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12 unusual facts about Jacket


Jacket

Eisenhower jacket, a waist-length, fitted, military-inspired jacket with a waistband based on the World War II British Army's Battle Dress jacket introduced by General Dwight Eisenhower

Jacket, Missouri

It is in the Mountain Township and is very near the point where McDonald and Barry counties in Missouri and Benton County, Arkansas meet.

Straight-Jacket

Things turn sour for the film idol when a fellow actor, Freddie Stevens (Jack Plotnick) (famous in the film for portraying "Captain Astro" in a succession of Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon-type serial films), decides to steal the lead in Ben-Hur from Guy by taking a picture of Guy exiting a gay bar.

However, Guy's carefully managed façade collapses when he comes up for the lead in S.R.O. studio's version of Ben-Hur.

Strait-Jacket

Baker and Crawford had appeared together in the film The Best of Everything (1959).

The screenplay was the first of two written for Castle by Robert Bloch, the second being The Night Walker (1964).

The role of Lucy's doctor was played by vice-president of PepsiCo, Mitchell Cox, as Crawford was on the Board of Directors of the soft drink firm.

The film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of the The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made.

The Man Behind the Curtain

They had also worked together in other works, such as the 2004 film Straight-Jacket.

Times of Northeast Benton County

In addition to the city of Pea Ridge, the newspaper covers the communities of Little Flock to the south, Avoca and Brightwater to the southeast, Garfield, Lost Bridge and Gateway to the east, and historically — though intermittently in recent years — Jacket and Mountain to the north in Missouri.

Washburn, Missouri

In the early years of the school district there was no bus service, so children too far from the school to make it on foot on a daily basis attended various rural schools in the area, including Trents Creek, Maple Grove, Seven Star, Rock Springs, OK, Jacket and others.

White-Jacket

White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War (1850) is the fifth novel by American writer Herman Melville first published in England on January 23 by Richard Bentley and in the U.S. on March 21 by Harper & Brothers.


A Painted House

A devoted fan, Luke is saving his hard-earned money to buy a team warm-up jacket he saw advertised in the Sears, Roebuck catalog.

Annie Finch

The book carries an endorsement by Jennifer Moxley claiming that it anticipates the work of experimental poet Stacey Dorris, and its longest review appears in the avant-garde-leaning journal Jacket.

Battledress

A new tropical uniform in Jungle Green (JG) was quickly developed – a JG Aertex battledress blouse, a JG Aertex bush jacket (as an alternative to the blouse) and battledress trousers in JG cotton drill.

Berkeley High Jacket

The Jacket first reported that local business-owner Lakireddy Bali Reddy and his family were importing young women from India to work as sex slaves after one such woman died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a Berkeley apartment complex.

Bloodhound Mystery

British artist Denis McLoughlin served as art director for Boardman Books and provided many of the dust jacket illustrations.

Breaking Home Ties

With his tie and socks perfectly matched, wearing pressed white trousers and matching jacket, he is ready for his new life in college.

Breasted

Double-breasted, garment such as coat or jacket with two columns of buttons

Chief Zee

Dressed in a faux American Indian headdress, rimmed glasses, and a red jacket, Chief Zee has been attending Redskins games since 1978.

Cointreau

In the 1980s, Ex Avirex LTD., now Cockpit USA, issued an A-2 limited edition leather flight jacket featuring Cointreau Original Margarita nose art on the back of the jacket.

Emily Hahn

There she became involved with prominent Shanghai figures, such as the wealthy Sir Victor Sassoon, and was in the habit of taking her pet gibbon, Mr. Mills, with her to dinner parties, dressed in a diaper and a minute dinner jacket.

Flak jacket

However, even the Vietnam era revised flak jacket was not really designed to stop an AK-47 round (a 7.62×39mm) fired at close range.

Floyd Vivino

Also, Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone could often be seen wearing an Uncle Floyd Show T-shirt in pictures of the band, while Joey Ramone often wore an Uncle Floyd Show button on his leather jacket.

Gale Wilhelm

Never Let Me Go included praise from Wilhelm's friend Carl Sandburg on the book jacket.

Honeywell 200

Honeywell 200 consoles featured in the graphic design of Len Deighton's Billion-Dollar Brain book jacket and also figured as part of the hall-sized supercomputer complex in the 1967 movie of the book starring Michael Caine and Karl Malden.

Ideological restrictions on naturalization in U.S. law

"The constitutional fathers, fresh from a revolution, did not forge a political strait-jacket for the generations to come", wrote Justice Frank Murphy.

James A. Martin

Just two weeks before Martin's death, he was visited by Ateneo de Manila University president Bienvenido Nebres, who gave him a jacket of the Ateneo basketball team that he had coached some 70 years earlier.

Jayeebhava

Anjali delivers the jacket to Ram but to meet him again she breaks Ram's Friend's (Venu Madhav) Laptop.

Jean-Marie Doré

:"I know they were ULIMO because they talked about how they had been looking for me a long time, because I had opposed them in Liberia. They wore gris-gris around their necks. They were on drugs, and stank of alcohol. They demanded my cell phone, money, and jacket. Then they beat me on the head, hands, and shoulders. The two began to argue back and forth how they should kill me—one said, "Let's shoot him," and the other said, "No, let's cut his throat.

Jessica Origliasso

In January 2009, it was announced that Jessica Origliasso would pose nude for PETA after she was seen on the New York City Subway wearing a faux fur jacket with an anti-fur message on the back.

Jingle Jangle Comics

His experience included painting the first edition dust jacket for Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind and ghosting the newspaper strip Reg’lar Fellas for artist Gene Byrnes.

Jonathan Kwitny

His book jacket biographies record that his reporting forced J. Lynn Helms, chief of the Federal Aviation Administration, to resign, and dogged President Ronald Reagan's National Security Advisor Richard V. Allen for conflicts of interest.

Jumping the shark

In the episode, the central characters visit Los Angeles, where a water-skiing Fonzie (Henry Winkler) answers a challenge to his bravery by wearing swim trunks and his trademark leather jacket, and jumping over a confined shark.

L94A1 chain gun

The weapon is cooled by a venturi system, which draws cool air down the jacket and acts as a fume extractor.

Lorgnette

The lorgnette was employed as a prop and affectation by early 20th century trial lawyer Earl Rogers, and one is featured on the front cover dust jacket of his biography, Final Verdict, by his daughter Adela Rogers St. Johns.

Marte Wulff

Jacket and Safety Pins are released on Wulff's own label It´s Definitely Records, distributed through Sonet/Universal.

Norman Korpi

In 1992 Korpi co-developed a clothing and furnishings design firm called Gouda; their jacket outerwear line, called State to State, became popular enough to be sold at outlets like Sharper Image and Bloomingdales, and were worn in public by people including Barbara Bush and rapper Yo-Yo.

Peter Brookes

In the mid-1970s he replaced Chris Achilleos as regular jacket illustrator for Doctor Who novelisations from Target Books but his cartoon-style artwork proved less popular than Achilleos's more naturalistic style and he completed only four covers.

Peter Firmin

Charlotte is also an illustrator; as is Hannah, known for her book jacket illustrations for Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series; Josie, who runs hand-painted china shops in London and Canterbury; Katy,who works for a farmers' cooperative in Faversham, Lucy,a pattern-cutter for fashion houses in Italy and Emily, the youngest, who appeared in the opening sequence of Bagpuss, and is a papier mache artist and printmaker living in Whitstable.

Pilot jacket

Cooper A-2 jacket, a type of leather jacket used by the U.S. Air Force in World War II

Places for Breathing

"A Gift," "Seven," and "Straight Jacket Labels" served as the band's first three demos produced by Tommy Henriksen and Jeff Tilson.

Rebecca Schiffman

Schiffman's watercolor portrait of philosopher Slavoj Žižek appeared as the author image on the inside book jacket for the UK edition of his book "Violence."

Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons

The album cover features a photo of Parsons' ornate tailored suit jacket designed by Nudie Cohn, which was worn for the cover of the Burritos' album, The Gilded Palace of Sin.

Revis

With the help of a new manager, John Zagata, they recorded three demo songs, "A Gift," "Seven," and "Straight Jacket Labels" with producers Tommy Henriksen and Jeff Pilson.

Secret of the Incas

Throughout Secret of the Incas, the main character, Harry Steele, can be seen wearing the "Indiana Jones" outfit - brown leather jacket, fedora, tan pants, an over-the-shoulder bag, and revolver.

Shell jacket

The Confederate States of America adopted the jacket in 1861; the most famous are the Richmond Depot's, RDI, RDII, and RDIII.

Spiv

A typical spiv has been described as having: A duck's arse haircut, Clark Gable moustache, rakish trilby hat, drape-shape jacket,, and loud garish tie ... which all represented a deliberate snook cocked at wartime austerity.

Tex Antoine

Its new news director, Al Primo, decreed that all the newscast's on-camera talent would wear matching blue blazers with a "circle 7" crest displayed on their jacket pockets.

Wax Fang

In October 2010, Wax Fang released a 17 minute digital only single on Removador Recordings & Solutions called The Astronaut (Part 1). The band opened for My Morning Jacket at the KFC Yum! Center to commemorate the release.

Whatever You Need

The accompanying music video, directed by Jake Nava, features Turner walking through a tunnel in a leather jacket and jeans and then she sits on some steps singing and some teenagers stop what they are doing and sit with her, singing along.

Wonder Boys

During a party, Leer shoots and kills the chancellor’s dog and steals her husband’s prized Marilyn Monroe collectible: the jacket worn by the actress on the day of her marriage to Joe DiMaggio.

World War II German uniform

The color and Totenköpfe (skulls) were chosen due to their similarity to the uniforms of August von Mackensen's Black Hussars, and also for practical reasons: the black color made oil stains less visible and a short jacket was less likely to get caught in the machinery.