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unusual facts about Ropes



Agave fourcroydes

The first to document the plant and its usefulness for ropes and other naval utensils was José María Lanz, a Mexican-born engineer in service of the Spanish Navy, who studied henequen in Yucatán in 1783.

Anthony Buckeridge

After World War II Buckeridge wrote a series of radio plays for the BBC's Children's Hour chronicling the exploits of Jennings and his rather more staid friend, Darbishire; the first, Jennings Learns the Ropes, was first broadcast on 16 October 1948.

Barcelona Royal Shipyard

Ashlar from the nearby mountain of Montjuïc was used for the construcction, with sand from the beach in front of the shipyard, wood from the Baix Ebre and Gavarres and ropes and tiles from Valencia.

Boiling Lake

On 6 July 2007, adventure-film maker George Kourounis became the first person to ever cross the boiling lake from above, suspended by ropes over the most violently boiling section.

Caving equipment

Early systems of ascending ropes were developed by Pierre Chevalier in the Dent de Crolles cave system in France in the late 1930s, Chevalier also being the first to use nylon rope in a cave as opposed to natural fibre rope.

Delicate Arch

In May 2006, climber Dean Potter made the first recorded free solo – no ropes or protection – ascent of this formation.

District 13 Police Station

The Gothic style station was designed in 1873 by Edmund M. Wheelwright, architect for the City of Boston from 1891 to 1895, and George Ropes and was added to the National Historic Register in 1988.

Ed Farhat

On May 6, 1992, The Sheik had a "fire deathmatch" with Sabu against Atsushi Onita and Tarzan Goto, where the ring ropes were replaced with flaming barbed wire and he got third-degree burns and went into a coma.

House show

During the match a problem with the ring ropes meant the match could not air on television as originally planned, so kayfabe President Jack Tunney "reversed the decision" in print media which had reported the change before the decision not to air it was made.

Ken Grundt

Following his playing career, Grundt has worked as senior instructor at Frozen Ropes, a baseball instructional center located at Dickson City, Pennsylvania.

Melody Ranch

Written by Jack Moffitt, F. Hugh Herbert, Bradford Ropes, and Betty Burbridge, the film is about a singing cowboy who returns to his hometown to restore order when his former childhood enemies take over the frontier town.

Pit cave

The scaling-pole (1940), nylon ropes (1942), use of explosives in caves (1947) and mechanical rope-ascenders (Henri Brenot's "monkeys", first used by Chevalier and Brenot in a cave in 1934) can be traced historically to the exploration of the Dent de Crolles cave system.

Pitchfork Ranch

Helicopters and computers are as common at the Pitchfork as traditional ropes and saddles.

Robert Stirling Newall

R.S. Newall and Company established a factory in Gateshead, England, and commenced making wire ropes for "Mining, Railway, Ships' Rigging, and other purposes".

Rope trick

Rope trick effect, in physics, seen in photographs of nuclear explosions when there are ropes attached to the exploding object

Ropework

Constrictor knots can serve as temporary whippings while cutting ropes, as can a few layers of adhesive tape.

São Paulo Railway

It had five sections using continuous steel wire ropes which were moved by stationary 1,000 hp steam engines.

Scott McCaughey

Their first album, Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails, celebrates many aspects of baseball culture, and includes a song in tribute to Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Harvey Haddix.

Seymour de Lotbiniere

He and his brother had taken torches and ropes to Grimes Graves to explore the pits long before they were opened for public inspection.

Tombstone Junction

Three world-class magicians who "learned the ropes" of entertaining by beginning their professional careers at Tombstone Junction are Lance Burton, Mac King and Whit Haydn.

Tracey Cox

She studied journalism and psychology at Queensland University and first "learned the ropes" about journalism at the Nundah Express, then became Associate Editor of Australian Cosmo.

Trapeze

Static trapeze refers to a trapeze act in which the performer moves around the bar and ropes, performing a wide range of movements including balances, drops, hangs while the bar itself stays mostly in place.

Trevor Brazile

Brazile is sponsored by Wrangler Jeans & Shirts, Justin Boots, Resistol Hats, AT&T, Cactus Ropes & Saddlery, MGM Grand, Power Service Diesel Additives, Pro Equine Products, Platinum Performance and Twister Trailers.

Trinchera Cave Archeological District

The Louden-Henritze Museum of Archaeology, located in Trinidad on the grounds of the Trinidad State Junior College, replica of the Trinchera Cave rockshelter exhibits examples of items made by pre-historic people, including pottery, projectile points, and perishable items made from plants, such as braided ropes, grass mats and yucca sandals.


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