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5 unusual facts about Egg


Beer in Austria

In Voralberg is also a beer brand called Egger Bier, which is brewed by a brewery in Egg, Bregenzerwald.

Johann Conrad Dorner

Johann Conrad Dorner, an Austrian painter, was born at Egg, near Bregenz, in 1810, and studied historical painting under Cornelius.

Power-egg

The BMW 801 engine was also provided in both formats for a number of German designs, especially for twin and multi-engined airframes, with the "M" or "T" first suffix letter designating whether it was a Motoranlage or Triebswerksanlage format unitized powerplant.

Both the examples of the Dornier Do 217 medium bomber powered by inline engines, and the Axis Powers' largest-flown powered aircraft of any type, the Blohm & Voss BV 238 flying boat used essentially the same unitized Daimler-Benz DB 603 powerplants.

One known surviving Motoranlage-packaged BMW 801 radial still exists and is on restored display at the New England Air Museum, Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, CT.


Aepyornis

A cast of the Aepyornis egg is preserved at the Grant Museum of Zoology at the University of London.

Anatrachyntis terminella

The larvae have been recorded in deserted nests of wasps of the Polistes genus, galls on flower buds of Acacia binervata, egg sacs of the spider Nephila edulis as well as dead insects and dead leaves.

Blockdot

Chicktionary: a variation on the game of anagrams, it features an egg rack, replete with three to seven-letter sequences of eggs.

Bob Hund

1999 – Guldägget (The Golden Egg) for "Best Packaging" on Jag rear ut min själ!

Brand Partners

It underwrites and administers policies for several different general insurance brands including Tesco, RBS, Coutts, Lloyds TSB, Ulster Bank, Isle of Man Bank, Egg.

Chimacum, Washington

Betty MacDonald's The Egg and I, the book upon which the Ma and Pa Kettle films were based, described the author's experiences on a chicken farm on the road that became Egg & I Rd, Chimacum.

Choiseul Pigeon

Today, five skins and a partial skeleton are kept in the American Museum of Natural History, while a single skin and the egg are kept at the Natural History Museum at Tring.

Darning

A shell of the tiger cowry Cypraea tigris, a popular ornament in Europe and elsewhere, was also sometimes used as a ready-made darning egg.

Dragonflight

F'lar, wingleader at Benden Weyr and rider of the bronze dragon Mnementh, finds Lessa while Searching for candidates to Impress (bond with) a new queen dragon, as the current queen has a batch of eggs due to hatch very soon, including a crucial golden egg.

Easter egg tree

A notable example is the Saalfelder Ostereierbaum (Saalfeld Easter egg tree) in Saalfeld, Thuringia.

Easterhegg

The Easterhegg (also Easter(H)egg or EH) is an annual hacker event, called into life by the German Chaos Computer Club.

Egg dance

There were various forms of egg-dance, but Mark Knowles writes that it was brought to England from Germany by the Saxons as early as in the 5th century.

Egg Fu

He was a Chinese Communist agent, inexplicably shaped like an egg the size of a house, with a Charlie Chan-like speech pattern, who used his mustaches as whips against his enemies.

Egg Marketing Board

Slogans used by the board included "Go to work on an egg", introduced in 1957 in a £12 million advertising campaign and turned into a series of television advertisements starring Tony Hancock and also featuring Patricia Hayes and Pat Coombs that ran for six years from 1965 to 1971.

Emodepside

and inhibiting locomotive and pharyngeal movement in Caenorhabditis elegans in addition to having effects in other tissues such as the inhibition of egg laying.

Eryngium castrense

At the tops of the stems are flower heads one to one and a half centimeters wide and rounded or egg-shaped.

Francis Dennis Ramsay

However, as the paint is not commercially available, the artist must mix his own colours using pigment powders, oil, varnish, egg yolk and a preservative; uniquely, Ramsay discovered that Scotch whisky is an excellent preservative for the egg in the oil tempera mix!

Green-light

In the novel The Great Gatsby, a green light at the end of Daisy Buchanan's dock in the old money East Egg is barely visible across the lake from Jay Gatsby's mansion in nouveau riche West Egg.

Hans Driesch

It appeared that any single monad in the original egg cell was capable of forming any part of the completed embryo.

Henry Luke White

His collections of 8500 bird skins and over 4200 egg clutches were donated to the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne where they are known as the H. L. White Collection.

James Roday

Roday's television credits include starring roles on NBC's Miss Match in 2003 as "Nick Paine" and 2001's First Years as "Edgar 'Egg' Ross".

Jumping Bean

Mexican jumping bean, a type of seed in which the egg of a small moth has been laid

Kinder Happy Hippo

The original light blue and still used Happy Hippo characters were created by the French designer André Roche for Ferrero chocolates in 1987 and became famous worldwide mostly through their repeated appearances in the "Kinder Surprise" chocolate egg, one of them 2002 in an authorized parody (named "Hipperium") of the George Lucas' "Star Wars"-trilogy, 2009 in a Europewide campaign presenting a casting contest under the name "Happy Hippo Talent Show".

Knick-Ei

Knick-Ei ("dented egg") was the nickname of a sports hall located at the corner of Feldstraße and Bahnhofstraße in the city of Halstenbek, located in Pinneberg county in the state of Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany.

Korean dragon

One such legend involves the founding of the Kingdom of Silla, whose princess was said to have been born from a cockatrice egg.

Lamb Theatre

Two of his close friends were Holman Hunt the artist and Dickens who would join Egg at his summer retreat, Hunt coming over from his home in Fairlight and Dickens down from London.

Laurence Boswell

Laurence Boswell (born 1959) is a theatre director, whose credits include Ben Elton's Popcorn, Madonna in her London stage debut, Eddie Izzard in a revival of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, and Matt Damon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Hayden Christensen, Freddie Prinze Jr and Anna Paquin for West End debuts in This Is Our Youth, which, in 2002, ran concurrently with Up for Grabs, featuring Madonna.

Mandé creation myth

Then he made two eleusine seeds of different kinds, which the people of Keita call "the egg of the world in two twin parts which were to procreate".

Max Adventures

Max Adventures is a Thai animated television series computer animation produced since 2007 by the company Egg Story Studio (earlier by The Monk Studios).

Miss Amy

Miss Amy performed as part of the White House 2010 Egg Roll event on April 5, 2010 where the theme was based on the Let's Move! initiative of First Lady Michelle Obama.

Moo shu pork

Additionally, at Chinese Confucian death anniversary celebrations, the Chinese word for "egg" (; pinyin: dàn) is avoided when referring to dishes containing eggs, as many Chinese curses contain this word.

NestEgg

NestEgg, is a line of egg-shaped chocolate candies made by Nestlé.

Oyakodon

"Mother and Child Reunion", a Paul Simon song that takes its title from a similar chicken and egg dish.

Phospholipid

The first phospholipid identified as such in biological tissues was lecithin, or phosphatidylcholine, in the egg yolk, by Theodore Nicolas Gobley, a French chemist and pharmacist, in 1847.

Poot Mae Nam Khong

In the present time, Bunpaun finds a enormous egg at the bank of Mekong river and is compelled to eate.

Prototheria

The egg-laying monotremes are known from fossils of the Cretaceous and Cenozoic periods; they are represented today by the platypus and several species of echidna.

Ready Player One

Wade names his OASIS character Parzival after Percival, the Arthurian knight famous for his quest for the grail, and dedicates his life to finding James Halliday's Easter egg.

SECME

Egg-Drop - Students build containers that meet predetermined specifications.

Soda sữa hột gà

Soda sữa hột gà shares some similarities with egg cream, a fountain beverage of New York City origin, though egg cream contains no eggs, and no historical link between the two has been proposed.

Streptanthus breweri

The leaves of the plant sometimes have hardened, orange-pigmented callosities on the blades which are thought to be egg-mimics.

Supplì

Supplì (Italianisation of the French word surprise) are Italian snacks consisting of a ball of rice (generally risotto) with tomato sauce and raw egg, typical of the Roman Cuisine.

Surrogacy laws by country

In 2006, Australian senator Stephen Conroy and his wife Paula Benson announced that they had arranged for a child to be born through egg donation and gestational surrogacy.

Tangata manu

The ritual was an annual competition to collect the first Sooty Tern (manu tara) egg of the season from the islet of Motu Nui, swim back to Rapa Nui and climb the sea cliff of Rano Kau to the clifftop village of Orongo.

The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs

There is another variant on the story, recorded by Syntipas (Perry Index 58) and appearing in Roger L'Estrange's 1692 telling as "A Woman and a Fat Hen" (Fable 87): A good Woman had a Hen that laid her every day an Egg. Now she fansy’d to her self, that upon a larger Allowance of Corn, this Hen might be brought in time to lay twice a day. She try’d the Experiment; but the Hen grew fat upon’t, and gave quite over laying.

The Reverent Wooing of Archibald

He concludes that his primary talent, a masterful impression of a hen laying an egg, is insufficient; indeed, he becomes convinced that she would be put off by such a vulgar display.

Tim Weiland

Weiland, creative director of the Timo Weiland brand, and Eckstein, design director, climbed up the DJ circuit under the stage name "Timo+Alan" and performed at New York City hotspots such as the Soho Grand Hotel, the Red Egg, and The Brooklyn Museum.

Two Medicine Formation

Egg Mountain was discovered in 1977 by Marion Brandvold, owner of the Trex Agate Rock Shop in Bynum, Montana, who discovered the bones of juvenile dinosaurs at this site.

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.


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