X-Nico

unusual facts about Hang-On



Afrasiab

According to Avestan sources, Afrasiab was killed by Haoma near the Čīčhast (possibly either referring to Lake Hamun in Sistan or some unknown lake in today's Central Asia), and according to Shahnameh he met his death in a cave known as the Hang-e Afrasiab, or the dying place of Afrasiab, on a mountaintop in Azerbaijan.

Airways Airsports

(2011) Judy Leden takes BBC Breakfast Weather reporter Carol Kirkwood flying in a hang glider to see a cloud close up and weight it, for BBC's The Great British Weather Show.

Amanda Robins

Her drawings have been frequentally selected to hang in the Dobell Prize for Drawing at the Art Gallery of NSW.

Are They Going to Hang My Papa?

Are They Going To Hang My Papa? is a labor song in support of Bill Haywood, Charles Moyer and George Pettibone, then on trial for the murder of Frank Steunenberg.

Auckland Castle

In 1756 Bishop Trevor bought a set of paintings of Jacob and his 12 sons painted by Francisco de Zurbarán which still hang in the castle's long dining room today.

Ban Pong

Ban Pong, tambon of Hang Dong District, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand

Bisbee Massacre

All were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to hang on March 28, despite protests from Nellie Cashman, a local philanthropist.

Church of St Peter ad Vincula, Colemore

Two bells hang from beneath the bellcote at the west end, one cast in about 1380 at Wokingham, and the other in 1627 by Ellis Knight of Reading.

David Christie

David Christie also coined the term Clear Grit according to Charles Dent, who traces the term to a discussion between Christie and George Brown where Christie criticised any Reformer who would hang back like Brown, declaring "We want only men who are Clear Grit".

Deep in Vogue

Mark Moore used to hang out in Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's shop Seditionaries as a 14 year old punk rocker.

Draft Communications Data Bill

At the RSA Conference Europe 2012, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said the bill "will force many relatively small companies to hang on to data that they would not otherwise retain, which puts the data at risk".

Frank Buttle

In December 1950, the Sunday Dispatch wrote of him: "People who do not know the Reverend William Francis Buttle feel sorry for him as he trundles his ancient bicycle through London’s East End or shuffles along the grey streets in shoes several sizes too big for him and clothes from which the linings hang in ribbons.

Greene's Tu Quoque

Bubble enjoys the reverse fortune, coming into money – yet he remains true to his master, the gentlemanly Staines, mourning the man's decline and urging him to repair his fortunes...by robbery ("if we be taken, we'll hang together at Tyburn").

Hack Circle

For a time it was a popular Hacky Sack venue (hence the name), later it became a popular hang out for "black-dressed emos, goths, heavy metal fans and United States style gangstas".

Hang Lung

Hang Lung Group: a Hong Kong listed company in property development, car park management, property management and dry-cleaning businesses, and the parent company of Hang Lung Properties.

Hang Lung Plaza

Olympia 66, Dalian (大連恒隆廣場, literally Dalian Hang Lung Plaza)

Forum 66, City Centre, Shenyang (市府恒隆廣場, literally City Centre Hang Lung Plaza)

Hàng Trống painting

Hàng Trống painting (Vietnamese: Tranh Hàng Trống) is a genre of Vietnamese woodcut painting that originated from the area of Hàng Trống (vi) and Hàng Nón streets in the central Hoàn Kiếm District of Hanoi, Vietnam.

Hang Tuah Jaya Municipal Council

Majlis Perbandaran Hang Tuah Jaya or Hang Tuah Jaya Municipal Council (MPHTJ) is a local authority which administers Hang Tuah Jaya, the northern of Central Malacca district and the southern of Alor Gajah district, (Alor Gajah Selatan).

Hang with Me

"Hang with Me" was written and produced by Klas Åhlund, and was originally recorded by Åhlund's then-wife, Paola Bruna, for her debut studio album Stockcity Girl (2002).

Herbst Theatre

Eight large beaux-arts murals, created by Frank Brangwyn for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, adorn the walls while overhead five chandeliers hang from the blue and gold-leaf ceiling.

JavaZone

The first event in the JavaZone series started out as a Sun Microsystems event in 2002, with 350 participants in the basement of Chateau Neuf, one of the main hang-outs for Oslo University students.

Jeffrey Krinsk

The attraction did not diminish and, in 1978, Krinsk moved to San Diego, California as staff attorney for Hang Ten International, Inc., an apparel licensing organization owning a “two feet” logo and Hang Ten trademark that epitomized the active California lifestyle.

Kang Meas City

The city was the brain-child of Professor Thearonn Hang and included two boulevards -- Krou Thor, located along the Chinit River, and Krou Tearin, located in the southern part of the city.

Kaspersky Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition

Team leader Felicity Aston, of the United Kingdom, explained: "Half of the team don’t usually celebrate Christmas so the others are having great fun teaching them Christmas songs and explaining why they have to hang their smelly socks outside the tent on Christmas Eve".

La Ribambelle

They hang out in a garage and wear leather jackets with pictures on the back of the animal they call themselves after.

Laksamana Hang Nadim

A Laksamana Class Corvette of the Royal Malaysian Navy has been named KD Hang Nadim in his honour.

Liberal democracy period in Indonesia

Pope sunk the Indonesian Navy vessel, the KRI Hang Toeah, and heavily damaged its sister, the KRI Sawega.

NASA Paresev

Publicity on the Paresev and the Ryan XV-8 "Flying Jeep" aircraft inspired hobbyists to adapt Rogallo's flexible wing airfoil onto elementary hang gliders leading to the most successful hang glider configuration in history.

New Malaysian Essays

Danny Lim's Aku, Hang & Demo, a pictorial record of street demonstrations

Nomads R.F.C.

Nomads R.F.C. are a Hong Kong rugby union club, who play in G4S League Divisions 2,5 and 7 and are based in the Tai Hang Tung area in New Kowloon.

O'Donoghue's Pub

Included are portraits of The Dubliners (Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Ciaran Bourke, John Sheahan and Barney McKenna as well as later members Eamonn Campbell and Sean Cannon) that hang to the right of the entrance where the nightly sessions are played.

Ol' Time Killin'

The featured rappers, Wio-K and IRS (Korry Deez and Black Cat) from Scarborough's Monolith crew, were chosen by Kardinal, because he used to hang out with them, and musically, they were as hyper as he was.

Penalty box

In professional wrestling the promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling has used a penalty box in the King of the Mountain match, where instead of retrieving an object hanging above the ring, the winner is the first person to use a ladder to hang a championship belt above the ring — after having scored a pinfall or submission (pinfalls count anywhere) to earn the right to try.

Philip Chevron

Men They Couldn't Hang - Night of a Thousand Candles (1985) (partial: Green Fields Of France, Ironmasters, Scarlet Ribbons, Johnny Come Home, The Men They Couldn't Hang)

Pleuropogon hooverianus

The inflorescence bears widely spaced narrowly cylindrical spikelets which hang sideways off the stem, resembling semaphore signals.

Rogallo wing

The Charles Richard design and use of the Rogallo wing in the Paresev project resulted in an assemblage that became the stark template for the standard Rogallo hang-glider wing that would blanket the world of the sport in the early 1970s.

Rokeby Venus

Despite this, nudes by foreign artists were keenly collected by the court circle, and this painting was hung in the houses of Spanish courtiers until 1813, when it was brought to England to hang in Rokeby Park, Yorkshire.

Share the Land

"Hand Me Down World", "Bus Rider", "Share The Land", "Do You Miss Me Darlin'?" and an edited single version of "Hang Onto Your Life" (without the Psalm 22 excerpt that closes the album version) make up an entire side of their 1971 greatest hits compilation, The Best Of The Guess Who, Vol 1.

Sikter

During that time the team of journalists from BBC came to Sarajevo and started to hang out with the band members.

Soopafly

Then in 1996, he was featured on the soundtrack to the movie A Thin Line Between Love and Hate on the song "I Don't Hang."

St Benet's Chapel, Netherton

Curtains hang from the pediment, which are open to display a descending dove, a Gloria and cherubs' heads with wings.

Stan Stokes

Stokes's works hang in the Air Force art collection, the United States Air Force Academy, The Pentagon, the San Diego Air & Space Museum, the Palm Springs Air Museum, the National Museum of Naval Aviation, and the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

Takis Ikonomopoulos

One of the boys who used to hang out and watch the bird train was Giannis Kyrastas.

The Firebrand of Florence

Sculptor Benvenuto Cellini has been sentenced to hang for the attempted murder of Count Maffio ("When the Bell of Doom is Clanging").

Thompson Memorial Library

Below the frieze of seals in the central hall hang five seventeenth-century Flemish Gobelin tapestries portraying Apuleius' romance of Cupid and Psyche.

Tom Tower

Originally called "Mary", Great Tom used to hang in Osney Abbey, until in 1545 it was moved to St Frideswide's church, after which at some point it was renamed "Tom".

Tonkin Free School

The teachers at the school at 59 Hàng Đàn included Phạm Duy Tốn.

Weingut Gunderloch

Carl Gunderloch, originating from Gundersheim, acquired the Dalheimer Hof from the secularised property of the Cistercian abbey of Dalheim near Mainz, as well as some outstanding vineyards like the “Nackenheimer Rothenberg” in the “Roter Hang” (Red slope).

Wladimir Talanczuk

Throughout 1979 he was a member of the Polish National Hang Gliding Team and competed in the World Hang Gliding Championships at Grenoble, France, flying a Mars hang glider of his own design.


see also

Crosby railway station

When the line closed, a group of lads from Merseyside removed the station nameboard and to this day it is believed to hang on the wall of the scout headquarters in the Liverpool suburb that shares its name.

DeRidder USO Building

Plaques commemorating Generals Bradley, Mark Clark, Eisenhower, Marshall and Patton, along with their pictures, hang on the walls near the entrances of meeting halls named in their honor.

Gashapon

The machines also appear in the Dreamcast game Shenmue, in which the main character Ryo Hazuki could spend yen to collect various figurines, including series of characters from the Virtua Fighter and Sonic the Hedgehog series of games as well as those of other known and lesser known Sega franchises (i.e. Fantasy Zone, Space Harrier, Hang-On etc.).

Hang On Little Tomato

The song title is a reference to the Hunt's Ketchup ad campaign "Hang On, Little Tomato!" in a 1964 issue of Life magazine.

Karen Hampton

Karen Hampton is an American fiber artist who creates works of art intended to hang on a wall, and "wearable art" including scarves and jackets.

Randolph County, Indiana

Rick Derringer of the group, the McCoys, who had the hit song, "Hang on Sloopy".

Shooting Star/Hang On for Your Life

Shooting Star/Hang On For Your Life is the 1991 release of Shooting Star's first two albums, Shooting Star and Hang On for Your Life, on compact disc.

Super Hang-On

Like Shinobi and its omission of any references to Marilyn Monroe, the Virtual Console version of Super Hang-On was slightly altered to avoid any copyright troubles.