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unusual facts about Paper, Scissors, Stone



Adana Center for Arts and Culture

The proximity of the building to the Taşköprü and being also made of hewn stone strengthens the ideas on the architectural history of Adana.

Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway

The first terminus was completed in 1885 and on 19 September 1925 a foundation stone for the rebuilding of the terminus was laid by the Prince of Wales, later Duke of Windsor, during his official visit to Argentina.

Christopher Landon

After the war he wrote several novels including: A Flag in the City (1953), his first novel which was about WWII British intelligence in Teheran and their plans to destroy Germany's fifth column operations in Persia; Stone Cold Dead in the Market; Hornet's Nest; Dead Men Rise Up Never; and Unseen Enemy (aka The Shadow of Time).

Confetti

Scientific American recorded the throwing of paper confetti (plain shredded paper) at the 1885 New Year's Eve in Paris.

Daily Monitor

This happened soon after the paper had published a letter allegedly written by army General David Sejusa, threatening that those opposing Muhoozi Kainerugaba for presidency risk their lives.

David Montgomery

David C. Montgomery (died 1917), American comedic actor, straight man half of the pair Montgomery & Stone, with Fred Stone

Eaton's Corrasable Bond

The paper is mentioned in the Stephen King novel Misery, when Annie Wilkes buys it for Paul Sheldon, thinking that since it is the most expensive paper, it has to be the best.

Edward Tyas Cook

Launched with the help of Liberal publisher George Newnes and employing the core of the old political staff from the Pall Mall Gazette, the paper quickly established itself in the front rank of Liberal publications, earning the respect and admiration of the Liberal prime minister Lord Rosebery.

Electronic News

The paper eventually grew to have a staff of three dozen full time journalists, working out of headquarters staffed by full time journalists in New York and bureaus in Boston, Washington DC, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis and Tokyo.

Eric Hammond

He served his apprenticeship as an electrician with the Bowater paper company, and in 1950 was called up for national service, serving for two years with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

Fargate

Dating of the well indicates that it was probably dug around the time of the rebuilding of Sheffield Castle in stone, in 1270, and the granting of Sheffield's Market Charter by Edward I in 1296.

Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writings of Hunter S. Thompson

The book was edited by Jann S. Wenner, co-founder and publisher of Rolling Stone, and a friend of Thompson.

Gakushuin University

According to Quacquarelli Symonds, Gakushuin is the 6th-best research university in Japan and the 9th-best in Asia in terms of citations per paper.

Heliocanthus

chamaensis from Desmatosuchus, but the name Heliocanthus remained a nomen nudum until 2007, where it was thoroughly rediscribed in a paper published by the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.

HM Prison Maidstone

Constructed using Kentish Ragstone from a local quarry, the original design of the prison was intended to house 552 prisoners, including 62 female inmates.

Howell Davies

Like many successful Victorian and Edwardian businessmen, Davies was eager to serve his community through municipal politics and at the same time provide himself a stepping-stone to further advancement.

International Convention Centre, Birmingham

The foundation stone was laid by Jacques Delors as a start of another 4 years and 5 months of construction.

Jefferson Smurfit

Smurfit-Stone Container, an American-based paperboard and paper-based packaging company

Joseph Awinongya

Joseph Awinongya plays Paalo in the upcoming cable television movie 'Dreams' opposite Tommy Ford, Vicky Winans, Angie Stone, Dave Scott, Geoffrey Owens of the (Cosby Show), Terri Van Martin, Mel Jackson, Lisa Tucker, and Syesha Mercado of (American Idol).

Kara Lindsay

In 2009, Lindsay appeared as Laura in a musical-theatre production at the Paper Mill Playhouse of Little House on the Prairie with Melissa Gilbert as Ma.

Lament for the Numb

The Stone People consisted of Dobbyn himself on the guitar, piano and as the lead vocalist, album producer Mitchell Froom on the keyboard, Bruce Thomas on the bass guitar and Pete Thomas on the drums and as the percussionist.

Leiper Canal

The horse-drawn tramway, the Leiper Railroad, carried stone from the quarry for 18 years before the opening of the canal.

Lennox Gardens

It has a number of memorials and monuments such as Kasuga stones presented to Canberra by Japan in April 1997, a monument to Australians in the Spanish civil war, and a stone monument commemorating the centenary of Federation and the Jewish National fund.

London Central Mosque

1937 This project (Nizamia Mosque, later changed to present name) was funded by the Nizam of Hyderabad and the foundation stone of the mosque was laid on Friday, June 4, 1937, by HH Prince Azam Jah eldest son of Mir Osman Ali Khan the last ruler of Hyderabad State.

Megnanapuram

The imposing steeple, 192 ft high, was added in 1868, the coping stone being fixed by Lord Napier.

Middle-market newspaper

In the United Kingdom, since the demise of Today (1986–95), the only national middle-market papers are the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, distinguishable by their black-top masthead (both use the easy-to-carry tabloid paper size), as opposed to the red-top mastheads of down-market tabloids.

Muhammed al-Ahari

During September 2005 he attended the First Alevi-Bektashi Conference in Isparta, Turkey, where he presented a paper on links between Freemasonry and the Bektashi community.

Murupara Branch

The Murupara Branch (incorporating the Kawerau Branch) was a branch railway line from the East Coast Main Trunk at Hawkens Junction near Edgecombe via Kawerau to Murupara; built to serve a new pulp and paper mill havesting the radiata pine trees of the Kaingaroa Forest on the Kaingaroa Plateau in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.

Opus Dei: An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church

Paul Baumann of Washington Monthly states: "has earned a reputation for balanced, informed reporting. He does not simply reflect the leanings of the liberal weekly paper that is his primary outlet. Here, that reputation gives credence to much of what Opus Dei members tell him in defending the group's philosophy and practices. In that sense, Allen may be too liberal for his own good."

Panorama Developments Ltd v Fidelis Furnishing Fabrics Ltd

Bayne used the Fidelis' paper and represented that he wished to hire a number of Rolls-Royce's and Jaguars for the business while his managing director was away.

Peki'in Synagogue

In 1926 and 1930 two old stone tablets dating from the Second Temple period were uncovered at the synagogue.

Polly Thayer Starr

Increasingly aware of the fragility of her vision, she concentrated on lavish pastels of gladiolas with their bees and an increasingly abstract sequence of cyclamen flowers drawn in chalk on black paper with touches of color, as well as delicate series of graphite drawings based on the life cycle of the thistle.

Preah Khan

A dark filamentous fungus was found in internal and external Preah Khan samples, while the alga Trentepohlia was found only in samples taken from external, pink-stained stone at Preah Khan.

Ragnar Frisch

The Frisch Medal, so named in his honor, is given every two years for the best paper published in the aforementioned Econometrica in the previous five years.

Rideau Lakes, Ontario

The many tourist attractions in Rideau Lakes, including historic trails, the stone arch dam at Jones Falls, and the Rideau Waterway, are also an important part of the township's economy.

Rupnagar district

Minutely carved and polished stone discs with a figure and motif associated with the cult of the Mother goddess of fertility have also been unearthed in the excavations from Taxila (now in Pakistan), Patna in the state of Bihar and other Mauryan sites.

San Francisco Herald

Kimberlye Gold has interviewed many prominent figures for the paper, including ex-Rolling Stone editor Ben Fong-Torres, actor/comedian Richard Lewis, comedian Margaret Cho, 1970s band Bad Company and 1980s band Berlin.

Secret Honor

Secret Honor is a 1984 film written by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone (based on their play), and directed by Robert Altman and starring Philip Baker Hall as former president Richard M. Nixon, a fictional account attempting to gain insight into Nixon's personality, life, attitudes and behavior.

Sick, Sick, Sick

Additionally, the song appears in a 3-song pack - Along with other Queens of the Stone Age songs "Little Sister" and "3's and 7's" - as downloadable content for the music video game series Rock Band and also appears on the soundtrack of the game MotorStorm: Pacific Rift.

Simeon Ivanov

In February 2012, Ivanov was close to signing with A PFG club Vidima Rakovski, but eventually put pen to paper on a contract with second division side Akademik Sofia.

South County Newspapers

The South County paper covers South Kingstown (including the villages of Kingston, Peace Dale and Wakefield), Narragansett and Charlestown, Rhode Island.

Spanish ship Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad

The model will be displayed in the Naval Museum of La Habana, opened in June 2008 at Castillo de la Real Fuerza, the oldest building in Cuba and the oldest stone fortress in the New World.

St. Margaret's Church, Oslo

Margaret's Church was a stone church built in the 13th century, placed in Maridalen in the outskirts of Oslo, Norway, close to the northern end of Maridalsvannet.

Stellar Stone

Stellar Stone developed a total of eight known games—three drag racing games (Taxi Racer, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, and Midnight Race Club: Supercharged!), a puzzle game (Total Mahjongg and Shanghai), a hunting game (Remington Big Buck Trophy Hunt), a pinball game (Total Pinball), and two real-time strategy games based on the American Civil War (Gettysburg: Civil War Battles and Ultimate Civil War Battles: Robert E. Lee vs. Ulysses S. Grant).

Stone, Kentucky

In 1922 the Pond Creek Coal Company was sold to Fordson Coal Company, which was a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company.

The Sarai Programme at CSDS

Partha Chatterjee et al., Published by the Social Science Research Council, New York, 2002 as part of the "SSRC Working paper series" on 'Building Intellectual Capacity for the 21st Century'.

The Saturday Night Armistice

Along with sketches, there were also a number of humorous set-ups, such as Armando tricking O. J. Simpson into autographing a folded piece of paper stating "I DID IT" or sending a bus of Princess Diana-lookalikes to take photographs of News International journalists leaving their office.

The Talking Animals

#"The Strange Case of Frank Cash and the Morning Paper" (Burnett, Tonio K) – 5:25

The Torrents of Greed

Stone notes to Schiff (Steven Hill) that he fears a family war, resulting in many murders.

Thembang

In an early days the people of the village have fought many battles, most important one is the war with Chandagmai a miji queen, some more were a war with Tukpenpa (present Rupa), the head of the a Mag-pon (general) of Tukpen is still buried under the stone stair near the fort at Thembang.


see also

Paper, Scissors, Stone

Nemesis Game, a film directed and written by Jesse Warn called Paper, Scissors, Stone in Canada