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55 unusual facts about Life


Brian Dixon

His most remembered achievement was introducing the iconic Life. Be in it. program.

Characters of Half-Life

Dr. Judith Mossman (voiced by Michelle Forbes) first appears briefly in Red Letter Day, in which she is attempting to stabilize Gordon Freeman's damaged teleportation.

In Episode Two, Dr. Magnusson (voiced by John Aylward) runs the White Forest base and is described as a Black Mesa survivor.

Chizzy Akudolu

In 2013, Akudolu wrote and produced two short films, under the name of "Don't Give Up Your Day Job Productions" The films titled, 'Life's a Bitch" and "5 Minutes respectively.

Dipti Mehta

Dipti Mehta is an Indian American actress best known for her portrayal of Reina in Life! Camera Action... bringing her multiple international awards and nominations.

End-of-life

End-of-life care, a term to describe medical care for patients with terminal illnesses or conditions that have become advanced, progressive and incurable.

Half-life

\lim {t\to \infty} N(t) = 0, i.e. amount approaches zero as t approaches infinity as expected (the longer we wait, the less remains).

Half-Life: Decay

At the time, however, it was unclear how a cooperative version of Half-Life would be implemented; the developers, Gearbox Software, were still experimenting with finding the most balanced amount of players to build a cooperative game around.

Developed by Gearbox Software and published by Sierra Entertainment, Decay was released as part of the PlayStation 2 version of Half-Life released on November 14, 2001.

Hearts That Bleed

"Hearts That Bleed" was chosen as the second single from State of Shock's second studio album, Life, Love & Lies.

Incarceration in Florida

Mandatory guidelines such as the 1999 10-20-Life and the 1995 Three-strikes law established minimum sentencing for those convicted of crimes.

John F. Osborne

He became an editor at Time–Life, eventually becoming the London-based editor, and then the Far East editor, based in Hong Kong in the 1950s.

Life Is Too Short

Life's Too Short, a BBC2 television observational comedy sitcom series;

Life-cycle greenhouse-gas emissions of energy sources

A 2007 report published by the Oxford Research Group listed the following results, after Leeuwen and Smith: coal = 755 g/kWh; natural gas = 385 g/kWh; biomass = 29 - 62 g/kWh; wind = 11 - 37 g/kWh; nuclear = 11 - 130 g/kWh (using the minimum and maximum results amongst 3 studies).

On his nuclear power paper, Benjamin K. Sovacool has been criticized by his peers, as it was noted that his paper was overly based on data from Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen.

Life-giving Spring

The Pühtitsa Convent is located on a site where, according to a 16th-century legend, near the local village of Kuremäe, a shepherd witnessed a divine revelation of the Theotokos near a spring of water that is to this day venerated as holy and is famous for many miracles and healings.

Life-Like

Some early Proto examples such as the EMD BL2, GP18, GP20, GP9, SD9 and Alco FA-2 were plagued with Chinese-made axle gears that would crack, causing the unit to run erratically or with loud "thumping" sounds.

Life-Line

Pinero is mentioned in passing in the novels Time Enough for Love and Methuselah's Children when the practically immortal Lazarus Long mentions having been examined and being sent away because the machine is "broken".

Life-Size

The film is a family comic fantasy starring Lindsay Lohan and Tyra Banks in a tale of a young girl's Eve Doll (somewhat like Barbie) that is transformed into a living Perfect Woman.

Life, Death, Love and Freedom

In the liner notes to his 2010 box set On the Rural Route 7609, Mellencamp said of Life, Death, Love and Freedom: "I would put that album, that collection of songs, up against any record ever made. In my mind that record is as good as just about any record ever made. That's a good feeling, to be able to finally say, hey, after nearly two dozen albums, I finally made a record that I think is as good as anything out there."

Life, Love and Faith

Life, Love and Faith is the fourth album by R&B artist, Allen Toussaint.

Life, Love and Leaving

Life, Love and Leaving is the second album by The Detroit Cobras, released 1 May 2001 (see 2001 in music).

Life, Love and the Pursuit of Justice

The album is entirely his own work, featuring his vocal and guitar work and demonstrating obvious influence from Billy Bragg's earlier recordings.

Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws

Josie repeatedly attempts to impress her crush, Ethan Lancaster, with little success,even tripping down an up escalator at the mall to try to get his attention, while her best friend Cami is doing everything she can to become the high scorer on the basketball team so that she'll be chosen to participate in a demonstration with the coach's old friend and her idol, Rebecca Lobo.

Life, the Universe and Everything

These include the name of the sport itself ("Krikket"), the wicket with its three pillars and two bails, the ball, and The Ashes.

Shortly after they arrive, a squad of robots land in a spaceship in the middle of the field and attack the assembled crowd, stealing The Ashes before departing.

Life. Be in it.

The program began in 1975 with the Victorian state government, the brainchild of Brian Dixon, former Australian rules footballer and then Minister for Youth, Sport and Recreation.

One of their early programs was to bring over Pat Farrington, a co-founder of the New Games, suppling her with five vans and 25 volunteers to drive around rural townships in Victoria, teaching people how to play games (New Games Book: p22)

Life Be In It continued for a time working with other groups like the National Heart Foundation of Australia, before going into hibernation.

Life'll Kill Ya

Chuck Prophet - guitar on "For My Next Trick I'll Need a Volunteer"

Life's a Bitch and I'm Her Pimp

"Fett's Vette" was also featured at the end of the episode entitled "All That Jazz" of the Adult Swim cartoon Sealab 2021, for which mc chris also provides the voice of Hesh Hepplewhite, and is a rap glorifying Star Wars character Boba Fett and his bounty hunting skills.

Life's a Riot with Spy Vs Spy

The album contains both politically charged songs, such as the attack on the school system and unemployment, "To Have and To Have Not," and love songs such as "The Milkman of Human Kindness" and "A New England" (which was later a hit for singer Kirsty MacColl.)

Life's Aquarium

# "Spanish Eyes" (Stokley Williams, Jeffrey Allen, Chris "Daddy" Dave) (5:10)

Tony Maserati, Steve Hodge, Prince Charles Alexander, Warren Riker - Mixing

Life's Little Miracles

Life's Little Miracles (or Little Miracles) follows the stories of children at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children.

Life's Lottery

The consequences of the choice - "Napoleon Solo or Illya Kuryakin?" - set Keith on a path that determines his lifelong friends, enemies, and opportunities.

Loosely connected to Newman's The Quorum, Life's Lottery is written in second-person and invites the reader to assume the role of the protagonist, an Englishman named Keith Marion, and make decisions that determine the character's life and death.

Life's Magic

Life's Magic died at age twenty-six on August 21, 2007, at Trackside Farm in Versailles, Kentucky.

Life's Whirlpool

This film shouldn't be confused with McTeague which was also known as Life's a Whirlpool, an early telling of Frank Norris's McTeague, later filmed by Eric von Stroheim as Greed (1923).

Life's Work

Trying to make a comeback from being forced to wear classic briefs when it took four of her G-strings to "make a decent rag," Lisa referred to her new underwear as "big kid pants," suggesting that she was handed a pair of underwear that only children should wear.

Light-Life

Franciszek Blachnicki (buried in Good Shepherd Church in Krościenko), who died in 1987 in Germany where he worked after the beginning of the martial law in Poland.

Living Things

Life, all objects that have self-sustaining processes (biology)

Low Life

Low-life, those looked down upon by their community, usually for their activities

Lynbrook, New York

Scenes from the motion picture After.Life, starring Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson and Justin Long, was filmed on Atlantic Ave. downtown district and on Merrick Rd. and Horton Ave.

Madeleine Martin

Martin also performed several songs in Californication including "Only Women Bleed", "Don't Let Us Get Sick", and "Surrender".

Neil Burke

After playing with the group Dead Fist, Burke formed Life's Blood, who played a politicized form of New York hardcore.

Nevada International Film Festival

In 2011, Life! Camera Action... directed by Rohit Gupta received the Platinum Reel award for the Best Narrative feature film.

Pierre-Luc Gagnon

Gagnon was a part of the cast in a VH1 series titled The X-Life.

Planet Half-Life

In addition to the news, Planet Half-Life hosts extensive, in-depth collections of information regarding Half-Life, Half-Life 2 (along with Portal), Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and Day of Defeat.

Planet Half-Life has been running public game servers since 2006, hosting 24/7 map rotations for Counter-Strike 1.6, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life: Deathmatch, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch and Team Fortress 2.

Prices of elements and their compounds

Elements of only short half-lives are unlikely to be traded on a secondary market outside of nuclear lab production, and were therefore excluded from the main table.

Slartibartfast

In Life, the Universe and Everything Slartibartfast has joined the Campaign for Real Time (or CamTim as the volunteers casually refer to it, a reference to CAMRA) which tries to preserve events as they happened before time travelling was invented.

Word...Life

Word...Life is the 1994 debut album from underground Hip Hop artist O.C., who came to prominence in hip hop because of the album.

It also helped establish his membership in the legendary Hip Hop crew D.I.T.C., which includes Lord Finesse, Showbiz & A.G., Diamond D, Fat Joe, Big L and Buckwild, who produced the majority of this album.

Worst-Case Scenario series

Artist Justin Sane wrote a song called "The Worst Case Survival Handbook" on his album Life, Love and the Pursuit of Justice.


A. Maitland Emmet

During his life, Maitland Emmet became one of Britain's leading specialists in the Microlepidoptera, as well as a Classical scholar.

Adam de la Peña

In 2003, de La Peña created and co-starred in a reality show, Comedy Central's I'm with Busey, in which he documented days in the life of his childhood idol, actor Gary Busey.

Adrián Luis González

González lives and works in Metepec, State of Mexico, a town noted for its decorative pottery, especially Trees of Life and suns with faces as wall decorations.

Air pollution in Hong Kong

Chief Executive Donald Tsang declared that the high life-expectancy of Hong Kong demonstrates that concerns over air quality were not justified.

Aristaeus the Elder

Practically nothing of his life is known except that the mathematician Pappus of Alexandria refers to him as Aristaeus the Elder which presumably means that Pappus was aware of another later mathematician also named Aristaeus.

Behind the Player: Blasko

Released on November 1, 2008 by IMV, the DVD features Blasko giving in-depth bass lessons for how to play "Dragula" by Rob Zombie and "I Don't Wanna Stop" by Ozzy Osbourne and an intimate behind-the scenes look at his life as a professional musician, including rare photos and video.

Carolyn Dennis

Their marriage and parenthood was completely unknown to both Dylan's fans and the media until the 2001 publication of Down the Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes.

Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery

He translated Plutarch's life of Lysander, and published an edition of the epistles of Phalaris, which engaged him in the famous controversy with Bentley.

Church of Pakistan

Its most internationally famous clergyman, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, formerly diocesan bishop of Raiwind in West Punjab, was given sanctuary by Robert Runcie, the then-Archbishop of Canterbury when his life was imperilled; he then taught at Oxford and served as Bishop of Rochester, England.

Empire Star

He has spent his entire life in a "simplex" society on Rhys, a satellite of a Jovian planet orbiting Tau Ceti.

Firdaus Kanga

This, along with the story of a young disabled man's sexual awakening as family life crumbles around him makes Sixth Happiness an interesting exploration of modern, urban India.

First Cousin Once Removed

Documentary about the life of poet, translator, critic and university professor Edwin Honig and his struggles with Alzheimer's disease.

Francis Wolff

For the last four years of his life, when Blue Note was no longer an independent label, Wolff shared production responsibilities with pianist and arranger Duke Pearson.

Gisela Legath

Gisela Legath from Eberau was a Burgenland woman who saved with the help of her two children Martin Legath and Frieda Legath the life of two Hungarian Jews from the Nazis during World War II by providing a shelter in their barn.

Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company

He partnered with fellow insurance salesman Norman O. Houston and businessman George A. Beavers, Jr. to secure 500 pre-paid life insurance applications as well as the $15,000 deposit required by California.

H. V. Sheshadri

He was one of the most important leaders of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and devoted his entire life for promoting the Hindu cause.

Henry Hart Milman

In subsequent poetical works he was more successful, notably the Fall of Jerusalem (1820) and The Martyr of Antioch (1822, based on the life of Saint Margaret the Virgin), which was used as the basis for an oratorio by Arthur Sullivan.

Illana Katz

By this time, Katz had spent six years researching the life of theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, the last two years being a collaboration with Dr. Edward Ritvo.

Intermountain Healthcare

Life Flight can can provide a medical control physician 24/7 so it staff does not have to rely solely on standing orders or protocols, as do many other similar air medical services.

Iza, Now!

"Kotoba yori Taisetsu na Mono" is the theme song of the drama Stand Up!! starring Arashi member Kazunari Ninomiya, Anne Suzuki, NEWS member Tomohisa Yamashita, Shun Oguri and Hiroki Narimiya, while "Pikanchi Double" is the theme song of the movie Pikanchi: Life is Hard Dakara Happy, the sequel to Pikanchi: Life is Hard Dakedo Happy.

Joëlle Aubron

Arrested with her comrades Jean-Marc Rouillan, Nathalie Ménigon and Georges Cipriani on 21 February 1987 on a farm in Vitry-aux-Loges (Loiret), she was sentenced in 1989 and 1994 to life in prison, with a minimum of 18 years.

Johann Martin Steindorff

In 1722 he applied for the vacant post of Thomaskantor in Leipzig, but did not succeed and remained in Zwickau for the rest of his life.

John of Dailam

According to the hagiographical Syriac Life of John of Dailam, John was born in Ḥdattā, a town on the confluence of the Upper Zab and the Tigris, in 660 A.D.

Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo

In Don Winslow's novel The Power of the Dog the character Father Parada is based on parts of Juan Jesús Cardinal Posadas Ocampo's life and death.

Karyn Kusama

In Girlfight, the protagonist learns to break out of her emotionally and physically constraining life through releasing and finding her physical power in boxing.

Love Ranch

Oscar Bonavena – murdered real-life model for boxer Armando Bruza

Luigi Lucheni

Luigi Lucheni is a prominent character in the Michael Kunze/Sylvester Levay musical Elisabeth, where he serves as a bitter, sarcastic narrator of the events of Elisabeth's life and in the end becomes her executioner.

Marc Hunter

For the last few months of his life, Hunter underwent various forms of treatment including several alternative medicine remedies but none were successful and he died in Berry near Kiama on 17 July 1998.

Matthías Jochumsson

He died in Akureyri, where his house, Sigurhæðir, is now a museum, devoted to his life and work.

Michael Slive

Early in his life, he practiced law in New Hampshire, serving as judge of the Hanover District Court from 1972 to 1977, and was a partner in a Chicago law firm.

My Year of Meats

Parallel to Jane's story is the life of Akiko Ueno, a former manga artist who specialized in horror scenes and is reluctantly married to a man working for BEEF-EX.

Oak Brook, Illinois

Bill Gothard, founder of "The Institute In Basic Life Principles", IBLP

Opera Noire of New York

It was the first in a series that also includes A Tribute to Robert McFerrin and The Life and Times of Malcolm X.

Pangyo Techno Valley

SKC insists on 'green chemicals' and 'life sciences' for the health of humanity.

Paul W. Bryant Museum

Among the exhibits at the museum are a Waterford Crystal houndstooth hat which commemorates the Coach's head-wear and the Daniel Moore painting used to create the 32-cent U.S. postage stamp which celebrated the life of Bryant.

Rafael Guízar y Valencia

Named Bishop of Xalapa, he was driven out of his diocese and forced to live the remainder of his life in hiding in Mexico City.

Richard Gwinnett

Their letters were subsequently published in two volumes entitled 'Pylades and Corinna; or memoirs of the lives, amours, and writings of R. G. and Mrs. E. Thomas, jun.… containing the letters and other miscellaneous pieces in prose and verse, which passed between them during a Courtship of above sixteen years … Published from their original manuscripts (by Philalethes) … To which is prefixed the life of Corinna, written by herself.'

Salem Ramaswami Mudaliar

Ramaswami halted at Edinburgh on way to Aberdeen to listen to the speech of the liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone while he regarded the speech given by John Bright at Birmingham as the best he had ever listened to in life.

Secret Honor

Secret Honor is a 1984 film written by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone (based on their play), and directed by Robert Altman and starring Philip Baker Hall as former president Richard M. Nixon, a fictional account attempting to gain insight into Nixon's personality, life, attitudes and behavior.

Sereno Edwards Dwight

His publications include Life of David Brainerd (1822); Life and Works of Jonathan Edwards (ten volumes, 1830), of whom he was a great-grandson; The Hebrew Wife (1836), an argument against marriage with a deceased wife's sister; and Select Discourses (1851); to which was prefixed a biographical sketch by his brother William Dwight (1795–1865), who was also successively a lawyer and a Congregational preacher.

Sheep on the Road

It is a life-size bronzes of six sheep and a shepherd, sculpted in 1991 by acclaimed Northern Irish sculptor, Deborah Brown.

Siegfried Lipiner

Siegfried Salomo Lipiner (24 October 1856 – 30 December 1911) was an Austrian writer and poet whose works made an impression on Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche, but who published nothing after 1880 and lived out his life as Librarian of Parliament in Vienna.

Steve Rushton

His first major boost of his career was with Disney Channel's original series The Suite Life on Deck to which he sang the opening theme, "Livin' the Suite Life" Shortly after, he released his first single "Emergency" which was included in the soundtrack for the Disney movie, Race to Witch Mountain.

The Cripple of Inishmaan

1934, the inhabitants are excited to learn of a Hollywood film crew's arrival in neighbouring Inis Mór to make a documentary about life on the islands.

The Road To Mecca

A Road to Mecca - The Journey of Muhammad Asad, 2008 documentary on the life of Muhammad Asad, made by Austrian filmmaker Georg Misch

Treatise of the Three Impostors

According to historian Silvia Berti, the book was originally published as La Vie et L'Esprit de Spinosa (The Life and Spirit of Spinoza),containing both a biography of Benedict Spinoza and the anti-religious essay, and was later republished under the title Traité sur les trois imposteurs.

Valeria Gastaldi

She started singing early in life, and later studied in Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York.

William Greaves

Since then, Greaves has produced numerous works, including From These Roots, Nationtime: Gary, Where Dreams Come True, Booker T.Washington: Life and Legacy, Frederick Douglass: An American Life, Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?, The Deep North, and Ida B. Wells: An American Odyssey, which was narrated by Nobel Prize in Literature and Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison.

Winslow Carlton

In the final decade of his life, Winslow Carlton co-founded and served as president of Selcore Labs, where a new a-cellular pertussis vaccine was developed and approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Zanobi Acciaioli

He learned Greek and Hebrew towards the latter part of his life, and was appointed in 1518 prefect of the Vatican Library.