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8 unusual facts about Chase


Crowley House

Chase-Crowley-Keep House, Lockport, New York, listed on the NRHP in New York

GE B36-7

One notable exception among Conrail's units was CR 5045, which wwas destroyed in the infamous wreck of the Colonial at Chase, Maryland, on January 4, 1987.

Iain Torrance

Twelve ecclesiastical delegates, including Rick Ufford-Chase, the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church (USA), attended.

Joseph C. Palczynski

Jenifer McDonel, 36, the pregnant mother of a 2-year-old boy, was fatally wounded from a ricochet bullet in front of her family during an unsuccessful carjacking attempt in Chase.

Rick Ufford-Chase

In June 2006, after the end of his term as PC (USA) moderator, Ufford-Chase accepted a call as the Executive Director of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship.

While assuming this position with his wife in August 2008, Ufford-Chase continues half-time as Director of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship.

Thomas Roy

Roy and his wife have created approximately 80 "special days", which are listed in Chase's Calendar of Events.

WGU-20

Operating 24 hours a day on a longwave frequency of 179 kHz from Chase, Maryland, WGU-20's programming consisted of pre-recorded announcements and time checks.


2009 Tour de Suisse

Damien Gaudin joined them after a lengthy solo chase, and the four were together as a group for much of the stage, gaining a maximum advantage of six minutes by the 130 km mark.

Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

Shortly afterwards Cody and Derek chase Diaz, armed with a rocket gun, through London streets, but Cody is captured by the Metropolitan Police Service and taken to Scotland Yard.

Allison Cameron

In the season 8 episode "Post Mortem", it was revealed by Dr. Chase that she had become head of emergency medicine at Chicago's Mercy Hospital and Medical Center.

Apache Qpid

In 2005 JPMorgan Chase approached other firms to form a working group that included Cisco Systems, IONA Technologies, iMatix, Red Hat, and Transaction Workflow Innovation Standards Team (TWIST).

Beeville, Texas

TTa operated scheduled passenger flights with Douglas DC-3 prop airliners from Chase Field with service to Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Harlingen, Houston, San Antonio and other destinations in Texas.

BSA Model E

A 1919 BSA Model E complete with matching sidecar featured in a car chase in the 1965 movie Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, where it was ridden by lead actor Stuart Whitman who played American cowboy Orvil Newton.

Cha$e

Cha$e (pronounced Chase) is a reality television show aired on Syfy in the United States around the same time as Estate of Panic.

Chase City, Virginia

Chase City was incorporated in 1873 and named for Salmon P. Chase, United States Chief Justice and Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury.

Chase Field

The final Insight Bowl played at Chase was between the hometown Arizona State Sun Devils and the Rutgers Scarlet Knights.

Chevy Chase View, Maryland

Resident students are zoned to schools in the Montgomery County Public Schools district, specifically to Rosemary Hills Elementary School (PreK-2), North Chevy Chase Elementary School (3-6), Westland Middle School, and Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School.

Down Beat Bear

The chase resumes briefly until Jerry jumps on a piano and starts playing The Blue Danube.

Eve Gordon

After that, she appeared in ER, The Partridge Family Story, Avalon and Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (as Diane Szalinski, taking the role over from Marcia Strassman), and starred in David Chase's first original series, Almost Grown, and The Good Life with Drew Carey.

Experiment in Terror

The climactic chase at the end of the film was filmed at Candlestick Park; other nearby filming locations included Fisherman's Wharf and North Beach.

Fox Photo

In the chase scene(s) in Back to the Future, the Libyan terrorists crash their van into a Fox Photo booth at the Twin Pines/Lone Pine Mall.

Garbage Pail Kids

Packs contained randomly inserted chase cards including lenticular Loco Motion, authentic Printing Plates, four levels of Parallels, and hand-drawn Artist Sketches by pop-culture artists including Layron DeJarnette, Brent Engstrom, Dave Gross, Mark Pingitore, Joe Simko, Colin Walton, Fred Wheaton, Jeff Zapata, and veteran GPK artists Tom Bunk and Jay Lynch.

GM Card

The GM Card is a co-branded rewards credit card program with consumer cards offered by Capital One and business cards offered by Chase.

Gordon Square

In August 2000, the east side of the square was used to film part of the bus chase sequence for the movie The Mummy Returns.

Gun port

In the Action of 4 August 1800, the large East Indiaman Exeter passed herself as a 74-gun ship of the line when she endeavoured to chase the much stronger French frigate Médée; after sunset, she perfected the illusion by opening and illuminating all her gun ports, whether armed or not; her appearance was so convincing that when she caught up with Médée, the frigate struck as if hopelessly overpowered.

Jaws Wired Shut

The angry ushers then chase Homer out of the cinema, wielding oversized Kit Kat bars.

Jesse McGregor

When constable Joel Nash (David Woodley) gets wind of this, Jesse and Mick flee and a high-speed car chase ensues.

Julia Compton Moore

Compton was a graduate of Chevy Chase Junior College, Chevy Chase, Maryland and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as a member of Pi Beta Phi Sorority, prior to her marriage.

Kangaroo Island bushfires

The D'Estrees Bay fire in Cape Gantheaume Conservation Park was contained by 12 December 2007, while intense fires in the west, which included the protected areas of Flinders Chase National Park and Ravine des Casoars Wilderness Protection Area, were more difficult to extinguish.

Kate Chase

Kate Chase's presence in Washington, D.C. would be fictionally recreated in the 1990s TV series The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer.

Ken Chase

Kendall Fay Chase (October 6, 1913 – January 16, 1985) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for three teams between 1936 and 1943.

King Kung Fu

Police Captain J.W. Duke (who resembles a certain Western Movie star) and his patriotic-helmeted little assistant Officer Pilgrim get involved in the city-wide chase along with the phony-looking ape's love interest Rae Fey (a beautiful blond Pizza Hut waitress/model), Rae Fey is the only one who understands that Fu just wants to see the sights like any other tourist.

Lugbara people

Famous and well known Lugbara include Dorcus Inzikuru, the 3000-metre steeple chase world champion in Helsinki 2005 and Jackson Asiku, the previous Commonwealth boxing light-weight champion.

Marshall's Hotel

In September 1885, the son of General Oliver O. Howard of the Nez Perce War of 1877, 19 year old John Howard was visiting the park with his brother James, General Howard, his wife and John's fiancee, a Miss Chase.

Martha Chase

In 1952 Chase was a young laboratory assistant to American bacteriophage expert Alfred Hershey at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Martin's Additions, Maryland

In 1896, Harry M. Martin began buying land from the Chevy Chase Land Company and others and called his holdings "Martin's Additions to Chevy Chase".

Muhammad ibn `Ali at-Tirmidhi

Escaping from his enemies' chase, Al Hakim At-Termizi had to move to Balkh and then to Nishapur, where he was very well accepted and where he obtained a large number of followers later.

Nick Pishos

In the Yorkshire Cricket Board's successful chase, he took the wicket of John Proud to finish with figures of 1/38 from nine overs.

Operation Homefront

Operation Homefront created the Homes on the Homefront program through a new partnership with Chase Bank, Bank of America and Wells Fargo.

Perivale tube station

The station also featured in the BBC TV show The Fast Show during a "Fat Sweaty Coppers" sketch, during which the two policemen give chase to a criminal, and after briefly getting stuck in the barriers, "commandeer" a vehicle which turns out to be a fast food van, which they simply open up to order food.

Rabbit of Seville

The cartoon, in a plotline reminiscent of Stage Door Cartoon, features Bugs Bunny being chased by Elmer Fudd into the stage door of the Hollywood Bowl, whereupon Bugs tricks Elmer into going onstage, and participating in a break-neck operatic production of their chase punctuated with gags and accompanied by musical arrangements by Carl Stalling, focusing on Rossini's overture to The Barber of Seville.

Ricardo Brangman

In Guyana's successful chase, Brangman took a single catch from behind the stumps, catching Travis Dowlin for 4 runs off the bowling of Traddie Simpson.

Richard Chase

An identification card with Chase's identity can be found in the video game Deadlight.

Sam Loxton with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948

Bradman’s men wanted to finish the run-chase quickly so they could watch the Australian John Bromwich play in the Wimbledon final.

Stan Isaacs

He covered multiple historic sporting events, including Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard 'Round the World, Roger Maris' chase of Babe Ruth's single-season home run record, bouts between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier and the New York Islanders multiple Stanley Cup victories in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Stephanie Chase

Chase plays on a violin made in 1742 by Pietro Guarneri, the ex-Paschell, which she pairs with a bow made by Dominique Peccatte.

Thomas Bewick

Works using his wood engraving technique, for which he became well known, include the engravings for Oliver Goldsmith's Traveller and The Deserted Village, for Thomas Parnell's Hermit, and for William Somervile's Chase.

Tiago Iorc

Chase—who had previously worked with groups such as The Smashing Pumpkins, Tahiti 80, and The Divine Comedy—pre-produced Tiago's album over the internet before actually meeting with him in Rio de Janeiro for recording sessions.

Trippy

SV Angel also participated, along with individuals including Rob Solomon, Tim Ferriss, Brian Lee, Gil Ebaz, Brandee Barker, Chase Jarvis, Randi Zuckerberg, Jason Mraz, and Rachel Zoe, as well as others.

Walk the Straight and Narrow

The Dynamic Duo chase the villains by Batboat and rout the Archer, Crier Tuck, Big John, Maid Marilyn, and Alan A. Dale before they get the chance.

Wetbike

The Wetbike also appeared in the 1986 comedy Police Academy 3: Back in Training, in which a group of Wetbikes and Kawasaki JS550 stand up jet skis were used by the police to chase down thieves in speedboats during the movie's ending water chase scene.

WSAZ-TV

Radio engineer Glenn Chase applied to the Secretary of Commerce for a license to operate a small radio station in Pomeroy, Ohio (it moved down and across the Ohio River to Huntington in 1927).


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