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2 unusual facts about Moonlight


Grevillea 'Moonlight'

It was a selected form of the Queensland species Grevillea whiteana, although this has been questioned because of the difference in appearance to the parent plant.

Operation Carpetbagger

All flights were made on moonlit nights so that visual navigation could be made by using rivers, lakes, railroad tracks, and towns as check points.


11e régiment parachutiste de choc

The 11e régiment parachutiste de choc ("11th shock parachute regiment), often called 11e choc, was a parachute elite regiment of the French Army. It used to serve as the armed branch of the SDECE. Its insignia, designed by lieutenant Dupas, features Bagheera in the moonlight and a golden wing. The motto is Qui ose gagne ("who dares wins"), in continuation of the tradition of the British Special Air Service.

49th Royal Tank Regiment

The operation was carried out under 'artificial moonlight' (searchlights shining onto the cloud cover) and during the assault on Rees by the 51st (Highland) Division the Grants both illuminated the crossing and engaged the enemy on the far bank with their 75mm guns.

A Western Harvest Field by Moonlight

A Western Harvest Field by Moonlight is Beck's first EP, released on 10" vinyl by Fingerpaint Records in 1994.

Allyn King

She played Alicia Bonner in the 1920 Avery Hopwood hit comedy Ladies' Night that had a run of 360 performances at the Eltinge Theatre on 42nd Street and Louise Endicott in the successful 1924 William LeBaron and Con Conrad musical comedy Moonlight over its 174 run at Longacre Theatre.

Becky Umeh

In 1992 she gained national visibility as an actress in the Nigerian Television Authority children's drama Tales of Moonlight.

Brendan Vintedge

In 2008, Brendan was scouted by production company Moonlight Entertainment/Green Ocean Media, and signed as one of the first artists for the anticipated record label of Tommy Hilfiger in New York City.

Caroline Miskel-Hoyt

She later portrayed Marguerite in Charles Osborne’s The Face in the Moonlight opposite Robert B. Mantell and the following season as Ruth Hardman, in Charles H. Hoyt's satiric comedy A Temperance Town, that opened on the 17th of September, 1893 at Hoyt’s Madison Square Theatre and ran for 125 performances.

Closterkeller

Many other groups like Delight, Moonlight or Artrosis said they took their inspirations from Closterkeller.

Diego Stocco

Diego served as music sound designer for TV shows The Tudors, Moonlight and Sleeper Cell.

Disarm

"Dancing in the Moonlight" performed well in Australia, where it charted at number 90 on the Triple J Hottest 100 in 1994, while "Disarm" did not chart.

Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle

They fight Lucifer, and Goku uses the Kamehameha blast to destroy Lucifer's Princess-powered laser cannon (the full-moonlight is to be used to destroy the sun, and begin the Reign of Darkness), and kills Lucifer.

Elias Childe

He particularly excelled in moonlight effects, and an example of that style went to the National Gallery of British Art at South Kensington.

Endtime Productions

In 2006, Endtime signed Drottnar and Crimson Moonlight and released the Drottnar's album Welterwerk and in 2007 released Crimson Moonlight's EP In Depths of Dreams Unconscious.

Footsoldier in the Moonlight

Footsoldier in the Moonlight is the seventh album by American rock singer Donnie Iris, released in 1993.

Frank Porter Graham

The baseball career of Graham's brother, Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham, was popularized in the W. P. Kinsella novel Shoeless Joe and the 1989 film it inspired, Field of Dreams.

Guilford, Missouri

His hits included "Primrose Lane", "Shutters And Boards", "In The Misty Moonlight", and If You Leave Me Tonight I'll Cry.

Hunter Valley Grammar School

Throughout the years Hunter Valley Grammar has put on a variety of productions including: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Oh, What a Lovely War!; The Wizard of Oz; Hamlet; Moonlight Avenue; Death by Chocolate; Blabbermouth; Friday Knight Fever; A Midsummer Night's Dream; and High School Musical starring Georgia Murray and Bryce Thomas.

Internal Wrangler

The short interlude track "DJ Shangri-La" is an excerpt of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Moonlight" Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor played on a highly overdriven organ, although here it is played in standard 4/4 time, while the original piano motif was in 3/4 time.

Jacob Sager Weinstein

He also wrote a screenplay adapted from the 1937 novel Utas és holdvilág (Journey by Moonlight) by the Hungarian writer Antal Szerb.

Kimberley Rew

After a brief excursion into archaeology at West Stow Anglo Saxon Village and gaining a degree in archaeology from Cambridge, Rew formed the Waves with Alex Cooper in 1975, before joining the Soft Boys in 1978, recording the Can of Bees and Underwater Moonlight albums.

Kiyoshi Ijichi

Aside from drumming, Ijichi is a skilled pianist and can be heard playing an excerpt of "Claire de Lune" from Debussy's Suite bergamasque for the intro of "Moonlight."

Lafcadio Hearn

Some of his stories have been adapted by Ping Chong into his puppet theatre, including the 1999 Kwaidan and the 2002 OBON: Tales of Moonlight and Rain.

Lake Tianchi Monster

The Mountain Goats' 2008 album, Heretic Pride features the song, "Tianchi Lake" about the monster: "Backstroking on the surface, moonlight on its face / Floats the Tianchi monster, staring into space."

Les Filles du feu

The prevailing light in the essay is moonlight, and the Fille du Feu is the goddess Isis.

Microsoft Silverlight

Even though Microsoft was officially collaborating on the Moonlight project, Bruce Chizen, who was CEO of Adobe Systems at the time, which sells the competing proprietary Flash platform, questioned "the commitment of Microsoft to keep the Silverlight platform compatible with other OS besides Windows".

Moanin' in the Moonlight

The original version of Moanin' in the Moonlight featured cover artwork by Don S. Bronstein and sleeve notes by Billboard editor Paul Ackerman.

Moonlight Bay

On Season 2, Episode 3 of Taxi, Louie DePalma (Danny DeVito) sings Moonlight Bay while under the influence of whatever "Reverend" Jim Ignatowski (Christopher Lloyd) has slipped into his coffee.

Moonlight Bay Trilogy

They revolve around the mysterious events in Moonlight Bay that are investigated by the main character Christopher Snow, who suffers from the genetic disorder Xeroderma pigmentosum.

Moonlight Drive

According to the Morrison biography No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman, Morrison wrote "Moonlight Ride" during his halcyon days on a rooftop in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California in 1965.

Moonlight Head

An Aboriginal shell midden was excavated in a rock shelter at Moonlight Head and was found to have been occupied between 1030 BP and 180 BP when excavated by archaeologist David Frankel.

Music for the Masses

All songs are written by Martin Gore except "Route 66", which is a cover of the rock classic "(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66" written by Robert W. Troup Jr in 1946, and "Moonlight Sonata", a Beethoven piano piece performed here by Alan Wilder.

New Kind of Feeling

In the U.S., both of the album's singles, "Shadows in the Moonlight" and "I Just Fall in Love Again", topped both the country and A/C singles charts; both songs also charted in the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, with "Shadows in the Moonlight" reaching number 25,and "Broken Hearted Me" reaching number 12.

Njoo Cheong Seng

The two joined several further theatrical troupes, including Club Moonlight Crystal Follies in Penang (under Njoo's leadership) and Dardanella, travelling throughout southeast and south Asia.

Nokta

In 2007, the now-defunct weekly published portions of a diary purportedly belonging to the retired admiral Özden Örnek, indicating that three coup plans were prepared: Sarıkız (blonde girl; idiomatic for 'cow'), Ayışığı (moonlight), and Eldiven (glove).

Ping Chong

Recent productions have included several large scale puppet theatre works, Cathay: Three Tales of China (2005), Obon: Tales of Rain and Moonlight (2002), and Kwaidan (1998).

Q Music Collective

Q Music places music both in-show and promos including music for: Brothers and Sisters and Desperate Housewives on Touchstone/ABC, Bones on FOX, Kid Nation and Moonlight on CBS, Celebrity Expose on My Network TV, TV One Access on TV One, and Hollywood Green on Discovery’s Planet Green.

Sarıkız, Ayışığı, Yakamoz and Eldiven

In 2007, the Nokta weekly published portions of a diary purportedly belonging to the retired general Özden Örnek, indicating that four coup plans were prepared: Sarıkız (blonde girl; idiomatic for 'cow'), Ayışığı (moonlight), Yakamoz (Sea Sparkle), and Eldiven (glove).

Shibaemon-tanuki

While Shibaemon-tanuki was at the summit of Mt. Mikuma (三熊山) behind the city of Sumoto, Awaji island, he lived with his wife Omasu (お増), and on moonlight nights with good weather, he drummed his belly.

Something Wicca This Way Comes

As she pulls out the book it is bathed in moonlight revealing in dark letters "The Book of Shadows".

Super Extra Bonus Party

In May 2009, they released their second album, Night Horses, which features contributions from Cadence Weapon, Mr. Lif, Heathers, May Kay of Fight Like Apes, R.S.A.G, Captain Moonlight, Ann Scott and White Noise.

Sweet Kissin' in the Moonlight

Sweet Kissin' in the Moonlight is a song written by Lina Eriksson and Mårten Eriksson, and originally performed at Melodifestivalen 2009 where Lasse Stefanz was first asked to participate with the song, before they rejcted in November 2008 to participate with the song, originally called 'Den första kyssen.

The Kid's No Good

Gibb began recording his first solo album in 15 February with four songs: "I'll Kiss Your Memory", "The Victim", "Moonlight" and "Summer Ends".

The Mops

The group then signed with Liberty/Toshiba/EMI, moving to a blues rock sound, and followed with the hits "Gekko Kamen (Moonlight Mask)" and "Goiken Muyo (No Excuse)", both of which charted in 1971.

Winthrop Ames

After the war, Ames began to direct most of his Broadway shows, which included The Betrothal (1918), The Green Goddess (1921), The Truth About Blayds (1922), Will Shakespeare (1923), Beggar on Horseback (1924), Minick (1924), Old English (1924), White Wings (1926), Escape (1927), The Merchant of Venice (1928) and Mrs. Moonlight (1930).


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