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unusual facts about Dump



1933–34 Northern Rugby Football League season

Work begins at a former quarry that was being used as a waste dump at Odsal Top in Bradford after Bradford Northern sign a ten year lease with the local council.

1996–97 Calgary Flames season

On November 23, 1996, rugged forward Sasha Lakovic authored one of the more memorable moments in the history of the Battle of Alberta when he attempted to leap over the glass at Northlands Coliseum in Edmonton to attack a drunken fan who had reached over the barrier to dump a beer on the head of Flames assistant coach Guy Lapointe.

2101 Adonis

In the comic album "Suske en Wiske, De Wolkeneters" they pass Adonis on their way to Mars and dump their garbage on it.

559th Flying Training Squadron

The 81st entered combat on 16 April 1944 when it dispatched 12 B-25s in an attack upon railway sidings and a Japanese supply dump at Mogaung, Burma.

A Good Fight

The current members are Eddie Love, Rizz, Jon Woods, Christian Sanchez, and Eddie "Dump Truck" Mekelburg.

Bergenite

Bergenite was first discovered at a now deserted mine dump of the SDAG Wismut shaft 254 in Mechelgrun, Vogtland Mining District, Saxony, Germany near the city of Bergen, Lower Saxony.

Beyond the Forest

The film contains the line spoken by Davis, "What a dump!", later also said by her in the film Dead Ringer (1964), and made famous by being quoted in the opening scene of Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962).

Byne Blueberry Farms

The latest experiment of Byne Blueberry Farms is to allow the city of Waynesboro to dump its yard clippings on the farm to be used as fertilizer, rather than being wasted.

Casmalia Resources

Miyoshi attended a rally in Casmalia at which a large group of residents traveled by caravan to a rally at the State Capitol, where they demanded Governor George Deukmejian close the dump.

CCNY point shaving scandal

In 1998, George Roy and Steven Hilliard Stern, Black Canyon Productions, and HBO Sports made a documentary film about the CCNY Point Shaving Scandal, City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal, that appeared on HBO.

Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact

The Central Interstate Low Level Radioactive Waste Compact and US Ecology purchased land 2 miles west of Butte, Nebraska in the early 1990s with the intention of placing a dump site there.

Chabařovice Lake

Cycling path with marking 3009 was opened in 2006 and it goes through the territory of outside dump of the mine with line up to Habří and Řehlovice.

Clarence United

In 2003, the ground was featured in the media on ABC Stateline, when local residents suggested that DDTs, and other Organochlorides had been used to control vermin and mosquitoes when the site was a rubbish dump, and that these chemicals were responsible for higher than usual rates of diseases such as cancer in the local area.

Clive King

Clive King's best-known novel is Stig of the Dump (1963), illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, which follows the adventures of a boy who discovers a Stone-Age cave-dweller living at the bottom of a disused chalk pit (which has been used as an unofficial rubbish dump) in Kent.

Core dump

The NASA Voyager program were probably the first craft to routinely utilize the core dump feature in the Deep Space segment.

Dolly Rathebe

During a photo-shoot for Drum magazine at a mine dump, Dolly and the white photographer, Jürgen Schadeberg were arrested under the Immorality Act, which forbade interracial relationships.

Dump Johnson movement

The leading proponents of the Dump Johnson Movement were two opponents of the war, Allard K. Lowenstein and Curtis Gans.

Dura-Europos church

In 1933, among fragments of text recovered from the town dump outside the Palmyrene Gate, a fragmentary text was unearthed from an unknown Greek harmony of the gospel accounts.

Formosa Plastics Corp

In 1999, Formosa Plastics was alleged to have used bribes to dump 3000 tons of mercury laden waste in Sihanoukville, Cambodia – three local villagers died shortly afterwards, although a report commissioned by the World Health Organisation concluded it was unlikely the deaths were due to mercury poisoning.

House clearance

The Directgov advises that these items are put into your car and taken to your local waste management centre; also known as a 'tip' or 'dump'.

Hyperthymesia

Disciple Manning, the main character in R. Scott Bakker's novel Disciple Of The Dog, also suffers from hyperthymestic syndrome which he characterizes as "simply irritable bowel syndrome of the head: where my dad can't dump his dumps properly, me, I can't dump my memories properly".

I Like Walt

I Like Walt is a compilation EP released by Walt Records in 1994 with tracks by Franklin Bruno, Butterglory, Dump, Guiding Genius, Marcellus Hall, and The Mountain Goats.

Igelbäcken

This part of the catchment area contains a motocross track, a golf driving range, a closed dump, and receives stormwater from the E18 traffic route.

Kaimakli

In 1878 when the British arrived they found that the Venetians had diverted the river Pediaios north of the city, but the old riverbed still ran though the centre, creating an open sewer and rubbish dump, which sometimes flooded into the surrounding streets.

Katamachi Line

Three weapons-related facilities used during the early 20th century are accessible by spurs located between Fujisaka and Tsuda Stations (Kin-ya Ammunition Dump, where two explosions occurred in 1909 and 1939), between Kawachi-Iwafune and Hoshida Stations (Uji Weapon Kori Factory), and the Osaka Army Arsenal warehouse between Hanaten and Shigino Stations.

Kilnhurst

To the south of the village, on an area sandwiched between the two railway lines that served the village, the Sheffield City sewage department ran a tip between 1892 and 1959, which was used to dump sewage sludge from the Blackburn Meadows sewage treatment works at Tinsley.

Layforce

One party was able to damage a bridge, while another set a tyre dump on fire and blew up the breeches of a number of naval guns.

Lower Light protest statues

The statues were made by local resident and farmer, Stephen Jones, as a protest against the establishment of a dump in the late 1990's by the Olsen government, as part of a plan to replace the Wingfield Waste & Recycling Centre.

Medal of Honor: Rising Sun

On August 7, 1942, Gunny, Joe and two other Marines are part of a midnight raid on Guadalcanal to take an airfield and destroy an ammo dump before the main assault at dawn.

Moose Mason

Moose has appeared briefly in one episode of the Simpsons, along with Archie, Reggie and Jughead, where they drive up to the Simpsons' house and dump Homer unceremoniously onto the front lawn.

No. 107 Squadron RAF

The squadron's most successful raid was made on Saponay on 21 July 1918, where a large ammunition dump was hit.

Pump and dump

During the dot-com era, when stock-market fever was at its height and many people spent significant amounts of time on stock Internet message boards, a 15-year-old named Jonathan Lebed showed how easy it was to use the Internet to run a successful pump and dump.

Real Oviedo

When football in the country resumed in 1939, Oviedo were relegated to the second division, as their pitch was deemed unplayable – Francisco Franco's troops had used the stadium as an ammunition dump.

Russell Savage

Savage lost his seat to the National Party's Peter Crisp in the 2006 Victorian State election, a loss he attributed to the Nationals' high-budget campaign, Labor's failure to reopen the Mildura rail link, and a proposal to build a toxic waste dump in his electorate.

Six Companies, Inc.

The Western Pacific Railroad purchased several of the Six Companies dump cars for company service after the dam was completed and the equipment declared surplus.

Speedloader

Intended as an alternative to loose rounds in a pocket or dump pouch, it holds six cartridges in a re-usable Neoprene plastic strip.

Steven Long

Every Woman's Nightmare: The Fairytale Marriage and Brutal Murder of Lori Hacking in 2006, published by St. Martin's Paperbacks, covers the Utah murder of housewife Lori Hacking, whose body was left in a city dump.

The Happiness of the Katakuris

The family uses the father's redundancy pay to purchase a large old home situated on a former garbage dump near Mount Fuji that they have named the ‘White Lover's Inn'.

The Jake Effect

Jake Galvin (Jason Bateman) is a successful lawyer, who has grown disdainful of his job after his latest successful case allows a client to dump Paradichlorobenzine into the Wabash River.

The Ketchup Effect

They therefore dump her as a friend and try to get accepted into the "in crowd" at school, which means becoming friends with Beatrice, the queen bee.

Undertakers sketch

The tactless undertaker (Chapman) suggests they can "burn 'er, bury 'er, or dump 'er in the Thames", but rules out the latter after Cleese confirms that he liked his mother. Of the other two, the undertaker says both are "nasty," and describes the sordid details. When the son shows the undertaker his mother's body, which is in a sack, he sees that the dead woman "looks quite young". He tells his assistant, Fred (Eric Idle) that he thinks they've "got an eater."

Vincenzo Vinciguerra

Following juridical investigations, it has been discovered that the C4 explosive (the most powerful explosive available at the time) used in the 1972 bombing came from a Gladio arms dump located beneath a cemetery near Verona, whose existence was revealed to judges Felice Casson and Carlo Mastelloni by Giulio Andreotti, former Prime minister of Italy.

A group of Carabinieri had accidentally discovered on February 24, 1972, an arms dump near Trieste, containing arms, munitions and C4 identical to the one used in Peteano the same year.

Warren Gish

to allow users to retrieve individual sequences in part or in whole, natively, translated or reverse-complemented, and able to dump the entire contents of a BLAST database back into human-readable FASTA format.

Waste Management, Inc

In November 2010, some residents of Kettleman City, California complained to the EPA about Waste Management's plan to double the size of its Kettleman Hills Hazardous Waste Facility, a local dump that has been connected to hazardous waste such as asbestos, pesticides, and PCBs.

Welcome to Lagos

The series follows denizens of Lagos as they go about their daily lives, from people living in the Olusosun rubbish dump to inhabitants of Lagos Lagoon.

Wentworth Park, Tasmania

In 2003, the ground was featured in the media on ABC Stateline, when local residents suggested that DDTs, and other Organochlorides had been used to control vermin and mosquitoes when the site was a rubbish dump, and that these chemicals were responsible for higher than usual rates of diseases such as cancer in the area.

West Town Academy

It became a fully state-certified high school in 1998 and, as cited in a November 11, 2003 article in the Chicago Tribune entitled "1 in 5 blacks drop out" and a Chicago Sun-Times January 9, 2004 article entitled "Schools pressured to dump bad students, critics say", has been retrieving "disenrolled" minority students from the Chicago Public Schools system through its association as a campus of Youth Connection Charter School.


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