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3 unusual facts about CRI


Colomban Cri-cri

The Colomban Cri-cri (English: the chirp-chirp sound made by a cricket) is the smallest twin-engined manned aircraft in the world, designed in the early 1970s by French aeronautical engineer Michel Colomban.

Cri-Zelda Brits

She claimed two wickets in England's response, claiming the wickets of opener Charlotte Edwards and captain Clare Connor.

Wan Li Ma Wang

Its debut was reported by CRI and the group sebsequently held live concerts in other Beijing-based Chinese universities.


CRI Vila and Santo

CRI Vila and Santo at 102 FM is a radio station in Vila, Solomon Islands and Santo, Vanuatu.

David Maslanka

Maslanka’s works have been recorded and produced primarily by Albany Records, as well as Cambria Records, Crest, CRI, Klavier, Mark, Novisse, St. Olaf, and Umass labels.

Esterhazy Quartet

The Esterhazy Quartet's recordings can be heard on the CRI and Spectrum labels.

Leonetto Cappiello

Cappiello started his career as a caricaturist illustrating in journals like Le Rire, Le Cri de Paris, Le Sourire, L'Assiette au Beurre, La Baionnette, Femina, and others.

Louis Dufort

He currently divides his time between composing for the Marie Chouinard contemporary dance company (he composed the music for the choreography of Le cri du monde, which premiered in Toronto on March 21, 2000), his work with the artistic committee of ACREQ, and the creation of hybrid and unbridled musical experimentation.

Military Health System

Although DOD’s initial intent under CRI was to award three competitively bid contracts covering six states, it received only one bid, from Foundation Health Corporation (now Health Net) covering California and Hawaii.

The pot calling the kettle black

Although the full phrase goes "el comal le dijo a la olla, que tiznada estas" (‘the comal said to the pot, you are so full of soot’), for most people it is reminiscent of a popular children's song by Francisco Gabilondo Soler "Cri-Cri" in which the comal complains to the pot for laying on top of it (‘el comal, le dijo a la olla, oye olla, oye oye!, si tu te has creido que yo soy recargadera’).

The Yellow Wallpaper

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, in her book Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of "The Yellow Wall-Paper", concludes that "the story was a cri de coeur against Gilman's first husband, artist Charles Walter Stetson and the traditional marriage he had demanded."

TNN Motorsports Hardcore Heat

TNN Motorsports Hardcore Heat (バギーヒート Buggy Heat in Japan and Europe) is an off-road racing video game for the Dreamcast, developed by CRI and published in the USA by ASC Games.


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