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unusual facts about Majestic


Brown powder

Some Royal Navy ships like the Royal Sovereign-class battleships were commissioned with the already obsolete SBC-based guns, but the subsequent Majestic and Canopus-class battleships were the first to adopt Cordite Mk I.


Angikuni Lake

Such is the story as it appears in Frank Edwards's 1959 book Stranger than Science; other versions appear in Whitley Strieber's science fiction novel Majestic (fiction) and Dean Koontz's horror novel "Phantoms".

Anton Heiller

A few years before the first of them, he had released an astonishing set of recordings for Vanguard of many of Bach's larger organ works on a majestic Marcussen instrument in Sweden.

Armenian Dances

# Alagyaz (mm. 186–223), a folk song named for a mountain in Armenia, is a broad and majestic song; it serves as a contrast to the fast, upbeat songs that come both before and after.

Ashtavakra

The fourteenth and last track of the 2009 album Brahmavidya: Transcendental I by the Singaporean Death Metal band Rudra is named Majestic Ashtavakra after Ashtavakra.

BL 12 inch naval gun Mk VIII

During World War I guns removed from the obsolete Majestic class were mounted in Lord Clive-class monitors for shore bombardment.

Brian Holguin

Mr Majestic with co-writer Joe Casey and artist Ed McGuiness (Trade paperback collects Mr Majestic Vol 1. Nos 1-6)

Buckley's Serenaders

They do the most preposterous things, in the way of Violin Solos, Deeply Sentimental Songs, and Lucrezia Borgia music, sung by a majestic female in black velvet and jewels with a blackened face! All that part of it, is intolerably bad.

Christian Älvestam

The Project Hate MCMXCIX - Clean vocals on the tracks “You Come to Me Through Hell” and “The Locust Principles” from The Lustrate Process and "Summoning Majestic War" from Bleeding The New Apocalypse (Cum Victriciis In Manibus Armis).

Dalhart Windberg

Much of his art reflects his travels around Texas, Louisiana, the Rocky Mountains, many National Parks such as Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons,and Glacier National Park as well as the majestic Monument Valley.

Dukagjin highlands

Visiting Theth in the early 20th century, the traveller Edith Durham said:I think no place where human beings live has given me such an impression of majestic isolation from all the world.

El Derbi madrileño

The Santiago Bernabéu, Real Madrid's stadium, is majestic, alongside banks and businesses on the classy and aristocratic Paseo de la Castellana street, while the Vicente Calderón can be found beside a brewery along the Manzanares river.

Fanzz

Fanzz has vendor relationships with companies like Reebok, Nike, Adidas, Spalding, Majestic, New Era, Top of the World, Zephyr, and over 60 others, selling licensed team and player gear from teams in the NBA, NFL, MLB, NCAA, and NHL sports leagues.

Fluid coupling

Daimler used these throughout their range of luxury cars, until switching to automatic gearboxes with the 1958 Majestic.

Great

Greatness, being superior, majestic, transcendent, or divine

Hebbagodi

The majestic Hogenakkal Falls, often known as Niagara Falls of India, is just 100 km from Hebbagodi and a major holiday spot for people living here.

Huaman

Huaman means a "divine bird", referring to the majestic Andean Condor; in the popular belief it was the representation of peace and war (Ying Yang).

If I Should Fall from Grace with God

Also prominent were the ballads "Thousands Are Sailing", "The Broad Majestic Shannon", and the Christmas hit, "Fairytale of New York", a duet with Kirsty MacColl.

Iguanita Wildlife Refuge

Nevertheless the controversy and fight of these associations trying to maintain nature intact, beautiful, perfect and majestic, because the ICT, MINAE, and municipalities that are parts of the government are giving concessions, parts of the beach and the refuge, causing the loss of the natural beauty this beach.

Jalapahar

Jalapahar gives a breath-taking view of Darjeeling town nestling under the majestic peak of Kanchenjanga.

Juan de Ávalos

Author of Los amantes de Teruel (The Lovers of Teruel) in Teruel, Monumento a Luis Carrero Blanco (Monument to Luis Carrero Blanco) in Santoña, Cantabria, his most important works are those of the Valle de los Caídos ("The Valley of the Fallen"), a majestic monument in Madrid where Francisco Franco's body lies.

Karl Kerschl

Karl Kerschl is a Canadian comic book artist, best known for his work on DC Comics books, including Adventures of Superman, Majestic, All-Flash and Teen Titans: Year One.

Kerschl has worked on various series for DC Comics, including Adventures of Superman, Majestic, All-Flash #1 and Teen Titans: Year One.

Kasperi Heikkinen

As a touring musician, Kasperi Heikkinen has played on part of the German Power Metal band Gamma Ray's Majestic tour in 2006 following an injury to Henjo Richter.

Kids of the Majestic

Kids of the Majestic is a documentary by filmmaker Dylan Verrechia and Dr. Suhas Radhakrishna that follows a group of such orphans: Rafik, a smiling young drug addict; Mental Manja, nicknamed "mental" because he didn't speak until he was 10; Arun-Badur, the artist and the writer; Baba, who at 8 has travelled throughout India alone; and Joti, mother-to-be at 16, who was abused at 9.

It was directed by Dylan Verrechia, and co-produced by Suhas Radhakrishna that follows a group of orphans in the Majestic railway station of Bangalore.

Lala, Lanao del Norte

It is located about 14 kilometers from the municipality of Tubod, the seat of the Provincial Government and 67.5 kilometers southwest of Iligan City, the industrial city of the south and the city of majestic waterfalls.

Lance Robertson

During this time, he met Scott Schultz of the Orange County indie pop band Majestic, and they eventually played a couple of shows together.

Maraguda

circuit area having excellent religious institutions, magnificent residential apartments, massive fortification and efflorescent palace complex, as the majestic imperial metropolis with acropolis and seat of cultural culmination of Kosal kingdom.

Mass of Paul VI

In his 1962 apostolic constitution Veterum sapientia on the teaching of Latin, Pope John XXIII spoke of that language as the one the Church uses: "...the Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular."

MC Ceja

Ceja also appeared in various artist compilations such as Majestic, La Mision 1 – 3, DJ Frank: Time to Kill with the song "No Has Oido", Da Cream, Warriors 2, Wise Da' Gansta, Dream Team, and The Sopranos.

Mister Majestic

Volume 3: Final Cut (with Neil Googe, Diego Olmos, Kevin West and others, collects Majestic #13-17 and Wildstorm Winter Special, Wildstorm, January 2007)

During the Wildstorm Rising event, Majestic met Union and after fighting each other, they worked together along with all the other Wildstorm heroes in a fight against the Daemonites over a space ship.

Peril at End House

Transposed from Devon to Cornwall, the Majestic Hotel of the book is based on the Imperial Hotel in Torquay.

Pozzuoli

The Macellum includes three majestic columns in cipolin marble, which show erosion from marine Lithophaga molluscs when, at an earlier time, the ground level was much lower due to Bradyseism, and sea-water could flow in.

Puckane

The songwriter Shane MacGowan spent much of his childhood in the neighbouring townland of Carney and has immortalised a number of local places in his songs such as "The Broad Majestic Shannon".

Robert Swain Gifford

He, along with Victorian contemporaries from the White Mountain and Hudson River Schools, helped immortalize the majestic cliffs of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy.

San Cristóbal Volcano

Located near to the northwest corner of the country, it forms a majestic backdrop to the city of Chichigalpa, Chinandega.

Sinugra

Some of the old buildings, temples, Chabutro have been since re-constructed but the majestic houses with fine workmanship have been lost.

Stella LeSaint

Due to illness, she left the stage, eventually joining the Majestic Company where she played with Mabel Trunnelle and Herbert Prior for several months.

The Family from One End Street

Jo Ruggles Jr., a Mickey Mouse fan, spends his fourpence allowance at the local Majestic Theater to see cartoons.

The Someloves

Although The Someloves only released one album and remain virtually unknown on an international level Both Mather and Mariani did remain active in the Australian rock scene, Mather going on to The Orange Humble Band, and Mariani to DM3 and the instrumental group the Majestic Kelp, also recording a solo album in 2004.

Two Romanian Folk Dances

The remainder of the piece is a mishmash of cheerful motifs showing Balinese influence, sudden contrasts which range from amusing to disconcerting, and majestic passages in double octaves.

United States v. Ross

It attempts to preclude arguments that certain types of containers are more or less "worthy" of privacy protection than others, poetically stating that "... the most frail cottage in the kingdom is absolutely entitled to the same guarantees of privacy as the most majestic mansion" (derived from an earlier Supreme Court quote which was in turn attributed to William Pitt).


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