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9 unusual facts about Plough


Ampakine

Other compounds producing the ampakine activity profile such as IDRA-21 and Eli Lilly's LY-503,430 along with Unifiram and Sunifiram have been developed by other pharmaceutical companies, but these are only used in animal research at present, and Cortex is the only company currently developing selective ampakine drugs for human use, in partnership with the larger pharmaceutical company Schering-Plough.

Chicago Clearing Corporation

Merck and Co. - Merck and Schering-Plough settled a $688 million lawsuit after the two companies merged in 2009.

Diprobase

Diprobase is a British brand of the American pharmaceutical company Schering-Plough.

Frank Forest

Forest studied agricultural engineering at the University of Minnesota, and later helped found the profitable pharmaceutical firm White Laboratories of Kenilworth, New Jersey.

Jeffrey A. Parker

After graduation, Parker worked in management in the consumer packaged goods industry for General Foods Corporation, Schering-Plough, and Con-Agra.

Lonna Hooks

Prior to her appointment as Secretary of State, Hooks had been an attorney at Schering-Plough, and had served under Whitman at the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities as her chief of staff.

Lynda Caspe

Caspe is collected by Schering-Plough, John Hightower, former director of the Museum of Modern Art, The Derfner Judaica Museum and the Art Collection, and the National Gallery of Australia.

Moline Plowboys

The "Plowboys" name reflects the city of Moline's history as a leading center of plow production.

Nina Mitchell Wells

Prior to assuming her cabinet post in January 2006, Wells served as a vice president at Schering-Plough and as an assistant dean at Rutgers School of Law—Newark.


A200 road

Named after diarist John Evelyn, the street runs from the Plough Way junction south to the junction with Deptford Church Street.

Butenafine

Butenafine hydrochloride is a synthetic benzylamine antifungal, marketed under the trade names Mentax, Butop (India) and is the active ingredient in Schering-Plough's Lotrimin Ultra.

Environmental Working Group

Representatives from Schering-Plough (Coppertone), Johnson & Johnson (Neutrogena), and Sun Pharmaceuticals Corp. (Banana Boat) also reiterated their products' safety and efficacy.

Enzo Cilenti

He also performed at The Royal Court in a series of plays written and directed by Russian artists entirely in Russian; in Thai ballet as Orpheus in Backpacker Orpheus, a play devised entirely from people’s experiences in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake; and in conceptual theatre for new-writing company Paines Plough in a series of shows (including a one man show) commissioned over a number of seasons by Miuccia Prada to showcase collections for her Miu Miu line at Milan Fashion Week.

Eptifibatide

Eptifibatide (Integrilin, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, also co-promoted by Schering-Plough/Essex), is an antiplatelet drug of the glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor class.

Erythrina zeyheri

The Plough-breaker (Erythrina zeyheri, named after Karl Zeyher) is a deciduous subshrub from South Africa and Lesotho growing no more than 60 cm tall.

Ethisterone

The first orally active progestin, ethisterone (pregneninolone, 17α-ethynyltestosterone or 19–norandrostane), the 17α-ethynyl analog of testosterone, was synthesized in 1938 by Hans Herloff Inhoffen, Willy Logemann, Walter Hohlweg, and Arthur Serini at Schering AG in Berlin and marketed in Germany in 1939 as Proluton C and by Schering in the U.S. in 1945 as Pranone.

Foot plough

It is an implement of tillage peculiar to the Highlands, used for turning the ground where an ordinary plough cannot work on account of the rough, stony, uneven ground.

Gefjon

Davidson states that in Germanic areas of Europe, traditions also exist of supernatural women who travel about the countryside with a plough, examples including Holde and Holle (from the western and central regions of Germany) and Berchte and Perchte in traditions from upper Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.

Hickling, Nottinghamshire

£4,500 was handed over in February 2010, at a ceremony at the Plough Inn, to each of the Meningitis Trust, the Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire Air Ambulance, and a further 14 village groups.

Horse harness

Harnesses may also be used to hitch animals to other loads such as a plow or canal boat.

Mamertines

In his novel Salammbô, Gustave Flaubert writes of the Greeks singing the 'old song of the Mamertines': "With my lance and sword I plough and reap; I am master of the house! The disarmed man falls at my feet and calls me Lord and Great King."

Nathaniel Whetham

He joined the "Company of the Plough" which had secured a patent from Sir Ferdinando Gorges on land in South-East Maine with the aim of emigrating there but the venture was unsuccessful and he continued his trade in the Company of Whitebakers.

Nava Telangana Praja Party

The Telangana region map on the flag also contains plough, spade, book, and torch in the centre to symbolize youth, farmers, workers, and students.

Omeprazole

Omeprazole is marketed as Zegerid by Santarus, Prilosec OTC by Procter & Gamble and Zegerid OTC by Schering-Plough and as Segazole by Star Laboratories in Pakistan.

Ploughshares

In 1970 DeWitt Henry, a Harvard Ph.D. student, and Peter O'Malley, an Irish expatriate, joined together at the Plough and Stars pub to fill a void they felt existed in the literary scene in Boston.

Proto-Elamite

The Mesopotamian civilization emerged during the period 3700–2900 BC amid the development of technological innovations such as the plough, sailing boats and copper metal working.

Roger Frogley

Roger Frogley was the top scoring rider for England, with six points, in the first England versus Australia Test Match at Wimbledon Stadium, Plough Lane, in 1930.

Skinny Lister

"Plough and Orion" - This features the band preparing a meal on a trig point at the top of some moorland as a surprise for two recently engaged friends of the band, who are led there by a series of treasure hunt type clues.

Speed the Plough

Speed the Plough is a five-act comedy by Thomas Morton, first performed in 1798 at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden to great acclaim.

Starry Plough

Big Dipper, The seven brightest stars of the constellation Ursa Major, aka "The Plough"

The Holocaust in Belarus

In the area of the 286th Security Division the civilian population had to walk, plough and harrow the roads at the orders of Major General Richert since the autumn of 1942.

Voree, Wisconsin

Tombstone carving, plough manufacturing, and the raising of English Fox Terriers were some of Voree's business enterprises.

Walle Plough

The scratch plough type is known through finds and images from the Neolithic, the Bronze and Iron Ages, as well as from Hallstatt culture, Etruscan, Greek and Roman contexts.

A similar plough, also of oak and of similar measurements, was found at Papau near Toruń.

Walton, Milton Keynes

The modern H9 Groveway grid road severs a few of its houses into Walton Hall and the V10 Brickhill Street separates the Manor Farm into Walton grid square, where it was previously a research centre for Hoechst and is now the UK headquarters of MSD Animal Health.

Wistanstow

In 1984, both the Plough and the brewery were featured as the final destination on a Shropshire edition of Treasure Hunt, with Anneka Rice pulling herself a pint of real ale to complete the game.

Wreay

Visitors to the Plough on Shrove Tuesday 1790 were the local landowner and industrialist John Losh (died 1814), father of Sara and resident at the mansion of Woodside, three miles up the road, Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk, Losh's brother James, and his cousin Joseph Liddell.


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