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unusual facts about Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot



Adelbrecht

Adelbrecht was a speaking, interactive robot in the form of a ball, designed by Martin Spanjaard (born 1952 in Haarlem, Netherlands).

Aegean Sea Anti-Piracy Operations of the United States

USS Warren chased a ten gun pirate brig on October 25 and it grounded off Argentiere before sinking, the pirates escaped to shore.

American Maid

She has also been revealed to be an operative (at least part-time) for the US government and had the former alias of Jeanine Smith during a mission with the Tick and Arthur to rescue Yank, a monkey made temporarily smart by cosmic rays, and subsequently kidnapped by the evil ruler Pineapple Pokopo.

Azuero spider monkey

The Azuero subspecies is one of three types of spider monkeys in Panama; Ateles geoffroyi panamensis with a range spanning from Costa Rica to Darién excluding the Azuero, Ateles geoffroyi fusciceps, with a range spanning Panamá and Colón provinces, and Ateles geoffroyi azuerensis, the Azuero spider monkey, whose range encompasses only the Azuero Peninsula.

Boston Dynamics

The original Cheetah robot runs on a high-speed treadmill in the laboratory where it is powered by an off-board hydraulic pump and uses a boom-like device to keep it running in the center of the treadmill.

Braiger

The robot has been featured in the video games Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden and Super Robot Wars GC; the latter of which appeared with the other robots of the J9 Trilogy.

Bruce Baron

He starred in several Asian movies, playing over a dozen lead roles in Hong Kong and Manila productions, including among others, in Godfrey Ho's "Ninja" features and Filipino low-budget action films for producer K.Y. Lim, such as Fireback, directed by Teddy Page.

Carlos Eugénio Correia da Silva, Count of Paço de Arcos

As a 27 year old second lieutenant in 1862 the Count of Paço d'Arcos also commanded the schooner Napier in pursuit of the US confederate pirate ship CSS Alabama in the mid Atlantic near the Azores.

Christian Keysers

He then started his research career at the University of St Andrews by investigating cells in the Temporal cortex with David Perrett, and described cells that respond when the monkey views particular faces in a way that correlates with conscious perception.

Claude Sammut

He was the leader of the UNSW teams that won RoboCup four-legged robot competitions in 2000, 2001 and 2003 and the CAS team that won the award for best autonomous robot at RoboCup Rescue 2009.

Combat engineer

The ICEC operates advance engineering tools such as the IDF Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer, IDF Puma armored CEV, armoured vehicle-launched bridges, armored engineering vehicles, EOD robots and electromagnetic mine-detectors.

Cortical remapping

To better understand this phenomenon in the brain, they used micro-electrodes to micromap the monkey’s cortical map of its hand.

Cultural appropriation

This is exemplified in the novel Crick Crack, Monkey by Merle Hodge when those who are colonized appropriate the culture of the colonizers.

Fujiwara no Sumitomo

Government efforts to control him met with mixed success at best until the summer of 941, when forces under Ono Yoshifuru and Okura Harusane caught the pirate leader and most of his fleet in Hakata Bay, on the northwest coast of Kyushu, fresh from an unusually destructive raid on Dazaifu.

Fūma Kotarō

He is featured in the manga series Nabari no Ou (where he appears as the shape-shifting leader of the Fūma ninja village and an ally of the protagonist), and also makes an appearance in the light novel series Mirage of Blaze (during the story arc involving the Hōjō clan), the manga series Yaiba (revived by Onimaru), the manga and anime series Samurai Deeper Kyo (as Sarutobi Sasuke's childhood friend and rival) and Karasu Tengu Kabuto.

General Johnson

Invictus Records labelmates Honey Cone recorded the Johnson penned tracks "Want Ads", "Stick Up," and "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show."

Guy Fithen

Guy L. Fithen (born 1962 in Oxford) is a British actor and screenwriter best known for his roles as a pirate.

Guynemer of Boulogne

Guynemer or Guinemerz was a Boulognese pirate who played a role in the First Crusade.

Hamlyn's monkey

The name "Hamlyn's monkey" and the scientific epithet "hamlyni" come from the animal dealer who first brought this species to the London Zoo.

Hit-Monkey

A video game based on the comic was announced as being developed by High Moon Studios and published by Activision for release in 2013.

Hulk Robot

During the Acts of Vengeance event, Doctor Doom gave Jester II the Hulk Robot's parts and Jester rebuilt it (with the addition of humorous weapons in its arsenal) as a member of the Assembly of Evil.

Joel Veitch

In January 2007, Veitch reached a settlement with Coca-Cola after they used music and video very similar to 7 Seconds of Love's song 'Ninja' on one of their adverts in Argentina without permission.

John Acquaviva

Robot Needs Oil - Volta (Olivier Giacomotto remix) Definitive

Kazuo Sakurada

While there, he joined Gary Hart's J-Tex Corporation stable consisting of Terry Funk, Dick Slater, Buzz Sawyer, and The Great Muta (previously Super Black Ninja).

Keith Chegwin

Born in Bootle, Lancashire, Chegwin's early roles were in works of the Children's Film Foundation, appearing as Egghead Wentworth in The Troublesome Double (1967) and Egghead's Robot (1970).

Kenneth Lyen

Monkey (2009): Puppet musical of an episode from Monkey: Journey to the West.

Kid Amazo

As Amazo, merely an advanced robot, failed, the next approach would be to cross bio-mechanical material from Amazo's body with human ova and DNA, in order to obtain a cyborg being who would exhibit the best traits of both human and artificial life.

Nixes Mate

In 1726, upon the arrest of pirate chief William Fly, officials brought him to Boston where he was executed.

Ogie Alcasid

He also appeared on other comedy programs such as ABS-CBN's Mana Mana (from 1991 to 1992), ABC's Tropang Trumpo (from 1994 to 1995), GMA Network's Bubble Gang (from 1995 to 2013), QTV's Ay, Robot! (from 2005 to 2007), and a sitcom Show Me Da Manny (from 2010 to 2011).

Pamlico River

The latter was home and operating base for the pirate Blackbeard, who was finally pardoned by Governor Charles Eden.

Pirate Cat Radio

In March 2009, Anthony Bourdain brought his show "No Reservations" to San Francisco and visited Pirate Cat Radio to try a drink invented by station founder Daniel "Monkey Man" Roberts: the Bacon Maple Latte.

Pirate Ship Higemaru

The player controls a Japanese sailor by the name of Momotaro, who must use barrels to defeat the titular pirate crew.

Popular Science Predictions Exchange

Will a team of androids beat the human World Cup champions at a game of soccer by December 31, 2050?

Robot end effector

The end effector of an assembly line robot would typically be a welding head, or a paint spray gun.

Roupa Nova

Since the 1980s, Roupa Nova has had many hits in Brazil, such as Sapato Velho (Old Shoe), Anjo (Angel), Whisky-a-Go-Go, Linda Demais (So Beautiful), Volta pra Mim (Come back to me), Coração Pirata (Pirate Heart) and Videogame.

Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi

He and his collaborators have developed the first neurorobotic system in which a neural preparation in-vitro - the brainstem of a Lamprey - controls the behavior of a mobile-robot through a closed-loop interaction.

Stephen Nash's titi

Stephen Nash's titi (Callicebus stephennashi), also known as just Nash's titi or Stephen Nash's monkey, is a species of titi, a type of New World monkey, endemic to the eastern bank of the Purus River in Brazil.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist, released in Europe as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist and in Japan as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Return of the Shredder is a side-scrolling beat 'em up based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) franchise, and was also the first TMNT game released for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.

The Adventures of Blinky Bill

The animals he rescued were Ling Ling the Panda, Slippery the Seal, Yoyo the Monkey, Princess Penelope the Poodle, Leo the Lion and Tico Toucan (who originally works for the Circus Bros.) They went to Antarctica, the African Plains, China, the Amazon Rainforest, India and Paris.

The Dagger of Kamui

As he is the leader of a ninja clan, he uses many body doubles in order to avoid being killed himself.

The Girl and the Robot

# The Girl and the Robot (Davide Rossi Suite for a Robotic Girl Re-Interpretation) – 4:29

The Smugglers

This one is Cherub, Longfoot's former shipmate under pirate Captain Avery on the Black Albatross.

Tortilla Flat

Steinbeck often used myths and themes or biblical stories in his novels: Cup of Gold is a retelling of the myth of Henry Morgan the pirate; Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row employ the King Arthur fables.

Turban Cowboy

Peter is invigorated by their jump and keeps up skydiving despite Lois' concern, even as his jumps usually result in accidents like falling on Meg at dinner, falling on a ninja that killed a woman, and falling on the castle of the Pig King from Angry Birds with only one pig left alive.

University of California Riverside 1985 laboratory raid

Veterinarian ophthalmologist Ned Buyukmihci of the University of California, Davis, and founder of Veterinarians for Animal Rights, said after he examined Britches that the sutures used were too large, the monkey's eye pads were dirty, and that, in his view, there was no justification for what he called a sloppy, painful experiment.

Vic Reeves' Pirates

# Woodes Rogers, a notorious pirate hunter, who helped put an end to piracy.

Vieux Fort Quarter

It got its name because legend has it that the infamous pirate Blackbeard used this part of the country to stash his ill-gotten gains.

Westport House

A successful lawyer, he married Maud Bourke, daughter of Viscount Mayo and great-great granddaughter of the Pirate Queen, Granuaile (Gráinne O'Malley 1530–1603).

White Ninja

Keiji Mutoh (b. 1962), Japanese professional wrestler who used the name White Ninja

Whydah Gally

On 27 May 2007 a UK documentary/reality show titled Pirate Ship ... Live! followed a team of divers, including comedian Vic Reeves, in live coverage of a dive at the Whydah site.


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