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6 unusual facts about Dana


Aes Dana

Aois-dàna (also spelled "áes dána"), the Scottish Gaelic or Old Irish "people of the arts" until the late 17th century

Al-Dana, Syria

In the mid-19th-century al-Dana was visited by English traveler James Silk Buckingham who noted that the village was built along the slopes of a rock in the center of a plain.

Dana, Indiana

Although miles from any major body of water, Dana was home to a Coast Guard LORAN navigation transmitter station until it was closed in 2010.

Illinois Route 179

From here, the highway ran west through farmland to Dana.

John H. Outland

On January 28, 1902 Outland married Ethel Arnett Grimes in her hometown of Dana, Indiana.

Petersham, Massachusetts

When the towns of the Swift River Valley were disincorporated, Petersham and neighboring New Salem benefited the most, with Petersham receiving all of the former town of Dana, much of the town of Greenwich, and a small portion of the former town of Prescott east of the Middle Branch of the Swift River.


Alice Barrows

Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of Charles Dana Barrows and Marion Merrill, Alice graduated from Vassar College with an A.B. During 1901–03, she was employed as an English teacher at the Packer Collegiate Institute, then she taught English at the Ethical School in New York City from 1903–04.

Arthur Pardee

In 1961 Pardee became Professor in Biochemical Sciences at Princeton University while in 1975 he moved to Boston to become Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School as well as Chief for the Division of Cell Growth and Regulation at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor

In August 2011, a six-year-old named Avalanna Routh who was battling AT/RT at Dana–Farber Cancer Institute was given a pretend wedding with her idol Justin Bieber, with doctors and nurses providing a cardboard life-sized cutout of Bieber, a guitarist, flowers, and a T-shirt emblazoned with the words "Future Mrs. Bieber".

Bee and Flower

Dana formed the band while a recording/touring member of Michael Gira's (Swans, Young God Records) band Angels of Light.

Ben and Kate

The show was created by Dana Fox who served as an executive producer alongside Peter Chernin, Katherie Pope, and Jake Kasdan.

Buccinum baeri

The hermit crab Pagurus hirsutiusculus (Dana, 1851) can be found in empty shells of Baer's Buccinum.

Dallas Principles

The authors of the Dallas Principles are Juan Ahonen-Jover, Ken Ahonen-Jover, John Bare, Jarrett Barrios, Dana Beyer, Jeffrey H. Campagna, Mandy Carter, Michael Coe, Jimmy Creech, Allison Duncan, Michael Guest, Joanne Herman, Donald Hitchcock, Lane Hudson, Charles Merrill, Dixon Osburn, Lisa Polyak, Barbra Casbar Siperstein, Pam Spaulding, Andy Szekeres, Lisa Turner, Jon Winkleman, and Paul Yandura.

Dana Berliner

Along with co-counsel Scott Bullock, Dana litigated the landmark case Kelo v. City of New London, one of the most divisive and widely discussed Supreme Court decisions in decades.

Dana Biosphere Reserve

The threatened Nubian Ibex, Syrian Serin, Caracal, and Lesser Kestrel are natives of Wadi Dana and plans to save the species were put forth by Global Environment Fund in 1994.

Dana Carpender

Dana Carpender (born October 18, 1958) is an American food writer, best known for writing about low carbohydrate dieting.

Dana Cunningham

Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1961, Dana eventually moved with her family to Texas where she grew up in Amarillo, Dallas, and Paris, Texas.

Dana Gas

In January 2013, Dana Gas was held responsible for the flooding and destruction of the Upper Egyptian village of Fares, near Kom Ombo.

Dana Hamilton

Dana Hamilton (born November 17, 1950, Arlington, Texas) is an American hammered dulcimer player.

Dana Hammond

At age nine he began to play for his local church, the church music ministry allowed Dana to hone his skills and travel to places like New York and Oslo, Norway.

Dana Sterling

In the decanonized Jack McKinney novel "Rubicon" (book 17 of the Robotech series), Dana, Louie Nichols, Bowie Grant, Angelo Dante, Sean Phillips, Marie Crystal, Musica and Allegra acquire Jonathan Wolfe's ship, travel to Tirol, and meet up with the Robotech Expeditionary Forces in 2033.

In the original Robotech timeline (on which the Sentinels and the Jack McKinney novels were based), Dana was born in 2013 and the SDF-3 departed in 2020, meaning that Dana was aged 7 years at the time.

In the decanonized book "Southern Cross" (book 7 of the series) by Jack McKinney, Dana's childhood is depicted as being very difficult after her parents left with the REF mission in 2022.

Dana Tai Soon Burgess

On August 11, 2013, Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company will perform a new dance work at The National Gallery of Art as part of their Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes Exhibit, organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum of London.

Dana–Farber Cancer Institute

This, and another antifolate drug, Methotrexate used by Dr. Farber were discovered and supplied by Dr. Yellapragada Subbarao Director, Research at Lederle Co. at Pearl River, NY.

Donal Hord

The years following the end of the Second World War found Hord at the height of his artistic prowess, producing not only many fine smaller works, but also, with the aid of Homer Dana, several large architectural works, notably two large concrete bas-reliefs for the San Diego Public Library's Central Library.

Fernando Nottebohm

1992 Charles A. Dana Award (jointly with Masakazu Konishi) for pioneering achievement in The Health Sciences.

Hurtsmile

Besides brothers Gary and Mark Cherone, who also play together in Slip Kid, a The Who tribute band, the band features Joe Pessia, who plays with Tantric and was the bassist for Bettencourt's DramaGods and drummer Dana Spellman, who was a student of Extreme's former drummer Mike Mangini.

Ingmar Zahorsky

His journalism career started at Amateur Illustrator for which he interviewed artists such as Dana Lynne Anderson, Jacob Appelbaum and Ali Jamalzadeh.

Jeep Wrangler

It also came with fog lamps, CD player with 7 speaker sound system and Sirius Satellite Radio, SunRider soft top, 30" wheels with 15" Alcoa aluminum rims, high pressure gas charged shocks, Dana 44 rear axle and exclusive 65th Anniversary Edition seats, trim, floor mats and decals.The available colors were light khaki, dark khaki, bright silver, black and Jeep Green.

June Moon

The cast included Tom Fitzsimmons as Fred, Barbara Dana as Edna, Jack Cassidy as Paul, and Susan Sarandon as Eileen, with Kevin McCarthy, Lee Meredith, Estelle Parsons, Austin Pendleton, and Stephen Sondheim in supporting roles.

Kimberly Williams-Paisley

From 2001 to 2008, Williams-Paisley played the role of Dana in the ABC sitcom According to Jim, opposite Jim Belushi and Courtney Thorne-Smith.

Kokhav Nolad

In the 9th season the singer Miri Mesika and the musician Yair Nitzani replaced Gal Ochovsky, Dana International and Pavlo Rozenberg.

Mary S. B. Shindler

In June 1835, Mary Palmer married Charles E. Dana, and moved with him first to New York City, and in 1837 to Bloomington, Iowa.

Mirjana Vukomanović

Her movie Three Summer Days (Tri letnja dana, 1997) was the Yugoslav submission to the 70th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.

Momversation

Regular contributors to the Momversation show include Heather Armstrong of the website Dooce, Alice Bradley, Daphne Brogdon, Asha Dornfest, Jessica Gottlieb, Giyen Kim, Dana Loesch, Maggie Mason, Mindy Roberts, Heather Spohr, Karen Walrond, and Rebecca Woolf.

New Green Clear Blue

Special thanks for the album went to Vangelis Papathanassiou, Harold Budd and Richard Harries, Jr. for musical and personal inspiration; New York City; all at Green Street Recording Studios; Amanda Stone and Andrew Derrick Design, London; Dana Millman and all at Gold Spaceship and at Private Music.

Richard Dana

Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815–1882), American lawyer and author of Two Years Before the Mast, son of Richard Henry Dana Sr. and father of Richard Henry Dana III,

Richard Henry Dana, Sr. (1787–1879), American poet and author, son of Francis Dana and father of Richard Henry Dana Jr.,

Richard Henry Dana III

Dana was the son of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.; he married Edith Longfellow, the daughter of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Sand anemone

Oulactis muscosa (Drayton in Dana, 1846), also known as the speckled anemone

Simon Boulton

He first worked under Professor Nick Dyson of the MGH Cancer Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, then under Professor Marc Vidal of the Dana Faber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School.

Song Kwang-sik

In 2001, Kwang-sik provided music for several studio albums including Surprise by S.E.S, Polaris by Kangta, Dana: First Album by Dana, and Alone by Moon Hee-joon.

Team Racing

Dana White and Kevin Lepage drove in several races for Team Racing as well that season.

The Church Lady

Dana Carvey recalls that he was prompted by executive producer Lorne Michaels to introduce the character (when it was still in SNL rehearsals) at a Neil Young concert at Madison Square Garden, which Church Lady interrupted, fussing and fuming: "What are we doing here? What's all this noise?"

The MoShow

Premiering on January 1, 2011 on over 300 television stations throughout the United States and on DirecTV Channel 354, it is hosted by Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff (of Pacific Coast Hellway) and Dana Ward (of ClevverTV), with production by Frank Chindamo.

The New WKRP in Cincinnati

Among the other notable actors that were cast members on the show were Mykelti Williamson as program director Donovan Aderhold, Tawny Kitaen as late night D.J. Mona Loveland, Kathleen Garrett as D.J. Dana Burns, and French Stewart, who joined the cast in the second season as morning D.J. Razor Dee.

Theodore Marcus Hansen

Having completed the coursework for a Master of Arts degree (although he never wrote a thesis), Hansen returned to America to begin teaching at Dana College and Trinity Seminary in 1921.

Toes in the Sand Recordings

Toes in the Sand Recordings is a US-based record label founded by David Christopher (aka Deviant) and Amy Dana in 2004.

Valentin Ceaușescu

On 3 July 1970, Ceaușescu married Iordana (Dana) Borilă, the daughter of communist party leader Petre Borilă.

Wiesław Masłowski

Many climate change deniers claimed that this was evidence that the models were incorrectly exaggerating predictions of Arctic sea ice decline; however, John Abraham and Dana Nuccitelli noted that other climate scientists believed Maslowski's estimates to be overly pessimistic.


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