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unusual facts about Neck



.204 Ruger

The 222 Remington Magnum provides about 5% more usable (below the neck) case capacity than the most popular member of the family, the NATO 5.56×45 mm (.223

.400 Jeffery Nitro Express

The longer neck of the .450/400 3¼ inch case had been causing extraction difficulties in the Nitro Express version of that cartridge particularly in rifles which may have pitting or rusting.

1981 Caesars Palace Grand Prix

Even in practice, Piquet suffered noticeably and became physically sick; he later got a 90-minute massage from Sugar Ray Leonard's masseur to help sort out his troubled back and "Las Vegas neck."

1993 Grand National

At the second attempt, the tape became tangled again — around the neck of jockey Richard Dunwoody — and Brown called another false start.

2012 Finlandia Trophy

Canada's Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir withdrew before the event due to a slight muscle strain in Moir's neck.

Amatongaland

Tongaland, or Amatongaland, existed in southeast Africa, lastly as a district of Zululand, forming the northern neck of Zululand.

Babson Ledge

The rock is situated south of the Fort Point, Pavilion Beach, Blynman Canal, Route 127, and west of Rocky Neck.

Bay Island

Children in the neighborhood attend three schools depending on grade level: John B. Dey Elementary School, Great Neck Middle School, and Frank W. Cox High School.

Bertha Palmer

According to the author Aline B. Saarinen, "so fabulous were her jewels that a newspaper declared that when she appeared on the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse with a tiara of diamonds as large as lima beans, a corsage panned with diamonds, a sunburst as big as a baseball, a stomacher of diamonds and all the pearls around her neck, Alois Burgskeller of the Metropolitan Opera, who was singing at the ship's concert, was stopped right in the middle of a high note."

Break a leg

In the autobiography of Manfred von Richthofen, during the First World War pilots of the German Air Force are recorded as using the phrase "Hals- und Beinbruch" (neck and leg fracture) to wish each other luck before a flight.

Carter Brown

In the early 1980s, Yates and Richard O'Brien of The Rocky Horror Show fame wrote a musical of The Stripper, described in classic Carter Brown terminology as ‘the girl who says it all from the neck down’.

Coat of arms of Ghana

Holding the coat of arms and seal are two golden Tawny eagles, which have black stars on a band of the national colors hanging around the neck.

Darrell Bryant

After Roper died from a severe neck injury sustained from a racing crash in his #50 Chevrolet Monte Carlo machine, Bryant has never worked in NASCAR ever again.

Diego Alcazar

On September 2007, Jason Morgan and Carly Corinthos Jacks find her nanny Leticia's body on the floor with a telephone cord wrapped around her neck.

DiMarzio

Dave Davidson of Revocation uses DiMarzio D Activator Bridge, Liquifire neck and Super 2 neck pickups

Disney's Once Upon a Dream Parade

In Mid-June 2010, Maleficent suddenly fell from the float and landed on her neck, due to her harness and seat structure snapping in half.

Eugen Weidmann

On September 1 of the same year, Weidmann hired a chauffeur named Joseph Couffy to drive him to the French Riviera where, in a forest outside Tours he shot him in the nape of the neck and stole his car and 2500 francs.

Frogger's Adventures: The Rescue

While the creatures of the Forgotten Island are typically enemies to Frogger, Apatosaurus uses his long neck to lift Frogger into the trees and Pterodactyl allows Frogger to ride on his back.

Globus pharyngis

A notable fictional sufferer was Danny Weems in the 1944 film Up in Arms, a hypochondriac who constantly complained about a "clicking" in his throat, especially when he turned his neck.

Horse's Neck

In the 1935 Fred Astaire movie Top Hat, Helen Broderick orders "un altro Horse’s Neck" in a stylized Venetian canal cocktail lounge.

Ian Fleming, in the 1966 book Octopussy, describes the Horse's Neck as "the drunkard's drink"; he was also quite partial to them himself.

Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings

Sefton, a horse that survived the attack at Hyde Park despite incurring serious injuries including wounds to his head, neck and back, became well-known due to the Horse of the Year Show, where he was awarded "Horse of the Year", and his numerous television appearances.

Interstate 95 in New York

After the Bruckner Interchange, I-95 turns northeast as the Bruckner Expressway, crossing Tremont Avenue before crossing under I-695 (the Throgs Neck Expressway).

Joanna Jepson

Jepson was born with a congenital jaw defect - her top jaw stuck out by eight millimetres and her lower jaw hung down into her neck.

John Cavendish

Although Wat Tyler, the leader of the revolt was struck down by William Walworth, mayor of London, during negotiations on 15 June, John Cavendish, the second son of the Chief Justice, gave the finishing stroke to Wat Tyler, the lord mayor having only wounded him in the neck.

Josie Maran

After building a résumé of over 25 commercials and advertisements, including playing Howie D's companion in the music video of Backstreet Boys hit Everybody (Backstreet's Back), in which she was bitten on the neck by Count Dracula (played by Howie D), Maran moved cross-country to join with Elite in New York City.

Jules Védrines

After Prague he proceeded via Sofia, Constantinople (where he pleased the Sultan by dropping a Turkish flag on the Imperial palace), reaching Beirut on 25 December, Jaffa on the 27th, and finally, on the 29th, landing on the polo ground at Heliopolis, where he was greeted by a representative of the Khedive and by the French Agent, who placed a laurel wreath bound with a tricoleur around his neck.

Katie Uhlaender

In memory of her father, she wears around her neck his ring of the 1972 Cincinnati Reds season in which the Reds won the National League pennant.

Leo Fender

The StingRay's two-band active equalizer, high output humbucking pickup, and smooth satin finished neck became a favorite of many influential bassists, including Louis Johnson, John Deacon, and Flea.

Mani H. Zadeh

During his career he has worked on numerous research projects on the subjects of sinus disease, head and neck cancer, and hearing loss.

María del Barrio

She began her career at the age of 14 working with Sadrac González and Sonia Escolano in the short film: Mr. Long-Neck.

Narragansett Pacer

James Fenimore Cooper described them as: "They have handsome foreheads, the head clean, the neck long, the arms and legs thin and tapered."; however, another source stated, "The hindquarters are narrow and the hocks a little crooked...", but also said, "They are very spirited and carry both the head and tail high. But what is more remarkable is that they amble with more speed than most horses trot, so that it is difficult to put some of them upon a gallop."

New Art Riot E.P.

The dismembered neck of the guitar was then signed by the band and Evans, and was used as a doorstop at his Perthshire T Pot studio.

Proposed Book of Mormon geographical setting

While there are disagreements about where the “narrow neck of land” resides, e.g. southern Mexico, Honduras, the Isthmus of Rivas between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, Panama, the following list of theories can all be categorized as Central American based.

Strongly influenced by John Lloyd Stephens’ 1841 bestseller, Incident of Travel in Central America, Parley Pratt set various Book of Mormon lands (including, apparently, the narrow neck) farther north and west of Panama.

Pushing Buttons

In the United States, the EP was not released, but "Black Friday" and "More Than You Are" ended up on Guide to Better Living and "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck" ended up on an ECW compilation released by Earache Records.

Puy

Sir A. Geikie has shown that the puy type of eruption was common in the British area in Carboniferous and Permian times, as abundantly attested in central Scotland by remains of the old volcanoes, now generally reduced by denudation to the mere neck, or volcanic vent, filled with tuff and agglomerate, or plugged with lava.

Rabbit of Seville

The cartoon, in a plotline reminiscent of Stage Door Cartoon, features Bugs Bunny being chased by Elmer Fudd into the stage door of the Hollywood Bowl, whereupon Bugs tricks Elmer into going onstage, and participating in a break-neck operatic production of their chase punctuated with gags and accompanied by musical arrangements by Carl Stalling, focusing on Rossini's overture to The Barber of Seville.

South Dragons

A neck injury which sidelined crowd favourite Cortez Groves saw the Dragons move on quickly, releasing Groves and signing Donta Smith.

Squamous-cell carcinoma

SCCs usually occur on portions of the body commonly exposed to the Sun; the face, ears, neck, hands, or arm.

St. John Emile Clavering Hankin

On a "dull, sultry, wet" June day in 1909, Hankin tied two seven-pound dumbbells around his neck and drowned himself in the River Ithon.

Sternocleidomastoid muscle

"Even C-3PO has it, in the form of little pistons on his neck. Watch Star Trek: The good guys always have them, and the bad guys don't. It's a classic alien designer trick," notes biologist and Hollywood anatomy consultant Stuart Sumida.

Swan neck duct

Swan - the animal to which the objects above are named after, due to the unique neck shape.

The Medallions

Green – who walked with a cane as a result of childhood polio – put together a singing group with three friends from Fremont High School, Andrew Blue (tenor), Randolph Bryant (baritone), and Ira Foley (bass), and named them the Medallions because of his own penchant for wearing medallions around his neck.

The Thing Around Your Neck

The Thing Around Your Neck is a short story collection by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, it was first published in April 2009 by Fourth Estate in the UK and by Knopf in the US.

Turiasaurus

According to the paleontologist Luis Alcalá, this is because a larger head may have caused Turiasaurus to break its neck.

Two Roads Diverge

Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) wakes up alone in the Nevada desert, he takes out a red syringe and injects himself in the neck.

Virginia is for Lovers

Will Adler, ESP Guitars artist, has the slogan printed on the neck of his custom guitars.

Weser Depression

The height of this peninsula, comprising Stadland and Butjadingen, lies between 0.8 metres under sea level (NN) and 1.2 metres above it (at a place on the 'neck' of the Jade Bight it reaches 2 metres).

William E. Brownell

is a professor in the Bobby R. Alford Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, where he is the head of the Cochlear Biophysics Laboratory and is also the Jake and Nina Kamin Chair.


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