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unusual facts about Chinaman's chance


Chinaman's chance

The phrase is used in Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once and also in Rob Cohen's Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, when the character of Bruce Lee is on his way to America in a ship.


Blagoveshchensk

Louis Livingston Seaman mentioned the massacre as being the reason for the Chinese Honghuzi hatred towards the Russians:The Chinaman, be he Hung-hutze or peasant, in his relation to the Russians in this conflict with Japan has not forgotten the terrible treatment accorded him since the Muscovite occupation of Manchuria.

Characters in Devo music videos

The Chinaman, played by Gerald Casale, is an embodiment of the stereotypical wise Asian master.

Chinaman, Laundryman

It was performed two more times, once in Philadelphia for the Society of Contemporary Music, and again at the First American Worker’s Music Olympiad for a large audience of leftist workers.

Cthulhu's Dark Cults

The Eternal Chinaman: In San Francisco 1920 a stage magician hires his brother to protect him from a Tong-style cult.

Daniel Carroll

(Several acres are now associated with the house museum known as Darnall's Chance, listed on the National Register of Historic Places).

Darnall's Chance

Two Carroll sons were prominent members of colonial and early United States society: Daniel Carroll became a politician in the Continental Congress and Maryland Senate, and member of the Constitutional Convention; and John Carroll became the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States, and founder of Georgetown University.

Ellis Achong

After bowling this variation to have Walter Robins stumped at Old Trafford in 1933, it is reputed that Robins said to the umpire Joe Hardstaff Sr., "fancy being done by a bloody Chinaman".


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