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9 unusual facts about Mad


1878 Flood in Miskolc

On August 30, 1878 large storms coming from the Transdanubian region arrived in Northern Hungary – first in Eger, next in Óhuta, Diósgyőr and Miskolc, and then in Tállya, Golop and Mád.

A Mad World, My Masters

The title later became the basis for the title of Stanley Kramer's 1963 film, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World".

Behemoth, the Sea Monster

Except for short bits in the climax of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, this film marked the last time that Willis O'Brien designs and animation would be seen by the public.

Mad, Bad and Dangerous

Bandleader Gregg Fulkerson decided to compile an album of most of this material and release it officially.

Mad, Mad World Tour

The Mad, Mad World Tour was a concert tour by American singer Meat Loaf that started on June 22, 2012 in Austin, Texas and concluded on October 19, 2012 in Uncasville, Connecticut.

Mark Strand Theatre

The Warner was the primary New York home of Cinerama films during the remaining years of the 1950s and in 1963 installed an even larger screen to present such 70mm films as It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

Plaster City, California

In the 1963 film, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Ethel Merman's character is heard talking on a phone to her son, saying that she was "in some place called Plaster City."

Rembercourt

Rembercourt-sur-Mad, a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department of Lorraine, France

Seattle Cinerama

The movie house soon became specialized in showing such spectaculars as The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.


Abdi Sheik Abdi

:A book about Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, the Dervish leader who spearheaded the Somali resistance to British colonial interests in the early twentieth century; known by his followers as the Sayyid ("Master") and in the colonial literature as the "Mad Mullah".

Aleksey Galkin

The interview of Galkin was conducted by journalist Robert Young Pelton, under guidance of Abu Movsaev, who wrote about it in his book Three Worlds Gone Mad.

Bird Studios

Music Videos: Iron Maiden "Wildest Dreams", "Different World", Robert Post 'Got None', Pet Shop Boys 'Liberation', 'Yesterday, When I was mad', 'Single Bi-lingual', A-Ha 'Analogue', Soundgarden 'Black Hole Sun', Mike Oldfield 'Let there be light', Meat Loaf "I'd Lie for You (and That's the Truth)".

Castle to Castle

Kerouac was at dinner with Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows at their apartment when he described Céline's work as "a portrait of existence as rotten and mad" (p. 301).

David J. Skal

Skal's other major publications include V Is for Vampire: The A to Z Guide to Everything Undead (1996), Screams of Reason: Mad Science and Modern Culture (1998), Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween (2002), and Claude Rains: An Actor's Voice (2008).

David Perper

Perper then joined a brief (1984–85) reunion of The Youngbloods, and is known to have played as a substitute drummer for The Rhythm Rockers (Robert Valdez, guitar; Gil Roman, bass and lead vocals) circa 1990, for one gig at the now defunct Pat O'Shea's Mad Hatter on Geary Boulevard in San Francisco.

Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack – Series 6

For the series opener, "The Impossible Astronaut" / "Day of the Moon", Gold wrote variations of the Eleventh Doctor’s themes, "I Am The Doctor" and "The Mad Man With A Box".

Eddie Dickens

The son of Laudanum and Florinda Dickens (referred to as Mr and Mrs Dickens throughout), Eddie is usually a victim of circumstances in a Victorian world populated by absurd relatives, including Mad Uncle Jack, Even Madder Aunt Maud and her stuffed stoat named Malcolm (or according to Mad Uncle Jack, Sally).

Elected

Coincidently, Tobias was also mad at Arjen because he had Bruce Dickinson (Tobias' favorite singer) performing on his Ayreon album Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator and the media's constant queries about his thoughts on Ayreon after the creation of his Avantasia project.

Eve Langley

Suzanne Falkiner, writing about women writing about the wilderness, suggests that "Those rare women who have deliberately gone into the landscape alone, and not trailing in the tracks of a protective husband - from Daisy Bates in the 1880s to Eve Langley in the 1930s and Robyn Davidson in the 1970s - have often had to combat being considered eccentric, or even mad".

Fighting Mad

Fighting Mad is a 1976 film directed by Jonathan Demme, about an Arkansas farmer played by Peter Fonda who uses Guerrilla tactics against corrupt land developers evicting him and his neighbors in order to stripmine their land.

George Woodbridge

Later Mad editor John Ficarra noted, "He had a tremendous eye for detail that showed up in his drawings. We especially played to his history knowledge. When we gave him a piece on World War I, he would draw the exact gun and belt buckle they were using then."

Graham Bond

Richie Unterberger, Unknown Legends of Rock 'n' Roll: Psychedelic Unknowns, Mad Geniuses, Punk Pioneers, Lo-fi Mavericks and More.

Horror Hospital

Balch asked Michael Gough to base his performance on Bela Lugosi, screening him a 16mm print of The Devil Bat, in which Lugosi plays a mad, perfume manufacturer.

Hugh Keays-Byrne

In 1974, he acted in the TV show Essington, which was followed by big screen roles in films such as Stone (1974), Mad Dog Morgan (1976) and The Trespassers (1976).

HumorFeed

The awards panel for the first two years included a range of noted humorists and journalists including Andrew Marlatt of SatireWire, John Markoff of the New York Times, Robert Zelnick of Boston University, Eric Weiner of National Public Radio, and Madeleine Begun Kane of "Mad Kane's Humor & Satire".

Ilsa, the Wicked Warden

Ilsa, the Wicked Warden (also known as Greta, the Mad Butcher, Ilsa: Absolute Power, and Wanda, the Wicked Warden) is a 1977 sexploitation film directed by Jesús Franco and starring Dyanne Thorne.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World (富貴逼人) is a 1987 Hong Kong film, directed by Clifton Ko.

Jean Loring

After the Spectre kills Nabu, the last and most powerful of the Lords of Order, the Presence's attention is finally drawn to him, and the Spectre is forced into a human host, finally stopping his mad rampage.

John Baker Saunders

In 2002, Mad Season vocalist Layne Staley would also die from an overdose of heroin, leaving Barrett Martin and Mike McCready as the only members of Mad Season still alive.

John Hanbury-Williams

In 1934 he appeared as a witness in Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia’s famous and successful libel suit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Limited following the release in England of the film Rasputin, the Mad Monk (USA title: Rasputin and the Empress).

Jordan Prentice

Prentice appeared on British TV in a series of nine commercials for British radio station Absolute Radio, with DJ Christian O'Connell, as Doug, the station's new music-mad security guard with attitude.

Kinya Kotani

The production unit Mad Soldiers, consisting of Daisuke Asakura and Kenichi Ito, worked with Kotani early on and amplified the beginnings of his career significantly.

Los Luchadores

The series was about a group of lucha libre wrestlers led by Lobo Fuerte (Maximo Morrone) who, along with Turbine (Levi James) and Maria Valentine (Sarah Carter), fought villains such as the Whelp (voiced by Gary Lam), the pet Chihuahua of a mad scientist who eventually becomes an evil genius through a freak accident.

Mad Bomber Society

Mad Bomber Society has played at major music events across Canada including the 2003 Stage 13 in Camrose, North County Fair in Alberta, and Folk on the Rocks Festival in Yellowknife, which was broadcast by CBC Radio North; the 2002 Salmon Arm Roots'n'Blues Fest; and the 2001 Victoria Ska Fest and North County Fair.

Mad Ice

Ahmed Mohamed Kakoyi (born in Masaka, Uganda on 8 October 1980) better known by his stage name Mad Ice is a Ugandan singer and songwriter of Raggamuffin and at a later stage with Afro-pop and Afro-soul music.

Mad River

Erythropotamos, a river in Bulgaria and Greece known in Bulgarian as Luda reka ("Mad River")

Menahga, Minnesota

The writer-illustrator Wallace Wood, best known as one of the original five Mad cartoonists, was born in Menahga on June 17, 1927.

Michael Utley

Utley has title credit on several albums, the first being an instrumental record with fellow Coral Reefer Band member Robert Greenidge titled Mad Music.

Mike Dash

Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny.

Monte Wolverton

Monte Wolverton is an American editorial cartoonist who is best known for his satiric pages in Mad, his Weekly Wolvertoon website and his contributions as the managing editor of The Plain Truth.

Noble Sissle

His rendition of the song "Viper Mad" was included in the Woody Allen film Sweet and Lowdown.

Olidammara

(The Laughing Rogue was once transformed into the shape of a small carapaced animal and imprisoned by the mad archmage, Zagyg, but managed to escape.)

Stephan Fox

Stephan is also involved in many charity projects, especially in youth development through the Muaythai Against Drugs (MAD) program established by Privy Councillor to HM the King of Thailand, General Pichitr Kullavanijaya.

Taq-e Bostan

Dr. Ali Akbar Sarfaraz, Dr. Bahman Firuzmandi "Mad, Hakhamanishi, Ashkani, Sasani" Marlik, 1996.

Tarzan Tyler

Tarzan Tyler died, along with fellow wrestler Pierre 'Mad Dog' Lefebvre and referee Adrien Desbois, in Laurentides Wildlife Reserve upon returning from a wrestling event in Chicoutimi, Quebec on December 24, 1985, in a car crash.

Tea party

In the chapter "A Mad Tea-Party" in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice becomes a guest at a tea party along with the March Hare, the Hatter, and a sleeping Dormouse who remains asleep for most of the chapter.

The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary

Westoll explains that most were separated from their mothers at birth, injected with diseases and deadly viruses, repeatedly operated on, and frequently driven mad through isolation and social deprivation.

The Day I Went Mad

The Day I Went Mad is the sixth solo album by English rock singer Graham Bonnet, originally released in 1999.

The Dummy

The Great Gabbo (1929) feature film about a mad ventriloquist, starring Erich von Stroheim

The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame

Mad Scientist Hall of Fame: Muwahahahaha! is a semi-satirical non-fiction book by Daniel Wilson and Anna C. Long published in August 2008.

The Mad Stuntman

Mark Quashie (born 24 January 1967, Trinidad and Tobago), better known by his stage name The Mad Stuntman, is a singer, best known for providing the vocals on "I Like to Move It" by Reel 2 Real.

Thiells, New York

During the American Revolution, Thiells was known as Haverstraw Forge, where General "Mad" Anthony Wayne, leading 1,350 Continental Army troops, was able to watch the area of Stony Point.

Tim Carvell

Tim Carvell is an American writer known for this work for the TV comedy series The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and for his print work in publications such as Mad and The New York Times.

Trongsa Province

Traditionally, Bhutan comprised nine provinces: Trongsa, Paro, Punakha, Wangdue Phodrang, Daga (also Taka, Tarka, or Taga), Bumthang, Thimphu, Kurtoed (also Kurtoi, Kuru-tod), and Kurmaed (or Kurme, Kuru-mad).

Vivacom

In addition to the three main stations, the Bulgarian National TV (BNT), bTV and Nova Televizia, the package includes bTV Cinema, bTV Action, bTV Comedy, Fox Life, Diema, CNN, Euronews, DW; the sports channels Eurosport and RING.bg; Fiesta TV, Animal Planet; the musical channels MAD, City TV, T rock, Planeta Folk, Fen TV, Balkanika; and the children's channels Е-KIDS and Super 7, among others.

Wisdom in Chains

DVD contains live material (14 songs) recorded at show from May 2006 at Backstage Enterprises in Kingston, Pennsylvania, interview with Mad Joe Black and a three song recording from live performance at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia.

Ya-ha Hadjo

Ya-ha Hadjo (Mad Wolf Georgia ? - March 29, 1836 Florida) was a member of the Creek Nation who avoided forced relocation to Indian Territory with his band by moving south to the Florida Territory where he joined with the Seminole and retained his position as chief.


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