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unusual facts about Orvar-Odd



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.

666667 Club

Gaultier's odd portrait of the back of Prince Charles' head made an alternative 'cover' when the booklet was reversed and had the words Noir Desir printed black on black such that they were virtually invisible.

Annette Badland

Badland has performed in several radio dramas including BBC Radio 4's Rolling Home (2001), Smelling of Roses (2003) and an adaptation of George MacDonald's novel At the Back of the North Wind; lead role as DC Gwen Danbury in An Odd Body on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

Becky G

-- odd spelling supported by source, twitter account name, etc. --> Marie Gomez (born March 2, 1997), known better by her stage name Becky G, is a Mexican-American hip hop singer, rapper, songwriter and dancer from Inglewood, California.

Brazil Red

The plot of this veritable epic is set in 1555, on a small island in the Guanabara Bay of Rio de Janeiro, where an odd French expeditionary force, made up of sailors, craftsmen, priests, ex-convicts and a Quixotic knight, has just landed.

Caustic Casanova

Their lyrics range widely as well - the band has written deeply personal lyrics about love, loss and the personal anxieties of modern existence, but has also covered odd topics like Irish Mythology and Venetian Painter Titian, to name a few.

Chiral knot

The only known amphichiral knot with odd crossing number is a 15-crossing knot discovered by Hoste et al.

Cloven hoof

Even Phenacodus, the most generalized of the early mammals, has a foot in which the central toe is somewhat larger than the others and could be placed in the division of odd toed ungulates, Perissidactyla.

Compass-and-straightedge construction

Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1796 showed that a regular n-sided polygon can be constructed with straightedge and compass if the odd prime factors of n are distinct Fermat primes.

Consualia

Chariot races were held this day in the Circus Maximus, which included an odd race in which chariots were pulled by mules.

County routes in New Jersey

With very rare exceptions (such as County Route 537), the 500 series follows the rule of cardinal direction used for Interstate Highways and U.S. Routes: even-numbered roads run east and west, while odd-numbered roads run north and south.

Darrin Huss

Then inspired by bands such as P.I.L., Cabaret Voltaire, and The Flying Lizards they began recording odd songs together, and with the purchase of a synthesizer slowly became more electronic.

David Wynn Miller

In 2005, Montclair, New Jersey resident Brenda Rickard was arrested and charged with orchestrating a $30 million mortgage scam: "Rickard, who claimed her name is :Brenda :Rickard, is a follower of :Judge: David-Wynn: Miller, who gives seminars around the country and advocates speaking in the 'true language,' which features odd punctuation and syntax. 'I have no problem with the complaint against me as long as it’s in the truthful language,' Rickard told the judge."

Derek Edwards

He has been referred to as "...the funniest man in Canada. Everybody knows that," by Rick Mercer and as an emulation of "...Kramer from Seinfeld...an odd, hysterically funny, brilliant artist," by Mitch Fatel.

Dewey Jackson

Jackson began playing professionally at an early age, with the Odd Fellows Boys' Band (1912), Tommy Evans (1916-17), and George Reynolds's Keystone Band.

Drill

Van Halen guitarist Eddie Van Halen has used an electric drill to create an odd effect on the strings.

Echium plantagineum in Australia

The Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has carried out research on numerous classical biological control solutions, and of the 100-odd insects found feeding on Paterson's Curse in the Mediterranean, judged six safe to release in Australia without endangering crops or native plants.

Economy of Moldova

The Economist Intelligence Unit reports that the "poor investment climate, including annulments of some earlier sales, continues to deter many Western investors. Between 2001 and 2004 the government privatized less than 60 of the 480-odd enterprises scheduled for sale."

Edward M. Beers

Beers was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served until his death in Washington, D.C. Interment in the Odd Fellows’ Cemetery in Mount Union.

Gilberto Santa Rosa

He also participated in the play "La Pareja Dispareja" (The Odd Couple) alongside Luis Vigoreaux and Rafo Muñiz.

Hiddenite

Hidden sent samples of the odd green material to J. Lawrence Smith, a prominent chemist and mineralogist of Louisville, Kentucky.

Humphry Berkeley

His studies were interrupted when he was excluded ('sent down') for two years as a result of a practical joke in which he impersonated 'H. Rochester Sneath', the headmaster of a rather odd public school, and wrote hoax letters to public figures.

Johnny Mains

Containing fourteen stories of the 'odd and twisted' the tone of the stories are very Pan Horror in style, though the collection does include several ghost stories, one of which; 'Reconvened: The Judge's House' is an unofficial sequel to Bram Stoker's short story 'The Judge's House.'

Juana Barraza

Then an odd coincidence distracted the investigation: at least three of Barraza's victims owned a print of an 18th-century painting by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Boy in Red Waistcoat.

Koby Arthur

According to the Birmingham Mails match report, "he was nimble, showed the odd glimpse".

Lycopodiopsida

This group also includes the odd, tuberous Australasian plant Phylloglossum, which was, until recently, thought to be only remotely related to the clubmosses.

Mark Bittner

After many years of doing odd jobs while maintaining a Dharma Bums-type lifestyle, he found a flock of naturalized parrots (mostly cherry-headed conures, also known as Red-masked Parakeets) in the area of Telegraph Hill.

Mike Schopp

When he joined WGR, he had originally been paired with Chuck Dickerson in an "Odd Couple" style pairing.

Moyie River

Another odd name occurring along the river is the town of Good Grief, Idaho.

Nancy Drew: Ghost of Thornton Hall

Bess Marvin and Ned Nickerson - Nancy's best friend Bess and boyfriend Ned return as helpful phone friends and voice of reason for this odd and creepy case.

Nebula Maker

Stapledon first announced his intention to write a history of the universe in his 1935 work Odd John, in which the main character, John Wainwright, has already produced such a thing (Stapledon would often mention his next literary project in the book he was currently working on - the story of "Odd John" is itself mentioned in passing in 1932's Last Men in London).

Pat Shurmur

His odd management of the offense in the Indianapolis game infuriated Browns owner Jimmy Haslam.

Problems in Latin squares

A related question is to estimate the number of transversals in the Cayley tables of cyclic groups of odd order.

Progradungula otwayensis

Progradungula otwayensis, commonly known as the odd-clawed spider, is a species of cribellate spider endemic to the Great Otway National Park of Victoria, Australia.

Remote, Oregon

Like Oregon communities Nimrod and Boring, Remote is often cited on lists of odd place names.

Se og Hør

Knut Haavik, the first editor-in-chief, remained in the position for 25 years until his retirement in 2004, when he was succeeded by Odd Johan Nelvik, who had assisted him since the beginning.

Slightly Odway

According to Australian music journalist, Ed Nimmervoll, "The album title Slightly Odway is a comment on the slightly odd way they feel they approach life as well as music".

Soodoma

The village is specially known for its odd name referring to the infamous biblical city Sodom.

Stein-Wingert

As of 2007, the festival is to be held in odd-numbered years, as it did not take place in 2006 owing to the Football World Cup.

Sululta

The surrounding mountainsides were covered with forest dominated by Juniperus procera, and the lower slopes supported groves of Acacia, but now most of the hillsides are covered with plantations of Eucalyptus with only the odd native tree remaining, except for the groves protected by the presence of a church.

Swedish Air Force weapons

With air-to-air missiles odd numbers indicated radar seekers like the Rb 71 or Sky Flash, even numbers indicate IR seekers like the Rb 98 or IRIS-T off-boresight air-to-air missile.

Terminal Jive

The album's artwork features various poses of the Mael brothers in odd postures in and around Hamleys toy store in Regent Street, London.

The Odd Job

The concept was originally made as an episode of the London Weekend Television/ITV series 6 Dates With Barker in 1971, with Ronnie Barker as Arthur Harris and David Jason as the Odd Job Man (who plays the same role in the feature film).

The Wrong Move

Travelling from place to place about West Germany, Meister gathers an odd cast of friends, and winds up alone on the Zugspitze.

Tovar Municipality, Aragua

The visitor will occasionally see Germanic oddities such as waitresses in traditional Bavarian dress hawking "torta selva negra" and the odd "D" plate on some cars, but will be unlikely to find anyone who understands German fluently.

Trick deck

An inverse handling of the Brainwave deck is the X Deck, originally invented by Jay Sankey and identical to the Invisible Deck, but with the odd cards having an X on them.

Troccas

Dealer (in Romansh, scartist) will have two odd cards, counting for combined value, minus one point.

William D. Green

Green was raised in Hampden, Massachusetts and did odd jobs managing horses, assisting electricians, and in construction.


see also

Ketils saga hœngs

Together with the giantess Hrafnhild, Ketil has the son Grim Shaggy-Cheek, who was the father of Orvar-Odd.