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unusual facts about Bender-Gestalt



A Pharaoh to Remember

With Fry and Leela running out of air, they propose to use explosive Schnapps stored in the tomb to blast a hole and escape, but Bender refuses to allow them to destroy the statue.

Aksel Bender Madsen

Aksel Bender Madsen, often known simply as Bender Madsen, (1916–2000) was a Danish furniture designer who worked closely together with Ejner Larsen producing a wide variety of items during the Danish modern period.

Aleksey Gorchakov

Gorchakov distinguished himself in campaigns of 1789 (at Akerman and Bender) and of 1790.

Áns saga bogsveigis

Áns saga bogsveigis, the saga of Án the bow-bender, is one of the legendary sagas called the Hrafnistumannasögur surrounding the relatives of Ketil Trout.

Attack of the Killer App

Fry asks, "Since when is the internet about robbing people of their privacy?", to which Bender replies, "August 6th, 1991", which is the date that Tim Berners-Lee announced the World Wide Web project and software on the newsgroup alt.hypertext.

Batman in amusement parks

Six Flags Over Georgia contains a Gotham City area that contains the same Batman: The Ride and also features a looping coaster called The Mind Bender that was adapted to fit the color tone of the Riddler after Batman Forever.

Betty Edwards

It focuses on disregarding preconceived notions of what the drawn object should look like, and on individually "seeing" edges or lines, spaces, relationships, and lights and shadows, later combining them and seeing them as a whole, or gestalt.

Big Body

It's also a concept album based on the SF stories of Theodore Sturgeon (More Than Human) and Kurt Vonnegut (The Sirens of Titan); telling a story where the human race was transformed into a species named "Homo Gestalt" by computer networks, having a "Journey Through Your Body" theme.

Bodymind

He personally explored many different approaches – Zen, Yoga, Gestalt (with Fritz Perls and Marty Fromm), Rolfing (with Bill Williams), Reichian therapy (with Raffale Estrada Villa) and many others.

Charles Bendire

Born Karl Emil Bender at König im Odenwald in the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, he was the eldest of six children.

Dalton Prejean

On the basis of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale, the Stanford Binet Vocabulary Subtest and the Bender-Gestalt Test, Dr. William Hawkins determined that he functioned at the dull normal level in the verbal area but in the borderline mental retardate area in the performance area.

Darren Bender

Darren Bender became known in the UK TV industry for launching several long-running new film-maker's initiatives (Coming Up & The Other Side) at broadcaster Channel 4.

Edgar Rubin

Nevertheless, his terminology was retained and featured in Kurt Koffka's Principles of Gestalt Psychology.

Fortune teller machine

In "The Honking", an episode of the animated TV series Futurama, the main characters, wishing to learn about a curse that has afflicted Bender, consult with a fortune teller machine, which, like many of the other machines of the 31st Century is sentient.

Gene Parsons

Gene Parsons currently lives in Caspar, California, spending much of his time running his StringBender company and customizing guitars with his B-Bender device in his machine shop.

Gestalt therapy

In 1969 Fritz Perls left the United States to start a Gestalt community at Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island, Canada.

Heinz Piontek

In 1976, he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung for his literary oeuvre with the words "einem Lyriker, der Farbe, Melos und Kontur zu vereinen weiß; einem Essayisten, der sich dem dichten und zugleich schwingenden Satz hingibt; einem Erzähler, der Zeit, Umwelt und Schicksal hereinzieht, ohne sich ihnen anders als in persönlich gefärbter Sprache und Gestalt zu unterwerfen".

Inner City Press

Inner City Press' executive director is Matthew Lee, who is the author of the non-fiction book Predatory Lending: Toxic Credit in the Global Inner City and the novel Predatory Bender and an accredited journalist at the United Nations.

Jules Bender

In a move that surprised many, the largely Jewish team (including Jules Bender) boycotted the trials over the games' placement in Berlin, Germany and the anti-semitic leanings of the country's leader Adolf Hitler.

Love and Rocket

The song "Daisy Bell" sung by Bender during the first montage for his love of the ship is a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Meridian Green

In addition to her musical career, she co-created the Parsons/Green B-Bender device used in the Fender Nashville B-Bender Telecaster guitar.

Michael L. Bender

Bender was first appointed to the Colorado Supreme Court January 2, 1997 by Governor Roy Romer.

Newmarket Films

The Chumscrubber (co-production with Go Fish Pictures, El Camino Pictures", '"Equity Pictures" and "L.B. Laurence Bender Productions)

Ochamchira

On 29 September 2009, Ochamchira signed a Friendship and Partnership Agreement with Bender.

Oswald Külpe

However other noteworthy students include Kaspar Ach and Henry Watt, both of whom worked on the concept of mental set; Robert Morris Ogden, who played a major role in introducing Gestalt psychology to the United States; and Kurt Koffka, one of the founders of the Gestalt school.

Overclockwise

In the episode, Bender is overclocked by Cubert Farnsworth, gradually becoming more powerful in computing ability, until eventually becoming omniscient and able to foresee future events.

Paul Alan Levi

Performers of his music include conductors Pierre Boulez, Jesús López-Cobos, Robert DeCormier, Clara Longstreth, Gustav Meier, and Gerard Schwarz; pianist Justin Kolb; and singers Margaret Ahrens, David Bender, Adam Klein, Antonia Lavanne, Douglas Perry, Neva Pilgrim, Lucy Shelton, Sheila Schonbrun, and James Archie Worley, as well as Cantors Richard Botton and Mark Lipson.

Raging Bender

By a stroke of luck, Bender defeats his opponent, causing The Clearcutter to explode into a pile of parts.

Rosenheim Poltergeist

Science writer and skeptic Kendrick Frazier has criticized Bender's investigation claims, saying that "No full report of the investigations has ever been published, so we are in no position to check to what extent the parapsychologists have been successful in excluding naturalistic explanations."

Tanja Becker-Bender

As a chamber musician she appeared in festivals together with Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Boris Pergamenschikow and Arnold Steinhardt.

Becker-Bender has performed since age of eleven as a soloist on international stages under the baton of Kurt Masur, Gerd Albrecht, Hubert Soudant and Fabio Luisi with renowned orchestras, such as the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra.

She received her instrumental education by Helmut Zehetmair at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, Wolfgang Marschner in Freiburg, Wilhelm Melcher in Stuttgart, by David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and Günter Pichler at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

Tender Vittles

In the Futurama episode 3ACV11 "Insane in the Mainframe", Bender suggests that Fry retire on Tender Vittles after Fry loses his retirement fund on scratch and sniff lottery tickets.

The 30% Iron Chef

Bender challenges Elzar to a cook-off on Iron Cook (a parody of the show Iron Chef).

The Rise of David Levinsky

At the end of evening school, Mr. Bender gives David a copy of Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens.

The Standby Program

It attracted interest from other artists, including Dara Birnbaum, Nam June Paik, Mary Lucier, Gary Hill, Gretchen Bender, Edin Velez, and Jem Cohen, among others.

The Twelve Chairs

Shortly after, two adaptations were made in the USSR: a film in 1971 by Leonid Gaidai and a miniseries in 1976 by Mark Zakharov, featuring Andrei Mironov as Bender.

Thomas Bender

Bender was also named in the squad for 2011 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification Group 3 matches against Italy and Hungary.

Transnistrian presidential election, 2006

Three candidates registered to run besides the incumbent Smirnov: Bender MP for the Renewal party Peter Tomaily, Pridnestrovie Communist Party candidate Nadezhda Bondarenko and journalist Andrey Safonov.

Victor Amadeus of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym

The following year, Victor Amadeus took an active part in the capture of the towns of Căuşeni, Akkerman and Bender, and was rewarded for his distinction with the Orders of St. Alexander Nevsky and St. Andrew

Wallenborn

On 21 June 1873, Franz Bender, a 26-year-old farmworker, emigrated to Ohio to live with relatives who were already there.


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