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2 unusual facts about Breakout


Arcadia 2001

For instance, the Arcadia 2001 game Space Raiders is a clone of Defender, and Breakaway is a clone of Breakout.

Dai Xiangyu

Dai paired the second time with Jeanette Aw in " Together.Dai acted Yang Nian Qing's(Jeanette Aw) brother in Breakout. This is the third time Dai acted with Jeanette Aw. After the 2010 year-end blockbuster Breakout, Dai took a break and did not appear in any locally produced series. He briefly returned to China to film a co-production drama Precious. He played Ling Zhi Chu in "Precious".


159th Fighter Squadron

During its operations, the unit participated in the assault against the Luftwaffe and aircraft industry during the Big Week, 20–25 February 1944 and the attack on transportation facilities prior to the Normandy invasion and support of the invasion forces thereafter, including the Saint-Lô breakout in July.

1967–68 Manchester United F.C. season

The 1967–68 season was a breakout year for midfielder George Best, who led the team with 28 goals in the First Division and 32 goals overall en route to winning the European Footballer of the Year and the FWA Footballer of the Year awards.

2006 Hawaii Warriors football team

Junior quarterback Colt Brennan returned from a breakout 2005 campaign to put together statistically one of the best seasons of any quarterback in college football history.

Alex Perelson

He then qualified for the AST Dew Tour on his first attempt at the Panasonic Open, and secured a nomination for the "PlayStation Trick of the Week" at the Right Guard Open that same season which was, according to an article in The San Diego Union-Tribune, a "breakout summer" for the young athlete.

Andrej Nikolaidis

In 1992, following the breakout of ethnic strife in Bosnia that soon evolved into an all out war, Nikolaidis' family moved to the Montenegrin town of Ulcinj, his father's hometown where he owns a summer home.

Atari Games Corp. v. Oman

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sitting on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed the decision of the trial court and held that Breakout was a copyrightable work.

Beat Ball

Beat Ball is a freeware breakout clone game PC that was created by Stefan Persson, also known under the alias Imphenzia Games, using the Game Maker software.

Breakthrough role

Another example is the 2007 film Transformers which marked the breakout role for actress Megan Fox - enabling her to grow from being a co-star to a lead role in the 2009 film Jennifer's Body.

Carissa Putri

Carissa started her career as a model and played supporting roles in some of Indonesian soap operas before landing her breakout role in a successful romantic religious movie "Ayat-Ayat Cinta" (a.k.a. Verses of Love) in 2008, based on a best-selling novel with the same title written by Habiburrahman El Shirazy, where she played a leading role as Maria Girgis.

Carson Beckett

According to writer-producer Martin Gero, Beckett was set to appear in only a handful of episodes after the Stargate Atlantis pilot episode, "Rising", but the character had such a big connection to the fans that Gero labeled McGillion the "breakout star" in Stargate Atlantis.

Claytoven Richardson

His second recording session was as a guest vocalist and background vocalist on the breakout album "Duotones" for saxophonist, Kenny G.

Dane Reynolds

In 2010 Reynolds had a breakout year, ending up tied for fourth in the 2010 ASP World Tour with Taj Burrow.

Devin Kelley

Her breakout role was in The Chicago Code, which she prepared for by talking to female police officers, going on a ride-along with Chicago police officers, and visiting a shooting range and the Cook County Morgue.

Erich Wulff

He was killed in Action on the 3 February 1945, during the breakout attempt from encirclement near Flederborn on the Eastern Front.

Franz Budka

He committed suicide during an attempted breakout from Breslau on 6 May 1945 - after being seriously wounded after stepping on a mine, he shot himself.

Ganbare Neo Poke-Kun

He would begin simply, creating his own versions of Pong and Breakout, and would gradually move up to historical sims (a'la Nobunaga's Ambition), shoot 'em ups, and fighting games. The game used the Neo Geo Pocket Color's internal clock to control the speed at which Neo Poke-Kun created games, when he slept, when he went to work, etc.

George Ronan

On the North American Great Lakes, the years immediately prior to the breakout of the War of 1812 were characterized by increasingly embittered competition between British-Canadian fur traders and American merchants, including traders aligned with the interest of the powerful John Jacob Astor of the American Fur Company.

Gina Schock

Most recently, Schock is one of the cowriters of the title track for the Miley Cyrus album Breakout.

Gran Trak 10

Steve Wozniak famously played Gran Trak 10 during the four-day development of a prototype for another Atari game, Breakout.

Holbrook Blinn

His Broadway stage successes include The Duchess of Dantzic (1903, as Napoleon), Salvation Nell (1908) in a breakout performance as the brutish husband of Mrs. Fiske, Within the Law (1912), Molière (1919), A Woman of No Importance (1916), The Lady of the Camellias (1917), and Getting Together (1918).

Joel Klaiman

Klaiman also worked in 2009 to breakout two new artists who went on to achieve number one hits under Universal Republic: Minnesota artist Owl City aka Adam Young with "Fireflies," and Cash Money's first non-hip hop mainstream success, UK singer/songwriter Jay Sean, with "Down."

Kiki Vidis

The TV show, entitled Kiki's American Adventure, was her breakout role to get into the adult industry.

Luz Casal

The album included her smash hit "A Cada Paso", which became her breakout hit in Latin-America, it climbed to the number one position in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Mexico; the Mexican female pop-band Flans made a cover of the song in 1990, and also became a big hit in that country.

Manufacturing Dissent

While Moore depicted an evasive Roger Smith, then Chairman of General Motors, in his breakout documentary Roger & Me, the filmmakers of Manufacturing Dissent allege that Moore spoke with Smith twice.

Masayoshi Yamazaki

He released his second album in 1997, which contained his breakout and most famous single "One More Time, One More Chance."

Media Five Entertainment

Sestak gets credit for bringing Live, once just a local band named Public Affection from York , Pennsylvania, to super-stardom in the mid 1990s with their breakout second album, Throwing Copper fueled by the #1 hit single, Lightning Crashes.

Olesya Dudnik

Her breakout performance came at the 1989 American Cup in Fort Worth, Texas, where she finished second in the individual all-around competition.

Oliver Philpot

As the ship arrived in Sweden, Philpot was handed over to the Swedish police and taken to the British Legation in Stockholm, it was Thursday 4 November 1943—less than five days since the breakout.

Operation Buffalo

The breakout from the Operation Shingle Anzio beachhead by the U.S. VI Corps commencing on 23 May 1944

Otto Paetsch

From June 1944 he led his regiment in Normandy, and distinguished himself in the fighting in the Avranches area and the breakout from Falaise (Falaise Pocket) for which he was awarded the Knight's Cross.

Really Don't Care

On the other hand, Melinda Newman of HitFix found the song to be too generic, comparing it to Icona Pop's breakout hit "I Love It" (2012).

Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills

Schaeffer appeared in her first major feature film role in what many critics considered to be a breakout performance; however, she was shot and killed by Robert John Bardo, an obsessed fan, just six weeks after the film was released.

Stel

Stel serves the Green Lantern Corps through many of its battles, including a breakout from the Prison Planet of the Guardians of the Universe, an invasion by Qwardians, an attack by the alliance of Nekron, Lord of the Unliving, and the rogue Guardian Krona.

Sunny Chan

His breakout film role was in the internationally multi-award-winning 1998 Hong Kong film Hold You Tight, for which he won the coveted Silver Screen Award for Best Actor at the Singapore International Film Festival in 1998.

Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force

As the breakout from Normandy took place, the Allies launched the invasion of southern France on 15 August 1944 with the American 6th Army Group (6 AG) under the command of Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers.

Susan Eisenberg

Her breakout role was that of Wonder Woman in the acclaimed Justice League and Justice League Unlimited television series, as well as the direct-to-DVD films Superman/Batman: Apocalypse and Justice League: Doom.

The Daily Service

The Daily Service is a short Christian church service, often from Emmanuel Church in Didsbury, Manchester, England, broadcast every weekday morning between 9.45 and 10.00 by BBC Radio 4 (long wave only) and on the Radio 4 DAB breakout.

The Flip Wilson Show

Wilson's clout allowed him to get both the new breakout performers (such as The Jackson 5, Roberta Flack, Sandy Duncan, Lily Tomlin, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Albert Brooks, Lola Falana and Melba Moore all of whom became very popular during this period) as well as established singers.

The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue

#"Breakout/Muriel and Floyd Get the Shaft/Trapped by Martin" (instrumental by Lee Holdridge)

Tommy Eytle

Eytle appeared in films such as Naked Fury (1959), The Criminal (1960) and The Hi-Jackers (1963) and on television in programmes such as The Big Pride (ITV, 1961), a psychological drama about a prison breakout in Guyana written by Jan Carew and Sylvia Wynter.

Winter Offensive of 1947 in Northeast China

After southern Liaoning fell into the communist hand, the defender of Faku (法库), the nationalist 62nd division of the Newly Organized 6th Army abandoned the city and attempted to breakout the siege, but was decimated on its way at the mouth of Tong River (通江) to the west of Kaiyuan, which fell into the communist hand on February 29, 1948.

Yanks Go Home

One of the breakout stars of the show was Freddie Earlle, whose character Corporal Pasquale was favorably compared to Sgt. Bilko.


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