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unusual facts about Nose, Osaka



2007 European Cup Winter Throwing

Discus winners Gerd Kanter and Franka Dietzsch became world champions, while the men's hammer throwers Primož Kozmus and Ivan Tsikhan took the top two spots in Osaka as they did in Yalta.

2007 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk

The Women's 20 km Race Walk event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 31, 2007 in the streets of Osaka, Japan.

547th Intelligence Squadron

Trained in Southern California, under IV Fighter Command initially equipped with specifically modified twin-seat black painted P-38M Lightnings equipped with AN/APS-6 radar in an external radome underneath the nose, relocated radio equipment and anti-flash gun muzzles.

A-Train

Map construction adds the ability to build custom maps and terrains, and included pre-built cities Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe.

Avro Avis

It had a fixed landing gear with a tail skid and could be powered by a nose-mounted 32 hp Bristol Cherub II engine or a 35 hp Blackburne Thrush radial piston engine.

Bach Air Yacht

Different models were powered by varying combinations of Wright, Ryan-Siemens, Kinner, Comet, and Pratt & Whitney engines, a large engine in the nose of the aircraft and two smaller "helpers" under the wings in nacelles supported by struts.

Bald man with the long nose

The bald man with the long nose (often simply referred to as the bald man) is a fictional character and supporting antagonist of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events series.

Barrio 19

Barrio 19 is a television program shown on MTV showcasing a diversity of street talents and urban underground pursuits in cities such as Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, London, Osaka, Hamburg, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.

Captain Euro

He described the Dr. D. Vider character as having "a hooked nose and a goatee beard, like some anti-Semitic caricature from the Völkischer Beobachter", and stated that D. Vider's real first name, David, and his occupation in finance could also be considered indicators that the villain is meant to be Jewish.

Chrisstanleyite

First discovered by Dr. Werner Paar from a sample received from Hope’s Nose, Torquay, Devon, England, chrisstanleyite has since been discovered in the Pilbara region of Western Australia and in El Chire, La Rioja, Argentina.

Conroy Tri-Turbo-Three

The Conroy Tri-Turbo-Three was a Douglas DC-3 fitted with three Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 engines by Conroy Aircraft; the third engine was mounted on the nose of the aircraft.

Corky Carroll

Wins first place at the Tom Morey Nose Riding Invitational – The first contest ever to pay prize money.

Dōtonbori

The sign has been altered on several occasions to celebrate events such as the World Cup and to show support for the Osaka baseball team, the Hanshin Tigers.

Douglas DC-5

The aircraft arrived at Haifa in May 1948, and from there went to Sde Dov, where its markings were removed and the name "Yankee Pasha - The Bagel Lancer" was crudely painted on the nose by hand.

Ernest Goes to Camp

The song used to detach the box turtle from Ernest's nose is "Happy Together," a song which was written and recorded by the musical group The Turtles.

Explorer 2

Following the launch of the Soviet Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) was directed to proceed with the launching of a satellite using the Juno-I four-stage variant of the three-stage Jupiter-C, which had already been flight-tested in nose-cone re-entry tests for the Jupiter IRBM (intermediate-range ballistic missile).

Frenkel exercises

The exercises were developed by Heinrich Frenkel, a Swiss neurologist who, one day in 1887, while examining a patient with ataxia, observed the patient's poor performance of the finger-to-nose test.

Hálfdanar saga Brönufóstra

During a sea-voyage he is dragged off course by the witchcraft of a troll named Jarnnef (Iron-Nose) and shipwrecked on the shore of Helluland.

Harmonica Frank

He could also play harmonica with his nose and thus play two harmonicas at once, a skill he shared with blues harp players Walter Horton and Gus Cannon's partner Noah Lewis.

Higashi-Hanazono Station

When the large events are held at Kintetsu Hanazono Rugby Stadium, part of express trains running both direction and part of rapid express trains running for Osaka Namba and Kobe stop at the station (examples: the National High School Rugby Tournament games, the international rugby football games, the Japan Top League games (Kintetsu Liners, when crowded))

Hong Kong Fir Shipping Co Ltd v Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd

On the voyage from Liverpool to Osaka, the engines suffered several breakdowns, and was off-hire for a total of five weeks, undergoing repairs.

Iliaș Alexandru

In 1668 he punished Nicolae Milescu who had been plotting against him by having his nose cut off.

In the King of Prussia

The group of anti-war activists were charged with the September 1980 destruction of nose cones designed for nuclear warheads at the Re-Entry Division of the General Electric Space Technology Center in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

István Majoros

On December 31 (New Year's Eve), 2006, Majoros made his mixed martial arts debut against Norifumi Yamamoto at K-1 Dynamite in Osaka, Japan and lost via TKO in the 1st round.

Jesse Ceci

Mr. Ceci made many solo appearances including the Denver Chamber Orchestra, Royal Metropolitan Orchestra of Japan, Shizuoka Symphony Orchestra, Osaka Municipal Band, The Mozart Festival in Whistler, British Columbia, Bach Carmel festival in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, Colorado Music Festival, Minnesota Orchestra, Esterhazy Orchestra, New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra and with the Denver Symphony Orchestra as soloist in over thirty major works.

Jin Goto

He has held exhibitions at The British Museum, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Osaka City Museum of Art, the Paper Museum in Tokyo, Ginza Matsuzakaya Department Store, Ikebukuro Tobu Department Store, Gallery Art Salon in Chiba, Gallery Shinseido in Minamiaoyama, and Onward Gallery in Nihonbashi.

Kansai Telecasting Corporation

Osaka International Ladies Marathon (大阪国際女子マラソン, Hosted by Japan Association of Athletics Federations, Kansai TV, the Sankei Shimbun, Sankei Sports, Radio Osaka and Osaka City)

Kawanishi K-7 Transport Seaplane

The K-7A entered service on Nippon Kokus service between Osaka and Fukuoka in January 1925, mainly carrying airmail rather than passengers.

Larson Air Force Base

Larson's P-51D Mustang (AAF Ser. No. 44-13881, nose-name "Mary, Queen of Scotts") was shot down and crashed on 4 August 1944 near Uelzen, Germany.

Line 2, Wuhan Metro

Stations of Line 2 provides female only waiting area during hours of operation, following the example of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Tehran and Mexico City, to protect female riders from sexual harassment.

Manorama Six Feet Under

In a cinema-noir style, the makers of Manorama Six Feet Under acknowledge the inspiration from the original by playing the sequence where Jack Nicholson's character gets his nose slashed on the main character's (Satyaveer) television.

Marianne Pretorius

Here they climbed in 9 different states over a period of 5 months including Yosemite, where they started on the "Leaning Tower" and then went on to climb "The Nose" and "The Zodiac" on El Capitan in August 1999 - their first experience of big walls.

Matt Tegenkamp

Tegenkamp also finished second behind Bernard Lagat in the 5,000m at the 2007 U.S. Outdoor Track & Field Championships, which earned him the right to compete at the IAAF World Championships in Osaka.

Michel Tapié

Tapié organized and curated scores of exhibitions of new and modern art in major cities all over the world, including not only Paris and Turin but also New York, Rome, Tokyo, Munich, Madrid, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Milan, and Osaka.

Misawa Airport

Initially served by Toa Airways with McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and MD-80 aircraft to Tokyo (Haneda), Sapporo (Chitose), and Osaka Itami, operations were upgraded to Airbus A300 aircraft after Toa Airways became Japan Air System in 1988.

Nose, Osaka

Nose is noted for the "Noma Keyaki", a 1,000-year old Keaki tree, 25 m tall, 11.95 m trunk circumference.

Osaka International Peace Center

It is a five-minute walk from Morinomiya Station on the JR Osaka Loop Line and Chūō and Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi subway lines.

Pot Noodle

In Douglas Adams' 1988 novel The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, detective Dirk Gently encounters (and subsequently has his nose broken by) a television-addicted boy who survives on nothing but Pot Noodle.

PVAXX

The PVAXX logo will feature on the side of the nose and on the drivers’ helmets, beginning at the 2006 Chinese Grand Prix.

Robin Aiglon

The Aiglon is an all-metal low-wing monoplane with a fixed tricycle landing gear and powered by a nose-mounted 180hp (134kW) Lycoming O-360-A3AD or a Lycoming O-360-A3A engine.

SIAI-Marchetti SM.101

It had an enclosed cabin for two crew and six passengers and was powered by a nose-mounted 235 hp (175 kW) Walter Bora radial engine.

Sir Baboon McGoon

Its nose art and name were based on the male character Baboon McGoon from Al Capp's comic strip, Li'l Abner.

St. Cloud Hospital

Inpatient and outpatient surgery serves patients requiring trauma, orthopedic, urological, ear/nose/throat, retina, cardiovascular, neurological, plastic and bariatric surgery.

Sud Aviation Vautour

The IIB bomber lacked radar or any other modern nav/attack systems, weapons being aimed by the bombardier in a glass nose section with a World War II-vintage Norden bombsight.

Sulikphaa

After obtaining permission of the monarch, Hulou Phukan cut off the ears and nose of Bhotai, and plucked one of his eyes and let him returned to his home in Nagaon.

TOS-1

The nickname Buratino matches the name of the hero of a Russian version of a Pinocchio-style tale (by Alexey Tolstoy), because of the big "nose" of the launcher.

Transport in Macau

It was inaugurated on December 1995 and has since established a number of regulars flights between Macau and major cities in Northeast and Southeast Asia, for example Bangkok, Beijing, Kaohsiung, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, etc.

Transportation in the Philippines

After offering low fares to domestic destinations, Cebu Pacific launched its international operations on November 2001 and now flies to Bangkok, Busan, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur, Macau, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Taipei.

Ueda Akinari

Born to an Osaka prostitute and an unknown father, Ueda was adopted in his fourth year by a wealthy merchant who reared him in comfort and provided him with a good education.


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