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2 unusual facts about Pill


Pill, Somerset

The school has one of North Somerset's first children's centres, officially opened on 1 July 2006, as well as a small, indoor, heated swimming pool and an active PTA.

The small rowed ferry from Pill to Shirehampton closed because of loss of trade once the opening of the Avonmouth Bridge in 1974 enabled pedestrians to walk over the Avon.


A. vulgare

Armadillidium vulgare, the (common) pill-bug or (common) pill woodlouse, a widespread woodlouse species found in Europe

Ambulance LTD

In 2010, their song "Sugar Pill" was featured in a scene of the film Takers.

American Society for Photobiology

Recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award include John Woodland Hastings, Pill-Soon Song, and Margaret Kripke.

Bishop's Tawton

Famous residents include Clara Codd, the suffragette and theosophist, who was born in Pill House in October 1877 and who appears in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Bullo Pill Railway

From Bullo Pill the line heads west for a mile to the entrance of Haie Hill Tunnel; emerging at the far end at Lower Soudley.

Candygram For Mongo

Though the term “The Red Pill” is often associated with the films in the Matrix series, the band stated that the album title is a coincidence based upon an inside joke and has nothing to do with the popular film series.

Claudia Goldin

Goldin and Katz noted that the birth control pill was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1960 for use by married women.

Die Heuwels Fantasties

Their limited-release USB flash drive EP, ‘Pille Vir Kersfees’ (fashioned to look like a large pill capsule), sold out within weeks.

DJ Burn One

As a producer and DJ, DJ Burn One has worked with a number of prominent hip-hop artists, including Gucci Mane, Yelawolf, Rittz, SL Jones, Young Dro, ASAP Rocky, Pill, and more.

Doctor Bedlam

His name comes from the Bethlem Royal Hospital insane asylum, and is a reference to his madness-inducing "paranoid pill".

Dünya Yalan Söylüyor

This technique is similar to what Alanis Morissette did on Jagged Little Pill, and incidentally, the last song listed song on Jagged Little Pill is "Uyan".

Elvitegravir/cobicistat/emtricitabine/tenofovir

Elvitegravir/cobicistat/emtricitabine/tenofovir (brand name Stribild), also known as the Quad pill, is a fixed dose combination drug for the treatment of HIV/AIDS.

Emergency contraceptive availability by country

On 12 January 2011, the morning after pill became available over-the-counter without a prescription from Boots pharmacies.

On April 5, 2013, Judge Edward R. Korman in Brooklyn, New York, ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make the morning-after birth control pill available to people of any age without a prescription.

Francisco Urondo

Finally Paco stopped the car...and said, "I took the pill (cyanide) and I already feel sick." Ahualli remembers that Lucía said, "But papi, why did you do that?" Ahualli escaped between the bullets and arrived wounded to Buenos Aires, days later.

G. marginata

Glomeris marginata, a common pill millipede species found in Europe

Gregory Goodwin Pincus

Some of the women experienced side effects from "the pill" (Enovid) and Rice-Wray wrote Pincus and reported that Enovid "gives one hundred percent protection against pregnancy but causes too many side reactions to be acceptable".

Hafskip

Björgólfur Guðmundsson, Hafskip's managing director, and the Hafskip executives Pill Bragi Kristjónsson, Ragnar Kjartansson and the company's auditor, Helgi Magnússon, were detained and later charged with 450 criminal counts, from embezzlement to fraud.

Hoechst AG

1994 - The U.S. National Right to Life Committee announced a U.S. boycott of all Hoechst pharmaceutical products including Altace because of the abortion pill RU-486.

Infantry Weapons Officer

Ira Davidson, the "Daniel Boone of Iwo Jima", who received a Navy Cross for taking out multiple Japanese pill boxes with uncanny accuracy while under withering fire.

Korn Digital EP 3

The EP contains three tracks, including live recordings of "Oildale (Leave Me Alone)" and "Pop a Pill", recorded at Ozzfest 2010 in London, a demo of "Are You Ready to Live?" by Jonathan Davis, and an in-studio video of "Trapped Underneath the Stairs" not incluced in the Korn III: Remember Who You Are deluxe edition package.

LA Podcasters

In March 2005 Lance Anderson (Verge of the Fringe and The Lance Anderson Podcast Experiment), Dan Klass (The Bitterest Pill), Tim Coyne (The Hollywood podcast), Grant Baciocco (The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd) and others began to meet at the Farmer's Market in order to establish a Podcasting Organization in the Greater Los Angeles community to foster the growth and development of the podcasting community.

Lofenalac

Kuvan (trade name for the cofactor tetrahydrobiopterin in a pill form)

Lollipop Lust Kill

Prior to the release of My So Called Knife (a word-play on the show My So-Called Life), drummer R. Cynic and guitarist Dr. Distorto changed their stage names to Knits and Pill respectively.

Nanomorphic cell

The Nanomorphic Cell can be considered as an extreme example of a class of systems known generically as Autonomous Microsystems, for example WIMS (Wireless Integrated Microsystems) 3, PicoNode 4, Lab-on-a-Pill 5 and Smartdust 6.

Nelson Pill Hearings

In 1970, Barbara Seaman brought the dangers of combined oral contraceptive pill use to the attention of Senator Gaylord Nelson with her book The Doctors Case Against the Pill.

Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less

When Harvey heads to Monte Carlo on vacation, a pill in his drink at the Casino causes severe abdominal pain which is made to look like a Gallstone, and Adrian operates, though barely breaking the skin, and collects a large bill.

Pill Harriers RFC

During this period Pill Harriers provided a stream of intelligent, strong players who would first move to first class team Newport before playing for Wales.

In about 1881-82 Lord Tredegar gave the people of Pill a ground on built up swampland on the 'Mendalgief'.

At the end of Jeddo Street, Baldwin Street and Marion Street in Pill was an area of bogland which was filled with ballast from ships calling at the Old Town Dock, North Dock and Alexandra Dock.

Pill Priory

Pill Priory was founded as a daughter house of St Dogmaels Abbey (raised to Abbey status in 1120), near Cardigan, itself a priory of the Tironian order of reformed Benedictine monks.

Pillgwenlly

Portland Street in Pill was the birthplace, in 1871, of the famous "Tramp Poet" W. H. Davies and the nearby Church House Inn, where he was brought up by his grandparents, has a commemorative blue plaque.

Pills Anonymous

Pills Anonymous calls itself a spiritual program of recovery from the disease of pill addiction.

Podcast

Many people and groups including Dawn and Drew of The Dawn and Drew Show, Kris and Betsy Smith of Croncast and Dan Klass of The Bitterest Pill contributed to the early emergence and popularity of podcasts.

Polycap

Polycap is a specific five-in-one fixed dose combination polypill created by Cadila Pharmaceuticals Limited of Ahmedabad, India that combines moderate levels of five different medications in a single, one-a-day pill aimed at reducing/preventing heart attacks and strokes.

Project Rocket

The members originally played in hardcore, political metalcore and punk rock bands such as Racetraitor, Spitalfield, 7 Angels 7 Plagues, Knockout, killtheslavemaster, The Kill Pill and Vegan Reich before forming Project Rocket to develop their own pop punk and emo sound.

R v Hinks

His Lordship drew further support for this argument from Viscount Dilhorne’s judgment in R v Lawrence, and that of Pill LJ in R v Mazo 1997 2 Cr App R 518.

Ralph Dorfman

There he worked with chemists Carl Djerassi, Luis E. Miramontes, and George Rosenkranz to develop the first publicly available birth control pill, released in 1960.

Serutan

Serutan is especially associated with The Lawrence Welk Show and The Original Amateur Hour, both of which were also sponsored by J. B. Williams products Sominex, a sleeping pill and Geritol, a vitamin supplement.

Sphaeromimus

Sphaeromimus, or the chirping giant pill millipedes, is a genus of giant pill millipedes (order Sphaerotheriida) endemic to southeastern Madagascar.

The Bloodline

The album was mixed by Jeff and Ginge(Bullet for My Valentine) at Not In Pill Studios in Wales.

Walk of Ideas

Additionally the giant pill on the Spree riverside was meant to be a reminder of medical equipment like the X-ray tube, the Cardiac catheter and dialysis which are German developments.


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