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unusual facts about Kilen, Vest-Agder


Kilen

Kilen, Vest-Agder, a village in Songdalen municipality, Vest-Agder, Norway


Agder

The previous most credible source, Ptolemy, gives the briefest of sketches, only citing all of Norway as the Chaedini ("country people").

Agimat

Filipino hero Macario Sakay wore a vest that has religious images and Latin phrases to protect him from bullets.

Air bag vest

Studies conducted by the British Transport Research Laboratory showed that the vests improved protection by 69% when worn by riders in conjunction with a standard protective vest and cut the risk of rib fractures and damage to internal organs by 20%.

Anne Gerd Eieland

Anne Gerd Eieland (born 28 December 1982) from Iveland, Aust-Agder is Norway's third best female high jumper of all time, behind Hanne Haugland and Tonje Angelsen.

Bjæring

Bjæring was a legendary king or chieftain who is identified as the one who is buried in the Bjærum grave in Hægebostad, Agder, Norway.

Casimir Zeglen

In 1893, after the assassination of Carter Harrison, Sr., the mayor of Chicago, he invented the first commercial bulletproof vest.

Charlie Spedding

His first marathon was the Houston Marathon in 1984, which he won by "the thickness of a vest".

Eide, Aust-Agder

Eiði: Village in the Faroe Islands with a name, sharing Eide's etymology

Espenes

Espenes, Aust-Agder, a village area in Grimstad municipality, Aust-Agder county

Hero Cruz

Hero eventually lost his vest, but found the even more interesting "H-Dial" (of Dial H for Hero fame), and soon realized that by spelling H-E-R-O on its dial, he would be granted the powers of and persona of one of several superheroes, supposedly merging with them using hypertime.

Jack Vest

After leaving East Tennessee State, Vest coached high school football and turned out a 9-0-1 record with a St. Paul, Virginia team which had only 17 players on the entire squad.

Jesse Vest

This debut proved a success, but after their second album, Vest left the group wishing to spend more time with his family.

Karenus Kristofer Thinn

From 1891 he was a presiding judge (lagmann) in Hålogaland, Borgarting and Agder.

Kilen

Kilen, Aust-Agder, a village in Tvedestrand municipality, Aust-Agder, Norway

Kristiansand Teacher Training College

Kristiansand Teacher Training College (Kristiansand Lærerhøgskole) was established as Holt Seminary in Holt, Aust-Agder, Norway in 1839.

Life preserver

Personal flotation device, is piece of equipment designed to assist a wearer in keeping afloat; also referred to as a lifejacket, life preserver, Mae West, life vest, life saver, cork jacket, buoyancy aid, or flotation suit

Masataka Takayama

Takayama usually used a "vest-pocket" Kodak camera (a very compact folding model taking 127 film) with a single-element lens (a tangyoku lens in Japanese).

Mi PC

The second verse expresses disinterest in various contemporary status symbols - such as "a vest by Hugo Boss", "a painting by Miró" or "the ear of Holyfield" - as compared to the woman's love.

Mona Freeman

Also in 1952, she was called a "vest pocket Venus" by sculptor Yucca Salamunich because her proportions were the same as those of the Venus de Milo but three-quarter size.

Navajo Nation Police

All officers are issued Glock 22 40 Cal. side arm, expandable baton, handcuffs, bulletproof vest, pepper spray and portable radio linked to a central dispatch.

Pocket pistol

The original 19th century vest-sized pocket pistol, the derringer, which developed from the Philadelphia Deringer, is typically no longer widely used for concealed carry (except in .357

RENEA

The bulletproof Kevlar vest and helmet are the same as those used by the German GSG-9.

Sirdal

From the oldest times the district was divided by the river Sira between the counties Rogaland and Vest-Agder.

Soběslav I, Duke of Bohemia

At the Reichstag of Bamberg in the same year, he gave Soběslav the hereditary dignity of the archcupbearer of the Holy Roman Empire and the promise to vest his eldest son Vladislaus with Bohemia upon his death.

Straumsfjorden

Straumsfjorden, Aust-Agder, a lake in Bygland and Valle municipalities in Aust-Agder county

Thaddeus von Clegg

The manufactured version we know today was invented in Macon, Georgia, by an African American named Alabama Vest, in the 1840s.

Théodore Salomé

Upon her visit to La Trinité in November 1893, Fannie Edgar Thomas, "Church Music Correspondent" for the New York Musical Courier, described M. Salomé, at age 59, as a handsome man "with his fine silver hair, slender, gentle face, pink cheeks, tender mouth and appealing brown eyes, dressed in an easy dark coat and vest, with gray trousers, and no evident personal ambition."

Todd Bolender

Describing him in Jerome Robbins’ The Concert, she writes: “he was a henpecked husband who constantly escaped into daydreams of sexual conquest. Clad in a vest and long underwear and chewing on a huge cigar, he was the prototype of ... J. Walter Mitty.” Longtime New York City Ballet observer Robert Garis said of him in Agon, “his easy wit and charm in the first pas de trois seem unrecapturable” (ibid.)

Tove Lill Løyte

She is the leader of the Norwegian political party Progress Party's Youth Organization the Youth of the Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiets Ungdom in Norwegian) in the county of Vest-Agder.

VEST

The authors say that VEST security margins are inline with the guidelines proposed by Lars Knudsen in the paper "Some thoughts on the AES process" and the more conservative guidelines recently proposed by Nicolas Courtois in the paper “Cryptanalysis of Sfinks”.

Vest

; Banyan: This Indian garment is commonly called a vest in Indian English.

Vest Recklinghausen

During the secularization of the ecclesiastical states in 1802–03, also known as the German Mediatisation, the electorate was abolished and Vest Recklinghausen was annexed by the Lords of Arenberg.

William Milman

Milman ordered a long vest of the latest clerical fashion which the tailor referred to as an "M.B waistcoat".


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