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unusual facts about RUF


Vehicular automation

Groups such as RUF (Denmark), BiWay (UK), ATN (New Zealand) and TriTrack (USA) are working on projects consisting of private cars that dock onto monorail tracks and are driven autonomously around the track.


Abidjan Peace Accord

Tensions mounted when RUF spokesmen and supporters of the Commission for the Consolidation of Peace, Fayia Musa, Ibrahim Deen-Jalloh, and Philip Palmer were accused of attempting to overthrow Sankoh as leader of the RUF.

Alimamy Pallo Bangura

He also ran for president in 2002 alongside former cabinet minister Peter Vandy, but the pair only received 1.7% of the presidential vote, while the RUF received only 2.2% of the parliamentary vote.

Augustine Gbao

Augustine Gbao also known as Augustine Bao (born 13 August 1948) is a Sierra Leonean former paramilitary commander of the RUF.

Beatrix Ruf

Ruf is the director of the Kunsthalle Zurich, associate editor for JRP-Ringier, and the artistic director of the Ringier Collection.

Chris Gelbmann

In the last years he worked behind the scenes of the music industry, where he realised numerous major projects like André Heller's 3 CD compendium "Ruf und Echo", the two triple platinum CDs of Christina Stürmer, the major label debut of Hans Platzgumer; he worked with Brian Eno, Stefan Sagmeister, Xavier Naidoo and many more.

Couleurs et Parfums

Bernard Allison – guitar solo Vain and Veille (appears courtesy of RUF RECORDS)

Cross Purpose

Ruf Records financed the costs of relocating the band to record at Andapoe Sound in Weimar, Germany, where seven additional songs were recorded in September 1998.

Denazification

The publication Der Ruf (The Call) was a popular literary magazine first published in 1945 by Alfred Andersch and edited by Hans Werner Richter.

Issa Sesay

Sessay is known as the commander who ordered the disarmament of the RUF, effectively ending the Sierra Leone Civil War.

Issa Hassan Sesay (born June 27, 1970) served as senior military officer and commander in the Revolutionary United Front and AFRC/RUF forces in their insurrection against the government of Sierra Leone.

Istanbul observatory of Taqi al-Din

A "remarkably modern-looking" terrestrial globe of the Earth, one of the earliest of its kind, was constructed by Taqi al-Din at the Istanbul observatory of Taqi al-Din.

Kissy, Sierra Leone

The Kissy Road Church of the Holy Trinity is located in Kissy Village and it should not be confused with the Church of the Holy Trinity on Kissy Road which in 1999 was completely burned down by RUF rebel forces.

Robert C. MacKenzie

The country's leader, Valentine Strasser had begun to organize a force to counterattacks by the RUF rebels and his right-hand man, Major Tarawali had contracted sixty Gurkhas of the GSG (Gurkha Security Guards Limited) to train approximately 160 green troopers that would form the nucleus of the SLCU.

Ruf CTR

In the Wangan Midnight series, a character named Tatsuya Shima drives a black Ruf CTR Yellowbird, thus known as the Blackbird.

The Ruf CTR is also a playable/drivable car in the video game "Driver: San Francisco".

Ruf Records

In 2012, Ruf Records signed the Royal Southern Brotherhood an all-star band which featured the Grammy Award winning Cyril Neville, Devon Allman, Mike Zito, Charlie Wooton and Yonrico Scott.

Sorious Samura

The self-funded Cry Freetown depicts the most brutal period of the civil war in Sierra Leone with RUF rebels capturing the capital city (January 1999).

Victor Mosele

He had turned back in an effort to acquire medicine for the wounded when he was met by the RUF rebels and taken to Makeni.

Yair Klein

Yair Klein spent 16 months in a Sierra Leone prison between 1999 and 2000 on charges that he was smuggling arms to rebels from the Revolutionary United Front (RUF).


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