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8 unusual facts about Fry


AuraOne Systems

AuraGrid was distributed through reseller partners including ASI, Smarthome, Amazon and Fry's Electronics.

Ballet San Jose

In 2003 the company gained benefactor and current chairman of the board John Fry, co-founder of Fry's Electronics).

Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury

Ussher resigned on 17 June 2009 and was immediately replaced by Sarah McCarthy-Fry.

Fry's Electronics

Historically, Circuit City and CompUSA were major competitors, but they collapsed during the late-2000s recession, leaving Best Buy as Fry's main competitor.

Fry's Turkish Delight

Among those appearing in such advertisements in the 1960s were the model and actress Jane Lumb.

Hypoalgesic effect of swearing

The experiments were repeated on television in episodes of MythBusters and Fry's Planet Word, both seeming to confirm the findings.

Linksys

Linksys established its first U.S. retail channels with Fry's Electronics (1995) and Best Buy (1996).

PC-BSD

In November 2007, iXsystems entered into a distribution agreement with Fry's Electronics whereby Fry's Electronics stores nationwide carry boxed copies of PC-BSD version 1.4 (Da Vinci Edition).


2000 Rose Bowl

The episode The Luck of the Fryrish Fry's mother mentions the day Wisconsin won the Rose Bowl 17-9 in reference to the day Fry disappeared.

Albania–Yugoslav border incident

From their positions on the Yugoslavian side of the border, the soldiers of the Yugoslav Army fired at least 10 shells on the town of Krumë, where hundreds of ethnic Albanian refugees and KLA insurgents were seeking refuge.

American silver perch

Silver perch are an underutilized resource as they are excellent table fare and a welcome addition to any Southern fall fish fry.

Anthology of Interest I

The next day, while telling Mr. Panucci, who dismisses his story, Fry is overheard by regular customer Stephen Hawking who arranges for Fry to be abducted on his way home from work.

Attack of the Killer App

Fry asks, "Since when is the internet about robbing people of their privacy?", to which Bender replies, "August 6th, 1991", which is the date that Tim Berners-Lee announced the World Wide Web project and software on the newsgroup alt.hypertext.

Bertram Sharp

In December 1900, Southampton acquired the services of C. B. Fry, the celebrated amateur footballer – whenever Fry was available to play, Sharp was required to give way, thus missing several important games, including the FA Cup First Round defeat by Everton.

Betta rutilans

Like most Betta fish, they breed in bubble-nests built to house the fry.

Boomer lit

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Deborah Moggach has been turned into a film and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce was long-listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize.

C. B. Fry

His son, Stephen Fry, his grandson, Charles Fry, and his cousin, Kenneth Fry (1883–1949), all played first-class cricket.

Cambridge Footlights Revue

It was written by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie with Penny Dwyer, Kim Harris, Katie Kelly, Jan Ravens, Paul Shearer, Tony Slattery, and Emma Thompson and performed by Fry, Laurie, Dwyer, Shearer, Slattery, and Thompson.

Cavendish Farms

In 2001 the company purchased a french fry processing plant in Jamestown, North Dakota.

Chance Fry

Fry attended and played boys soccer at Sammamish High School in Bellevue where he was a Parade Magazine High School All American and All Conference his senior year.

Chuck Long

After the 1998 season, Iowa coach Hayden Fry retired, and though Long was considered for the job, Fry was ultimately succeeded by Kirk Ferentz.

Chuginadak Island

According to Knut Bergsland's Aleut Dictionary, the Aleutian word "chugida-lix" means "to fry, to make sizzle."

Consumer Electronics Association

Fry holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and an honorary doctorate degree from Santa Clara University.

David Farquhar

This music was originally commissioned by Richard Campion for the New Zealand Players' production of Ring Round the Moon, Christopher Fry's adaptation of Jean Anouilh's play L'invitation au château.

Diana Whitney

Whitney worked with Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management faculty David Cooperrider and Ron Fry to assess the need for and design the first Master’s of positive organization development program.

Driver, Northern Territory

Fry Court in Driver was named after Mr Charles Fry, a teamster who arrived with George Goyder's survey expedition in 1869 to found the colony of Port Darwin.

Fry Art Gallery

Bardfield artists of note, many of whom having had exhibitions at the Fry, include John Aldridge RA, Edward Bawden, Richard Bawden, John Bolam, George Chapman, Bernard Cheese, Stanley Clifford-Smith, Audrey Cruddas, Tirzah Garwood, Joan Glass, Walter Hoyle, Eric Ravilious, Sheila Robinson, Michael Rothenstein, Kenneth Rowntree,and Marianne Straub.

Fry family

is dedicated to promoting genealogical research and fostering connections between the descendants of Heinrich Frey (which are thought to include, among many others, Nicolas "Fry" Charney founder of Psychology Today and Bill Haslam, 49th Governor of Tennessee).

FRY Fest

FRY fest 2010 kicked off at historic Kinnick Stadium with a commemorative street renaming ceremony honoring Forest “Evy” Evashevski.

George Cotterill

Finally, the two clubs met a few weeks later in a cricket match in which Cotterill played alongside several other prominent Corinthians, including Fry, Lindley and Charles Wreford-Brown, with the Barbarians winning by four wickets.

Harlem Meer

Ron P. Swegman, fly fishing author, made Harlem Meer a focal point of the essay collection Small Fry: The Lure of the Little.

Heart Bristol

Some of the 1980s DJs included Dave Glass, Trevor Fry, Bryan Chalker, John Hayes, Dave Barrett, Dave Bowen, Mark Seaman, Andy Westgate, Alan Roberts, Gary Vincent, Steve Orchard, Sandy Martin, Keith Francis, David Hamilton, Andy Henly and a returning Johnnie Walker.

Hemigrammus erythrozonus

Although large quantities of fry will incubate in waters of low hardness, most of the fry may soon contract non-infectious, constitutional dropsy, and die within a short time.

Joshua Fry Speed

He was also a great-grandson of Militia Colonel John Fry (son of Joshua Fry Colonel of Virginia Militia, and commander of Lt Col George Washington, and lead survey of the Fry-Jefferson Map of Virginia, and Mary Micou Hill) and his wife Sarah Adams.

Krusty Krab

The Krusty Krab is owned and operated by Eugene Krabs with Squidward Tentacles as its cashier and SpongeBob SquarePants as the fry cook.

Ladyshore Colliery

The matter was taken to the Court of Appeal at the House of Lords where on 15 January 1887, under a bench consisting of Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (commonly known as Law Lords) Esher MR, Bowen LJ and Fry LJ.

Lighter

In August 2011 Stephen Fry chose the lighter as the greatest gadget in his Channel 4 programme Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets, one of the 100 Greatest strand, describing it as "fire with a flick of the fingers".

Martin Fry

In 1997, Fry contributed to David Arnold's Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project, an album made up of re-recordings of James Bond movie themes featuring vocals by contemporary artists.

Mia Frye

Fry was born in New York City, and she departed for France with her model mother at the age of 12 after her mother divorced and met photographer Jean-Paul Goude.

Mike Lombardo

Lombardo wrote a parody of Coldplay's Viva La Vida in homage to Stephen Fry called "Viva La Fry," and it garnered Fry's attention.

Nate Wood

Afterwards, he recorded and played every instrument on his debut album, and in addition to his work with Kneebody, toured and performed with artists such as George Harrison, Chaka Khan, Sting, Wayne Krantz, Donny McCaslin, Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders and the Ed Fry Band.

Nikola Šainović

He was reappointed FRY Deputy Prime Minister in 1996 under Radoje Kontić of the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro after the 3 November 1996 parliamentary election on which SPS won the largest number of votes for the Serbian seats in the Council of Citizens of the FRY Federal Assembly.

Nina Fry

In 2012, Fry appeared in low budget British movie The String with Cy Chadwick.

Overclockwise

Heartbroken, Fry attempts to commit suicide by going over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

Rings Around the Moon

Ring Round the Moon, a play by Jean Anouilh adapted by Christopher Fry

Russian reversal

In a 2002 episode of Futurama, "Crimes of the Hot", Fry states, "That ice dispenser is so big, the ice crushes you! Yakov Smirnoff said that."

Sapporo Ichiban

Traditionally ground beef and Chinese cabbage are added to the stir-fry and seaweed is sprinkled on top from the included pouch if preparing yakisoba, but only the seaweed is included in the package.

Simeon Thayer

Soon after, he joined Colonel Fry's Massachusetts regiment and served in Rogers' Rangers during three separate clashes with French-allied Indians.

Tender Vittles

In the Futurama episode 3ACV11 "Insane in the Mainframe", Bender suggests that Fry retire on Tender Vittles after Fry loses his retirement fund on scratch and sniff lottery tickets.

The Higher Mortals

On the day that education secretary Mrs Fry (who somewhat resembles the then government minister Virginia Bottomley) arrives to speak at the school's Speech Day, she is kidnapped by the inner-city children and tells them, incorrectly, that she will announce that the scheme of sending inner-city children to Crabbe College was a pointless waste of time and that the school was outmoded anyway.

The Sleeper Awakes

A similar idea of growing interest on the contents of a bank account is seen in a first-season episode of Futurama entitled "A Fishful of Dollars", in which Fry finds that his bank account contains 4.3 billion dollars after leaving it with 93 cents 1000 years prior.

TS Mercury

In June 1898 Beatrice Holme-Sumner married C. B. Fry, the great England cricketer and all-round sportsman, and in 1908, after the death of Hoare, Fry became the Mercury's Captain-Superintendent.

Variabilichromis moorii

They then develop into free-swimming fry and swim in a tight school close to the spawning site.

Virtual population analysis

The technique of cohort reconstruction in fish populations has been attributed to several different workers including Professor Baranov from Russia in 1918 for his development of the continuous catch equation, Professor Fry from Canada in 1949 and Drs.


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