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8 unusual facts about Jack "Legs" Diamond


1943 VFL season

In the spiteful round 1 match between Essendon and South Melbourne, a vicious brawl broke out in the last quarter when South Melbourne's Jack "Basher" Williams felled Ted Leehane (apparently in a square-off retribution for Leehane's similar action against Williams in the 1942 Preliminary Final) which involved a dozen players, team officials, trainers, fans, and police.

Bernard Diamond

Bernard L. Diamond (1912–1990), psychiatrist and professor of law and psychiatry at the University of California, Berkeley

Bernard L. Diamond

Due to his significant place in the Sirhan Sirhan trial, he figures prominently into a number of conspiracy theories regarding Robert Kennedy.

Blake Neely

He has frequently collaborated with writer/director/producer Greg Berlanti, including Everwood, Jack & Bobby, Brothers & Sisters, Eli Stone, Dirty Sexy Money, Political Animals and currently Arrow.

Lydia R. Diamond

Her plays include Here I Am...See Can You Handle It, The Inside adapted from the poems of Nikki Giovanni, Stage Black, The Gift Horse, Stick Fly, Voyeurs de Venus, The Bluest Eye, an adaptation from Toni Morrison's novel and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

The producers include musician Alicia Keys, filmmaker Reuben Cannon and legendary Broadway producer Nelle Nugent.

Stephen A. Diamond

After practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 20 years, he relocated in 1999 to Los Angeles, where he currently resides and maintains a private psychotherapy practice in the Beverly Hills area.

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is a 1970 film directed and produced by Billy Wilder; he also shared writing credit with his longtime collaborator I. A. L. Diamond.


1992 Coppa Italia Final

The match was played over two legs on 7 May and 14 May 1992 between Juventus and Parma.

2000 African Cup Winners' Cup

In a final featuring two giants of African club football, four time African champions Zamalek of Egypt defeated three time African champions Canon Yaoundé of Cameroon 4-3 on aggregate over two-legs.

2004 Copa do Brasil

The competition was played by 64 clubs in a knock-out format where all rounds were played over two legs and the away goals rule was used, but in the first two rounds if the away team won the first leg with an advantage of at least two goals, the second leg was not played and the club automatically qualified to the next round.

Anna Gurney

Gurney, youngest child of Richard Gurney of Keswick Hall, Norwich, Norfolk, who died 16 July 1811, by his second wife Rachel, second daughter of Osgood Hanbury of Holfield Grange, Essex, was born on 31 December 1795, and when ten months old was attacked with a paralytic affection which deprived her for ever of the use of her legs.

Antricola marginatus

These ticks are considered soft ticks, because of their subterminal capitulum (head) found in nymphs (juvenile ticks with a full complement of legs) and adult ticks.

Boxing Helena

After she is injured in a grievous hit-and-run motor vehicle accident in front of his home, he kidnaps and treats her in his house surreptitiously, amputating both of her legs.

Cecil Hincks

At the Battle of Lagnicourt, part of the Battle of Arras in 1917, Hincks received gunshot wounds to his legs and chest, and was sent to Rouen where his condition was assessed as "dangerously ill".

Cicindela campestris

Like other tiger beetles, they run fast on their long legs and are most often seen on bare ground, in Britain typically on heather moorland.

Colorado Relay

The majority of teams have 10 runners and 2 volunteers plus other support staff (Minimum 5/maximum 12 runners per team) who make their way from Georgetown to Aspen/Snowmass, Colorado with each team member running a certain number of "legs" determined by their teammates (each averages approximately 6 miles).

David Marshall Grant

Grant went on to play roles in various television shows and movies, including Happy Birthday, Gemini, Legs, Labor of Love, CSI: Miami, Law & Order, Criminal Minds, and Alias.

Diamond–Dybvig model

The model, published in 1983 by Douglas W. Diamond of the University of Chicago and Philip H. Dybvig, then of Yale University and now of Washington University in St. Louis, provides a mathematical statement of the idea that an institution with long-maturity assets and short-maturity liabilities may be unstable.

Equine coat color

Dun: Yellowish or tan coat with primitive markings, sometimes called "dun factors": a darker-colored mane and tail, a dorsal stripe along the back and occasionally faint horizontal zebra stripings on the upper legs and a possible transverse stripe across the withers.

Frog battery

Leopoldo Nobili built a frog battery in 1818 out of complete frog legs which he called a frog pile.

Gary Nadeau

He is best known for co-writing the screenplay for the 1996 film Jack starring Robin Williams and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Glen Powell

Since coming to Los Angeles, he has starred in television shows such as: Into the West, Jack & Bobby, CSI: Miami, Without a Trace, Rizzoli & Isles, and The Lying Game along with feature films including: The Hottest State, Fast Food Nation, Jumping Off Bridges, The Safe Side, and The Wendell Baker Story.

Hambone

Juba dance, a style of dance that involves stomping as well as slapping and patting the arms, legs, chest, and cheeks

Helen Noble

In the 2005-06 pantomime season she appeared as Princess Apricot Crumble in Jack & the Beanstalk at Theatre Royal, Plymouth.

HERG

When flies with mutations in the Ether-à-go-go gene are anaesthetised with ether, their legs start to shake, like the dancing then popular at the Whisky A Go-Go nightclub in West Hollywood, California.

History of FK Baku

In 2010, the club was handed a two-match suspension by UEFA for fielding Joël Epalle, who was ineligible to play at the time despite winning both legs against Budućnost.

Horse-collar tackle

The injuries that season included broken legs for Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Terrell Owens, Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, Baltimore Ravens running back Musa Smith, and Tennessee Titans wide out Tyrone Calico.

Joe Pennella

Moving on to television, he worked on such shows as Life Goes On, The Drew Carey Show, The Wayans Bros., Jack & Jill, Ed, Kitchen Condential, Pepper Dennis, What About Brian and other series.

John Swainson

Swainson served in the United States Army during World War II with the 95th Infantry Division and lost both legs by amputation following a land mine explosion November 15, 1944, near Metz, Alsace-Lorraine.

Jon Daly

In the 2011–12 season, Daly started his season, playing in both legs of the UEFA Europa League tie against Polish side Śląsk Wrocław.

Kim Yong-Dae

In both legs, Kim performed fantastic saves to keep his team level including a diving save from Dario Conca and a kick-save from Muriqui among others.

Kontraritam

The song "Sretne noge" ("Happy Legs") appeared on the third place of Studio B Diskomer top ten list and the song "Žožo, vrati se" ("Žoža, come back") appeared on the Vrući dani i vrele noći various artists compilation.

Les Parry

Parry released a single named "I'm Les The White Legs Parry" which changed words from "The Red-Nose Reindeer" in 2006.

Mandy Sellars

In 2013, Sellars' case was again profiled on British television in a special called Shrinking My 17 Stone Legs, in which it was determined that Sellars' condition was not, in fact, Proteus syndrome, but rather a PIK3CA gene mutation.

Manx pound

The front of all Manx banknotes have a pledge to honour the banknotes (the "promise to pay the bearer on demand") in the name of the Isle of Man Government, and feature images of the Lord of Mann Queen Elizabeth II (not wearing a crown) and the triskelion (three legs emblem) and motto.

Mercy Ships

Medical personnel on the Africa Mercy provide surgeries and health care to treat a wide range of problems, including cleft lip and palate, cataract, crossed eyes (Strabismus), bowed legs (genu varum), burns and burn scars, dental problems and obstetric fistula repair for injuries sustained during childbirth.

Murray Davidson

In 2012-13 season, with St. Johnstone qualified for Europa League, thanks to Hearts, Davidson captained his first match, playing in Europe, in the second round of the Europa League against Turkish side Eskişehirspor, but they proved to be too strong and failed to win either legs losing 2-0 and drawing 1-1 respectively.

Narragansett Pacer

James Fenimore Cooper described them as: "They have handsome foreheads, the head clean, the neck long, the arms and legs thin and tapered."; however, another source stated, "The hindquarters are narrow and the hocks a little crooked...", but also said, "They are very spirited and carry both the head and tail high. But what is more remarkable is that they amble with more speed than most horses trot, so that it is difficult to put some of them upon a gallop."

O'Reilly v. Morse

” To send a signal from Baltimore to Washington would require thousands of volts and high currents – not feasible at a time when managing to make a pickled frog’s legs twitch, as Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta did, was the major achievement of the electro-galvanic force.

Perry Van der Beck

By the time Van der Beck had returned to the Rowdies in 1984, the NASL was on its last legs and in 1985, Van Der Beck left the team to follow former Rowdies coach Gordon Jago to the Dallas Sidekicks of the MISL.

Preiddeu Annwfn

Similarities are sometimes peripheral, such as that both Bran the Blessed and the Grail keeper the Fisher King receive wounds in their legs and both dwell in a castle of delights where no time seems to pass.

Pristichampsidae

Pristichampsids were land-living (terrestrial) crocodilians with longer legs than living species of crocodilians.

Robert D. Sack

Blanch v. Koons, 467 F.3d 244 (2d Cir. 2006): Sack, writing for the panel, affirmed the district court's decision that artist Jeff Koons was protected by the doctrine of fair use, and therefore not liable for copyright infringement, when he incorporated a photographer's copyrighted photo of a woman's feet and lower legs into a larger collage painting, even though Koons had benefited commercially from the work.

Rudy Coby

Coby's 'four legs' act is said to have inspired the director of the French film, Delicatessen, to include a multi-legged hero in the film after reportedly seeing him on Patrick Sebastien's early show, "Sebastien, c'est Fou!".

Salus

Salus was often shown seated with her legs crossed (a common position for Securitas), leaning her elbow on the arm of her throne.

Sea Bird

Sea-Bird was a chestnut horse with a narrow white blaze and white socks on his hind legs bred at the stables of his owner, the Lille textile manufacturer Jean Ternynck.

Sphecodopsis

The head and the mesosoma are always black, although there may be orange or red colouration of mouthparts, antennae, or legs.

Swindon Town F.C. Reserves and Youth

Swindon Town's Youth Team were FA Youth Cup finalists in 1964, where they were beaten over two legs by a Manchester United side containing George Best.

The Fugue

The Fugue is a dark bay or brown filly with a white star and stripe and white socks on her hind legs bred by her owner, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Watership Down stud.

The Tony Williams Lifetime

After recording Million Dollar Legs, guitarist Allan Holdsworth departed and was replaced by Marlon Graves for the subsequent tour undertaken to support the album.

Timeline of three tallest structures in the world

The 1500-metre-tall Magnolia ETLP is excluded from the timeline because this offshore tension-leg oil platform is supported by the water, it is floating, and if the water were removed, the tension in its legs would most certainly cause it to buckle.

Tony Daley

The series 'Respect' was produced and directed by Pogus Caesar for Carlton TV, and featured the likes of Dwight Yorke, John Barnes and Ron Atkinson all paying tribute to the winger and his ridiculously skinny legs.

Ulf Lundin

Participated in the exhibition Cut my legs off and call me shorty! at Tensta Konsthall summer 2009.

Uloborus plumipes

The fine fibres produced are combined by comblike bristles on the hind legs into slender silk threads with a fuzzy texture that are able to trap prey without the use of glue.

Velux 5 Oceans Race

The first edition was won by Philippe Jeantot, who won all four legs of the race with an overall elapsed time of just over 159 days.


see also

A Jazz Holiday

It contains tracks recorded between 1928 and 1934 by Benny Goodman, Ben Pollack, Red Nichols, Ted Lewis, Irving Mills, Jack Pettis, Rube Bloom, The Charleston Chasers, and The Venuti-Lang All Star Orchestra.

Abel I. Smith Burial Ground

In 1820, Smith manumitted his slaves, but Jack refused the freedom he was offered and remained on the family estate until his death.

Alexander Malcolm Jacob

He is best known for having sold the Jacob Diamond, which is the seventh largest diamond known in the world (previously known as the Victoria Diamond, Imperial Diamond, or Great White Diamond).

Billy Jack Goes to Washington

A new version of the song "One Tin Soldier" (the original theme for Billy Jack) sung by Teresa Laughlin is played over the closing credits.

Brodie's Law

Brodie's Law is a comic book series created by Daley Osiyemi and David Bircham which tells the story of anti-hero, Jack Brodie, East end Gangster, expert thief and professional killer, who in a twist of fate gains the ability to steal his victims' souls and take on their appearance, memories and feelings.

California Review

Milton Friedman, George Will, Jack Kemp, Arthur Laffer, Alexander Haig, Jack Wheeler, Pete Wilson, and George Gilder all agreed to give the California Review exclusive interviews.

Chameleon Twist 2

Davy and his friends (Jack, Fred, and Linda) are playing in the forest, still carrying the backpack from his last adventure, when suddenly the rabbit (closely resembling Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit) from before falls down and knocks one of the chameleons into the sky.

Dan Stuart

Daniel Gordon "Dan" Stuart (born March 5, 1961, Los Angeles) is an American musician best known as the leader/singer/songwriter of 80s post punk, alt-country rock band, Green On Red (other members included Chuck Prophet, Chris Cacavas and Jack Waterson), and for his teaming with Steve Wynn as Danny & Dusty

Daring Mystery Comics

In the 1970s, the Blue Diamond resurfaced in period stories in Marvel Premiere, as a member of the homefront World War II team the Liberty Legion.

David Sheff

His interview subjects have included John Lennon, Frank Zappa, Steve Jobs, Ai Weiwei, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Jack Nicholson, Ted Taylor, Carl Sagan, Betty Friedan, Barney Frank, Fareed Zakaria, and many others.

Diamond Lil

Katie Glass, a little person professional wrestler who used the ring name Diamond Lil

Duel in the Sun

The 1977 Open Championship in golf, which saw an epic duel between Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus

Eddie Dickens

The son of Laudanum and Florinda Dickens (referred to as Mr and Mrs Dickens throughout), Eddie is usually a victim of circumstances in a Victorian world populated by absurd relatives, including Mad Uncle Jack, Even Madder Aunt Maud and her stuffed stoat named Malcolm (or according to Mad Uncle Jack, Sally).

Frank Stout

Stout came from a notable sporting family, his father William Stout, was a Diamond Sculls winner, while his brother, Percy also played international rugby for England.

Gamlin Kizaki

A skilled pilot and protégé of the famous Zentradi ace Milia Fallyna Jenius, Gamlin's skills were discovered early in his career, and he was made a member of Macross 7's elite squadron, Diamond Force, piloting a VF-17 Nightmare.

Halloween Jack

After a little torture, Boone transformed from the Loki persona, which he now saw as useless, into the devilish Halloween Jack and went about creating a plan to get back at the Synge siblings and take over Las Vegas in the meantime.

Hugo: Black Diamond Fever

Hugo: Black Diamond Fever is a 3D platform game in the Hugo series that was developed by ITE Media and published by Electronic Arts in 2001 for the PC and PlayStation.

Jack Brokensha

He was given the nickname "White Jack", to distinguish him from Jack Ashford, an African American percussionist nicknamed "Black Jack".

Jack Cotton

Jack Cotton was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, then at Cheltenham College.

Jack Poels

Since the beginning of 2009, Jack Poels has been publishing a poem in the Dutch regional magazine Dagblad de Limburger every two weeks.

Jack Robert Nuzum

Judge Jack R. Nuzum was married for nearly a half century to Eldora Marie Bolyard Nuzum (1926–2004), the first female editor of a daily newspaper in West Virginia and interviewer of U.S. Presidents.

Jack Ryan

John J. Ryan, known as Jack, head football coach at Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin

Joseph Slade

Joseph Alfred Slade, "Jack" Slade (1831–1864), stagecoach and Pony Express superintendent

Josh Haden

His most recent projects were the 2004 Light of Day EP, released on Diamond Soul Recordings, and his debut solo LP, Devoted, released in 2007, produced by Dan the Automator and featuring performances by former Spain guitarist Merlo Podlewski, keyboardist John Medeski, and turntablist Kid Koala.

Kelvin Jack

Kelvin Jack started his career playing in Trinidad and Tobago with hometown club Trincity United and Joe Public before earning a scholarship to join Yavapai College in Arizona.

Kipp Marcus

In 2005, Marcus joined the new media company iAmplify that was launched by internet entrepreneurs Jack and Murray Hidary.

Maggie Barry

Featured were ‘bug man’ Ruud Kleinpaste, gardening experts Bill Ward, Jack Hobbs, Gordon Collier and Professor Thomas William Walker ("John Walker").

Martin Clancy

In the early 1980s Clancy formed Irish band In Tua Nua alongside Leslie Dowdall, Jack Dublin, Vinny Kilduff, Ivan O'Shea, Paul Byrne and Steve Wickham.

Merrimac, Massachusetts

Merrimac is roughly diamond-shaped, and is bordered by Amesbury and Lake Attitash to the northeast, West Newbury to the southeast, Haverhill to the southwest, Newton, New Hampshire, to the north and northwest, South Hampton, New Hampshire, to the far northeast, and Plaistow, New Hampshire, on the western corner.

Pace Egg play

The line up in 2010 included Billy Painter (Who is also chief Editor of The Painter's Chronicle) as The Fool, Dario Coates as St George, Sam Harris as Bold Slasher, Jack Deighton as The Doctor, Rowan Carter as The black prince of Paradine, Jacob Jones as The king Of Egypt, Joe Cotton as Hector, Desmond as Toss Pott.

Stefanía Fernández

She also traveled to Cannes, France, on 9 December 2009, for the Five Star Diamond awards, with Miss USA Kristen Dalton, and to Willemstad, Curaçao and Barquisimeto, Venezuela, as well, in early January 2010, for the Procesión de la Divina Pastora (Procession of the Holy Shepherdess).

Steve London

In one Untouchables episode, he was described by series narrator Walter Winchell as "Agent Jack Rossman-- former telephone company lineman, wiretap expert, and a locksmith so talented that "Rossman could open everything but the Pearly Gates.

Sue Holderness

She began her acting career with Manchester’s 69 Theatre Company in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Peer Gynt and as Desdemona in Catch My Soul (Jack Good’s rock-musical version of Othello).

Swift Diamond River

The river passes through the townships of Dixville and Dix's Grant before joining the Dead Diamond River in the Dartmouth College Grant.

The Detached Mission

The CIA officers appoints U.S. Army Major Jack Hessalt as a commanding officer of missile launch command post inside a secret U.S. military base in the Pacific Ocean.

The Hollowing

In addition to introducing Native American culture into Ryhope wood, mythagos about Jack (as in Jack and the Beanstalk), the Tower of Babel and Jason and the Argonauts appear, the last two of which involve variations on myths that are uncharacteristically non-English in origin.

The Monterays

Ron Lauback joined the band in 2002 first as a replacement for Jack Abert, then switching to lead guitar in 2005 with the departure of Dave Moziak.

The Mystery of the Blue Diamond

Tintin in India: The Mystery of the Blue Diamond, is a 1941 Belgian theatre piece in three acts written by Hergé and Jacques Van Melkebeke.

The Night the Light Went On in Long Beach

#"In the Hall of the Mountain King"/"Great Balls of Fire" (Edvard Grieg/Jack Hammer, Otis Blackwell) – 8:35

The Platters

Singer Jack Hammer, who co-wrote several songs including "Great Balls of Fire," also performed with the group.

The Sucker

Unknown to Maréchal, Saroyan is the leader of a criminal organization and the Cadillac is filled with drugs, stolen gold and diamonds, including the largest diamond in the World, the Youkounkoun.

The Tuxedo Begins

Fearing that he needs to exercise control over the lower classes, Jack considers a run for mayor, but eventually ventures out with the help of Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) to confront his fear of walking by the site of his mugging.

Three Little Fishies

In a 1981 Episode of Three's Company, a wacky misunderstanding occurs when Jack and Janet overhear a psychiatrist played by Jeffrey Tambor repeatedly saying "boom, boom, dittum dottem..." while trying to remember the words to this song to help him get through to a patient.

Yiddish Book Center

In 2001 Ruthe B. Cowl (1912–2008) of Laredo, Texas, donated $1 million to create the Jack and Ruthe B. Cowl Center, which promotes "Yiddish literary, artistic, musical, and historical knowledge and accomplishment" at the Amherst headquarters.