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35 unusual facts about Fox


Celtis australis

A large specimen planted in 1550 stands before the church in the village perché of Fox-Amphoux in the Provence region of southern France.

Chatanika, Alaska

Chatanika, along with Fox, are the only two of the numerous communities in the hills immediately north of Fairbanks which has managed to remain populated and maintain a distinct community identity.

Dish México

On April 2011 Dish México added three new channels: Fox, Nat Geo, and Nat Geo Wild.

Felicity Lane-Fox

In 1963 she became a member of the executive of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations.

Fennek

The Fennek, named after the fennec (a species of small desert fox), or LGS Fennek, with LGS being short for Leichter Gepanzerter Spähwagen in German (Light Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicle), is a four wheeled armed reconnaissance vehicle produced by the German company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Dutch Defence Vehicle Systems.

FishBowl Worldwide Media

FishBowl Worldwide Media utilizes partnerships with other entertainment companies (NBC, Fox, Discovery Channel, MTV and truTV) as well as its own internal creative teams to create original content for film, television, digital platforms, and several brands.

Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller

After expanding to the U.S. in the 1980s, FPK launched Eldon, a financial services focused investment manager, in 1994 (Eldon was sold to Hiscox in 2003).

Fox, Arkansas

Fox is the home to Rural Special School, although the school is located two miles away from the town center at 13237 Highway 263.

Fox, goose and bag of beans puzzle

In the earliest known occurrence of this problem, in the medieval manuscript Propositiones ad Acuendos Juvenes, the three objects are a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage.

Another variation of this puzzle appears in The Simpsons, season 20 episode 13 (Gone Maggie Gone), where Homer has to get across a river with Maggie, Santa's Little Helper, and a jar of rat poison (that looks like candy).

Fox's Biscuits

The idea of Vinnie was developed with the animation team behind Disney's The Chronicles of Narnia, MPC and Mother London.

Fox's mountain meadow snake

Fox's mountain meadow snake (Adelophis foxi, meaning "Fox's hidden snake") (Culebra-de vega de Fox in Spanish) is an oviparous colubrid snake described by Douglas A. Rossman and Richard M. Blaney in 1968.

George Lane-Fox

George Lane-Fox, 1st Baron Bingley (1870–1947), English Conservative politician, grandson of the above

HD 189733

HD 189733, also catalogued as V452 Vulpeculae, is a binary star system approximately 63 light-years away in the constellation of Vulpecula (the Fox).

Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland

According to the 1911 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica he for a while "almost ... constituted the Whig party in the upper house."

Insider Exclusive

The Insider Exclusive television show regularly produces original Dateline, 60 Minutes, 20/20, and Prime Time style television shows for the public and broadcasts them on major cable networks such as PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Tru-TV, Fox, Time Warner and Comcast, Cox, Charter, A & E, Discovery, TLC, and Bravo.

Jos Plateau

The plateau is home to West Africa’s only population of klipspringer (Oreotragus oreotragus porteousi), as well as several endemic birds and mammals, including Nigerian mole rat (Cryptomys foxi) and Fox's shaggy rat (Dasymys foxi) the rock firefinch (Lagonosticta sanguinodorsalis) and the Jos Plateau indigobird (Vidua maryae).

Kuril Islands

The largest southernmost and northernmost islands are inhabited by brown bear, foxes, and martens.

Because of the generally smaller size and isolation of the central islands, few major terrestrial mammals have colonized these, though red and arctic foxes were introduced for the sake of the fur trade in the 1880s.

Le Tigre Clothing

First offered in 1977, Le Tigre polos sported a leaping tiger in lieu of Lacoste's signature crocodile and Retro Fox's leaping fox.

Northern Foods

In 2000 it acquired a 40% stake in Solway Foods (later increased to 100%) and R&K Wise and in 2002 it bought Lacemont and Fox's Confectionery.

Origin of the domestic dog

As an experiment in the domestication of wolves, the "farm fox" experiment of Russian scientist Dmitry Belyaev attempted to reenact how domestication may have occurred.

Rural Special High School

Rural Special High School is a comprehensive public high school based in the rural, fringe community of Fox, Arkansas, United States.

Samuel Garland, Jr.

In 1993, the Central Maryland Heritage League, owners of parts of the Fox's Gap battlefield (part of the South Mountain State Battlefield Park, erected and dedicated a commemorative marker near the spot of Garland's death near the earlier 1889 marker erected by Union soldiers of the IX Corps to Gen Jesse L. Reno on Reno Monument Road.

When Gen. Robert E. Lee divided the Army of Northern Virginia in the Maryland Campaign, Garland's brigade was tasked with defending Fox's Gap, one of the passes in the South Mountain chain.

Shillourokambos

Fox and persian fallow deer are present as well, but seem to have been hunted.

Slingsby Channel

The Fox Islands, which lie in its entrance, Bramham Island and the channel itself, plus Slingsby Rock and Slingsby Point, are named in association with Bramham Park, the Yorkshire home of George Lane-Fox.

Sno-Freighter

Today, the Sno-Freighter is abandoned and lies next to the Steese Highway in Fox, Alaska.

Todd Swift

In the 1990s, Swift wrote hundreds of hours of television (mostly animation) for HBO, Paramount, Hanna-Barbera, Fox, Cinar and DIC Entertainment, and was story editor for many episodes of anime show Sailor Moon.

TPz Fuchs

Most vehicles are in service with the German Army (1,003 - 144 upgraded), the rest are in the armed forces of Saudi Arabia (36), The Netherlands (23), USA (123, as M93 Fox) and Venezuela (10).

Variraptor

Between 1992 and 1995 amateur paleontologists Patrick Méchin and Annie Méchin-Salessy uncovered the remains of a small theropod in the Grès à Reptiles Formation (Campanian-Maastrichtian) at La Bastide Neuve, near Fox-Amphoux.

WCJC

Layla Price does news in the afternoons as well as Fox News.

Wearing My Rolex

The video features a group of women dressed as and behaving like foxes.

Wessex Regiment

Recce Platoon (Cheltenham) - originally equipped with Fox armoured reconnaissance vehicles; from 1990, these were replaced with stripped Land Rover 110s

Yancannia Station

Foxes had also become problematic by killing weaker stock and lambs, a total of 1442 foxes were killed on the property in six months of the same year.


8th Primetime Emmy Awards

John Monks, for The 20th Century Fox Hour, (Episode: "Miracle on 34th Street"), (CBS)

American Man: Greatest Hits Volume II

The album features three new songs, including the lead single "I Got My Game On", which was later utilized as the theme song to Howie Long's Tough Guys show during the FOX Super Bowl XLII pre-game show.

Archaellum

Archaea were first classified as a separate group of prokaryotes in 1977 by Carl Woese and George E. Fox based on the differences in the sequence of ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) genes.

Arnaz Battle

A USA Today honorable mention All-America and third-team All-South quarterback by Fox Sports South.

Bio-Attack

It was licensed by Fox Video Games, as it is based on the 20th Century Fox film, Fantastic Voyage.

Cam Brainard

As a sports announcer, Brainard hosted "This Week In Baseball" on FOX (taking over for the late Mel Allen) from 2000 until the show ended its run after more than 30 years in 2011.

Chloë Fox

Chloë Fox is the daughter of Australian children's author, Mem Fox and teacher Malcolm Fox.

Delorhynchus

It was first named by the paleontologist R. C. Fox in 1962 and the type species is Delorhynchus priscus.

Desafuero of Manuel López Obrador

27 April 2005: President Fox announced changes in his cabinet (including the resignation of Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha) and a re-evaluation of the legal case against López Obrador, and he proposed a constitutional amendment so civil rights are not suspended until a citizen is found guilty.

Diana Scarwid

In 2004, Scarwid landed a contract role in the acclaimed Fox television series Wonderfalls.

Documentary Film Movement

Fox, Jo, 'John Grierson, his "documentary boys" and the British Ministry of Information', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 25 (2005), pp.

Eri Yoshida

On August 21, 2010, she was the feature story on FOX Sports' This Week In Baseball, where she was shown meeting her idol, Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield.

Erik Liljegren

Before taking his position at the Fox News Channel (FNC), Liljegren served as a general assignment reporter at the Fox affiliate station, WGHP-TV, in High Point, North Carolina from 2003-2005.

Foxwhelp

This is one of the oldest surviving varieties of cider apple; it is first mentioned in John Evelyn's Advertisements Concerning Cider in his work Pomona of 1664, in which it is commented that "cider for strength ... is best made of the Fox-whelp of the Forest of Dean, but which comes not to be drunk until two or three years old".

Graeme Samuel

He has had a long career in law, working as a partner in Melbourne law firm Phillips Fox & Masel (now part of DLA Piper), and in business served as the executive director of Macquarie Bank from 1981 to 1986.

Henry Roth

In 2005, ten years after Roth’s death, the first full biography of his life, the prize-winning Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth, by literary scholar Steven G. Kellman, was published, followed in 2006 by Henry Roth’s centenary, which was marked by a literary tribute at the New York Public Library, sponsored by CCNY and organized by Lawrence I. Fox, Roth’s literary executor.

J. Edward Fox

Fox left government service in 1989, joining Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo as Managing Director of Mintz, Levin's Governmental and International Affairs Group.

The next year, President of the United States Ronald Reagan nominated Fox as Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs in 1986, and Fox held this office from June 18, 1986 until February 21, 1989.

Jetix

The first Fox Kids channel in the UK was launched in October 1996 and the Fox Kids Europe (FKE) was incorporated in November 1999 with 75.7% being held by Fox Family Worldwide (FFW) with the balance of ownership listed on Euronext.

KAKW-DT

The station first signed on the air on May 31, 1996 as a primary affiliate of UPN and a secondary affiliate of The WB for the Waco/Killeen/Temple market; the station was originally owned by Communications Corporation of America, along with Waco-based Fox affiliate KWKT (channel 22) and the station's Bryan-based satellite KYLE (channel 48).

Keith Costigan

Keith began with Fox as a wise-cracking barman on Fox Football Friday before moving on to co-host Super Saturday with Nick Webster.

Lewis Benson

T. Canby Jones, onetime Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Wilmington College, and author of George Fox's Attitude Toward War and "The Power of the Lord Is Over All": The Pastoral Letters of George Fox, said,

Lilly Téllez

Téllez "proof" was too weak, and the timing suspicious – just before Francisco Gil announced, as part of his work in Fox's government, sanctions to TV Azteca's owner Ricardo Salinas Pliego for illegal profit from privileged information both in the United States stock market (where he is prosecuted under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act) and in the Mexican one in operations related to his cell-phone company Unefon.

Lorne Frohman

Frohman is the host of Distinguished Artists, an in-depth one-hour interview show where guests have included Russell Peters, Sara Polley, David Cronenberg, Eugene Levy, Vivica A. Fox, Ivan Reitman, Sandra Shamas, Smothers Brothers, Joan Rivers, Mort Sahl and many more.

Marc Price

He also played the young American tourist calling himself Michael J. Fox in Killer Tomatoes Eat France in 1991 with John Astin, Angela Visser and Steve Lundquist.

Marla Malcolm Beck

Beck has appeared as a guest on CNBC, CNN and Fox Business News, and has also been a guest speaker for Women's Wear Daily Beauty Innovation Forum.

Matt Lauria

After finishing Friday Night Lights, Lauria moved to Chicago, Illinois after being cast in the series regular role of Caleb Evers in Fox's crime drama The Chicago Code.

Miniature Lop

Agouti, Black, Blue, Brown, Butterfly, Chinchilla, Fawn, Fox, Opal, Orange, Sable Marten, Sealpoint, Siamese Sable, Siamese Smoke, Sooty Fawn, Steel, White

Moodabe family

The owner of the chain, 20th Century Fox sold out in the 1980s to the Chase Corporation and then the chain came into the ownership of Hoyts which continued to employ the brothers in senior management positions.

Mount Griffith

It was remapped in December 1934 by the ByrdAE geological party under Quin Blackburn, and named by Richard E. Byrd for Raymond Griffith of Twentieth Century-Fox Pictures, who assisted in assembling motion-picture records of the expedition.

Myles Kovacs

Myles Kovacs and wife Cynthia Kovacs have recently been on Fox's reality series, The Secret Millionaire, in which $150,000 of their own money was given away to deserving people.

New York Television Festival

It features a "Premiere Week" screening series, which now debuts new shows from networks including NBC, ABC, Fox, CBS, The CW, and HBO.

Panguna mine

They accused Bougainville Copper Ltd., of being responsible for poisoning the entire length of the Jaba River, and causing birth defects, as well as the extinction of the flying fox on the island.

Paramount Resources

In addition to its own name, Paramount has several subsidiaries with names resembling those of Hollywood companies, including Fox Drilling, Summit Resources, and Pixar Petroleum.

Peter Knecht

Knecht has appeared as a television analyst and consultant on criminal justice for major news outlets, including national CBS, NBC, ABC and FOX broadcasts, and locally for KCAL-TV-Channel 9 and KCOP-TV-Channel 13.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Alongside the panel of Fox News anchors was a psychiatrist by the name of Carole Lieberman, who remarked: "Video games have increasingly, and more brazenly, connected sex and violence in images, actions and words. This has the psychological impact of doubling the excitement, stimulation and incitement to copycat acts. The increase in rapes can be attributed, in large part, to the playing out of such scenes in video games."

Rüppell's fox

The Libyan Posts (General Posts and Telecommunications Company, GPTC) in cooperation with WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature), dedicated a postal stamps issue to Rüppell's fox on May 1, 2008.

Russel Friend

Russel Friend is an American television writer and producer producer who served as an executive producer on the Fox series House, for which he won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2010 for co-writing the episode "Broken".

She's a Fox

She's a Fox was an Official Selection in numerous film festivals throughout the United States and internationally, most notably the Cannes Short Film Corner, Heartland Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival and the Academy-accredited LA Shorts Fest.

St. George, Staten Island

Brill sold the theater within three years to William Fox, whose name lives on in the Fox Television Network and 20th Century Fox film studio.

Strange Luck

Strange Luck is an American television series that aired on FOX, created by Karl Schaefer and starring D. B. Sweeney in the role of Chance Harper, a freelance photographer afflicted with a bizarre tendency to always be in the wrong place at the right time.

Super Bowl Sunday

The television network carrying the game (either CBS, Fox, or NBC) will usually devote the entire day's programming schedule to the game, with extended pregame shows, NFL Films retrospectives of the previous season, and special versions of the Sunday morning talk shows in the morning and afternoon hours leading into the game.

Terry Fox Award

The selection committee, that included Fox's brother, Darrell, sportscaster Brian Williams, former-Olympian and VANOC board member Charmaine Crooks and former rower Tricia Smith, originally planned to choose only one recipient but felt both athletes' stories were so compelling that they decided to honour both.

The Unbearable Like-Likeness of Gene

"The Unbearable Like-Likeness of Gene" was first broadcast on December 9, 2012, as part of Fox's Animation Domination programming block, and was preceded by the premiere of the The Simpsons episode "The Day the Earth Stood Cool" and was followed by the premiere of the Family Guy episode "Friends Without Benefits."

Tom Abrams

Abrams has sold numerous feature film screenplays in varied genres including western Have Gun Will Travel for Warner Bros., historic adventures The Captain's Wife for Fox 2000, and The American Princess for New Line Cinema, The Battle of Ono for John Woo & Terence Cheng, horror film Cave for Working Title, sci-fi action Metal Machine for producer James Jacks at Universal, and kids action comedy Gameboy Charlie for Bruckheimer producer, Chad Oman.

Tom Devanney

Devanney and his Perfect Strangers producing colleagues (Shari Hearn, Bob Keyes) went on to produce the Fox sitcom Shaky Ground, which ran during the 1992-93 season and starred Matt Frewer, Robin Riker and Jennifer Love Hewitt.

Valda Valkyrien

However, the contractual relationship soured after one film and she left Fox to work in feature-length films back at Thanhouser as well as for Lewis J. Selznick's studio.

VITAC

The company captions over 220,000 hours of programming each year for over 1400 customers, including cable channels CNN and MSNBC, cable network Discovery Communications, syndicated and cable productions for Fox and CBS Television Distribution, off-network productions for NBCUniversal and Warner Bros..

Zack Ward

He is known for his character Dave Scovil (Titus's stoner half-brother) on the FOX show Titus and as the bully Scut Farkus in the 1983 perennial Christmas movie A Christmas Story.