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2 unusual facts about Gabriel's Horn


Gabriel's Horn

The apparent paradox formed part of a great dispute over the nature of infinity involving many of the key thinkers of the time including Thomas Hobbes, John Wallis and Galileo Galilei.

The name refers to the tradition identifying the Archangel Gabriel as the angel who blows the horn to announce Judgment Day, associating the divine, or infinite, with the finite.


Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia

The Bishop of Polynesia is currently supported by three suffragan bishops: Bishop Winston Halapua, now the new Bishop of Polynesia, formerly lead the ministry to Polynesians in New Zealand, Bishop Apimeleki Nadoki Qiliho serves Vanua Levu and Taveuni, and Bishop Gabriel Sharma serves Viti Levu West as well as the archdeacons of Suva and Ovalau, Samoa and American Samoa, and Tonga.

Antonio Martorell Sastre

Daniel Llambrich Gabriel (born December 8, 1978 in Inca, Balearic Islands) is an S9 swimmer from Spain.

Areop-Enap

In the darkness, Areop-Enap explored the clam's insides, and found a tiny snail (or in some accounts, a Triton's Horn shellfish).

Ashcombe House, Somerset

The track My Secret Place from the Joni Mitchell album Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm was also recorded at Gabriel's studios at Ashcombe House in 1986.

Bojer's skink

It occurs in patches of the Black River Gorges National Park and on some off-shore islands of Mauritius including Ilot Vacoas, Round Island, Serpent Island, Ilot Gabriel, Pigeon Rock, Flat Island, Gunner’s Quoin, Ile aux Aigrettes, and Ile de la Passe.

Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix

Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix de Castries, marquis de Castries, baron des États de Languedoc, comte de Charlus, baron de Castelnau et de Montjouvent, seigneur de Puylaurens et de Lézignan (25 February 1727, Paris - 11 January 1801, Wolfenbüttel) was a French marshal.

Château de Domfront

In 1574, the Château de Domfront, serving as a refuge for the Count of Montgomery, was besieged by royal troops under Marshal Matignon, capitulating on 27 May.

Claude Caroillon Destillières

Destillières bought the Château du Raincy, and on 20 October 1806 resold it to Gabriel-Julien Ouvrard for 800,000 francs, payable in letters of exchange.

Corrina Joseph

She has also sung on productions by artists like Underground Solution, Kamasutra, Masterbuilders, Nightmares on Wax, Classen Collective, Russ Gabriel and Harlem Zip Code.

Creepy Creatures

It is a comic book that contains three stories; "The Werewolf of Fever Swamp" adapted by Gabriel Hernandez, "The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight" adapted by Greg Ruth, and "The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena" adapted by Scott Morse, all based on the Goosebumps books by R. L. Stine.

Crowd surfing

The first official media release that depicts Gabriel crowd surfing was POV, a live concert video released in 1990 and produced by Martin Scorsese.

Debel Gallery

Among the artists exhibited were the Israeli artists Yair Garbuz, Raffi Lavie, Gabriel Cohen, Yocheved Weinfeld, Maya Cohen-Levy, Daniela Passal; internationally famous artists such as Alexander Calder, David Hockney and many others.

Edgar Balbuena

Edgar Gabriel Balbuena Adorno or, simply, Edgar Balbuena (born 20 November 1980 in Capiatá) is a Paraguayan footballer.

Francisc Panet

In the early 1930s, he studied at the Deutsche Technische Hochschule in Brno, Czechoslovakia, where he met other two Romanian communist activists, Valter Roman and Gabriel Mureşan.

François-Joseph-Philippe de Riquet

# Michel Gabriel Alphonse Ferdinand (1810-1865) - father of Marie-Clotilde-Elisabeth Louise de Riquet, comtesse de Mercy-Argenteau

Gabriel Benoist

Gabriel Benoist (11 July 1891 – 27 October 1964) was a French writer in the Cauchois dialect of the Norman language.

Gabriel Cedrés

Néstor Gabriel Cedrés Vera (born March 3, 1970 in Minas) is a Uruguayan footballer.

Gabriel de Mendizábal Iraeta

Gabriel de Mendizábal Iraeta "Primer Conde de Cuadro de Alba de Tormes" (14 May 1765, Vergara, Guipúzcoa) - 1 September 1838, Madrid) was a Spanish general officer who fought in the Peninsular War.

Gabriel Fehervari

Gabriel Fehervari (b. Wilrijk, 1960) is a Belgian businessman and was the CEO of the former Alfacam Group, which consisted of three divisions: Alfacam, Euro1080 and Eurolinx.

Gabriel Flores

Gabriel Flores García was born on February 8, 1930, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, although some sources mention El Arenal.

Gabriel Paulista

Gabriel Armando de Abreu (born 26 November 1990), better known as Gabriel Paulista or simply Gabriel, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Villarreal CF as a centre back.

Gabriel Peñalba

Gabriel Peñalba (born 23 September 1984) is an Argentine football midfielder who plays for Club Atletico Tigre.

Gabriel Pombo

Gabriel Antonio Pombo (Montevideo, 11 October 1961) is a Uruguayan writer and lawyer, who is known for his books, essays and interviews relating to serial murderers, and particularly about the famous case of Jack the Ripper, the mysterious and never discovered murderer of London.

Gabriel Rodrigues dos Santos

Gabriel was impressive in his new role, scoring twice in the Greek Super League already (by 9 November) and gaining a place in the starting XI, ahead of the reliable Dimitris Salpingidis, the wonderkid Sotiris Ninis, and new transfers such as Lazaros Christodoulopoulos and Alexandre Cleyton.

Gabriel Temudzani

Gabriel Temudzani (born 10 February 1980), also known by his stage name Chief Azwindini (on the TV soap Muvhango on SABC 2, on which he has been an actor since 2000), is a South African actor and TV presenter.

Gabriel Zakuani

Gabriel Abdala Zakuani (born 31 May 1986) is a Congolese footballer who plays for Kalloni.

Gabriel Zwilling

Gabriel Zwilling (c. 1487 – 1 May 1558) was a German Lutheran and Protestant Reformer born near Annaberg, Electorate of Saxony.

Gene Gabriel

Gabriel met his current wife, dancer/choreographer Stacey Tookey (So You Think You Can Dance), on a blind date several years ago in New York City.

Goossen family

In the early 1980s as the promoter of the family he started a company named Ten Goose Boxing (named after the ten siblings) handling but not always promoting Michael Nunn, Terry Norris and the Ruelas brothers, Gabriel and Rafael.

Jeffrey Gaines

"Scares Me More" featured an acoustic live version of Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes", which Gabriel had taken to number 26 on the Hot 100 in 1986.

John Nicolella

Nicolella's other directorial television credits include M.A.N.T.I.S., Crime Story, Leg Work, Gabriel's Fire, Dark Justice, Melrose Place, Key West, Marker and Super Force.

Kroke

As a result, joint recording sessions at Real World Studios with other musicians led to material from the band being subsequently used by Peter Gabriel on his album Long Walk Home- music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence, the soundtrack to the film of the same name.

Lebanese Maronite Order

The third Lebanese monastic order is that of Saint Isaiah, known as the Lebanese Antonin Order founded on August 15, 1700, by the Patriarch Gabriel Al Blouzani from Blaouza (1704–1705).

Leslie Gabriel

Gabriel is the daughter of former NFL defensive lineman, Manu Tuiasosopo, who played collegiately for UCLA, then professionally from 1979 to 1986 for the Seahawks and 49ers, being a starter at nose tackle and winning Super Bowl XIX.

Margaret Clitherow

A group of parishes in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool, Sacred Heart in Hindsford, St Richard's in Atherton, Holy Family in Boothstown, St Ambrose Barlow in Astley, St Gabriel's, Higher Folds in Leigh are now united as a single community with St Margaret Clitherow as its patron.

Radu Pavel Gheo

Gheo was a member of the Romanian young writers' group CLUB 8 from Iași, together with Constantin Acosmei, Șerban Alexandru, Radu Andriescu, Michael Astner, Emil Brumaru, Mariana Codruţ, Gabriel Horațiu Decuble, Florin Lăzărescu, Dan Lungu, Ovidiu Nimigean, Dan Sociu and Lucian Dan Teodorovici.

São Gabriel da Cachoeira Airport

6 March 1991: a TABA Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante flying to Manaus was hijacked near São Gabriel da Cachoeira by 3 persons.

Seychelle Gabriel

Gabriel appeared in Honey 2 (2011), directed by Bille Woodruff, produced by Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

Sir Gabriel Goldney, 2nd Baronet

Sir Gabriel Prior Goldney, 2nd Baronet of Beechfield and Bradenstoke Priory (4 August 1843 – 4 May 1925) was the first son of Gabriel Goldney, Conservative MP for Chippenham.

The Music Never Stopped

Based on Oliver Sacks' essay The Last Hippie, the film tells the father-son relationship between Henry Sawyer (J.K. Simmons) and his son, Gabriel (Lou Taylor Pucci), who suffers from a brain tumor that prevents him from forming new memories.

The Thorn

The Thorn starred John Hassberger as Jesus Christ with supporting roles of Bette Midler as the Virgin Mary; James Harrison as Joseph; John Greenburg as John the Baptist; Fred LaBour as the Angel Fred; Richard Pollard as Rabbi Gabriel; Diana David as Salome; and Jack Castor and Chi Chi as queens.

Ti Ora Tha Vgoume?

Songwriters and producers of the new album are Meth (Mihalis Kouinelis/Stavento), Giorgos Papadopoulos, Akis Petrou, Jimmy Jansson, Fredrik Sonefors, Bobby Ljunggren, Dimitris Kontopoulos, Nikos Antypas, Nikos Moraitis, Miltos Ioannidis, Gabriel Russel (Slik Beats), Giorgos Pilianidis, O. Holter, Jakke Erixson, Kristofer Östergren, Youla Georgiou, Nahle Ahlstedt and Giannis Doxas.

Tobón

Postobón, soft drink company founded 1904 Medellín, Colombia by Gabriel Posada and Valerio Tobón (whose names combine to form the name the Postobón)

Tony Gabriel

At the time, Gabriel stood at third among the all-time receivers behind only Tom Scott and Tommy Joe Coffey.

Turville-Petre

E. O. G. Turville-Petre (commonly known as Gabriel Turville-Petre), an English Professor of Ancient Icelandic Literature and Antiquities at Oxford University

William Doyle

Willie Doyle (William Joseph Gabriel Doyle, 1873–1917), Irish Jesuit priest and British Army chaplain

World Freerunning and Parkour Federation

The athletes, Daniel Ilabaca, Ryan Doyle, Tim Shieff, Oleg Vorslav, Victor Lopez, Gabriel Nunez, Paul Darnell and Richard King, and the company principals, Victor Bevine, David Thompson and production partner Francis Lyons came together with the stated purpose of bringing the sport and philosophy of Parkour to mainstream American audiences through television and other media and live formats.


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