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5 unusual facts about Blade


Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse

Despite featuring Bram Stoker's name in the title, the film is not directly based on any of his writings or a mockbuster to the 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula, but shares similarities to films such as Blade: Trinity, Dracula 2000, Underworld: Evolution and Van Helsing.

David Hykes

His song "Rainbow Voice" is featured in the films "Blade: Trinity" (2004), "Blade" (1998), "Baraka" (1992), and "Dead Poets Society" (1989).

Jon Kroll

His most notable scripted show to date has been Blade: The Series, which was SPIKE TV's first original dramatic series.

Sonja Bennett

For the small screen Bennett played recurring roles on the NBC series Battlestar Galactica, Warner Brothers' Traveler, New Line television series Blade as well as Eureka, Dead Zone and Cold Squad.

Thee Undatakerz

The album was not a huge commercial success but did feature the semi-successful single, "Party in tha Morgue", which would later appear on the soundtrack for Blade: Trinity.


2009 Speedway World Cup Event 2

Pole Sebastian Ułamek (who broke a shoulder blade riding in the Swedish Elitserien) was replaced by Krzysztof Kasprzak.

Abraham Whistler

Reinhardt and Chupa (played by Matt Schulze), a friend of Priest who now wishes to kill Whistler to even the score with Blade, corner Whistler, and Chupa proceeds to savagely beat Whistler.

Adelaide Metcalfe

Key arguments in the protest relate to unaddressed health concerns, lack of notification of the project and road safety (i.e. proximity to Highway 402, shadow flicker, ice throw, blade throw).

Basement Jack

And on a stormy night, in the town of Downers Grove (most likely Downers Grove, Illinois), the killer and his prey would find one another and as they hunt one another the citizens would have to fight to survive the blade of Basement Jack.

Bill Harsey, Jr.

In Battle Blades, author Greg Walker identifies Harsey as producing superb edges and blade finishes on his knives, as well as making knives specifically for Al Mar and Colonel Rex Applegate.

Billhook

Knighton/Radnorshire:
With similar measurements to the Pontypool/Monmouthshire style, this style has the least curvature of any hook and is almost a straight blade.

Black Sun Empire Recordings

BSELP002SAM - Black Sun Empire - Boris The Blade (Optiv Remix) / Dino Sofos (Dance4Life) - Breathe Sunshine (Black Sun Empire Heavy Remix Remix 1)

Blade element theory

Blade element theory (BET) is a mathematical process originally designed by William Froude (1878), David W. Taylor (1893) and Stefan Drzewiecki to determine the behavior of propellers.

Blade on the Feather

In the event, budget cuts and scheduling problems meant that only three plays were produced: Blade on the Feather, Rain on the Roof and Cream in My Coffee.

Blade server

The PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group PICMG developed a chassis/blade structure for the then emerging Peripheral Component Interconnect bus PCI which is called CompactPCI.

Christopher Hinz

He also co-created and wrote the Dead Corps four-issue limited series for Helix, and a ten-issue story arc for Marvel's Blade which comprised Volume 2 of the series.

Cricket bat

The current design of a cane handle spliced into a willow blade through a tapered splice was the invention in the 1880s of Charles Richardson, a pupil of Brunel and the first chief engineer of the Severn railway tunnel.

Cultösaurus Erectus

The first track "Black Blade" features lyrics by fantasy and sci-fi writer Michael Moorcock and is about Stormbringer, a black sword wielded by Elric of Melniboné, the most famous character in Moorcock's mythology.

Cura Si Manjakini

The name "cura si manjakini" is said to originate from the Sanskrit word churiga (si) Mandakini means "the blade of the Mandakini".

Damon Packard

His early Super 8 efforts included The Afterlife and Amazing Stories (1982–84), starring his friend/collaborator Paul Trainor, son of producer/casting director Chris Trainor, who was partners with Miles O'Keeffe known for films such as Ator, The Blade Master, and Lone Runner.

David H. Burrell

There he invented a seamless cheese bandage, silos for the preservation of ensilage, the Burrell-Simplex Link Blade "Simplex" Separator, milk pasteurization systems, churns, butter workers, milk testers and coolers, gang presses, and a universally accepted, patented, BLK milking machine.

David Snyder

In 1982, Snyder worked with Ridley Scott on Blade Runner, for which he shared an Academy Award nomination with production designer Lawrence G. Paull.

Dragon-Phoenix Sword

Early on within the novel, King Zhou of Shang would bestow this blade upon both the Chao Twins as the weapon to effectively enforce their king's desires.

Gunbarrel Highway

An interruption occurred after about 35km when the grader's blade mounting bolts were snapped after hitting a submerged Mulga tree root.

Jitte

In the 1992 anime Gundam 0083, the first Gundam piloted by the main character was equipped with a short beam blade, designed with the express purpose of blocking enemy blades.

Jody Samson

Jody Samson (November 1, 1946 – December 27, 2008) was a knifemaker and bladesmith from Burbank, California who designed butterfly knives for Benchmade and the swords used in such movies as Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Destroyer, First Knight, The Mask of Zorro, Blade, Blind Fury, Batman & Robin, Batman Forever, and Streets of Fire.

John Thunstone

The blade is inscribed with a text from Judges chapter 5 in the Vulgate, "Sic pereant omnes inimici tui" — "thus perish all your enemies".

Jordan Cronenweth

His work on Blade Runner won the Best Cinematography Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and got a BSC Award nomination and BAFTA Film Award.

Kirby's Dream Collection

Additionally, the game includes a museum section, which spotlights every title in the Kirby series as of 2012, and includes three viewable episodes from the anime Kirby: Right Back at Ya! ("Kirby Comes to Cappy Town", "Crusade for the Blade", and "Waddle While You Work").

KRI Clurit

KRI Clurit (641) (Sickle in English) is an Indonesian Navy ship named after a curved blade weapon native to the Madurese people of East Java.

March of Cambreadth

John Ringo has (mis)quoted March of Cambreadth in his novels Hell's Faire, Ghost and There Will Be Dragons as well as in the second Looking-Glass book, Vorpal Blade.

MD Helicopters MD 600

Other differences compared with the MD 520N include a new six blade main rotor (the MD 520N has a five blade unit) and a more powerful Allison (now Rolls-Royce) Model 250 turboshaft.

Mulawin

In January 2006, a Java mobile game was released GMA New Media Inc. and Blue Blade Technologies, Inc. after the launch of Mulawin: The Movie.

Murphy Knives

A cased commemorative copy of the Murphy Combat knife, with an etched blade, was issued by John Ek Knives out of Richmond, Virginia in the early 1990s but due to the etching is distinguishable from the originals.

Nægling

This article is about the sword in Beowulf, not to be confused with the blade used by Oromis in Eldest and Brisingr of the Inheritance Cycle.

Panabas

The panabas' hilt, made of hardwood such as Narra and often wrapped in braided rattan, is perhaps the longest among Filipino swords, both in terms of overall length, and in terms of proportion relative to the blade.

Paths of Darkness

In The Silent Blade, Wulfgar, a mighty barbarian, tries to come to terms with his freedom from the Abyss, from the torturous clutches of the balor Errtu and fails, fleeing from his friends to the port city of Luskan.

Pocket knife

Assisted opening systems have been pioneered by makers like Ken Onion with his "Speed-Safe" mechanism and Ernest Emerson's Wave system, where a hook catches the user's pocket upon removal and the blade is opened during a draw.

Powerbocking

Though similar in appearance, powerbocking is not to be confused with the use of prosthetic devices such as those used by paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius, the "Blade Runner".

Propfan

Since the inside of the propeller is moving slower than the outside, the blade is progressively more swept toward the outside, leading to a curved shape similar to a scimitar - a practice that was first used as far back as 1909, in the Chauvière make of two-bladed wood propeller used on the Blériot XI.

R v Wang

For all these, Wang was indicted on two counts, of having an article with a blade or point in a public place, contrary to Section 139(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33).

Rampuri

However, in mid 1990s, the Government of Uttar Pradesh banned making such knives longer than 4.5 inches of blade length, which led to the drop in popularity of the knife, which even made its way to crime thrillers of Bollywood in the 1960s and 1970s.

Return of the One-Armed Swordsman

Whirling Blade and his henchmen wield and throw two bladed bucklers, which return to them like Captain America's shield.

St Cyprian's Church, Hay Mills

He moved to Hay Mill, a disused blade and sword factory at a water mill on the River Cole, rebuilding it as a steam-driven mill.

Tears in rain soliloquy

In the Channel 4 documentary On the Edge of Blade Runner, Hauer, director Ridley Scott, and screenwriter David Peoples asserted that Hauer wrote the "Tears in Rain" speech.

The Bladerunner

No film was produced from it, but Hampton Fancher, a screenwriter for the 1982 film (based on Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), had a copy, and he suggested "Blade Runner" as preferable to the earlier working titles "Android" and "Dangerous Days".

Toyota Avalon

The new Avalon was larger than previous Avalons in every aspect, featuring less conservative, more modern Calty styling, with a coefficient of drag figure of 0.29 Cd; the Avalon also became the first Toyota to use a single piece wiper blade design.

Tree spiking

Severed: Forest of the Dead: Anti-logging activists sabotage a tree by spiking it, breaking the blade on a logger’s chainsaw and cutting him.

Two-stroke power valve system

AETC and Super AETC Suzuki engines, Automatic Exhaust Timing Control: The two-blade version was fitted to the VJ21 RGV250, and the three-blade version, to the VJ22 RGV250 and Suzuki RG150.

Viktor Sidyak

At the same Olympics, he famously fenced in the team final with his right eye bandaged over after having a fragment of the Italian Michele Maffei's blade removed from his eye the previous day.

X-Kaliber 2097

In combat, Cocktail uses his cane like a sword and can throw his hat like a flying blade (similar to Oddjob of the James Bond movies).


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