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unusual facts about Hex



Bus Station Loonies

Music journalist Mick Mercer's 1997 book The Hex Files: The Goth Bible, references The Bus Station Loonies for their 18-minute reggae rendition of The Sisters of Mercy composition, "Temple of Love".

El Papagayo

The graphic novel also explains why Papagayo despises Hex so much; as a young man growing up in the wilderness of Mexico, his family collected and trained parrots which they would later sell to Americans and the rich of Mexico City.

Gene silencing pesticide

For example, a research study by Michael Scharf found that it was possible to eradicate termites by using RNAi which disables the Hex-2-gene; this transforms worker termites into soldier termites.

Hex dump

When hex dumps are intended to be manually entered into a computer, such as was the case with print magazine articles of home computer era a checksum byte (or two) would be added at the end of each row, commonly calculated as simple 256 modulo of sum of all values in the row or a more sophisticated CRC.

Jonah Hex: No Way Back

Papagayo mows down some men with a Gatling gun and promises to spare the town if they turn Hex over.

Little Lulu

In both Little Lulu and The Big Hex of Little Lulu, Lulu was played by Lauri Hendler.

Marla Alupoaicei

Her books include Generation Hex: Understanding the Subtle Dangers of Wicca (Harvest House Publishers, August 2008) (with Dillon Burroughs); and Your Intercultural Marriage: A Guide to a Healthy, Happy Relationship (Moody Publishers, July 2009).

Mellow Candle

2006-7 saw the participation of Simonds in a musical project called Fovea Hex, alongside Brian Eno, Roger Eno, film composer Carter Burwell, Andrew McKenzie of the Hafler Trio,

Mok Kwai-lan

Since Wong's previous wives had died young, he considered himself to be a hex on his wives and had sworn never again to take a wife; therefore although she would be his only spouse from the time of their marriage to his death, her union with him was as that of a concubine and not wife.

Mr. Hex

Hex is a 1946 film starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys.

PSPACE-complete

Examples of games that are PSPACE-complete (when generalized so that they can be played on an n × n board) are the games hex and Reversi and the solitaire games Rush Hour, Mahjong, Atomix, and Sokoban.

Scheibenschlagen

In Mals, Upper Vinschgau, on the same day a 12m long tree trunk called Hex is put up with a cross-piece wrapped in straw.

Skylanders: Swap Force

People who pre-order Console Starter Pack from Target Corporation receive a free, exclusive, physical magic/trading card that grants an upgrade (UFO Hat) when placed on the new Portal of Power, as well as the Lightcore Hex figure.

Teal

In the webcomic Homestuck the character Terezi Pyrope has a variation of teal (hex code #008282) as her blood color.


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