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unusual facts about Minami-Tori-shima


Minami-Tori-shima

In 1914, William D. Boyce included Marcus Island as an obviously American island in his book, The Colonies and Dependencies of the United States.


120-cell

The 120-cell, like the 3-sphere, is the union of these two (Clifford) tori.

Asakusa Mosque

Dar Al-Arqam Mosque, located in Central Tokyo that can be reached through Minami Senju Metro station from line Hibiya line and JR East: Jōban Line or through Asakusa Metro Station from Ginza line.

Azabu, Tokyo

Its coverage roughly corresponds to that of the former Azabu Ward, presently consisting of nine official districts: Azabu-Jūban, Azabudai, Azabu-Nagasakachō, Azabu-Mamianachō, Nishi-Azabu, Higashi-Azabu, Minami-Azabu, Moto-Azabu and Roppongi.

Back Blocks

The third track, "Tobikata wo Wasureta Chiisana Tori" served as theme song for the PlayStation 2 game "Star Ocean: Till the End of Time".

Billy Pettinger

Pettinger's songs have appeared in A&E's Biography, Miami Ink, American Idol, Tragic Side of Fame, My 600 LB Life, Gene Simmons' The Family Jewels, Chelsea Settles, Sweet Home Alabama, 16 and Pregnant, Exes and Ohs, Arctic Air, Tori and Dean Home Sweet Hollywood, One Angry Juror, Alienated and Canada In The Rough.

Camp Confidential

In book# 18 he got nominated to be in the Academy Awards and Natalie got to come and bring Tori along; however he did not win.

Daikaku-ji

A poem by Ki no Tomonori in an anthology from the period, the Kokinshu, described the Kiku-shima, or island of chrysanthemums, found in the Osawa pond.

Fade to Red

Fade to Red: Tori Amos Video Collection is a double DVD set from recording artist and musician Tori Amos and was released by Rhino Entertainment on February 14, 2006.

Fujiwara no Naritsune

According to that text, shortly after his father was exiled to Kikai-ga-shima, Naritsune was, in the sixth lunar month of 1177, summoned to Fukuhara and then to Bitchū province before himself being sent to Kikai-ga-shima.

Gas torus

In the Solar System, gas tori usually are produced by the interaction of a satellite's atmosphere with the magnetic field of a planet, most famously the Io plasma torus, which is produced by the ionization of roughly 1 ton per second of oxygen and sulfur from the tenuous atmosphere of Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io.

Hearing the shape of a drum

Almost immediately, John Milnor observed that a theorem due to Ernst Witt implied the existence of a pair of 16-dimensional tori that have the same eigenvalues but different shapes.

Hideo Shima

Hideo Shima joined the Ministry of Railways (Japanese Government Railways) in 1925, where, as a rolling-stock engineer, he designed steam locomotives.

Shima was also involved in the design and development of the Class C62 and Class D62 steam locomotives for express passenger trains and heavy-duty freight trains, respectively.

Hikari Minami

Minami was trained by Gatokunyan wrestler Emi Sakura and made her professional wrestling debut at the age of eleven on February 12, 2006, working under the ring name Hikari and facing Sakura, Aika Ando, Hinata and Kinoko in a five-way match at an event in Itabashi, Tokyo.

Hiroshima Castle

"Hiro" was taken from Ōe no Hiromoto, an ancestor of the Mōri family, and "Shima" was taken from Fukushima Motonaga who helped Mōri Terumoto choose the castle site.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial

Intended for the Aioi Bridge, the bomb instead exploded directly over the Shima Clinic, which was very near to the Genbaku Dome.

Isospectral

He constructed a pair of flat tori of 16 dimension, using arithmetic lattices first studied by Ernst Witt.

Katsuya Kondō

He also worked with Tomomi Mochizuki on the NHK Minna no Uta music video titled Kaze no Tōri Michi, produced by Ajia-do Animation Works for Sayuri Horishita.

Ken Watanabe

It wasn't until an "unidentified guest" accompanying Watanabe at a New York premiere of his film Sayuri seen in an Associated Press photo was found to be Minami that their marriage was publicly announced.

Kijimuna

A Kijimuna called Shima appears in the rock musical Once Upon a Midnight created as part of the Kijimuna Festival.

Kozu

Kōzu-shima (神津島), or Kozu Island, an island south of Tokyo Bay

Love You Forever

The book was read by Madeleine Stowe to Tori Barban in the movie The Christmas Hope, the third movie in the The Christmas Shoes trilogy.

Masatoshi Shima

Following Marcian "Ted" Hoff's initial conception, formulated in 1969, Shima later helped design the 4004 processor, working at the Intel offices for six months- from April until October 1970- with Federico Faggin, the project leader.

Minami-Ibaraki Station

The shopping area around the stations include a few convenience stores, a Seattle's Best Coffee store, a couple of supermarkets and a post office.

Minami-Kōfu Station

The station is located 84.0 rail kilometers from the southern terminus of the Minobu Line at Fuji Station.

Minami-Temma Park

The cherry blossom promenade is also a cycle path, which continues to northern Osaka (Suita City).

Moshidora

With no previous experience managing a team, Minami ends up picking up a copy of Peter Drucker's business management book, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, and starts to manage the baseball team like one would manage a business, with the goal of reaching the nationals.

She buys Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices by Peter Drucker which she later discovers is about business management as opposed to managing a baseball team, but Minami nonetheless becomes intrigued by its contents.

Murder of Victoria Stafford

On Tuesday, July 21, 2009, at 9:00 am police confirmed the remains found near Mount Forest, Ontario, approximately 500 metres from Concession Road 6, were that of Tori.

Nancy Shanks

Shanks sang backing vocals on several of Tori Amos' albums, such as Little Earthquakes.

Nissan S30

Wangan Midnight character Akio Asakura used to drive a red Nissan 300ZX (Z31) until he was defeated by Tatsuya Shima's Blackbird.

Noncommutative torus

Many topological and geometric properties of the classical 2-torus have algebraic analogues for the noncommutative tori, and as such they are fundamental examples of a noncommutative space in the sense of Alain Connes.

Prince Arisugawa Taruhito

The Arisugawa Memorial Park in Minami-Azabu, Minato, Tokyo occupies the site of the Arisugawa palace and its extensive gardens are open to the public.

Ruf CTR

In the Wangan Midnight series, a character named Tatsuya Shima drives a black Ruf CTR Yellowbird, thus known as the Blackbird.

Saori Minami

Saori Minami (南 沙織 Minami Saori; Real Name: Akemi Uchima (内間明美); Christian Name: Cynthia) was born in Okinawa on July 2, 1954 to Japanese parents.

Shinshu University

The University has five campuses in Matsumoto, Nishi-nagano (Nagano), Wakasato (Nagano), Ueda and Minami-Minowa, and 8 faculties with a total of around 10,000 students.

Takuboku Ishikawa

1886 - Born at Joko Temple, Hinoto-mura (presently named Hinoto, Tamayama-mura), Minami-Iwate-gun, Iwate Prefecture, to Ittei, the father, who was the priest of the temple, and Katsu, the mother.

The Broken Commandment

With his pregnant wife and three daughters Toson left Komoro and moved to Minami Toshima-gun in Tokyo to complete his work.

Tōji

Tōji Station, a railway station on the Kintetsu Kyoto Line in Minami-ku, Kyoto, Japan that gives access to the temple

Tori Black Is Pretty Filthy

Tori Black Is Pretty Filthy is a 2009 American pornographic film directed by Mason and produced by Patrick Collins.

Tori Nonaka

Tori is an NRA member and has competed in various disciplines, including USPSA, SSCA, IPSC, IDPA, Bianchi & GSSF.

Torus mandibularis

Consequently, it is believed that mandibular tori are the result of local stresses and not solely on genetic influences.

Uta de Shika Ienai

Backing tracks of the songs like "Nagisa e" and "Minami Sanjou" were mostly recorded with North American session musicians including Abe Laboriel, Paulinho da Costa and Dean Parks.

Yevpatoria RT-70 radio telescope

6489 Golevka (the name 'Golevka' comes from the first few letters of the names of three observatories: GOL-EV-KA = GOLdstone-EVpatoria-KAshima).


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