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unusual facts about NS/Stick


NS/Stick

The NS/Stick is an 8 string tapping instrument designed by Emmett Chapman and Ned Steinberger.


African Hobby

For nesting they use the old stick nests of other birds, especially Black Kite, which are situated high in a tree.

Alligator farm

In the second season of The Amazing Race Australia, teams had to visit a Cuban alligator farm and feed a wheelbarrow full of chum to a pen of alligators along with capturing an alligator with a stick and rope in order to receive their next clue.

Antoine de Caunes

In addition he appeared in an advertising campaign for Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles ice lollies, which he claimed to be "a French lollipop, on a very British stick".

Archie Marries Veronica/Archie Marries Betty

Dilton Doiley is going to M.I.T. for his doctorate in quantum mechanics, Reggie Mantle will fulfill his destiny as a used car salesman in Atlanta and Jughead Jones will stick around Riverdale grilling burgers at Pop Tate's Choklit Shoppe until he figures things out.

Atago Maru

Much of the wreck has been covered by silt from the nearby Baram River over the years; however, the bow, the main superstructure and the engine room skylights all stick up several metres above the silt.

California roll

Sometimes crab salad is substituted for the crab stick, and often the outer layer of rice (in an inside-out roll) is sprinkled with toasted sesame seeds, tobiko or masago.

Canada's Worst Driver 5

The Gimbal – The season's featured challenge (shown on Daily Planet after the first episode aired, with Daily Planet host Ziya Tong attempting the challenge) is one where the contestant must balance a stick-shift truck atop the gimbal, a swiveling platform with a hemispherical base.

Danny Greene

When a rowdy group of Hells Angels moved into Collinwood, Greene visited their headquarters with a stick of dynamite.

Dialog TV

Dialog TV recently Launch A PVR service Which allow customer's to record TV Programes on selected TV channels and also gives the ability to pause' Rewind and fast forward Live TV the product is currently marketed as "Dialog TV PVR" the service is used by connecting a USB Stick or External hard disk via a USB cable to a USB port of the back of the Receiver and by calling the Dialog TV Customer technical support hotline (Activation Fees of Rs 250.00 on top of the monthly subscription apply)

Eli Woods

One was Jack Casey—tall and stick-thin, with a bony face and a stammering delivery—who originally appeared as 'Bretton Woods' (named after the site of the famous 1944 United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference), and was only later christened Eli (often 'Our Eli').

Ferndale Main Street Historic District

Eastlake-Stick style buildings by Architect T.J. Frost are particularly well represented as are Italianate, Queen Anne, Neo-Classic, Bungalow, and Mission styles.

Frederick Charles Adler

(Hans Knappertsbusch was the only other major conductor to stick with the first editions consistently.) His recording of Bruckner's Sixth Symphony is, as of 2006, the only recording ever made of the 1899 first published edition.

General Johnson

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

Graciela Naranjo

At this time, she received contract offers from Colombia, Cuba, Mexico and Puerto Rico, but chose to stick around Caracas and raised a family instead of pursuing an international artistic career.

Greyworld

In each case greyworld took a set of ordinary street railings and tuned them so that when you run a stick or an umbrella along them, rather than making the 'clack-clack-clack' sound as expected, they played The Girl from Ipanema.

Hazel

A number of cultivars of the common hazel and filbert are grown as ornamental plants in gardens, including forms with contorted stems (C. avellana 'Contorta', popularly known as "Harry Lauder's walking stick" from its gnarled appearance); with weeping branches (C. avellana 'Pendula'); and with purple leaves (C. maxima 'Purpurea').

Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom

Though it is unknown at what age he started on his travels, Vroom was born into a family of artists and began his career as a pottery (faience) painter and when his mother remarried, was no older than 19 when he rebelled against his stepfather who insisted he stick to pottery painting, by boarding a ship for Spain (Sevilla) and from thence via Livorno and Florence to Rome.

Island Savings Centre

Built in 1985, at Penticton, British Columbia, and modelled after Tony Tanti's stick, The Stick & Puck originally adorned the entrance to Expo '86, albeit a slightly different pose, beside the "Largest Flagpole".

Jerry Buchmeyer

His chambers were known as the best place for a young lawyer to learn stick ball, to pen short stories about fishing judges, and listen to the Talking Heads.

Jorge Valdano

It's not: it's shit hanging from a stick ... if football is going the way Chelsea and Liverpool are taking it, we had better be ready to wave goodbye to any expression of the cleverness and talent we have enjoyed for a century.

Justin Williams

A loose puck along the boards ended up on the stick of Bret Hedican, who passed it to Eric Staal.

Kamandalu

When Sukra, the demons' preceptor, tried to prevent flow of water from the kamandalu by blocking the spout, Mahabali pierced the spout with a stick, which blinded Sukra.

Katie Glynn

She was noted for the semi-final match between New Zealand and the Netherlands at the 2012 Olympics, where eleven minutes into the second half, she was accidentally smacked in the head by the hockey stick of opponent forward Ellen Hoog as Hoog attempted to shoot at goal.

Keisaku

In Zen Buddhism, the keisaku (Japanese: 警策, Chinese: 香板, xiāng bǎn; kyōsaku in the Soto school) is a flat wooden stick or slat used during periods of meditation to remedy sleepiness or lapses of concentration.

Kilianstein

According to a Winterstein legend, this rock was formed when, in ancient times, the devil rammed his walking stick into the ground in anger at the success of the missionary St. Kilian who came from this area, and the tip of his stick remained embedded.

Kinomichi

The techniques are practiced barehanded, with a stick ( 杖), wooden sword (Bokken 木剣) and sword (Iaito 居合刀), upright or kneeling, with control or with throws, with one partner or many, in a systematic manner or freely.

LAURON

For example,the ratios of the leg segments to each other were similar to ratios found in the stick insect Carausius Morosus.

Lexar

Lexar's Memory Stick Duos also have versions adapted for the PSP which includes a version of Xploder.

Lydia R. Diamond

Her plays include Here I Am...See Can You Handle It, The Inside adapted from the poems of Nikki Giovanni, Stage Black, The Gift Horse, Stick Fly, Voyeurs de Venus, The Bluest Eye, an adaptation from Toni Morrison's novel and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

M4 carbine

While only 100 troops were asked, they fought at least a dozen intense engagements in Helmand Province, where the ground is covered in fine powdered sand (called "moon dust" by troops) that can stick to firearms.

Mark Occhilupo

With well over 20 years of competition under his belt, 2005 saw him contemplate retirement; but after a solid year wherein he was recognised as putting on arguably the best backside performance ever seen at Jeffreys Bay and with an immense amount of fan support, Occy changed his plans and is back to give the youngsters (who are literally half his age) plenty of stick.

Megacrania batesii

The Peppermint Stick Insect (Megacrania batesii) is a bluish-green coloured stick insect that only lives on the midribs of the leaves of the "screwpine" Pandanus tectorius.

Monkey stick

The Keef Trouble ‘Zob Stick’ is distinguished by the addition of a sprung-boot attached to the bottom of the pole and a metal sleeve round its centre, this being hit with a serrated wooden stick.

The variation of this instrument called the ‘Zob Stick’ was constructed and named in 1968 by percussionist and songwriter Keef Trouble of the band Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts and Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs.

Mount Marcus Baker

Mount Marcus Baker was originally called "Mount Saint Agnes"; according to Bradford Washburn, James W. Bagley of the USGS named it after his wife Agnes, adding the "Saint" in hopes of making the name stick.

Paleta

The name comes from palo, or "stick," and the diminutive ending -eta, referencing the little flat stick frozen into each item; the stores, carts, and kiosks where they are sold are known as paleterías, and the sellers are called Paleteros.

Phasmid

Phasmatodea, the insect group which contains stick insects and walking-sticks

PlayStation 3 accessories

Other wheels include the Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo S Racing Wheel, which features force feedback, 6 gear stick shifter and 3 pedals(Gas/Brake/Clutch).

Raphael Xavier

Raphael was one of the few students to stick with it and turned the dreams of becoming a member of the famous "Scanner Boys" of Philly into a reality as he would work closely with their crew leader, Lorenzo-Prince Scarecrow-Rennie Harris, founder of Rennie Harris Puremovement.

Regi-Stick

It allows musicians to have access to popular sound combinations including Glenn Miller and Mantovani.

Scotch egg

At the Minnesota State Fair, true to fair tradition, Scotch eggs are served on a stick.

South Park: The Stick of Truth

South Park: The Stick of Truth is an upcoming role-playing video game based on the American animated television series South Park being developed by Obsidian Entertainment, in collaboration with South Park Digital Studios and published by Ubisoft.

Steven Cantor

The film spawned a reality series, "Amish in the City", which Cantor's Stick Figure banner executive produced, as well as a non-fiction book "Rumspringa" by Tom Shachtman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007).

Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars

Certain versions of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars are bundled with a Mad Catz arcade stick, whose artwork was produced by Japanese artist Shinkiro.

The Full-Custom Gospel Sounds of the Reverend Horton Heat

"Nurture My Pig" and "Wiggle Stick" were included in the Redneck Rampage video game soundtrack.

Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring

Meanwhile, in the basement, a wizard named Chip is making a magical potion, using these ingredients: warts from a bullfrog, one stick of butter, and milk from a cow that lives in Kolkata, India.

White flag

Its use may have expanded across continents, e.g. Portuguese chronicler Gaspar Correia (writing in the 1550s), claims that in 1502, an Indian prince, the Zamorin of Calicut, dispatched negotiators bearing a "white cloth tied to a stick", "as a sign of peace", to his enemy Vasco da Gama.

Yan Shunkai

He won "The Gold Stick Prize" at the Second International Festival of Comedy Films in Switzerland in 1982 for his role in The True Story of Ah Q.

Yawara

In the United Kingdom, "any article made or adapted for use for causing injury to the person, or intended by the person having it with him for such use" is defined as an offensive weapon under the Prevention of Crime Act 1953 thus potentially including a yawara stick.


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