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3 unusual facts about SOD


New York Turf Writers Cup

A Grade I event on the turf for 4-year-olds and up, this race offers a purse of $150,000.

The Gerry Ryan Show

These included the scenery, Guinness, potatoes, the seas and coastline, whiskey, Barry's and Lyon's tea, Kimberley and Mikado biscuits, the smell of turf, red hair, homemade brown bread, oysters, Baileys coffee, hurling, Irish comedians, Irish history, the River Shannon, Podge and Rodge, Irish literature, bacon and cabbage, Irish stew and the GAA.

Tiburon Handicap

1992 - Gum (Patrick Valenzuela) (Gum holds the record at Golden Gate Fields for this distance: 1:41 1/5, which in Gum's time, was one and one/sixteenth mile on the turf run over the Lakeside Turf Course.)


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Adaptogen

Adaptogenic effect of some herbs may hold certain merit on account of the ability of the substances to increase the bodies own response to oxidative stress, such as gynostemma pentaphyllum or poor-man's ginseng, which has been shown to increase the body's innate response by increased production of superoxide dismutase (SOD).

Ásmegin

Some of the tracks on Hin vordende Sod og Sø are modeled after the Norwegian play Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen.

Avrohom Yissochor Englard

The Rebbe also established the Radziner Yeshiva Sod Y'sharim in Jerusalem, the Radziner Yeshiva Ateres Shlomo in Bnei Brak, the Radziner Yeshiva Tiferes Yosef in Bnei Brak, with many Kollelim located in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, and Haifa.

Bay Meadows Derby

The Bay Meadows Derby was an American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses of either gender on the Longden Turf Course at Bay Meadows Racetrack.

Berwyn Heights, Maryland

The police department called for help from the Prince George's County Sheriff's Office SOD team, but did not contact the Berwyn Heights Police Department.

Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway

In 1866 a start was actually made on a line to run to Appledore with a branch to Westward Ho!, however soon after a full 'first sod cutting ceremony' by the Earl of Iddesleigh, the contractors went bankrupt and the project was abandoned.

Bosquet

Bosquets are traditionally paved with gravel, as the feature predates Budding's invention of the lawnmower, and since the maintenance of turf under trees is demanding (but see the modern bosquet at Amboise, right).

Clackmannanshire Bridge

In 2005 the new crossing was given the go-ahead, and construction began in June 2006, with the sod-cutting ceremony performed by the Scottish Transport Minister, Tavish Scott, accompanied by the Earl of Elgin who as a boy had performed the ceremony for the Kincardine Bridge.

Foothills Major Baseball Association

The main sponsor and benefactor was Jim Wilfley, with able assistance from other sports enthusiasts such as Hank Bassen, Gem-Sod, Alberta Treasury Branch, Coca-Cola, Conmac and others.

Glisodin

Gliadin, which is well known as a carrier protein for controlled drug release, helps to protect SOD.

Greater Chimgan

Some experts see Chinese words in the name "Chimgan" but others translate it as "sod" or "pasture abundant in water, green valley".

Greek punk

One of the first was Hellgrinder, which was formed in 1998 and became popular by releasing a Greek version of SOD's song "Speak English or Die", called "Speak Greek or Die" ("Μίλα Ελληνικά ή Ψόφα").

Green Sod Land Trust

To date Green Sod Land Trust has been donated a five acre site located in Clonmore County Carlow where ongoing projects are being undertaken.

Linoma Beach

The Showboat complex near Hastings was built in the likeness of a Mississippi River side-wheeler, complete with a paddle wheel dipping into the Nebraska sod.

Microtis media

According to Allan Cunningham it appeared from a sod of earth containing a Cephalotus, collected by Phillip Parker King from same location, and flowered to provide the source of the illustration by Franz Bauer.

Mountain Plover

Little is known about their movements at this time, although they are regularly seen around Walsh, Colorado and on sod farms in central New Mexico.

Netherton Tunnel Branch Canal

The first sod was turned by the Lord Ward on 31 December 1855 and the canal opened on 20 August 1858, providing a waterway connection between the Black Country towns of Netherton and Tipton.

Ninnidh

In William Henry's Upper Lough Erne in 1739 the well was described as a chief curiosity, "being a plentiful foundation of pure water, having a clearance and coolness scarce to be met with. It was at that time a popular spot for boatspeople to retire to for their entertainments for which and around it are arranged benches of sod and over it a shade of aquatic trees".

Palmerston North–Gisborne Line

The first sod had been turned in Napier in 1912, but delays meant the line was not opened to Eskdale by the PWD until December 1922 and handed over to the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR) on 23 July 1923.

Peshat

In this way, Peshat differentiates itself from the other methods present in Pardes - Drash, Remez, and Sod, which look at what may be hidden in the text.

Project 112

SOD also conducted a series of tests in the New York City Subway system between 7 and 10 June 1966 by dropping light bulbs filled with Bacillus subtilis var.

Sasa Handa

Handa stayed with the SOD studio throughout 2008 and 2009 making about one original video a month including the October 2008 m Vision Injection which used Kazuhiko Matsumoto's POV camera technique.

Sod shock tube

The Sod shock tube problem, named after Gary A. Sod, is a common test for the accuracy of computational fluid codes, like Riemann solvers, and was heavily investigated by Sod in 1978.

Sodenbrunnen

A sodenbrunnen is a sod cistern used in the saltwater marshlands of Northern Germany from the early first millennium AD to the Middle Ages to collect rain water for drinking.

Stella F. Thayer

She is also a member of the Lykes Family of Florida that wholly owns Lykes Bros. Inc with 337000 acres of land holdings (526 sq miles)including cattle ranching, forestry, sod, sugarcane farms, insurance, and ecoassets.

Suncor Energy Fluvarium

In June 1988, Prince Edward “turned the sod” at the site where the centre would be constructed.


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