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2 unusual facts about Greens


Green Party

Global Greens, an international network of Green parties and political movements

Greens/Green Party USA

The Clearinghouse has operated from various locations, including (originally) Kansas City, Missouri; Blodgett Mills, New York; Lawrence, Massachusetts; and Chicago, Illinois.


1996 Parliament House Riot

Senator Dee Margetts, speaking for the Greens Western Australia said that "the Greens WA do not associate ourselves with the violent action" but that "there are obviously some in the Greens movement who have differing opinions about that".

2010 Hungaroring GP2 Series round

Luck was on Maldonado's side though, as he had the lapped car of Vladimir Arabadzhiev between he and Vietoris, and an awful restart from the Bulgarian allowed Maldonado to pull out more than 3.0s on the first lap back under greens.

Adele Carles

She was initially elected as a Greens WA member, and was the first Greens MP to be elected to the Legislative Assembly.

Alfred Mechtersheimer

Consequently, Mechtersheimer's political career has seen him move from Bavarian CSU to the Greens in the 1980s.

Arden Heights, Staten Island

Erastus Wiman, a noted Staten Island real estate developer, coined the name "Arden Heights" in 1886; the neighborhood's name probably refers to the hill that currently looms above the Village Greens shopping center and housing development.

Association of Socialist Greens

The Association of Socialist Greens was a political ginger group, often called a faction, founded by Derek Wall and others following the Socialist Conference organised by Tony Benn in the year after the 1987 General Election.

Bianca Elmir

Outside of boxing, Elmir is a political advisor to ACT Greens politician Amanda Bresnan.

Broome, Western Australia

The campaign has received ardent support from public figures such as John Butler, Missy Higgins, Clare Bowditch and former leader of the Australian Greens, Dr Bob Brown.

Cinnamon budgerigar mutation

These Cinnamons were bred from a pair of Light Greens obtained from a dealer in Aberdeen, but the ring on the cock showed it came from a Mr Banham, who lived near Victoria Station in London.

Djida Tazdaït

In 1995 she was candidate on a Greens list for the municipal elections in Vénissieux.

Eagle Creek Golf Club

Eagle Creek Golf Club was the first golf course in Florida to use Mini Verde Grass on its greens, and the first course in central Florida to offer PrecedentGolf Cars made by Club Car.

Electoral district of Melbourne

Senior Labor minister Bronwyn Pike successfully held the seat against strong Greens challenges at three subsequent elections, defeating future Greens Senator Richard Di Natale in 2002 and 2006, and prominent lawyer Brian Walters in 2010.

Farasiko Tokarei

In 2000 he played club football for the Tumbarumba Greens in the Group 9 Rugby League competition.

Fatback

Fatback is a traditional part of southern US cuisine, soul food and traditional Cuisine of Quebec, where it is used for fried pork rinds (known there as cracklings, or Oreilles de crisse in Quebec), and to flavor stewed vegetables such as greens, green beans, and black-eyed peas.

February 2010 Australian cyberattacks

The proposal is not expected to go forward due to the opposition from The Coalition and the Greens.

Feed-in tariff

A uniform federal scheme to supersede all State schemes was proposed by Tasmanian Greens Senator Christine Milne, but not enacted.

French presidential election, 1988

Meanwhile, the Ecologist Antoine Waechter refused to ally the Greens with either the left or the right.

Global Young Greens

The official founding congress of Global Young Greens was held from January 16–20, 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya.

Hesse state election, 2009

The candidates for the office of minister-president in 2009 were the incumbent Roland Koch of the CDU; the new Hesse SPD party leader, Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel; Tarek Al-Wazir for the Greens; Jörg-Uwe Hahn for the FDP; and Willi van Ooyen for the Linke.

Hillside Golf Club

Roger Pampling felt it was the hardest course he had ever played in the Qualifying for the 1998 Open, and Mark Calcavecchia thought the greens the best he had seen all year.

Hofreiter

Anton Hofreiter (born 1970), German biologist and politician (Alliance 90/The Greens)

Jay Weatherill

A conscience vote for a Greens-initiated gay marriage bill was announced by Weatherill in August 2012, following the announcement of Tasmania's planned changes.

Julian McGauran

This prompted calls from Labor senators and Greens Senator Bob Brown that he be sacked as Deputy Government Whip in the Senate.

Kapsalon

Kapsalon is a Dutch food item consisting of fries, topped with döner or shawarma meat, grilled with a layer of Gouda cheese until melted and then subsequently covered with a layer of dressed salad greens.

Katrin Göring-Eckardt

In the primary election for the Greens' top candidates for the 2013 federal election on 11 November 2012, she was the second-place winner with 47.3%, beating Claudia Roth and Renate Künast; this made her and Jürgen Trittin, who won the most votes, the factions' top two candidates for the following year's election.

Kloof Country Club

Kloof and Champagne Sports Resort are in fact the only courses in KwaZulu-Natal to have bent greens, (soon to be joined by Cotswold Downs in Hillcrest).

Leo du Pres and Greenlee Smythe

Take the one where Greens crashed a Halloween bash dressed as a harem girl and flirted with Leo at the punch bowl: 'Could you pour a cup for me? I’ve traveled so long and so far. I need some refreshment so I can dance with you, Oh noble master,' she purred.

Melbourne state by-election, 2012

How-to-vote cards (HTVs) had six candidates recommending voters to preference Labor over the Greens: Ahmed, Family First, Nolte, the DLP, the Sex Party, and the Christians.

Mertensia ovum

In addition to being weakly bioluminescent in blues and greens, comb jellies produce a rainbow effect similar to that seen on an oil slick, and which is caused by interference of incident light on the eight rows of moving cilia or comb rows which propel the organism.

Paul Gogarty

In an interview with TheJournal.ie, Gogarty was reported to have claimed that he was considering changing parties to Fianna Fáil saying that "I haven’t finished with the Greens. I am very much green to the core, but in terms of getting political objectives achieved, I have not made up my mind with whether I will go back into politics, whether the Green Party has a chance to recover or whether we need a strong green element in some other organisation".

Peter Tagliaferri

He was defeated by Greens challenger Adele Carles on May 16 - the first time a Labor candidate has lost in Fremantle since 1924.

Peter Tinley

He was ultimately elected as the member for Willagee with over 60% of the two-party-preferred vote against the Greens' Hsien Harper.

Philippine Greens

Among the more high profile actions led by the Philippine Greens include demonstrations against mining, a picket against Bill Gates, whom they called a "cyberlord", and a 30-day hunger strike against genetically engineered Bt corn.

Prostitution in Germany

Alice Schwarzer and her branch of sex-negative feminism rejects all prostitution as inherently oppressive and abusive; they favor a law like that in Sweden, where in 1999 after heavy feminist lobbying a coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and leftists outlawed the buying but not the selling of sexual services.

Recognition of same-sex unions in Germany

Members of the ruling coalition of Union parties and Free Democratic Party voted against the proposal while opposition parties Social Democratic Party, Greens, and The Left supported it.

Red-green alliance

Left Ecology Freedom: initially a successor of sorts in Italy to The Left - The Rainbow, also comprising the Federation and the Greens and Democratic Left, along with former-communist Movement for the Left and Unite the Left, and the Italian Socialist Party, a centrist social-democratic party.

Sallyanne Atkinson

She was eventually defeated in 1991 in a narrow upset election win by the virtually unknown Jim Soorley, who received preferences from the Greens candidate Drew Hutton.

Saxony state election, 2004

Coalition with the reformed-Communist PDS (which was later to merge into the Linke party) or with the left-wing Greens was ideologically impossible.

Scurvy

In 1734, the Leiden-based physician Johann Bachstrom published a book on scurvy in which he stated that "scurvy is solely owing to a total abstinence from fresh vegetable food, and greens; which is alone the primary cause of the disease" and urged the use of fresh fruit and vegetables as a cure.

Shaktoolik, Alaska

Fish, crab, moose, beluga whale, caribou, seal, rabbit, geese, cranes, ducks, ptarmigan, (including these eggs) berries, greens, and roots are also primary subsistence food sources.

Sophie Mirabella

On one show in 2012 a fellow panellist (GetUp! director and unsuccessful Greens Senate candidate Simon Sheikh) had a seizure live on air, with his head falling forward on the desk.

Sukuma wiki

In the Congo, Tanzania and Kenya (East Africa), thinly sliced collard greens are the main accompaniments of a popular dish known as Ugali (also sometimes called sima, sembe or posho), a corn flour cake.

Sydney Harbour National Park

Early precursors of today's "Greens" were responsible for stopping mining at Ashton Park in the 19th Century.

Tullamarine, Victoria

Also on Section 3 was the Junction Hotel (which later became The Greens Corner store run by Cec and Lily Green.) A 7-Eleven now stands on this site.

Vettweiß

14 seats in the local parliament are held by the CDU (Christian Democratic Union), 7 are held by the BI (local citizens' initiative), 4 by the SPD (Social Democrats) and one each by the FDP (Free Liberals) and the Greens.

Village green

Zuidlaren is the village with the largest number of village greens in the Netherlands.

Young Greens of England and Wales

Many Young Greens have been elected to County or City Councils, including Adrian Ramsay the former deupty leader of the Green Party in Norwich; Matt Sellwood, a former chair of the Young Greens, in Oxford and Ash Haynes, current Female co-Chair and youngest ever Green councillor, in Norwich.

Þórólfur Árnason

Þórólfur Árnason took over as the mayor of Reykjavík on 1 February 2003 after the Left Greens and the Progressive Party had demanded that Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, which was mayor next before Þórólfur, would either resign, or decide not to pursue a career in national politics.


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