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2 unusual facts about Riot


Jeremy Davis

However, he rejoined soon afterwards and was present on the band's second album, Riot!.

Riot/Clone

Their first two cassette albums, Musical Destruction (1980) and Crime Pays (1981) were only ever released in very small quantities, and it was only when they finally got the money together to release an EP in April 1982 (There's No Government Like No Government) did they make the jump to a wider audience, the EP completely selling out within three weeks.


105th and Euclid

During the turbulent, riot-torn '60s, in one of the most racially polarized cities in the country, this same parcel witnessed the creation and rise of an urban paradise; imagined, engineered, owned and operated by a young African-American entrepreneur, Winston E. Willis.

2001 England riots

The most expensive act of the riot was the arson attack of a BMW dealership, which had previously been attacked in a 1995 disturbance.

2005 Maldives civil unrest

Riot police arrived on the scene to disperse the demonstrators, but they held off calling for the immediate resignation of President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.

2008 Congo football riots

On Sunday 14 September 2008, a riot broke out in connection with a football game in Butembo, province of Nord-Kivu, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

2011 Northern Ireland riots

On 15 July, Police in Portadown came under attack with a riot involving around 100 people.

Alex Beam

In December, 2010, Beam wrote an article in the Globe about Liverpool Football Club's supporters, criticizing them for continuing to mourn the deaths of 96 supporters during the Hillsborough disaster, which he called a "riot".

Another Day, Another Riot

Another Day, Another Riot was the fourth album from Irish alternative band Toasted Heretic.

Banned from Argo

The "Doctor" (Leonard "Bones" McCoy) is arrested for "inciting whores to riot", and has to be transported out of jail, "intact except for hickies and six kinds of VD".

Benjie Bollox

Bollox is also known for his involvement as a member of Riot Squad, U.K. Subs, Splodgenessabounds, The Visitors (who toured with Vice Squad and The Vibrators), and a handful of other local bands in Dallas, Texas, or the United Kingdom.

Blackboard Jungle

When shown at a South London Cinema in Elephant and Castle in 1956 the teenage Teddy Boy audience began to riot, tearing up seats and dancing in the aisles.

Brest Ghetto

Just before the outbreak of World War II, there was an anti-Jewish riot at the Bazaar in Brześć on May 15, 1939.

Chicago Race Riot of 1919

In 1930, the flamboyant Republican mayor William Hale Thompson invoked the riot in a misleading pamphlet when urging African Americans against voting for the Republican nominee Rep Ruth Hanna McCormick in the United States Senate race for her late husband's seat.

Cincinnati riots of 1884

The French author Victor Hugo even compared the riot to the storming of the Bastille, calling the rioters champions of justice and heroes.

Dream Home Heartache

Williams and Demone toured Europe and North America in support of the album, provoking a riot in Mexico City when fans were unable to enter the sold-out venue.

Enriqueta Martí

The authorities had the Tragic Week fresh in their minds and, out of the fear of a public riot, they calmed the public with newspaper articles explaining that in the famous list were the names of people to whom Enriqueta begged and that these families and personalities had been swindled by the lies and requests of the murderer.

Executive Order 11850

On April 11, 2007 Joseph Benkert, a George W. Bush political appointee, informed the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Bush Presidency felt it could reinterpret the Executive Order and loosen the restriction on the use of gas as a riot control agent.

Friendly People

The most famous of these incidents included the band being banned for several years from performing in Canada on charges of public indecency due to onstage nudity in Saskatoon, and singer Mark Adkins' arrest for "assault with a deadly weapon" after using his onstage microphone to incite a near-riot during a show in San Bernardino.

Gavli

According to their tradition following a communal riot between Hindus and Muslims, they left their ancestral village of Kharpa in Kannauj District of Uttar Pradesh.

Gene LeBell

To prevent a full-blown riot, hometown hero and rated professional boxer Jay Fullmer (brother of boxers Gene and Don Fullmer) entered the ring to congratulate LeBell.

Glasgow Green

The Chartism movement that grew in response to the Reform Act, later resulted in what is known as the Chartist Riot of 1848.

Great Depression in Canada

Some notable ones include a coal miners strike that resulted in the Estevan Riot in Estevan, Saskatchewan that left three strikers dead by RCMP bullets in 1931, a waterfront strike in Vancouver that culminated with the "Battle of Ballantyne Pier" in 1935, and numerous unemployed demonstrations up to and including the On-to-Ottawa Trek that left one Regina police constable and one protester dead in the "Regina Riot."

Guy of Roye

He got into a quarrel with the marshals of Volti, near Gênes, on his way to the council of Pisa with Louis I of Bar and Pierre d'Ailly, leading to a riot in which Guy was killed by a crossbow bolt.

Hollister riot

A short story, Cyclists' Raid, by Frank Rooney is based on the events of the Hollister riot and was originally published in the January 1951 issue of Harper's Magazine.

Homo mermanus

The game Marvel: Ultimate Alliance features a stage where the players must travel to the underwater city of Atlantis to stop a riot orchestrated by Attuma, who believes he will become the sea kingdoms' new ruler as foretold in the Atlantean Chronicles.

Honolulu Courthouse Riot

The Honolulu Courthouse Riot, or the Election Riot, occurred in February 1874 when Hawaiian followers of Queen Emma, known as Emmaites, attacked supporters of King Kalakaua on the latter's election day and started a riot.

Imperial ban

The imperial ban imposed by the Emperor Rudolf II on the city of Donauwörth after an anti-Catholic riot was one of the incidents leading to the Thirty Years' War.

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey

In early 2011, the group recorded "The Race Riot Suite", about the Tulsa race riot of 1921, at Tulsa's Church Studio.

Jibril Yakubu

The co-defendants were former Chief Security Officer Hamza al-Mustapha, former Lagos State Police Commissioner James Danbaba and former head of the Aso Rock Anti-Riot Police Rabo Lawal.

John Skyler

Skyler would compete as a regular member of the World Riot Squad (with Steven Walters, The Bravado Brothers, American Avalanche (PN News), and Sam Adonis) against the likes of James Mason, Tony Teesside, "Party" Marty Scurll, Frankie Sloan, Robbie Dynamite, El Ligero, Dean Allmark, The Hooligans, Michinoku Pro's Kenbai, Nathan Cruz, Max Moran, and New Japan's Hiro Takahashi.

Juan Bautista Gill

A riot broke out in Caacupé, in December 1875, and was led by General Serrano, his former Interior Minister.

Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays

Soon, the babies riot, an event referred to in the news as the "Tot Offensive".

Municipal Court of Nauvoo

In June 1844, the Circuit Court for Hancock County charged Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, and 15 other co-defendants with inciting a "riot" in the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor.

Preston Strike of 1842

They enlisted the help of soldiers stationed in the town from the 72nd Highlanders to help stop the riot.

Riki Chōshū

After NJPW split ties with Takeshi Kitano over the December 27 Sumo Hall riot, Chōshū slowly climbed back up into the main event picture.

RIOT 111

The group was formed by two political activists, singer "Void" and drummer "Roger Riot", during the South Africa national rugby union team's infamous 1981 tour of New Zealand.

Riot in Everyone

"Riot in Everyone" is a 2005 single by Swedish glam metal band Crashdïet.

Riverport Riot

The Riverport Riot was a riot at the Riverport Amphitheater (now named Verizon Wireless Amphitheater St. Louis) in Maryland Heights, Missouri (near St. Louis) at a Guns N' Roses concert on July 2, 1991.

Sein Lwin

On 16 March, following the killing of two students, students marching on Prome Road were confronted near Inya Lake by the riot police and many beaten to death or drowned.

Spa Fields riots

Arthur Thistlewood and three other Spencean leaders were arrested and charged with high treason as a result of the riot; James Watson was on trial during June 1817 with Messrs Wetherell and Copley as their defence counsel.

Spitting Off Tall Buildings

Spitting Off Tall Buildings was a Berlin Punk rock band headlined by the former VJ and actress Jana Pallaske (vocals), who assumed the stage name Bonnie Riot.

St Paul's Cross

The first sermon preached here after Catholic Queen Mary's accession (by Bishop Bourne) provoked a riot - a dagger was thrown at Bourne (but missed him, sticking in one of the side posts) and he had to be rushed to safety in St Paul's School.

Steve Loeb

The forerunner of synthesizing the genres of heavy metal and hip-hop, Loeb produced chart records for 13 albums for heavy metal icons Riot and the Top 10 pop single "Amityville" for rapper Lovebug Starski which Loeb wrote with rapper Kurtis Blow.

Swope Park

The park is also mentioned in the Kansas City rapper Tech N9ne's song "Riot Maker" featuring Skatterman and Snug Brim from his 2006 album Everready (The Religion), and on the song "In The Trunk" from his 2009 album K.O.D..

Sydney Riot of 1879

The Australian press and cricket officials immediately condemned the riot, which dominated the front pages of the local newspapers, even though the infamous bushranger Ned Kelly and his gang had raided Jerilderie on the same weekend.

Tarakan riot

Minister of Interior Gamawan Fauzi tried to calm the masses by reminding them that the riot was originally an ordinary criminal incident, which accidentally involved two different ethnic groups.

The Van Orsdels

As a result of their participation in the Screamfest Horror Conventions, they met famed artist/illustrator Gris Grimly, who created the artwork for the band's second CD release Miami Morgue Riot!

United States Penitentiary, Florence High

A subsequent investigation found that the riot began when a group of inmates belonging to the Aryan Brotherhood celebrated the birthday of Adolf Hitler, which sparked a dispute with black inmates.

William Macready

In 1843-1844 he made a prosperous tour in the United States, but his last visit to that country, in 1849, was marred by a riot at the Astor Place Theatre, New York, arising from the jealousy of the actor Edwin Forrest, and resulting in the death of twenty-three persons and the further injuring of one hundred, who were shot by the militia called out to quell the disturbance; Judge Charles Patrick Daly later presided at the trial.

Zetazeroalfa

December 8, 2001 - During one of their gigs at Teatro Piccolo in Sulmona a riot started, because of approximately 20 Antifa activists trying to stop the concert.


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