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unusual facts about Scratch



$100,000 Fortune Hunt

Potential contestants purchased a $100,000 Fortune Hunt scratch-off ticket from an Illinois Lottery retailer.

2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's scratch

The Women's Scratch was one of the 8 women's events at the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Pruszków, Poland.

Austral Wheel Race

Corruption tinged the event in 1901 when the American, "Plugger" Bill Martin, won from scratch, to allegations of fixing by John Wren.

Bible John

The last possible sighting of the man was of a well-dressed young man in a dishevelled state with possible scratch marks on his face, getting off a bus at Gray Street at Sauchiehall Street around 1:30 am.

Cat's cradle

it is referred to as "scratch cradle", a name supported by Brewer's 1898 Dictionary.

Collective Tuning Initiative

Interactive Compilation Interface: Opens and transforms production compilers into stable interactive research tool sets using an event-driven plugin system to avoid the development of new research compilers from scratch

Dahl's Foods

Another store opened in 1952 featuring a scratch bakery, pharmacy, and a lunch counter, uncommon for a grocery store at that time.

Denis Grebeshkov

However, Grebeshkov was a healthy scratch for games 2, 3, and 4 as Predators' head coach Barry Trotz elected to play rookie Cody Franson.

Digital ICE

LaserSoft Imaging released an infrared dust and scratch removal tool (iSRD - infrared Smart Removal of Defects) in 2008, that allows Nikon's film scanners for Mac OS X, as well as many scanners from other manufacturers to make high quality scans of Kodachrome slides.

Digital Innovations

Digital Innovations was founded by Joe Born and Collin Anderson in 1995 in Chicago, Illinois and achieved initial success by selling CD and DVD scratch repair devices.

DJ Quest

Quest is also featured in the Doug Pray-directed documentary “Scratch” (Palm Pictures), and is respected as one of today’s most talented and versatile DJ/turntablist.

Fabio Masotti

: 3rd Italian Track Cycling Championships (Scratch), Dalmine (ITA)

Final Scratch

All versions of Final Scratch 1 use the same Scratchamp, a USB and RCA device in a round plastic shell.

Freundeskreis

For the soundtrack of the film 23, Freundeskreis covered the song "Halt dich an deiner Liebe fest" (Hold on to your love) written by Rio Reiser, voicing it on Lee "Scratch" Perry's police & thieves riddim.

Giorgia Bronzini

:2nd Scratch Race UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Cali

Gravitronix

The game engine was written from scratch, requiring nearly a year of development time, and low resolution graphics were used to conserve memory.

Hawksbill Creek Agreement

The Grand Bahama Port Authority was created to develop and administer the land and thus the city of Freeport was planned and built from scratch.

Hormuud Telecom

This service replaces scratch-off cards, which are more costly to keep and may be more vulnerable to theft, thereby necessitating greater security precautions on the retailer's part.

India national rugby union team

Rugby Union in India dates back to a scratch match or two played in Kolkata and Madras during the visit of MS Galatea in 1871.

Inner London

The southern part of the London Borough of Lewisham as well as a small part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich fall outside its boundaries whilst 44 of its 119 districts are in Outer London and its irregular shape stretches to the Greater London boundary at Mill Hill and Scratch Wood and beyond it at Sewardstone.

John Henderson, 5th of Fordell

Sir William Widdrington put together a scratch force, which included Henderson's Royalist cavalry, in an attempt to relieve the castle.

Kishu

The other known issue is Entropion, a genetic defect affecting the eye in which the eyelid turns inward and the lashes scratch the eye ball.

Lake of Stars Music Festival

2500 people travelled to Senga Bay to see Seth Lakeman, Scratch Perverts, BBC Radio 1’s Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC Radio 1Xtra’s Skitz, Man Like Me, Fabric’s Ali B play, alongside many local African acts.

Lynn Taitt

Taitt's work can be heard on various 60s recordings by Derrick Morgan, Desmond Dekker, Lee Perry, Ken Boothe, Bob Marley and Joe Higgs, among others.

Nina Antonia

She has written articles and books about Johnny Thunders, the New York Dolls and The Only Ones and has contributed to Mojo and Spiral Scratch magazines, written liner notes for The Stooges live recording Studio Sessions and Nico's Femme Fatale CD, and appeared in the documentary New York Doll.

Osco Drug

In 1970 working with Kodak, Osco built a photofinishing lab from scratch in Elgin, Illinois.

Pop Goes My Love/Scratch Goes My Dub

"Pop Goes My Love"/"Scratch Goes My Dub" is a single recorded for Beggars Banquet Records by British group Freeez.

Porsche RS Spyder

The 3.4 litre 90-degree V8 racing engine was designed from scratch as was the six-speed electro-pneumatic sequential gearbox.

Porting

Software is portable when the cost of porting it to a new platform is less than the cost of writing it from scratch.

Reuben Kee

His advanced graphics, as well as the fact that it is entirely original (as all the work was made from scratch by Reuben), place it in a small category of M.U.G.E.N works, as the majority are from edited commercial games.

Scratch track

Scratch track race or Scratch race, a track cycling discipline in which all riders start together

Scratch Track

A tour which had Scratch Track headlining small venues and open as a special guest to the band O.A.R., which was inspired by their appearance on Sony PlayStation’s MLB 06: The Show for the song Hands Together.

Sir Charles Douglas, 1st Baronet

He was also in charge of creating a navy from scratch to fight on Lake Champlain, and that small fleet routed the Americans under Benedict Arnold.

Slovenian Navy

The Slovenian navy was built from scratch following independence in 1991, as the Territorial Defense Forces of Slovenia had not been equipped with any maritime assets.

Squad 51

Because of the tight filming schedule, Universal Studios decided to build the vehicle entirely from scratch according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department's specifications at that time.

Sun Is Shining

"Sun Is Shining" is the title of a song by Bob Marley & The Wailers first appearing on the Lee Perry-produced album Soul Revolution in 1971, and then on African Herbsman in 1973.

T. N. Pearce's XI

Further matches were played in the 1976 and 1978 seasons, but the festival then lapsed for a few years and when it was revived in the 1980s, the scratch side was first organised (and sometimes led) by Brian Close and then by the TV personality Michael Parkinson.

Tender Vittles

In the Futurama episode 3ACV11 "Insane in the Mainframe", Bender suggests that Fry retire on Tender Vittles after Fry loses his retirement fund on scratch and sniff lottery tickets.

They've Actually Gotten Worse Live!

The verse added in this song is as follows, "We all know George Bush is an imbecile, he loves Dick, but he hates homosexuals. I'm sick and tired, of the embarrassment, the whole world wants us to kill our fucking (scratch)."

Tony Grisoni

Gilliam and Grisoni went to WGA arbitration to get credit for Fear and Loathing; initially only Tod Davies and Alex Cox (who had written a previous version of the screenplay) were credited, despite Gilliam and Grisoni rewriting the entire film from scratch.

Traktor

This partnership gave Stanton a Win/Mac version of the Final Scratch software (which previously ran in a version of Debian Linux) and allowed Native Instruments to use the Final Scratch timecode engine in their own Traktor line.

Upsetter Records

Upsetter Records was a Jamaican record label set up by Lee "Scratch" Perry in 1968.

Varissuo

The suburb was constructed from scratch on an area of previously uninhabited wetland (suo in Finnish) starting in the mid-1970s as migration from rural areas to the city increased heavily in volume.

Vermileonidae

The main enemies of the larvae of either ant lions or worm lions are ground-hunting birds such as hoopoes and gallinaceous birds that learn to recognise their pits and probe or scratch them from the sand.

Walle Plough

The scratch plough type is known through finds and images from the Neolithic, the Bronze and Iron Ages, as well as from Hallstatt culture, Etruscan, Greek and Roman contexts.

Wax Murdaraz

Wax Murdaraz released an album in 2005 entitled City Ta City Killin' Spree which was executive produced jointly with scratch DJ legend Rob Swift, and released on their own record label Deep Krate Recordingz.

William McKay

Supported by the newly appointed Commander at Fort Mackinac, Lieutenant Colonel Robert McDouall, McKay (who now held the local rank of Lieutenant Colonel) mounted a scratch expedition of Fencibles, voyageurs and Indians which recaptured the post at the Siege of Prairie du Chien.

Zork Zero

Previous games by Infocom used a parser evolved from the one in Zork I, but for Zork Zero, they designed a new LALR parser from scratch.

Zvika Greengold

When two damaged Centurion tanks were repaired, Greengold was put in charge of them and sent with hastily-assembled scratch crews down the Tapline Road.


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