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2 unusual facts about Metropolis


Howie Crittenden

He was head basketball coach at Metropolis High School in Metropolis, Illinois and Calloway County High School in Murray, Kentucky.

Illinois campaign

That evening, Clark and his troops landed their vessels on the north side of the Ohio River, near the ruins of Fort Massac, a French fort abandoned after the French and Indian War (near present Metropolis, Illinois).


1786 in Great Britain

August - British Cabinet approves the establishment of a penal colony at Botany Bay to serve as "a remedy for the evils likely to result from the late alarming and numerous increase of felons in this country and more particularly in the metropolis" (London).

Acrata

She uses her powers to act as the Angel of Vengeance and defend Metropolis and Suicide Slum.

Adelaide Film Festival

2005 saw over 250 screenings, including the world premiere of six AFFIF funded titles, including Look Both Ways a feature film directed by Sarah Watt, the interactive web series UsMob.com.au filmed in the Hidden Valley town camp outside Alice Springs in Arrernte country and the new rescore to Fritz Lang's Metropolis by The New Pollutants (Benjamin Speed and Tyson Hopprich)

Air Pollution Control Act

California was the first state to act against air pollution when the metropolis of Los Angeles began to notice deteriorating air quality.

Albert Krantz

The principal of these are Chronica regnorum aquilonarium Daniae, Sneciae, et Noruagiae (Strassburg, 1546); Vandalia, sive Historia de Vandalorum jerq origine, etc. (Cologne, 1518); Saxonia (1520); and Metropolis, sive Historia de ecclesiis sub Carolo Magno in Saxonia (Basel, 1548).

Annie Malone

Orphaned at a young age, Annie attended a public school in Metropolis before moving to Peoria to live with an older sister.

Arthur Fauset

Elsie Clews Parsons supported him throughout his career in anthropology and with her support Fauset published his Ph. D. on Negro cults of Philadelphia, New York and Chicago, Black Gods of the Metropolis in 1944.

Assemblage 23

After falling out with Gashed Records following Failure, Shear signed with US label Metropolis Records (US) later in 2001; Metropolis re-released Contempt and Failure in November.

By this point, Assemblage 23 had become fairly popular within the EBM genre; the third album, Defiance, was released in October 2002 on Metropolis and Accession, preceded by the single "Document", in September of that year.

Bell Gothic

The typeface was used as a display and caption face by Metropolis magazine, by Canadian graphic designer Bruce Mau in designing the initial ZONE book series, Dutch graphic designer Irma Boom, and has been widely used by Semiotext(e) Books, the MIT Press, and Dia Art Foundation.

Black Diamond Express

As such, the train serves as a link between towns such as Bandel, Seoraphuli, which are located on the main line with industrial centers Durgapur, Asansol, Dhanbad and Bokaro (via-Dhanbad) and the metropolis of Kolkata.

Boy Commandos

In addition to the aligning of Metropolis Special Crimes Unit's Detective Dan Turpin with "Brooklyn", the team have seen print in a couple of titles since the late 1940s.

Brian R. James

Most recently he led the design of Menzoberranzan: City of Intrigue (2012), covering the sinister underdark metropolis famous for birthing the drow Drizzt Do'Urden.

Château de Vincennes

The Château de Vincennes is a massive 14th and 17th century French royal castle in the town of Vincennes, to the east of Paris, now a suburb of the metropolis.

Clawster

Post-Superman's death, Supergirl and Dan Turpin investigate under Metropolis and end up battling Clawster and his men.

Club Athletico Paulistano

Club Athletico Paulistano – generally known as just Paulistano – is a sports and social club from the Brazilian metropolis São Paulo located in the quarter of Jardim América, close to the city.

Elreta Melton Alexander-Ralston

After spending about twelve years in Danville, Virginia, where Alexander spent much of her young life, the family returned to North Carolina, this time the bustling metropolis of Greensboro.

Flag of the Department of Santander

The Argent Stars represent the eight Provincial Nuclei that form part of the Department: Soto Norte, Vélez, García Rovira, Guanentá, Comuneros, Mares, Metropolis and Carare Opon.

Gottfried Huppertz

Gottfried Huppertz (11 March 1887 - 7 February 1937) was a German composer who is perhaps most known for his scores to German expressionist silent films such as the science fiction epic Metropolis (1927).

Gyan Prakash

In 2014, a movie called Bombay Velvet will be released which is based on his Mumbai Fables, which is the story of how the city became a metropolis against the backdrop of love, greed, violence and jazz music.

Juan Pablo Duarte

American patriots in arms, like Simón Bolivar in South America, immediately reaped the fruits of the metropolis' destabilization, and began pushing back colonial troops, like what happened in the Battle of Carabobo, and then in the consequential Battle of Ayacucho.

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.

Matija Ban

He first lived and worked on the island of Halki (Heybeliada), near Istanbul (Constantinople); Bursa; and the metropolis of Constantinople.

Maurício Waldman

His thesis, Água e Metrópole: Limites e Expectativas do Tempo (Water and Metropolis, Limits and Expectations of the Time), is today the more complex and bigger academical work (5 v.) about Brazilian water resources and Water management in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo (see External Links).

Megacorporation

Such organizations are a staple of science fiction long predating cyberpunk, appearing in the works of writers such as Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Thea von Harbou (Metropolis), Robert A. Heinlein (Citizen of the Galaxy), Robert Asprin (The Cold Cash War) and Andre Norton (the Solar Queen novels).

Mekanique

Mekanique's future world is based on Fritz Lang's silent film Metropolis, and Mekanique herself bears a strong resemblance to the Maria-robot.

Metropolis 2000: Scenes from New York

The live performance was the final concert of the Metropolis 2000 tour at the Roseland Ballroom, New York City on August 30, 2000.

Otto Hunte

Hunte's architectural designs are found in many of the most important films of the period including Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Die Nibelungen (1924), Metropolis (1927) and Der blaue Engel.

Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria

In 2002 he was transferred to the Holy Metropolis of Zimbabwe, where he established four missionary centres in Harare, a Hellenic Cultural Centre for 400 delegates, two large missionary centres in Malawi, with a hospital, technical schools and nursery schools.

Piura metropolitan area

According to Regulator Plan of transportation Routes of the city the metropolis of Piura is the conurbation of Piura, Castilla and Catacaos.

Regensburg Hauptbahnhof

Regensburg was connected to the railway network relatively late; although the first line in Bavaria opened in 1835, it took until 1859 for the Bavarian Eastern Railway (Königlich privilegirte Actiengesellschaft der bayerischen Ostbahnen) to link this east Bavarian metropolis with Nuremberg and Munich, the first line to be built going via Amberg.

River Songs

This 50 mile journey in each direction follows the Susquehanna River as it winds through rural central Pennsylvania towards the mini metropolis of the commonwealth’s capital city.

Rudolf Klein-Rogge

He is probably best known in popular culture, particularly to English-speaking audiences, for playing the archetypal mad scientist role of C.A. Rotwang in Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

Saint-Georges, Quebec

Although a relatively small city, Saint-Georges is often considered the Metropolis of Beauce Region because it's the largest city in the region.

Samuil Micu-Klein

Apparently, his goal was to make the bishopric become a metropolis, so it would no longer belong to the Archdiocese of Esztergom.

Shatoujiao Subdistrict

Shatoujiao is a bustling metropolis in comparison to Sha Tau Kok in Hong Kong (which is within the Closed Area), due to the development of special economic zone.

Sister Machine Gun

After 1997's Metropolis album, Sister Machine Gun left Wax Trax.

Skye, South Australia

Most parts of Skye have spectacular views over the Adelaide metropolis, reaching to Spencer Gulf.

Stewart Bale

There was an exhibition of Stewart Bale images on display at the National Conservation Centre in Liverpool, starting on March 21 2008, called 'Metropolis: Capturing Modern Liverpool.

Straight from the Heart – The Very Best of Bonnie Tyler

# Here She Comes (Pete Bellotte/Giorgio Moroder) – 3:51
   (from the 1984 soundtrack for the film Metropolis - restored version)

Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes

He finds a Brainiac robot attacking Metropolis, and after defeating the machine, the face opens to reveal a monitor with the face of Brainiac 5 from the Legion of Super-Heroes.

Superman Classic

The Metropolis scenery is heavily inspired by the architecture of Hugh Ferriss, while the film's music is taken from the 1948 Superman serial composed by Mischa Bakaleinikoff.

Tabayama, Yamanashi

Most of the land in the village has been protected watershed, providing water for the Tokyo Metropolis since 1901, under the control of Tokyo Metropolitan Government Bureau of Waterworks.

The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart

Although the album was inspired by the 1927 film Metropolis, it is not intended to be a concept album, unlike two of the band's previous studio albums, Dante XXI (based on Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy) and A-Lex (based on the 1962 book A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess).

Vertikal

During the writing process, Cult of Luna was heavily influenced by Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis, which became a major source of inspiration for Vertikals conceptual theme, sound and imagery.

Warin

2 km to the south of Warin, on the northern edge of Blankenberg, there is a railway line which ultimately connects to Berlin Hauptbahnhof, approximately 180 km, to the south east, should visitors wish to travel to Warin for a relaxing time, or for the Warinese to experience a dramatic change of pace in the metropolis of Berlin, as an alternative to Hamburg or Rostock.

Willow Branch, Indiana

Willow Branch is an incorporated metropolis in Brown Township, Hancock County, Indiana.


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