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unusual facts about Knock, Knock, Ginger



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.

2012–13 Coppa Italia Serie D

Coppa Italia Serie D (Italian for Serie D Italian Cup) is a straight knock-out based competition involving teams from Serie D in Italian football.

2013 Copa do Brasil de Futebol Feminino

The competition is contested by 32 clubs in a knock-out format where all rounds will be played over two legs and the away goals rule will be used, but in the first three rounds, if the away team won the first leg with an advantage of at least three goals, the second leg will not be played and the club will be automatically qualified to the next round.

AntiProduct

The band formed in 2000, and have played alongside acts such as Rachel Stamp, The Wildhearts, Ginger, The Quireboys, Enuff Z'Nuff, Electric Eel Shock, Tyla from Dogs D'Amour, Murderdolls, Trashlight Vision and Sigue Sigue Sputnik.

Arlene Croce

A review of her The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book can be found in Pauline Kael's collection of movie reviews, Reeling.

Bioenhancer

Ginger promotes due to the gingerols the intestinal absorption of many compounds (including drugs) and elements.

Chaat

There are common elements among these variants including dahi, or yogurt; chopped onions and coriander; sev (small dried yellow salty noodles); and chaat masala, typically consisting of amchoor (dried mango powder), cumin, Kala Namak (rock salt), coriander, dried ginger, salt, black pepper, and red pepper.

Child Abduction Is Not Funny

After he is finished a band of Mongols appear out of nowhere and attack the wall because: "Every time us Chinese put up a wall stupid Mongolians have to come and knock it down," as he puts it, in a reference to Chinese history.

Coming Together

It contained two tracks ("Don't Knock My Love" and "I Don't Want To Do Wrong") by its subgroup, Love, Peace & Happiness, which featured Ann Bogan.

Curtilage

In Jardines, the Court specifically named a front porch as a prime example of curtliage; even though Girl Scouts or salespersons can knock on the front door, they must leave immediately if there is no answer.

Daisuke Ryu

He starred opposite Samantha Bond in the 1989 television serial The Ginger Tree (based on the novel by Oswald Wynd), playing Count Kentaro Kurihama.

Dollman vs. Demonic Toys

The film begins with Brick Bardo (Tim Thomerson, from Dollman) hitchhiking to get to the town of Pahoota, where he tries to find a girl named Nurse Ginger (Melissa Behr, who was shrunken to 11 inches in Bad Channels), to prove to her that she is not alone.

Don Schain

In the early to mid-1970s, Schain directed his then-wife, Cheri Caffaro, in a number of exploitation films including the GINGER series, as well as Too Hot to Handle.

Dried shrimp

Dried shrimp are also used in Korean cuisine, where they are soaked briefly to reconstitute them, and are then stir-fried with seasonings—typically garlic, ginger, scallions, soy sauce, sugar, and hot peppers—and served as a side dish.

Earl Owensby Studios

Television producer Ray Livesay, Director/NYU Film professor Tierry Pathe, Ginger and Terri Alden, as well as numerous other actors first worked or honed their skills in Owensby productions.

Eugene Chadbourne

A notable solo album, Songs (Intakt 026: 1993), features politically oriented originals, such as "Knock on the Door" and "Hello Ceausescu", and covers, such as Nick Drake's "Thoughts of Mary Jane", and Floyd Tillman's "This Cold War With You".

Galingale

Galangal, one of several plants in the ginger family with aromatic rhizomes used for food and medicines

George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens

The gardens also has a large collection of native and introduced tropical plants including cycads, palms, Adansonia, gingers and heliconias.

Harry and Tonto

During his episodic journey, he befriends a Bible-quoting hitchhiker (Michael Butler) and underage runaway Ginger (Melanie Mayron), visits his daughter (Ellen Burstyn), a bookstore owner in Chicago, and drops in on an early sweetheart (Geraldine Fitzgerald) in a retirement home, where she suffers from dementia.

Jay Levin

Levin hired Texas writers Big Boy Medlin, Ginger Varney, and Michael Ventura, as well as Anita Hoffman (wife of then-fugitive Abbie Hoffman).

Johnny Ginger

By the early 1960s Johnny adapted a new character inspired by the Jerry Lewis film The Bellboy, that of the head bellboy at the Rocky Plaza Hotel, run by Rocky Granet (the voice of Rube Weiss), and the show became The Johnny Ginger Show.

Judith Baldwin

Baldwin, who took over the role of Ginger Grant in Rescue from Gilligan's Island in 1978 appeared with the original Ginger (Tina Louise) three years earlier in the 1975 film The Stepford Wives.

Kahili

Hedychium gardnerianum, known as the kahili ginger or ginger lily, a plant native to the Himalayas

Keith Hale

Following Hawkwind, Ginger then asked Hale to get a band together for which he enlisted the help of old friends Billy Jenkins and Ian Trimmer, as well as Blood Donor bassist Rikki Legair.

Knock, Knock Who's There?

Maessen's version reached #2 on the Australian charts, after her debut single "The Love Moth" only made it to #40.

Knock, Knock, Ginger

However, under the Town Police Clauses Act 1847, it is a criminal offence to "wilfully and wantonly disturb any inhabitant, by pulling or ringing any door bell, or knocking at any door" punishable with up to 14 days imprisonment.

Lady of Knock

The song tells of the story of Knock in County Mayo, Ireland when the Virgin Mary, St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist appeared at the south gable of Knock Parish Church.

Lincoln's Ghost

Perhaps the most famous incident was in 1942 when Wilhelmina of the Netherlands heard footsteps outside her White House bedroom and answered a knock on the door, only to see Lincoln in frock coat and top hat standing in front of her (she promptly fainted).

Lisa Lashes

Raised a Jehovah's Witness, on Sundays Lisa would attend meetings and knock on neighbors' doors with her parents to hand out The Watchtower and occasionally read from the Bible but her interest waned soon after her parents separated.

Mateo Moreno

He grew up in the midwest town of Independence, once home of Harry S. Truman and Ginger Rogers, and attended Fort Osage High School and briefly attended Longview College and The University of Missouri Kansas City.

Mike Western

In the early 1950s he joined fellow former GB Animation artists Ron "Nobby" Clark and Eric Bradbury at Amalgamated Press, drawing adventure strips for Knock-Out, including the western "Lucky Logan" and the aviation series "Johnnie Wingco".

Mithridate

Ephraim Chambers, in his 1728 Cyclopaedia, says "Mithridate is one of the capital Medicines in the Apothecaries Shops, being composed of a vast Number of Drugs, as Opium, Myrrh, Agaric, Saffron, Ginger, Cinnamon, Spikenard, Frankincense, Castor, Pepper, Gentian, &c".

Neil Leyton

He participated in a side-project with Ky Anto, titled Pretty Volume, and recorded an E.P. with fellow Canadian guitarist Rich Jones and The Wildhearts' frontman Ginger in the UK.

Nick Falco

The leader of the gang, the wife of an incarcerated criminal, had asked the woman to go home with Falco and put Rohypnol in his drink to knock him out.

Nicola Piovani

Among his more popular works is the score for the Federico Fellini film Intervista, his second of three collaborations with the famous director, the others being Ginger e Fred (Ginger and Fred in English) and La voce della luna (The Voice of the Moon).

Nuclear fratricide

This theory was put forward as a defense mechanism for the LGM-118 Peacekeeper missile deployment, reasoning that multiple detonations would be required to knock out an entire battery of missiles if sufficiently protected.

Paulus Johannes Maria Maas

Maas has identified and named about two hundred fifty plants from the Burmanniaceae, the Costus Family (Costaceae), the Gentian Family (Gentianaceae), the Bloodwort Family (Haemodoraceae), the Banana Family (Musaceae), the Olacaceae, the Triuridaceae, and the Ginger Family (Zingiberaceae).

Rufus and Carla

Carla Thomas was also part of a string of successful duets ("Tramp", "Knock On Wood", "Lovey Dovey", "New Year's Resolution") with the label's biggest star, Otis Redding.

Shoo Rayner

These series have very different themes: the "Dark Claw" books are a spoof of Star Wars and other such science-fiction stories, starring cats and rodents; the "Rex Files" (a take-off on the television series The X-Files) feature a duo of canine sleuths named Rex and Franky who investigate various terrifying paranormal events; and the "Ginger Ninja" books are about a pawball-mad kitten named Ginger who faces typical elementary-school problems such as bullies.

Simon Day

He has an altercation with a patient's relative and receives a bang on the head, and he becomes increasingly lary during the episode, at one point making a pass at Connie Beauchamp; people assume he is drunk, but it transpires that he has a developed a Subdural hematoma as a result of the knock on the head.

Six Days or Forever?

Ginger, later a Professor of History at Brandeis, Wayne State University, and the University of Calgary and at the time a New York trade book editor, had written about Eugene Debs and the city of Chicago in the time of John Peter Altgeld before tackling the Scopes trial.

Sophie Conran

The chocolate uses a combination of flavours including Earl Grey tea, ginger and cranberry.

Supershit 666

Supershit 666 or Super$hit 666 were a European rock supergroup consisting of Ginger from The Wildhearts on vocals and guitar, Nicke Andersson from the Hellacopters on vocals and drums, Dregen from the Backyard Babies on vocals and guitar, and Swedish producer Thomas Skogsberg on bass.

Suzy Creamcheese

A 1960s-1970s Las Vegas boutique named for the character is mentioned in the film Casino when Jennifer Santoro tells Ginger (Sharon Stone) about an article of clothing in the shop.

Teh halia

Teh halia may also refer to an Indonesian drink consisting of brown sugar and ginger by the same name.

The New Adventures of Gilligan

It was based on the 1964–1967 CBS television series Gilligan's Island and featured almost all the actors from the show, except for Tina Louise, who was determined to distance herself from the role of Ginger Grant (the animated Ginger became a platinum blonde in case Louise objected to Filmation using her image), and Dawn Wells, who was on the road in a play and was unavailable (Jane Webb voiced both Ginger and Mary Ann; she was credited as Jane Edwards for the latter).

W. A. Harbinson

This was followed by an avant garde novel, KNOCK (1975), described in the Foreword by Colin Wilson as a work that "belongs to an Irish tradition that runs from Charles Lever and Samuel Lover, down through Joyce, Beckett and Donleavy".

Willim Welsyn

The footage was shot by Welfare and Gray on a GoPro knock-off camera while they were both covering the festival for Rolling Stone SA Magazine in August 2013.

X-Men: Die by the Sword

Back at the party Pete Wisdom gives Dazzler a brand new motorcycle, Thunderbird and Nocturne have a long conversation as they restart their relationship, and Captain Britain goes to answer another knock at the door where he is stabbed by Rouge-Mort, who is accompanied by multiple figures in black military gear.

Yuxiang

The technique of sauteeing the combined base ingredients of garlic, scallions and ginger is sometimes compared with the French mirepoix.


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