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unusual facts about Grasshopper


Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters

They are titled The Lemon Grove Kids, The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Grasshopper and the Vampire Lady from Outer Space, and The Lemon Grove Kids Go Hollywood!.


1994 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation

Performed by: Grasshopper (Band members: Calvin Choy,
Remus Choy, Edmond So), Winnie Lau, Karen Tong (湯寶如)

Alexander Viveros

Viveros met different fates with his next two teams, starting with FC Nantes in France – albeit only in his first year in Ligue 1, with the Canaries finishing in 17th, the first position above the relegation zone – but being a reserve with Swiss Super League side Grasshopper-Club Zürich, for which he signed in January 2006.

American Kestrel

American Kestrels feed largely on small animals such as grasshoppers, dragonflies, lizards, mice, and voles.

Apollo Kironde

He was the scion of an ancient aristocratic family of the Nsenene (grasshopper clan).

Boris Smiljanić

Smiljanić returned to Grasshopper at the beginning of the 2007–08 season after the arrival of defenders François Marque from FC Baulmes and Patrik Baumann through the youth system threatened his place in the Basel team.

British Automobile Racing Club

The event held on Sunday, June 2, 1957, was run in conjunction with the BARC 11th Annual Rally at Eastbourne, a 50-mile road event held the day before, starting at the Grasshopper Inn near Westerham, with intermittent driving tests, including one at Butts Hill, Willingdon, and then on to Eastbourne, via Beachy Head.

C. parallelus

Chorthippus parallelus, the meadow grasshopper, a grasshopper species found in Europe and some adjoining areas of Asia

Charles Valentine Riley

He convinced the United States Congress to establish the United States Entomological Commission, which included a Grasshopper Commission, to which Riley was appointed chairman.

Chorthippus biguttulus

The range of the Bow-winged grasshopper extends from the Finland and Scandinavia in the north to the Alps and Pyrenees in the south.

Crème de menthe

Crème de menthe is used as an ingredient in several cocktails, such as the Grasshopper and the Stinger, and is also served as an after-dinner drink and can be used in food recipes as a flavoring (see Mint chocolate).

Deception in animals

Similarly, the katydids, a group of grasshopper-like insects found worldwide, are nocturnal and use their cryptic colouration to remain unnoticed during the day.

Eldin Jakupović

At the end of the 2007–08 season, Jakupović extended his loan at Grasshopper for another year, which meant new signing goalkeeper Massimo Colomba was benched.

FC Solothurn

The former manager of Grasshopper-Club Zürich, Hanspeter Latour, managed FC Solothurn for 13 years in 1983-1996.

Firle Hill Climb

The BARC event held on Sunday 2 June 1957, was run in conjunction with the BARC 11th Annual Rally at Eastbourne, a 50-mile road event held the day before, starting at the Grasshopper Inn near Westerham, with intermittent driving tests, including one at Butts Hill, Willingdon, and then on to Eastbourne, via Beachy Head.

Guilherme Afonso

Afonso has played club-football in Switzerland for Étoile Carouge, Sion, Grasshopper, Lugano and FC Vaduz; in France for Valence; and in the Netherlands for Twente and Veendam.

Joyce Dunbar

Dunbar most well-known series, Mouse and Mole, has been adapted into a twenty-six part television animation series by Grasshopper Productions, with voices lent by Alan Bennett and Richard Briers.

Michael Skibbe

On 15 June 2013, Skibbe was appointed as the new Grasshopper Club Zürich, succeeding Uli Forte.

Norman Criddle

Norman Criddle, born in 1875 in Addlestone, Surrey, England, died in 1933 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, was an entomologist active in the early development of control strategies for agriculturally important grasshoppers (Insecta: Orthoptera) in the prairie croplands of western North America, as well as a naturalist-artist.

Nourlangie Rock

Together they produced Leichhardt's grasshopper (Petasida ephippigera) Al-yurr, a species of blue and orange grasshopper which in Aboriginal mythology are believed to be the lightning spirit's children.

Princes Channel Wreck

However the more popular name of Gresham Ship was introduced when the guns on board the vessel revealed a grasshopper insignia, which was the motif made by Sir Thomas Gresham, founder of the Royal Exchange.

Reto Zanni

During the 2001/02 season, he was on loan at FC St. Gallen where he played 28 games, but returning to the Grasshopper-Club, he played just one game in the 2002/03 season.

Zanni started off playing football for SC Buochs and then was scouted by Grasshopper-Club Zürich subsequently starting his professional career with Grasshopper-Club in 1998 at the age of 18.

Rolf Feltscher

Despite being just 16 years old, he was given his league debut in Grasshopper's first match of the 2007–08 season, a 2–0 victory over FC St. Gallen, playing 90 minutes at right back.

Shoal Hill Common

A number of rare plant, animal, bird and insect species can be found on the heathland including: Butterflies (e.g. Small Heath and Green Hairstreak), grasshoppers, Common lizards, Skylarks, and Stonechats.

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

One day, noticing two different types of grasshoppers in the lawn around the house, Callie decides to find a copy of the infamous "Origin of the Species" by Mr. Charles Darwin.

The Grasshopper Company

Grasshopper also announced on a Fox News Channel "Fox & Friends" segment that it will continue its partnership with Military Warriors Support Foundation to give a mower to a military hero every year.

Wetter

Weta, an extremely large grasshopper-like insect endemic to New Zealand


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