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unusual facts about Gift



Animal loss

In Mormonism, all organisms (as well as the entire planet Earth) are believed to have a spirit, but that beings without the gift of free agency (the ability to know and choose between right and wrong) are innocent and unblemished spirits who go straight to Heaven when they die.

Blakeney, Norfolk

This was the gift of Maud de Roos or latterly de Ros, née de Vaux, wife of William de Ros, 1st Baron de Ros who distinguished himself in the Crusades, was knighted and granted land at Cley and Blakeney.

Branch Brook Park

The famous cherry trees were the result of a 1927 gift from Caroline Bamberger Fuld, sister of department store magnate Louis Bamberger and widow of the store's vice president.

Canberra International Music Festival

Other recent significant commissions and premieres in the CIMF include Arvo Pärt's Fourth Symphony, Henryk Górecki's ...songs are sung... for string orchestra, the concert premiere of Einojuhani Rautavaara's The Gift of the Magi and Peter Sculthorpe's "Shining Island".

Colt Buntline

Earp had received the weapon as a gift from Tombstone mayor and Tombstone Epitaph newspaper editor John Clum.

Conservation easement

As a result of legislation signed by President George W. Bush on August 17, 2006 (H.R. 4 The Pensions Protection Act of 2006), in 2006 and 2007, conservation easement donors were able to deduct the value of their gift at the rate of 50% of their adjusted gross income (AGI) per year.

Distant Waves

It is there that it is proven that the twins, Amelie and Emma, have their mother's gift of being able to speak to the dead after having Queen Victoria speak to Conan Doyle.

Dutch Wonderland

They also operate Wonderland Mini-Golf, and Old Mill Stream Campground at the same location and the Gift Shop at Kitchen Kettle Village, in nearby Intercourse, Pennsylvania.

Emiliano Mercado del Toro

Civic leaders and veterans commended Mercado on his endurance and lucid mind, but the "gift" he would enjoy the most was the visit of Puerto Rican vedette and media icon Iris Chacón.

Emmanuel's Gift

Emmanuel's Gift is a 2005 documentary narrating the life of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, a disabled man born in Ghana.

Fairlie, North Ayrshire

These include the "Village Inn" (a pub and restaurant), a petrol station, a deli, a Chinese takeaway and a small gift and flower shop.

Fairy godmother

In William Makepeace Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring, the fairy Blackstick concludes that her gifts have not done her godchildren good; in particular, she has given two of her goddaughters the title ring and the title rose, which have the power to make whoever owns them beautiful, which have ruined the character of those goddaughters; with the next prince and princess, she gives them "a little misfortune", which proves the best gift, as their difficulties form their characters.

Future Pigeon

Also their song "Gift Tax" has appeared on the video game Tony Hawk's Proving Ground.

Gadsby

W Gadsby & Son Ltd, a UK supplier of wicker baskets and gift packaging

German submarine U-209

Brno municipality received as a gift a model of the submarine (photos exist) but the model itself was probably lost after the end of WWII.

Gift Trap

Gift Trap donated one copy to the charity Right To Play for every ten copies sold from the first production run of 10,000 games.

Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir

Among her most recent solo exhibitions are My Gift, Your Excellency in ASI Art Museum (IS 2011), Audition in Ace Art Inc (CA 2008) both in collaboration with writer Kristin Omarsdottir and Cultus Bestiae Reykjavik Art Museum (IS 2008).

Gunston Hall

George Mason gave Hollin Hall to his third son, Thomson Mason, through deeds of gift in 1781 and 1786.

J. E. Stanley Lewis

When Barbara Ann Scott won the World Figure Skating Championships in 1947, she was presented with a car by Lewis on her triumphant return; however, she was not able to accept the gift from the city because she wished to retain amateur status.

John Meeson Parsons

By his will he left to the trustees of the National Gallery, London, such of his oil-paintings, not exceeding one hundred, as they might choose to select, and in case of their declining to accept the gift wholly or in part, then the same right of selection to the department of science and art at South Kensington.

Jon Oliva's Pain

During a performance at the UK's ProgPower festival in March 2007, Oliva and the band paid tribute to one of Savatage's works, Streets: A Rock Opera, by playing a majority of the album in running order for the first time as a "gift" to fans.

José Carlos Semenzato

The holding presided by Semenzato has a number of other affiliated companies: Editora Raízes (a publishing house), a printshop, Star Brindes (a gift manufacturing company) and ProfSat (a satellite-based distance education and corporate communication company, in society with the Universidade de Uberaba).

Kapelle der Versöhnung

The chapel also has a replica of Coventry Cathedral’s Statue of Reconciliation, a gift of the Cathedral found in Hiroshima and Belfast too – also places emerging from the destructiveness of war.

Kris Kringle

Christkind or Christkindl, the Austrian and German Christmas gift-bringer, the Christ Child

Lego Minecraft

Mashable listed the first Lego Minecraft set as a creative gift for the 2012 Christmas season.

Lomellini Ewer and Basin

It may be that the pieces were made for the House of Grimaldi but later passed on the Lomellini, perhaps as a wedding gift or to mark a business transaction.

Mary of Bourbon

Among its provisions, the contract provided that Francis I would transfer Dunbar Castle with the gift of all of its guns, which was kept by the Duke of Albany, to James V, and if James died first Mary would have Falkland Palace for the rest of her life.

Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Corporation

The visitors center is a tourist attraction with its self-guided tour of the processing plant (viewed from the outside on a second-floor walkway due to safety and sanitation concerns) and large gift shop with homemade macadamia ice cream for sale and free samples of every flavour variation sold by the company.

Miranda, California

Besides the post office, the town boasts one restaurant, a resort, market, and gas station (all owned by the Eldridge family), a Seventh-day Adventist church, a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), a small, rural high school encompassing grades 8-12, a Community Grange, two gift shops, and an active Volunteer Fire Department.

Nelson C. Brown

In his first administration, Brown secured the gift of the Charles Lathrop Pack Demonstration Forest and a cash donation for the forest's preliminary development.

Peabody Education Fund

Founded of necessity due to damage caused largely by the American Civil War, the Peabody Education Fund was established by George Peabody in 1867 for the purpose of promoting "intellectual, moral, and industrial education in the most destitute portion of the Southern States." The gift of foundation consisted of securities to the value of $2,100,000, of which $1,100,000 were in Mississippi State bonds, afterward repudiated.

Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder

He was friends with detective writer John le Carré, and while staying in Bonn, Germany, he received a gift directly from Le Carré himself: a popular book titled "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold".

Places for Breathing

"A Gift," "Seven," and "Straight Jacket Labels" served as the band's first three demos produced by Tommy Henriksen and Jeff Tilson.

Red Hat Society

In 1997, Cooper gave a friend a 55th birthday gift consisting of a red bowler purchased at an antique store along with a copy of Jenny Joseph's poem "Warning".

Revere Bell

The Revere Bell was a gift by Mrs. Maria Revere Balestier, daughter of Paul Revere and wife of the first American Consul to Singapore, Joseph Balestier.

Richard Merillat

It was donated to Michigan State University in 1996, the e largest gift-in-kind received by the university and by the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Sankara Eye Foundation

SEF initiates and drives community eye care activities in India by working with Sankara Eye Care Institutions (SECI), India, which runs the "Gift of Vision" rural outreach program through Sankara Eye Hospitals in Coimbatore, Krishnankovil, Bangalore, Shimoga, Guntur, Anand, Pammal and Silvassa.

Schloss Ringberg

He was therefore confronted with the choice of either selling Schloss Ringberg to the Confederation of German Trade Unions or leaving it as gift to the Max Planck Society.

Stella Greenall

Greenhall presented their collection of 870 Venetian coins and 23 medals to the British Museum, a gift which was celebrated with the exhibition 'Venice Preserv'd' which ran from 9 November 1993 to 13 February 1994.

Stiftung Louisenlund

The school's main building is in Louisenlund Castle, which was built by Hermann von Motz between 1772 and 1776 for Landgrave Charles of Hesse as a gift for his wife, Princess Louise of Denmark, the daughter of King Frederick V of Denmark.

The Ashes urn

It was presented to Ivo Bligh, the captain of the England cricket team, after a friendly match hosted at Rupertswood mansion in Sunbury, during the 1882–83 tour in Australia, as a personal gift, and after his death was presented to the Marylebone Cricket Club, which has it on display at Lord's cricket ground.

The Gift of Stones

The Gift of Stones is a 1988 novel by British author Jim Crace.

The Undertaker's Gift

The Undertaker's Gift is a BBC Books original novel written by Trevor Baxendale and based on the British science fiction television, Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood and is set after the conclusion of the second series.

Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan

The gift of the pandas was first proposed during the 2005 Pan-Blue visits to mainland China, when politicians from the then-Opposition Pan-Blue coalition, which is comparatively pro-unification in stance, visited mainland China.

Ultra trust

An Ultra Trust is a legal entity with special provisions, benefits, and limitations created and drafted by an attorney who has expertise with debtor—creditor law, income tax law, gift tax law, and estate tax law, as well as trust law.

Umm as Sabaan

In the 1930s, the ruler of Bahrain gave the island as a gift to Max Thornburg, an American oil executive from Caltex.

University Scholars Program

The University Scholars Program was created in 1998 by the Office of the Vice Provost of Interdisciplinary Studies with a gift of $20 million from Duke University Trustee Emerita Melinda French Gates and her husband Bill Gates, through the William H. Gates Foundation, now called the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

William Disney

In 1777 he became vicar of Pluckley in Kent, a living in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury, where he died 28 March 1807.

Zavala, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Zavala was part of the Serbian medieval župa (district) of Popovo, referred to in the Chronicles of the priest Dukljanin and in a deed of gift of prince Miroslav issued to the Church of St Peter in Lim at the end of the twelfth century.


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