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6 unusual facts about Braid


Braided fishing line

Braids were originally made from natural fibers such as cotton and linen, but natural fiber braids (with the very rare exception of braided silk) have long since been replaced by braided or woven fibers of a man-made materials like Dacron, Spectra or micro-dyneema into a strand of line.

Lazarus Saturday

In the Greek Church, it is customary on Lazarus Saturday to plait elaborate crosses out of palm leaves which will be used on Palm Sunday.

The Firebird Band

Roy Ewing (of Braid and Very Secretary) - played live drums on "The Runway" and "Distance" from The Drive.

In 2004, Broach left Life at Sea to do a reunion tour for Braid, and then to begin to focus again on finishing The Firebird Band's newest album - The City at Night with John Isberg.

The band was created as a side project by Chris Broach, of Braid notoriety, and his brother Riley Broach in 1996.

The Get Up Kids discography

In their early years, they toured with such influential emo bands as Jimmy Eat World, The Promise Ring and Braid, later touring with such groups as Superchunk, The Anniversary and Hot Rod Circuit.


Alexandra Ripley

Alexandra Ripley, née Braid (January 8, 1934 – January 10, 2004) was an American writer best known as the author of Scarlett (1991), the sequel to Gone with the Wind.

Alyth

The original nine-hole course was designed by Old Tom Morris of St. Andrews and was modified and extended to 18 holes by James Braid in 1934.

Blue Hussars

A uniform was originally designed by a committee that included Irish artist Seán Keating, consisting of a saffron léine (a form of tunic) with six rows of black braid and black cuffs, a blue brat (a fringed medieval shawl/cloak), tight pantaloons and a black Balmoral cap with saffron feather.

Bob Nanna/Elizabeth Elmore EP

Bob Nanna/Elizabeth Elmore EP is a split EP by Bob Nanna of Braid and The City on Film and Elizabeth Elmore of The Reputation and Sarge.

Braid group

In 1996, C. Nayak and Frank Wilczek posited that in analogy to projective representations of SO(3), the projective representations of the braid group have a physical meaning for certain quasiparticles in the fractional quantum hall effect.

Computer-aided design

Also of importance to the development of CAD was the development of the B-rep solid modeling kernels (engines for manipulating geometrically and topologically consistent 3D objects) Parasolid (ShapeData) and ACIS (Spatial Technology Inc.) at the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s, both inspired by the work of Ian Braid.

French braid

The phrase "French braid" appears in an 1871 issue of Arthur's Home Magazine, used in a piece of short fiction that describes it as a new hairstyle ("...do up your hair in that new French braid...").

Galon

Galloon - a metallic braid used for trimming clothing and uniforms.

Jejune

Over the span of their existence, the band undertook several tours of the US, including stints with The Get Up Kids, Blacktop Cadence, Braid, Piebald, and a late 1998 tour with Jimmy Eat World.

Kingdom of Prussia

The ties between London and Berlin had already been sealed with a golden braid in 1858, when Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia married Princess Victoria of Britain.

Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve

In 1999, she was created a life peer as Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve, of The Braid in the County of Antrim, and in 2007 was elected an Honorary FRS.

Sue Napier

She was born as Suzanne Deidre Braid on New Years Day, 1948, in Latrobe, Tasmania, the daughter of Tasmanian Legislative Council member Harry Braid.


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