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9 unusual facts about Passamaquoddy Bay#The Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project/"Quoddy Dam" Project


'The All-Species Living Tree' Project

'The All-Species Living Tree' Project is a collaboration between various academic groups/institutes, such as ARB, SILVA rRNA database project, and LPSN, with the aim of assembling a database of 16S rRNA sequences of all validly published species of Bacteria and Archaea.

Baby Makin' Project

Following its release, the album debuted at number eight on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling about 78,000 copies in its first week.

Charisma – Kirei

This was the final single Melon Kinenbi released as part of Hello! Project, before their official graduation at the end of March along with the rest of the Elder Club.

Federal Writers' Project

The film includes interviews with notable American authors Studs Terkel, Stetson Kennedy, and popular American historian Douglas Brinkley.

Unchained Memories are the stories of former slaves interviewed during the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project.

Nicholas Pope

His most important early shows included solo exhibitions at the Garage Gallery (1976), the Anthony Stokes Gallery (1979), and the Art & Project Gallery in Amsterdam (1979).

The P.L.A.Y. Project

Drawing participants from five Easter Seals autism service locations, the study compares the outcomes of 60 children who participate in The P.L.A.Y. Project with the outcomes of 60 children who receive standard community interventions, making it the largest study of its kind.

Unchained Memories

Created by the Federal Government to reduce unemployment during the 1930s, one component of the Federal Writers' Project involved interviews with thousands of former slaves in 17 states.

Unchained Memories is a 2003 documentary film about the stories of former slaves interviewed during the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project.


Apotamkin

The monstrous Apotamkin is often misidentified as a "vampire" by non-Native Americans (particularly since its name was glimpsed in one of the recent "Twilight" movies.) But in actual Maliseet and Passamaquoddy legends, this creature has nothing to do with vampires — the Apotamkin is a giant fanged sea serpent that lurks in the Passamaquoddy Bay and drags people, especially incautious children, into the water and eats them.

Bay of Fundy

The lower part of the bay is also home to four important sub-basins: Passamaquoddy Bay and Back Bay on the New Brunswick shore, Cobscook Bay on the Maine shore, and the Annapolis Basin on the Nova Scotia shore.

Eliza Grant

Her only records are a result of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Federal Writers’ Project, which she was interviewed for in 1938.

Embargo Act of 1807

Federal officials believed parts of Maine, such as Passamaquoddy Bay on the border with British-held New Brunswick, were in open rebellion.

George Dern

Under the ageis of the PWA, the Corps also built such projects as the Bonneville and Fort Peck dams; and began the aborted "Quoddy" Dam project.

Maiha Ishimura

On October 2, 2005, Ishimura graduated from Berryz Kobo and Hello! Project at the Tokyo Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan, to finish her education full-time.

Miki Fujimoto

After failing the audition to join girl group Morning Musume with the fourth generation members, Fujimoto debuted as a solo artist within Hello! Project in 2002 with the single "Aenai Nagai Nichiyōbi".

Mistpouffers

They have been reported from: on an Adriatic island in 1824; Western Australia & Victoria in Australia; Belgium; frequently on calm summer days in the Bay of Fundy, Canada; Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland; Scotland; Passamaquoddy Bay, New Brunswick & Cedar Keys, Florida & Franklinville, New York in 1896 & in northern Georgia in the United States.

Pyoco Pyoco Ultra

As usual for Hello! Project CD singles, there also was a Single V (a DVD single, containing a music video for the title song) published.

Raid on Deerfield

In the summer of 1704, New Englanders under the leadership of Benjamin Church raided Acadian villages at Pentagouet (present-day Castine, Maine), Passamaquoddy Bay (present-day St. Stephen, New Brunswick), Grand Pré, Pisiquid, and Beaubassin (all in present-day Nova Scotia).

Raid on Grand Pré

Departing Boston on 25 May 1704 with 500 provincial militia and some Indian allies, the expedition reached the Minas Basin on 24 June, after raiding smaller settlements at Penobscot Bay and Passamaquoddy Bay.

Rice Music

Internationally the label is most famous for being home to Hello! Project artist Yuki Maeda.

Smithsonian Networks

Soul of a People: Writing America's Story - A National Endowment for the Humanities-funded documentary about the Federal Writers' Project featuring interviews with notable project alumni Studs Terkel, Stetson Kennedy, and American historian Douglas Brinkley.

Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute

In spring 2012, the IHL program entered a new phase and partnership with the Enough! Project.


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Abilene Network

The name Abilene was chosen because of the project's resemblance, in ambition and scope, to the railhead in Abilene, Kansas, which in the 1860s represented the frontier of the United States for the nation's railroad infrastructure.

Agua Caliente, El Salvador

The Salvadorian government had plans to build a hydroelectric dam north of the town, the Cimarron Hydroelectric project, that would have diverted flow from the Lempa River and would have increased the flow of water downstream into the Metayate River.

Art Monastery

In the 2010 Lonely Planet guide to Tuscany and Umbria, the Art Monastery Project is mentioned three times.

Ashtray Navigations

The project has also released music through labels such as Siltbreeze, Jewelled Antler, American Tapes, Fargone Records, Menlo Park, E.F. Tapes and Freedom From.

Bob De Carolis

He was credited with leading the largest fundraising campaign in the history of the Oregon State athletic department, raising funds for a project to expand Reser Stadium.

Bungee jumping

Several major movies have featured bungee jumps, most famously the opening sequence of the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye in which Bond makes a jump over the edge of a dam in Russia (in reality the dam is in Switzerland: Verzasca Dam, and the jump was genuine, not an animated special effect).

Candiria

Drummer Ken Schalk, bassist Mike MacIvor, and guitarist John Lamacchia have been involved in a free-jazz side project named Ghosts of the Canal, who have thus far released two full-length albums, Sessions from the Flats (1999) and Five Episodes from the Subconscious (2002), as well as two non-album tracks which appeared on the bonus disc of Candiria's The C.O.M.A. Imprint.

Carillon Generating Station

The dam also includes a modern lock that facilitates traffic up the Ottawa River, superseding the Carillon Canal.

Centre for Human Rights

The programme is a joint project of the Centre with Makerere University (Uganda), the University of Ghana, the Catholic University of Central Africa (Cameroon), the University of the Western Cape (South Africa), the American University in Cairo (Egypt), Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique) and Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia).

Ceradyne

Ceradyne is also the producer of ceramic Enhanced Small Arms Protective Inserts (E-SAPI) for the US Army's Interceptor body armor, and the blast-proof components of the Ceradyne BULL MRAP/MMPV vehicle project.

Changer

Changer was founded in October 1999 in Akureyri, Iceland, by drummer Kristján B. Heiðarsson, as a one-man project.

Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis

The project aims to accelerate genomic research by amassing a large repository of metagenomic data generated by independent members of the research community at large, by developing a custom bioinformatics toolset optimized for cluster computing, and by offering the high-performance computing infrastructure on which to run it.

Davis Hughes

Hughes refused to accept Utzon's approach to managing the Opera House project and, specifically, to give permission for the construction of plywood prototypes for its interiors.

Division Films

The company then co-produced the two-film project, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, which stars Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy and William Hurt, which will be shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

DSPACE GmbH

The company has Project Centers in Pfaffenhofen (near Munich) and Böblingen (near Stuttgart) and subsidiaries in the USA, UK, France, Japan and China.

Édouard Houssin

1884 - Monument Dupleix, project for the monument to Dupleix at Landrecies, plaster molding, Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai

Feather Float

Feather Float is the second album the Japanese band OOIOO, a side-project of Boredoms member Yoshimi P-We.

Health in All Policies

HIA is defined as “a systematic process that uses an array of data sources and analytic methods and considers input from stakeholders to determine the potential effects of a proposed policy, plan, program, or project on the health of a population and the distribution of those effects within the population”.

Hernani Almeida

Over the past two years in addition to recording his 1st solo CD, produced and directed musically also the last album " Vadu " and the first "Princesito", "Isa Pereira", "Eder", "Nho Nani" and he composed one music for the last disc of the Sara Tavares "Bouncer", entitled " DAM Bo", which was seen in Portugal as the best songs on the disc.

Houston Football Stadium

On August 18, 2011, the University of Houston announced that they had received the largest single donation for the stadium when co-CEOs and co-founders of Austin-based Data Foundry, Ron and Carolyn Yokubaitis donated $10 million USD to the project.

Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve

He was elected in March 1793 to the first Committee of Public Safety; and he attacked Robespierre, who had accused him of having known and having kept secret Dumouriez's project of treason.

Jón Kristinsson

The project altered the building tradition in the Netherlands.

Katrin Fridriks

She also presented at the Goss-Michael Foundation for the MTV Re:Define project in 2011, at the Liverpool Biennial in 2008 and has undertaken commercial commissions for premium global brands, such as Land Rover’s 60th anniversary event or Ralph Lauren for the "Art Stars" project.

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.

Maginardo

Maginardo's second great project was the addition of a chapel dedicated to Saint Donatus to the side of the cathedral.

Meramec River

Grass-roots opposition forced politicians originally in favor of the project to reconsider.

Mortal Kombat: Songs Inspired by the Warriors

Executive producer JFK (of the DJ/production duo MSTRKRFT and Death From Above 1979) used various electronic artists to create songs based on individual characters from the MK franchise, as well as creating a song of his own for the project.

Museo Picasso Málaga

Gluckman's firm received a 2005 Design Award from the American Institute of Architects for the project.

Neil Banerjee

As a staff scientist under contract with Texas A&M University, Banerjee managed an international research project, the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, involving scientists from more than 20 countries.

Nicole Stenger

The project foundation was laid out at the Visual Arts Program at MIT, employing Wavefront's Advanced Visualizer on a Silicon Graphics personal IRIS.

Nicolette van Dam

After finishing high school at the havo level at the age of 18, Van Dam went to study at HBO.

Olympic Dam, South Australia

Among the project's new infrastructure requirements were: a desalination plant at Point Lowly (Port Bonython), a rail link to Pimba, a worker accommodation village between Olympic Dam and Andamooka and a barge landing facility near Port Augusta.

OpenVMS

Roger Gourd was the project lead for the Starlet program, with software engineers Dave Cutler (who would later lead development of Microsoft's Windows NT), Dick Hustvedt, and Peter Lippman acting as the technical project leaders, each having responsibility for a different area of the operating system.

Phil Morrison

Philip Morrison (1915–2005), American physicist involved with the Manhattan Project, who later became a faculty member at MIT

Phire CMS

The project started under the code name Phoenix, but was changed to Phire before the official release.

Project 21

According to its web page, Project 21 is "an initiative of the National Center for Public Policy Research to promote the views of African-Americans whose entrepreneurial spirit, dedication to family and commitment to individual responsibility has not traditionally been echoed by the nation's civil rights establishment." Notable members include: Council Nedd II, Michael King, Deneen Borelli, Kevin Martin, Jesse Lee Peterson and Mychal Massie.

Richard E. Gray

He served as chief test director for the AIM-7F Sparrow in 1975-76 before being assigned as an F-14A project pilot on the Air Combat Evaluation/Intercept Missile Evaluation (ACEVAL/AIMVAL) program.

Richmond Greenway

An additional side project will add a bike lane/bike trail between the Richmond Greenway and the Ohlone Greenway at Potrero Avenue via 23rd Street, Carlson Boulevard, Cutting Boulevard, and Potrero.

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.

Scientology in the United States

Among these documents was a plan to frame Gabe Cazares, the mayor of the city of Clearwater, Florida, with a staged hit-and-run accident; plans to discredit the skeptical organization CSICOP by spreading rumors that it was a front for the CIA; and a project called "Operation Freakout," aimed at ruining the life of author Paulette Cooper, author of an early book critical of the movement, The Scandal of Scientology.

Sebastian Seung

Currently he teaches at MIT and leads a team working on an online Citizen science project named EyeWire.

Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment

The project was contracted by FVAP to Accenture, who in turn subcontracted Avenade, Hart InterCivic, Hewlett-Packard, VeriSign, election.com, and others.

SeniorNet

In 1986, the New York based Markle foundation, led by Lloyd N. Morrisett, recognized the potential that existed and funded a research project, based at the University of San Francisco.

Square Kilometre Array

In April 2011, Jodrell Bank Observatory (of the University of Manchester) in Cheshire, England was announced as the location of the headquarters office for the project.

Tempo3

TEMPO³ was selected as the winner of the Mars Project Challenge, run by the Mars Society in 2008, to determine the group's next major project.

The Good Men Project

The for-profit arm of the Good Men Project, Good Men Media, Inc., was founded in March 2010 by Lisa Hickey, an advertising veteran and social media consultant.

The Mutilator

Code Red had been working on a DVD release of the film, but dropped the project when it was deemed that there was no 35mm print of the film available.

The Stroj

In April 2009 the new line up, lead by the founder of the group Primož Oberžan, premiered their latest project Cymaticon at Kinodvor movie theater in Ljubljana.

UCL Institute of Archaeology

Amongst the staff who work there are noted archaeologists such as Mark Roberts, who directed the Boxgrove Quarry project, Late Prehistory specialist Sue Hamilton, Mediaeval specialist Andrew Reynolds, Public Archaeology specialist Tim Schadla-Hall and Caribbean archaeologist José Oliver.

Yagüez River

The first attempt to canalize the river was when Don Leonardo de Campos was mayor of Mayagüez in 1852, but the difficulties of the project did not allow it back then.