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unusual facts about Miranda, Falcón


Coro TV

It was created in July 2004 and can be seen in the community of Santa Ana de Coro in the Miranda Municipality of the Falcón State of Venezuela on UHF channel 68.


1973 Australian Touring Car Championship

The night before Round 6 of the series at the Adelaide International Raceway, Moffat's GTHO Falcon was stolen from Stillwell Ford in the northern Adelaide suburb of Medindie.

Alejandro Colina

Alejandro Colina's parents were Alejandro Torcuato Colina, the illegitimate son of Estado Falcón; and Fermina Viera, a Spanish lady originally from Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Athina Onassis Roussel

Onassis de Miranda married Brazilian Olympic showjumper Álvaro de Miranda Neto in 2005.

Australian Stock Car Auto Racing

Other notable drivers include: Marshall J. Brewer, Terry Wyhoon, Garry Rogers, Russell Ingall, John Faulkner, Jim Richards and his son Steven, Tony Kavich, Adam Pay, Nathan Pretty and his sister Nicole, Jason Whylie, Eddie Abelnecia and Leigh Watkins (who was the only driver other than Jim Richards to win the championship driving a Falcon).

Bearcreek, Montana

In addition, Bearcreek plays host every autumn to Montana Falconer Symposium, the state's largest gathering of falcon trainers and birds of prey enthusiasts.

Black shaheen

(Black) Shaheen Falcon (Falco peregrinus peregrinator), South Asian subspecies of Peregrine Falcon

Captain America: Reborn

In Central Park, Falcon, Natasha, Bucky, Luke Cage, Jessica Drew, and Clint Barton are there without their costumes, but have a teleportation spell ready in case Norman Osborn and his Dark Avengers attempt to capture them.

Claude Johnson

In the winter of 1915-1916 Johnson personally named the first three Rolls-Royce aircraft piston engines, the Eagle, Hawk and Falcon, starting the company's tradition of naming piston aero engines after birds of prey.

Conny Varela

In 2010, with the death of longtime mayor of Caguas, William Miranda Marín, Varela unexpectedly presented his candidacy to the seat, challenging Miranda's son, William Miranda Torres.

Cristóbal Rojas

Cristóbal Rojas, Venezuela, a municipality in the Venezuelan state of Miranda, named after the artist

Dario Chiazzolino

In 2010 took part to an original Latin Jazz project; he recorded the album named "Proposition", with Dany Noel Martinez on bass, Horacio Hernandez on drum, Ivan Bridon and Ivan Melon Lewis on piano, Carlos Sanduy on trumpet and with guest singer Concha Buika and other main Latin icons as Ramón Porrina, Jerry Gonzáles, Inoidel González, Javier Masso “Caramelo“, Fernando Favier, Diego Guerrero, Ivette Falcón Urgate, Daniel Martínez Miranda.

David Hart Dyke

In 1967 he married Diana Margaret Luce, daughter of Sir William Luce; they have two daughters, Miranda and Alice.

Dick Johnson Racing

In a very generous move, fellow Falcon runner and reporter for The Mike Walsh Show, Andrew Harris, approached Johnson's wife Jill in the pits shortly after the crash and offered his car to the Johnson team if a replacement car could be found for him.

Eduardo Reck Miranda

Eduardo Reck Miranda, Ph.D, (born 1963), is a Brazilian composer of chamber and electroacoustic pieces but is most notable in the United Kingdom for his scientific research into computer music, particularly in the field of human-machine interfaces where brain waves will replace keyboards and voice commands to permit the disabled to express themselves musically.

Energy policy of Venezuela

Venezuela's main oil fields are located at four major sedimentary basins: Maracaibo, Falcon, Apure, and Oriental.

Environment of Argentina

Hawks, falcons, herons, and tinamous (perdiz, Argentine "false partridges") inhabit the region.

Falcon 9 v1.1

The Falcon 9-R, a reusable variant of the Falcon 9 family, is being developed using systems and software technology being developed as part of the SpaceX reusable launch system development program by SpaceX to facilitate rapid reusability of both the first and second stages.

Falcon Coperis

Falcons are top predators in the world and "Coperis" was derived from the name of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.

Falcon Motorcycles

The first motorcycle in The Falcon Ten series, The Bullet, was a customized 1950 Triumph Thunderbird built out with parts from other rare bikes as well as newly fabricated parts.

Falcon's third motorcycle, the 'Black', was built around a 1950 Vincent Black Shadow engine unit.

Falcon Northwest

In 2005, Falcon Northwest's President, Kelt Reeves, had a heated exchange with HardOCP, an online magazine geared towards the PC hardware enthusiast and PC gaming communities.

Flag of Colombia

After Miranda later designed his flag based on this conversation, he happily recalled seeing a fresco by Lazzaro Tavarone in the Palazzo Belimbau in Genoa that depicted Christopher Columbus unfurling a similar-coloured flag in Veragua during his fourth voyage.

Fred Slingsby

His first glider, in 1931, was a Falcon, which was a British version of the RRG Falke, built by Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft and designed by Alexander Lippisch.

Glenn Seton Racing

Seton came close to winning the 1995 Tooheys 1000 in the new EF model Falcon, retiring due to a broken engine valve spring whilst in the lead with only eight laps to run.

Il Discotto Records

It released material by many well-known artists like Gary Low, Doctor's Cat, Brand Image, Martinelli, Paul Sharada, Betty Miranda, Reeds, Mike Rogers, Raggio Di Luna, Hot Cold, Eugene, Max Coveri, as well as obscure Italo disco acts.

Jesse Falcon

Since 1998, Falcon has been a featured performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, which helped launch the careers of comedians like Saturday Night Live's Amy Poehler and The Daily Show 's Rob Corddry. Falcon also performs with other comedy groups such as Mother, The Chipperton Family, Telethon, and Girl Crush 2040. He has also appeared in the comedic short film Running with Scissors.

John Goss

John Goss Special, a version of the Ford Falcon built to celebrate his Bathurst win in 1974

José Rijo

In December 2011, German Miranda, who heads the Dominican Republic's Anti-Money Laundering unit, said Rijo had been subpeonaed in relation to his business dealings with Matías “Daniel” Avelino Castro and any information he might have about the abduction and murder of journalist José Silvestre, a.k.a. “Gajo”, of Caña TV.

Kabi Lungchok

Kabi Lungchok region is also home to several species of birds such as: the Pariahkite, Crested Serpent eagle, shahhen falcon, Rufous-necked Hornbill, Aceros nipalensis, Chestnut-breasted Partridge, Black-breasted Parrotbill, Grey-crowned Prinia, Ward’s Trogon.

Kirby the Kestrel

Kirby the Kestrel is an American Kestrel (sometimes called a falcon or sparrow hawk) that frequents Target Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Lía Bermúdez

She been awarded the Order of the Liberator Knighthood, an award from the University of Carabobo, Zulia Governor's Award, Order of Maracaibo City in the first class, Order of Francisco de Miranda, Ana Maria Campos decoration and the National Prize of Plastic Arts of Venezuela 2007 amongst others.

Miranda Hobbes

Dr. Robert Leeds (Blair Underwood) is a successful sports medicine doctor for the New York Knicks, whom Miranda meets while interviewing him with fellow members of her building's tenant board to occupy a vacant apartment.

Miranda House

Miranda House also appears in Neeraj Pandey's Akshay Kumar starrer "Special 26" .

Miranda Seymour

Miranda Seymour was two years old when her parents moved into Thrumpton Hall, the family's ancestral home in Nottinghamshire.

Miranda, California

Besides the post office, the town boasts one restaurant, a resort, market, and gas station (all owned by the Eldridge family), a Seventh-day Adventist church, a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), a small, rural high school encompassing grades 8-12, a Community Grange, two gift shops, and an active Volunteer Fire Department.

Nina Miranda

Nina Miranda has worked with a variety of artists, and has guested on tracks for Da Lata, Nitin Sawhney, Cirque du Soleil, Bebel Gilberto, Daniel Jobim, Antonio Chainho, Shrift, Spiller, Faze Action, Jah Wobble, Les Gammas, Troubleman, Arkestra 1, Hajime Yoshizawa and Robert Miles.

Oklahoma State University men's basketball team plane crash

This crash should not be confused with a second plane crash that happened on November 17, 2011, that killed head coach Kurt Budke and Assistant Coach Miranda Serna, of the OSU Women's Basketball team, as well as State Senator Olin Branstetter.

Post Impact

NUNS President Miranda Harrison recruits Parker to lead an expedition—including ex-SAS Sarah Henley and Anna Starndorf, Gregor Starndorf's daughter, to find out who controls the satellite and destroy it.

Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire

Signor Ferrari and Ugarte, characters portrayed by Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre in the movie Casablanca appear in Raseir, as does the Maltese Falcon from the movie of the same name which also featured Greenstreet and Lorre in other roles.

Ramster

In 1922, Sir Henry and Lady Norman purchased Ramster, and is now cared for by their granddaughter Miranda Gunn, and her husband.

Red Molly

In 2007 they toured with Pat Wictor and Ellis, the other winners of the Falcon Ridge Emerging Artist showcase, on the Falcon Ridge Preview tour and performed with them in the Most Wanted Song Swap at the Festival itself.

Rhinodoras

Rhinodoras has been identified in the fossil record from the late Miocene Urumaco Formation (about 9 million years of age), Falcón State, Venezuela.

Sierra de San Pedro Mártir National Park

The park is also home to many avian species like: Bald Eagle, Golden Eagle, Falcon, Woodpecker, Black Vulture, Crow, several species of Sittidae.

Sussie 4

In all four of their studio albums, Sussie 4 have contributed with various well-known Latin singers and artists, such as Denisse Guerrero of Belanova, Alex Sergi of Miranda!, León Larregui of Zoé, Valentina González, and Ely Guerra.

The Falcon and the Snowman

The film is based upon the 1979 book The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage by Robert Lindsey, and features the song "This Is Not America", written and performed by David Bowie and the Pat Metheny Group.

The Maltese Falcon

The Black Bird, a 1975 comedic sequel film to The Maltese Falcon

The Midnight Folk

It features: Sam Salter, Nickolas Grace, Charles Dance (as Abner Brown), Deborah Findlay, Andrew Sachs, Liz Smith, Helena Breck, Jon Glover, Ewan Bailey, Ann Beach, Harry Myers, Graham Seed, Miranda Keeling, Bethan Walker, Mark Straker, Sam Dale, Ian Masters, Joseph Kloska and Christine Kavanagh.

William Wynter

After the fleet was dispersed by a storm off Flamborough Head on 16 January, the damaged Swallow, Falcon, and Jerfalcon were left at Tynemouth, and the rest of the fleet passed Bamborough Castle to Berwick upon Tweed, where 600 hand gunners were embarked.

Wisconsin–River Falls Falcons

The UWRF Falcon's Men's Track and Field team also competes at a Division III level in the WIAC.


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