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19 unusual facts about Ocean


2004 Monaco Grand Prix

Both of the Jaguar Racing R5 cars ran with Ocean's Twelve and Steinmetz Diamonds livery to represent the upcoming film Ocean's Twelve, starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt, both of whom were present at the grand prix, along with other special guests such as Roger Moore.

4 for Texas

Its first DVD release arrived on November 20, 2001 and the second release (as part of The Rat Pack collection of Ocean's 11 and Robin and the 7 Hoods) was on June 13, 2006.

AAA Five Diamond Award

A similar five diamond award, adjudicated by the fictional Royal Review Board, was featured in the 2007 film Ocean's Thirteen.

Cold deck

In the movie Ocean's Eleven, Danny Ocean accuses his partner Rusty Ryan of using a cold deck to cheat a group of Hollywood "teen heartthrobs" (cameoing as themselves) out of their money.

East Jersey State Prison

The prison's distinctive architecture, with its large dome and imposing metal gates, has appeared in many films including Lock Up, Crazy Joe, Rounders, Malcolm X, He Got Game, The Hurricane, and Ocean's Eleven.

Guitorgan

Woody Jackson's guitorgan playing can be heard on Orchestra Superstring's self-titled album and many film soundtracks Ocean's Thirteen,Ocean's Twelve, Fun with Dick and Jane, The Devil Wears Prada to name a few.

Haarlem railway station

The scenes in the 2004 film Ocean's Twelve that are meant to portray Amsterdam Centraal station were actually shot on platform 3a at Haarlem station.

Louisiana State University Laboratory School

Steven Soderbergh, Hollywood director of several films including Ocean's Eleven

Moritaka Hayashi

In 2008, he served on an international commission that generated controversy by calling for the immediate suspension of bluefin tuna fishing in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.

Norman Fell

Although Fell is best known for his television work, he also played minor character roles in several motion pictures including the original Ocean's 11, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, PT 109, The Graduate, Bullitt, and Catch-22 as Sergeant Towser.

Ocean's Kingdom

The live tracks are from the world première on 21 September 2011, as performed by the New York City Ballet Orchestra & conducted by Fayçal Karoui.

Ocean's seven

Ocean's Seven is a group of 7 long distance swims scattered across the globe: Irish Channel, the Cook Strait, the Molokai Channel, the English Channel, the Catalina Channel, the Tsugaru Strait and the Strait of Gibraltar.

Ocean's Three and a Half

Meanwhile, Stewie falls in love with Susie and attempts to win her heart by writing songs and making a detailed music video featuring him singing a direct version of Bryan Adams' song "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You".

Paul M. Lisnek

In 2008, Lisnek won a Chicago/Midwest Chapter Emmy award for co-hosting the Chicago premiere of the movie Ocean’s 13 along with Lisa Aprati.

Race Life of the Aryan Peoples

So of the Aryan folk; not the Vedas, not the Avestas, not the Iliad, or the Nibelungenlied, or Beowulf, but the marvelous tale of what the Aryan man has lived—how he has subdued the wild and waste lands—how he has made the desert to blossom as the rose—how he has built up empire with ax and plow, and has sailed the unknown paths of the seas—these are his true race epic.

San Lorenzo Megaport Project

There it will pick up cargo and continue on the largest river in the world to the Atlantic Ocean.

Shiloh, Florida

Located immediately north of the U.S. Government's Kennedy Space Center, the open access to the flyover range on the open Atlantic Ocean to the east, and easy access to the tracking facilities of the Eastern Test Range make the location attractive on many margins.

Teng Nong kon maha hia

On its release, despite negative reviews by film critics, the film was No. 1 at Thailand cinema box offices, topping such Hollywood films as Shrek the Third, Ocean's Thirteen and another Thai film, Ploy.

Working Classical

His subsequent forays into the classical realm are 2006's Ecce Cor Meum and 2011's Ocean's Kingdom.


Abronia umbellata

Originally described by the British botanist Aylmer Lambert, Abronia umbellata was collected in 1786 from Monterey, California by the gardner Jean Nicolas Collignon of the French La Pérouse expedition, which had stopped at the capitol of Alta California as part of a journey of scientific exploration spanning the Pacific Ocean.

Agastya

His main hermitage is placed by the epic somewhere in the western half of the Indian Ocean, further south of the so-called Malaya Mountains, amongst a series or chain of large islands and submerged mountains.

Arvid Pardo

From 1972 to 1975 Pardo was coordinator of the ocean studies program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. From 1975 to 1990 he was on the USC faculty, teaching political science (1975–81) and international relations (1981–90).

Batt Reef

The area received a high level of media attention following the death of The Crocodile Hunter star Steve Irwin on 4 September 2006 while filming an underwater documentary entitled Ocean's Deadliest.

Boddam, Aberdeenshire

The area around the headland of Buchan Ness was for many centuries the point from which trading and whaling voyages departed across open ocean, bound for Archangel, Greenland and Spitsbergen amongst other destinations.

Byrd Polar Research Center

Ice sheet flow into the ocean is increasing and in western Antarctica, the ice stream is draining into the Ross Ice Shelf with marked acceleration.

Calliostoma granulatum

This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from the Shetlands to the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands; in the Western Mediterranean Sea and the Adriatic Sea.

Carrier Air Wing Eleven

The 1972-1973 deployment was high lighted by an air power demonstration for the Shah of Iran and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff while deployed to the Indian Ocean.

Carrier Air Wing Six

A year later, the air wing participated in Ocean Venture ’88 in the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea, and then provided air support for Operation Earnest Will.

Ctenella chagius

It forms solid, smooth hemispherical domes and is found in the Indian Ocean in the vicinity of the Chagos Archipelago.

Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld

On 12 April 1928 these three left Baldonnel in the Bremen and crossed the Atlantic Ocean, landing at Greenly Island at the south coast of Labrador, Canada.

Emergency Shipbuilding program

All the ships to be built were collectively called the Ocean class and to be of an existing British design for 5-hatch cargo ships of about 10,000 tons' load displacement and 11 knots' service speed using obsolete, but readily available, triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine and coal-fired Scotch-type fire tube boilers.

Empress of China

RMS Empress of China, three Canadian Pacific Steamships ocean liners, one from 1891 to 1912, the other two briefly named Empress of China in 1921

Exclusive First Editions

Gilbow was also chosen as the brand under which a series of White Star Line ocean liners were produced, the models were issued between 1998 & 2000 and depicted the Titanic, Britannic and Olympic liners in various guises, these models no doubt came about because of the huge success of the Titanic Hollywood movie released in the late 1990s.

Fanning

Tabuaeran, also known as Fanning Atoll or Fanning Island, one of the Line Islands of the central Pacific Ocean.

Fernanda

Hurricane Fernanda has referred to ten tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean

Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic

Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic (FMFLANT) is an American maritime landing force that is spread across the Atlantic Ocean and reports to the United States Atlantic Command.

FreightCenter

These services include online freight quote comparisons for less than truckload, truckload, rail, ocean and air freight.

GoldWave

Adam Young (aka Owl City) used GoldWave to record all his vocals on his major label debut album "Ocean Eyes".

Henry Loch, 1st Baron Loch

The Boers were at the same time striving to frustrate Cecil Rhodes's schemes of northern expansion and planning to occupy Mashonaland, to secure control of Swaziland and Zululand and to acquire the adjacent lands up to the ocean.

HMS Ocean

The name Ocean entered the list from which names are selected for British ships in 1759, when the Royal Navy captured the French ship named Océan.

Jim Spellman

Currently a CNN all-platform journalist, Spellman played guitar in the High Back Chairs and Julie Ocean and drums in Velocity Girl.

Jimmy Hope

Four months later, he and Ned Lyons, with two other men, rented a basement underneath the Ocean Bank, located at Fulton and Greenwich Streets, in New York City.

John S. Mayo

Following this, Mayo joined Bell Labs, now Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, (1955) where he first worked on early computers as the Triadic and Leprechaun, the Telstar satellite, ocean sonar systems and various switching systems.

Kevin Duffy

He also presided over the trial of Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the Bojinka plot (the Manilla Bombing Conspiracy), to hijack planes bound for the west coast of the United States and fly them into the Pacific Ocean on a coordinated schedule.

Labrador, Queensland

This did not prevent the investment and building of the Grand Hotel in 1886 at Deepwater point, overlooking the ocean.

Lempa

Lempa River, Central American waterway flowing 422 km from its sources between Sierra Madre and Sierra del Merendón in southern Guatemala (30.4 km), where it is known as Río Olopa, through Honduras (31.4 km) and El Salvador (360 km) to Pacific Ocean; forms small part of Honduras-El Salvador boundary, where it is called Río Lempa

Marginellidae

Marginellidae, or the margin shells, are a taxonomic family of small, often colorful, sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Neogastropoda.

Mitridae

Mitridae, known as mitre shells, are a taxonomic family of sea snails, widely distributed marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Neogastropoda.

Nassarius recidivus

This species is distributed in the Western Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean off Madeira.

Ocean of Definitive Meaning

Jeffrey Hopkins (translator) and Kevin Vose (editor) rendered the Ocean of Definitive Meaning into English as Mountain Doctrine, published by Snow Lion, Ithaca in 2006 .

Ocean Software

In 1985, Ocean Software managed to secure the first movie licences, such as Rambo, Short Circuit and Cobra, as well as the TV show Miami Vice and RoboCop which spent about a year on the top of the charts.

Odostomia pratoma

The type specimen was found in the Pacific Ocean off Santa Rosa Island, California

Old Crow, Yukon

A large number of apparently human modified animal bones have been discovered in the Old Crow area, notably at Bluefish Caves, located near the shores of the Arctic Ocean, that have been dated to 25,000-40,000 years ago by carbon dating, several thousand years earlier than generally accepted human habitation of North America.

Ostreococcus tauri

Ostreococcus tauri is a unicellular species of marine green alga about 0.8 micrometres (μm) in diameter, the smallest free-living (non-symbiotic) eukaryote yet described.

P. caesius

Praealticus caesius, a combtooth blenny species found in the western central Pacific ocean

Pacific Jewel

In April 2007, the vessel was transferred to Ocean Village, and after a small refit in Bremerhaven, was christened as Ocean Village Two by sisters Jodie Kidd and Jemma Kidd.

PARTA

Pacific Islands Forum, an inter-governmental organization of countries in the Pacific Ocean

Poromya granulata

Poromya granulata has a subarctic and boreal distribution on either side of the North Atlantic Ocean.

Randy California

Randy California drowned in the ocean while rescuing his 12-year-old son from a rip current near the home of his mother, Bernice Pearl, at Molokai, Hawaii.

Royal William

SS Royal William, Canadian ship launched in 1831 and the first ship that crossed the Atlantic Ocean almost continually under steam power 1833.

Seguenzia elegans

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Bay of Biscay, Madeira, Bermuda and Argentine.

Star Ocean

There was an incomplete manga series by Mayumi Azuma based on Star Ocean: The Second Story, which became a similarly incomplete anime series Star Ocean EX.

The Litchfield Company

The company owned a significant amount of land in the Pawleys Island area of South Carolina and spent forty years developing highly-amenitized resort communities stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Waccamaw River, many golf courses, and a large marina.

Timeline of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season

EDT (0000 UTC) – Tropical Storm Agnes emerges into the Atlantic Ocean near Nags Head, North Carolina.

VI-Spring

By 1914 these beds were found in luxurious hotels, clubs and ocean liners, including The Queen Mary & The Titanic.

Vlasovite

Other localities for vlasovite include the volcanic Ascension Island, in the South Atlantic Ocean, the Kipawa Complex, Villedieu Township, Quebec and the Strange Lake Complex in Labrador.

Wanamassa

Wanamassa, New Jersey, a census-designated place and unincorporated area within Ocean Township, in Monmouth County