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2 unusual facts about Rupture


Shawn Fanning

ValleyWag wrote an article that Fanning had long left Snocap and began to work on another venture, Rupture.

In December 2006, Fanning developed Rupture, a social networking tool designed to handle the task of publishing gamers' individual profiles to a communal space and facilitating communication between World of Warcraft players.


1967 Mudurnu earthquake

The earthquake is named after the river valley, not the town of Mudurnu itself, which is some distance south of the river and outside the rupture zone.

1983 Borah Peak earthquake

The rupture caused clear surface faulting  a 21 mile (34 km) long northwest moving zone of fresh scarps and ground rupture was present on a slope of the Lost River Range.

Abuna Takla Haymanot

There are unsubstantiated reports, that there was a final rupture between President Mengistu Haile Mariam and the Patriarch following the napalm and cluster bombing of rebel held areas of Eritrea and the Tigray Region in the north in 1988.

Animal suicide

Carpenter ants and some species of termite will rupture glands in a process called autothysis.

Cephalhematoma

A cephalohaematoma (British English) or cephalohematoma (American English) is a hemorrhage of blood between the skull and the periosteum of a newborn baby secondary to rupture of blood vessels crossing the periosteum.

Diaphragmatic rupture

In 1579, Ambroise Paré made the first description of diaphragmatic rupture, in a French artillery captain who had been shot eight months before his death from complications of the rupture.

Emilio Castelar y Ripoll

The Cuban insurgents gave him much trouble and anxiety, the famous Virginius incident nearly leading to a rupture between Spain and the United States.

Hiroe Yuki

Yuki overcame an Achilles tendon rupture early in her career to compile her impressive record.

International adoption

As Pauline Turner Strong said in an article in Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies: "Adoption across political and cultural borders may simultaneously be an act of violence and an act of love, an excruciating rupture and a generous incorporation, an appropriation of valued resources and a constitution of personal ties.

Marysole Wörner Baz

Contemporary to the so-called “Rupture’s Generation” (represented by Manuel Felguérez, Vicente Rojo, Lilia Carrillo and Alberto Gironella among others) but closer, by affinity and coexistence, to the exiled European artists living in Mexico, like Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, Vlady, Mathias Goeritz, Francisco Moreno Capdevilla and Benito Messeger.

Nikita Ivanovich Panin

The final rupture seems to have arisen on the question of the declaration of the armed neutrality of the North, but it is known that Grigori Potemkin and the English ambassador, James Harris (afterwards 1st earl of Malmesbury), were both working against him some time before that.

Petrine Baroque

Unlike contemporaneous Naryshkin Baroque, favoured in Moscow, the Petrine Baroque represented a drastic rupture with Byzantine traditions that had dominated Russian architecture for almost a millennium.

Philip Primrose

In August he was granted a leave of absence when he went to the Mayo Clinic at Rochester to undergo surgery to repair an undisclosed rupture and remove his appendix.

Premature rupture of membranes

Prelabor rupture of membranes (PROM), or premature rupture of membranes, is a condition that occurs in pregnancy , and is defined as rupture of the membrane of the amniotic sac and chorion more than one hour before the onset of labor, which, in turn, is defined by the ACOG as uterine contractions of sufficient frequency and intensity to result in progressive effacement and dilation of the cervix.

Stanley H. Durlacher

After 1 year in office, Dr. Durlacher died of a fatal rupture of an aneurysm of the Circle of Willis while attending the Chicago meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

Swiss Communist Organization

Red Flag Communist Organisation (Organisation Communiste Le Drapeau Rouge); founded on March 27, 1977 by Rupture for Communism (Rupture pour le Communisme, RplC) in Vaud and Geneva and Struggle Organization for Communism (Organisation de Lutte pour le Communisme) in Geneva.


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