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unusual facts about Crush



Andover workhouse scandal

In August 1845 rumours began to circulate around Andover that inmates of the town's workhouse were being deprived of food and had taken to eating the marrow from horse, dog and cattle bones which they were employed to crush to produce bone meal fertiliser.

Angels Would Fall

"Angels Would Fall" is about a desperate crush Etheridge had on someone else's girlfriend during her shattered relationship with Julie Cypher.

Battle of Adasa

According to 2 Maccabees 15, Judas inspired his troops by relating to them a dream-vision he had experienced, wherein the Prophet Jeremiah presented a gold sword to him and said, "Accept this holy sword as a gift from God; with it you shall crush your adversaries." (2 Maccabees 15:15-16, NAB).

Because I Love It

A music video featuring the original version of "Crush" (produced by Johnny Douglas) was used for the radio and the video version of the single.

Booky's Crush

First announced in 2008, Booky's Crush is the third in a series of made-for-TV films about Beatrice 'Booky' Thomson, a little girl growing up in Toronto during the depression era.

Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice

Christie Clark as Lacey Hellerstat: A local orphaned girl whom Danny has a crush on.

Christa Winsloe

The lesbian aspect of the story was downplayed and depicted as an adolescent crush, even though Winsloe co-authored the script, and Leontine Sagan, who in the play had stressed the lesbian aspect, acted as director.

Compañeros

They receive help from Lola (Iris Berben), the leader of Xantos' rebel group, to whom El Vasco develops a crush, and her group of young revolutionaries.

Gangwar

This clan served as soldiers and sardars in the army of Shiva Ji and other Maratha Sardars and had taken part in the Maratha missions of Rohilkhand to crush the Rohilla Pathans before and after the 3rd war of Panipat This clan was the part of Maratha mission 1771 AD and later settled around the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh hence the surname seems of Maratha origin.

Ibrox disaster

The 1971 Ibrox disaster was a crowd crush in a stairway, causing 66 deaths and over 200 injuries, at an Old Firm match

Joey Buchanan

College student Marty Saybrooke (Susan Haskell), who had a crush on Andrew and was jealous of his relationship with Billy, accused Andrew of molesting Billy.

Kevin Rahm

He also guest-starred on Friends as Tim, Monica's inexperienced sous-chef, in "The One with Rachel's Date" in Season 8; has a recurring role on AMC's Mad Men as Ted Chaough, from rival firm CGC; played car salesman Brad Elias on the CBS', The Mentalist; and played Jack, Annie's ex-brother-in-law and crush, on Fox's I Hate My Teenage Daughter.

Kissyfur

Beehunnie (voiced by Russi Taylor) - A white bunny who has a crush on Kissyfur, she is the only female swamp cub and tends to act as the voice of reason at times

Kolchak army offensive

The purpose of northern advancing was to connect with North Russia Front and to strike on Petrograd; the purpose of southern advancing was to crush the front of Reds on the middle Volga river and to strike on Moscow.

Kris MacFarlane

Additional artists MacFarlane has worked with include: Dustin Bentall, Barry Canning, George Canyon, Dave Carroll, Patricia Conroy, Crush, Denny Doherty, Luke Doucet, Lennie Gallant, Dave Gunning, Garth Hudson, Paul Lamb, Shanneyganock, Slainte Mhath, Sons of Maxwell, The Paperboys, Nathan Wiley and Hawksley Workman.

Laura Sadler

In 1996 she starred in the feature film Intimate Relations alongside Julie Walters, where she played a Lolita-like girl with a crush on her mother's adulterous lover.

Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws

Josie repeatedly attempts to impress her crush, Ethan Lancaster, with little success,even tripping down an up escalator at the mall to try to get his attention, while her best friend Cami is doing everything she can to become the high scorer on the basketball team so that she'll be chosen to participate in a demonstration with the coach's old friend and her idol, Rebecca Lobo.

Lioness Asuka

However, near the end of 1999, Nagayo and Asuka united against a common rival, the Mayumi Ozaki-led faction Team Nostradamus, and, the next spring, reformed the Crush Gals.

Michael Mols

However, during a UEFA Champions League clash against FC Bayern Munich, he collided with opposing goalkeeper Oliver Kahn, which resulted in a serious knee injury – in the same competition, he previously helped his club crush PSV Eindhoven 4–1 at home by scoring twice, whilst in the league, he put four past former Ranger Andy Goram's Motherwell.

Omarr Smith

He broke a tie with Greg Hopkins for sole possession of 20th place on the AFL's all-time career interception list with his 27th that he returned 42 yards for a touchdown, his fifth career interception return for a touchdown with San Jose (sixth overall) giving him the team's all-time lead, against the Crush.

Orange Crush Defense

The team adopted the 3–4 defense during the 1976 season, and the nickname "Orange Crush" for the team's defense was popularized early in the 1977 season by sportswriter/broadcaster Woody Paige.

Outnumbered

Other new characters in Series 3 include Kelly (Anna Skellern), on whom Jake has a crush, Angela's new husband Brick (Douglas Hodge), who is an American therapist, and his daughter Taylor Jean, who wants to live with her mum.

Paul Ferguson

He subsequently worked on other musical projects, notably with rock outfits Warrior Soul (1987-1990), Murder, Inc. (1991-92) and Crush (1992-93).

Peggy Fleming

Peggy Fleming is mentioned very prominently in the Peanuts comic strip during the late 1960s and early 1970s, with Snoopy clearly having a crush on her.

Phrataphernes

At least he is termed by Arrian satrap of Parthia, during the advance of Alexander against Bessus, when he was detached by the king, together with Erigyius and Caranus to crush the revolt of Satibarzanes, in Aria (329 BC).

Planets: The Exploration of Space

For example, one of the many was that at one point in time, Seth Robinson had a crush on Jennie Garth from Beverly Hills, 90210 and this showed up in Planets: TEOS, as at least one default NPC ship captain's name was Jennie.

Prickly City

Early in the strip's run, Winslow had a crush on Condoleezza Rice, even writing a poem about her (which Carmen initially misunderstood as being a poem about herself).

Robert Miskimon

Skagit (Barnes & Noble/iUniverse, 2002) is the story of residents of the fictional Skagit Island in Puget Sound who, despite their many differences and idiosyncrasies, unite to crush a proposed bridge from their island to the mainland.

Sachan

This clan served as mercenaries in the army of Shiva Ji and other Maratha Sardars and had taken part in the Maratha missions of Rohilkhand to crush the Rohilla Pathans before and after the 3rd war of Panipat This clan was the part of Maratha mission 1771 AD and later settled around the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh hence the surname seems of Maratha origin.

Safe standing

On 15 April 1989 a crush on the Leppings Lane terrace of Hillsborough during an FA Cup semi final, resulting in the deaths of ninety-six Liverpool supporters.

Sarah Nicklin

She started acting due to a school-girl crush on child star Jonathan Taylor Thomas.

Schoolboy Crush

Schoolboy Crush, 2004 gay pornographic film starring Brent Everett and featuring Brent Corrigan (real name Sean Paul Lockhart) in his major role as porn actor

Seb Miller

Kirsty's sister, Dani (Tammin Sursok) mentions that Seb has a similar style to Josh West (Daniel Collopy), who Kirsty recently had a crush on, Seb dumps her.

Super Inggo 1.5: Ang Bagong Bangis

He will meet Lola Facunda, the mother of Pacita & Super Inday; as well as new friends such as Bokia, the talking cellphone (a play on the cellphone brand, Nokia ) ; and Chin-Chin Tsinelas, Budong's crush.

Tess Tyler

Tess also has a crush on Shane Gray, who has been sent to camp to get his act together.

The Ann Sothern Show

Other characters included Johnny Wallace (Jack Mullaney), a bellboy who had a crush on Katy, and Paul Monteney (Jacques Scott), a suave, French room clerk.

The Disciples of Apocalypse

With the loss of Crush, DOA started to team on a semi-regular basis with Ken Shamrock and Ahmed Johnson to battle the Nation of Domination.

The Iron Shroud

Elizabeth Gaskell, in Mary Barton describes an Italian torture chamber where the victim is afforded many luxuries at first but in the end the walls of the cell start closing in and finally they crush him.

The Jazz Butcher

Their oeuvre is blackly humorous with such topics as Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, an unrequited crush on Shirley MacLaine, and an ode to SF writer Harlan Ellison.

The Scent of Rain in the Balkans

Marko Korać, a Mostar–born Blanki's childhood crush and eventually her husband

WCPQ

The last song on Nine FM was intended to be "Kiss This Thing Goodbye" by Del Amitri, but ended up being "Crush" by Jennifer Paige, likely an homage to the "WKIE" call letters' 10 year run with "Crush" being one of the first hit songs on the station.

Wes Parker

He appeared in episode #17 of The Brady Bunch, "The Undergraduate" (1/23/70), as the boyfriend of Greg Brady's math teacher, on whom Greg has such a huge crush that he is distracted in his studies.

Where Them Girls At

The song was used in a scene of the 2013 animated film Despicable Me 2, where Margo (one of the daughters of the movie's main character, Gru) danced with Antonio (the son of Gru's arc enemy, El Macho who faked his identity as Eduardo), to whom she had a crush on, in a Cinco de Mayo party at his mansion.

William Hicks

This resulted in the dismissal of Suliman Niazi and the appointment of Hicks as commander-in-chief of an expeditionary force to Kordofan with orders to crush the mahdi, who in January 1883 had captured El Obeid, the capital of that province.

Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled

Determined to help him, Lisa retains a lawyer, Steven (Michael Trucco), who has a crush on her.

Yuri Dolgorukov

Sophronius "Yuri" Dolgorukov (1602–1682), general and governor, won a series of victories in the Russian-Polish war of 1654-67, including the Battle of Werki, led the army to crush the rebellion C. Razin


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