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unusual facts about Fail-Safe



1988 British International Helicopters Sikorsky S-61N crash

The helicopter left the Safe Felicia semi-submersible oil rig in the Forties oilfield at 13:45 with 2 pilots and a full load of 19 passengers for the one hour flight to Sumburgh Airport on the Mainland of Shetland.

1997–98 U.C. Sampdoria season

Former Argentine World Cup-winning coach César Luis Menotti took charge, but failed to match the results of Eriksson, and was replaced by the 1991 championship winning coach Vujadin Boškov, who guided the team to a safe mid-table slot.

Afghanistan: The Great Game – A Personal View by Rory Stewart

Afghanistan became a safe haven for many terrorist groups and when the twin towers were attacked in New York the United States and its coalition allies entered Afghanistan in large numbers and as Rory Stewart points to the history of Afghanistan, it is an easy country to enter but a difficult one to leave.

Anarchism in Egypt

Many leading figures of the global anarchist movement, including Errico Malatesta, Amilcare Cipriani, Élisée Reclus, Luigi Galleani and Pietro Gori passed through Egypt at various points and for various reasons, owing to its position as a relative safe haven for political dissidents and close proximity to Europe.

Arrid

During the 1940s and '50s, its famous slogan was "Don't be half-safe—use Arrid to be sure", which gave rise to Half-Safe, the name of the amphibious vehicle which Ben Carlin used to circumnavigate the world in the mid 20th century.

Banu Thaqif

Akhnas ibn Shariq al-Thaqifi and the Banu Zuhrah where with the Meccan as part of the escort that preceded the battle of Badr but since he believed the caravan to be safe, he did not join Quraish on their way to a festival in Badr.

Benjamin W. Crowninshield

His health began to fail in 1891, and he died January 16, 1892, at age 55, in Rome, having travelled to Europe for a rest.

Brandeis-Bardin Institute

The Wrenwood Center in Todd Haynes's Safe (1995) uses the House of the Book's interior and the camp's buildings and wilderness.

Brett Raguse

Raguse was the Labor candidate for the safe National seat of Beaudesert at the 2006 state election, losing to incumbent MP Kev Lingard.

Carole Hyatt

When Smart People Fail was co-written with film producer Linda Gottlieb and was originally published in 1987.

Center for Bio-Ethical Reform

Its slogan is "abortion represents an evil so inexpressible that words fail us when attempting to describe its horror. Until abortion is seen, it will never be understood." The Executive Director of the CBR is Gregg Cunningham, a former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives who has also held a number of other government positions.

Columbia Township, Lorain County, Ohio

On November 3, 2006, The Oprah Winfrey Show aired an episode regarding safe-haven laws titled "All-American Tragedy" which centered on a story related to Columbia Township.

Disclosure and Barring Service

Sociologist Frank Furedi has stated that CRB checks cannot provide a "cast-iron guarantee that children will be safe with a particular adult", and that their use has created an atmosphere of suspicion and is "poisoning" relationships between the generations, with many ordinary parents finding themselves regarded as "potential child abusers".

Dumbarton Collegiate Church

St Mary's met these needs in a hospital attached to the main church building, and a separate leper house located at a "safe" distance from the town centre.

Eibhlin Byrne

On 15 April 2009, Byrne was nominated as a Fianna Fáil candidate (along with Eoin Ryan) for the Dublin constituency at the 2009 European Parliament election which was held on 5 June 2009 but she was not elected.

Ernie Parsons

His victory in the 1999 provincial election was unexpected, as he defeated incumbent Progressive Conservative Gary Fox by 56 votes in Prince Edward—Hastings, which most considered to be a safe Tory seat.

Francisco Javier Aguilar García

Safe for two seasons, Aguilar was regularly used by the Merengues during his spell, winning five leagues and two Spanish Cups – including the double in the 1974–75 campaign – and appearing in nearly 200 official games.

Gavin Jennings

Jennings won preselection for the safe Labor Legislative Council seat of Melbourne Province in advance of the 1999 state election, and was thus easily elected.

George Colley

In 1979, Fianna Fáil's economic policies were derailed due to strikes, higher wage demands, and the 1979 energy crisis.

Glassing

In 2000, following a series a glassing attacks in Manchester, Greater Manchester Police and the Manchester Evening News launched a campaign Safe Glass Safe City promoting the use of toughened glass in pubs and clubs to prevent such attacks.

Handley Page Gugnunc

The aircraft was intended to compete in a competition proposed by the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics - the Guggenheim Safe Aircraft Competition.

Ian Westwater

He made the short move across the River Forth to Easter Road side Hibernian in 2000, where he would fail to play any matches before hanging up his gloves in 2004.

Invasion of Buwat

After the safe return of the Muslim force to Madīnah led by Ḥamzah ibn ‘Abdu’l-Muṭṭalib, Muḥammad personally led 200 mounted men including both al-Muhājirūn and al-Anṣār to Buwāṭ. This expedition took place a month after the expedition at al-Abwā’.

James Oneal

The true "Right Wing" of the party (exemplified by a large section of the publicists associate with the party, including Allan L. Benson, Charles Edward Russell, John Spargo, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, and Carl D. Thompson peeled away in 1917-18, as American participation in the European conflict became a reality and Woodrow Wilson's argument that this was indeed a "war to make the world safe for democracy" made converts.

Jared Kuemper

Other Top 10 songs produced, engineered, or mixed by Jared Kuemper include Aaron Pritchett's "Big Wheel", "Hold My Beer", "Warm Safe Place", and "The Weight", and Jessie Farrell's "Don't Even Try."

John McGuinness

John J. McGuinness (born 1955), Irish Fianna Fáil Party politician, TD for Carlow-Kilkenny 1997–

Leo Melamed

In 1940, the Japanese consul general to Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara, issued his family a life-saving transit visa, and they made the long trek across Siberia to safe haven in Japan.

Liz Constable

She left the Liberal Party when it became clear that the favoured candidate of power-broker Noel Crichton-Browne would be given preselection for the safe seat of Floreat in 1991 at her expense.

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky

On the eve of World War II Istanbul was a safe meeting place for many exiled Europeans, a common destination for exiled Germans, and the Schüttes encountered artists such as the musicians Béla Bartók or Paul Hindemith.

Mark Killilea

Mark Killilea, Snr (1896–1970), Irish Fianna Fáil Party politician, TD and Senator

Michael A. Ramos

San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office, in partnership with Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital, offers this unique three day camp that provides a relaxed, supportive and safe environment for children to enjoy the typical activities of a summer camp, as well as to have opportunities to work with professionals to share their feelings related to their loss, learn new ways to cope, and interact with other children and teens in an atmosphere of love and acceptance.

Night bus lines in Israel

The Night bus lines in Israel are a project of the Ministry of Transport, intended to supply safe and easy public transport to the night entertainment places, for normal bus fares, which operated since 2009.

Occipital neuralgia

Other less common forms of surgical neurolysis or microdecompression are also used to treat the condition when conservative measures fail.

Ollie Smith

However, concerns about his defensive positioning saw him fail to make the 2003 World Cup Squad.

Pierre Morpain

Since France and England were then at war, he made for the nearest safe port, which was Port Royal, the capital of Acadia.

Pope Urban II

Roger as a secular ruler seemed a reliable ally, since he was merely a vassal of his kinsman the Count of Apulia, himself a vassal of Rome, so it seemed safe at the time for Urban to give him these extraordinary powers, which were later to lead to bitter confrontations with Roger I's Hohenstaufen heirs.

Pseudoscience

In 1978, Paul Thagard proposed that pseudoscience is primarily distinguishable from science when it is less progressive than alternative theories over a long period of time, and its proponents fail to acknowledge or address problems with the theory.

Range safety

Space vehicles for sub-orbital and orbital flights from the Eastern and Western Test Ranges were destroyed if they endangered populated areas by crossing pre-determined destruct lines encompassing the safe flight launch corridor.

Robert de Lawedre of Edrington

On 3 February 1424, Sir "Robertus de Lawedre de Bass, chevalier", with 18 men, had a safe-conduct with a host of other noblemen etc., as a hostage for King James I of Scotland at Durham.

Roy Thomason

He was selected to follow Sir Hal Miller as candidate for the safe seat of Bromsgrove, and won the seat with a 13,702 majority in the 1992 election.

Safe in New York City

"Safe in New York City" is a song by rock group AC/DC, from their 2000 album Stiff Upper Lip.

Seán McCool

The early 1930s saw increasing clashes between the IRA and the General Eoin O’Duffy’s Blueshirts, At the 1934 IRA General Army Convention differences began to arise between those who thought that fighting Irish fascism in the form of the Blueshirts was the most important task for the IRA and those who believed that the Fianna Fáil government was using these clashes to turn against, and clamp down on the IRA.

Shannon Magrane

In the top 13 she performed "I Have Nothing" by Whitney Houston and was one of the bottom three female voter getters, but was declared safe.

Strange Hill

The Dandy version was a very "safe" version of Hammer Horror clichés, similar to Number 13 in The Beano or the US TV series The Munsters.

Ten-second rule

a variation of the Five-second rule, whereby food fallen to the floor for less than five seconds may be considered by some to be safe to eat

The SAFE Foundation

Founded in 2005, The SAFE Foundation currently has projects in Masinagudi in the Nilgiri Hills of South India, Kumasi in Ghana, Freetown in Sierra Leone and Tororo in Uganda.

Tribalism

Anthropologists such as Richard Borshay Lee and Marshall Sahlins began publishing studies that showed tribal life as an easy, safe life, the opposite of the traditional theoretical supposition.

Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi

Tuilaepa responded by calling opposition MP Lealailepule Rimoni Aiafi (of the Tautua Samoa Party) "very stupid", adding that "only an idiot" would fail to see the merits of the bill.

Vidacare Corporation

• The OnControl Bone Access System provides rapid and safe access to vertebrae during vertebroplasty.


see also

Are You Ready for Love?

The fictitious authors Randy Bush (Michael Brandon) and Candy Connor (Leigh Zimmerman) offer "a fail-safe guide to instant romance" to their dating victims, Melanie (Lucy Punch), Barry (Andy Nyman), and Luke (Ed Byrne).

Doomlord

Shortly afterwards, Vek was taken to Nox by a fail-safe device in the Deathlord's ship when he tried to use it to rescue the Space Shuttle, where he convinced the Council that the death judgement was wrong and to lift the sentence of death from Earth; however his crimes against Nox meant he was returned to Earth in exile.

Eugene Burdick

Eugene Leonard Burdick (December 12, 1918–July 26, 1965) was an American political scientist, novelist, and non-fiction writer, co-author of The Ugly American (1958), Fail-Safe (1962), and author of The 480 (1965).

Harvey Wheeler

He was best known as co-author with Eugene Burdick of Fail-Safe, 1962, an early cold war novel that depicted what could easily go wrong in an age on the verge of nuclear war.

Hildy Parks

Parks made her screen debut in The Night Holds Terror (1955) opposite Vince Edwards, but her film career was sporadic, with minor appearances in Fail-Safe (1964), Seven Days in May (1964), and The Group (1966).

PowerGrid Corporation of India

Power Minister Veerappa Moily said that transmission grids will be independently audited in three months to ensure that the grids are fail-safe.