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12 unusual facts about Gap


2009 Brazilian girl abortion case

Bishop Jean-Michel di Falco of Gap, France criticized, like Fisichella, what he saw as the un-Christlike nature of Archbishop Cardoso's statement, saying that bishops should act as pastors rather than executioners.

Alan Blackshaw

In 1972, he made a continuous ski traverse of the Alps from Kaprun to Gap, and between 1973 and 1978 he likewise traversed Scandinavia by ski, from Lakselv to Adneram.

Auntie Anne's

In October 2006, it was announced that the Auntie Anne's corporate headquarters would be relocated from the town of Gap to downtown Lancaster.

Baptiste Amar

Baptiste Amar (born 11 November 1979 in Gap, France) is a professional French ice hockey defenceman who participated at the 2010 IIHF World Championship as a member of the France National men's ice hockey team.

Christian Pouget

Christian Pouget (born January 11, 1966 in Gap, France) is a retired French professional ice hockey player.

Fulk Bertrand of Provence

He called together a council of clergy and noblesse to found the abbey of Saint Promasius near Forcalquier and to restore Bremetense near Gap, which had been destroyed by the Saracens of Fraxinetum.

Gap Cathedral

Gap Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Arnoux de Gap) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, located in the town of Gap, Hautes-Alpes.

Gap, Hautes-Alpes

Gallia Christiana (Nova, 1715), I, 452–473, Instrumenta, 86–89, (Nova, 1725), III, 1051–1107; Instrumenta, 177–188, 205–8;

Originally founded by the Gauls, the Roman emperor Augustus seized the town in 14 BC and renamed it Vapincum.

Notre-Dame-de-Pontmain, Quebec

The first pastor, Eugene Trinquier, serving from 1886 to 1907, was originally from Gap in the Hautes-Alpes (France) and named the parish Notre-Dame-de-Pontmain, after the apparitions of Our Lady of Pontmain.

Pequea Valley School District

Attendance at Salisbury Elementary School in Gap, Pennsylvania during the 2005–2006 school year was 96.11%, essentially the same as the 96.04% scored in the prior year.

WXLV-TV

It was the first independent station in the Piedmont Triad region, and broadcast its signal from a transmitter located west of Gap in Stokes County.


Alex Stevenson

Puzzled by the fourteen-year gap between his first and second FAI cap, Stevenson apparently approached both the Everton secretary-manager, Theo Kelly, and the FAI secretary Joe Wickham for an explanation but neither was prepared to offer one.

Alworths

During the demise of the company, Tony Page, former commercial director at Woolworths, together with former UBS banker Gareth Thomas, put together plans to establish a new general retailer to fill the gap on the High Street left by the demise of Woolworths.

Amykles

There have been finds of sub-Mycenaean votive figures and of votive figures from the Geometric period, but with a gap in continuity between them: "it is clear that a radical reinterpretation has taken place" Walter Burkert has observed, instancing many examples of this break in cult during the "Greek Dark Ages", including Amyklai (1985, p 49).

Babai the Great

Two vekils (regents) were selected as a stop-gap measure: Archdeacon Mar Aba, who handled matters in the north.

Bodfari

The village lies on the A541 road at the point where the road passes through a gap in the Clwydian Hills, the gap being part of the valley of the River Wheeler (Welsh: Afon Chwiler).

Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park

When Union Major General Ambrose Burnside attacked the Cumberland Gap and Knoxville, Tennessee, Camp Nelson's distance from the Gap and Knoxville, combined with lack of railroads and the weather, hampered the Union advance.

Celia Wade-Brown

After school, she took a gap year in Cape Coast, Ghana, then earned an honours degree in philosophy from the University of Nottingham.

Chris Bashinelli

As a part of Bridge the Gap TV, Bashinelli has interviewed figures including Paleontologist Richard Leakey, former NBA player and Humanitarian Dikembe Mutombo, and the Founders of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield.

Cornelius Donahue

" He revealed his fear of Daniel Boone May, who was seen riding parallel to the coach. May and messenger Jesse Brown left the stage at Buffalo Gap and "Whispering" Smith, retained responsibility for Lame Johnny. Shortly thereafter, the coach was stopped, and eight vigilantes hanged Lame Johnny."

Cumberland Gap, Tennessee

In 1888, a work camp was established at Cumberland Gap by Scottish-born entrepreneur Alexander Arthur (1846–1912) to house workers needed to build a tunnel for the Knoxville, Cumberland Gap & Louisville Railroad.

Dario Alejandro Gasco

Gasco spotted officially on his major international debut at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he delivered a bronze-medal time of 2:07:37 in the men's cross-country race, trailing behind U.S. rider Adam Craig and Brazil's Rubens Donizete within a two-minute gap.

Findlay Napier

Before the demise of Back of the Moon, Napier began working on a project called Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers at first this project was to bridge the gap between the traditional roots of Back of the Moon and the contemporary song and arrangements of Queen Anne's Revenge.

Flood Building

More recent major tenants include the flagship stores for retailers, Gap, Urban Outfitters, and Anthropologie.

Glaucias of Taulanti

The Illyrians were devastated in which the Maceodnians who struck in a deep formation at the very end of the Illyrian line, killed many in their beds and started a panic which became a rout as the infantry line poured through the gap and rolled up the Illyrian line from east to west.

Great Gable

Among indirect ascents, a popular alternative is to climb Sour Milk Gill from Seathwaite in Borrowdale, first ascending Green Gable before traversing Windy Gap.

Highways in Ontario

In 1960, The Gap opened along the north shore of Lake Superior and completed the Trans-Canada Highway in the province.

Hobart Gap

During the American Revolutionary War, Hessian General Baron Wilhelm von Knyphausen attempted to seize the Hobart Gap, now crossed by present-day Route 24, in order to attack the American headquarters in Morristown for the British.

I See the Rain

The Marmalade's original recording also featured in a major clothing chain worldwide advertisement campaign in 2002 featuring Dennis Hopper and Christina Ricci “The Gap - Two White Shirts (version 2)”, directed by the Coen brothers

Joseph M. McDade

Regionally, McDade was the principal advocate for the Tobyhanna Army Depot and was instrumental in establishing the Delaware Water Gap Recreation Area, the Steamtown National Historic Site, and the National Fishery Laboratory in Wellsboro.

Kingsgate Castle

The name Kingsgate is related to an incidental landing of Charles II on 30 June 1683 (‘gate’ referring to a cliff-gap) though other English monarchs have also used this cove, such as George II in 1748.

London Underground D78 Stock

adding an audio passenger information system guided by GPS and odometer, voiced by Emma Clarke: announcements for each station name include connecting lines, and provide warnings to "mind the gap between the train and the platform"

Marco Iansiti

Iansiti and Sinofsky discuss the approach Sinofsky took within the Windows and Windows Live Group at Microsoft to bridge this gap during the development of the Windows 7 operating system.

Minsi

Mount Minsi, a hill on the Pennsylvania side of Delaware Water Gap

Monolake

In 2008 T++ followed Ricardo Villalobos in bridging the gap between minimal techno and dubstep, by remixing Shackleton's Death Is Not Final for the Skull Disco label.

Mount Pleasant Towne Centre

The shopping center is home to over 65 national and local retail stores such as Men's Wearhouse, Old Navy, Gap, Genealogy Boutique, and Coldwater Creek.

Palliser Formation

The type section was defined in 1994 by Meijer and Johnston in the "Devil's Gap" section south of Mount Costigan of the Palliser Range, north of Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park.

Peggy Ann Bradnick

A massive manhunt (the largest conducted in Pennsylvania up to that time) of over 1,000 federal, state and local law officers, National Guardsmen, and civilian volunteers scoured the hills surrounding Shade Gap for any sign of Peggy Ann and her abductor.

Pennsylvania Route 563

Lake Nockamixon was intended to fill a gap in between the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas.

Persil Service

After the pilot scheme, the Kodak partnership was dropped and Fujifilm filled the gap.

Richard Kugler

isbn=0788180894 - Mind the Gap: Promoting a Transatlantic Revolution in Military Affairs - Google Books Result

Royal Westphalian Railway Company

The Royal Westphalian Railway was initially established only to fill the 32 km-long gap between Hamm and Lippstadt, connecting the Münster–Hamm line of the Munster–Hamm Railway Company (Münster-Hammer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) opened in 1848 with the line being constructed at the same time by the Cologne-Minden-Thuringian Connection Railway Company (Köln-Minden-Thüringischen-Verbindungs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, KMTVEG).

Sea Cliff, San Francisco

Some of the neighborhood's more famous current and past residents include Jefferson Airplane guitarist Paul Kantner, photographer Ansel Adams, comic actor Robin Williams, actress Sharon Stone, actor Eugene Levy, actor Cheech Marin, Gap founder Donald Fisher, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett.

Secret Invasion: Runaways/Young Avengers

Secret Invasion: Runaways/Young Avengers bridged the gap between the first and second volumes of the Young Avengers series, which went on hiatus due to writer Allan Heinberg's busy schedule with various television projects and his run on DC's Wonder Woman.

Shanghai Metal Exchange

SHME is located in the city of Shanghai and its geographical location bridges the time gap between London Metal Exchange and New York Mercantile Exchange markets, thus enabling traders across the world to have a 24-hour access to futures contracts of non-ferrous metals.

Sheila Klein

In 2013 Klein received a GAP award from the Artist Trust to assist with travel and living for a project in Ahmedabad, India, creating an architectural textile together with Muslim women who are members of the Sarkhej Roza Mosque community.

Shikshanachya Aaicha Gho

After Astitva with 9 years long gap Mahesh Manjrekar directed Marathi film.This film was later remade in Tamil & Telugu as Dhoni and in Bengali as "Cholo Paltaai" starring Prosenjit Chatterjee.

Soniya Mehra

After the release of Victoria 203 which was a commercial flop, Soniya took a long gap of three years and she is now attempting to make her comeback in 2010 with the film Basra starring Abhay Deol and directed by Navdeep Singh.

St. Louis YPT-15

The PT-15 was a development of the "off-the-shelf" PT-1W for use by the U.S. Army Air Corps, ordered for stop-gap duty in the training of airmen in the build-up to World War II.

The Gap Band III

The Gap Band's next six albums were released directly by Total Experience Records.

Thistleton

On 28 September 1811 a massive crowd of up to 20,000 watched a prizefight at Thistleton Gap.

Tokyo 2010

and How can mission agencies help to bridge the gap between present efforts and the projected need over the next ten years?

Universal Periodic Review of New Zealand 2009

There was concern regarding the systemic gender pay gap; the alarmingly high child poverty rates; and the proposed amendments to the Terrorism Suppression Act 2002, which may result in unwarranted intrusion into the rights to freedom of association and expression.

Vaya

The sound of the album bridges the musical gap between In/Casino/Out and their following album, Relationship of Command.

What's Inside

After a twelve year gap, Tony Levin reprised his role as one of the album's bass guitarists – he had previously played on Walk Under Ladders in 1981 and The Key in 1983.

Whiskey Gap, Alberta

In 1976 hundreds of people came to Whiskey Gap for the production of Terrence Malick's period film Days of Heaven.

William Nobles

William Nobles (guide), 1851 trail guide through Emigrant Gap in Sierra Nevada, see Lassen Peak

William S. Price III

Price is currently proprietor of Classic Wines, LLC and Price Family Vineyards, LLC, which has invested in Durell Vineyard, Gap's Crown Vineyard, Buccella Winery, Kistler Vineyards,Three Sticks Wines and Lutum.

YopE protein domain

This particular protein domain can be referred to as a Rho GTPase-activating protein (GAP).