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unusual facts about Our Time



Youth vote

They include Our Time, Rock the Vote, League of Young Voters, 18 in '08, Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), Declare Yourself, Young Voter PAC, WWE Smackdown Your Vote, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Headcount and YouthVote USA.


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Chamber Domaine

They have an ongoing project Music of Our Time which links art, poetry, architecture and music from the 20th Century in workshops and concerts, notably with the actress Helen Lederer and the composer David Horne.

Communication and Leadership During Change

Steve Jobs is an example of one of the great technological innovators of our time.

Concord Poetry Center

The center holds lectures, tributes, panel discussions and public readings by some of the most renowned poets of our time, including former and current Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, current Poet Laureate Donald Hall, and Pulitzer Prize winner Franz Wright as well as many area poets.

Dave Laing

His books have included The Sound of our Time (1969), Buddy Holly (1970), The Electric Muse: the story of Folk into Rock (with Karl Dallas, Robin Denselow and Robert Shelton, 1975), and One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock (1985).

David Wilde

During the 1990s he composed many works protesting against human rights abuses in our time and was twice honoured by the city of Sarajevo.

Dead Heart Bloom

In 2011, their song "Someday Soon Our Time Will Come" was used in the independent film Friends with Kids.

Double Sextet/2x5

It has been recently quoted as being "among the finest pieces of our time" by The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Edith Iglauer

She is the author of several non-fiction books, including Denison's Ice Road (1975), Seven Stones, a profile of the architect Arthur Erickson (1971), and The New People: The Eskimo's Journey into our Time (1966).

Eduwonkette

"Eduwonkette" told an interviewer for The New York Sun that she preserves her anonymity because "Universities expect us to devote our time exclusively to research, and blogging is a hard sell in that environment," she said.

Eva Yerbabuena

Considered to be a prominent Flamenco dancer of our time, many prestigious awards have honored her work, including Premio Nacional de Danza in 2001 (National Dance Award in Spain.) Among dancers, Eva Yerbabuena has collaborated with Manolete, Merche Esmeralda, Javier Latorre, Joaquín Cortés, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Pina Bausch.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.

When brother James Roosevelt was elected to the House, Speaker Sam Rayburn told him to "not waste our time like your brother did."

Gary Pinto

The band formed in 1991 had two albums, Glide with Me and CDB and a number of singles, most notably "Hook Me Up", "Hey Girl (This Is Our Time)", both Top 20 hits for them and "Let's Groove", a cover of an Earth, Wind & Fire song.

Greatest Hits: The Sound of Money

Greatest Hits: Sound of Money is a compilation of American rock singer Eddie Money's biggest hits plus three new tracks: "Peace in Our Time", "Looking Through the Eyes of a Child" and "Stop Steppin' on My Heart".

Gunnel Vallquist

Gunnel Vallquist is of the Catholic Church and has written several essays on Catholic religion of our time, among them reports from the Second Vatican Council.

In the Wake of Determination

The first single that was released from the album was "We Don't Care Anymore", followed by another two songs, titled "Our Time Is Now" and "Take Me Back".

Johanniskreuz

He gave a speech on the 40th anniversary of the death of Ludwig Windthorst entitled "Windthorst and Our Time".

Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine war

Howard Sachar, A History of Israel - From the Rise of Zionism to our Time, Knopf, 2007.

L'Inconnue de la Seine

Alfred Döblin's essay, "Of Faces, Pictures, and their Truth" ("Von Gesichtern, Bildern, und ihrer Wahrheit"), published as an introduction to photographer August Sander's 1929 collection Face of our Time (Antlitz der Zeit).

Liza Umarova

Liza then continued to make recordings of the First and Second Chechen Wars, with hit songs such as "Rise Up, Russia!", "Grozny, Hero City", and "Our Time Has Not Yet Come".

Logrolling

Spy Magazine ran a feature entitled "Logrolling in Our Time" that cited suspicious or humorous examples of mutually admiring book jacket blurbs by pairs of authors.

Love Attack!

The series was licensed for English language release in North America by Tokyopop but the publisher release via Facebook that "our time with Love Attack as ended(...)" making the series officially canceled in the U.S

My World and Welcome to It

Fables for Our Time is another source, as when John Monroe sees a unicorn in the back yard, a reference to "The Unicorn in the Garden".

Portrait of Dr. Gachet

The doctor's "sensitive face", which Van Gogh famously wrote to Paul Gauguin carried "the heartbroken expression of our time", is described by Robert Wallace as the portrait's focus.

Rosemarie Beck

Beck became “one of the few painters of our time to treat grand themes in ambitious multi-figure compositions while satisfying a need both for abstract structure and for an execution that embodies energy without being gratuitous,” according to critic Martica Sawin.

Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands

Musicologist Wilfrid Mellers writes that "Sad Eyed Lady" stands with "Mr. Tambourine Man" as "perhaps the most insidiously haunting pop song of our time".

Special Edition Digital Download

It is a compilation of three songs from VOTA ("Bye Bye", "Our Time Now" and "Be Mine") and some songs from when the band was called Casting Pearls: from Casting Pearls, Live in Wichita and the Rock EP.

Supreme crime

Ellis, M. H. (1997) Unholy alliance: religion and atrocity in our time. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Publishers.

The Beak of the Finch

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (ISBN 0-679-40003-6) is a 1994 nonfiction book about evolutionary biology, written by Jonathan Weiner.

The Best American Short Stories

Perhaps the most significant instance of O'Brien's instincts involves Ernest Hemingway; O'Brien published that author's "My Old Man" when it had not even been published yet, and was, moreover, instrumental in finding an American publisher for In Our Time.

The Economics of Innocent Fraud

The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth for Our Time (2004, Houghton Mifflin) was Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith's final published book.

The Martian General's Daughter

Pan-Polarian society is based on that of Imperial Rome, including an imperial cult and a variety of polytheistic and monolatric religions that have largely replaced the major religions of our time, including the cults of "El Bis" and the goddess Marilyn.

Vivian Bang

Bang is known for her supporting role as "Soo-Mi" in Yes Man, the Warner Brothers comedy starring Jim Carrey, Bang's film credits include: Boy Toy, Memoirs of a Geisha, Little Black Book, Robot Stories, Henry Fool, and the 2006 Oscar-nominated short film Our Time Is Up.

Warnings/Promises

According to drummer Colin Newton, the band had been: taking our time recording the songs for the album and spent three months going backwards and forwards between studios in L.A., and a lot of the time we were too intent on having a good time rather than working hard, so eventually that’s why we had to go back out and re-record everything and we finally got it finished in October.

Weightless EP

The album features two new recorded song "Our Time" and "Never Too Late", an acoustic version of "You & I" and a cover of Neon Trees "Animal" song