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unusual facts about Runaway



Albert Kempster

He was awarded for bravery with the Albert Medal when at great risk to himself he stopped a runaway horse and carriage.

Ali Sardar Jafri

He also wrote two plays for the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA), produced a documentary film Kabir, Iqbal and Freedom and two television serials: the runaway success, the 18-part Kahkashan, based on the lives and works of seven noted and highly popular Urdu poets of the 20th century he had known personally viz.

Alpha Camelopardalis

Runaway stars such as this with a stellar wind that is moving at supersonic velocity through the interstellar medium have their wind confined by a bow shock due to ram pressure.

Arrow Dynamics

Arrow made dozens of coasters throughout the decades, including several Corkscrew-style coasters, many "runaway mine train" coasters like Cedar Creek Mine Ride and Adventure Express, custom-designed coasters like Loch Ness Monster, and Carolina Cyclone.

Ben Goto

Against a backdrop of anxiety following the 1973 oil crisis, the work became a runaway bestseller and sparked a 'Nostradamus boom' in Japanese publishing.

Boston Massacre

Over fifty Bostonians pressed around White, led by a mixed-race runaway slave named Crispus Attucks, throwing objects at the sentry and challenging him to fire his weapon.

Bring Me the Head of Oliver Plunkett

Two runaway orphans, Pat and Sean, witness the theft of Saint Oliver Plunketts head from St. Peter's Church where it was on display for a forthcoming papal visit.

C-3PO

In The Black Fleet Crisis, Threepio accompanies Lando Calrissian, R2-D2, and Lando's associate Lobot to investigate the runaway alien ship Teljkon Vagabond; eventually to discover that the ship contains the last vestiges of the Quella civilization.

Clubhouses

He has bought a red Corvette convertible, is wearing an earring, flirts with girls at traffic lights and turns up at the aforementioned party in Cartman's clubhouse organized by the runaway girls.

Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway

A sequel, Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn (1977), focuses on Dawn's friend and fellow runaway, Alexander Duncan (Leigh McCloskey).

Dove Holes railway station

In 1957, the gradient into Chapel-en-le-Frith was the scene of a serious accident, in which the driver of a runaway freight train, John Axon remained at his post and died, being awarded a posthumous George Cross.

Downhearted

"Downhearted" was covered by Dutch prog rock band Solution and appeared on their 1982 album Runaway, while they added a 'bridge' to the song; Australian pop singer John Farnham sang it on his 2005 covers album I Remember When I Was Young.

Ellen Tarry

Tarry published four picture books: 1940's Janie Belle (illustrated by Myrtle Sheldon), 1942's Hezekiah Horton (illustrated by Oliver Harrington), 1946's My Dog Rinty in collaboration with Caldecott Medal winner Marie Hall Ets (photographs by Alexander and Alexandra Alland), concerning a Harlem family and their mischievous pet, and 1950's The Runaway Elephant (again illustrated by Harrington), which continued the relationships started in Hezekiah Horton.

Family life and children of Vladimir I

According to Snorri Sturluson the runaway Olaf Tryggvason was sheltered by Allogia in her house; she also paid a large fine for him.

Frank Kratovil

According to Dan Eggen at The Washington Post, the group said "it was formed in September 'to engage citizens from every walk of life and political affiliation' in the fight against 'runaway spending.'" Its only expenditures were for these ads.

Freedom School

The Freedom School was also the name of the fictional school for runaway youth depicted in the 1971 film Billy Jack and the 1974 sequel The Trial of Billy Jack.

Gare de Lyon rail accident

The accident was featured on season 2 of the National Geographic Channel documentary series Seconds From Disaster in the program Paris Train Crash (also known as Runaway Train).

GNR Stirling 4-2-2

In the anime film Detective Conan: The Phantom of the Baker Street, in which the protagonists are in a virtual reality game, the protagonists confront Jack the Ripper on the top of a runaway passenger train, which is pulled by a GNR Stirling Single Engine.

Gottlieb Priber

Because of his position against private property and his policy to provide refuge for runaway slaves and debtors in Cherokee territory, his surrender was demanded by the British authorities in 1739 and when on his way to New Orleans in 1743, he was caught by British-allied Creeks and handed over to the British colonial authorities, eventually dying under imprisonment in Frederica, Georgia.

Harold Brodkey

“Entering The Runaway Soul,” wrote Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in The New York Times, “is like arriving at a monthlong house party and being accosted at the door by your host, who sticks his mouth in your face and begins to talk.”

Harry and Tonto

During his episodic journey, he befriends a Bible-quoting hitchhiker (Michael Butler) and underage runaway Ginger (Melanie Mayron), visits his daughter (Ellen Burstyn), a bookstore owner in Chicago, and drops in on an early sweetheart (Geraldine Fitzgerald) in a retirement home, where she suffers from dementia.

Introducing Eddy and the Falcons

All tracks were written and recorded as tributes to 1950s and early 1960s rock and roll musicians, "Eddy’s Rock" being a guitar and saxophone instrumental played in the style of Duane Eddy, while "Everyday I Wonder" was similar in sound and approach to Del Shannon's "Runaway", and "Come Back Karen" did the same for Neil Sedaka's "Oh! Carol".

Jamie Byng

The Pocket Canons (1998) published in partnership with Matthew Darby was Byng's first runaway success: selected books from the Bible individually packaged with new introductions by the Dalai Lama amongst others.

Joanna Macy

Donella Meadows provided insights on the planetary consequences of runaway systems, and Elisabet Sahtouris provided further information about self-organizing systems in evolutionary perspective.

Juno Falls

He was also Ireland's national television 'Sunday sports' presenter and he pursued a career in film and television acting, appearing in the epic Warner Bros. film about two runaway children Flight of the Doves in 1969.

Kim Taylor

Taylor recently starred in director Matthew Porterfield's forthcoming independent film, I Used to Be Darker, about a pregnant Northern Irish runaway who seeks refuge with family in Baltimore, MD, only to find her aunt on the verge of divorce.

Lari Pittman

In David Pagel’s interview with Pittman, he concludes that Pittman’s paintings include “imaginary organic forms, runaway arrows, and arabesques, transform ornamentation into a contemporary narrative of life and death, love and sex.”

Maco light

The tale associated the light with Joe Baldwin, a train conductor who was said to have been decapitated in a collision between a runaway passenger car and a locomotive at Maco, along the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad, in the late 1800s.

Marquette Nat. Bank of Minneapolis v. First of Omaha Service Corp.

"Contrary to the conventional wisdom, Marquette did not lay a foundation for runaway bank profits and consumer suffering," says George Mason University School of Law professor Todd Zywicki.

Maya Bond

Haggard and Halloo stated in their article that Bond's paternal grandmother was a runaway from a Cherokee reservation.

Mount Obama

The highest point of the southwestern Shekerley Mountains, it is here that runaway slaves congregated while hiding in the forest.

National Runaway Switchboard

NRS also maintains a Web site, www.1800RUNAWAY.org, which was significantly revamped in 2006 and which presents a wide range of information both on NRS and on runaway and homeless youth in general, including guidance for what families should do if a child is missing.

Oliver Goodwill

He is known to have participated in the music video "Call Me When You're Sober" from the album The Open Door of the rock band Evanescence, and portrayed the main character on the TV series Runaway Stars.

Qué tan lejos

The plot follows an Ecuadorian student, Tristeza(Vallejo) from Quito and a Spanish traveler, Esperanza (Martinez) from Barcelona as they unexpectedly travel together from Quito to Cuenca, because Tristeza wants to stop her summer love from marrying and Esperanza wants to travel when a strike caused by the runaway of the president, makes it impossible to travel by bus.

Rover Company

The Land Rover became a runaway success (despite Rover's reputation for making upmarket saloons, the utilitarian Land Rover was actually the company's biggest seller throughout the 1950s, '60s, and '70s), as well as the P5 and P6 saloons equipped with a 3.5L (215ci) aluminium V8 (the design and tooling of which was purchased from Buick) and pioneering research into gas turbine-fueled vehicles.

Runaway Brides

Runaway Brides is the second and final studio album by Brides of Destruction released via Shrapnel Records on September 13, 2005.

Runaway Child, Running Wild

"Runaway Child, Running Wild" (shown as "Run Away Child, Running Wild" on the label of the original single) is a 1969 hit single for the Gordy (Motown) label, performed by The Temptations and produced by Norman Whitfield.

Runaway Jones

Runaway Jones is the second studio album from hip hop artist Miles Jones.

S. S. Vasan

This starred the famous singer Dandapani Desikar with the film and soundtrack becoming a runaway superhit in Tamil Nadu.

Shane Donovan and Kimberly Brady

One notable incident involved Kimberly helping her nephew Eric convince a teenage runaway (played by Country superstar LeAnn Rimes) to return home.

South Devon Railway Tornado class

It was also notorious for being the locomotive of a runaway china clay train at Burngullow on the Cornwall Railway on 29 October 1872.

Tennessee Johnson

Runaway tailor's apprentice Andrew Johnson (Van Heflin) wanders into the Tennessee town of Greeneville.

Terence Bayler

It was directed by Roger Mirams and John O'Shea – O'Shea went on to direct the only New Zealand feature films made in the 60s, drama Runaway and musical Don't Let it Get You.

The Runaway Summer of Davie Shaw

The Runaway Summer of Davie Shaw is a book by Mario Puzo, first published in 1966.

The Toff

Two films have been made from Toff adventures: Salute the Toff and Hammer the Toff (both 1952); as well as BBC Radio adaptations starring Terence Alexander, The Toff and the Runaway Bride (1975) and The Toff on the Farm (1977).

Universal Creative

Studio Tour (Flash Flood, Rockslide, Avalanche, Battle of Galactica, Parting of the Red Sea, Jaws, King Kong Encounter, Runaway Train, Collapsing Bridge, Earthquake, The Mummy's Tomb, The Fast and the Furious: Extreme Close-Up, Skull Island Sea, Stunt Show, Whoville, Psycho and King Kong: 360 3-D tour scenes) (1968–2010) (co-produced with Totally Fun Company, Ride & Show Engineering and Weta Digital)

Yemi A.D.

Choreography for Saturday Night Live Kanye West performance of Power and Runaway - the act was named as best live act in history of the SNL TV show – claimed by SNL senior producer

Ziba Mir-Hosseini

Along with these publications, Mir-Hosseini directed with Kim Longinotto two documentaries on current issues in Iran: Divorce Iranian Style (1998) and Runaway (2001).


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