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unusual facts about Maroon


Maroon-bellied Parakeet

Tolerates disturbance well and even lives in urban parks (e.g., Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo) and feeds in gardens.


1927–28 NHL season

The crowd became unruly at times and referee Mike Rodden took abuse for disallowed goals by Maroon players.

1980 Surinamese coup d'état

In 1986 Bouterse's soldiers killed at least 39 citizens, mostly children and women, of the Maroon village of Moiwana, as part of the Suriname Guerrilla War which was fought between the soldiers of Bouterse and the Jungle Commando led by Ronnie Brunswijk.

Anthony Maroon

In late 1989, Maroon graduated from the well-known private Sydney radio school, Max Rowley's Media Academy Max Rowley, and headed for his first on-air radio job at station 2NZ in Inverell, New South Wales.

Barton High School

The Barton High School mascot and athletic emblem is the Bear with maroon and white as the school colors.

Berets of the United States Army

In 1943 General Frederick Browning, commander of the British First Airborne Corps, granted a battalion of the US Army's 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment honorary membership in the British Parachute Regiment and authorized them to wear British-style maroon berets.

Bristol 404 and 405

A pristine maroon 405 is featured prominently, almost as a character itself, in the 2009 independent film An Education, directed by Lone Scherfig, which is a period film set in 1961 in the London suburbs.

Carlton Draught: Big Ad

Two choirs, one clad in maroon choir uniforms and the other in yellow choir uniforms, charge each other while singing new lyrics to the classic melody of "O Fortuna" from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.

Colgate Maroon-News

The Colgate Maroon-News is the student newspaper of Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.

De Wanne

The hotel solved this by running a maroon Daimler limousine to transport the guests between hotel and restaurant.

Development of Bugs Bunny

In the Touchstone Pictures and Amblin Entertainment film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the character can be seen walking through the Maroon Cartoon studio lot for a few seconds before the shot changes.

Dick Kulpa

He served in this position until 1984, when he then became County-Man, (in maroon and gold tights) after an upset election to the Winnebago County board.

Eastern Suburbs Rugby Union Football Club Inc.

Known as the Roosters or Easts, the club colours are maroon and white.

Lanús Rugby Club

Although the club is not related to Club Atlético Lanús, it adopted the characteristic maroon color that has been a mark of identity for the Southern club, although jersey's predominant color is black.

Lower Plenty Football Club

The club wore a brown and gold vertical striped guernsey and were known as the Hawks before changing to a gold and maroon guernsey and becoming the Bears due to a clash with existing Second Division Club Heidelberg West.

Marlboro Motor Raceway

"Marlboro Maroon Metallic", a color available on the 1967 and 1970 Chevrolet Corvette and one of many paint codes named for famous racing venues, was named after Marlboro Motor Raceway.

Montana Grizzlies and Lady Griz

In 1967, then football coach and athletic director Jack Swarthout, who personally preferred the maroon and silver used by the football team, sought to make the schools colors more consistent and held a vote among UM coaches.

Museum railway station

Museum's signage and cream tiling with maroon highlights are reminiscent of a typical London Underground tube station of the era, however its layout of central tracks under a grand arch are more in keeping with older stations of the Paris Metro.

Ndyuka

Ndyuka people, a Maroon ethnic group who live in the eastern part of Suriname

Norm Carr

Carr's three-game sojourn in the Maroon jumper began off the bench in 1980, but didn't play as he wasn't called upon by coach John McDonald.

Pinch Me

It was released in August 2000 as the first single from their 2000 album, Maroon, which was a follow-up to their hit album, Stunt.

River Swilly

A maroon-coloured cambered steel structure which measures 28 metres long and 2.2 metres wide, the new bridge proves a major impact on the safety of pedestrians, especially OAPs and school-going children.

Snowmass Peak

It is located in the Elk Mountains, within the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness of the White River National Forest.

Tapanahony River

Upstream, there are many villages inhabited by Indian Tiriyó people, while further downstream villages are inhabited by the Indian Wayana and Maroon Ndyuka people.

Texas State Bobcats football

Texas State and UT-San Antonio faced off for the first time in the football continuation of the I-35 Maroon/Orange Rivalry between the two schools in the Alamodome November 24, 2012.

White County Central High School

The White County Central High School mascot is the Bear with maroon and white serving as the school colors.

Wilmington, Kent

There are three secondary schools within the parish: Wilmington Grammar School for Boys (WGSB), whose students wear blue blazers, white shirts, grey trousers and different ties for each house within the school (these colours are red, green, white, black and purple); Wilmington Grammar School for Girls (WGSG), where the uniforms are maroon; and the mixed-sex Wilmington Academy (formerly Wilmington Hall), whose pupils wear black blazers.

Wipe Your Eyes

"Wipe Your Eyes" was written by Maroon 5's lead singer Adam Levine together with Jonathan Rotem, Ross Golan, Sanjeet Singh Kang, and Marc Moreau.


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