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unusual facts about Earth, Wind



171 Ophelia

A 1979 study of the Algol-like light curve produced by this asteroid concluded that it was possible to model the brightness variation by assuming a binary system with a circular orbit, a period of 13.146 hours, and an inclination of 15° to the line of sight from the Earth.

André Ruellan

In the sequel, Ortog, and his friend Zoltan, embark on an Orpheus-like quest through the dimensions of Death to find Kalla’s soul and bring her back to Earth.

Carl Gustav Witt

He discovered two asteroids, most notably 433 Eros, the first known asteroid with an unusual orbit occasionally approaching the Earth's (today it is classified as an Amor asteroid).

Chakan: The Forever Man

The player, as Chakan, starts off in a central hub stage, from which he can select one of four elemental-based "planes" of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, each with three levels.

Charlie Landsborough

However, in 1994 his song "What Colour is the Wind", which tells the story of a young blind child’s attempts to envision the world, began to be played in Ireland, eventually reaching No. 1 in the Irish charts after a TV appearance on RTE's Kenny Live Show.

Cora, the Indian Maiden's Song

"Cora, The Indian Maiden's Song" ("The Wild Free Wind) is a song written by Shirley Brooks for his burletta, The Wigwam, sometime before 1847. Alexander Lee composed the music. In the song, Cora, the Indian maiden, is praising the wind: "Oh!

Daníel Bjarnason

He has twice won awards at the Icelandic Music Awards—Best Composer/Best Composition, 2010 for Processions and Composer of the Year, 2013 for his works "The Isle Is Full of Noises" and "Over Light Earth." Also in 2013, he and Ben Frost won the Edda Award for best soundtrack for their score to the Baltasar Kormákur-directed film, The Deep.

Doomlord

A replacement Doomlord ruled in favour of Earth and eventually became its protector, fathering a son; the strip evolved into superheroics drawn by Eric Bradbury.

Earth Crisis

In July 2011, Earth Crisis released their seventh studio album, Neutralize the Threat.

Elk State Park

Construction of the rolled earth, impervious core dam was authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1944.

Ellsworthite

Bulletin of the National Research Council, Number 77, Physics of the Earth - I Volcanology, By the Subsidiary Committee on Volcanology, Published by the National Research Council of The National Academy of Sciences Washington, D.C., (1931)

Environmental issues in Brazil

The city of Cubatão, designated by the Brazilian government as an industrial zone due in part to its proximity to the Port of Santos, became known as the “Valley of Death” and “the most polluted place on Earth”.

Evert Dudok

Before that he was Head of Earth Observation & Science division at EADS Astrium since March 2002.

Fan EP

Released in 2005 by Wind-up Records as a promotional CD in Europe, the EP contains the song "Metalingus" from the band's debut album, One Day Remains, in addition to three rare live songs recorded on March 28, 2005.

Forever Love: 36 Greatest Hits

It is the most complete compilation from the band, including extra tracks "Strong Strong Wind", and "The Way I Feel", plus containing songs from Russell Hitchcock's solo album and live album Now and Forever...Greatest Hits Live.

Gidroplan Tsikada

It was followed in 2007 by the Tsikada-M or Sky Wind 1 which had more powerful Jabiru engines and modifications to the fuselage and cabin, the undercarriage and the control systems.

Good Hit

Oribe, who stylized the hair for the video, created a "classic JLo look: lots of hair, volume and wind".

Haegemonia: Legions of Iron

Haegemonia takes place in the distant future where humanity has colonized the solar system and tensions are high between the World Government of Earth and colonial Mars.

Here on Earth

Aqui na Terra (Here on Earth), a Portuguese film directed by João Botelho

House of the Tiger King

He put together an expedition and set out into Peru’s Madre de Dios jungle, the densest cloud forest on earth.

Jacky Ward

In Ward's career, he recorded three duets with Reba McEntire, including McEntire's first Top 40 country hit, "Three Sheets in the Wind".

Janice L. Peaslee

In 2005 Peaslee supported the installation of five wind turbines in Sheffield, Vermont; a town not in here district.

Magic User's Club

An enormous cylindrical alien spaceship, which people call "the Bell" (釣り鐘 Tsurigane), descends upon Earth one day.

Mahkizmo

Thundra had gone to the 20th century of Earth-616 to prevent the existence of Machus by altering the past, and Machus was sent to stop her.

Mary Lindell

The 1991 film One Against the Wind starred Judy Davis, and was based on the biography Story of Mary Lindell: Wartime Secret Agent by Barry Wynne.

Mersad Berber

Kraków Grand Prix in 1997, an Ostend exhibition entitled "Between earth and heaven" and a recent one "Artist of the ideal" in Verona, selected by famous art critic Edward Lucie-Smith, confirmed Berber as one of the most significant contemporary artists.

Mongul

When The Reach and Captain Atom learn that Mongul and his Warworld are heading to Earth, they both attempt to negotiate with Mongul, who ignores them.

Navarth

We first encounter him on Earth, old and forgotten, living in reduced circumstances on a canal-boat in the ancient (but fictitious) city of Rollingshaven: apparently a Vanceian conflation of Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg.

Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth

As documented in the film Dig!, the song is dedicated to the band The Brian Jonestown Massacre, friends/rivals of The Dandy Warhols at the time, who in turn dedicated their own track "Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth" to them; although frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor revealed in an interview that the song is also about his girlfriend at the time who, according to him, had become a heroin addict.

Númenor

According to the novel, Merlin of the Arthurian Legend was the last in a long line of wizards familiar with the magic of Middle-earth, brought to the shores of prehistoric Britain by refugees from the sunken continent.

Philolaus

By nature the middle is first, and around it dance ten divine bodies - the sky, the planets, then the sun, next the moon, next the earth, next the counterearth, and after all of them the fire of the hearth which holds position at the centre.

Replogle

In addition to globes of Earth, Replogle also makes globes of Venus, Mars, the moon, and the celestial sphere.

Roger Elkin

He has reviewed for Stand, Outposts and Envoi and his critical articles on Ted Hughes's poetry have appeared in collections of essays edited by Keith Sagar (1995) and Joanny Moulin (1999); and also on the "Earth-Moon, Ted Hughes" and the "Ted Hughes Society" websites.

Savikalpa

Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, has compared the experience of seeing the earth from space, also known as the overview effect, to savikalpa samadhi.

Shrimp-Turtle Case

The Earth Island Institute filed a lawsuit against US Secretary of State Warren Christopher in federal court.

Stabroek, Guyana

Brickdam, Stabroek's main street, was paved with bricks and made of burnt earth until 1921 when it was paved over for the arrival of the Prince of Wales (King Edward VII).

Star trail

American astronaut Don Pettit recorded star trails with a digital camera from the International Space Station in earth orbit between April and June, 2012.

T.W. Lake

Crossing Rosario Strait, at 7:15 p.m., the freighter encountered wind speeds of 72 miles per hour, and foundered off Lopez Island.

Taliska

During the writing of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien toyed with the idea of making Taliska the primordial tongue of the people of Rohan who spoke Old English in his translated setting of The Lord of the Rings.

The Peel Group

The Group moved into the energy sector in 2008 with the opening of Scout Moor Wind Farm on the West Pennine Moors in Greater Manchester nearby Edenfield and Rochdale.

The Top of His Head

Jane Siberry also contributed a song, "This Old Earth", which was nominated for Best Song at the 1990 Genie Awards and appeared on her 1989 album Bound by the Beauty under the alternate title "Something About Trains".

Thematic image

Thematic images are usually image products of classification processing of multispectral images of the earth surface.

Tibetan incense

Tibetan medical theory states that everything in the universe is made up of the 5 proto-elements: sa (Earth), chu (Water), me (Fire), rLung (Wind or Air), and Nam-mkha (Space).

Tony DeSare

With a sexy, distinctive sound, Tony’s 2007 recording, Last First Kiss, spotlights a refreshingly contemporary combination of originals and standards, from Prince’s “Kiss” and Carole King’s “I Feel the Earth Move” to classics like “You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To” and Sammy Cahn/Jimmy Van Heusen’s under-recorded gem “Come On Strong.”

DeSare’s 2007 recording, Last First Kiss, includes a contemporary combination of originals and standards, from Prince’s "Kiss" and Carole King’s "I Feel the Earth Move" to classics like "You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To”" and Sammy Cahn/Jimmy Van Heusen’s "Come On Strong".

Twin Earth thought experiment

Paul Boghossian raised an objection to the class of Twin-Earth-style arguments for externalism in the form of an argument that aims to show that externalism is incompatible with privileged self-knowledge.

When Worlds Collide

The themes of an approaching planet threatening the Earth, and an athletic hero and his girlfriend traveling to the new planet by rocket, were used by writer Alex Raymond in his 1934 comic strip Flash Gordon.

Winifred E. Lefferts

She designed covers for Rex Stout's How Like a God (1929) and Seed on the Wind (1930), and for three of Stout's early Nero Wolfe novels — The League of Frightened Men (1935), The Rubber Band (1936) and The Red Box (1937).

WYEZ

These included artists heard on the station that included Michael Jackson, Hall & Oates, Earth, Wind & Fire and Prince.

Zoë Johnston

Similarly Johnston has written and recorded all vocal parts for Sleepthief, Delerium, and Above & Beyond on their singles "Good For Me", "Alchemy", "No One On Earth", "You Got To Go", and "Love Is Not Enough" on the record label Anjunabeats.


see also

Devoted Spirits: A Tribute to Earth Wind and Fire

Devoted Spirits: A Tribute to Earth Wind and Fire is a tribute album to the R&B band Earth, Wind & Fire by the band Devoted Spirits which consists of former EWF members Larry Dunn, Sheldon Reynolds and Morris Pleasure.

Meritxell Negre

Other popular specialty acts booked through the agency include tributes to Frank Sinatra, Earth Wind & Fire, James Brown, and the casino favorite, "Selena Siempre" where Negre personally performs as the Latin Queen Of Soul in honor of the late Selena, Queen of Tex-Mex music.

Shining Stars

Shining Stars: The Official Story Of Earth, Wind & Fire, a 2001 biographical film about the American band Earth, Wind & Fire.

Sonny Emory

Though probably best known for his groundbreaking drumming with Earth, Wind, and Fire; Sonny has performed with a virtual "who's who" in pop and jazz music including Stanley Clarke, David Sanborn, Bette Midler, Al Jarreau, Paula Abdul, Lee Ritenour, Jean-Luc Ponty, and Boz Scaggs, and even Jennifer Lopez.

Urban Knights

Other great musicians have collaborated throughout the years with the Urban Knights such as Maurice White (Earth, Wind & Fire), saxophonists Gerald Albright, Najee, Kenny Garrett and Dave Koz, guitarists Jonathan Butler, Norman Brown, Earl Klugh, Bobby Broom and Fareed Haque.