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3 unusual facts about Linus


Linus' Beetle Bugs

Linus' Beetle Bugs is an amusement ride themed to kids with a Peanuts theme.

The ride is varied by location and is located at three different Cedar Fair parks.

Linus's Law

In the book The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age (2001), Torvalds introduces his law in the prologue "What Makes Hackers Tick? a.k.a. Linus's Law", suggesting that every motivation that makes a man do something can be classified under "survival", "social life" or "entertainment".


A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

Two quick subsequent phone calls add Marcie and Franklin to the guest list, and since Charlie Brown cannot get a word in edgewise with Patty, he quickly finds himself in a quandary with no easy solution—at least not until Linus shows up.

A Touch of Dead

The book characters are amused by Eric's childlike hope that the Count will appear at his party, just like Linus of the Peanuts comic hopes in vain to greet the Great Pumpkin.

Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown

On the February 11, 2012 broadcast of Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown, the scene where Sally was trying to make a Valentine for Linus was interrupted with breaking news coming from ABC News stating that Whitney Houston had died.

Benjamin Wahlgren Ingrosso

He is son to Pernilla Wahlgren and Emilio Ingrosso, brother to Oliver Wahlgren Ingrosso (born 1989), Bianca Wahlgren Ingrosso (born 1994) and Theodor Wahlgren (born 2007), grandson to Christina Schollin and Hans Wahlgren and nephew to Niclas and Linus Wahlgren.

C. Dickerman Williams

He successfully argued in district court the case of Linus C. Pauling v. National Review that according to the reasoning behind the case New York Times Co. v. Sullivan that public figures were unable to sue for libel except when there was actual malice.

FON

Linus: (named for Linus Torvalds, founder of the Linux project): has a Fonera router, shares Wi-Fi and gets free roaming at others' Fon Spots.

Guido Buzzelli

He then started to collaborate with magazines and newspapers such as Linus, Alter Linus, Paese Sera, Il Messaggero, L'Espresso, L'Eternauta, Psyco, Corriere dei Ragazzi, Comic Art, Playmen, Menelik, L'Unità, and, in France, Pilote, Métal Hurlant, À Suivre, Circus, Le Monde, Fluide Glacial and others.

It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown

Linus tells Sally about Albert Schweitzer and how he disliked Christmas presents because he "hated to write thank-you notes."

It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown

The other times are,"A Boy Named Charlie Brown", "It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown," the "Baseball" segment of the "Snoopy's Cat Fight" episode of The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show (where Charlie Brown is too sick to play and Linus fills in), and the "baseball" segment in the "You Can't Win, Charlie Brown" episode of Charlie Brown and Snoopy (with Rerun on their team, but they had to forfeit the game because Rerun had gambled that his team would win).

Kaboodle

"Secretly, Kitten Kaboodle wished she were a dog. She was aware of the natural superiority of a dog, and it bothered her." Linus to Snoopy: "I think your anti-cat stories show too much prejudice.... I think you're going to make a lot of enemies.... Not everybody hates cats, you know!"

Keith Usherwood Ingold

He was awarded the 1968 Petroleum Chemistry Award, the 1988 Linus Pauling Award and has been awarded both the Davy Medal and Royal Medal of the Royal Society, the latter for "elucidating the mechanism of reactions involving free radicals".

Kenny Blank

In 1991 he starred as Linus Bragg in the movie "Carolina Skeletons" (or "The End of Silence"), featuring an African-American boy who was wrongfully executed at the age of 14, a story based on the true events around George Stinney Jr..

Kevin Danczak

Before Size 14's lineup was fully formed Kevin Danczak was Size 14's singers Linus Of Hollywoods roomrate so joined the band after Size 14 after Linus of Hollywood and bassist Robt Ptak needed further members to complete the lineup.

Kim Cesarion

In 2011, Cesarion got a record deal with Aristotracks after meeting Arnthor Birgisson and Linus Andreen.

Linus Cheung

After his graduation from the Department of Economics and Political Science in the University of Hong Kong in 1971, Linus joined Cathay Pacific Hong Kong and worked for it for 23 years.

Linus Parker

C. B. Galloway, Linus Parker: His Life and writings (Nashville, 1886)

Linus the Lionhearted

In addition to Leonard, Carl Reiner voiced several characters, most notably Linus' friend Billy Bird; Ruth Buzzi voiced an old woman who'd befriended Lovable Truly, as well as Sugar Bear's sometime nemesis, Granny Goodwitch; and veteran Bob McFadden voiced So Hi, Rory and Lovable Truly.

Linus Yale, Jr.

Linus Yale’s family are of Welsh descent, and his ancestors were of the same family as Elihu Yale, the benefactor to and namesake of the well known Yale University.

Lost: Via Domus

The actors for Ben Linus (Michael Emerson), Sun (Yunjin Kim), Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick), Claire (Emilie de Ravin), Tom (M. C. Gainey) and Mikhail Bakunin (Andrew Divoff) all provided voice work for the game, while the rest of the major characters are provided by stand-ins.

Pope Linus

The Liberian Catalogue and the Liber Pontificalis date Linus's episcopate to 56–67, during the reign of Nero, but Jerome dates it to 67–78, and Eusebius puts the end of his episcopate at the second year of the reign of Titus (80).

Among those considered by the Catholic Church to have held the position of pope, only Clement, Linus and Peter are specifically mentioned in the New Testament.

Quattro compilations

Linus Spacehead: Linus, an alien from the planet Linoleum, has crash landed on Earth and needs to gather up all of his scattered radio parts in order to radio home for help.

Radio DeeJay

Early personalities on this radio station include: Claudio Cecchetto, Gerry Scotti, Gerard Ottoboni, Joe D. (DJ Jaydee), Molella, Fargetta, Lorenzo Cherubini a.k.a. (Jovanotti), Roberto Ferrari, Linus, Albertino, Marco Biondi, Amadeus and Rosario Fiorello.

Sergio Toppi

Toppi's works appeared on a host of titles in Italy and abroad: an incomplete list could include Linus, Corto Maltese, Sgt. Kirk and Il Giornalino in Italy.

The Ungodly Farce

The real jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker and his fictional follower Linus form one of the innumerable subplots of the novel.


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