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73 unusual facts about PAN


Aderemi Adegbite

He was part of a two-year Creative Enterprise Programme (2008-2010), facilitated by the British Council which earned him certificates in Business Managements and Media & Communications from Pan-African University.

Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty

Later, he joined the Pan-African Union for Social Democracy (UPADS) and was elected as one of the party's vice-presidents in December 2006, at its first extraordinary congress.

Ange Édouard Poungui

He was chosen as the candidate for the Pan-African Union for Social Democracy (UPADS) for the 2009 presidential election.

Anna Wu

Politically, she is considered on good terms with the pan-democratic camp.

Annick Gendron

Uncommon themes such as the limits to scientific knowledge and the Pan-European identity are central to her work.

Arad International Airport

Arad Airport is directly connected to the A1 motorway (part of the Pan-European Corridor IV), one of the most important and heavily used motorways in Romania.

Ascofare Oulematou Tamboura

Ascofare Oulematou Tambura is the sixth Vice-President of Mali's National Assembly, and a member of the Pan-African Parliament representing that country.

August von Heeringen

At the Navy News Office he worked with and attempted to direct pressure groups such as the Pan-German League and the Colonial Society (Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft), and the Navy League (Germany) (Flottenverein).

Belchite

The remains of the old village have been used as filming locations in films including Terry Gilliam's 1988 film The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth.

Corridor X

Pan-European Corridor X, a corridor that passes through Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia and Greece

Dimitrovgrad, Serbia

In May 2010, well-preserved remains of the road were excavated during the work on Corridor 10.

Federico Aubele

After Berlin, he moved to Barcelona where he began working on his new album, Panamericana (a title to indicate the many musical influences and in part named after the Pan-American Highway), which was released on September 18, 2007, also produced by Thievery Corporation.

Florence Nightingale Levy

In 1901, she catalogued the art exhibition of the Pan-American Exposition.

Gigapixel image

Only a few cameras are capable of creating a gigapixel image in a single sweep of a scene, such as the Pan-STARRS PS1 and the Gigapxl Camera.

Hank Mizell

When the record was played on BBC TV's flagship pop music show Top of the Pops in April 1976, host Tony Blackburn announced they could not find Mizell, and so the dance group Pan's People dressed in khaki blouses, shorts and pith helmets, danced along to the record with several extras in animal costumes representing the animals mentioned in the song (e.g., "a chimp and a monkey doing the Suzy-Q").

Hong Kong at the 2014 Winter Olympics

A Pan-To Barton Lui will be the only athlete to represent the nation, he will compete in short track speed skating.

Ismaël Tidjani Serpos

Ismaël Tidjani Serpos is a member of the Pan-African Parliament from Benin.

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Fauset became a member of the NAACP and represented them in the Pan African Congress in 1921.

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

The Chinese government agreed to support the development of infrastructure, classrooms, hostels and laboratories at JKUAT based Pan African University, Institute of Basic Sciences, Technology and Innovation (PAUIST), an initiative by the African Union.

Joseph Kignoumbi Kia Mboungou

He stood in the 2002 presidential election for the Pan-African Union for Social Democracy Party.

Kulturpreis Baden-Württemberg

In 2005, in the field of the performing arts, the Hauptpreis was shared by the action theater PAN.OPTIKUM and the Balthasar Neumann Chor & Ensemble, choreographer Marco Goecke won the Förderpreis.

Lubin Manufacturing Company

He exhibited his new equipment at the 1899 National Export Exposition in Philadelphia and the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

Mohammed Kumalia

Mohammed Umara Kumalia is a politician in the Pan-African Parliament of Nigeria.

Mongolism

Pan-Mongolism, an irredentist idea advocating the union of the contiguous territories inhabited by Mongols

Pan African Congress

Pan-African Congress, a series of five meetings held between 1919 and 1945

Pan-African Congress

In February 1919, the first Pan-African Congress was organized by W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida Gibbs Hunt, wife of US Consul William Henry Hunt, who was at that time working at the American consulate in Saint-Étienne, France.

Pan-African Congress of Mathematicians

The Pan-African Congress of Mathematicians (PACOM) is an international congress of the mathematics community, held under the auspices of the African Mathematical Union.

Pan-African Union for Social Democracy

Joseph Kignoumbi Kia Mboungou was the UPADS presidential candidate in the presidential election held on 10 March 2002; he took second place but received only 2.76% of the vote, with Sassou Nguesso winning by an overwhelming margin according to official results.

Also elected at the congress were a 601-member National Council, a 135-member Political Bureau, and 25 Vice-Presidents; the Vice-Presidents included major figures in the party such as Joseph Kignoumbi Kia Mboungou, Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty, Ange Edouard Poungui, Clément Mouamba, Jean Itadi, and Mireille Lissouba.

Pan-Africanism

In his article “Hip-hop Turns 30: Whatcha Celebratin’ For?,” Greg Tate describes hip-hop culture as the product of a Pan-African state of mind.

Imanuel Geiss: Panafrikanismus. Zur Geschichte der Dekolonisation. Habilitation, EVA, Frankfurt am Main, 1968, English as: The Pan-African Movement, London: Methuen, 1974, ISBN 0-416-16710-1 and as: The Pan-African Movement. A history of Pan-Africanism in America, Europe and Africa, New York: Africana Publ.

Pan-American Exposition

Lina Beecher, creator of the Flip Flap Railway, attempted to demonstrate one of his looping roller coasters at the fair, but the organizers of the event considered the ride to be too dangerous and refused to allow it on the grounds.

Pan-American Federation of Labor

The organization was virtually disintegrated in 1930, ahead of the 6th conference to be held in Havana, Cuba.

Pan-Arabism

Pan-Arabism is an ideology espousing the unification of the countries of the Arab world, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arabian Sea.

The origins of pan-Arabism are often attributed to Jurji Zaydan (died 1914) and his Nahda (Revival) movement.

Pan-Armenian Games

During the founding meeting on April 30, 1997 in Yerevan, World Committee of Pan-Armenian Games (WCPAG) was created, with the help of traditional Armenian unions of the Diaspora and the Iranian-Armenian cultural-sport organization "Ararat".

He first thought of the idea of organizing universal games for all Armenians while he was on a business trip in 1965 to Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, that was getting ready to participate in the first Pan-African Games.

Pan-Asia International School

The first semester runs from mid-August to mid-December and students observe the Eid al-Fitr Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting, and Eid al-Adha as well as Loy Krathong.

The second semester runs from January to mid-June and includes Sports Day, Makha Bucha, Songkran Holidays, Earth Day and Graduation Day for Kindergarten 3 classes.

Pan-Atlantic University

In July 2011 British Prime Minister David Cameron spoke at the Pan-Atlantic University in Lagos, discussing aid, trade and democracy.

In May 2013 its name was changed to Pan-Atlantic University, in order to avoid confusion with the Pan-African University of the African Union.

Pan-Blue Coalition

The popular Taipei mayor Ma Ying-jeou was also elected the new head of the Kuomintang, and was considered the leading contender for the KMT nomination in the 2008 presidential election.

Pan-Européenne

By distributing films such as Jaco Van Dormael's Toto the Hero (1991), Cyril Collard's Savage Nights (1992), and Jacques Audiard's See How They Fall (1994), Pan-Européenne began its activity of production company.

Pan-Indianism

The occupation started on November 20, 1969 with 79 Indians disembarking on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay, and ended 19 months and 9 days later on June 11, 1971.

Pan-Latinism

Pan-Latinism first arose in prominence in France particularly from the influence of Michel Chevalier who contrasted the "Latin" peoples of the Americas with the "Anglo-Saxon" peoples there.

It has been claimed that pan-Latinism originated in Italy, itself the place of origin of original Latins, in the medieval era with Italian poet Dante Alighieri who spoke in favour of the idea in an imperial form of world or at least European domination by Latins.

Pan-Nigerian alphabet

In the 1980s the National Language Centre (NLC) undertook to develop a single alphabet suitable for writing all the languages of the country, taking as its starting point a model proposed by linguist Kay Williamson in 1981.

The final version and reference typeface were developed by the typographer Hermann Zapf in 1985.

Pan-Pacific Auditorium

Throughout the following 30 years the Pan-Pacific would host the Ice Capades and the Harlem Globetrotters, serve as home to the Los Angeles Monarchs of the Pacific Coast Hockey League along with UCLA ice hockey, UCLA men's basketball, USC men's basketball, professional tennis, car shows, political rallies and circuses.

Designed by the Los Angeles architectural firm Wurdeman and Becket, which later designed the Music Center and the space-age "Theme Building" at Los Angeles International Airport, the Pan-Pacific Auditorium opened to a fanfare of Boy Scout bugles on May 18, 1935 for a 16-day model home exhibition.

In 1975, the Pan-Pacific made a brief appearance as the entrance to the NBC Studios in New York for the movie Funny Lady.

Pan-Slavic language

In Siberia in 1666, the Croat Juraj Križanić wrote Grammatično Iskazanije ob russkom jeziku (Грамматично исказание об русском езику - Grammatical book of the Russian Language).

Pan-Slavism

In Austria-Hungary Southern Slavs were distributed among several entities: Slovenes in the Austrian part (Carniola, Styria, Carinthia, Gorizia and Gradisca, Trieste, Istria (also Croats)), Croats and Serbs in the Hungarian part within the autonomous Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia and in the Austrian part within the autonomous Kingdom of Dalmatia, and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, under direct control from Vienna.

Pan-STARRS

Prior proper motion and parallax surveys often did not detect faint objects such as the recently discovered Teegarden's star, which are too faint for projects such as Hipparcos.

The first Pan-STARRS telescope, PS1, is located at the summit of Haleakalā on Maui, Hawaii, and went online on December 6, 2008, under the administration of the University of Hawaii.

PAN.OPTIKUM

Together with new ensemble member Matthias Rettner, productions for audiences of several thousand people were created and performed.

Pan's Anniversary

More notably, an April 1905 production at Stratford-upon-Avon, part of a Shakespeare Birthday Celebration, featured incidental music composed by Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Pan's People

This was followed by a further routine featuring three members of Pan's People (Dee Dee, Ruth and Flick, dancing to "Respect" by Aretha Franklin, and subsequently, the entire sextet appeared in a routine set to "US Male" by Elvis Presley.

Port of Constanţa

The rail network in the Port of Constanța is connected to the Romanian and European rail network, with the Port of Constanța being a starting and terminus point for Corridor IV, a Pan-European corridor.

The favourable geographical position and the importance of the Port of Constanța is emphasized by the connection with two Pan-European transport corridors: Corridor VII – Danube (inland waterway) and Corridor IV (railway).

Prague Slavic Congress, 1848

Pan-Slavism developed over time leading up to the Congress in 1848.

Pro-Iranism

Pan-Iranism, ideology that advocates solidarity and reunification of Iranian peoples

Qatar SC

Al Oruba, which transliterates to "Arabism", was decided as the club name by the majority of football supporters due to the overwhelming number of Arab clubs with revolutionary names at the time.

Sidibe Korian Sidibe

Madame Sidibé Korian Sidibé is a Deputy in the National Assembly of Mali and a member of the Pan-African Parliament.

Slavic neopaganism

In the 19th century, many Slavic nations experienced a Romantic fascination with an idealised Slavic Arcadia believed to have existed before the advent of Christianity, combining such notions as the noble savage and Johann Gottfried Herder's national spirit.

Stalać

It is an important railway junction, where the westbound railway to Kraljevo splits from the main Belgrade-Niš Railway on the Pan-European Corridor X.

Stuart Wilde

who became well known in Britain for her weekly appearances on Top of the Pops with the dance troupe Pan's People.

The Devil's Backbone

The response was overwhelmingly positive, though it did not receive the critical success that Pan's Labyrinth would in 2006.

Both Tielve and his co-star Iñigo Garcés had cameos as guerrilla soldiers in Pan's Labyrinth.

The Martyred Presidents

Evocative of early magic lantern and Phantasmagoria shows, The Martyred Presidents is part of a cycle of films made by the Edison Studios to chronicle the McKinley assassination in Buffalo, New York at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition.

Transport in Slovenia

A particular geographic advantage in recent times has been the location of the intersection of the Pan-European transport corridors V (the fastest link between the North Adriatic, and Central and Eastern Europe) and X (linking Central Europe with the Balkans) in the country.

University of Yaoundé

The university was selected as the Central Africa node for the post-graduate Pan-African University, with an institute to study social and human sciences and governance.

Urgency

Pan-pan, international radio call for an emergency posing no imminent danger


1999 Pan Arab Games

Two of the sports were held and concluded before the opening ceremony: the athletics and basketball competitions were held early to allow the athletes to prepare and attend the 1999 World Championships in Athletics and the 1999 Asian Basketball Confederation Championship, respectively, which clashed with the dates for the Pan Arab Games that year.

2012 Pan American Women's Junior Handball Championship

It acts as the Pan American qualifying tournament for the 2012 Women's Junior World Handball Championship.

Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim

Azeez was chosen as Barisan Nasional(BN)candidate for Pilihan raya umum 2008 against a candidate from the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party(PAS), Uztaz Taib Azamudden Md Taib for the parliament Baling, Kedah but lost with 7613 votes.

Abel Guerra

In 2006 he was the PRI candidate to municipal president of the municipality of Monterrey for the Monterrey election held on July 2, 2006; he lost the election against the PAN candidate Adalberto Madero.

Alliance for Europe of the Nations

The Alliance for Europe of the Nations was a pan-European political party that gathered conservative and national-conservative political parties from across the continent.

Brigade M

National Socialism was put on the ash heap and National Bolshevism, Strasserism, meta politics, people's nationalism, language purism, European unity and conservative criticism of society became the fundaments of the band.

Bukit Kepong Incident

On 21 August 2011, Mohamad Sabu, Deputy President of PAS, made a controversial statement saying that Mat Indera, the leader of the communists during the Bukit Kepong Incident, was a national hero for fighting against British rule.

Chihuahua state election, 2004

As the count progressed, Javier Corral Jurado of the PAN – representing an unusual alliance of his party and the left-leaning PRD – conceded the election at around 23h00 local time.

Continuous Plankton Recorder

Started in 1931 by Sir Alister Hardy, the CPR has provided marine scientists with their only measure of plankton communities on a pan-oceanic scale.

Deep fryer

Industrial enterprises producing deep-fried snack foods such as potato chips or pre-fried French fried potatoes use automated frying systems that consist mainly of the actual frying pan, a tube type heat exchanger to heat the frying oil, a filter, a circulation pump, a banana tank for fresh oil and the automation system, most often a PLC.

German Conservative Party

The party supported Emperor Wilhelm II's naval policies and Germany's arms race with the United Kingdom, but initially kept its distance towards colonialism and the activists of the Pan-German League.

Glasgow smile

The Glasgow smile has been inflicted on characters in multiple films and television programs, including Green Street, House of Tolerance, The Krays, Sons of Anarchy, Pan's Labyrinth, and 2008's The Dark Knight, in which Heath Ledger as the Joker both has the scar and carves it on numerous victims.

Gungsangnorbu

In 1912, in the aftermath of the Xinhai Revolution, Gungsangnorbu made some attempts to form an alliance with Bogd Khan and the Khalkha Mongols in the newly independent state of Mongolia, with the Pan-Mongolist aim of annexing China's Inner Mongolian territories to an independent, Mongol-dominated Greater Mongolia.

Howard Scott Warshaw

The first, The Complete Book of PAN, is a guide to the card game of the same name.

Hristofor Zhefarovich

Hristofor Zhefarovich (original Cyrillic: Христофоръ Жефаровичъ; Bulgarian: Христофор Жефарович, Hristofor Zhefarovich; Macedonian: Христофор Жефаровиќ, Hristofor Žefarović; Serbian: Христофор Жефаровић, Hristofor Žefarović) was an 18th-century Macedonian painter, engraver, writer and poet and a notable proponent of Pan-Slavism.

Jesse Ruíz

At the peak of his sporting career in Mexico, he became a three-time national champion, and won a silver medal at the 2010 Pan American Wrestling Championships in Rionegro, Colombia.

John Strotbeck, Jr.

After training intensely throughout the winter of 1983, Strotbeck made the 1983 Pan Am team rowing for the Vesper Boat Club.

Krásný Dvůr Castle

Deeper in the park we find Pan's-Temple, the Obelisk, the Vantage Pavilion, Goethe's Pavilion, a memorial plaque with the engraved names of important people who have visited the park, a hermitage, a grotto with a sarcophagus and other interesting objects.

Les Brigades du Tigre

Gathering a talented pan-European cast, the film is set in a very rich and interesting Belle Époque, it deals with a lot of real historical plots and characters like the scandal of the Russian Loan, the Triple Entente, the birth of modern profiling and crime-fighting police techniques, the rivalry between the PP (Parisian Prefecture Police Units) and the Brigades of Clemenceau, the birth of Socialism and famous Anarchist Movements.

Lisa Aziz

From 16 February 2009, she became co-presenter of the pan-regional news programme The West Country Tonight, which replaced The West Tonight (ITV West) and Westcountry Live (ITV Westcountry) alongside Steve Scott.

Luciana Morales Mendoza

In May 2003 she won the first place in the Pan-American Championship for Girls Under 20 in Botucatu, Brazil and Under 16 in July 2003 in Bogotá, Colombia.

Matija Majar

Influenced by the Illyrian Movement in Croatia, especially by the Slovene-Croatian poet and activist Stanko Vraz, Majar started developing Pan-Slavic ideals.

Milking the Rhino

Produced by Kartemquin Films and directed by David E. Simpson, Milking the Rhino won numerous awards at multiple international film festivals, including Best Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival and San Luis Obispo International Film Festival.

Nick Toczek

In 1977, as a spin-off from the magazine, he published and co-edited (with Philip Nanton and Yann Lovelock) Britain’s first substantial anthology of black writing, Melanthika: An Anthology of Pan-Caribbean Writing, under the imprint LWM Publications.

NRJ Group

With its pan-European NRJ/ENERGY stations, the Paris-based NRJ Group has challenged the European radio market by being significantly different from diversifying market players like the Luxembourg-based RTL Group (Antenne Bayern, RTL Berlin, Yorin FM), and SBS Broadcasting (Radio 1 Norway, The Voice) or Stockholm-based MTG (P4 Norway, Rix FM, Lugna Favoriter).

Pan Zhang

During the attack, Pan Zhang's subordinates killed Feng Xi, a Protector of the Army (護軍) under Liu Bei, as well as several enemy soldiers.

Paraguarí Department

As for the media radio, there are amplitude modulation stations such as Radio FM and 1000, radio Ybyty Rok, Pan American, Yaguarón, Oda, Mensajera, and Carapeguá Colmenar.

Peter Davies

Peter Llewelyn Davies (1897–1960), basis for the character of Peter Pan, publisher

Peter Rose

Peter DeRose (1900–1953), composer of jazz and pop music during the Tin Pan Alley era

Portrayal of Native Americans in film

A major scene in Peter Pan involves the Lost Boys and Peter Pan celebrating at the Native Americans' camp after Peter rescues Tiger Lily, the daughter of the chief, from Captain Hook.

Robin Nash

He died on 18 June 2011, aged 84, during a season of repeats on BBC Four of editions of Top of the Pops that he had produced in 1976 and the day after the funeral of Flick Colby who had choreographed dance sequences for the show with, among others, Pan's People and Ruby Flipper.

Rock 'n' Roll Star

The song's video consists of clips of the band performing the song from their Live by the Sea gig, interspersed with clips of them on Southend Pier, in and around the amusement park, 'Adventure Island' then named 'Peter Pan's Playground' and in the bowling alley which was located on Southend Pier before it burnt down in June 1995.

Roy Díaz González

In 1977 he won men's singles at the first ever Pan-American Badminton Championships.

Simon Njami

He is currently directing “At Work”, an itinerant and digital project with lettera27 Foundation, in partnership with Moleskine, as well as the Pan African Master Classes in Photography, project that he conceived with the Goethe Institut, and setting up the collection of contemporary art for the future Memorial Acte Museum in Guadeloupe.

Sino-Ocean Land

It is one of the largest real estate companies in Beijing and has a diversified portfolio of development projects and investment properties in Beijing, Pan-Bohai Bay, Yangtze River Delta, and Pearl River Delta regions.

Tengri

In Kyrgyzstan, Tengrism was suggested as a Pan-Turkic national ideology following the 2005 presidential elections by an ideological committee chaired by state secretary Dastan Sarygulov.

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.

Theo Marzials

Marzials later spent much of his time as a composer and in 1883 released Pan Pipes, which coupled his music with the work of Christina Rossetti and the illustrations of Walter Crane.

Tinkerbella

It was named after the fairy Tinker Bell in the 1904 play “Peter and Wendy” (a.k.a. "Peter Pan") by J.M. Barrie.

Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan

The gift of the pandas was first proposed during the 2005 Pan-Blue visits to mainland China, when politicians from the then-Opposition Pan-Blue coalition, which is comparatively pro-unification in stance, visited mainland China.

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

The screenplay was written by George Toles and inspired by the novel Pan (1894) by Knut Hamsen, with an additional literary touchstones being the short story "La Vénus d'Ille" (1837) by Prosper Mérimée.