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15 unusual facts about Rob "Blasko" Nicholson


A. J. Nicholson

During the off-season in February 2005, Nicholson was arrested for driving under the influence in Leon County, Florida, and was later ordered to serve three days of jail time in work camp and pay a $402 fine.

Albert S. Nicholson

Although he had already been baptized, he insisted on the rite being repeated by immersion in one of the lakes of Nashotah, Wisconsin by Bishop Jackson Kemper.

This new church building was first occupied for services in March 1873, with Reverend John D. McCarty returning from retirement back East to provide the first sermon in the church.

When the Reverend Nicholson came to Vancouver, church services were still being held in the little building which had been consecrated by Reverend John D. McCarty in 1860.

He was induced by Dr. Van Ingen to enter the theological seminary Nashotah House.

Arthur D. Nicholson

At a subsequent meeting between General Otis and General Mikhail Zaitsev, the commander of Group of Soviet Forces Germany, General Otis made it clear that the U.S. Army believed that Nicholson's murder "was officially condoned, if not directly ordered." Following this, a Soviet diplomat was ordered out of the U.S. and the U.S. canceled plans to jointly celebrate the 40th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe with the Soviets.

Brodrick Bunkley

Seminoles coaches named him Co-Defensive Newcomer of the Year, along with A. J. Nicholson.

Coleman Barks

Barks bases his paraphrases entirely on other English translations of Rumi which include renderings by John Moyne and Reynold A. Nicholson.

Lake Dolores Waterpark

In January 2009 the park appeared in an episode of the reality show Rob & Big on MTV.

Mikhail Zaitsev

During his tour of command of GSFG, a crisis with the United States broke out because of the shooting of Arthur D. Nicholson, a U.S. officer assigned to the U.S. Military Liaison Mission in East Germany.

Milli Vanilli discography

The discography consists of 3 studio albums by solely Milli Vanilli released in different parts of the world, 2 remix albums released worldwide, an album of The Real Milli Vanilli released shortly after the exposure, the album by Rob & Fab, the two original members, and the singles.

Reshawn Davis

Reshawn "Bam Bam" Davis(born January 26, 1972) is a professional bodyguard, but is best known for his role on MTV's Rob & Big, which followed him and his co-star/best friend Christopher Boykin.

Reynold A. Nicholson

Being a teacher of the then Indian scholar and poet Muhammad Iqbal, Nicholson translated Iqbal's first philosophical Persian poetry book Asrar-i-Khudi into English as The Secrets of the Self.

Rob Pilatus

In 1992, Pilatus and Morvan signed with a new label, Taj, and released Rob & Fab, an album featuring their own voices; it sold a scant 2,000 copies.

Sam McGrew

Regarded as a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, McGrew was ranked the No. 15 inside linebacker in his class, behind (among others) eventual FSU teammates A. J. Nicholson and Buster Davis.


Ana Bešlić

Her best known sculptures are Plamen, Majka i dete, Talija, Slomljena krila (being one of the best known sights in Palić), Majka i sin, Podravka's rooster, Tina Turner, and Blaško Rajić.

Behind the Player: Blasko

Released on November 1, 2008 by IMV, the DVD features Blasko giving in-depth bass lessons for how to play "Dragula" by Rob Zombie and "I Don't Wanna Stop" by Ozzy Osbourne and an intimate behind-the scenes look at his life as a professional musician, including rare photos and video.

The DVD also includes Blasko jamming the two tracks with Rob Zombie drummer Tommy Clufetos, VideoTab that shows exactly how Blasko plays his parts in the two songs, as well as other bonus material.

Blunt Snowboard Magazine

The magazine also featured regular submissions by skateboarder Ed Templeton and photos by Rob "Whitey" McConnaughy.

Coolie Ranx

He was discovered in 1990 when the lead singer and guitarist of The Toasters, Rob "Bucket" Hingley, heard Ranx's dancehall reggae EP.

Cuprinol

The brand was bought by Jenson & Nicholson in 1958, having bought half the company in 1951, and the factory was moved to Adderwell in Frome, Somerset in the former William & Pinchin & Co Ltd factory.

FK Palić

Former coaches of FK Palić include Demeter Deže, Blaško Milunović, Ivan Bogešić, Ilija Vorgučin, Stipan Kopilović, Aleksandar Gaborović, Jožef Sabo Rac, Mihalj Bleskanj, Josip Zemko, Antun Čikić, Marinko Poljaković, Svetozar Mirolović, Miloš Zakić and Dejan Vrana.

Flesh and the Spur

He recalled being called in to a meeting with AIP's James H. Nicholson, Samuel Z. Arkoff and Alex Gordon.

James Wimshurst

Wimshurst constructed several of the known types of electrostatic generators, such as those created by W. Nicholson, F. P. Carré and W. T. B. Holtz.

Joseph B. Murdock

In mid-1911, Rear Admiral Reginald F. Nicholson was chosen to succeed Murdock as commander-in-chief of the fleet as of November 1911, but Murdock had gained distinction in his handling of unrest in China related to the Xinhai Revolution of that year, and United States Secretary of State Philander C. Knox requested that Murdock be kept on as fleet commander-in-chief to allow continuity until the situation in China stabilized.

Martin Gilks

Gilks who was born in Stourbridge, was originally the drummer with Midlands-based The Mighty Lemon Drops before leaving in 1985 (allegedly sacked for not wanting to cut his hair), and later joined Miles Hunt, Malcolm Treece, and Rob "The Bass Thing" Jones to form The Wonder Stuff in March 1986.

Piggy D.

He first took over bass duties with Rob Zombie from current Ozzy Osbourne bassist Blasko, playing American Witch live on the Late Show with David Letterman right before picking up the second leg of the Educated Horses tour in late 2006.

Skatepark of Tampa

The Skatepark of Tampa also appeared on the MTV series Rob & Big that featured professional skateboarder and entrepreneur Rob Dyrdek.

SlashNET

SlashNET has been host to numerous IRC forums with famous people in the tech industry, including Ken Coar, Marcel Gagne, Richard Stallman, Jamie Zawinski, Matt Dillon of DragonflyBSD, Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda and Jeff 'Hemos' Bates of Slashdot, Rusty Foster and Dylan 'Inoshiro' Griffiths of kuro5hin, and the distributed.net crew.