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7 unusual facts about Horizon


Adam Wishart

Wishart joined the BBC's Training Scheme in 1993, and went on to work as an Assistant on Watchdog, Newsnight, Horizon, Tomorrow's World, Panorama, and Modern Times.

Byron Farwell

He published articles in the New York Times, Washington Post, American Heritage, Harper's, Horizon, Smithsonian Magazine as well as serving as a contributing editor to Military History, World War II, and Collier's Encyclopedia.

Francesca Happé

She has contributed to the public understanding of science with television appearances including BBC QED, Open University, and Horizon, as well as radio interviews for World Service, BBC and ABC.

Jules Hudson

Working initially for Discovery Channel, he then moved to Channel 4's Time Team, BBC 2's Horizon, and three military history series for the BBC's Richard Holmes.

Nigel Paterson

2005 Horizon/Nova: The Ghost in Your Genes producer & director

Robert Ranquet

He initiated numerous international cooperations with British and U.S. firms within the framework of the "Horizon class frigate" frigate European project.

Sunrise Nippon/Horizon

"Sunrise Nippon" was covered by Eurobeat Lovers in Dancemania Presents JParadise and quoted in the drama Ikebukuro West Gate Park.


1986 in motoring

The phasing-out of Talbot began in October 1985 when the Horizon was replaced by the Peugeot 309 - which became the first "French" car to be built in Britain, at the Ryton plant near Coventry.

Achernar

Achernar is in the deep southern sky and never rises above the horizon beyond 33°N, roughly the latitude of Dallas, Texas.

African-American Film Critics Association Awards 2011

Special Achievement: George Lucas, (Cinema Vanguard); Richard Roundtree, (AAFCA Legacy); Hattie Winston (AAFCA Horizon) and Institution, Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Beyond the Horizon Line

Beyond the Horizon Line is the debut solo album of Lycia front man Mike VanPortfleet, released on September 14, 2004 through Silber Records.

Blencathra

The Pennines form the horizon from north-east to south-east, with Cross Fell, Mickle Fell, Wild Boar Fell and Great Whernside visible.

Bram van Leeuwen

Van Leeuwen was seen as an eccentric member of the jet set, living on board of his mega-ship New Horizon L built by Feadship/Royal van Lent shipyard.

Burning the Days

Following the multi-platinum success of their 1999 album, Everything You Want, the members of Vertical Horizon were disappointed with what they felt was a lack of support from RCA in promoting their 2003 follow up, Go.

Christina's World

In Romeo + Juliet (1996, dir. Baz Luhrmann), when Romeo learns that Juliet is dead, he falls into the golden grass before a setting sun and screams, "Then I defy you, stars!" The camera pauses above and behind him so that he and the trailers on the hill sort of resemble the position of the painting's buildings, except that the trailers should be farther to the right and the horizon should be much higher.

Eastern Horizon

On 14 December 2008, another Simulcast was conducted with Spectrum Radio in London to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of the establishment of Eastern Horizon with original crew members from the 80s and 90s.

Finnstick

The finnstick is especially useful when watching migration (E.G. seabirds, raptors) when the horizon may be scanned literally for hours to find migrant birds.

Gene Milford

Milford won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Lost Horizon (with Gene Havlick) and for On the Waterfront; he was also nominated for an Academy Award for One Night of Love (directed by Victor Schertzinger - 1934).

Great and Small Temples of Abu Simbel

For example, the façades of the Great and Small temples are carved to represent pylons – the monumental trapezoidal gates representative of the Egyptian hieroglyph for horizon characteristic of all Egyptian temples.

High-intensity interval training

In a BBC Horizon programme in February 2012, he put Michael J. Mosley on an exercise bike regimen consisting of three sets of about 2 minutes of gentle pedalling followed by 20 second bursts of cycling at maximum effort.

Homer, New York

Linda Mason, Mercy Corp. chairwoman; co-founder of Bright Horizon Children's Center

Horizon problem

The horizon problem is a problem with the standard cosmological model of the Big Bang which was identified in the late 1960s, primarily by Charles Misner.

IPARK

The world-renowned architect, Ben van Berkel, designed Suwon IPARK CITY, drawing inspiration from natural surrounding such as woods, valleys, lands, horizon, and water waves.

Joey Deacon

The four men formed an inseparable group in the hospital for decades, and in 1974 their relationship was the subject of a Prix Italia and BAFTA award-winning drama documentary for British television's Horizon written by Elaine Morgan and directed by Brian Gibson, entitled Joey.

John Konrad

John Konrad is the author, along with journalist Tom Shroder, of Fire on the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster, which chronicles the initial construction, crewmembers' existence, and eventual disaster aboard the oil rig Deepwater Horizon.

Kenneth Bullington

Bullington received the 1956 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award "for his contributions to the knowledge of tropospheric transmission beyond the horizon, and to the application of the principles of such transmission to practical communications systems", and the Franklin Institute's 1956 Stuart Ballantine Medal for his studies of space communications.

Lenovo IdeaCentre Horizon

In a review for the New York Times David Pogue wrote, "One thing the Horizon certainly is, though, is novel. The concept really is fresh. And it neatly dispenses with the common refrain that electronic entertainment encourages isolation and represents a step down from the olden days, when families gathered around the coffee table for game nights."

M/M/∞ queue

Given the system is in equilibrium at time 0, we can compute the cumulative distribution function of the process maximum over a finite time horizon T in terms of Charlier polynomials.

Marion Oaks, Florida

The majority of Marion Oaks is zoned for Sunrise Elementary School, Horizon Academy and Dunnellon High School.

Maritime Vsat

Since a ship at sea moves with the water, the antenna needs to be stabilized with reference to the horizon and True north, so that the antenna is constantly pointing at the satellite it uses to transmit and receive signals.

Matthew Simmons

Previously, on May 26 2010, Matthew Simmons was a guest on 'The Dylan Ratigan Show' on MSNBC, where he explained his reasons for believing that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill involved not only the leak being monitored by BP's video-camera-equipped ROVs remotely operated vehicles, but another, much bigger leak, several miles away.

Mesorhinosuchus

Jaekel (1910) found a potential match of the sediment in which the skull was preserved to the Wipperbrücke, Parforcehaus locality, a horizon at the very base of the Middle Buntsandstein near Bernburg.

Michael J. Mosley

In August 2012 he was credited with popularizing the 5:2 diet, after appearing in the BBC2 Horizon documentary Eat, Fast & Live Longer.

Model figure

Horizon focused primarily on classic horror film characters (like Bride of Frankenstein, Invisible Man, The Phantom of the Opera) and comic book characters (like Captain America and Iron Man).

Monaseed

William Curry - Entrepreneur & owner of Horizon Taxis in North Wales.

Moscow hostage crisis chemical agent

Prof. Thomas Zilker and Dr. Mark Wheelis, interviewed in the BBC's "Horizon" documentary series, dispute that the gas could have been based on fentanyl.

Mount Everest Committee

Although Mount Everest as a mountaineering objective had been on the horizon of British alpinists for some time – Clinton Thomas DentC.

Nial Tanvir

Tanvir has featured in various TV programs, including The Sky at Night hosted by Sir Patrick Moore, which is an astronomically focused TV program, and a BBC Horizon documentary about gamma-ray bursts (GRBs).

Oburoni

Oburoni (or Obroni) is the Akan (or more specifically, the Twi language) word for foreigner, literally meaning "a person from beyond the horizon".

Office for Nuclear Regulation

In 2012 Hitachi purchased Horizon Nuclear Power, announcing intent to build two to three 1,350 MWe Advanced Boiling Water Reactors (ABWR) on both of Horizon's sites.

Osa-class missile boat

The missiles were controlled by a MR-331 Rangout (NATO: "Square Tie") radar and a Nikhrom-RRM ESM/IFF that even allowed targeting over the horizon, if the target's radar was turned on.

Phil Brogan

To test Brogan’s science knowledge, Sawyer pointed out a bright star on the horizon and asked its name, Brogan replied that it was the planet Venus.

Pyramid Texts

In the first scene of Philip Glass's opera Akhnaten, the phrase "Open are the double doors of the horizon" is a quotation from the Pyramid Texts.

Samira Hill Gold Mine

SML believes to have a number of significant gold deposits within what is now recognized as the gold belt known as the "Samira Horizon", which is located between Gotheye and Ouallam.

Season

For example, at the military and weather station Alert located at 82°30′05″N and 62°20′20″W, on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island, Canada (about 450 nautical miles or 830 km from the North Pole), the sun begins to peek above the horizon for minutes per day at the end of February and each day it climbs higher and stays up longer; by 21 March, the sun is up for over 12 hours.

Selmasaurus

A remarkably well preserved and nearly complete Selmasaurus skull and partial postcranial skeleton was discovered by Steve Johnson and family in 1996, from the Santonian or Campanian marine horizon in the Niobrara Formation of Niobrara Chalk, western Kansas.

SS The Ramsey

On her last patrol she had steamed for 12 hours when, after dawn on August 8, 1915, she saw smoke over the horizon, gave chase, and came upon a large tramp steamer flying the Russian flag.

Stateline, Nevada

The 2007 film Smokin' Aces was filmed at the Horizon and MontBleu Resort Casino & Spa featuring many views of the shore from Aces' suite at the casino.

Steve Lacey

Lacey has received numerous rewards/nominations throughout his career including a Horizon Individual nomination (1993), Singing News Favorite Baritone nominations (1993, 1994), Favorite Lead nominations (1994, 1995, 1999), a Dove Award as a member of Gold City (1994).

The Billion Dollar Bubble

The Billion Dollar Bubble is a 1976 film made for the BBC series Horizon and directed by Brian Gibson about the story of the two billion dollar insurance embezzlement scheme involving Equity Funding Corporation of America.

Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa

The tablet recorded the rise times of Venus and its first and last visibility on the horizon before or after sunrise and sunset (the heliacal risings and settings of Venus) in the form of lunar dates.


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