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33 unusual facts about Goré


Archibald Ormsby-Gore

In the 1940s, Betjeman also wrote and illustrated a story for his children, entitled Archie and the Strict Baptists, in which the bear's sojourns at the family's successive homes in Uffington and Farnborough are fictionalised.

Association des Guides du Tchad

Today Girl Guiding can be found in the regions where there are religious communities, such as Doba, Moundou and N'Djamena, and recently in Sarh, Goré and Laï.

Brill railway station

In 1885 the Duke of Buckingham opened a modern brickworks near Brill station, with a dedicated siding, and in 1895 his heir William Temple-Gore-Langton, 4th Earl Temple of Stowe, expanded the brickworks, which became the Brill Brick & Tile Works, using the Brill Tramway to deliver bricks to the mainline at Quainton Road.

Charles Stephen Gore

The community of Gore, Nova Scotia is named after him when he served in Nova Scotia.

Connecticut State Police

Other garments are issued such as waist length Gore-Tex jackets, longer knee length Gore-Tex parka jackets for severe weather and pull over wool knit sweaters.

Fly fishing tackle

Contemporary waders are either made of breathable Gore-Tex or neoprene.

Geoff Rabone

Geoffrey Osborne Rabone (born 6 November 1921 in Gore, Southland, New Zealand and died 19 January 2006 in Auckland) was a cricketer who captained New Zealand in five Test matches in 1953-54 and 1954-55.

Gore District

Gore, New Zealand, a town, surrounding borough, and district in the Southland region of the South Island of New Zealand.

Gore High School

Gore High School is one of two secondary schools in Gore, New Zealand.

Gore-Browne

Stewart Gore-Browne, a soldier, pioneer settler, and politician and supporter of independence in Northern Rhodesia

Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission

The sector of science and technology, run by OSTP Director Jack Gibbons and Minister of Science Boris G. Saltykov, included improvements of highways systems and other transportation issues, biological research, geological research, engineering, and oil and natural gas research.

The energy agreements and policies of the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission were facilitated by Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary and Minister of Fuel and Energy Yuri Shafranik.

Gore, Oklahoma

Thomas Gore, whom the town is named after, is claimed to have been an atheist with a strong misanthropic streak - "a populist who didn't like people", as expressed by his grandson, author Gore Vidal.

Steven Tyler, the lead singer of Aerosmith, once used to frequent Gore while married to his second wife Teresa Barrick, who is originally from the area.

Gore, Quebec

The Gore Township was established in 1840, named after Francis Gore (1769–1852), Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada from 1806 to 1811 and from 1815 to 1817.

Hiking boot

Most hiking boots are constructed of leather, sometimes with a breathable waterproof lining, such as Gore-Tex.

Joe Melson

He attended high school in Gore, Oklahoma, and in Chicago before he returned to Texas to study at the two-year Odessa College in Odessa, the seat of Ector County.

John Bickerton

He won the 1994 Gore-Tex Challenge on his way to 6th on the season ending money list, which gave him automatic promotion to the European Tour for 1995.

John Gore

John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech (1816–1876), British peer and Conservative MP for Caernarvonshire and Shropshire North

John Ling

Following the usual Diplomatic Service practice of alternating postings in Whitehall with those in foreign embassies, he was private secretary to Ministers of State for Foreign Affairs, Lord Harlech and Joseph Godber from 1961 to 1963, and then Second Secretary at the embassy in Santiago from 1963 to 1966.

Keswick Mountain Festival

According to The Observer, the festival is "one of the few places on the planet where Gore-Tex and gaiters might actually help you to pull".

Oswestry by-election, 1904

George Ormsby-Gore had been Conservative MP for the seat of Oswestry since the 1901 Oswestry by-election.

Peripheral vascular disease

Generally, the saphenous vein is used, although artificial (Gore-Tex) material is often used for large tracts when the veins are of lesser quality.

Raincoat

Modern raincoats are often constructed of breathable, waterproof fabrics such as Gore-Tex or Tyvek and coated nylons.

Robert Gore

Robert W. Gore (born 1937), American engineer and scientist, inventor and businessman

Bobby Gore (born 1936), former leader of the Conservative Vice Lords

Simms Fishing Products

Shortly after K.C. Walsh acquired the company and moved it to Bozeman, Simms introduced a line of breathable waders using Gore-Tex.

Swedish Military Uniform

The M90 uniform has been undergoing advanced research and development lately, and it is possible that new materials such as Gore-Tex and Kevlar will be used in the future to further strengthen and adapt the uniform for special conditions.

Tekle Hawaryat

Within a few months, he joined the garrison at Jimma, and retreated with them to Ras Imru Haile Selassie's encampment in the wilderness between Jimma and Gore.

Tricuspid atresia

modified Blalock-Taussig shunt to maintain pulmonary blood flow by placing a Gore-Tex conduit between the subclavian artery and the pulmonary artery.

U.S. Army M-1943 Uniform

It is no longer used for combat operations having been superseded by the Gen II and Gen III Gore-Tex parkas.

William Gore-Langton

William Temple-Gore-Langton, 4th Earl Temple of Stowe, son of the above, known as William Gore-Langton until 1889

William Ormsby-Gore

Born William Gore, the eldest son of William Gore, MP, of Woodford, Leitrim he was the great-great-grandson of William Gore, third and youngest son of Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet, of Newtown, second son of Sir Paul Gore, 1st Baronet, of Magharabag, whose eldest son Paul was the grandfather of Arthur Gore, 1st Earl of Arran.


Alice Gore King

Alice was born in New York City on July 17, 1914 to Marion Morrison King (An Assistant Librarian at the New York Society Library for many years and relative to Elizabeth Cady Stanton) and Frederick Gore King (A banker and great grandson of Rufus King - American lawyer, politician, diplomat and signer of the US Constitution).

Baron Harlech

It was created in 1876 for the Conservative politician John Ormsby-Gore, with remainder to his younger brother William.

Chris Gore

In 2009 Gore signed on to host a reality talk show called Hollywood on the Rocks produced by Mini Movie Channel and distributed by Ovation TV.

Cluster Pluckers

In the 1990s the group performed at a fundraiser event in front of President Clinton and Vice President Gore at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, and also for Tipper Gore's Birthday Bash at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.

Dalyup River

The first European to discover the river was Surveyor General John Septimus Roe in 1848 who named it the Gore River after one of Captain James Cook's crew from the Endeavour, Lieutenant John Gore.

Dennis Altman

In 2005, he also published Gore Vidal's America, a study, as the title suggests, of Gore Vidal and his writings on history, politics, sex, and religion.

Ed Fallon

During the 2000 presidential election, he made headlines across the state when he endorsed the candidacy of Green Party nominee Ralph Nader over that of Democrat Al Gore because of Gore's choice of Joe Lieberman as a running mate.

Gore Beyond Necropsy

Gore Beyond Necropsy (GBN) was the name of a musical group formed in 1989 in Hadano city, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan.

Gore Effect

A gloss of Harald Martenstein in the German weekly Die Zeit describes the effect as "Gore's personal climate disaster".

Gurbax Singh Malhi

Progressive Conservative incumbent Harry Chadwick and Reformer Darlene Florence in Bramalea-Gore-Malton.

Jackie Norris

In 1998, Norris served as finance director for Governor Tom Vilsack’s gubernatorial campaign in Iowa and as Iowa state political director on Al Gore’s 2000 Presidential campaign.

James Gillray

Blood on Thunder fording the Red Sea represents Lord Thurlow carrying Warren Hastings through a sea of gore: Hastings looks very comfortable, and is carrying two large bags of money.

Jean Griswold

On August 20, 1997 Tipper Gore wrote to Dr. Griswold from the Office Of The Vice President of the United States: Your entrepreneurship and ingenuity have enabled individuals with illnesses to have the opportunity to receive the care they deserve.

Lesley Gore: It's My Party

Lesley Gore: It's My Party is a five disc box set from Bear Family Records released June 21, 1994, that includes every Mercury Records release by Gore between 1963 and 1969.

Linda Clifford

The sixth, I'm Yours, was produced by Isaac Hayes with the exception of one song from the Fame soundtrack ("Red Light" written by Pitchford and Gore).

Lurker in the Lobby: The Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft

Movies reviewed inside the book include more popular films such as In the Mouth of Madness, Alien, Hellboy, The Thing, the cult classic Re-Animator as well as more obscure Japanese works such as Marebito and Uzumaki, Italian gore films (The Beyond) and even comedies (Cast a Deadly Spell).

Meat Weed Madness

Film Threat called the film was a "curious fusion of Alice in Wonderland, Reefer Madness and Herschell Gordon Lewis' Two Thousand Maniacs. It's shot directly onto video and contains lots of gore, bizarre situations and female nudity. It's not particularly funny or gross or sexy, but it was gratifying in some sort of weird way."

Metu, Ethiopia

At this early date, the town was connected by telephone to Gore and Addis Ababa.

Mike Bond

Bond was a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate in Montana in 1982, and served in Al Gore's 2000 Presidential campaign as head of Colorado Business Leaders for Gore and as a spokesman in several western states (Colorado, Utah, and Oregon) for Gore environmental positions.

Montague Gore

His father, Reverend Charles Gore, vicar of Henbury, Cheshire, was the brother of William Gore-Langton.

Neil Rutherford

Also killed by gunshot wounds were the hotel owner, Linda Simcox (52); ex merchant seaman Johnny Gore Green (55), an antique dealer from Bay City, Texas; Simcox's daughter, Lorna (24); and her husband, Alastair McIntyre (55).

No Carbon Tax Climate Sceptics

On 13 July 2009, approximately 30 members of the Climate Sceptics Party and supporters arrived at the venue where Al Gore, was speaking in Melbourne, to hand out leaflets for those attending, with questions to ask Al Gore during his speech.

P Eridani

Several orbits have been calculated, including W.C. Jacob (1850), Bernhard Dawson (1919), W.J. Luyten & E.G. Ebbinghausen (1934), and J.G. Gore (1956) The most recent solution being produced by the Dutch astronomer Gale Bruno van Albada (1957), while he was acting as the Director of the Bosscha Observatory in Java, Indonesia.

Rhian Edwards

In 2011, she again reached the World Championship final after victories over Gore in the quarter-finals and Deta Hedman in the semi-finals.

Robert Gass

Robert was the former Board Chair of Greenpeace, and coaches and consults to leaders and organizations such as the NAACP, Sierra Club, MS Foundation, Green for All, Service Employees International Union(SEIU), Reform Immigration for America (RIFA), the Democracy Alliance, Rainforest Action Network, Center for Community Change (CCC), Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection, and MoveOn.org.

Roger Revelle

When Gore was running for the vice-presidential nomination in 1992, The New Republic picked up on the contrast between the references to Revelle in Gore's book, Earth in the Balance, and the views in the Cosmos article that could now be attributed to Revelle.

Roman Maev

In 1990, he received a Fellowship from the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission, and as a result was invited by the US government to take a special series of courses at Harvard Business School, where he studied for several months, through its Scientific Business Management Fund.

Supercoven

The sample on "Wizards of Gore" is from the 1976 film Blood Sucking Freaks by Joel M. Reed, but the song is based on the 1970 film The Wizard of Gore by Herschell Gordon Lewis.

Sylvia Gore

In 1974 Gore helped Fodens, originally a works team from the Edwin Foden, Sons & Co. lorry manufacturing plant in Sandbach, shock Southampton in the final of the Women's FA Cup.

That's the Way Boys Are

"That's the Way Boys Are" is a song written by Mark Barkan and Ben Raleigh and initially sung by Lesley Gore and released in 1964 as a single and on Gore's 3rd album Boys, Boys, Boys.

Theatrical blood

"Kensington Gore" (a pun on the London street) was a trademark for fake blood used in films and in theatre.

Thomas Harnisch

Harnisch remained active in politics as Wisconsin co-chair of the 1988 presidential campaign of Al Gore, later as a Gore delegate at the 1988 Democratic National Convention.

Volodymyr Horbulin

Until November 1999, he headed the State Interagency Commission for Cooperation with NATO and co-headed the Consulting Committee under presidents of Ukraine and Poland, co-headed the Secretariat of Kuchma-Gore Commission.

William Crampton Gore

The son of an army officer from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Gore studied medicine at TCD, graduating in 1897 and practising until 1901.