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unusual facts about INSPIRE


Paul Mackenzie

Mackenzie's has published 71 scientific papers listed in the INSPIRE-HEP Literature Database.


A Cage of Eagles

The book centers on the battle of wits and the ambiguous relationship developing between U-boat ace Otto Kruger, leader of the captured Germans, and Ian Fleming in his real-life WWII role as an intelligence officer which would later inspire the James Bond books.

Ability Online

The site was founded in 1991 by Dr. Arlette Lefebvre (aka "Dr. Froggie") from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, and Brian Hillis with the goal of helping to inspire children to feel good about themselves, to understand that there are others who have faced (and overcome) similar challenges, and to provide the social networks and skills required to help them integrate more fully into their communities.

Adolphe Appia

Appia’s designs and theories went on to inspire many other theatre creators such as Edward Gordon Craig, Jacques Copeau and Wieland Wagner.

Albert Bigelow

Bigelow's story would go on to inspire fellow Quaker Marie Bohlen to suggest the use of a similar tactic to members of the Vancouver-based Don't Make a Wave Committee (later to become Greenpeace) in 1970.

Alecto

Alecto is a minor but important character in Miklós Zrínyi's Siege of Sziget, being sent by the Archangel Michael to inspire Suleiman the Magnificent to march on Hungary, thereby setting the epic's events in motion.

Anders Björler

A founding member of At the Gates with his twin brother Jonas Björler, Tomas Lindberg, Alf Svensson, and Adrian Erlandsson, he wrote much of their material and went on to inspire many to follow their style of music.

Andrew Kenneth Martin

Martin's first feature film was Magnus Opus The Movie, an improvised mockumentary about a tortured performance artist and his messianic mission to inspire the world of art, which Martin co-wrote, co-produced, co-directed and co-edited with Gordon Currie, with Andrika Lawren as the third collaborator.

Armorial of the Communes of Manche

Ce blason est inspiré de l'épisode de la libération de cette bourgade le 6 juin 1944 par les troupes alliées (dessin de Robert Louis).

Association football tactics and skills

Leadership (able to guide the youngsters in the field and be able to motivate and inspire others)

Big Mountain Short Film Festival

It was co-founded by filmmakers Jeff Bollow and Bret Gibson as a way to encourage and inspire filmmaking in New Zealand.

Bomb It

Artists featured include Klone, KnowHope, GreatBates, Zero Cents, Foma <3, INSPIRE 1, Darbotz, Killer Gerbil, Bon, Alex Face, Sloke, Husk Mit Navn, Ash, Phibs, Stormie Mills, Beejoir and many more.

Broadway Teachers Workshop

The program, run by co-artistic directors Gordon Greenberg and Pam Pariseau, is designed to instruct and inspire teachers and directors of middle school, high school, university, and community theater and arts with new teaching methods, enhanced production skills, and an exchange of ideas with peers and professional Broadway artists.

Cherokee Inspired Comfort Award

Alarmed at the disturbing number of nurses leaving the profession within their first few years in practice, Cherokee Uniforms provided a grant to Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning director David Hoffman to create a film for nurses and nursing students that would encourage, inspire and instruct.

Chori Chori

The movie would later inspire the 1990s Hindi re-make Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin, which was un-officially remake of Chori Chori.

Demonstration effect

Some heterodox economists such as James Duesenberry and Robert H. Frank, following the original insights of Thorstein Veblen (1899), have argued that awareness of the consumption habits of others tends to inspire emulation in of these practices.

Diablo Dam

The dam was one of the places to help inspire a location in the video game Alan Wake.

Dunellen, New Jersey

JugglingLife, a non-profit organization whose purpose is to inspire and emotionally heal disadvantaged children through juggling.

Eldering

For example, The Elders (or Global Elders), a select group of 12 convened by Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and Graca Machel and including Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter and Mary Robinson (among others), have pledged themselves to act as global Elders to "support courage where there is fear, foster agreement where there is conflict, and inspire hope where there is despair".

Elijah Akpan Okon

"...Julius Caesar ruled the world one day, and was stricken down the next day by ungrateful friends. Let us encourage, inspire and support our leaders instead of pouring out destructive criticisms and tearing down their schemes." – Elijah Akpan Okon: Annual Conference speech, at Ikono Ibom Community Hall, December, 1954.

Enterprise Magazine

It was created to inform, inspire and encourage entrepreneurs, and it aims to assist entrepreneurs in the creation of new business and in the growth of home-grown SMEs and the UK economy.

Erimem

She led armies in Ancient Egypt, and when the TARDIS crew landed in Paris in 1626, becoming embroiled in a plot to kill Queen Anne, Erimem was able to inspire and lead a combined force of both King Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu's guards against the English forces of the Duke of Buckingham (The Church and the Crown, 2002).

Ghulam Muhammad Malik

Rumours spread that Malik was an associate of Sufi Iqbal of the Tablighi Jamaat, who was known to inspire Jihadi zeal, despite the non-political stand of Tablighi Jamaat.

Gutsy Gals Inspire Me

Gutsy Gals Inspire Me® is a multimedia company created by Deborah Hutchison that honors courageous women of the past and present through films, awards, and other forms of recognition including an upcoming book series.

Henlein

Robert A. Heinlein Award, for "for outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings to inspire the human exploration of space."

Jamaica at the 1988 Winter Olympics

American television stations aired footage of the four-man Jamaican team, and despite crashing during the third run and finishing last overall, went on to inspire the 1993 film Cool Runnings.

Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus

Cheverus supported the establishment in 1816 of the Provident Institution for Savings in the Town of Boston, the first chartered savings bank in the U.S. He believed the bank would inspire virtuous thrifty behavior amongst his parishioners.

John Henry Chamberlain

Although Chamberlain continued to build in both Leicester and Birmingham (where he built the Edgbaston Waterworks whose tower would inspire the young J. R. R. Tolkien) his career failed to take off, and in 1864 he considered moving to New Zealand after being offered a commission to design Christchurch Cathedral.

Kesz Váldez

Kesz together with his guardian Harnin Manalaysay founded the Championing Community Children, an organization which aims at giving hope and showing the street children they can transform their own lives and inspire others to do so as well.

Leper War on Kauaʻi

The event would inspire the narrative The Folding Cliffs by W. S. Merwin.

Locksley Hall

A line in "Locksley Hall" would inspire the title of the historian Paul Kennedy's 2006 book on the United Nations, The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations.

Lu Junyi

Song Jiang intends to recruit Lu Junyi after the death of Chao Gai to boost Liangshan's fame and possibly inspire others to join the Liangshan cause.

Luke Archer

It has been noted in various interviews that famous designers that inspire Archer include: John Galliano, Thierry Mugler and the late Alexander McQueen.

Melanie Cervantes

She formed Dignidad Rebelde with printmaker Jesus Barraza, a collaborative graphic arts project that uses principles of Xicanisma and Zapatismo to translate stories of struggle and resistance into artwork that can be put back into the hands of the communities who inspire it.

Mostafa Afroto

He moved on to inspire his teammates to achieve a 4-2 win by gaining a penalty scored by his teammate Mohamed Samir and scoring his second goal in the 90th minute in an exciting come back.

Official Airline Guide

The OAG business dates back to 1853 when it first published the ABC Alphabetical Railway Guide, later to inspire Agatha Christie’s novel The ABC Murders.

Oleg Popov

In 2006, Popov was invited to perform at the 30th anniversary of the International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo; at 75 years of age, he still managed to inspire a standing ovation.

Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co.

The American author William Gaddis credited his reading of the Palsgraf case with helping to inspire his novel A Frolic of His Own.

Pat Lowther

Lowther's life and death have served to inspire a number of works, including her daughter Christine Lowther’s first poetry collection, New Power (1999), and the novels Swann: A Mystery (1987) by Carol Shields and Furry Creek by Keith Harrison (1999).

Rentap

He continues to inspire some Iban Dayaks especially those who joined the military initially as trackers like the Malaysia’s most decorated war hero Kanang anak Langkau, Awang anak Raweng and other heroes.

Rolling Thunder skate park

This contest (sponsored by the Emerica Footwear Company) went on to inspire the world famous "Eric Koston Game of Sk8" contest series.

Sooty Shearwater

The incident sparked the interest of local resident Alfred Hitchcock, along with a story about spooky bird behavior by British writer Daphne du Maurier, helping to inspire Hitchcock's 1963 thriller The Birds, a cautionary tale of nature revolting against man.

The Vain Little Mouse

This little mouse ("ratón" in Spanish), would later inspire Padre Coloma, who would make him part of the Spanish traditional folklore by turning him into a sort of Tooth Fairy.

The Weird Villa

With a psychological plotline, the style and theme deemed to inspire from numerous foreign classic thriller concepts such as the South Korea horror film A Tale of Two Sisters, which obviously resemble to the stepmother character appearance.

Wally Joyner

The film National Lampoon's Vacation had featured a fictional theme park by that name, and the Angels' proximity to Disneyland may also have helped inspire the moniker.

Whitby Abbey

Though the abbey fell into ruin, it remained a prominent landmark for sailors and helped inspire Bram Stoker's Dracula.

William Porter Payne

Payne had said in a statement: “'Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters' will inspire the next generation of golfers.” According to Payne's release, the proceeds from sales of the video game made by Augusta National will benefit a non-profit foundation that promotes youth golf.

Zach Hunter

The collected change is then used to help fund the work of abolitionist organizations such as Free the Slaves and International Justice Mission; educate and inspire other abolitionists and further the student-led effort.


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