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8 unusual facts about Normal


Cortland, Illinois

Because of its status as an incorporated town, Cortland has adopted the slogan, "The Third Largest Town in Illinois." Only the towns of Cicero and Normal are larger, in terms of population.

Hayley Wickenheiser

In 1995, Wickenheiser was a member of Team Canada at the World Junior Fastball Championships, held in Normal, Illinois.

Normal: The Düsseldorf Ripper

Normal: The Düsseldorf Ripper is Anthony Neilson's fictional account of Peter Kürten's life, told from the point of view of his lawyer.

Roger Sedarat

He was born in Normal, Illinois to an Iranian father and American mother, and grew up in San Antonio, Texas.

Sherman Barton

Sherman "Bucky" Barton (born February 2, 1875 in Normal, Illinois - July 11, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois) was an Outfielder in the Negro Leagues.

Souled American

The band has its origins in Normal, a college town in central Illinois and revolves around vocalists Chris Grigoroff (also guitar) and Joe Adducci (also bass) who previously played in a band called The Uptown Rulers.

Sylvester Ayodele Arise

He obtained an M.Sc Urban & Regional Planning from Alabama A&M University, Normal, Alabama USA in 1984.

Trend Is Dead! Records

Records (stylized as tREND iS dEAD! records) is an independent record label based out of Normal, Illinois, United States.


2008–09 Elitserien season

The season started earlier than previous seasons due to the 2009 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships in Switzerland had been scheduled earlier than normal.

2010 Super 14 Final

The Bulls' normal home, Loftus Versfeld, was unavailable because it was used as a venue for the 2010 FIFA World Cup being held in South Africa beginning 11 June.

Albert Henry Vestal

Born on a farm near Frankton, in Madison County, Indiana, on January 18, 1875, he attended common schools, worked in steel mills and factories and attended the Indiana State Normal School, now Indiana State University, at Terre Haute.

Alto guitar

Six-string alto guitar, a classical guitar with light strings and a small body, designed to be tuned higher than the normal classical guitar.

Canine glaucoma

Normal IOP in dogs can range between 12 and 25 mm Hg and the two eyes should be similar in pressure.

Charleroi Metro

This branch runs on the street as a normal tram after Pétria station, following a line of the old Vicinal network.

Complications of pregnancy

Because of this, blood-borne microorganisms (Hepatitis B, HIV), organisms associated with sexually transmitted disease (e.g., Gonorrhoea and Chlamydia), and normal fauna of the genito-urinary tract (e.g., Candida) are among those commonly seen in infection of newborns.

Conor O'Sullivan

A goal by Robert O' Driscoll with seven minutes of normal time left proved the decisive score as Sarsfield's claimed a 2-14 to 2-13 victory.

DB Class 210

Since the DB V 169-001 (DB 219 001) had already proven sufficiently that a locomotive of this type would work the Class 210 went into normal operations fairly quickly - between the end of 1970 and the beginning of 1971 the locomotives began operations, by the end of 1971 all eight locomotives had been introduced to the railway centre (Bahnbetriebswerk or Bw.) at Kempten and were in scheduled operation.

DUT Racing

Having used normal petrol for over 7 years, the team set itself a new challenge by convertingb the Yamaha WR450F engine to an Ethanol (E85) powered engine.

Ekkirala Bharadwaja

He personally met many true saints(called Avadhutas) and told about them to normal people who can not recognise them.

Fachhochschule

There are a few universities like Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and Bundeswehr University Munich which also run Fachhochschule courses of studies in addition to their normal courses.

Franciscan Province of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

As part of re-establishing normal church structures, the bishops worked to transfer parishes from the Franciscans to the diocesan clergy, but friars resisted, and in the 1940s, the two Franciscan provinces still held 63 of 79 parishes in the dioceses of Vrhbosna and Mostar.

Gilbert Emery

He prepared for college at Naples High School and at the Normal School in Oneonta, New York.

Gloria Blondell

For Daisy Duck's second appearance as a Disney cartoon character, Gloria Blondell took over, marking the debut of Daisy's "normal" voice.

Goose step

Zim, in the show Invader Zim, walks with a goose step as his normal walking mechanism.

Growth hormone-binding protein

Normal serum levels of growth hormone Binding Protein 3 may rule out growth hormone insensitivities, like those seen in Laron syndrome.

Herbert Federer

In 1987, he and his Brown colleague Wendell Fleming won the American Mathematical Society's Steele Prize "for their pioneering work in Normal and Integral currents."

Human cloning

Since a normal embryo implants at 14 days, Dr Robert Lanza, ACT's director of tissue engineering, told the Daily Mail newspaper that the embryo could not be seen as a person before 14 days.

Interferon gamma

Cause normal cells to increase expression of class I MHC molecules as well as class II MHC on antigen presenting cells—specifically through induction of antigen processing genes, including subunits of the immunoproteasome (MECL1, LMP2, LMP7), as well as TAP and ERAAP in addition possibly to the direct upregulation of MHC heavy chains and B2-microglobulin itself

Intertriginous

Intertriginous areas are known to harbor large amounts of aerobic cocci and aerobic coryneform bacteria which are both parts of normal skin flora.

Isotopically pure diamond

The 12C isotopically pure, (or in practice 15-fold enrichment of isotopic number, 12 over 13 for carbon) diamond gives a 50% higher thermal conductivity than the already high value of 900-2000 W/(m·K) for a normal diamond, which contains the natural isotopic mixture of 98.9% 12C and 1.1% 13C.

Itanglese

Itanglese, also known as Anglitaliano, refers to the blend (at different degrees) of Italian and English, in the speech of people who speak parts of two languages, or whose normal language is different from that of the country where they live.

Joseph Mangan

Joseph Mangan is an American aerospace engineer who, in 2004, told European aviation authorities of his belief that the microprocessors controlling cabin pressurization valves in the new Airbus A380 might allow a sudden depressurization of the passenger cabin in flight—which, at normal cruising altitudes, could endanger the lives of people aboard the aircraft.

KJWP

This was likely because it was sandwiched between KBCI-TV in Boise (now KBOI-TV), KTWO-TV in Casper, KTVQ in Billings, Montana, and KUTV in Salt Lake City; the channel 2 analog signal traveled a very long distance under normal conditions.

Kolmogorov–Smirnov test

In the special case of testing for normality of the distribution, samples are standardized and compared with a standard normal distribution.

KWKW

In 2010, KWKW interrupted its normal Spanish-language feed to carry most of ESPN Radio's English-language coverage.

Machinefabriek

Since then a solid stream of singles and albums was released on labels like Type, Home Normal, 12K, Spekk, Dekorder, Digitalis, Experimedia and Staalplaat.

Magnetic tape

It was the team at Ampex, led by Charles Ginsburg, that made the breakthrough of using a spinning recording head and normal tape speeds to achieve a very high head-to-tape speed that could record and reproduce the high bandwidth signals of video.

Matt Nix

The television series follows agent Michael Westen (played by Jeffrey Donovan), who is abandoned by all his normal intelligence contacts.

Miranda Cosgrove discography

! scope="row" "Leave It All to Me"
(featuring Drake Bell)

Montana Air National Guard

As state militia units, the units in the Montana Air National Guard are not in the normal United States Air Force chain of command.

Night bus lines in Israel

The Night bus lines in Israel are a project of the Ministry of Transport, intended to supply safe and easy public transport to the night entertainment places, for normal bus fares, which operated since 2009.

Normal matrix

The concept of normal matrices can be extended to normal operators on infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces and to normal elements in C*-algebras.

Normal Park

The Cardinals joined the new American Professional Football Association (soon renamed the National Football League) and continued to use Normal Park as their home field for several years and continue to be called the Racine Cardinals for a while.

Paul Douglas Tougaw

Recently, Dr. Tougaw has developed a Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) device having normal QCA cells laid out in a planar structure, having a set of input lines and a set of orthogonal output lines.

Peginterferon alfa-2a

This drug is approved around the world for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C (including patients with HIV co-infection, cirrhosis, 'normal' levels of ALT) and has recently been approved (in the EU, U.S., China and many other countries) for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B.

Pitch shift

Alvin and the Chipmunks recordings with David Seville (aka Ross Bagdasarian) were created by recording vocal tracks at slow speeds, then playing them back at normal speeds.

Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1977–1978

Their best-known skit consisted of Davis appearing in normal dress, while Franken appeared in a flowing garment, with a shaved head and a pony tail and announced he was becoming a Hare Krishna.

Smithville Seminary

The site of Henry Barnard’s first Rhode Island Teachers Institute in 1845, the school began giving normal instruction for teachers with public funding in 1867, but ceased in 1871 when the state's Education Commissioner re-established the Rhode Island Normal School and cut program funding for other institutions.

Software fault tolerance

Software fault tolerance is the ability of computer software to continue its normal operation despite the presence of system or hardware faults.

Staveley Town railway station

Normal passenger traffic over the Doe Lea Branch ceased in 1930 and the route was severed by the closure of Rowthorn Tunnel near Hardwick Hall.

Subsonic

Infrasound, sound at frequencies below the normal threshold of human hearing

Tapani Koivuniemi

The company web site gives the appearance of a normal publishing company – though there is no postal address for any offices - and indeed, listed among their clients are British Airways, the Finnish taxation authority, the City of Espoo, and Kela (The Finnish social security authority).

The Normal Years

The Normal Years is a compilation album of singles, live songs, songs on other compilations, and previously unreleased recordings by indie rock band Built to Spill.

Verdigris

This degradation is to blame for the brown or bronze color of grass or foliage in many old paintings, although not typically those of the "Flemish primitive" painters such as Jan van Eyck, who often used normal verdigris.

Wild Man Fischer

In the 1980s, Fischer worked with Art and Artie Barnes (actually Bill Mumy, of Lost in Space/Babylon 5 fame, and Robert Haimer), to produce two albums, Pronounced Normal (1981) and Nothing Scary (1984).

Yangtze Normal University

Fuling Normal University is the venue of Peter Hessler's memoir River Town, completed and published after he served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer from 1996 to 1998.


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