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5 unusual facts about Jump


Jump, Jive an' Wail

The song had a resurgence in popularity during the Swing revival in the late 1990s.

Jump, Little Children

Jazz dancer Clarice Ordaz and Broadway dancer Jess LeProtto performed a contemporary routine choreographed to the song by Stacey Tookey.

In the summer of 2003, the band took its first hiatus, but soon returned with an abbreviated name, "Jump," and plans for another album, Between The Dim & The Dark.

Regular touring continued throughout 1996 and 1997, including the first of what would become a yearly tradition: New Year's shows at the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston.

Lanigan's Ball

Jump, Little Children performs another popular version of this song with most of the lyrics retained.


1936 NCAA Men's Track and Field Championships

For the second consecutive year, Ohio State's Jesse Owens won championships in four individual events—the 100-meter sprint, the 200-meter sprint, the 110-meter high hurdles and the broad jump (now called the long jump).

1988 British Grand Prix

Meanwhile the Ferraris of Gerhard Berger and Michele Alboreto got the jump on everyone and occupied the front row of the grid.

2006–07 Four Hills Tournament

While Andreas Küttel set a new record for the day in the second jump when he reached a distance of 136.5 metres Schlierenzauer again showed his skills and his capability of keeping his nerves in control when he jumped 142.0 metres, just 1.5 metres short to equalise the hill record set by Sigurd Pettersen in 2003.

2012 Global Champions Tour

Ouaddar was with the nine year old gelding Porche du Fruitier (owned by Mohammed VI of Morocco) the second competition in the jump-off.

Andreas Pohle

His personal best jump is 7.97 metres, achieved in June 2002 in Bad Langensalza.

Angela Voigt

Kathy McMillan, who eventually finished second, had a longer jump which was deemed a foul.

Argentina at the 2006 Winter Olympics

44-year-old Colorado resident Clyde Getty represented Argentina in the men's aerials, finishing last in the field after failing to land his second jump.

Arnaud Casquette

His personal best jump is 8.23 metres, achieved in July 2003 in Sestriere.

Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's long jump

In the final, German Heike Drechsler finished in first place, with a jump distance on 6.99 metres.

Axel jump

Since then four other women (Tonya Harding, Ludmila Nelidina, Yukari Nakano and Mao Asada) have succeeded in completing the jump in international competition, while another woman, Kimmie Meissner, first completed the jump at the 2005 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

Badger State Games

The 2006 summer games saw Bill Wambach of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin break the national high-jump record for the 80-to-84 year old division with a jump of 1.26 meters.

Barbarellas

Following this, the band embarked on their international "Jump Up Jump Down" tour, which they released a live home video of, following this they released an EP Across America 2000.

Ben Silverstone

His most recent film project is Jump! (2007), in which he starred as a young Jewish photographer charged with the murder of his father, based on the real life story of Philippe Halsman, opposite Patrick Swayze and Martine McCutcheon.

Bo Roberson

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy he won the silver medal in the long jump, a centimeter short of the Olympic record 8.12 m gold medal jump by Ralph Boston.

Brian Wellman

Wellman competed collegiately for the University of Arkansas where he won two NCAA Outdoor triple jump titles.

Bungee jumping

Several major movies have featured bungee jumps, most famously the opening sequence of the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye in which Bond makes a jump over the edge of a dam in Russia (in reality the dam is in Switzerland: Verzasca Dam, and the jump was genuine, not an animated special effect).

Bunny hop

Bunny hop jump, in figure skating, typically the first jump learned by beginning skaters

Chandi Jones

She was a basketball and long jump standout at Bay City High School in Bay City, Texas.

Cranham, Gloucestershire

A Fairport Convention album, Gladys' Leap, is named after local postwoman Gladys Hillier, who would jump over a local stream to avoid a long journey.

Dawn Burrell

Burrell was runner-up to Shana Williams at the national indoor championships, but still was selected for the 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships and she finished eighth in the long jump final.

Dwan Smith

In the film, she performed backing vocals to the Curtis Mayfield-penned songs, "Something He Can Feel", "Hooked On Your Love", and "Jump", (which were all re-recorded by Aretha Franklin for the entire soundtrack).

Europahalle

The venue has featured a number of world record performances in athletics, including a jump of 2.07 m in the high jump by Heike Henkel in 1992, when the Europahalle hosted the German Indoor Championships.

Flema

There is a very persistent urban myth that says that he was drunk playing a Winning Eleven match with a PlayStation when he said to his friend Luichy "If I lose, I'm gonna jump through the window" - He lost and did it, but you will not find reliable sources with direct confirmation of this incident.

Franklin Jacobs

it remains the record for height differential, now held jointly with Stefan Holm, and the record for jump at highest rate of one's size.

George William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

In the artificially-created Brandenburg Pond (German: Brandenburger Weiher), fed by the Steinach tributary, he installed a ski jump and organized naval battles with real ships.

Gerry Hutch

Born in central Dublin, his criminal career started at the age of 10 when he joined and later led the 'Bugsy Malone Gang' of inner city youngsters (named after the fictional feature film) whose crimes in the 1970s included "jump-overs": they would jump over bank counters, grab whatever cash they could and run out the door.

Granåsen

The record for longest jump in a World Cup event is shared by Gregor Schlierenzauer and Simon Ammann who both jumped 140 meters at Granåsen in December 2008.

Heiko Reski

His personal best jump was 8.13 metres, achieved in September 1987 in Gelnhausen.

Hochsprung

Hochsprung mit Musik, a international high jump competition in Arnstadt, Germany

Ike Ibeabuchi

After winning 16 straight fights against club fighters and journeymen, Ike made a big jump in competition and fought undefeated prospect David Tua for the WBC International Heavyweight title on June 7, 1997.

Jean-Marc Tailhardat

His personal best jump was 5.70 metres, achieved in June 1991 in Montgeron.

Juergen Sommer

In 1998 he made the jump back home to sign with the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer, as a replacement for Brad Friedel, who had signed for Liverpool the previous year.

Jump Raven

Jump Raven was the second game released by Cyberflix, in 1994.

Jump Shot Media

In 2011, Jump Shot Media partnered up with rappers Paul Wall, Mistah F.A.B., and Hopsin to release a mobile battle rap game, Battle Rap Stars.

Lisa R. Fredenthall-Lee

Following were many successful singles including -Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart- and in 1992 Jump Shout the album came to market.

Ninja Jump

Ninja Jump has OpenFeint integration and prompts the player when they first launch the game whether they wish to post their highscore to the online leaderboards, and to participate in other OpenFeint online features.

Olga Bolşova

Her personal best high jump is 1.97 metres, achieved in September 1993 in Rieti.

Petter Næss

Næss is best known for his work directing two of the three films about Ingvar Ambjørnsen's Elling character, Elling (2000), which was nominated for the foreign language film Oscar and Elsk meg i morgen (Love Me Tomorrow), (2005), in addition to Just Bea (2003), Mozart and the Whale (2005) and Hoppet (The Jump, 2007) in Sweden.

PF Flyers

Towards the end of the film, the character Benny (Mike Vitar) wears an all-black pair of Center Hi's - the narration tells us they are "guaranteed to make a kid run faster and jump higher."

Rabbit's Moon

Filmed under a blue filter and set within a wooded glade during the night, the plot revolves around a clown, Pierrot, his longing for the moon (in which a rabbit lives - a concept found in both Japanese and Aztec mythology), and his futile attempts to jump up and catch it.

Rocket jumping

In the live-action film Transformers, the character Ironhide performs a rocket jump over a screaming woman after transforming from his truck mode.

Siegrun Siegl

However, 6.99 m remained her career best jump, and today this places her seventh on the German all-time performers list, behind Heike Drechsler, Helga Radtke, Sabine Paetz, Brigitte Wujak, Birgit Großhennig and Susen Tiedtke.

Spanky Spangler

Another notable Spangler stunt is a successful jump over the Rio Grande in a rocket-powered truck.

Sugar Magnolia

Aside from obvious references to several types of plants (magnolia), the line "jump like a Willys in four wheel drive" refers to the Willys Jeep, which was actually "jumped" off the ground by some drivers.

Texas Theatre

On November 22, 1963, shortly after the fatal shooting of President Kennedy and the wounding of Texas governor John Connally (who was the jump seat passenger in the Kennedy limousine) at 12:30 p.m. and the fatal shooting of Officer Tippit at approximately 1:16 p.m., Oswald entered the Texas Theatre shortly after 1:30 p.m. without paying for a ticket, ostensibly to avoid police.

The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism

The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism is a book written by Naoki Higashida in 2005, when he was 13, and translated into English in 2013.

Turban Cowboy

Peter is invigorated by their jump and keeps up skydiving despite Lois' concern, even as his jumps usually result in accidents like falling on Meg at dinner, falling on a ninja that killed a woman, and falling on the castle of the Pig King from Angry Birds with only one pig left alive.

Ultimate Indoor Football League

Furthermore, prior to championship weekend, three of the four teams that had been eliminated had announced their intentions to jump leagues and join the Xtreme Indoor Football League, yet another league co-created by Andrew Haines.

Virginia Miller

Competing for the Arkansas Lady Razorbacks in 2000 and 2001, Miller set school records in the 100-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200-meters, 800-meters, long jump and heptathlon.


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