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11 unusual facts about Bowie


Anne Arundel Medical Center

In addition to a 57-acre Annapolis campus, AAMC has outpatient pavilions in Bowie, Kent Island, Odenton and Waugh Chapel.

Bobby Kielty

He played in the Eastern League all-star game held in Bowie, Maryland.

Bowie Railroad Buildings

The buildings have been restored to the Pennsylvania Railroad livery of gray with burgundy trim, and are being maintained by the City of Bowie Museum Division, and supported by the Huntington Heritage Society as a community museum.

Bowie, Arizona

On Interstate 10, Willcox, Arizona at the Willcox Playa lies west-southwest; San Simon, AZ and Road Forks-Lordsburg, New Mexico lie east.

Sylvester Stallone has stated that a fifth film is set to take place entirely in Bowie and the Mexican Border.

Bowie, Arizona was put on the map when it was revealed that it was action icon John Rambo's hometown.

Gregg Karukas

Gregory Harry "Gregg" Karukas (born May 18, 1956) is a Grammy winning smooth jazz keyboardist, producer and pianist, originally from the Washington, D.C.-Bowie, Maryland area.

Joseph Graves Olney

On December 13, 1884, The Arizona Silver Belt reported, "From The Willcox Stockman we learn that Joe Hill, a well-known cattle man, met with a fatal accident at Bowie, on Wednesday of last week.

Mid-Atlantic United States flood of 2006

In Harrisburg, a festival's start in the city was pushed back and cut down, due to the potential for the flood, and the Harrisburg Senators were forced to play 2 "home games" in Bowie, Maryland, due to flooding in Commerce Bank Park.

Roosevelt Red Ware

Dinwiddie Polychrome has a very restricted spatial distribution and may "not occur west of a line drawn through Kinishba, near Whiteriver, and the Nine Mile site, near Bowie Arizona" (Neuzil and Lyons 2005: 30).

Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Trail

Here, the 33kV line enters the substation and is replaced by a much larger BG&E transmission line; the line runs parallel to the trail all the way to Bowie.


'Hours...'

The album cover, designed by Rex Ray with photography by Tim Bret Day and Frank Ockenfels, depicts the short-haired Bowie persona from the intensely energetic previous album Earthling exhausted, resting in the arms of a long-haired, more youthful version of Bowie.

A lot of the material that ended up on " 'Hours...' " was originally used, in alternate versions, for the video game Omikron: The Nomad Soul, which also featured two characters based on Bowie, as well as one on his wife Iman, one on 'Hours...' collaborator Reeves Gabrels, and one on bassist Gail Ann Dorsey.

Caron Bernstein

Caron remained in New York taking up acting work in movies such as Who's the man? and Business for Pleasure (where she took a leading role opposite Gary Stretch.) She is still pursuing music, inspired by her punk-rock heroes as a teen (including David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Annie Lennox), and has appeared in many different bands including Kill-5 and C.

Chime Rinpoche

Tony Visconti - Bowie later recorded the track live at the BBC with Tony Visconti, another student of Chime Rinpoche.

Chipperfield's Circus

Chipperfield is now living in Berlin and is a successful DJ playing clubs across Europe and has worked with artists as diverse as Peaches, Robots In Disguise, IAMX, Angie Reed, Stereo Total, Planning To Rock, Bruce LaBruce, Heidi Mortenson, MEN, Kids On TV, Milenasong, The Fall, Damon Albarn, Stephen Malkmus and producers Alan Moulder (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins), Flood (PJ Harvey, U2) and Bruce Lampcov (David Bowie, Suede).

Christiane F. – We Children from Bahnhof Zoo

All songs written by David Bowie except "Heroes/Helden" written by Bowie/Eno/Maas, "Boys Keep Swinging" and "Look Back In Anger", both written by Bowie/Eno.

Crystal Japan

Pegg, Nicholas, The Complete David Bowie, Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, 2000, ISBN 978-1-903111-14-7

Dana Sterling

In the decanonized Jack McKinney novel "Rubicon" (book 17 of the Robotech series), Dana, Louie Nichols, Bowie Grant, Angelo Dante, Sean Phillips, Marie Crystal, Musica and Allegra acquire Jonathan Wolfe's ship, travel to Tirol, and meet up with the Robotech Expeditionary Forces in 2033.

Gordon W. Bowie

A specialty of the Bangor Band under Dr. Bowie was the music of R.B. Hall, Maine's own march composer who was a contemporary of John Philip Sousa.

Helmut Landsberg

Among his notable honors were the William Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union (1978), the Outstanding Achievement in Bioclimatology Award (1983) and the Cleveland Abbey Award (1983) of the American Meteorological Society, and the National Medal of Science (1985), presented to him by US President Ronald Reagan.

I Can't Read

Tim Bowness and Samuel Smiles - Diamond Gods: Interpretations of Bowie (2001)

It's No Game

The lyrics to "It's No Game (Part 1)" are spoken in Japanese by Michi Hirota, with Bowie screaming the English translation "as if he's literally tearing out his intestines", according to NME editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray.

Joanne W. Bowie

Joanne W. Bowie was a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's fifty-seventh House district, including constituents in Guilford county.

John Kaleo

John Kaleo attended South River High School in Edgewater, Maryland and Bowie High School in Bowie, Maryland.

Lê Hằng Phấn

Lê Hằng Phấn (died Bowie, Maryland, c.1990) was the second daughter of a Vietnamese scholar Sở Cuồng Lê Dư.

Love Is Lost

James Murphy's "Hello Steve Reich Mix" was released as the fifth single from Bowie's 24th studio album The Next Day as a promotion for The Next Day Extra, a special edition of bonus tracks, remixes, and music videos.

Michael Moschen

In the film Labyrinth the crystal ball manipulations seen to be performed by David Bowie's character were actually done by Moschen, who stood behind Bowie during filming.

Mick Woodmansey

Woodmansey was replaced in The Spiders from Mars by Aynsley Dunbar, who played on Bowie's next album, the 1973 covers album Pin Ups.

Norman Sheffield

The studio recorded many of the world's most famous artists and recordings of the era including the Beatles' "Hey Jude", David Bowie's "Space Oddity" and Elton John's "Candle in the Wind".

Oden Bowie

The city of Bowie, Maryland was founded as Huntington in 1870 at a junction of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad.

Oh! You Pretty Things

Noone replaced Bowie's line "The Earth is a bitch" with "The Earth is a beast", in a performance that NME editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray opined to be "one of rock and roll's most outstanding examples of a singer failing to achieve any degree of empathy whatsoever with the mood and content of a lyric".

Rezin Bowie

Newspapers picked up the story, which became known as the Sandbar Fight, and Bowie's fighting prowess and his knife were described in detail.

Rezin Pleasant Bowie (September 8, 1793 – January 17, 1841) was an American inventor and designer of the Bowie knife.

Bowie took credit for inventing the Bowie knife, which came to prominence when used by James in the Sandbar Fight in 1827.

Richard Carlyle

He was Rezin Bowie in The Iron Mistress in 1952 and Commander Don Adams in the 1959 Oscar-nominated war drama Torpedo Run starring Glenn Ford.

Roslyn Philp

Sir Roslyn Foster Bowie Philp KBE (27 July 1895 – 19 March 1965) was appointed as a judge to the Supreme Court of Queensland, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Queensland.

Sister Europe

Indeed, the saxophone is faintly reminiscent of Bowie's "Sons of the Silent Age".

Stanley Bowie

Stanley Hay Umphray Bowie FRS (born 24 March 1917, in Bixter, Shetland - died 2008) was a Scottish geologist.

That Was Only Yesterday – The Last EP

Including drummer Neil Conteh (Jagger/Bowie), bassist Alan Spenner (Joe Cocker, Roxy Music), guitarist Tim Renwick (Elton John, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd), keyboardist John "Rabbit" Bundrick (Free, Roger Waters, The Who), along with the Chanter Sisters doing backing vocals a group of musicians were assembled.

The Fire This Time

It is the seventh album by Bowie's Brass Fantasy group and features performances by Bowie, Vincent Chancey, Frank Lacy, Louis Bonilla, E. J. Allen, Gerald Brezel, Tony Barrero, Bob Stewart, Vinnie Johnson and Famoudou Don Moye.

The Iron Mistress

It ends with his marriage to Ursula de Veramendi and does not deal with Bowie's death at the Battle of the Alamo.

The Next Day

The cover art for the album is an adapted version of Bowie's 1977 album, "Heroes".

The Secret Life of Arabia

Billy Mackenzie – On the British Electric Foundation album Music of Quality and Distinction Volume One (1982) and on David Bowie Songbook.

Tony Michaelides

In 1997 Tony took on the role as publicist for David Bowie's Earthling Tour.

Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing

The institute is partnered with Institutes for Defence Analysis, CCR Princeton, CCR La Jolla, CCS Bowie, the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research, Carleton University, the University of Calgary and is working to create partnerships with other research institutes, government agencies and universities.

TV Eye Live 1977

The album is notable for the presence of David Bowie on keyboards and background vocals for selected tracks and the rather crushing bass and drum sound; also, with the Sales brothers, the lineup prefigures in part the Bowie Tin Machine lineup.

Watch That Man

According to author Nicholas Pegg, "Watch That Man" could be taken as "one of Bowie’s most calculated changes of direction", to a more Stones-inspired dirty rock sound.

William Duckett Bowie

After the death of his two brothers, Governor Robert Bowie in 1818 and Walter Baruch Bowie in 1832, and by purchasing the interests of his sisters, he became the owner of Fairview where he then made his home.

You Belong in Rock n' Roll

The band’s sound was somewhat more refined than on their debut album, influenced by Marc Bolan and Elvis Presley, and its use of a music-as-sex metaphor was a Bowie theme used on several tracks stretching right back to his glam days.

Your Arsenal

It also contains an influence of glam rock, because of the involvement of ex-Bowie guitarist Mick Ronson, and songs like "Certain People I Know", "Glamorous Glue", and "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday", which are respectively influenced by T. Rex, and David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust-period songs like "The Jean Genie", and the last by "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide".