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unusual facts about Fläming


Teltow-Fläming

In the time from 1997 to 2001, the district had the biggest increase in the gross economic product of all districts of Germany with a rate of +56.1%.


20 Years of Weird: Flaming Lips 1986–2006

20 Years of Weird: Flaming Lips 1986–2006 is an updated version of the free compilation CD given away at the SXSW Film premier of the The Flaming Lips documentary "The Fearless Freaks", a film by Bradley Beesley.

Amelia Milka Sablich

Amelia "Mildred" Milka Sablich (born 11 Jun 1908 in Trinidad, Colorado, died 7 Oct 1994 in Helper, Utah) also known as Flaming Milka, was 19 years old when she became a leader in the 1927 coal strike in that state.

Amélie Gex

In "Dit du Château mort" ("Tale of Castle Death"), she evokes a pagan country castle near Mont Blanc haunted by a flaming sword turning in the air.

Archer John Porter Martin

Martin was mentioned in the animated television series The Simpsons in the episode titled "Flaming Moe's" (Season 3, Episode 10).

Battle B-Daman

Marda B.'s evil form seems to be one giant flaming eye (which is very similar in appearance to the eye of Sauron from Lord of the Rings) that always seemed to be floating in the sky.

Blue blazer

The Blue Blazer was the first flaming cocktail, popularized by Jerry Thomas.

Bob Burden

Besides Flaming Carrot Comics and Mysterymen, Burden wrote a Gumby story, a two-part Cholly & Flytrap story with Arthur Suydam, and Robot Comics, a series which was reprised as the "Robot Crime" story for the 20th anniversary of Heavy Metal.

Eagle Dynamics

The company has developed Su-27 Flanker (1995), Lock On: Modern Air Combat (2003), the Lock On add-on Flaming Cliffs 3.0 (2013, featuring the Su-25T) and the Digital Combat Simulator, with the Kamov Ka-50 "Black Shark" as the first release (2008), and Fairchild A-10C "Warthog" as the second release (2011) - all of them being combat flight simulators.

Ed Farhat

On May 6, 1992, The Sheik had a "fire deathmatch" with Sabu against Atsushi Onita and Tarzan Goto, where the ring ropes were replaced with flaming barbed wire and he got third-degree burns and went into a coma.

Epicureanism

In Dante's Divine Comedy, the flaming tombs of the Epicureans are located within the sixth circle of hell (Inferno, Canto X).

Erica Peterson's Flaming Crib Death

Erica Peterson's Flaming Crib Death is a tape by Ween released in 1987.

Ernest Morrow

Having crashlanded near Ficheux, France with bullet wounds to the leg, Morrow was dragged from the flaming wreckage by his observer, Louis Mark Thompson.

Flaming Creatures

During the confirmation hearings for the chief justice nomination of Abe Fortas, James Clancy, representing Citizens for Decent Literature, showed Flaming Creatures in a room in the capital among other material, inviting senators to view the sorts of things that Fortas had held in several decisions did not constitute obscenity.

Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage

Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage is a sadistic satirical play by Jane Martin.

Fläming Heath

The towns Ziesar, Bad Belzig, Niemegk, Treuenbrietzen, Jüterbog, Baruth/Mark, Dahme/Mark, Wittenberg, Loburg, Möckern, and Zerbst, as well as the municipalities Wiesenburg (Mark) and Rabenstein/Fläming, are situated in or at the border of the Fläming Heath.

Flaming Starr

Flaming Starr is a 1980 album by Maurice Starr.

Flaming Youth

"Flaming Youth", a song by Duke Ellington which featured the first performance in his band by saxophonist Johnny Hodges

French Provincial

The Flashback sequence of Pedret’s youth wings from Wuthering Heights and the flaming silhouettes of Gone with the Wind to The Conformist and The Spider's Stratagem.

Ghosty

While in the studios they provided backing vocals, sleighbells, acoustic guitar, bass, and keyboards on the Flaming Lips' "Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell."

Gulf Ridge Council

In 2004, Hurricane Charley, Hurricane Frances, and Hurricane Jeanne passed over Flaming Arrow causing damage to many areas of the camp.

Hit to Death in the Future Head

It is also the first Flaming Lips album to receive a Parental Advisory warning.

John Irving Bentley

Joe Nickell, in his book Secrets of the Supernatural, gives an account of this event he got from Larry E. Arnold's article "The Flaming Fate of Dr. John Irving Bentley," printed in the Pursuit of Fall 1976.

Jonathan Donahue

After leaving The Flaming Lips, Donahue returned to Buffalo and focused his time on reforming Mercury Rev. Jonathan Donahue was credited as having played the clarinet line for The Chemical Brothers' 1997 cult hit "The Private Psychedelic Reel", which has been the on and off closing song to their shows ever since.

Kilgore College Rangerettes

The Kilgore College Rangerettes were founded by Gussie Nell Davis, a physical education instructor from Farmersville, Texas who had previously devised an all-girl's high school drum and bugle corps out of Greenville, Texas called the "Flaming Flashes".

Klaus Flaming

In January, 2007, Flaming moved from YLE to a channel called Radio Rock, owned by Nelonen Media.

Knights of the Flaming Circle

On June 9, 1970, Rev. Herman Mohney and Percy McIntyre touched off a burning cross on McIntyre's 44-acre farm near Templeton, Pennsylvania as part of a ceremony for the Flaming Circle.

Mario Fucini

On 16 February 1917, he brought back his flaming Voisin to a landing at Monfalcone; he received a Bronze Medal for Military Valor for saving the craft and himself.

Myrtle Stedman

Among her feature films are Flaming Youth, The Valley of the Moon, The Dangerous Age, and The Famous Mrs. Fair.

Norse funeral

In the TV series Doctor Who, a robot version of the Doctor is given a Norse funeral where it is buried at sea aboard a flaming ship in Lake Silencio in Utah (2011).

Notkea Rotta

The band is called "Liekehtivät Torsionit" (Flaming Torsions) and consists of musicians better known from bands like Barathrum, Ensiferum, L.A.M.F. and Defuse.

Southfield Public Library

Dr. Seuss sculptures:The Tufted Gustard, Two Horned Drouberhannis, Andulovian Grackler, Blue-Green Abelard, Seuss Sawfish, Mulberry Street Unicorn, Semi-Normal Green Lidded Fawn, Flaming Herring, Carbonic Walrus, Gimlet Fish, Sea Going Dilemma Fish, Powerless Puffer and Sludge Tarpon.

The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon

On April 17, 2010, Warner Bros. released 5000 copies of The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon on 12" seafoam green vinyl as part of Record Store Day.

The Funky Phantom

When the teenage sleuths are kidnapped by a flaming skeletal spirit called Lord Infernicus (also voiced by Rick D. Wasserman), the sidekicks are left to solve the mystery.

The Mississauga Blob

Peel Regional Police questioned the family and neighbours and concluded the object was a "flaming Frisbee" thrown into their yard as a prank.

The Mississauga Blob was the name given to a flaming object—later identified as a frisbee—that fell on a back-yard picnic table in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, at about 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 16, 1979.

There Is No Cabal

People exerted power through force of will (often via intimidating flames), garnering authority and respect by contributing to the community (by being a maintainer of a FAQ, for example), or through sheer persistence, spending more time and writing more posts than anyone else (see Kibo, etc.).

Transmissions from the Satellite Heart

Its fourth track, "She Don't Use Jelly", is notable for being The Flaming Lips' first charting radio hit, after its video was featured on the MTV show Beavis and Butt-Head, nearly a year after the album's release.

Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World

It is dedicated to the Flaming Colossus nightclub in Los Angeles.

Utopia Planitia

The Flaming Lips song "Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)" was released in 2002 on the album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

Wycliffe and the Scapegoat

Every Halloween in Cornwall, the life size effigy of a man rolls down the cliffs and into the sea inside a flaming wheel; the morbid commemoration of an age old Pagan ritual whereby the dummy would in fact be a human sacrifice.

YMCA Camp Flaming Arrow

Camp Flaming Arrow is a year-round camping retreat in Hunt, Texas and is under ownership of the YMCA of Greater San Antonio for children ages 6–16 years old.

Zinna Abbey

The monastery was built on the northern rim of the Fläming hill range in the marshes of the Nuthe river by Cistercian monks, descending from the monastery on the site of Burg Berge, otherwise Altenberg Abbey, in the County of Berg near Cologne.


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