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9 unusual facts about Midnight


Brass monkey

In Midnight's Children, the protagonist's little sister is nicknamed the Brass Monkey because of her personality and hair.

Midnight, Mass.

A television series based on Midnight, Mass was put into development by NBC in 2009 for the 2010-2011 Television Season.

Midnight, Mississippi

In the 2000 film, Where the Heart Is, starring Natalie Portman, an older couple came from Midnight, Mississippi to reprimand Novalee for having her baby out of wedlock.

Midnight's Fire

He first appeared in New Warriors (vol. 1) #2, (August 1990), and was created by Fabian Nicieza and Mark Bagley.

Midnight's Lair

Midnight's Lair is a 1988 horror novel by Richard Laymon, originally written under the pseudonym Richard Kelly.

Midnight's Mask

Midnight's Mask is a fantasy novel by Paul S. Kemp, set in the world of the Forgotten Realms, and based on the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

PVR Pictures

In October 2012 the company acquired the Indian distribution rights for the film adaption of Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize winning novel Midnight's Children.

Saleem Sinai

Saleem Sinai is the protagonist of the Booker Prize winning novel Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.

State Express 555

The brand is cited in Salman Rushdie's post-colonial novel Midnight's Children, where it is, however, mis-attributed to the former British importer and manufacturer W.D. & H.O. Wills: Rushdie later explains this as symptomatic of an 'unreliable narrative' device in his essay on the book's 'errata'.


12:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m.

It takes place between Midnight and 1:00 a.m. in Los Angeles on Super Tuesday.

1781 in the United States

June 3 – American Revolution – Jack Jouett begins a "midnight ride" to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of approaching British cavalry led by Banastre Tarleton who have been sent to capture them.

Ab und Zu

With the big band Prime Time Orchestra they performed the commissioned work Rhymes at midnight at «Sandvika Storbandfestival» (2004), this time also presenting lyrics by Fran Landesman.

Ashok Chakra Award

2009 – Tukaram Ombale (Maharashtra Police assistant sub-inspector) – Around midnight, a wireless message was flashed that two terrorists were moving towards Marine Drive in a car and Ombale immediately positioned barricades to block its passage.

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You

A fellow folk singer who guested on The Midnight Special, Janet Smith, took up the song and developed it further, playing it live at hootenanny folk-song events at Oberlin College, one performance of which was attended by Joan Baez.

Columbia University traditions

On the day before the Organic Chemistry exam—which is often on the first day of finals—at precisely the stroke of midnight, the Columbia University Marching Band occupies Butler Library to distract diligent students from studying in an attempt to raise the curve on the organic chemistry exam.

Creepy Creatures

It is a comic book that contains three stories; "The Werewolf of Fever Swamp" adapted by Gabriel Hernandez, "The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight" adapted by Greg Ruth, and "The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena" adapted by Scott Morse, all based on the Goosebumps books by R. L. Stine.

Dedham, Maine

Two McDonnell F-101 Voodoo fighters of the 75th Fighter Squadron were scrambled from Dow Air Force Base 22 minutes after midnight on 11 April 1961 to intercept an unidentified aircraft approaching the United States.

DWAL

Exception to the regular broadcast time is every Maundy Thursday to Good Friday when the station operates from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm and Black Saturday when it airs from 6:00 am to 8:00 am and 5:30 pm to 12:00 midnight, after the Easter Vigil.

DXYR

It is a 24 hour operating station, except on Sundays where it signs off at midnight to 5:00 AM, except Holy Week each year where it signs off at midnight of Maundy Thursday, and lasts until 5:00 AM of Black Saturday.

Edgar Chías

He has written a number of plays including De insomnio y media noche, which was performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2006 under the title On Insomnia and Midnight (English translation by David Johnston).

Eileen Favorite

Her poems and essays have also appeared in Poetry East, The Chicago Reader, Rhino, Midnight Mind and have aired on Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ).

First Night

Live coverage of the final part of Boston's First Night, including the countdown to midnight and fireworks over Boston Harbor that begin at the stroke of midnight, is broadcast by WBZ-TV.

George Whitty

As a musician, he has played and recorded with artists such as Dave Matthews and Carlos Santana ("Supernatural"), Celine Dion ("Falling Into You" and "These are Special Times"), Michael and Randy Brecker (4 years on the road, 7 CDs), Chaka Khan ("The Woman I Am"), Richard Bona (phenom from Cameroon), Chris Minh Doky, Sadao Watanabe, Grover Washington, Jr., Till Brönner ("Midnight") and other well-known artists.

Giles Smith

He has published two books, Lost In Music, about life and growing up with music, and Midnight In The Garden Of Evel Knievel, a collection of extracts from his sports columns.

Higgins Armory Museum

Norman Rockwell drew an imagined scene in the Higgins armory museum, titled Midnight Snack, for the November 3, 1962 cover of The Saturday Evening Post.

Invisible Empire

Agent 13: The Invisible Empire book 1 of Agent 13: The Midnight Avenger series published by TSR, Inc.

James W. Nichol

His first novel, Midnight Cab, won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel, and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger.

John Arch

His style is similar to the quasi-operatic stylings of Geoff Tate of Queensrÿche and Midnight of Crimson Glory in that all three prefer singing in a tenor range appended with a well-developed head voice, not falsetto as is often assumed to be used by these singers.

Jonathan Harker

At Bistritz Harker takes a coach to the Borgo Pass where at midnight another coach drawn by four black horses, waits to take him to Castle Dracula high in the Carpathian Mountains.

KLRX

At Midnight on February 10, the new station known as "The Planet" debuted, with "The World I Know" by Collective Soul.

Koiak

The name of the Koiak midnight praise translates into Seven and Four, describing the outline of the praise that consists of 4 Canticles and 7 Theotokia (glorifications of Saint Mary).

Larry Allen Abshier

Abshier died suddenly, shortly after midnight on July 11, 1983 at the age of 40 from a heart attack in Pyongyang.

Lego Universe

When the promotion started, it had a timer ending on April 2, 2010, at 12:00am midnight, GMT, which is April 1 at 8:00pm ET.

Love Sensuality Devotion: The Remix Collection

#"T.N.T. for the Brain" (Midnight Man Mix) (112 BPM) (Curly) – 5:56

Lucien Cailliet

His most famous orchestration is the virtuoso piece for piano and orchestra Midnight of the Cilffs by the pianist and composer Leonard Pennario, for the Andrew L. Stone's film Julie (1956).

Lydia Dean Pilcher

After receiving an MFA at New York University Graduate Institute of Film and Television in 1983, Pilcher began her career making documentaries and working in the production department of feature films including After Hours (dir: Martin Scorsese); F/X (dir: Robert Mandel); Round Midnight (dir: Bertrand Tavernier); Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (dir: John Hughes); Mississippi Burning (dir: Alan Parker); and Quiz Show (dir: Robert Redford).

Midnight in Death

Midnight in Death (1998) is a novella by J.D. Robb.

Midnight Ridazz

Josh Anderson, founder of "Bike Gang" in Grand Junction, Colorado, cites an Alternative Press article about Midnight Ridazz as his inspiration for organizing the group/ride.

Midnight Youth

Midnight Youth came together while at Rangitoto College in Auckland's North Shore with three members of the band playing together in New Zealand's high school Rockquest competition.

Monster Hunters

When they arrive at Midnight Mountain in Borneo, they are again attacked by the Lizard Men, who succeed in capturing Hurricane.

NBC Talknet

"Much forgotten is that Bruce Williams originally aired at 10PM Eastern to Midnight, and Sally Jessy Raphael aired Midnight to 3AM Eastern time. That quickly changed. I'm not sure how long, maybe a couple of months, to 7-10PM and 10-1AM. The shows were a hit out of the box and stations asked for an earlier feed time. Weekend programming was added a year later with Bernard Meltzer and Dr. Harvey Ruben."

New York and Queens

Upon returning to Cleveland, the group decide to attend a midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, only to be confronted by rival fans of its replacement The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

Nicky Horne

In 1998 Horne joined BBC Radio 2, presenting the weekend overnight show (Fridays/Saturdays 12 midnight-3am & Saturdays/Sundays 1-4am), before his shows were taken over by Lynn Parsons in 1999.

Original Black Entertainment TV

Teleshopping - broadcast in slots that range from 30 minutes to two hours at midnight

Phantom of the Megaplex

With a title and concept very loosely based on The Phantom of the Opera, the film concerns strange happenings at a monstrous megaplex on the night of a major movie premiere gala, Midnight Mayhem.

Raoul Bhaneja

They have released Big Time Blues (2000), Cold Outside (2004), You My People (2009), Blue Midnight: A Live Tribute Little Walter (2010) through Big Time Records and were due to release their fifth recording 2014.

Ric Parnell

Recently, Parnell was living in Missoula, Montana where he co-hosted an 8-midnight radio program (which is aptly titled "Spontaneous Combustion") on KDTR Trail 103.3 FM.

River Oaks Theatre

The River Oaks Theatre is one of a handful of sites in the Houston area that carries on the tradition of showing The Rocky Horror Picture Show at midnight, which can be seen on the second Saturday of every month, complete with the "Royal Mystic Order of Chaos" shadow cast .

Rob Grill

On Sunday, October 27, 1968, they played at the San Francisco Pop Festival and then played at the Los Angeles Pop Festival and Miami Pop Festival in December of that year as their top ten hit "Midnight Confessions" was hitting the airwaves.

Rudolph's Shiny New Year

Rudolph has just come back from delivering Christmas presents with Santa Claus when he is asked by Father Time to find Happy, the missing Baby New Year before midnight on New Year's Eve.

Stellar Stone

Stellar Stone developed a total of eight known games—three drag racing games (Taxi Racer, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, and Midnight Race Club: Supercharged!), a puzzle game (Total Mahjongg and Shanghai), a hunting game (Remington Big Buck Trophy Hunt), a pinball game (Total Pinball), and two real-time strategy games based on the American Civil War (Gettysburg: Civil War Battles and Ultimate Civil War Battles: Robert E. Lee vs. Ulysses S. Grant).

The Call Up

With the line "It's 55 minutes past 11..." the song directly reference the Minutes to Midnight Doomsday Clock which was established and maintained by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago, which denotes by just how few minutes it is to midnight to what the impending threat of just how close the world is estimated to be to a global disaster, and it also includes a rejection of dead-end jobs ("who gives you work and why should you do it?").

The Dark Poets

2009 - Some Bizzare Double Album Some Bizzare Double Album "The Only Failure is to cease to try" - "Gary Lucas Vs The Dark Poets "The Judgement at Midnight (From Dusk to Dawn Mix)" Some Bizarre

The Midnight Meat Train

The Midnight Meat Train is a 2008 mystery horror-thriller film based on Clive Barker's 1984 short story of the same name, which can be found in Volume One of Barker's collection Books of Blood.

The TLA

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s the TLA was a well known repertory theater screening art house/grind house films in addition to weekly midnight screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Underground X: Demos

The remix of Minutes to Midnight's first single "What I've Done" is included in the album as the eighth track.

Virisila Buadromo

A number of news agencies reported on 25 December that Buadromo, her partner Arshad Daud, and fellow-pro democracy activists Imraz Iqbal, Jacqueline Koroi, Laisa Digitaki, and Peter Waqavonovono had been summoned to Suva's Queen Elizabeth Barracks around midnight.

WSEN

John Carucci is the afternoon drive personality, and the syndicated Tom Kent show airs from 7-midnight.


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