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16 unusual facts about Box


Bag-in-box

In 1967, Charles Malpas and Penfolds Wines patented a plastic, air-tight tap welded into a metallised film bladder, making storage much more convenient for consumers.

Box-bed

Box-beds are mentioned in Georges Simenon's detective novel The Patience of Maigret (originally, Le chien jaune, 1936), republished as Maigret and the Yellow Dog.

Fine pieces were put in museums (Lampaul-Guimiliau, Nantes, Quimper, Rennes, St-Brieuc), while most of them were converted into bookshelves, dressers or TV cabinets.

Box-Ironbark forest

Box-Ironbark forest is characterised by a canopy of box, ironbark and gum-barked eucalypts, growing to 25 m in height, over a sparse understorey of wattles, small-leaved and prostrate shrubs, herbs and grasses.

Box-O-Plenty Records

D. Boon and Friends (BOP CD 001), a collection of live and home recordings made in 1984-85, including six songs from a 1985 Minutemen show where Derrick was the substitute drummer.

Jack and His Golden Snuff-Box

The traditional bannocks - breads - of the Gaelic regions held a ritual role in the marking of the rotation of the seasons.

Jack MacBryan

John "Jack" Crawford William MacBryan (22 July 1892, Box, Wiltshire – 14 July 1983, Cambridge) was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University and Somerset and made one almost imperceptible appearance in a Test match for England.

K-box

The K-box is powered by a built-in rechargeable battery with claims of 20 hours of playtime per charge It is recharged via computer USB or 5v adaptor.

Mind.in.a.box

box released R.E.T.R.O., an album separate from the story lines of Lost Alone, Dreamweb and Crossroads.

Lost Alone was an immediate success and soared to the number one spot in the Deutsche Alternative Charts where it would stay for five consecutive weeks.

MoD Corsham

MoD Corsham (formerly Basil Hill Barracks) is a Ministry of Defence establishment located between the towns of Corsham and Box in Wiltshire, England.

TeamLab

The "Document Management" module enables users to create, edit, store and share documents online, integrate 3rd-party accounts such as Dropbox, Box, Google Drive and Skydrive.

The Emperor's Snuff-Box

The Emperor's Snuff-Box is a non-series mystery novel (1942) by mystery novelist John Dickson Carr.

The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter

Upon its American theatrical release in 1991, the Bugs Bunny animated short "Box-Office Bunny" was shown before the movie.

Volguard II

The transparent capsule-like items that appear when the player goes to a specific location or after defeating certain enemies.

WiFi-Box

WiFi-Box is a distribution of aftermarket firmware for the Linksys WRT54G series of wireless routers, based on the original Linksys source code.


America, I Hear You Singing

The tracks featuring Frank Sinatra were also included on the 1995 box set The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings.

Azendoo

The application has partnered with Evernote, Box, Dropbox and Google so that users can centralize and share all of their informational sources confidentially.

Bánh phu thê

Bánh phu thê (literally "husband and wife cake") is a Vietnamese dessert made from rice with mung beans stuffing wrapped in a box made of pandan leaves.

Bev Harris

Black Box Voting again secured the services of Harri Hursti and Dr. Herbert Hugh Thompson and examined the Diebold TSx touch-screen (DRE) system.

Bill Bailey's Birdwatching Bonanza

Bill Bailey's Birdwatching Bonanza is a British game show that is produced by Fever Media and Glass Box that was broadcast on Sky1 between 8 January and 12 February 2010.

Box Television

In common with other Box Television channels, Q was originally a jukebox channel, where music video selections made were by the viewers using premium rate phone lines; however this element was dropped in 2004.

Brampton Excelsiors

Brampton Excelsiors Jr. A, a box lacrosse team from Brampton, Ontario, Canada, who compete in the OLA Junior A Lacrosse League

Cartoon Orbit

To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, Cartoon Orbit instead had a list of pre-written words and phrases that players could send in a chat box.

Craig Biggio

Biggio, a fan of the musical group U2, often had their song "Mysterious Ways" played as he stepped up to the batter's box.

Cutting the Stone

The MSX game Don't Cock it Up used this painting for its box art.

Deathsport

The movie was not as successful at the box office as Death Race 2000 and a proposed follow up, Deathworld, was not made.

Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack – Series 6

For the series opener, "The Impossible Astronaut" / "Day of the Moon", Gold wrote variations of the Eleventh Doctor’s themes, "I Am The Doctor" and "The Mad Man With A Box".

DOX BOX

DOX BOX, which is annual and runs in 3 Syrian cities, Damascus, Homs and Tartus, is organised by two Syrian filmmakers, Diana El Jeiroudi and Orwa Nyrabia, among others.

DVBViewer

DVBViewer is proprietary, commercial software for viewing & recording of DVB TV & Radio using a TV tuner card or box and a Media Center for viewing Music, Video and Pictures.

Echo Eggebrecht

Eggebrecht has held solo exhibitions at Horton Gallery, New York; Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York; Ter Caemer Meert Contemporary, Kortijk, Belgium; Sixtyseven, New York and Sixspace in Los Angeles as well as group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; ICA; Nicole Klagsburn; and White Box in New York; Groeflin Maag Gallery in Basel, Switzerland; Poets on Painters at the Ulrich Museum.

Giuseppe Meazza

Italy were awarded a penalty after Silvio Piola, the team's new center forward, was chopped down in the box by "the Divine Master", Domingos da Guia.

GMMSF Box-Office Entertainment Awards

Vic Sotto has the most box office king titles in the history with five, followed by John Lloyd Cruz with four.

Guide-A-Ride

It is a rectangular box attached to the bus stop pole that displays a route map and a schedule.

Hands in Dirty Ground

The EP was initially made available only at the band's concerts, but was also later distributed by Zunior as part of the band's "digital box set", consisting of the EP and the band's first two albums on a USB flash drive.

Happiness Is You

The album was never released on cassette and did not finally see release on CD until 2012, as part of the box set Johnny Cash: The Complete Columbia Album Collection.

It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown

In the second mall scene, Peppermint Patty, Marcie and Snoopy dance to a band quartet music box including an angel, a triplet band, and a spinning duck carousel, all which play Johann Sebastian Bach's "Menuet from the Anna Magdalena Notebook (BWV Anh. 116.)."

Just Married

On a modest budget of $18 million, the film went on to gross $56,127,162 domestically and earned an additional $45,437,773 in foreign box office receipts, giving it a total worldwide gross of $101,564,935, and launching the film career of Ashton Kutcher.

Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?

In 2007, the Serbian and former Yugoslav New Wave band VIS Idoli released a career spanning box set featuring the image as a basis for the box set cover.

Katie Dippold

She also wrote The Heat starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy which grossed $158,015,132 in the domestic box office.

Life Begins at 40

However, Lennon's demo was eventually issued in 1998 on the John Lennon Anthology box set.

Long Wharf Theatre

More than 30 Long Wharf productions have been transferred to Broadway or Off-Broadway, including Durango, Wit, (winner of a Pulitzer Prize), The Shadow Box (Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award/Best Play winner), Hughie, American Buffalo, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Quartermaine's Terms (Obie Award winner for best play), The Gin Game (Pulitzer Prize winner), The Changing Room, The Contractor and Streamers.

Miles! The Definitive Miles Davis At Montreux Dvd Collection

The Definitive Miles Davis at Montreux DVD Collection 1973-1991 is a 10 DVD box set by Miles Davis, comprising 10 separate concerts and interviews, recorded in Montreux, Switzerland, between 1973 and 1991.

Mirapoint Email Appliance

Mirapoint Email Appliance is a Unix-like standards-compliant black-box e-mail server, with built-in anti-spam, anti-virus, webmail, POP, IMAP, calendar, and LDAP routing options available.

Mount Tabor, West Yorkshire

A post box in the hamlet is painted gold, to commemorate one of Hannah Cockroft's 2012 Summer Paralympics gold medals.

Out of the Box Publishing

Out of the Box Publishing was established in 1998 in Madison, Wisconsin by Mark Osterhaus, Alan Waller, Cathleen Quinn-Kinney, and John Kovalic.

Pizza saver

In 1985, Carmela Vitale of Dix Hills, New York, was issued a patent for a plastic 3-legged tripod stool that would sit in the middle of the box and keep the top from sagging into pizza, cakes or other foods kept in a box.

Prompt

Prompt corner or prompt box, the location at the side of the stage where the prompt is located

Richard Erdman

In 1965, he played Colonel Millbank in the episode "The Black Box" of CBS's Petticoat Junction, a rural sitcom starring Bea Benaderet and Edgar Buchanan.

Rock 'n' Roll Bolero

"Rock 'n' Roll Bolero" was later included as a bonus track on the remaster of the 1977 album Whatever Happened to Slade, the 2006 Japanese Air Mail Archive remaster of the 1979 album Return to Base, and part of the 2006 four-disc box set The Slade Box.

Ronald Volstad

His work is best known as box art for DML brand model kits and 1/6 scale military action figures, and as illustrations for books published by the Osprey and Concord brands.

Sallie Wilson

She then choreographed two ballets,Pandora's Box and Eve, in Italy for her fellow ballerina and longtime friend Carla Fracci.

Sankaty Head Golf Club

Famous members include Jack Welch (whose island residence is just off the 4th tee-box), Bob Wright, Harry Fraker, Larry Bossidy, Amos Hostetter, Henry C. Pfaff, and Bill Belichick.

Spawn of the North

The film was a big box office success and was later remade as Alaska Seas (1954).

Star Wars: Behind the Magic

The box includes a limited-edition full-color print of a painting by artist Ralph McQuarrie, "Yoda and R2-D2 in the swamps of Dagobah".

Super Cars

The Retron is also portrayed differently on the box art, where it is a Lamborghini Countach instead of a Cizeta.

Syntext Serna

Serna XML Editor offers multi-channel publishing, including out-of-the-box publishing to HTML and external publishing to PDF with FOP, XEP, or Antenna House XSL Formatter.

Teng Nong kon maha hia

On its release, despite negative reviews by film critics, the film was No. 1 at Thailand cinema box offices, topping such Hollywood films as Shrek the Third, Ocean's Thirteen and another Thai film, Ploy.

TestNG

TestNG is supported, out-of-the-box or via plug-ins, by each of the three major Java IDEs - Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, and NetBeans.

The Corsham School

Students from the market town of Corsham and those of nearby villages, such as Colerne, Box, Wiltshire and Shaw, Wiltshire attend along with others from nearby towns such as Bath, Chippenham and Melksham.

The Remains of Tom Lehrer

The Remains of Tom Lehrer is a box set containing all the songs from musical satirist Tom Lehrer's previous albums along with previously unreleased songs and his works featured in The Electric Company.

The Winner's Song

The video itself is a parody of Leona Lewis' video for her debut single, "A Moment Like This", and the box art of the single is a parody of The Meaning of Love, the debut album from Michelle McManus, who won the second series of Pop Idol in 2003.

Tommy and Quadrophenia Live

Tommy and Quadrophenia Live is a 3-disc DVD box set that includes performances by The Who from their 1989 (the Tommy portion) and 1996-1997 tours (the Quadrophenia portion).

Tulsa Shock

Tulsa Pro Hoops LLC, composed of Bill Cameron and David Box (majority owners), and Chris Christian, Pat Chernicky, Sam and Rita Combs, Pat and Don Hardin, Paula Marshall, Stuart and Linda Price, and Katie and Scott Schofield (2010–present)

Werner von Clemm

The operation was stumbled upon by mistake by agents of the Treasury Department when they searched a Budweiser beer box being carried by two American soldiers of German descent.