countries.

InSecurity

Matthew MacFadzean as Burt Wilson, an incompetent NISA agent that's always getting himself and others into trouble.

Jaime I

Jaime I, a Spanish Navy battleship that served in the Spanish fleet from 1921 to 1937.

James Stannage

In May 2004, he got into trouble because of his jokes in the aftermath of the death of Chinese cockle pickers in Morecambe Bay.

Lake Laberge

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, after-winter steamers carrying goods on Lake Laberge early on in the shipping season regarded the lake as trouble, since it was one of the last such passages to thaw its ice.

Lev Galler

Subsequently he commanded the destroyer Mecheslav, the battleship Andrei Pervozvanny and was subsequently chief of staff of the Baltic Fleet during the British Campaign in the Baltic 1918–1919.

Masshysteri

According to Dennis Lyxzén (their record company manager), it was trouble in the band that got them to stop playing.

Milton Bradley Playmate

Among the games that Cartwright eventually programmed the Playmate to learn were chess, checkers, Connect Four, Stratego, Candyland, and Mouse Trap.

Ninja Hattori-kun

In Race-Tin: Flash and Dash Unleashed she is the antagonist, and loves to cause trouble.

Olivet Discourse

Until then—if one excepts Sejanus' heyday 19–31 AD and the trouble caused by the census after Archelaus' banishment 6 AD—there was usually an atmosphere of understanding between the Jews and the empire….

Paths to Freedom

Raymond "Rats" Doyle, played by Michael McElhatton is a character that has been in and out of trouble throughout his life.

Playas, New Mexico

The region, the smelter and the new facility are pivotal features in Michael McGarrity's Kevin Kerney novel Nothing But Trouble (2005).

PM Entertainment

In 1986 Joseph Toufik Merhi an indie film director and producer founded the production company City Lights with producer Ronald L. Gilchrist for his first movie Hollywood In Trouble.

Prada gender discrimination case

Prada H.R. Manager then, told her she was creating trouble by voicing these complaints about company policy, making up a story, bothering people’s work and because of these troubles, she was getting demoted and transferred from senior executive to salesperson.

République

French battleship République, a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy built in 1902

Rupture disc

Blowout panels are installed in several modern tanks, including the M1 Abrams and T-80, and have in the past been considered as a possible solution to magazine explosions on battleships.

Sealy Corporation

First Boston made a bridge loan to the buy-out firm just as Drexel Burnham Lambert was running into trouble and the junk bond market was drying up, and was stuck with the loan.

Sheep Impact

Two young men Steven Seagal and Martin Copping are heading to a party when they run into some trouble.

Team Umizoomi

Little Trouble is voiced by Nick Heatherington and Big Trouble is voiced by Jason Harris Katz.

What's Sweepin'

Woody is a street sweeper and gets into trouble with Officer Wally Walrus.

When Hell Broke Loose

He has an unspectacular military career with his criminal past getting him into trouble but he comes into his own when his criminal expertise gives him unparalleled opportunities during the American occupation of Germany.

William Gaillard

Trouble occurred at the 2007 UEFA Champions League Final after thousands of ticketless Liverpool supporters stormed the turnstiles to the stadium; and about two thousand fans who were holding genuine tickets were denied entry as a result.

William Sayle

On the voyage to the Bahamas, a Captain Butler, one of the settlers from England, rebelled against the Articles and caused such trouble in the new settlement that William Sayle left the original settlement in north Eleuthera for the nearby island of St. George's Cay, now known as Spanish Wells.

Yuriorkis Gamboa vs. Jorge Solis

The Mexican was overwhelmed by a combination of quickness (hands and feet) and punching power that rivals another of Solis’ elite opponents, Manny Pacquiao, who had some trouble with Solis before stopping him in eight rounds in a junior lightweight bout in 2007.


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