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unusual facts about Ordinary



30 Odd Foot of Grunts

In early 2005, 30 Odd Foot of Grunts as a group "dissolved/evolved", with Russell Crowe feeling his future music would take a new direction, and he began a collaboration with Alan Doyle of the Canadian band Great Big Sea, and with it a new band: The Ordinary Fear of God.

30 Odd Foot of Grunts and The Ordinary Fear of God are bands formed by actor Russell Crowe and friends.

Ailas

The Mahabharata (Sabha Parva:14) mentioned about the Ailas as, "The numerous royal lines and other ordinary Kshatriyas all represent themselves to be the descendants of Aila and Ikshwaku. The descendants of Aila, as indeed, the kings of Ikshwaku’s race, are each divided into a hundred separate dynasties."

An Ordinary Day in an Unusual Place

An Ordinary Day in an Unusual Place was the third album for the jazz-rap group Us3.

Arieh Iserles

He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and wrote his PhD dissertation on numerical methods for stiff ordinary differential equations.

Billy Jim Baker

A member of the International Clown Hall of Fame, he wrote two songs that were recorded by Jerry Jeff Walker, "Too Old to Change" (featured on the 1979 album of the same name) and "Contrary to Ordinary" (featured on the 1978 album of the same name).

British and Irish Legal Information Institute

Bailii was set up after a long and hard campaign by barrister Laurie West-Knights QC, Lord Saville and Lord Justice Brooke, who were concerned about the lack of availability of court judgments to ordinary court users and were inspired by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) LII.

Burrel, Albania

The city used to be the site of one of the most terrible prisons of the communist regime, where both ordinary criminals and political prisoners such as Bashkim Shehu and Fatos Lubonja or the Catholic priest Dom Simon Jubani were held.

Charles Madge

A chance encounter with Tom Harrisson through the pages of the New Statesman in 1937 led to the pair's establishment of Mass-Observation, a unique social experiment to record the thoughts of 'ordinary' people on contemporary subjects.

Courts in Austria

The system of courts in Austria interpreting and applying Austrian law is marked by a division between ordinary courts, dealing with criminal and civil cases, and public law tribunals for constitutional law, administrative law and asylum law.

Disclosure and Barring Service

Sociologist Frank Furedi has stated that CRB checks cannot provide a "cast-iron guarantee that children will be safe with a particular adult", and that their use has created an atmosphere of suspicion and is "poisoning" relationships between the generations, with many ordinary parents finding themselves regarded as "potential child abusers".

El Fin

Based on the director's 2008 short film The End, El Fin tells the story about two friends; Nico and Carlos (Pablo and Kurt) who wake up one ordinary day to find out that the world is at its end, so they take on a journey to enjoy their last day on Earth.

Extra Ordinary Barry

Extra Ordinary Barry is comedy film directed by Vivi Stafford and stars Jay Convente, Carrie Chason, Natalie Carter, Amrapali Ambegoakar, featuring additional performances by Ashton Lunceford, Matthew Hatchette and Shell Z.

Greyworld

In each case greyworld took a set of ordinary street railings and tuned them so that when you run a stick or an umbrella along them, rather than making the 'clack-clack-clack' sound as expected, they played The Girl from Ipanema.

Headless computer

It is also possible to use systems such as X Window System and VNC combined with virtual display drivers allow remote connections to headless machines through ordinary Graphical user interfaces, often running over network protocols like the internet's TCP/IP.

Kannapolis, North Carolina

In 2004, a silent film about Kannapolis, showing the everyday behavior of ordinary people, which was made in 1941 by itinerant filmmaker H. Lee Waters, was selected by the Library of Congress for listing in the United States National Film Registry, as a representative of this kind of filmed "town portrait" popular in the 1930s and 1940s.

Karakoncolos

According to late Ottoman Turkish myth, they appear on the first ten days of Zemheri, 'the dreadful cold', when they stand on murky corners, and ask seemingly ordinary questions to the passers-by.

Karl Löffler

Historian Eric A. Johnson used Löffler as an example of what he called "local Eichmanns" in his book, Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans.

Lew Dietz

Reissued in 1998, the book combines Dietz's words with Kosti Ruohomaa's (1914-1961) black and white photographs of ordinary rural and fishing industry Mainers.

Lex van Dam

In 2009, van Dam featured in a three-part series on BBC2, entitled Million Dollar Traders that aimed to educate eight ordinary people about the stock market, in a re-creation of the famous "turtle trader" experiment of Richard Dennis in the 1980s.

Matravers

Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers PC, (born 1938), the Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

Matte mungaru

Matte Mungaru is the real life story of an ordinary guy Narayana Mandhagadde from Shimoga district in Karnataka.

My Famous Family

Each episode shows an ordinary member of the public with a famous ancestor: Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale, George Stephenson, Lawrence of Arabia, or the Duke of Wellington.

No Ordinary Love

"No Ordinary Love" appeared in the second season episode of NBC's 30 Rock, "Jack Gets in the Game", when Kenneth Parcell tried to seduce Tracy Jordan's wife, Angie Jordan.

Nomenklatura

Milovan Đilas, an opponent of the Soviet regime, wrote of the nomenklatura as the new class in his book The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System, and he claimed that it was seen by ordinary citizens as a bureaucratic élite that enjoyed special privileges and had supplanted the earlier wealthy capitalist élites.

Notes From New York

The week consisted of day long sessions, workshopping various Musical Numbers including Die Vampire Die (Title of Show), Come to Your Senses (Tick, Tick... Boom!), Nothing In Common (Wearing Someone Else's Clothes: Jason Robert Brown), You Shall Go To The Ball (SOHO Cinders) and two pieces devised by Taking Notes' resident MD new British Musical Theatre composer Michael Bruce, entitled A Little Less Ordinary and Looking Back (Ed: The Musical).

Ordinary Miracles

Ordinary Miracles is a 2005 television film directed by Michael Switzer.

Paul Lorrain

In a joint letter from Alexander Pope and Bolingbroke to Swift, dated December 1725, the ‘late ordinary’ is described ironically as the ‘great historiographer.’ The penitence of his clients is always described as so heartfelt that the latter are playfully called by Richard Steele ‘Lorrain's Saints’.

Ramon, Isabela

Just recently, Bishop Sergio Utleg, DD, the Ordinary of the Diocese of Ilagan(now the Archbishop of Tuguegarao), offered the Parish of San Roque to remain under the "in perpetuum" care of the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette.

Robert Lowry

Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry (1919–1999), Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

Royal Statistical Society

It also publishes the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, which currently consists of three separate series of journals whose contents include papers presented at Ordinary Meetings of the Society, namely Series A (Statistics in Society), Series B (Statistical Methodology) and Series C (Applied Statistics), as well as a general audience magazine called Significance published in conjunction with the American Statistical Association.

Section Twenty-five of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

They may also include those created by ordinary legislation, like the Indian Act, and constitutional scholar Peter Hogg has speculated that without this section, section 15 (the equality provision) would have possibly threatened these rights, since they are particular to a race.

Seitsemän Veljestä

Published in 1870, Seven Brothers ended an era dominated by Swedish-speaking authors, most notable of which was J.L. Runeberg, and created a solid basis for new Finnish authors like Minna Canth and Juhani Aho, who were, together with Aleksis Kivi, the first authors to depict ordinary Finns in a realistic way.

Social history of Canada

The Social history of Canada is a branch of Canadian studies dealing with Social History, focusing on the history of ordinary people and their strategies of coping with life.

Spirit level

These vials, common on most ordinary levels today, have a slightly curved glass tube which is incompletely filled with a liquid, usually a colored spirit or alcohol, leaving a bubble in the tube.

Suzette Defoye

On June 30, 1766, she was one of fifteen actors granted exclusive right by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria to perform in Brussels, known as the Ordinary Actors to H.R.H. Prince Charles of Lorraine, governor of the Austrian Netherlands.

Tarakan riot

Minister of Interior Gamawan Fauzi tried to calm the masses by reminding them that the riot was originally an ordinary criminal incident, which accidentally involved two different ethnic groups.

Terrific Whatzit

An ordinary turtle wearing the classic Terrific Whatzit costume is seen in DC Super Friends #14 (June 2009), as the adopted pet of the Flash.

Texas gubernatorial election, 1982

Often described as ordinary, White did not seem destined for the Texas Governor's Mansion.

The Colorful Character

Gregory Lawrence, an ordinary, nondescript scientist, is dismayed to learn that the famous interplanetary explorer Sir Erik Koskelainen has returned to Earth from the planet Krishna in the Tau Ceti star system, and is to stay with the family of Lícia Ferreira, the girl he has been courting.

The Demoniacs

Wynne's ordinary job is somewhat similar; he is a thief-taker under the direction of Sir John Fielding, a real-life personage who was in charge of the Bow Street Runners despite his blindness.

The Naming ceremony of Santror

The deity Thirumal, acting as a Pantaram(a religious person hailing from, and serving the ordinary folk), made the Seven Virgins, who were to give birth to seven boys using seven seeds from seven upper worlds (astral planes or lokas).

Too Beautiful for You

It tells the story of Bernard (Gérard Depardieu), a well established BMW car dealer in the South of France, is cheating on his beautiful wife (Carole Bouquet) with his ordinary looking temporary secretary (Josiane Balasko).

TV 2 Nyhetskanalen

Terje Svabø and Mah-Rukh Ali lead the first ordinary broadcast on 15 January 2007 at 12 noon.

Ukrainian Orthodox Vicariate Sighetu Marmației

Initially, there were six parishes; later, the one at Copăcele reverted to the ordinary structure of the Romanian Orthodox Church, but nine other parishes were added, the total reaching fourteen by 2005.

Vaikom Viswan

He was born on 28 October 1939 in Vadayar village, Bhoothapuyam Amsham of Thalayolaparambu Panchayath, Vaikom in Kottayam district, in an ordinary family to Padmanabhan Nair and Karthyayani Amma.

William Frederick Chambers

Ernest, the new king of Hanover, on 8 August 1837 created him KCH; but at his urgent request allowed him to decline the assumption of the ordinary prefix of knighthood.

William Gull

Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet (1816–1890), English physician and Governor of Guy's Hospital, London, and Physician-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria

William Maurice Brown

William Maurice Brown, Lt. Colonel, Squadron Leader, recipient of Britain's Order of British Empire, observer (Extra Ordinary) of the United Nations, New Zealand government minister, mountain climber, shooter, boxer, teacher, administrator, the founder of Faujdarhat Cadet College had left his disciples for eternal peace but his legend will continue to live.

William McDermott

The Principal Consecrator was Enrique Pélach y Feliú, Bishop of Abancay and Co-Consecrators were Alcides Mendez Castro, titular Archbishop of Pederoniana and Military Ordinary for Peru, and Florencio Romani, Bishop of Huancavélica.


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