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On High

The song "To Please" was featured in the film Ingenious from 2009, and the song "Highway" was featured in Episode 9 of the television series Hard Rock Medical in 2013.



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2012 Bangkok bombings

Chief of Royal Thai Police Priewpan Damapong instructed the Transportation Ministry to place the country's six international airports on high alert.

Angels We Have Heard on High

"Angels We Have Heard on High" is most commonly sung to the hymn tune "Gloria", as arranged by Edward Shippen Barnes.

Battle of Beauport

When he arrived before Quebec on 26 June, Wolfe observed that the northern shore of the St. Lawrence River around Beauport (the Beauport shore), the most favourable site for the landing of troops, was strongly defended by the French, who had built entrenchments on high ground, redoubts and floating batteries.

Charles Piers Egerton Hall

He had been on high level reconnaissance mission to Düsseldorf when he was either shot down or suffered engine failure (Accounts Vary).

Cogenhoe

Cogenhoe is situated on high ground overlooking the Nene Valley.

Cwm Twrch transmitting station

The Cwm Twrch television relay station is sited on high ground to the southeast of the village of Upper Cwm Twrch in the upper Swansea Valley.

Darwin's Dangerous Idea

In philosophical arguments concerning the reducibility (or otherwise) of the human mind, Dennett's concept pokes fun at the idea of intelligent design emanating from on high, either originating from one or more gods, or providing its own grounds in an absurd, Münchhausen-like bootstrapping manner.

Discovery Bay, Washington

Cape George is located on high bluffs at the northeast entrance of the bay.

E. W. Pugin

It has the tallest spire in Dublin (231 ft), and occupies a prominent position on high ground overlooking the Liffey Valley.

Emin Garibov

He was part of the Russian silver medal-winning team that competed at the 2012 European Championships in Montpellier, France, where he also won the gold on high bar.

Gay.co.nz

In conjunction with the New Zealand AIDS Foundation which has a particular focus on "high risk" groups within New Zealand, gay.co.nz works closely to promote the message of "safe sex".

Hal Herbert

During the World War II, he flew Spitfires on high-altitude photo-reconnaissance trips and was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross.

Houston High School

Additionally, articles on high schools in the Houston, Texas can be found at List of Houston Independent School District schools.

Hydroelectric power in Kenya

Even though the capital and largest city in Kenya, Nairobi is situated on high altitudes which is Southern Kenya, most of Kenya especially the counties in the North of Nairobi especially past Isiolo are either Arid or Semi-Arid and are therefore classified as ASAL Areas.

Idaho Centennial Trail

North of the Selway-Bitterroot, the trail hop-scotches along the Idaho-Montana border on the backbone of the Bitterroot Mountains for more than 85 miles (137 km) on high ridges.

Ignaz Günther

Weyarn—Catholic Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul (woodcarving on high altar, including Annunciation, Pietà, putti, the carved shrine of Saint Valerius, and silver-framed tabernacle) (1763–1764)

Jan Pearson

When Pearson was younger she worked in the Royal Exchange pub on High Street in Stourbridge for many years.

Japanese post-war economic miracle

Examination of the Influence of Japanese Culture and the Failures of Economic Reforms Proposed by Supreme Command Allied Powers (SCAP) Economic Missions from 1947 to 1949, on High Rates of Personal Savings in Japan by Nancy Collisson / EALC MA Thesis.

Jari Torkki

Torkki alongside with Erik Hämäläinen has an iconic status in Lukko and is held on high regard by Lukko fans.

Kappeln, Rhineland-Palatinate

Friedhofweg 2 – former rectory; sandstone-framed plastered building on high stone-block pedestal, 1854–1856, architect District Building Councillor Leonhard, Sankt Wendel; in the barn Roman spolia

Keeping Score

Two concert performance episodes of the works explored in the series were produced using high-definition technology and 5.1 Dolby surround sound, and aired on High-definition PBS stations throughout the country.

Kısmetim-1 incident

On the way to Port of Ajman before dawn, the captain ordered to pickup goods from a motorboat on high sea, which docked the ship.

Ladislav Lubina

He started to play ice hockey on high level in town of Hradec Králové, then he came to HC Pardubice in 1984–85 and spent over 20 seasons in Czech Extraliga (Czechoslovak).

Lansdale/Doylestown Line

The ex-Reading's electrification system, however, relies on a transformer at Wayne Junction, and separate high-voltage pylons for longer-distance trains, similar to those found on European high-speed rail systems and on the Northeast Corridor between New Haven, Connecticut and Boston.

Launched roller coaster

A recent newcomer to the hydraulic launch industry is Vekoma, who opened a coaster in 2004 called Booster Bike at Toverland in the Netherlands, said to give riders a sensation of racing on high performance motorcycles over a low twisted layout, at speeds up to 47 mph (75 km/h).

Leo Brewer

Brewer was instrumental in founding the National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council Committee on High-Temperature Chemistry, as well as organizing the first Gordon Research Conference on High-Temperature Chemistry in 1960.

Leonard Henry Trent

In September 1939 Trent went to France as part of No. 15 Squadron RAF, flying Bristol Blenheims on high-level photo-reconnaissance missions over enemy territory.

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive

In March 2012, MEP Markus Ferber suggested amendments to the European Commission's proposals, intended to strengthen restrictions on high-frequency trading and commodity price manipulation.

Marshall P. Tulin

After graduating from MIT in 1946, he first worked on high-speed wind tunnel testing of the X-1 aircraft before moving to work for the Navy at the David Taylor Model Basin.

Melton, Victoria

Many live performances are held at the Melton Civic Centre, on High Street, and also at the Tabcorp Park racing complex, on Ferris Road, Melton South.

Merlo, Buenos Aires

Merlo built his ranch-house on high ground overlooking the nearby Camino Real del Oeste, a road that linked Buenos Aires with Lima, the capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru.

Metal Building Manufacturers Association

The then-current American National Standards Institute, or ANSI, standard was based on high-rise buildings and was not appropriate for low-rise structures.

Mike Penner

Initially reporting on high school sports, Penner went on to cover a variety of national and international sporting events including the Olympics, Major League Baseball, tennis, and World Cup soccer.

Muntassir Mamoon

Winning the lawsuit against General Safiullah on High Court's verdict to maintain the historic locations at Sarwardy Uddyan and all over Bangladesh.

MV María Alejandra

She sunk suddenly on high seas some 130-150 km off the coast west of Nouadhibou, Mauritania on 11 March 1980 after several internal explosions presumably related with malfunction on the inert gas system.

Nancy Collisson

Her thesis, An Examination of the Influence of Japanese Culture and the Failures of Economic Reforms Proposed by Supreme Command Allied Powers (SCAP) Economic Missions (1947 to 1949) on High Rates of Personal Savings in Japan, is relevant to the Japanese post-war economic miracle.

Newburyport High School

The current building, designed by architect Edwin Dodge, occupies the previous Mount Rural on High Street.

Portlethen

Portlethen lies about two kilometres east of the ancient Causey Mounth road, which was built on high ground to make passable this only available medieval route across the Mounth from coastal points south to Aberdeen.

Ranunculus acraeus

The genus Ranunculus includes buttercups and acraeus means 'on high.'

Renee Griffin

Renee has guest-starred on High Tide, Dangerous Women, Eye on L.A., and on the CBS hit CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Retrofit Films

After graduating from Loyola Marymount University’s film school, Chris Hanada and Tanner Kling, the two founders of Retrofit Films, started their careers working together at Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner’s C/W Productions on high-profile films like Mission Impossible II, Vanilla Sky and The Others, where they contributed to script and story development, research, production and promotion.

Salix herbacea

herbacea is adapted to survive in harsh environments, and has a wide distribution on both sides of the North Atlantic, in arctic northwest Asia, northern Europe, Greenland, and eastern Canada, and further south on high mountains, south to the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Rila in Europe, and the northern Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States.

Sanjeevaiah Park

After the 2007 bombings in Hyderabad, all major parks including this park were put on high security.

Sephirot

In Medieval Kabbalah, the task of man is the Yichud-Union on High of the Male-Female principles of Divinity, healing the apparent separation and concealment of the Shechinah Female indwelling Divine presence that sustains this world from the "Holy One Blessed Be He", the transcendent Divine on High.

Social effects of Hurricane Katrina

The Audubon Zoo lost only three animals out of a total of 1,400 due to good disaster planning and location on high ground.

Springboard

American artist Norman Rockwell's painting titled Boy on High Dive (1947) shows a typical wooden springboard of the early 20th century era at the 20-foot height.

Spycatcher

Moreover, Spycatcher tells of the MI6 plot to assassinate President Nasser during the Suez Crisis; of joint MI5-CIA plotting against left-wing British Prime Minister Harold Wilson (secretly accused of being a KGB agent by the Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn); and of MI5's eavesdropping on high-level Commonwealth conferences.

Steve Kille

He founded Isode Limited in 1992, focusing on high end messaging and directory products, initially based around the ISODE codebase.

Trickle-down theory

Trickle-down economics, a rhetorical term for tax cuts on high incomes and business activity