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unusual facts about Daylight


Daylight, Moonlight: Kitaro Live In Yakushiji

It was recorded over three evenings at the Yakushiji temple in the ancient Japanese capitol of Nara.


Alan Burgess

He wrote The Small Woman (1957), the story of Gladys Aylward, The Longest Tunnel: the true story of World War II's great escape, Seven Men at Daybreak (1960) about Operation Anthropoid, The Lovely Sergeant (1963) about Flora Sandes, Daylight Must Come: The story of a courageous woman doctor in the Congo, a travelogue entitled No Risk - No Romance, and a novel, The Word for Love (1970).

American Daylight

American Daylight is a 2004 film directed by Roger Christian and produced by Kaleidoscope Entertainment.

Bill Edrich

On 12 August 1941 he participated in a low-level daylight attack by Bristol Blenheim bombers against power stations in the Cologne area, described by the Daily Telegraph as "the RAF's most audacious and dangerous low-level bombing raid".

Bronx Library Center

Photocell sensors on the ceilings react to daylight levels and automatically change electric lighting intensities accordingly to save energy used.

Brooke Fraser discography

As well as "Better", What to Do with Daylight spawned the singles "Lifeline", "Saving the World", "Arithmetic" and "Without You", all of which reached the top 20 of the New Zealand Singles Chart.

Canaan, Haiti

In June 2013, the BBC World Service's World Have Your Say had a radio programme on Canaan's explosive growth, interviewing a man there who described how people from other displacement camps around Haiti and even other long-term residents of other areas of Haiti were increasingly coming to Canaan despite its lack of running water (there are pump stations, around which there are often fights), lack of a permanent hospital, and lack of transportation options outside daylight hours.

Coast Daylight

Coast Starlight, run by Amtrak, formerly known as Coast Daylight

Coonabarabran

Siding Spring is also home to the Uppsala Telescope where Robert H. McNaught discovered his now famous daylight comet C/2006 P1 in August 2006.

CPC Gangbangs

In early 2003, guitarist and vocalist Paul Spence, (previously a member of a punk rock band, Lyle Sheraton and the Daylight Lovers), and newly famous for co-starring in the mockumentary cult classic FUBAR: The Movie, joined the band, renamed the CPC Gangbangs.

David T. Friendly

In 1994, Friendly joined Davis Entertainment as President, where he produced Daylight and Digging to China, as well as overseeing the development and production of many other Davis films.

Daylight Saving for South East Queensland

In early April 2012, DS4SEQ presented a formal submission to the newly elected Premier of Queensland, Campbell Newman, to put forward the case for addressing daylight saving in Queensland.

Devil's Beef Tub

In his novel Redgauntlet, novelist Walter Scott said, "It looks as if four hills were laying their heads together, to shut out daylight from the dark hollow space between them. A damned deep, black, blackguard-looking abyss of a hole it is".

Draper Kauffman

As commander of UDT 5, he participated in the invasion of Saipan, and received a second Navy Cross for leading his team in a daylight reconnaissance of fortified enemy beaches under heavy fire, and on 10 July 1944, leading a night reconnaissance of heavily defended beaches at Tinian island.

Eva von Sacher-Masoch

Sacher-Masoch witnessed the United States Army Air Forces daylight raids on Vienna from 1944 onwards, and the Red Army's assault on Vienna in 1945.

Gabriel Ríos

His song Broad Daylight was used by the late Dutch film director Theo van Gogh in the film 06/05 (concerning the assassination of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn).

Grand Street and Grand Avenue

The street is referenced in songs and books from many local artists, including Bob Dylan ("Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again"), Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan ("I Don't Wanna Grow Up", popularized by the Ramones) and Matt & Kim (the title of their album Grand, as well as in the lyrics of their songs "Cameras" and "Daylight").

Heathrow Terminal 5 station

Although situated underground, parts of the station's roofing are made of translucent ETFE laminate panels, allowing natural daylight to flood down both ends of all six platforms.

John Dering Nettleton

Thus on 17 April 1942 Squadron Leader Nettleton was the leader of one formation of six Avro Lancaster bombers on a daylight attack on a diesel engine factory at Augsburg, near Munich Germany flying Lancaster Mk I, R5508, coded "KM-B" .

Joseph Scalise

On September 11, 1980, Scalise and a colleague, Arthur Rachel, undertook a $3.6 million jewel robbery in broad daylight at Graff's jewelry store in London's busy Knightsbridge area, stealing the 45-carat Marlborough diamond, along with many other jewels.

Joy Osmanski

For indendent films, Osmanski stars as Jinnie Park in Christine Yoo's film, Wedding Palace opposite Brian Tee, and also stars as Amy in Dave Boyle's films, Surrogate Valentine and Daylight Savings.

Kick at the Darkness

The title comes from a line in the song "Lovers in a Dangerous Time", gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.

Kinsley Park

According to his 1930 contract with the Providence Steam Roller, which is now in the Pro Football Hall of Fame archives, Tony Latone was paid $125 for all NFL daylight games and 60 percent of that sum for NFL "floodlight" games.

Klawock Airport

On April 6, 2005, about 14:35 Alaska daylight time, a twin-engine Britten-Norman BN-2A Islander airplane, N29884, sustained substantial damage following a main landing gear component failure and subsequent loss of control while landing at the Klawock Airport, Klawock, Alaska.

Knapsack, Germany

The first raid was a low-level daylight raid by on 12 August 1941 by 54 Bristol Blenheims under the command of Wing Commander Nichol of No. 114 Squadron RAF.

Leslie Bohem

Les Bohem's writing credits include the miniseries Taken, Dante's Peak, Twenty Bucks, Daylight, and The Alamo.

Little Daylight

Little Daylight is a fairy tale written by George MacDonald and included as a story within a story in At the Back of the North Wind, published in 1871.

Lovers in a Dangerous Time

U2 alluded to "Lovers" in their 1988 single "God Part II", with the lyric Heard a singer on the radio late last night/He says he's gonna kick the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.

Lukla

Weather permitting, twin-engined Dornier and Twin Otters make frequent daylight flights between Lukla and Kathmandu.

Madison Stone

In addition to her work in porn, Stone appeared in several "mainstream" films, such as the 1992 Live-action/animated B-movie Evil Toons (with fellow porn actress Barbara Dare) and the 1996 Sylvester Stallone action film Daylight.

Memo from Turner

Martin Scorsese uses the track in a scene from Goodfellas where Ray Liotta's character Henry emerges from the house during the daylight on a cocaine binge.

Michael Melia

His rugged features have led to parts in numerous crime dramas: The Sweeney, The Bill, Minder in the Series 1 episode Monday Night Fever, C.A.T.S. Eyes, Campion, The Chinese Detective, Dempsey and Makepeace, Rumpole of the Bailey, Inspector Morse, Maigret, The Detectives, Daylight Robbery and New Tricks.

Molad

Also, some printed sources even add an hour during the summertime for "daylight saving", or attempt to apply conversions to the local time zone, but those are also mistakes because they would affect the molad of Tishrei and thus could imply an erroneous date for Rosh Hashanah.

Mountain Time Zone

The Phoenix metropolitan area is the largest metropolitan area in the zone; the largest metropolitan area that observes Mountain Daylight Time is the binational El Paso–Juárez area, closely followed by Denver, Colorado.

Murder of Timothy Brenton

On the night of October 31, 2009, at approximately 10:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7), Brenton and his partner, trainee officer Britt Sweeney, were both sitting in their patrol car following a traffic stop at 29th Avenue South and East Yesler Way in the Central District.

Nueces Hotel

The Sun Parlor had fine brickwork, potted plants, area rugs, and wicker furniture, and tall windows that admitted abundant daylight creating a pleasant dining experience with an outdoor atmosphere and indoor comfort; the tropical outdoor garden let guests and others enjoy their meals among palm trees, sheltered by walls from the street and from the prevailing winds that cooled the east lobby.

Old 666

A few days later on a daylight bombing raid over Rabaul, Old 666 came in so low it was brushing the roofs of the housetops.

Pierre Janssen

At the great Indian eclipse of 1868 that occurred in Guntur, Janssen also demonstrated the gaseous nature of the red prominences, and devised a method of observing them under ordinary daylight conditions.

Pulin Behari Das

The audacious dacoity was committed in broad daylight by a group of revolutionaries at the residence of the zamindar of Barrah, under the Nawabganj police station in the district of Dhaka.

Rhagonycha nigriceps

This quite common beetle is active during the daylight hours, when it can be easily found on Apiaceae or Asteraceae species.

San Diego Mountain Kingsnake

The San Diego mountain kingsnake typically emerges from overwintering sites in March and may remain near-surface active through November, but it is particularly conspicuous near the surface from roughly mid-March to mid-May (Klauber 1931, McGurty 1988, Hubbs 2004), during which time it is active during the warmer daylight hours (pers. observ.).

Sunny Day

Sunny 16 rule, photographic method of estimating correct daylight exposures without a light meter

The Longest Day

Midsummer, the 'longest day' of the year (the one with the most daylight)

Tz database

Time in Germany, which is represented by Europe/Berlin, is not correct for the year 1945 when the Trizone used different daylight saving time rules than Berlin.

Winfred J. Sanborn

Sanborn also negotiated with the Santa Fe Railroad for the elimination of daylight switching along the Slauson Avenue right-of-way, with the railroad in return getting approval for a franchise for its Los Angeles Harbor extension.

Yielden

Later in 1942, following the entry of the United States into the war, it eventually became the home of the United States Army Air Forces 305th Bombardment Group (Heavy), which had four squadrons of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses pioneering the daylight formation and bombing procedures of the time.


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