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33 unusual facts about Beck


A Western Harvest Field by Moonlight

A Western Harvest Field by Moonlight is Beck's first EP, released on 10" vinyl by Fingerpaint Records in 1994.

Archipelago Brewery

The Archipelago Brewery was established in 1931 and became the first commercial brewery in Singapore, started by Becks.

August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck

August died in Beck and was succeeded as duke first by his oldest son, August, and later by his second son, Frederick Louis.

Beck-Ola

The cover features a reproduction of Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte's The Listening Room.

Beck's American Translation

Beck's American Translation is an abbreviated version of "The Holy Bible: An American Translation" by William F. Beck (abbreviated BECK, but also AAT; not to be confused with Smith/Goodspeed's "An American Translation" done earlier, which is abbreviated AAT or SGAT).

Beck's Brewery

Beck's summer 2009 limited-edition labels were designed by the musical groups Hard-Fi and Ladyhawke (musician).

Beck's is known for its pilsner consisting of two row spring barley from the south of England, yeast, crystal water from the "Rotenburger Rinne" and Hallertau hops from southern Germany.

Beck's Mill

It was built in 1864, one year after John Hunt Morgan demanded for ransom for every Washington County mill to be spared from burning.

Beck's Reformed Church Cemetery

Beck's Reformed Church Cemetery is a historic church cemetery in Silver Hill, North Carolina.

Beck's theorem

Both appeared, alongside several other important theorems, in a well-known paper by József Beck.

Beckology

Volume 2 covers both incarnations of The Jeff Beck Group which each released two albums and finishes with Beck, Bogert and Appice tunes.

Becks Prime

In 1995 Beck's Brewery pressured Becks Prime, trying to get the chain to change the name so that "Becks" would be omitted.

Blow by Blow

After the dissolution of his power trio in the spring of 1974, Beck took time for session work with other groups.

Bolton-on-Swale

Bolton Beck is a tributary of the Swale which passes underneath a small bridge at the north of the village.

Corvette Summer

The Beck song "Corvette Bummer" is an allusion to the film.

Dream Days at the Hotel Existence

Dream Days at the Hotel Existence was recorded at Sunset Sound Studio, Los Angeles, California, in early 2007 by producer Rob Schnapf, best known for his work with Beck and The Vines.

Frederick William I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck

Frederick William I, Duke of Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (2 May 1682 – 16 June 1719) was a son of Duke August and his wife, Philippa Louisa of Lippe-Buckburg.

Since he had no male heir, he was succeeded as Duke of Beck by his uncle Frederick Louis.

August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck

August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck

Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg

Frederick Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck

Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck

This list will eventually include the British royal family as Friedrich is the male-line ancestor of The Prince of Wales and The Duke of Cambridge.

Georg Christian Benedict Ackermann

Later, he became teacher of Frederick Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck and controller of the court.

Hadoram Shirihai

In 2008, he confirmed the continuing existence of the mysterious Beck's Petrel (Pseudobulweria becki), known until then from 2 specimens collected in the 1920s and a handful of tentative sight records.

Kiyoko Matsumoto

American musician Beck references Matsumoto's death in the lyrics to the song "Volcano" from his 2008 album Modern Guilt: "And I heard of that Japanese girl who jumped into The Volcano. Was she trying to make it back, back into the womb of the world?"

KXLU

They've often been credited with the discovery of Beck, who donated a track to "Demolisten: Volume 2" CD, and also played music by Jimmy Tamborello (The Postal Service, Dntel), who was a friend and fellow KXLU DJ at the time.

Maniac Meat

The album includes two collaborations with musician Beck.

Philip Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg

Philip Louis of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg (born: 27 October 1620 in Beck; died: 10 March 1689 in Schneeberg) was the founder and first duke of the line Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg.

Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck

Dorothea married Georg Frederick Karl of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach, later Margrave of Bayreuth, on 17 April 1709 in Reinfeld.

Officially pronounced dead, she went to Sweden, where she lived under the name Dorothea von Ziedewitz, first as the guest of Governor von Brehmen and then with his widow outside Kalmar, and finally with the Lewenhaupt family on Stäflö for a payment of §1000, where she died, aged seventy-six.

QRIO

In 2005, four QRIO robots appeared in the music video for Hell Yes by Beck.

Four fourth-generation QRIO prototype robots were featured dancing in the Hell Yes music video by recording artist Beck.

The Listening Room

The 1958 reproduction of the painting was used for the album cover of Beck-Ola by The Jeff Beck Group.


26 Mixes for Cash

In addition to the remixes featured on this release, James has also remixed tracks by Beck, DJ Pierre, and Soft Ballet, as well as additional remixes of tracks by Seefeel, Gavin Bryars, Jesus Jones, Saint Etienne, and Mescalinum United.

Adler Seeds

After a fire at its seed facility, Adler Seeds sold its facility and farm ground to Beck's Hybrids, based in Atlanta, Indiana, in 2009.

Bluemercury

Bluemercury carries a variety of beauty products for men and women from over 100 brands including Laura Mercier, La Mer, Diptyque, Bobbi Brown, and Oribe, as well as the Beck's private cosmeceutical line M-61 Laboratories.

Bridgefoot

It is situated at the confluence of the River Marron and Lostrigg Beck, approximately 1 mile south of the River Derwent.

Coupland, Cumbria

Coupland Beck is a minor river that flow into the river Eden south of Coupland.

Devil's Haircut

"Devils Haircut", a song by Beck which appears on the album Odelay

Deweare

Deweare's music was greatly influenced by the resurgence of French punk cult bands such as Bérurier Noir and Ludwig von 88, as well as by rock musician, comedian and poet Alain Bashung and by American music artist Beck—another musician to whom Deweare's vocals have been compared.

Fairfield horseshoe

Fairfield Horseshoe is a classic circular hillwalking ridge walk route starting from Rydal or Ambleside in the English Lake District that takes in all the fells that surround the valley of the Rydal Beck.

Fatman the Human Flying Saucer

Beck and Binder created Fatman long after Beck's popular creation Captain Marvel was canceled partly due to a copyright infringement suit with DC Comics.

George E. M. Kelly

The flying section, now led by Capt. Beck and including the repaired S.C. No. 2, was shipped to College Park, Maryland in June–July 1911 where the Army opened its own Flying School in June.

George Frederick Charles, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

In Reinfeld on 17 April 1709 George Frederick Charles married Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck.

Hans Beck

Born in Greiz, Thuringia, Beck grew up in the town of Zirndorf, beginning his toy making career as a creator of little vehicles and figures for his younger siblings.

Harrell F. Beck

Beck’s contributions have been recognized with the establishment of an annual lecture series sponsored by the Massachusetts Bible Society.

Joe Beck

In the 1980s Beck recorded several CDs for the DMP Digital Music Products label, including co-billed work with the noted flautist Ali Ryerson.

Johann Nepomuk Beck

In the late 1880s, Beck began to show signs of mental instability and was hospitalized in a mental institution in Inzersdorf.

John Beck

John Beck Hofmann aka John Beck (born 1969), film director and screenwriter

Kirkdale, North Yorkshire

Kirkdale is a valley in North Yorkshire, England, which along with Sleightholmedale makes up the larger Bransdale and carries the Hodge Beck from its moorland source near Cockayne to the River Dove and onto the River Rye in the Vale of Pickering.

Kirklevington Country Club

Terry Reid, Simple Minds, Yes, Mott the Hoople, Buddy Guy, Paul Young, The Alan Bown Set, Goldie & The Gingerbreads, Jimmy James and the Vagabonds, Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band, Spooky Tooth, the Jeff Beck Group (feat. Rod "The Mod" Stewart and Ronnie Wood) Chris Rea, Paul Rodgers, David Coverdale, Dire Straits, Marc Almond / Soft Cell etc. many of whom went on to superstardom.

Königlich Württembergische Gewehrfabrik

1873, after the Franco-Prussian War, those rifles were adapted to the new standard (system Beck); in 1875, the rifles were replaced by the Mauser Model 1871.

Lancaster Canal

In 1791, John Longbotham, Robert Dickinson and Richard Beck resurveyed the proposed line, and a final survey was carried out later the same year by John Rennie.

Longsleddale

The aqueduct carrying water from Haweswater Reservoir to Heaton Park Reservoir in Manchester follows the line of Longsleddale underground on the east of the valley, and crosses Stockdale Beck by a pipe bridge.

Lytchett Matravers

Geoffrey Beck (b. 1966), being one of the only remaining descendants of the de Carterets of Arundel, and a direct descendant of Renaud de Courtenay, Baron Okehampton (c. 1125 – c. 1190).

Manchester Fiction Prize

The number of judges was increased from three to four in 2011, with short story writers Heather Beck, John Burnside and Alison MacLeod joining Royle on the panel.

Mario Caldato, Jr.

Since then, he has engineered, produced and or mixed many artists including Beck, Day One, Super Furry Animals and three Money Mark albums, Molotov's "Apocalypshit" and two Jack Johnson albums On & On, and In Between Dreams.

Marla Malcolm Beck

Beck has appeared as a guest on CNBC, CNN and Fox Business News, and has also been a guest speaker for Women's Wear Daily Beauty Innovation Forum.

Morgan Beck

Morgan Beck legally changed her name to Morgan Beck Miller after marrying Olympic skiing champion Bode Miller.

Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington

Günter Beck, a lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the Haifa Center for German and European Studies at the University of Haifa in Israel, compared Lisa's role in the episode to the nineteenth-century American poet and philosopher Henry David Thoreau.

Newlands Valley

Demolition began in 2006 of Rigg Beck, the well-known "purple house" on the main Braithwaite–Buttermere road; this large Victorian house was for many years a source of cheap accommodation for visitors (including Ted Hughes, Tenzing Norgay, Doug Scott, Tom Courtenay and Bob Hoskins).

Perry Van der Beck

By the time Van der Beck had returned to the Rowdies in 1984, the NASL was on its last legs and in 1985, Van Der Beck left the team to follow former Rowdies coach Gordon Jago to the Dallas Sidekicks of the MISL.

Philippe Beck

Philippe Beck, born in Strasbourg on April 21, 1963, is a French poet, writer and professor for Philosophy at University of Nantes, in France and European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

Restoring Courage tour

It featured an invocation by Rabbi Moshe Rothchild, remarks by Beck, actor and activist Jon Voight, the screening of the documentary film Kleiner Rudy by Michelle Stein Teer about her grandfather, Holocaust survivor Rudy Wolff and personal family memoirs, a short documentary about a solemn tour by Beck and his wife Tania of Auschwitz, and a panel discussion including Beck, Rabbi David Greenblatt of United With Israel, David Brog of Christians United for Israel, and author Mike Evans.

Sexx Laws

The music video, directed by Beck himself, is partly a tribute to the film Mr. Freedom.

Shibden valley

The Red Beck stream flows down the valley, joining the River Calder at Brookfoot.

Simon Bedwell

He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including solo show “The Furnishers” at White Columns in New York, “Galleon and Other Stories” at the Saatchi Gallery in London, “England Their England” at Laden fur Nichts in Leipzig, “Beck's Futures 2004” at the ICA in London and the CCA in Glasgow, and Studio Voltaire London.

Sleightholme

It lies beside Sleightholme Beck, a tributary of the River Greta.

Below the hamlet Sleightholme Beck passes through a narrow valley, known as The Troughs, which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Sleightholme Beck Gorge – The Troughs

The site covers a gorge in the valley of Sleightholme Beck between the hamlet of Sleightholme and the confluence with the River Greta, some 3 km upriver from the village of Bowes.

Soham murders

The inspectorate also criticised a "lack of grip" on the investigation, which included nationally televised appeals by footballer David Beckham, and Detective Superintendent David Beck who announced that he had left a message for abductors on Jessica's mobile phone before the case was taken from him.

The Heart of Christmas

The Heart of Christmas is a 2011 American Christian drama feature film directed by Gary Wheeler and starring Candace Cameron Bure, Erin Bethea, Jeanne Neilson, Eric Jay Beck, George Newbern and Matthew West in his film debut.

The Heathens

Building momentum on the success and release of their first music video for the song "Stickin' Around," the video was accepted at the Los Angeles Film Fest in May 2006, where it played alongside the likes of other such notable artists as Beck, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The White Stripes, Nine Inch Nails, Death Cab for Cutie, The Go! Team, The Shins, and Bright Eyes.

The Jeff Beck Group

The first Jeff Beck Group formed in London in early 1967 and included guitarist Jeff Beck, vocalist Rod Stewart, rhythm guitarist Ronnie Wood, with bass players and drummers changing regularly.

Thin Man Theatre

It was founded by Nora Mally (Artistic Director) and Nikki Beck (Producing Director) in 2008 while they were working at New Century Theatre, an Actors' Equity Association company in Western Massachusetts.

Thomas Altheimer

In a plea to the Copenhagen City Court, he refers the plaintiff to publisher Gyldendal and author Claus Beck-Nielsen for payment as the lawful owners of the copyright to his former identity.

Tomata du Plenty

Much of the film was later used in a full-length feature, Population: 1, produced and directed by Dutch filmmaker Rene Daalder and featuring a cast of L.A. musicians and scene-makers, including a preschool Beck Hansen.