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4 unusual facts about Dahl


Dahl's Foods

Another store opened in 1952 featuring a scratch bakery, pharmacy, and a lunch counter, uncommon for a grocery store at that time.

Day G. Turner

On that day, in Dahl, Luxembourg, Turner led his squad in the defense of a house against an intense German attack.

Hagen-Dahl

After 1817, Dahl was an independent settlement, with its own mayor, within the district of Breckerfeld, but by order of the government of the Kingdom of Prussia was administratively subordinate to the district (Kreis) of Hagen.

Jennifer Bongardt

Jennifer Bongardt (born 8 September 1982 in Hagen-Dahl) is a German slalom canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the early 2010s.


Arne Dagfin Dahl

In 1941 Dahl became the first Norwegian to attend the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Arne Dahl

Jan Arnald (born 1963), Swedish crime author, pen name Arne Dahl

Brett Stark

He is an animal lover and was the owner of Dahl the Galah who still resides with the Kennedy family to this day.

Carina Dahl

Dahl lived in Sweden for five years, where she worked with the record company TMC Entertainment, and in 2010 she released her first album Hot Child.

Christensen Canadian African Lines

On 31 August 2000 a deal was closed between A/S Thor Dahl and CP Ships allowing CP to buy Christensen Canadian African Lines (CCAL).

Dahlella

The generic name Dahlella commemorates the biologist Erik Dahl of the University of Lund.

Dorthea Dahl

Dahl wrote several books and a number of short stories published in the Norwegian-American press, most notably in the The Friend, published in Minneapolis by Nils Nilsen Ronning.

Edmund Jolliffe

His music for the programme for 'Fantastic Mr Dahl' was featured as an added extra on the DVD to Tim Burton's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.

Fenwick Smith

Smith has a reputation for playing new works and has notably made numerous premiere recordings of works by composers like Copland, Foote, Gaubert, Ginastera, Koechlin, Dahl, Harbison, Cage, Pinkham, Erwin Schulhoff, Schuller, Schoenberg, Ned Rorem, and Reinecke.

Hagen-Rummenohl

The former independent settlement of Dahl, consisting of Dahl, Priorei and Rummenohl, was incorporated in 1970 into the town of Breckerfeld in the district (Kreis) of Ennepe-Ruhr.

Hans Hysing

George Vertue describes portraits by him of the French engraver Joseph Goupy as 'well painted, much in Mr. Dahl's later manner.

Harvey Dahl

In a game against the Cincinnati Bengals on December 18, 2011, Dahl was penalized for holding.

Dahl signed with Dallas on April 28 after he went undrafted in the 2005 NFL Draft.

Jens Oliver Lisberg

While a law student in Copenhagen, he devised the flag in 1919 with two other Faroese students, Janus Øssursson from Tórshavn and Paul Dahl from Vágur.

Johan Christian Dahl

In 1823 Dahl moved in with Friedrich, so that many of his students, such as Knud Baade, Peder Balke, and Thomas Fearnley, were equally influenced by both artists.

Jokeren

Jesper Dahl appears as one of the three judges in the Television Show Talent 09, a Danish adaption of Britain's Got Talent.

Kirk DeMicco

John Cleese and DeMicco co-wrote the film adaptation of the Roald Dahl's children classic The Twits.

Lamb to the Slaughter

In 1979 the story was adapted by Robin Chapman for Roald Dahl's British television series Tales of the Unexpected with Susan George as Mary.

Laura Dahl

That same year the Showtime Network' The L Word selected Laura Dahl as one of their featured designers for the "L'ements of Style" collection.

Libby Kennedy

Brett leaves to go travelling and he gives his pet Galah, Dahl, to Libby.

Lou Carpenter

He decides to purchase the car yard next to Carpenter's Mechanics and uses Karl Kennedy's pet Galah, Dahl, in his advertisements.

Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light

It was Dahl-Wolfe's photos of Bacall that film producer Harry Warner saw, and subsequently asked Bacall that she come to Hollywood for a screen test.

Marianna Debes Dahl

Marianna Debes Dahl (24 November 1947) is a Faroese writer, født 1947 in Vestmanna, grew up in Tórshavn.

Michael Dahl

At several occasions, Christina let Dahl paint her portrait and she was able to establish an opportunity for Dahl to show a specimen of his work to Pope Innocent XI.

Muggle-Wump

In doing this he angers the Enormous Crocodile into wanting to eat more children, only to be thwarted by the Roly-Poly Bird (another recurring character in Dahl's books) and Trunky the Elephant.

Nikki and John Pranksters in Love

Nikki Baker, 25, and John Dahl, 28, met in high school in Northfield, Minnesota.

Ophelia Dahl

As a co-founder and key member of the PIH team, Dahl was featured prominently in Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, Tracy Kidder's book describing the work of the organization and the life of Dr. Farmer.

Östen Dahl

Östen Dahl (born 4 November 1945 in Stockholm) is a Swedish linguist and professor best known for pioneering a marker-based approach to tense and aspect in linguistic typology.

Per Dahl

Per Dahl (born 1952) is a Norwegian musicologist, Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger and former Rector of the university's predecessor, Stavanger University College.

Pet Rock

With his money Dahl opened the ironically named "Carry Nations" bar in downtown Los Gatos, California.

In April 1975, Dahl was in a bar (which is now Beauregard Vineyards Tasting room in Bonny Doon) listening to his friends complain about their pets.

Ratos

After that the company expanded into new areas, including a larger number of transport companies, the hotel chain Scandic Hotels and the plumbing chain Dahl International.

Revolting Rhymes

An audio book of Dahl's Revolting Rhymes was released, read by Timothy West and Prunella Scales; this version was also turned into an OVA by Abbey Home Entertainment in the 1990s as part of their Tempo Video range.

Rhyme Stew

The poems either parody well known fairy tales (Dick Whittington and His Cat, The Tortoise and the Hare, The Emperor's New Clothes, Ali Baba, Hansel and Gretel, Aladdin) nursery rhymes (As I was going to St Ives, Hey Diddle Diddle, Mary, Mary Quite Contrary) or are little stories thought up by Dahl himself.

SK Skuld

The club was founded by Claus Frimann-Dahl, Andreas Moestue, Finn Moestue, Haavard Holter and Henning Brodtkorp on 9 January 1886, and is named after Skuld of Norse mythology.

Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen

Dahl began writing it after editor Maxwell Perkins expressed an interest in publishing a novel length book if Dahl were to write it.

The Enormous Crocodile

It is in the style of a picture book in contrast to Dahl's other books, illustrated by Quentin Blake.

United States Senate election in South Dakota, 2008

Recent examples include $248,000 for the Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City, $11 million for Ellsworth Air Base, $400,000 for Rosebud Sioux Reservation, and $37 million for Mni Wiconi Rural Water System.

University Prep

The campus sits just across the street from Dahl Playfield and is adjacent to the Picardo Farm, the original P-Patch (community garden area).

Wright Brothers Medal

2006 James R. Akse, James E. Atwater, Roger Dahl, John W. Fisher, Frank C. Garmon, Neal M. Hadley, Richard R. Wheeler Jr, Thomas W. Williams: Development and Testing of a Microwave Powered Solid Waste Stabilization and Water Recovery System


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