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unusual facts about Lightning



2001 Gator Bowl

Georgia Tech was picked as the opponent, but on the day of the game, severe lightning storms hit the Blacksburg, Virginia area.

2006–07 Eastern Victoria Great Divide bushfires

The Eastern Victoria Great Divide bushfires, also known as the Great Divide Complex, were a series of bushfires that commenced in the Victorian Alps in Australia on 1 December 2006 due to lightning strikes and continued for 69 days.

Anatoli Semenov

However, he appeared in only 13 games for the Lightning before being dealt to the Vancouver Canucks, who were looking for a Russian center to play with young superstar winger Pavel Bure following the departure of Igor Larionov.

Bubblicious

However, in 2005 the flavor was re-introduced as LeBron's Lightning Lemonade, based on a partnership between Bubblicious and basketball player LeBron James.

Ceiri Torjussen

His music was described by the Los Angeles Times as a “sudden bolt of creative lightning”, and he was hailed in a UK newspaper as one of the brightest British musical talents in recent history.

Centre Wellington, Ontario

The Elora arena plays host to the Elora Rocks Sr.A hockey team, the Elora Mohawks Jr.B lacrosse team, the Elora Lightning minor hockey association and the Elora Mohawks minor lacrosse association.

Clouds Taste Metallic

"Lightning Strikes the Postman" was covered by Scottish rock band Aereogramme on their album Seclusion.

Cory Edwards

As they continued, they made films in several different genres, including a superhero film called Captain Lightning that was directed by Cory, a Laurel and Hardy type comedy called Crime Doesn't Pay that was directed by Todd, and an action-adventure film that centered on a character named Jack Francisco.

Cruwys Morchard

This, however, was struck by lightning in 1689, and the consequent major fire, which melted the bells, necessitated the rebuilding of the top stage of the tower in brick.

Di indigetes

Evidence pertaining to di indigites is rarely found outside Rome and Lavinium, but a fragmentary inscription from Aletrium (modern Alatri, north of Frosinone) records offerings to di Indicites including Fucinus, a local lake-god; Summanus, a god of nocturnal lightning; Fiscellus, otherwise unknown, but perhaps a local mountain god; and the Tempestates, weather deities.

Eat Lightning, Shit Thunder

Eat Lightning, Shit Thunder is the debut album by post-hardcore band An Albatross.

Fulton Opera House

The Fulton Opera House is home to its own actor's company, which stages seven theatrical productions per year including plays (Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, 2007) and musicals (Oliver!, 2006), some of which are world premier originals (critically acclaimed Lightning Rod, 2005).

Garth Ranzz

Lightning Lad, along with Cosmic Boy and Saturn Girl, appeared in live-action for the first time in the eleventh episode of season 8 of the CW series Smallville, entitled Legion airing January 15, 2009 portrayed by actor Calum Worthy.

Great Lakes Steelpan Festival

Some of the guest artist for 2013 include Ellie Mannette, Gary Gibson, Clyde "Lightning" George and Potts & Pans Steelband.

Haietlik

A mythical water serpent of the Nootka, the name Haietlik means Lightning Snake.

Hide Your Heart

This song was later covered four times in 1989 on Kiss' Hot in the Shade, Ace Frehley's Trouble Walkin', Robin Beck's Trouble Or Nothin', and Molly Hatchet's Lightning Strikes Twice.

High voltage

High-voltage lightning discharges in the atmosphere of Jupiter are thought to be the source of the planet's powerful radio frequency emissions.

Ian Broudie

After The Lightning Seeds dissolved in 2000, Broudie produced albums by artists such as The Coral and The Zutons before releasing his own solo album Tales Told in 2004.

Ingram Industries

In May 2009 Daniels left the company and the division was broken up and merged into the new Ingram Content Group (which had previously been the Ingram Lightning Group, itself a June 2008 merger of Ingram Book Group and Ingram's Lightning Source print-on-demand business).

Jack Hoxie

In 1919, after appearing in approximately 35 films, he was cast in the starring role in the Paul Hurst-directed Lightning Bryce serials as main character Sky Bryce.

John Coletti

He was responsible, as manager of that company's Special Vehicle Team (SVT) group, for a number of special performance cars in the 1990s and 2000s, including the Ford Focus SVT, SVT Contour, Ford F-150 Lightning, and the Ford Mustang Cobra.

Jorge Otero Barreto

He served in the 101st Airborne Division and the 25th Infantry Division "Tropic Lightning".

Kettle Valley Railway

From August to September 2003, lightning sparked the 2003 Okanagan Mountain Park Fire in Okanagan Mountain Provincial Park.

Kurt Dahlke

On stage Dahlke operates his computer/synthesizer hardware by the movement or the pressure of the hands, with Thunder and Lightning II" two controllers built by Don Buchla.

Lightning in religion

The Baganda specifically attribute the lightning phenomenon to the god Kiwanuka, one of the main trio in the Lubaale gods of the sea or lake.

Lightning Jack

Paul Hogan plays Lightning Jack Kane, a long-sighted Australian outlaw in the American outback, with his horse, Mate.

Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show

Herbie, the Volkswagen from The Love Bug, previously made an appearance in an intermission in the middle of the show, but was later replaced by Lightning McQueen from Cars.

Louisville Lightning

Louisville was awarded the team in August with the ownership group of Wayne Estopinal and Ted Nichols and the new team was aptly named the Lightning as well.

In January 2010, the Lightning signed Louisville native John Michael Hayden, formerly of the MLS Houston Dynamo.

M. G. Kelly

He also provided the voice of the archvillian The Lightning Bug in the 1979 serial spoof J-Men Forever.

Marcellus L. Joslyn

In the early 1950s, Joslyn worked with several airframe manufacturers and the Lightning and Transient Research Institute of Minneapolis to address post World War II concerns of lightning and electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) impacts on aircraft HF radios.

Maschalismos

The Omaha, a tribe of American Indians, slit the soles of the feet of those killed by lightning; the Basuto and Bechuana slit the sinews and spinal cord of their dead; the Herbert River aborigines of Australia beat the body enough to break its bones and fill incisions made in the body with stones.

Mater and the Ghostlight

This sequence culminates with Mater teasing Lightning as if he had seen "the Ghostlight," a Route 66 legend recounted to Pixar by Dean Walker of the Kansas Historic Route 66 Association.

My postillion has been struck by lightning

In 1977 actor Dirk Bogarde made use of the phrase when he titled the first volume of his autobiography A Postillion Struck By Lightning.

Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren't so Frightening

The second game of the Pajama Sam franchise, it features the titular character entering the World Wide Weather through his attic to stop the scary thunder and lightning.

Radio Day

In 1895, Popov gave the first public demonstration of radio as a tool before the Russian Physical and Chemical Society in St. Petersburg, using Sir Oliver Lodge's coherer as a lightning detector.

RAF Steeple Morden

During the stay of the 3d PRG, Lieutenant-Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, son of Franklin D. Roosevelt served as commander and also flew an F-4 "Lightning".

Ride the Lightning Tour

Ride the Lightning was the second concert tour by the American thrash metal band Metallica.

Ron Grahame

Ron and his wife Charlotte have two sons, John, an NHL goaltender who won the 2004 Stanley Cup with the Tampa Bay Lightning, and Jason, who graduated from the University of Denver in 2003 and now lives in Vancouver.

Tesla - Lightning in His Hand

Tesla - Lightning in His Hand is a large-scale opera about Serbian American scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla (1856 - 1943), composed by Tasmanian (Australian) composer Constantine Koukias (1965-), with libretto by Marianne Fisher.

Texas Lightning

Through a nomination by Steve Sivek of Baytown, Texas and the submittal by Texas State Senator Tommy Williams, the members of Texas Lightning were, by Proclamation 603 before the Texas Senate, declared to be Honorary Texans.

The Lightning Field

The Lightning Field featured prominently in the novel Blinded by the Light by Morgan Hunt.

The Seers

The group gained notoriety with their debut single, Lightning Strikes, which was about the Hungerford massacre.

The Shock of the Lightning

"The Shock of the Lightning" is used in its entirety to play out the closing credits of the 2008 Japanese Spiderman/Zorro style movie K-20: Legend of the Mask (K-20 怪人二十面相・伝).

Thunder and Lightnings

Set in Norfolk, it features a developing friendship between two boys who share an interest in aeroplanes, living near RAF Coltishall during the months in 1974 when the Royal Air Force is phasing out its Lightning fighters and introducing the Jaguar.

Urraca

Urraca Mesa, a mesa in northern New Mexico on the property of Philmont Scout Ranch, which is the most lightning-struck place in the state and has religious significance to a number of local indigenous tribes

Vincent Lecavalier

Lecavalier was drafted first overall by Tampa Bay in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft, during which new Lightning owner Art Williams proclaimed that Lecavalier would be "the Michael Jordan of hockey".

Waukegan Lightning

The Waukegan Lightning are a professional indoor soccer team from Waukegan, Illinois formally known as the Northern Illinois Rebels of the Chicago Latin American Soccer Association and more recently the American Indoor Soccer League.

Ziziphus mucronata

Some Bantu tribes believe that it is safe to shelter under a buffalo thorn during a thunderstorm, as protection from lightning.


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