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unusual facts about Johan's Ark


Noah's Ark

Johan's Ark, a full-scale replica and smaller version of the Ark


Aksel Gresvig

Aksel Johan Andersen was born in Græsvig in Onsø, a peninsula and then a municipality in Østfold, as the son of village shopkeeper Ole Andersen (1849–1883) and Randine Andersen (1849–1900).

Alfhild Agrell

She was born to Erik Johan Martin and Karolina Margareta Adolphson, who worked as confectioners.

Automatic Press / VIP

Among the notables who have published interviews in are Nobel Prize Laureates Robert Aumann and Thomas Schelling, Bruno Latour, Martha Nussbaum, Peter Galison, Philip Petit, Bill McKibben, Susan Haack, Clark Nøren Glymour, Ariel Rubinstein, Colin Camerer, Solomon Feferman, John Bell, Timothy Williamson, Jaakko Hintikka, Johan van Benthem, Rohit Parikh, Krister Segerberg and others.

Babylon's Ark

How he raided bombed palaces and ruined hotels for food and supplies to keep the animals and staff fed, and rescued Lions, Cheetah's and Ostriches from Uday Hussein's palace.

Blade on the Feather

The visitation motif plays a central role in The Confidence Course (1965), Shaggy Dog (1968), Angels Are So Few (1970), Joe's Ark (1974), Schmoedipus (1975), Brimstone and Treacle (1976), Rain on the Roof (1980), Track 29 (1987) and Secret Friends (1992).

Calling All the Monsters

It was produced by Niclas Molinder and Joacim Persson, who also co-wrote the song Johan Alkenas, and Charlie Mason, for the soundtrack, A.N.T. Farm (2011), the soundtrack to the Disney Channel television series, A.N.T. Farm.

Candlemass

After the breakup of his first band Nemesis, bassist Leif Edling started his own band under the name Candlemass with vocalist Johan Längqvist, drummer Matz Ekström, guitarist Mats "Mappe" Bjorkman and Klas Bergwall.

Charles John Andersson

Karl John (Karl Johan) Andersson (March 4, 1827, in Värmland, Sweden – July 9, 1867 in Angola) was a Swedish explorer, hunter and trader as well as an amateur naturalist and ornithologist.

Karl Johan Andersson was born on March 4, 1827, in Värmland in Sweden.

Edgar James Banks

Edgar Banks also started two movie companies, and climbed Mount Ararat in a search for Noah's Ark.

Edgar Johan Kuusik

Edgar Johan Kuusik (February 22, 1888 in Valgjärve, Estonia - August 3, 1974 in Tallinn, Estonia) was an Estonian architect (mostly freelance) and furniture and interior designer.

Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, Catholic University of Leuven

The present faculty is led by Dean Lieven Boeve, and three Vice-Deans: Pierre Van Hecke (education), Johan Leemans (research) and Johan De Tavernier (Internationalisation).

Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren

Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren (June 8, 1823 - October 25, 1894) was a Swedish entomologist.

Hogan McLaughlin

There, he danced acclaimed works by choreographers such as Ohad Naharin, Johan Inger, and Nacho Duato, touring internationally.

Johan Engholm

Several descendants of Johan Engholm emigrated to the US (mainly Illinois) in the beginning of the 20th century.

Anders Johan Engholm (1 September 1820 – 25 October 1918) was a weaponsmith from the county of Småland, Sweden.

Johan Falk

Johan Falk is a Swedish film series about a fictional police officer named Johan Falk, played by Jakob Eklund.

Johan II of East Frisia

Count Johan II of East Frisia (29 September 1538, Aurich – 29 September 1591, Stickhausen Castle) was a member of the House of Cirksena and from 1561 until his death in 1591 co-regent of the county of East Frisia.

Johan Jeremiassen

In 1870 Johan Jeremiassen married Serine, sister of later mayor Jørgen Christian and later Prime Minister Gunnar Knudsen.

Johan Johansson i Kälkebo

Johan Johansson, Johan Johansson i Kälkebo, was born 14 September 1866 in Forsa.

Johan Peter Strömberg

Johan Peter Strömberg (19 August 1773, Stockholm – 20 September 1834, Aker) was a Swedish actor, dancer and theatre director.

Johan Pretorius

Johan "Lets" Pretorius (b. 1946) is a medical doctor from Mokopane, South Africa as well as a right-winger who allegedly belongs to the Boeremag, an irredentist organization.

Johan Ramstedt

Johan Ramstedt was born in Stockholm, son to clothing manufacturer Reinhold Ramstedt and his wife Maria Sofia Haeggström.

Johan Schreiner

Through his brother Fredrik, Johan Schreiner was an uncle of economist and civil servant Per Schreiner.

Johan Siebke

Johan Siebke (17 June 1781 – 14 August 1857) was a Norwegian botanical gardener, and the founder of the Botanical Garden at Tøyen, Oslo.

Johan Van Mullem

Johan Van Mullem was born in Isiro in the Democratic Republic of Congo to Flemish parents, but spent much of his childhood following his diplomat father from country to country.

John W. Nordstrom

John W. Nordstrom (born Johan W. Nordström; February 15, 1871 – October 11, 1963) was the co-founder of the Nordstrom department store chain.

Kwara United F.C.

The coaching staff for the 2006-07 season included Swedes Roger Palmgren and Johan Eriksson (son of former England and Mexico manager, Sven-Göran Eriksson).

Lednice

The estate house – designed and furbished by baroque architects Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Domenico Martinelli, and Anton Johan Ospel – proclaimed rural luxury on the grandest scale.

Love's Labours Lost in Space

Farnsworth instructs the crew to recover two of each kind of animal native to the planet for breeding purposes à la Noah's Ark.

Maarten van Rossum

His parents, Johan van Rossum, lord of Rossum and Johanna van Hemert probably married before 1478 and were part of the lower nobility around Bommelerwaard.

Robin Olsen

Previously to the start of the 2014 season the club sold Johan Dahlin, making Olsen the first choice goalkeeper.

Roger Tallroth

Karl Johan Roger Tallroth, born in 1958, is a Swedish folk musician and composer, best known as a member of the band Väsen.

Saraband

While Henrik is away tending to the orchestra he conducts in Uppsala, Johan has a private meeting with Karin, informing her of a proposal from Ivan Chablov, head conductor in the St. Petersburg orchestra and an old friend of Johan, that Karin join him at the prestigious Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.

Schindler's Ark

The book tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a Nazi Party member who turns into an unlikely hero by saving 1,200 Jews from concentration camps all over Poland and Germany.

After the war, he is commemorated as Righteous among the Nations by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, but he is never seen as a conventionally virtuous character.

Se og Hør

Knut Haavik, the first editor-in-chief, remained in the position for 25 years until his retirement in 2004, when he was succeeded by Odd Johan Nelvik, who had assisted him since the beginning.

Searches for Noah's Ark

In 1876, James Bryce, historian, statesman, diplomat, explorer, and Professor of Civil Law at Oxford, climbed above the tree line and found a slab of hand-hewn timber, four feet long and five inches thick, which he identified as being from the Ark.

Sophia Elisabet Brenner

In 1680, she married the miniaturist painter Elias Brenner and became the first Swedish salon hostess; in her salon, there gathered the Swedish elite such as Aurora Königsmarck, the painter Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl, the poet Johan Runius and Urban Hjärne (who brought to an end the legal persecution of witches).

Sweden in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010

On 1 October SVT revealed their entry for Minsk: 13 year old Josefine Ridell was selected to represent Sweden with the song "Allt jag vill ha" (Everything I want), written by Josefine, four-time Eurovision songwriter Thomas G:son, 2009 Azeri contestant Arash, Robert Uhlmann and Johan Bejerholm.

Territorialism

In 1825 the playwright, diplomat and journalist, Mordecai Manuel Noah - the first Jew born in the United States to reach national prominence - tried to found a Jewish "refuge" at Grand Island in the Niagara River, to be called "Ararat," after Mount Ararat, the Biblical resting place of Noah's Ark.

The Devil and Max Devlin

Gould praised this film in interviews as the finest he ever did (along with the other Disney film The Last Flight of Noah's Ark).

The Knockouts discography

Highlight of the tour was the encore performance at the Helsinki Ice Hall on the last night of the tour when The Knockouts frontman Johan Frandsen joined Brian Setzer and Slim Jim Phantom on stage with a special rendition of the rockabilly classic, "Seven Nights to Rock".

Vårt Land

The Swedish title of Maamme, the national anthem of Finland, originally a poem by Johan Ludvig Runeberg.

Verner Laaksonen

Johan Verner Laaksonen (7 November 1895 in Orimattila – 10 November 1985 in Helsinki) was a Finnish long-distance runner who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Western Scheldt

The double-decker car ferries that serviced the two Western Scheldt crossings until 2003 were sold to Italian companies, where two of them, the Queen Beatrix (renamed Tremestieri) and Prince Johan Friso (renamed Acciarello) were adapted for the crossing between Messina and Villa San Giovanni on the Italian mainland.

Wives aboard Noah's Ark

A cabalistic work that appeared in 1670, known as Comte de Gabalis, considered sacred in Rosicrucianism, maintains that the name of Noah's wife was Vesta.

Zoé's Ark

The organization was brought into the public's awareness with the arrest of six members and 11 others in Abéché, Chad accused of abducting 103 African children.


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