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2 unusual facts about Refused


Refused

Kristofer Steen is now a director and made a documentary on the band's last year in existence called Refused Are Fucking Dead.

The Blackest Beautiful

The album starts with the flagship single Banshee (Ghost Fame), which is a "unholy collision of Refused and Rage Against the Machine".


Abel I. Smith Burial Ground

In 1820, Smith manumitted his slaves, but Jack refused the freedom he was offered and remained on the family estate until his death.

Aliyah Bet

When the deportation ships docked in Port-de-Bouc, the passengers refused to disembark after the French government announced that it would only allow the immigrants off the ships if they consented.

Andries Pretorius

Pretorius went to Grahamstown to seek an audience with the governor, Sir Henry Pottinger, but he refused to see Pretorius or receive any communication from him.

Arthur Bridgett

Bridgett was a deeply religious man, and refused to play on Good Friday or Christmas Day throughout his career.

Augie Wolf

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) initially banned Wolf for life after ruling he had refused post-match testing on July 7, 1985 in Byrkjelo, Norway.

Ayat al-Akhras

In the 2007 documentary To Die in Jerusalem, Akhras' mother was confronted with the mother of 17 year-old Israeli victim of the bombing, Rachel Levy, but refused to denounce her daughter's action.

Battle of Shepherdstown

However, the colonel of the inexperienced 118th Pennsylvania (the "Corn Exchange" Regiment) refused to retire until orders were received through the proper chain of command.

Coachford

She and her driver were shot dead after the British authorities refused to commute the executions of the volunteers.

Commemorative medal of the 1870–1871 War

Although the bravest were rewarded with the Legion of Honour and the Military Medal, the authorities firmly refused to create a commemorative medal for award to the participants of the conflict.

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.

Drabness

In the beginning the main influences was bands like Snapcase, Earth Crisis, Refused, Breach, Biohazard and Sick of It All.

Ed Ziemba

An outspoken and controversial politician, Ziemba spent six days in Toronto's Don Jail in 1977 for contempt of court when he refused to reveal his informant for allegations that the principals of Abko Laboratories were defrauding the Ontario Health Insurance Plan.

Emad Burnat

On February 19, 2013, he and his family were detained at Los Angeles International Airport, when customs officials refused to believe his reason for entry.

Eugene Forsey

In his many commentaries on constitutional issues, especially the reserve powers of the Crown, Forsey was a conspicuous supporter of the action of the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, in dismissing the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, in the 1975 constitutional crisis because his government was unable to obtain supply (approval to spend money) from the parliament and refused to call a general election.

Eweida v British Airways plc

In October 2006, Nadia Eweida, a Christian employee of British Airways, was asked to cover up a cross necklace which depicted a Christian cross, and was placed on unpaid leave when she refused either to do so or to accept a position where she did not have to cover it up.

Faroese language conflict

Jákup Dahl, who later became the Provost, was opposed to the administration's ruling and refused to teach in Danish; from then on he taught in Faroese.

Franca Arena

She was offered the Order of the British Empire for services to migrants, but refused the honour; in 1980 she accepted the Order of Australia for services to ethnic groups.

Frances Rollin Whipper

In 1865, she as illegally refused first class passage on a ferry to Beaufort.

Frane Matošić

He twice refused Josip Broz Tito's offer of transferring of Hajduk to Belgrade and renaming it into "Partizan"

Geoffrey Burridge

He died in London from an AIDS-related illness in 1987, leaving behind a boyfriend, the actor Alec McCowen, who refused to appear on This Is Your Life unless the relationship was acknowledged.

George Christopher

He gained worldwide headlines offering his home to Willie Mays after it was reported that a Forest Hill realtor had refused to sell to Mays.

Guy Wildenstein

The BBC programme Fake or Fortune? criticized Guy Wildenstein in June 2011, after the Wildenstein Institute controversially refused to allow the painting Bords de la Seine à Argenteuil into the catalogue raisonné, despite the programme submitting conclusive documentary evidence to prove its authenticity.

Henry I, Margrave of Austria

After taking the marches of Lusatia and Sorbian Meissen, and the cities of Budziszyn and Meissen in 1002, Bolesław I Chrobry refused to pay tribute to the Empire from the conquered territories.

Josefa Segovia

In 1835, Andrew Jackson tried to buy California for $3.5 million, but Mexico refused the offer.

Lebanese Independence Day

The newly formed government refused to hold talks with General Catroux or any other mandate official; stressing that any negotiation should be done with the captured government.

Legion of the United States

The British in Fort Miami refused to open the gates and the survivors were basically on their own.

Leopoldo Salcedo

Salcedo's most famous role came in 1961, when he starred as the titular character in Gerry de Leon's The Moises Padilla Story, a film biography of a Negros Occidental mayoral candidate who in 1951, was tortured and murdered by the private army of the provincial governor after he had refused to withdraw his candidacy.

Lizzie Black Kander

Because Kander refused to accept social reform as essentially Christian, she joined the Milwaukee Chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) which was established to provide sewing, cooking and English classes to Russian immigrants.

Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki

She won the Filmfare Best Actress Award, but she and co-star Asha Parekh lost out the Best Supporting Actress Award to Reena Roy for Apnapan (1978), who refused the award saying that her role in the film was a leading role, not a supporting role.

Martyrology of Tallaght

The old cities of the pagans to which length of occupation has refused are deserts without worship like Lugaid's House-site.

Morgnshtern

In 1937 Morgnshtern had prepared a delegation to take part in the Workers Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium, but the Polish government refused to give travel visas to the athletes.

Nikolay Baransky

In 1946 he was nominated for election to full member of Soviet Academy of Sciences, but refused the nomination and supported Lev Berg.

Prince Ernest Augustus, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale

Although he was a British peer and a prince of Great Britain and Ireland, he continued to consider himself an exiled monarch of a German realm and refused to disclaim his succession rights to Hanover, making his home in Gmunden, Upper Austria.

Riyadh Al-Azzawi

Al-Azzawi said his spouse's former lover, Egyptian business tycoon and member of Egyptian Parliament Hisham Talaat Moustafa had offered Suzanne Tamim $50m to lure her away from Al-Azzawi and marry him — and threatened to pay $2m to a hitman to have Suzanne killed in revenge if she refused to marry him.

Rohingya conflict in Western Burma

The Burmese central government refused to grant a separate Muslim state in the Mayu region where two townships (Buthidaung and Maungdaw) lie.

Rosnaree

The legendary High King of Ireland Cormac mac Airt is reputedly buried at Rossnaree, having refused to be buried at a pagan site after converting to Christianity.

Salvatore Naturale

In a 2006 interview, the screenwriter of the movie, Frank Pierson, said that he tried to visit Wojtowicz in prison many times to get more details about his story when he wrote the screenplay, but Wojtowicz refused each time to see him because he thought he was not paid enough money for the rights to his story.

Secular and Nationalist Jinnah

Jinnah considered politics as a gentleman's passion: he refused to attend and even condemned the Bombay Bar Association meeting held to celebrate the award of Knighthood to Justice Davar because he had joined the Government in convicting a nationalist leader Bal Gangadhar Tilak earlier.

Sillero

The practice was described by Alexander von Humboldt who crossed the Quindio in 1801 – he refused to be carried and preferred making the hike on foot.

Stephen Minarik

Minarik refused, calling this "just the latest Dean Scream, and stating that the Democrats would be wise to take action on members like Lynne Stewart, rather than attacking me.

The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

The former members of Timbuk 3 have refused to license the song for commercials, including a $900,000 offer from AT&T and offers from Ford, the U.S. Army, and Bausch & Lomb for their Ray-Ban sunglasses.

Theatre of France

Inspired by the theatrical experiments in the early half of the century and by the horrors of the war, the avant-garde Parisian theatre, "New theatre" or, as the critic Martin Esslin termed it, "Theatre of the Absurd," around the writers Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Arthur Adamov, Fernando Arrabal, refused simple explanations and abandoned traditional characters, plots and staging.

Thomas Whitbread

In this capacity he refused to admit Titus Oates as member of the Society, and shortly afterwards Titus attempted to carry out the Popish Plot.

Tony Fontane

When he abandoned his popular career and refused to sing anything other than gospel music, he was sued by the William Morris Agency for breach of contract and lost everything.

United States presidential election in Oklahoma, 2008

Another fallback for Obama was that U.S. Representative Dan Boren, the only Democrat from Oklahoma's five-member delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives, refused to endorse Obama.

Vanessa Lane

Lane's mainstream work includes an appearance in an episode of Dr. 90210 wherein Dr. Robert Rey refused to perform any surgical procedures on her breasts due to her smoking habit.

Victoria of Albitina

Her legend states that she was of the North African nobility and refused an arranged marriage (a story told also of another Saint Victoria).

Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia

The next day they chose the Palatine Elector as their king at Rhens, though Wenceslaus refused to acknowledge this successor's decade-long reign.

Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter

He refused that position, and leadership of the Hasidim went to Rabbi Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin of Aleksander.

Yuan Shao

Tian Feng urged Yuan to attack Cao while he was away, but Yuan refused to launch an all-out offensive, instead he sent small detachments to harass his enemy, but was daunted by Yu Jin, the defender of Yan Ford (see Battle of Dushi Ford).


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