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6 unusual facts about PINS


1969 Miles Festiva De Juan Pins

1969 Miles Festiva De Juan Pins is a live album by Miles Davis recorded in La Pinède, Juan-les-Pins, Antibes, France, as an ORTF radio broadcast.

Juan-les-Pins

Peter Sarstedt famously mentions Juan-les-Pins in his 1969 UK number one hit, "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)"; a portrait of a girl who becomes a member of the Euro jet-set.

PINS

The Planning Inspectorate for England and Wales, a government agency responsible for determining final outcomes of town planning and enforcement appeals

Up for It

It was recorded at an outdoor venue at the Festival de Jazz d'Antibes in Juan-les-Pins, France, on July 16, 2002 and released in 2003 on the ECM label.

Victor Orly

In 2008 Orly was invited as a President of the jury for the art contest in Nans-les-Pins, France.

Wim Sonneveld

He would have liked to end his career singing French chansons, because his heart lay in France, where he had a house in Roquefort-les-Pins.


Andrew Surmani

He has toured throughout the USA, Europe and Japan, and has performed in the Istanbul International Jazz Festival (Turkey), Jazz à Juan (Juan les Pins, France), Umbria (Italy), Wigan (England) and the Lake Biwa (Japan) jazz festivals.

Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble

Live In Antibes is a live album by Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble recorded at the Juan les Pins Jazz Festival in Antibes, France, on July 18, 1970.

Bean machine

Overlaying Pascal's triangle onto the pins shows the number of different paths that can be taken to get to each bin.

Bob Learn, Jr.

This shattered the previous PBA record of 1,070 pins, set in 1995 by David Ozio.

Bowling pin

Juggling clubs could be mistaken for bowling pins due to their similar shape.

Charlie the Unicorn

Merchandising lines produced by a partnership consisting of FilmCow and retailer CafePress as well as Hot Topic have been launched in response to the video's popularity; the merchandise features various quotes from the video and generally features the blue and pink unicorns, although Charlie appears occasionally, and is sold in several forms including t-shirts, pins, coffee mugs, and bandannas.

Delroy Easton Grant

He has taken credit cards and obtained their PINs from his victims but there has never been any record of him using them.

Disney pin trading

Since then, Pin Trading has spread to Disneyland Paris, Tokyo Disney Resort, Hong Kong Disneyland Resort and Disney Cruise Lines with each location creating their own pins and traditions.

Flux pinning

This phenomenon is closely related to the Meissner effect, though with one crucial difference — the Meissner effect shields the superconductor from all magnetic fields causing repulsion, unlike the pinned state of the superconductor disk which pins flux, and the superconductor in place.

Follins Pond

In the 1950s, Frederick J. Pohl investigated Follins Pond and claimed that he had located shore rocks along the pond into which were drilled holes that strongly resembled Norse mooring stones (the Norse were known to drill holes into which iron pins were inserted for the purpose of mooring their knarrer).

French Riviera Marathon

The race begins in the Albert I Garden in Nice, and then progresses along the French Riviera, visiting Saint-Laurent-du-Var, Cagnes-sur-Mer, Villeneuve-Loubet, Juan-les-Pins and Golfe-Juan before arriving in Cannes and finishing on the Promenade de la Croisette, in front of the Carlton Cannes hotel.

Game port

High-end game port joysticks such as the Microsoft SideWinder rely on multiplexing a proprietary data stream through the 4 standard button inputs and sometimes through the "unused" pins, achieving full support for a rather high number of buttons (e.g. 16 or 20) while special features such as daisy-chaining multiple joysticks, force feedback or joystick programming become possible in some cases.

Harold Avery

His father was the owner of the W. Avery & Son company which made needles, pins and needle cases during the second half of the 19th century.

Italian billiards

Goriziana a.k.a. nine-pin billiards or nine-pins, a more complicated derivative of five-pin billiards

Five-pin billiards or five-pins, a now internationally standardized cue sport

John Richard Smoak, Jr.

In 2008 in Gillman v. Holmes County School District Smoak ruled that students of public school have the right to wear gay pride T-shirts and pins.

Kilt pin

The members of Royal Military College of Canada Bands were issued kilt pins in 2006 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the pipes and drums band.

Kirby: Triple Deluxe

New copy abilities include: beetle which allows Kirby to use a rhinoceros beetle's horn to impale enemies and slam them on the ground or pick them up and carry them around, bell; wields twin bells like clubs and can attack with sound waves and use the bell as a shield, archer; fires arrows in any direction and clown which allows Kirby to ride on a giant rolling ball to bowl over enemies and juggle bowling pins to attack enemies above him.

Korg Poly-61

NEC D8049C - 8 bits, 11 MHz (max.), 40 pins (DIP), Supply Voltage = 5V

Lapel pin

In Czechoslovakia the Mao badges/pins were worn in the late 1960s and early 1970s by non-conformist youth as a prank and a way to provoke the "normalisationist" reactionaries of the purged post-1968 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

Le Rouret

Bono owns a residence in the commune and Madonna is thought to own a villa in the neighboring commune, Roquefort-les-Pins.

LGA 1356

LGA 1356 (Land Grid Array with 1356 pins), also called Socket B2, is an Intel microprocessor compatible socket released in Q1 2012 for the two processor slot (2P) segment of the server market.

Little Fluffy Gigolo Pelu

A. Perroud for BD Gest' criticizes the work for being "Pikachu meeting the Shadoks told à la Arthur de Pins" with plenty of cuteness that would please Hello Kitty devotees, and absurd scenes and unfathomable dialogs which succeed without logic.

Lowville, New York

With the opening of the Black River Canal in 1851, the Rome Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad in 1867, and The Lowville and Beaver Railroad in 1906, industries flourished including AMF (manufacturer of bowling pins) and Kraft (the largest cream cheese plant in the country).

Macramé

Cords may be held in place using a C-clamp, straight pins, T-pins, U-pins, or upholstery pins.

Marte Wulff

Jacket and Safety Pins are released on Wulff's own label It´s Definitely Records, distributed through Sonet/Universal.

Pin prick attack

Although fanciful tales of so-called "needle men" or white slavers, who supposedly injected unsuspecting young girls with morphine then carrying them away into a life of prostitution, had been around since the 1930s, the legend probably has its roots in a 1989 incident where ten teenage girls were arrested and later charged with stabbing numerous women with pins in the Upper West Side area of New York.

Pine Residence

In view of the modernization of Beirut's city center, the wali of Beirut Azmi Bey planned to build a high-end meeting place for the city's privileged class in the ‘Bois des Pins’; he commissioned the building of a casino and a horse racecourse.

Robert Falcucci

In the 1930s, he illustrated the program for the Monte Carlo Rally (1931) and a poster PLM Juan les Pins-Antibes (1937).

Skittles

Skittles, a Carrom version that uses a spinning top to knock over pins

Socket FM2

The socket is very similar to FM1, based on a 31×31 grid of pins with a 5×7 central void, 3 pins missing from each corner, and a few additional key pins missing.

Socket P

Socket P has 478 pins, but is not electrically pin-compatible with Socket M or Socket 478.

The Bus Stop Song

A traditional song, it was orchestrated by Ken Darby in 1956 but a version (called The Keys of Canterbury) was known in the 19th century and Alan Lomax collected it as "A Paper of Pins" in the 1930s.

Tom Hilditch

The campaign saw lapel pins and posters handed out across the city and was eventually taken on and expanded by the Hong Kong Tourism Board.

Turkey Bowl

Turkey bowling, a sport involving bowling with turkeys as bowling balls and soda bottles as pins

Vickers hardness test

However on the aircraft flying Partnair Flight 394 the pins were later found to have been replaced with sub-standard parts, leading to rapid wear and finally loss of the aircraft.

The fin attachment pins and sleeves in the Convair 580 airliner were specified by the aircraft manufacturer to be hardened to a Vickers Hardness specification of 390HV5, the '5' meaning five kiloponds.

Volkswagen Audi Group AMB Engine

As opposed to the AEB, the AMB had thinner wrist pins (19 mm instead of 20 mm) The AMB engine was used in a variety of Volkswagens and Audis, as well as being used by companies owned by Volkswagen, such as the Spanish car manufacturer, SEAT.

WDC 65C02

Bill Mensch pointed out that Fmax depends on off-chip factors such as the capacitive load on the pins.

Wilbur Huckle

Wilbur's reputation — presumably developed from spring training dispatches and broadcasts, and augmented by the assonance of his name — was such that fans began appearing at Shea Stadium, during the building's inaugural season of 1964, wearing "Wilbur Huckle for President" pins.


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