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2 unusual facts about Confessions of an Eco-Warrior


Confessions of an Eco-Warrior

EF originally mixed innovative publicity, such as rolling a plastic "crack" down Glen Canyon Dam, with far-reaching wilderness proposals that went far beyond what the mainstream environmental groups were willing to advocate, and with conservation biology research from a biocentric perspective.

At the time Confessions was published, he had just launched a new magazine, Wild Earth (intended as a replacement for the 1980s-era Earth First! Journal), and was soon to launch a new environmental group, The Wildlands Project.


1582 in poetry

1582/1585: Pir Roshan (born 1525), Pashtun warrior poet and intellectual who wrote in Persian and Arabic

Abu Sufyan ibn Harb

He was a staunch opponent of the Islamic prophet Muhammad before accepting Islam and becoming a Muslim warrior later in his life.

Ahir Yadav Kshatriya Mahasabha

Singh was a descendant of the Abhira dynasty, and the association stated that the Ahirs were the descendants of the Yadu dynasty to which the god Krishna belonged, and thus were members of the Kshatriya (warrior) class in the Hindua varna system.

Akuji the Heartless

The game centres on the voodoo priest and warrior Akuji (voiced by Richard Roundtree), who had his heart ripped out on his wedding day, and through the use of voodoo magic is now cursed to wander the Underworld.

Alfonso Brescia

Iron Warrior (1986) aka "Ator 3: Iron Warrior", stars Miles O'Keefe

Aonach

An Aonach was an ancient Irish public national assembly called upon the death of a king, queen, notable sage or warrior as part of ancestor worship practices.

Apuckshunubbee

The Choctaw delegation also included Talking Warrior, Red Fort, Nittahkachee, Col. Robert Cole and David Folsom, both Choctaw of mixed-race; Captain Daniel McCurtain, and Major John Pitchlynn, the U.S. Interpreter.

Bai Bureh Warriors

The club is named after Bai Bureh, a great Sierra Leonean warrior and military strategist who led the Temne Uprising against the British in 1898.

Brent Rausch

He replaced the former Hawaii Warrior starring Quarterback, NCAA Record Setting, Colt Brennan.

Celestial Matters

In this world, the Delian League (Greeks) and Middle Kingdom (Chinese) have been fighting a war for nearly a thousand years, ever since the time of Alexander the Great when the warrior-culture of Sparta and the Athenian Akademe were fused into a half-world conquering force.

Delusion of the Fury

Act I is based on the Japanese Noh drama Atsumori, which tells the story of a warrior who has been slain in battle.

Discs of Tron

Tron is also introduced later, as Flynn witnesses him competing against (and defeating) four of the MCP's "warrior elite".

Dragonstomper

Monsters largely consist of animals, insects and arachnids of various types, as well as human occupations (Maniacs, Warriors, etc.) Some fantasy-themed creatures, like slimes, also exist.

Everton Cemetery

The head of Australian Aborigine warrior Yagan (c.1795-1833), after being kept in Liverpool Museum, was buried in the cemetery in 1964 in a box also containing a Peruvian mummy and a Maori's head that had also been kept by the museum.

Frank Dux

The Secret Man: An American Warrior's Uncensored Story (ReganBooks, 1996) ISBN 0-06-039152-9 and ISBN 978-0-06-039152-2

G-On Riders

This allows him to transform into the warrior Cosmo Banchou, a parody of Tuxedo Kamen from Sailor Moon.

Glasbury

On 16 June 1056, a battle was fought at Glasbury between an English force, led by Bishop Leofgar of Hereford, and a Welsh force led by Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, at which the warrior bishop was killed.

Gráinne

She is one of the central figures in the Middle Irish text Finn and Gráinne and most famously, in the 17th-century tale The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne, which tells of her betrothal to Fionn mac Cumhaill, leader of the Fianna, and her subsequent elopement with Fionn's warrior Diarmuid Ua Duibhne.

Gurukula

By the colonial era the gurukula system was declining in India except in a few regions, such as Kerala, where the warrior Nair clan and their own military gurukula, called kalari, still maintained the tradition.

Kelton Flinn

Multiplayer BattleTech: EGA (1991) — This title takes the Air Warrior concept to land-based Mech combat.

Kull Warrior

Almost every Kull Warrior in the series is played by Dan Payne.

Marcus Luttrell

A book entitled "The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228" by Dick Couch describes the training of Class 228, and names Luttrell as one of the graduates of that class.

Miguel A. Reina

Reina's next feature film, Guerrero 12 (12th Warrior), a documentary about the Mexican soccer fandom starring Juan Villoro, Luis García, Andrés Roemer, Jaime Guerrero, León Krauze and Mauricio Cabrera, is in production.

Mikko Hyppönen

In 2004, Hyppönen co-operated with Vanity Fair on a feature, The Code Warrior, which examined his role in the Blaster and Sobig Computer worms.

Music of Kyrgyzstan

Their music is typically heroic epics, such as the most famous story, the Manas epic (20 times longer than Homer's Odyssey), which is the patriotic tale of a warrior named Manas, and his descendants, who fight with the Chinese.

Nadir Shah's invasion of India

Michael Axworthy, The Sword of Punjab: Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant Hardcover 348 pages (26 July 2006) Publisher: I.B. Tauris Language: English ISBN 1-85043-706-8

Nanua Bairagi

As a great warrior, his service was equal to his contemporaries, Bhai Bachittar Singh Minhas, Bhai Jaita and Bhai Sangat Singh Minhas, Mai Bhago.

North Miami Middle/High School

Ruth Riley played for the Lady Warrior basketball team while she attended the school before going to The University of Notre Dame.

Paras Arora

Paras Arora (Hindi: पारस अरोड़ा) (born 10 January 1994) is an Indian television actor who is best known for his critically acclaimed portrayal of the great Maratha Warrior, Chhatrapati Shivaji Bhosale, in the award winning historical series Veer Shivaji.

Peaceful Warrior

Peaceful Warrior is a 2006 drama film directed by Victor Salva and written by Kevin Bernhardt based on the novel Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman.

Pohyonsa

During the Imjin Wars, when Japanese warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered several attempted invasions of Korea, the temple became a stronghold for bands of warrior monks led by the great saint Sosan.

Presidio San Augustin del Tucson

Famous military figures, prospectors, outlaws and warriors would all become part of Tucson's culture more than ever before.

Randy Gambill

Gambill made his acting début as The Gentle Warrior in the low-budget, comedy film Foot Fist Way (2006) directed by Jody Hill; he also served as the film's production designer.

Richard L. Tierney

A meticulous researcher, Tierney studied the Roman era and Gnosticism for this series featuring the magician-warrior.

Samuel Nathan Blatchford

His mother, Pauline Manuelito was the great-granddaughter of the great warrior Chief Manuelito who fought Kit Carson in the Navajo Wars (1869–63) and led his people in exile to the current Navajo Reservation.

Serpentor

He was conceived as the perfect warrior, extracted from the unearthed remains of some of the greatest generals of all time--Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, Attila the Hun, Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Vlad the Impaler, Hannibal, Genghis Khan, Grigori Rasputin, Montezuma, Geronimo and Egyptian general Xanuth Amon-Toth.

Si Buta Lawan Jaka Sembung

Si Buta Lawan Jaka Sembung (also titled The Warrior II and The Warrior Against Blind Swordsman for international distribution) is a 1983 Indonesian fantastique martial arts movie and a sequel to 1981 film Jaka Sembung.

Springfield Southeast High School

A large fiberglass statue of a Spartan warrior stands above the front entrance of the school.

StagKnight

However, deep within the forest, an ancient warrior preserved from the time of King Arthur has awoken and begins to hunt them down one by one.

Strider Knives

Richard Marcinko for the "Rogue Warrior" series of knives named after the author's series of books.

Terrorism in New Zealand

Greenpeace had planned to use the Rainbow Warrior as part of protest efforts over French nuclear testing at Moruroa, and DGSE divers sank the vessel by detonating mines against its hull while it was berthed in Auckland.

The Amtrak Wars

In 2008-09 Patrick Tilley wrote a draft of the first script, entitled like the book, Cloud Warrior, and the production company continued pursuing the project in 2010, showing the script and tentative production artwork to several companies at the Cannes Film Festival.

Vanessa Collingridge

In 2000 she quit her television presenter's job on Tonight with Trevor McDonald to author two biographies, one of eighteenth century explorer James Cook and one of Celtic warrior queen Boudica.

Waitakere Rangers

At various times their playing squad included former Warrior Cliff Beverley, former Melbourne Storm player Matt Rua and Awen Guttenbeil's brother Karl.

Warhammer Quest

These included two new adventure packs, several Warrior packs as well as additional Treasure Card packs & a set of blank Monster Cards & Event cards, where players could record their own monsters from the Warhammer world that were not written within the Roleplay book or else not produced as an official card by Games Workshop.

Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge

The player may meet Sirens and Charron from Greek mythology, the Amazulu (a group of African warrior women, whose tribal name is derived from the Amazons of Greek legend, and the Zulu of Africa), and even the Caterpillar from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.

Xu Zhu

Xu Chu (許褚), a warrior serving under the warlord Cao Cao during the late Han Dynasty

Þórir

Þórir Jökull Steinfinnsson, Icelandic 13th century warrior and possibly a skald


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