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unusual facts about Finger


Serra dos Órgãos

The most famous formation in the park is the Dedo de Deus (God's Finger) rock, which resembles a left hand with its index finger stretched, pointing towards the sky.


Alexander Wilson Drake

One example is Lot #1795 “Massive Gold Parthian Finger Ring. Of the third or fourth century A. D. Found in the ruins of Ctesiphon. Heavy six-sided shield with pierced, interlaced and chiseled ornamentation. Figure of a man with upraised arms supporting shield at either side. Entire hoop ornamented. One of the finest specimens in the collection.”

Archaeological Museum of Kavala

On the ground floor of the museum are artifacts from ancient Amphipolis including a marble bust of a woman (4th century BC), a marble grave stela of an ephebe (5th century BC), a large gold finger ring and a gold olive wreath that were found in Macedonian Tomb 1 (3rd century BC), a headless marble statue of a woman wearing a peplos (1st century BC), and a portrait bust of the Roman empress Agrippina.

Barker lever

The Barker lever is a pneumatic system which multiplies the force of a finger on the key of a tracker pipe organ.

Bow draw

The Hadza, who do not use quivers, may hold other arrows with the free thumb and little finger.

Coral reef protection

Lettuce corals and branching corals such as elkhorn and finger coral are extremely fragile, but even massive boulder corals can be crushed or snapped off and turned upside down to die by a sailboat keel.

Creation Evidence Museum

The "Burdick track" and "fossilized finger" were featured on the controversial NBC program The Mysterious Origins of Man, aired in 1996 and hosted by Charlton Heston.

Crokinole

It also used to designate of the action of flicking with the finger (Molière, Le malade imaginaire; or Voltaire, Lettre à Frédéric II Roi de Prusse; etc.), and this seems the most likely origin of the name of the game.

Curse of the Cannibal Confederates

The film follows six young friends who unwillingly raise the undead corpses of Confederate soldiers, resulting in what the video box promises as a "a finger-licking good fright film".

Dermot O'Brien

O'Brien made his first appearance for the team during the 1952 championship and was a regular member of the starting fifteen until a broke finger ended his career in 1960.

Dick Ket

In his self-portraits the progressive symptoms of his physical deterioration, such as cyanosis and finger clubbing, are apparent.

Dog Bites Man

Zach Galifianakis as Alan Finger, the show's incompetent director.

Dynamic tonality

For example, one could learn to play Rodgers and Hammerstein's Do-Re-Mi in its original 12-tone equal temperament (12-tet) and then play it with exactly the same finger-movements, on exactly the same note-controlling buttons, while smoothly changing the tuning in real time across the syntonic temperament's tuning continuum.

English cricket team in Australia in 1946–47

Their second leg-spinner was Peter Smith, who was preferred to Eric Hollies because of his batting, but he injured a finger on the journey to Australia and had an appendix removed once there.

Finger fluting

Bednarik continues to publish sites that contain flutings, but current forward research into finger flutings is mainly being carried out by Kevin J. Sharpe and Leslie Van Gelder.

Finger Lakes Falcons

The Falcons fill in the void left by the Empire State Roar (who folded after the 2007 Fall Season) for women's football in the Finger Lakes Area.

Fish-hooking

Fish-hooking is the act of inserting a finger or fingers of one or both hands into the mouth, nostrils or other orifices of a person, and pulling away from the centerline of the body; in most cases with the intention of pulling, tearing, or lacerating the surrounding tissue.

Folk Songs of the Hills

A seminal work in his career, it brought him fame as an interpreter of traditional American folk music, as a brilliant finger-style guitarist, and as a folk-inspired composer whose songs "Dark as a Dungeon" and "Sixteen Tons", included in all editions of this album, have become classics of folk, country and popular music.

Founders Brewing Company

2009: Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Mucca Pazza, Ultraviolet Hippopotamus, Chance Jones, Four Finger Five, Oracle, Back Forty, The Total Blam Blams, Red Frog

Frenkel exercises

The exercises were developed by Heinrich Frenkel, a Swiss neurologist who, one day in 1887, while examining a patient with ataxia, observed the patient's poor performance of the finger-to-nose test.

Fritz Walter Paul Friedrichs

He invented the spiral cold finger-type condenser, now most commonly known as a Friedrichs condenser, which he described in a 1912 article published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Hurdy-Gurdy Hare

Bugs is able to outwit the gorilla by asking the gorilla if he can inflate himself with his finger, causing the gorilla to literally inflate.

Jerry Robinson

Though Kane claimed he and writer Bill Finger came up with the idea for the Joker, most comic historians credit Robinson for the iconic villain, modeled after Conrad Veidt in the 1928 movie, The Man Who Laughs.

Julio Franco

Franco was talking in the weight room in August 2003 with Jason Marquis, when he leaned on the wrong stand at the wrong time and inspired an 80-pound weight to roll over his finger, breaking it.

Karpasia

Karpass Peninsula, the long, finger-like peninsula of northeastern Cyprus

Khoo Swee Chiow

In 2002, he skied to the North Pole with Arctic guide Paul Landry and a dog named Apu, after failing the previous year due to frostbite on a finger.

Kilmore, County Armagh

Finds from the area include a 12th-century silver finger ring, a bone comb, fragments of a lignite bracelet, skeletal remains from fields surrounding the church and an early 10th-century copper alloy and crutch-headed pin now in the British Museum.

Larry Eigner

As he matured into an artist, Eigner overcame many physical obstacles and limitations to achieve a mastery over the material text, producing his typescripts on a 1940 Royal manual typewriter using only his right index finger and thumb.

Local anesthetic with vasoconstrictor

Local anesthetics with vasoconstrictors should not be used in the nose, fingers, toes and penis, because the arteries here are end arteries, so the vasoconstrictor effect could cause ischemia and even gangrene of the affected part.

Miami Blues

Before leaving the airport, he steals luggage and kills a Hare Krishna after breaking his finger.

Mountza

In the spoof sticker, the moutza is displayed with the middle finger cut off to represent Chicago's mayor, Rahm Emanuel, who lost part of his middle finger while cutting roast beef in high school.

Mustache March

When he reported to his first interview with Air Force Chief of Staff General John P. McConnell, McConnell walked up to him, stuck a finger under his nose and said, "Take it off."

MV Mercedes I

She was caught in a storm while at anchor off Palm Beach, Florida on 23 November 1984, and was driven ashore where she crashed into the seawall front of the home of Palm Beach socialite, Mollie Wilmot, who served the 12 Venezzuelan sailors caviar, finger sandwiches and freshly brewed coffee in her gazebo, offered martinis to journalists and photographers, and granted the stranded Venezuelans access to her swimming pool.

Mystic Manor

In the Solarium Room, Albert curiously points his finger near the mouth of a Venus flytrap.

Niels Scheuneman

During a fall which also hurt Roberto Heras, Scheuneman broke his finger and had to abandon the race.

Painface

The origin of the name "Painface" was as the title of a song Rouw had written in 1992 while in a band named "Pull My Finger" (later shortened to just "Pull") with Rouw on vocals, Patrick Neuwirth on guitar, Paul Gray on bass and Shawn Crahan on drums.

Pattern 1913 Enfield

The P13 is distinguished by unusual angled finger grooves on the fore end of the stock, which were not present on the later P14 and M1917.

Proper palmar digital arteries

The proper palmar digital arteries travel along the sides of the phalanges (along the contiguous sides of the index, middle, ring, and little fingers), each artery lying just below (dorsal to) its corresponding digital nerve.

Raymond A. Brown

Brown blamed other doctors at the hospital of framing Jascalevich to cover up their own ineptitude and charged that reporter M. A. Farber of The New York Times had conspired with prosecutors to advance their respective careers by pointing the finger of blame at Jascalevich.

Rebetiko

Instruments characteristic of the Ottoman café style included accordion, politiki (Constantinopolitan) lyra, clarinet, kanonaki, oud, santouri, tsimbalo, or cimbalom, violin, violoncello and finger-cymbals.

Terasawa Junsei

For the sake of Peace in Europe shortly before the Berlin Wall Fall conducted seven day prayer without food and water on the grave of Karl Marx, burned his finger phalanx and made alone Peace March from Warsaw to said Wall.

Tonewood

Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii) and Picea abies (variously known as Norwegian, German, Alpine, Italian or European spruce) are particularly valued for finger-style and classical guitars for its quicker musical response and broader tonal profile.

Toulouse Engelhardt

(2) He was one of only a few solo acoustic finger style guitarists to have been signed by a major recording company when he signed with Hollywood Records in 1993, a Walt Disney Company distributed internationally by Polygram Inc.

Unitopia

Concentrating only on finger style acoustic guitar until graduating from high school, he then moved to electric guitar and started learning and imitating the styles of Eddie Van Halen, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Nuno Bettencourt and Frank Gambale.

Unsquare Dance

Brubeck points out in his liner notes that "'Unsquare Dance', in 7/4 time, is a challenge to the foot-tappers, finger-snappers and hand-clappers. Deceitfully simple, it refuses to be squared. And the laugh you hear at the end is Joe Morello's guffaw of surprise and relief that we had managed to get through the difficult last chorus".

Ute Thimm

Ute Thimm, née Finger (born 10 July 1958 in Bochum) is a German athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.

Veil of Gossamer

Dave Bainbridge - Keyboards, Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Piano, Bouzouki, Mandolin, Balafon, 15 String Harp, Star Bells, Bongos, Hand Drum, Indian Tambourine, Shakers, Finger Cymbals

Wedding ring

Some cultures exchange additional rings: In some parts of India, Hindus may use a toe ring or bichiya which is worn instead of a ring on a finger; although this is only for women, and increasingly worn along with a finger ring.

WSTF

Williams Syndrome Transcription Factor is another name for the human gene Bromodomain adjacent to zinc finger domain, 1B, also known as BAZ1B

ZFN

Zinc finger nuclease, a nuclease enzyme coupled to a zinc finger-based DNA-binding domain

ZXDC

Zinc finger, X-linked, duplicated family member C (ZXDC) is a human CIITA-binding protein involved in the activation of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I and II.


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