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3 unusual facts about Mid-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence


Mid-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence

Governor Henry and as well as US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff visited the tornado-ravaged area in the following days.

It passed very close to the intersection of US 60 and Route 59 about 3 miles west of Granby, destroying a church building and numerous homes/buildings as it passed through.

Most of the fatalities in Missouri were reported near the Racine community at the intersection of Route 43 and Iris Road, northwest of Neosho, where automobiles were thrown as far as 1/2 mile (800 m) away.


Aden Emergency

British forces had opened fire 40 times, and during that period there were 60 grenade and shooting attacks against British forces, including the bombing of an Aden Airways Douglas DC-3, which was bombed in mid-air, killing all people on board.

Air Astana

Originally conceived as purely domestic airline, BAE Systems agreed in mid-2001 to participate in the proposed start-up at the request of Kazakhstan's head of state, President Nursultan Nazarbayev, in order to facilitate an air radar contract it was then negotiating with the Government of Kazakhstan.

Alan Lodge

Since the events at Stonehenge, Lodge has covered a range of issues including the Travellers movement, Reclaim the Streets, the road protests in the mid 90s and the campaign against the Criminal Justice Act in 1994.

Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria

For instance, a collection of monodies by Pietro Antonio Giramo, entitled Hospedale degli Infermi d'amore, was dedicated to Anna in Naples in the mid-seventeenth century (the specific date is unknown); it humorously presented the various forms of insanity caused by love.

Ardeshir Zahedi

In the mid-1970s, Zahedi became known as a companion of the American movie star Elizabeth Taylor, with the two being dubbed "the hottest couple" in Washington D.C., according to the writer Barbara Howar.

Aspall

Aspall, Suffolk, a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England

Booches

During the mid to late 1970s, the then-owners of Booches's edited and published four issues of the Review la Booche, a literary journal featuring poetry, prose, sketches and photographs by contributors of such prominence as John Ciardi, William Stafford, Elton Glaser, Frank Stack and Richard Eberhart, along with local and regional contributors.

Canalipalpata

The earliest known member of the Canalipalpata is Terebellites franklini, which was found in the Clouds Rapids Formation of Newfoundland, and dates from the mid Cambrian (St David's series).

Canterbury Cathedral

It was built in 1886 by Henry Willis and subsequently rebuilt by the same firm in the mid 20th century.

Cathcart Castle

In the mid-15th century the head of the family was raised to the peerage as Lord Cathcart, and it is believed that the castle was built at around this time.

Clunker

A Cruiser bicycle built during the mid Seventies, in Marin county, California.

David R. Knechtges

An expert on Han dynasty and Six dynasties period literature, Knechtges' studies of Chinese fu poetry are largely responsible for the revival of Western academic interest in the subject, a major genre which had become largely neglected until the mid-20th century.

David Treuer

It was named for a fleet of trains operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (and by allusion the epic poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.) The novel features a Native American family who migrate to Minneapolis in the mid-twentieth century under the federally sponsored urban relocation program.

Dick Hunter

In the mid-1960s, he was the head football coach at Wadsworth High School.

Douglas Gracey

In February 1945 the division created a bridgehead across the Irrawaddy and broke out in mid-March to cut the Japanese communications and supplies to the battles being fought at Mandalay and Meiktila.

Earl R. Southee

He was a founder of the Soaring Society of America (1931) and managed 'Glider Meets' (National Gliding and Soaring Championships), at Elmira, New York, during the mid to late 1930s.

Fair Margaret and Sweet William

Helen Hartness Flanders collected several versions of the song throughout New England during the mid-20th century, which she heard performed to five different melodies.

Feckenham

The Anglican church of St. John the Baptist was built in the mid 13th century and a has a peal of eight bells; the Roman Catholic church is dedicated to St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More.

Fred Basset

During mid 1976 a short-lived 5 minute television cartoon of Fred Basset was shown on the BBC, made by Bill Melendez Productions, voiced by actor Lionel Jeffries that was available on VHS.

Great Burstead

The Great Burstead cricket team was formed in 1956 has recently merged with East Hanningfield CC but will continue to play in the T Rippon Mid-Essex League.

Grooveradio

London's Groove is an Independent Local Radio station based in London, created by media group TCPMEDIA in mid-2008, who subsequently also launched other stations throughout the UK.

Harry Sahle

Crime novelist Mickey Spillane, who worked for Lloyd Jacquet's Funnies Inc. packager during the 1930s and 1940s, teamed with Sahle on a number of occasions, including on the character "Mike Danger", which Spillane described as "the original concept of Mike Hammer", the archetypal hardboiled detective of mid-20th century paperback novels.

HOOPS 3D Graphics System

The HOOPS 3D Graphics System was originally developed in the mid-1980s in the CAD Lab at Cornell University.

Ingebjørg Guttormsdatter

Ingebjørg Guttormsdatter was, alongside Ragna Nikolasdatter and Estrid Bjørnsdotter, known as one of the only two acknowledged queen consorts in Norway between the mid 11th century to the 13th century not to have been foreign princesses.

Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

It was founded by Leopold II of Belgium to work for the then colony Congo; but it has broadened its scope to the tropics and low and mid-income countries.

Janet Elaine Paul

Booksellers and publishers Blackwood and Janet Paul Ltd. had, by the mid 1960s, overtaken Caxton as New Zealand’s leading publishers of poetry, and in 1968 Janet had published Glover’s Sharp Edge Up: Verses and Satires.

Jill Scott

The lead single "Hate on Me", gained airplay in May 2007 with a video released in mid-July.

Jone o Grinfilt

They were probably printed in the mid 19th century; the poem was also printed in John Harland's Ballads and Songs of Lancashire (three editions: 1865, 1875 and 1882).

Kevin Ayers

After living for many years in Deià, Majorca, he returned to the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s before moving to the south of France.

Larry English

In 2007 English was the Mid-American Conference's MVP and was a consensus choice First-team All-MAC and a Fourth-team All-American by Phil Steele as he recorded 17 tackles for loss–which ranked 18th in the NCAA.

Leyland Royal Tiger Worldmaster

Many former Australian New South Wales Public Transport Commission and State Transport Authority Worldmasters upon withdrawal, were rebodied by private operators including Brisbane Bus Lines, Fearne's of Wagga Wagga, Menai Bus Service and Toongabbie Transport up until the mid-1980s.

Libertador Bolivarian Municipality

The Libertador Municipality is located in the mid-north of the country surrounded by the mountain El Ávila which is part of the Venezuelan central range.

Marcus Brosch

In the mid-90s, he founded the Hip-Hop group Aroma with Menzel and Philipp Grüthering which was the predecessor of the progressive group Deichkind.

Metz family

This second generation included Auguste Metz, Charles Metz, and Norbert Metz, who were all leading liberal politicians during the early stages of Luxembourg's independence, in the mid-nineteenth century.

Mid-Tudor Crisis

: Edward VI has been portrayed as a stupid boy who, throughout his reign, was the pawn of two 'regents', Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, and John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland.

Mike Buck

Buck moved to Austin in the mid-1970s and joined the blues rock group, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, along with Keith Ferguson, Jimmie Vaughan, and Kim Wilson.

Moments to Remember

According to the Four Lads Frank Busseri, the introductory verses were sung by Lois Winters of the Ray Charles Singers and the spoken words in mid-song were recited by Pat Kirby of the Steve Allen Tonight Show.

Naval Air Technical Training Center Ward Island

The Royal Air Force had recently started Training School #31 for this same purpose in Clinton, Ontario, and a small group of U.S. naval officers was sent there in mid-1941 to gather information for a similar school to be located on the campus of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.

Nitzhonot

Nitzhonot (Hebrew: נצחונות, "victories") is a crossover between Goa trance and uplifting trance, emerged during the mid-late 1990s in Israel.

Portland House, Aldermaston

Built on the site of Associated Electrical Industries's MERLIN reactor, Portland House was built in the mid-1980s as a new international headquarters for Blue Circle Industries.

Qubad Talabani

Throughout the mid-nineties, Qubad worked on and off as a car-mechanic for a dealership that specialized in Lancia, Suzuki and Maserati vehicles.

Santa Maria Antiqua

The defeat of the Western Roman Empire by the Goths in the fifth century gave way to Byzantine and Lombard influence in the late fifth to mid eighth centuries.

Shamsuddin Firoz Shah

Kaikaus was a younger brother of Kaikobad and hence, if Firoz was a younger brother of Kaikaus, he would be in his mid-thirties at the time of his accession to the throne of Lakhnauti in 1301 AD.

SHINE Awards

The SHINE Awards (Sexual Health IN Entertainment) are annual media awards given by The Media Project since the mid-1980s, resulting from a partnership between the Kaiser Family Foundation and Advocates for Youth.

Stefan Janoski

Janoski was handpicked as a team member for Stevie Williams's clothing company Asphalt Yacht Club (AYC) that was launched in mid-July 2013.

Tom Sidwell

However while travelling to the ground – The Oval in Surrey – for the next day's play, he became lost on the London Underground and was given out while mid-transit.

United States Army air defense

The Soviets initially lagged the U.S., but the introduction of the 9K114 Shturm (known in the west as the AT-6 "Spiral") missile on the Mi-24 "Hind" in the mid-1970s offered the USSR a level of parity.

Whorlton Castle

The castle is currently privately owned, having been bought by Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby in the mid-20th century as part of a shooting estate.

YAGO

YAGO (Yet Another Gigabit Operation) was an early LAN startup acquired by Cabletron Systems in the mid-1990s, fueling its growth into Gigabit Ethernet switching and ultimately being re-spun off into the entity Riverstone Networks.

ZenGems

Former LucasArts game designer Hal Barwood known for several Star Wars and Indiana Jones titles of the early to mid 1990's designed several of the levels of ZenGems.


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