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unusual facts about Hopes, Wishes and Dreams



1984–85 Newcastle United F.C. season

Hopes of success were high due to the emergence of local youngsters Chris Waddle, Peter Beardsley and Paul Gascoigne.

2001–02 FA Cup

Gianluca Festa, who had been on the losing side for Middlesbrough in both the FA Cup and League Cup finals five years earlier, endured further misfortune when he scored an own goal that ended his side's hopes of FA Cup glory and handed the initiative to Arsenal.

2011 NFL lockout

On March 28, 2011, four former NFL players, including Hall of Fame defensive end Carl Eller, sued the NFL in hopes of joining current players in their antitrust fight against the league.

Adrian Hilburn

Hilburn's arrival at Kansas State brought with it hopes to help replace All-America wideout Jordy Nelson.

Albert, Duke in Prussia

A member of the Brandenburg-Ansbach branch of the House of Hohenzollern, Albert's election as Grand Master had brought about hopes of a reversal of the declining fortune of the Teutonic Knights.

Andy's Play

He makes a special effort to invite Erin Hannon (Ellie Kemper), whom he hopes to win back with a good performance.

Baltic Ground Services

In May 2010, Baltic Ground Services established a subsidiary in Poland with hopes to expand into six largest Polish airports in Warsaw, Kraków, Wrocław, Gdańsk, Poznan and Katowice.

Bianca Elmir

Since starting to box, Elmir is hoping to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, for which she hopes to qualify at the 2012 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Chongqing, China.

Captain Jacobs

On the morning of September 8, 1756, Colonel John Armstrong led a force of 307 Pennsylvanians to attack the village of Kittanning in hopes of disrupting the raids against the English.

Chicago Rose of Tralee

Once a Rose qualifies at the Regional Selection, they will return to Ireland for the final Rose of Tralee selection in August in Tralee, in County Kerry, Ireland in hopes of being crowned the International Rose of Tralee during the events live televised broadcast.

Crimson Peak

British playwright Lucinda Coxon was enlisted to rewrite the script with del Toro in hopes of bringing it a "proper degree of perversity and intelligence".

Culdee Fell Railway

According to "research" by the Rev. W Awdry, the railway was the brainchild of the tourist-minded Mid Sodor Railway, who had hopes to extend their line beyond Peel Godred to Kirk Machan at the foot of Culdee Fell, where passengers could board a rack railway to the summit.

Dagwood sandwich

In 1950 businessmen Bob Weiler and Art Lang opened a Dagwood-themed restaurant in Toledo, Ohio with hopes of establishing a national chain.

Down the Shore

In hopes of meeting women at the Jersey Shore over the summer, they decided to get a beach house in Belmar, New Jersey.

Ein Feldlager in Schlesien

The king wanted Ludwig Rellstab, a critic who was Meyerbeer's enemy, in the hopes that this would reconcile the two men.

Falls City Brewing Company

Falls City brewed several test batches in hopes that one would meet Carter's approval and could be marketed as Billy Beer.

Floorball

As well, the IFF hopes that floorball will be included as a demonstration sport at the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games.

Glenn Joseph Ellsworth

Ellsworth's ancestors originally came from England but made the move overseas in hopes to settle new land.

James Summers

Summers studied foreign languages and classical literature on his own, and obtained a teaching position at St. Paul's College in Hong Kong in 1848 with hopes of becoming a diplomat in the future.

John Maclean, Jr.

In the late 1820s, Maclean devised a plan to enlarge and improve the faculty, in hopes of reversing the declining enrollment which had beleaguered the university over the last few years, to the point that university president James Carnahan considered shutting down the institution.

Julien Donkey-Boy

While his father dances in his room to Dock Boggs records while wearing a gas mask, his brother continually works-out in the hopes of becoming a wrestler, Julien is often walking the streets, or talking to himself as "King Julien".

Juventas New Music Ensemble

Huelskamp stated, "We felt young and underrepresented in a musical world that highly values the wisdom and experience that comes with age....the lack of professional opportunities for young composers and musicians is a real problem to which Juventas hopes to provide some solution." The Latin word juventas (meaning youth), was chosen to reflect the ensemble's mission.

Kenny Cooper

This ended his hopes of playing in the 2007 Copa América and for the national team.

Mariana van Zeller

After receiving her degree from Columbia, van Zeller moved to London to work for a documentary producer, with hopes of covering the Iraq War.

McKibbin Street Lofts

In 2005, writing/director/actor John Cameron Mitchell flyered the buildings in hopes of shooting a critical scene of his Shortbus movie here in which two characters spot each other from across an alley or street.

Military career of Stonewall Jackson

1847 brought hopes of an amphibious campaign and by March 5, Company K had been relocated off the shores of Veracruz.

Military Staff Committee

The Military Staff Committee was therefore perhaps accurately described by British naval historian, Dr. Eric Grove, as "a sterile monument to the faded hopes of the founders of the UN".

Mount Marcus Baker

Mount Marcus Baker was originally called "Mount Saint Agnes"; according to Bradford Washburn, James W. Bagley of the USGS named it after his wife Agnes, adding the "Saint" in hopes of making the name stick.

Perivaldo Dantas

In the late 80s, after living three years in South Korea, he relocated to Portugal in hopes of finding a new club, but eventual poor choices and several misfortunes ended up with him as an homeless person having to resort to street vending in Lisbon.

Pillow Talk 101

Hopes & Dreams is the first EP by Georgia based rock band Faster Faster, sold at local shows and digitally in the US on April 21, 2006.

Psycho-Pirate

Psycho-Pirate's hopes to weaken Power Girl mentally so that she can be captured as part of Alexander Luthor, Jr.'s plot involving characters originally from different universes.

Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1980–1981

For example, in one episode he tells his viewers that their hopes and dreams are pointless because its impossible to find a job in the current economy and another episode contains a Neighborhood of Make-Believe segment in which a puppet Ronald Reagan (who Robinson consistently blames for his lack of a job and dire financial situation) tells all the neighborhood's hand puppets that he can't do anything to help them out of poverty in a very dismissing manner.

Reginald Welby, 1st Baron Welby

He then went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, hoping for a career as a barrister following graduation, although his hopes never realised themselves.

Ridicule

Horrified by the sickness and death caused by the mosquitoes that infest the swamps, he hopes to drain them; he goes to Versailles in the hope of obtaining the backing of King Louis XVI (Urbain Cancelier).

Rosalind Knight

In Carry On Nurse, she played Nurse Nightingale and in Carry On Teacher she played Felicity Wheeler, a prim school inspector whose amorous hopes toward Kenneth Connor's wimpy science master are continually thwarted.

Sanky-panky

In his comedic film entitled Sanky Panky, audiences follow the life of a young Dominican man named Genaro (played by Dominican comedian Fausto Mata) who travels to Bávaro to work at a resort in hopes of finding a "gringa" or a white American woman who will give him a visa.

Scott Gustafson

His goal with Eddie: The Lost Youth of Edgar Allan Poe was to introduce young readers to the work of Edgar Allan Poe in hopes they would explore his writings.

Shenyang J-31

Lin Zuoming, chairman of China's AVIC, has said that he hopes to put domestic engines on the fighter.

Slow Down World

Over his past few album releases, Donovan had hired a succession of popular record producers in hopes of chart success: Mickie Most for Cosmic Wheels, Andrew Loog Oldham for Essence to Essence and Norbert Putnam for 7-Tease.

Sov gott Rose-Marie

Pärson Sound's drone-based experimental rock sound, inspired by The Velvet Underground, Terry Riley and the Rolling Stones, was filtered through a more folky, nationalist inspired sound, in hopes to "create a more temporary kind of rhythmic music that could play the same role as traditional folk music."

Spiridon Drozhzhin

He welcomed the October Revolution, which he saw as the realization of the people's hopes and aspirations.

SS Norwich City

Nikumaroro Island is currently being investigated by the The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) in hopes of discovering and salvaging the lost wreckage of Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra.

Stand Up For Mental Health

SMH hopes to introduce a pre-release program into William Head Institution on Vancouver Island for Corrections Canada.

The Diary of Ma Yan

The Diary of Ma Yan: The Struggles and Hopes of a Chinese School Girl (马燕日记) is the diary of Chinese schoolgirl Ma Yan (), edited and published in the West by French journalist Pierre Haski.

The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza

They chose their band name after actor Tony Danza; the humorous moniker is occasionally misinterpreted, as older concertgoers have attended shows in hopes of seeing Danza himself.

The Turquoise Shop

This event coincides with the mysterious arrival of Pat Abbott, a handsomely rugged private investigator from San Francisco with hopes of pursuing an art career, while the shallow and snobbish Mona finds herself ostracized by her small New Mexico community of Santa Maria, including Jean Holly, the owner of The Turquoise Shop, after she had her own beautiful teenager daughter incarcerated by police.

Thirteen:13

All hopes were resting on "Try" breaking into the top 40 after the band appeared on various TV shows promoting the single, and receiving playlistings on Virgin Radio, BBC Radio 2 and MTV2.

Utah Technology Council

In hopes and desiring to determine whether the Governor of Utah would be supportive of this industry-led and specific initiative, Peter Genereaux took the idea to Norman Bangerter who immediately embraced the view that such an industry could help Utah add quality and higher-paying jobs, diversify its economy and expand exports beyond Utah’s borders.

WSUN-TV

In hopes of getting a better signal, WSUN-TV tried to swap frequencies with Tampa Bay's new educational television station, WEDU, in the late 1950s.


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