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unusual facts about Hyperion



A Captain's Duty

Published by Hyperion on April 6, 2010 (and on audio by Tantor), it tells the story of Phillips' capture and hostage-taking by Somali pirates in April 2009.

Charles Merivale

The dean was an elegant scholar, and his rendering of the Hyperion of John Keats into Latin verse (1862) has received high praise.

Dooley Wilson

Harmetz, Aljean Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca – Bogart, Bergman, and World War II Hyperion, New York, 1992.

EAS Hyperion

EAS Hyperion is under the command of Captain Ellis Pierce (Ron Canada) at the time.

Ex Cathedra

Upon Hyperion's appeal, the Court of Appeal held on 19 May 2005 that Sawkins owned the copyright in his modern performing editions of the de Lalande music, even though de Lalande's music itself was out of copyright.

Franklin Hills, Los Angeles

Brothers Roy and Walt Disney both owned homes at the corner of Lyric and St. George during the late 1920s so that they could walk to their first animation studio, located a few blocks away at Hyperion and Griffith Park Blvd.

Gene Wojciechowski

These works include The Bus: My Life In and Out of a Helmet (Doubleday 2007) with Jerome Bettis; I Love Being the Enemy: A Season on the Court with the NBA’s Best Shooter and Sharpest Tongue (Simon & Schuster 1995) with Reggie Miller; Nothing but Net: Just Give Me the Ball and Get Out of the Way (Hyperion Books 1995) with Bill Walton; and My Life on a Napkin: Pillow Mints, Playground Dreams and Coaching the Runnin’ Utes (Hyperion 1999) with Rick Majerus.

Geosynchronous orbit

Objects with chaotic rotations (such as exhibited by Hyperion) are also problematic, as their synchronous orbits change unpredictably.

Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński

Both piano concertos were recorded in the past on Olympia and on Muza, and in 2007 on Hyperion.

Hyperion sewage treatment plant

Several key scenes from the 1956 science fiction film Earth vs. the Flying Saucers were shot at the Hyperion Treatment Plant.

Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni

This left her an easy target for the torpedoes of the British destroyers HMS Ilex and Hyperion.

John Carlin

In August 2011, Carlin collaborated with tennis superstar Rafael Nadal on the latter's autobiography Rafa (Hyperion, 2012, ISBN 1401310923).

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Other books include Coming to Our Senses (Hyperion, 2005), The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness, co-authored with J. Mark G. Williams, John D. Teasdale and Zindel V. Segal (Guilford, 2007), and The Mind's Own Physician: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama on the Healing Power of Meditation, co-authored with Richard Davidson (New Harbinger, 2012) (based on the 13th Mind and Life Institute Dialogue in 2005).

Nick Bertozzi

Bertozzi also illustrated Houdini: The Handcuff King (published by Hyperion), which was written by Jason Lutes.

Ouster

In Dan Simmons' Hyperion universe, Ousters are a branch of humanity that chose to travel/live in space, "between the stars", as opposed to dwelling in planetary systems

Pythagorean tuning

Gothic Voices – Music for the Lion-Hearted King (Hyperion, CDA66336, 1989), directed by Christopher Page (Leech-Wilkinson)

Solage

Lancaster and Valois – French and English Music 1350–1420; Gothic Voices, Christopher Page (dir.); Recorded in Boxgrove Priory, Chichester, 11–13 December 1991; CD recording, 1 disc, stereo; Hyperion CDA66588 (London: Hyperion Records Limited, 1992).

Solar updraft tower

In December 2011, Hyperion Energy, controlled by Western Australians Tony Sage and Dallas Dempster, was reported to be planning to build a 1-km-tall solar updraft tower near Meekatharra to supply power to Mid-West mining projects.

Vaguely Noble

Vaguely Noble was inbred to Hyperion in the third and fourth generation (3m x 4f) and also to Bahram in the fourth generation (4m x 4f).

William Cranch Bond

Bond and his son George Phillips Bond discovered Saturn's moon Hyperion; it was independently co-discovered at the same time by William Lassell in Britain, and both are given credit.


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