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unusual facts about Delight



1912–13 Manchester City F.C. season

However, before their second game - a Manchester derby at Old Trafford - Ernest Mangnall had already been confirmed as taking over the managerial position at Hyde Road, and though he was still contracted to manage City's rivals for the game, when United lost by one goal to nil the press were eager to pick up on Mangnall's delight at the result.

Amanda Vanstone

Vanstone proved to be a blunt-talking, robust defender of government policies, and the then Shadow Minister for Family and Community Services, Wayne Swan, described her as "a political hyena who takes delight in attacking society's most vulnerable".

April FitzLyon

After that, she translated Émile Zola's Au bonheur des dames (Ladies Delight, 1957), the correspondence between Romain Rolland and Richard Strauss, and some recent French novels.

Big Band Reflections of Cole Porter

"...(The Jazz Orchestra of the Delta) delivers Big Band Reflections of Cole Porter, an album that is sure to delight fans of ambitious, lush big band music. Supplemented by singer Sandra Dudley and trumpeter Marvin Stamm, this is a beautifully arranged, executed, and produced album."

Buddleja 'Pink Delight'

Buddleja 'Pink Delight' is a cultivar raised by the Horticultural Research Institute in Boskoop, Netherlands, in 1986 from the hybrid B. davidii 'Fascination' × B. davidii var. nanhoensis 'Alba' × B. 'West Hill'.

Chief Blue Horse

Blue Horse regularly rode the giant observation Ferris Wheel, and at age of 82 and to the delight of the crowds, ascended the sky above in a captive air balloon.

Closterkeller

Many other groups like Delight, Moonlight or Artrosis said they took their inspirations from Closterkeller.

Crossing Hennessy

Loy's mother finally marries her accountant at the Cotton Tree Drive Marriage Registry to everyone's delight.

D. B.'s Delight

D.B.'s Delight featured two regular co-hosts- a live performer (successively, St. Louis media celebrities Julius Hunter, "Young" Bobby Day and later Guy Phillips) and a puppet character called "D.B. Doorbell" (performed, at various times, by puppeteers Dale Thompson, Doug Kincaid, and Bobby Miller).

Dame's Delight

Dame's Delight inspired the title of a 1964 novel by Margaret Forster.

Despina Storch

Storch was later immortalized as "Turkish Delight", "Turkish beauty", and a "modern Cleopatra" in spy literature.

Dixieland Delight

Songwriter Ronnie Rogers, who previously had hits with Ed Bruce, Dave Dudley, Tanya Tucker and others, recalled to country music journalist Tom Roland that the idea for "Dixieland Delight" came to him when he was driving down Highway 11W, a Tennessee road in Rutledge, Tennessee.

Donald Steven

A member of the Canadian League of Composers and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he won a BMI Student Composer Award in 1970, the Canadian Federation of University Women's Golden Jubilee Creative Arts Award in 1972, the 1987 Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year (for Pages of Solitary Delights) and the 1991 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music (for In the Land of Pure Delight).

George Sotter

In a recent episode of Antiques Roadshow on PBS, filmed in Philadelphia, a Sotter oil painting was appraised $120,000-$180,000, much to the delight of its visibly stunned owner.

Germanenzug

The outer sections portray German warriors going into battle, and the middle section is a song of the Valkyries who describe the delight of Valhalla, the destination of heroes who are killed in battle.

Heavenly Daze

The catch is that Shemp cannot be seen nor heard by anyone on Earth, much to his delight.

If the Cap Fits...

Hodges arrives, and accuses them of looking at dirty pictures, then Jones finally messes up and shows a picture of a topless Zulu native from the Vicars slide collection, "Light into Darkest Africa", much to Hodges delight and Mainwaring's discomfort.

Iris Clert Gallery

A blue cocktail was also served, a combination of gin, Cointreau, and methylene blue, which, much to Klein’s surprise and delight, caused his patrons to urinate blue the next day.

James P. Carrell

One of the songs in Virginia Harmony was the Isaac Watts hymn "There Is a Land of Pure Delight", set to the anonymous folk tune "Harmony Grove".

James Tyson

Enid Moberly Bell (1947:124-126) recounts a chance meeting between Tyson and Flora Shaw on a long train journey: although vastly different in background, they had "a fundamental agreement on values - indifference to wealth, delight in adventure, satisfaction in work accomplished ..." - see E.M.Bell (1947) Flora Shaw: Lady Lugard, D.B.E. Constable.

Kit Lang

Other notable stage performances in Lang’s portfolio included award-winning plays Angels in America, Tarantella, A Lonely Impulse of Delight and the British production of Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco.

Konica Minolta Tower Centre

The restaurant was redesigned by Robin De Groot for the television program Restaurant Makeover, completely transforming the environment and menu to the delight of Niagara Falls.

Lichens of Soldiers Delight

Chromite was mined at Soldiers Delight NEA until 1860 by Isaac Tyson, and some of the old mine shafts are still present.

Lyudmila Tselikovskaya

In 1943, now husband and wife, the pair spent several months at the frontline, performing before Soviet soldiers and officers of the General Gromov's 3rd Air Army to the great delight of the fighters who admired the tandem and the film they starred in.

Macetown

The Chinese miners annually celebrated Chinese New Year with a feast and a display of fireworks to the delight of all.

Marie Françoise Catherine de Beauvau-Craon

This did not stop her also collecting other lovers; nicknamed la Dame de Volupté ("the lady of delight"), she was also the mistress of the poet Jean François de Saint-Lambert, then of M. of Adhémar, of the intendant de Lorraine Antoine-Martin Chaumont de La Galaizière, of the lawyer and poet François-Antoine Devaux, of the abbé Porquet, and many others.

Messiah Part II

What they say is given to the chorus as a strict fugue in C minor: "He trusted in God, that He would deliver Him, if He delight in Him." Jonathan Keates observes that Handel depicts the mocking, menacing crowd here, comparable to the turbae in Bach's Passions.

MO-class small guard ship

To the delight of the engineers, the submarine had intact secret acoustic torpedoes on board.

Parrafaire

Parrafaire lives in the realm of Trickster's Delight on the plane of Carceri, but he may move through the planes and manifest avatars as a greater deity (because of his mother's aid).

Peter Wilding

In June 2010, Pete re-joined the club as Assistant Manager of the YouthTeam - Much to the delight of the Salop faithful, whom still very much idolise him, in a "cult hero" sort of way.

Philosophy and Spiritualism of Sri Aurobindo

From this base it is progressively awakening through the life of the plant, the beginnings of mind in the animal, the full emergence of mind in humanity, and is now stirring to awaken fully through the emergence of a greater consciousness than mind, the Supermind, in which the fullness of the undivided consciousness and infinite delight of the One will be manifest in individualities embodied here on earth.

Pier Michele Giagaraccio

To commemorate him, Gerolamo Araolla wrote the sonnet onor di Sassari e delizia dell'Arno (Honor of Sassari and delight of the Arno).

Pühtitsa Convent

The convent was first Orthodox monastery built in Estonia to the delight of mostly Orthodox local Estonian and Russian peasants of Jõhvi county.

Rafik Schami

The story "Als der Angstmacher Angst bekam" ("When the Fear-maker became Afraid") in Der Fliegenmelker takes a malicious delight in the downfall of a government informer, a stock figure in Schami's Damascene fiction.

Samantha Lewis

Lewis now chaperones young actors and in her new role has worked on Little Britain, much to the delight of its star Matt Lucas who was a huge fan of Georgina in the 1980s.

Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge

Its unique location at the meeting of several different climates (subtropical, Chihuahuan Desert, Gulf Coast, and Great Plains) has garnered a well-deserved reputation as a birding delight.

The Art Institute of California – Orange County

The school's AIGA student chapter hosted a video conference lecture with designer Milton Glaser via Skype on May 12, 2010, the video conference followed a screening of the documentary chronicling Milton Glaser's career "To Inform And Delight".

The Cry of the Icemark

The Guardian described it as "a supremely satisfying read which really deserves to be called a page-turner...Hill's original and quirky approach could yet make him the proper heir to Joan Aikens crown." The Times also gave it a good review saying, " It will have readers shivering with delight...From the moment that its 13-year-old heroine, Princess Thirrin, punches a werewolf on the nose you know you're in for a rollicking good read."

Thomas Metcalfe, 4th Baronet

During the rainy season he used to stay at 'Dilkusha' (Delight of the Heart), which was built on the first floor of the tomb of Mohammed Quli Khan, brother of Adham Khan, general of Mughal Emperor, Akbar, situated south east of the Qutb complex in Mehrauli, an area which was also the traditional retreat of the Mughals for the season.

Van Atta High

Some of their most well-known songs include "Call Me Jersey," "Birthday Girl," and their pop rock cover to the Starland Vocal Band 70's hit "Afternoon Delight" (contracted with S1 Songs, a music publishing company).

Vision Quest Records

The company works with File records (Sony Music), HMV, Tower Records, Virgin Music, Cisco, Quintrix, Acoustic (Sound Company) Egg House (Lights) M.M.Delight (VJ’s) Inter FM (Radio) Space Shower TV (Television) and advertises regularly in trade magazines like Floor, Loud and Club Juice.

Wahinda

Although, however, this very interesting people, the Wahuma, delight in supposing themselves to be of European origin, they are forced to confess, on closer examination, that although they came in the first instance from the doubtful north, they came latterly from the east, as part of a powerful tribe, beyond Kidi, who excel in arms, and are so fierce no Kidi people, terrible in war as these too are described to be, can stand against them.

Walter McConnell

Holly Henessian describes her reaction to one of these works, Theory of Everything (Blue version), “The Virgin Mary and E.T. were shoved together with other luminous characters from TV, creating a fantasia of delight.”

William Brockie

Whilst serving his articles he frequently had the delight of meeting Sir Walter Scott, and many of the local characters who appeared in the Waverley Novels, in addition to Sir David Brewster, then living at Gattonside, James Hogg, better known as "The Ettrick Shepherd", and many other of Scott's personal friends.

Yochlol

They take special delight in escaping the control of those who have summoned them (whom they must serve faithfully for one deed, as decreed by Lolth), and wandering free about the Prime Material Plane.

Yokohama Arena

1–4 April 1989: The first events on Yokohama Arena "Delight Slight Light KISS Yokohama Arena opening celebration concert" by Yumi Matsutoya as additional dates of her concert tour "Delight Slight Light KISS Tour".


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