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unusual facts about Blackout



1973 NFL season

NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle refused to lift the blackout, despite a plea from United States Attorney General Richard Kleindienst.

2011 South Korea blackout

The Future Hope Alliance-affiliated politician, Song Yeong-seon (송영선), mentioned that a cyberattack from North Korea caused this nation-wide blackout and later received negative online commentaries for being uncertainly judgmental.

British occupation of the Faroe Islands

An official announcement was later made announcing the occupation and ordering a nighttime blackout in Tórshavn and neighbouring Argir, the censorship of post and telegraphy and the prohibition of the use of motor vehicles during the night without a permit.

California blackout

2011 Southwest blackout, a blackout affecting Arizona, Southern California, and Mexico in 2011

Chris Arena

In Fall 2012, Arena and British songwriter and producer, Stefan Skarbek collaborated on a new band, Blackout Cash that would feature Indie Rock infused with EDM.

Dan Humphrey

In "The Dark Night," during the city-wide blackout, Dan and Serena talk about their problems while they were both trapped in an elevator.

David Ryall

In 1983 he worked on 'A Matter of the Officers' and Jean Seberg with Julian Barry who, despite Ryall missing the press night of the latter due to misjudging a step from a lift onto the stage and breaking his ankle during a blackout, remains a lifelong friend.

Final Blackout

In 1989, Young Guns film director Christopher Cain optioned the rights to Final Blackout and developed a script for a possible film-version of the book.

Flight suit

As the pilot executed high-G combat maneuvers, his blood would literally be pulled from his head and shift downwards into his lower body, starving the brain of oxygen and causing a blackout.

Forbidden Siren 2

During the subsequent blackout, the entire population of the island disappeared without trace or explanation.

Gage and Tollner

It had 36 gaslamps, meaning it could stay open in a blackout, cherry framed mirrors and tables made of mahogany.

Geoffry Northcote

Meanwhile, the Japanese army also started encroaching upon Sham Chun (Shenzhen), leading the Hong Kong government to adopt various measures to cope with the emergency, such as the construction of air-raid shelters and blackout practices.

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing

In mid-December, legislators representing the functional constituencies, led by Abraham Razack, Chim Pui Chung and David Li, demanded that regulators postponed the execution of a prolonged blackout proposal.

Jamie Hector

Hector starred in the 2007 film Blackout with Melvin Van Peebles and Jeffrey Wright, and was featured as recurring villain Benjamin "Knox" Washington in the third season of Heroes.

January Joy

The album features tracks, produced by Swizz Beatz and Kanye West, including two singles: "Back Of Da Club" and "Blackout".

Jay Wolpert

Debuting on January 4, 1988, in place of The $25,000 Pyramid, the Bob Goen-hosted Blackout ended after thirteen weeks of episodes and was replaced by new episodes of The $25,000 Pyramid.

Major League Baseball blackout policy

A similar anomaly is that the El Paso area in Texas is not within the blackout territory of the Arizona Diamondbacks, despite El Paso being considerably closer to Phoenix than to either Texas-based MLB team (the New Mexico side of the El Paso area, by contrast, is within the D-Backs' blackout zone).

For example, all of Texas, including the Houston metropolitan area as well as the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, as well as the entire state of Louisiana, is within both the Astros' and Rangers' blackout areas.

New York City blackout of 1977

Also, although much of New York City was still without power, Belmont Park (a racetrack on the border of Queens and Nassau County in Elmont) did stage their scheduled racing program that afternoon in front of a relatively sparse crowd, as many thought racing would be cancelled that day due to the blackout (this is famously described in Andrew Beyer's book My $50,000 Year at the Races).

Operation Blue Star

Brahma Chellaney, who was then the South Asia correspondent of the Associated Press, was the only foreign reporter who managed to stay on in Amritsar despite the media blackout.

Percy Shaw

Sales were initially slow, but approval from the Ministry of Transport and the blackout in the Second World War gave a huge boost to production and the firm, located near Shaw's home in Boothtown, grew in size making more than a million roadstuds a year, which were exported all over the world.

She Bop

There were many double entendres indicating the song's true meaning, including a magazine that Lauper is staring at titled "Beefcake" and other sexual meanings such as the "self-service" sign and three gas pumps with the signs Good, Better and Nirvana in the cartoon part of the video, the vibrating motorcycle, the "masterbingo" part of the video with "Uncle Siggy" Sigmund Freud as host, and Lauper wearing blackout glasses with a white cane in several scenes of the video.

Super Bowl V

The blackout was challenged in Miami-Dade District Court by attorney Ellis Rubin, and although the judge denied Rubin's request since he felt he did not have the power to overrule the NFL, he agreed with Rubin's argument that the blackout rule was unnecessary for the Super Bowl.

Swansea, Arizona

In the Chris Ryan novel, Blackout, Swansea is the location of Luke's hideout.

Tadeusz Nalepa

In 1965, Nalepa formed with Stan Borys band Blackout and started composing music to the lyrics of a poet, Bogdan Loebl.

The Best of Hed Planet Earth

Released on June 6, 2006, the album was compiled by Jive Records from the group's first three albums, Hed PE, Broke and Blackout, and released without the group's authorization, permission, consent, or knowledge.

The Blackout All-Stars

The Blackout All-Stars was a one-off 1994 Latin supergroup consisting of Ray Barretto, Sheila E., Tito Puente, Tito Nieves, Paquito D'Rivera, Dave Valentin, Grover Washington, Jr., and Tony Pabon.

The Meeting of a Thousand Suns

But all the demos are modified and released as singles and tracks "When They Come For Me", "Waiting for the End", "Blackout" and "The Catalyst" respectively for the album.


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