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2 unusual facts about Shining


Cannonball Run 2001

It was inspired by the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, an outlaw road race of the 1970s which was the source for the famous Cannonball Run movies.

Stuart Highway

In 1994 the first and only Cannonball Run in Australia ran from Darwin to Yulara and back again.


2 Brothers on the 4th Floor

Packaged with The Sun Will Be Shining was a CD-ROM featuring the videos of "The Sun Will Be Shining" and "The Making Of".

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Buddhist monk Lè Zūn has a vision of "golden rays of light shining down on 1,000 Buddha's", resulting in the creation of the Mogao Caves.

49th Royal Tank Regiment

The operation was carried out under 'artificial moonlight' (searchlights shining onto the cloud cover) and during the assault on Rees by the 51st (Highland) Division the Grants both illuminated the crossing and engaged the enemy on the far bank with their 75mm guns.

Arulmigu Sri Rajakaliamman Glass Temple

He was in a tuk-tuk (auto-rickshaw) in Bangkok when he saw a light shining like a diamond, some 2 km away.

Caesar Okhuti

The sensational striker broke through to the Cranes team in only his first season after shining for Ugandan Super League debutants, that is the Arua-based Ediofe Hills FC in 2007/8 and was sold to Bunamwaya SC the following season at 12 Million Shillings.

Canberra International Music Festival

Other recent significant commissions and premieres in the CIMF include Arvo Pärt's Fourth Symphony, Henryk Górecki's ...songs are sung... for string orchestra, the concert premiere of Einojuhani Rautavaara's The Gift of the Magi and Peter Sculthorpe's "Shining Island".

Cluny Abbey

"O God, by whose grace thy servants, the Holy Abbots of Cluny, enkindled with the fire of thy love, became burning and shining lights in thy Church: Grant that we also may be aflame with the spirit of love and discipline, and may ever walk before thee as children of light; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, liveth and reigneth, one God, now and for ever."

D. D. Jackson

An alumnus of the Lehman Engel BMI Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, Jackson's theatre work includes the opera Trudeau: Long March/Shining Path on the former Canadian Prime Minister and the musical-comedy Depressed, Depressed written with Chicago City Limits veteran Carl Kissin.

Eddie Logan Stakes

Begun in 2006, this race is named for Eddie Logan (May 20, 1910 - January 31, 2009), the "foot man," who worked at the track for 74 years, beginning on the track's opening day: December 24, 1934, shining shoes and cheering hearts.

For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story

World-class trumpeter Arturo Sandoval was a shining light in Cuba's exciting jazz scene and championed by jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie as one of the greatest musicians he had ever heard.

Forschungszentrum Jülich

The humidity can be varied, and the temperatures can be kept at 25 °C, even in summer when the sun is constantly shining.

Gary Pine

Gary Pine is a Jamaican singer best known for the vocals on several Bob Sinclar songs, including "Love Generation", "Shining from Heaven", "Miss Me", "Give a Lil' Love", and "Sound of Freedom".

Gertie Gitana

Her music hall repertoire included "A Schoolgirl's Holiday", "We've been chums for fifty years", "When the Harvest Moon is Shining", "Silver Bell", "You do Look Well in Your Old Dutch Bonnet", "Queen of the Cannibal Isles", "Never Mind", "When I see the Lovelight Gleaming", and especially "Nellie Dean" - written by Henry W. Armstrong - which an audience first heard her sing in 1907.

Great King

Alternatively, a more idiomatic style may develop into an equally prestigious tradition of titles, because of the shining example of the original – thus various styles of Emperors trace back to the Roman Imperator (strictly speaking a republican military honorific), the family surname Caesar (turned into an imperial title since Diocletian's Tetrarchy).

Green Carnation

This was enough to convince Bjørn Harstad (In The Woods... guitarist), Stein Roger Sordal (Soxpan ITW... live bassplayer), Kjetil Nordhus (vocals) and Bernt Andrè Moen (Shining) to join the band in time for the actual recording for the album Light of Day, Day of Darkness, a single track, 60-minute progressive metal epic again recorded in Dub-studio.

Hedge maze

In The Shinning, a parody of The Shining from The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror V, Bart cuts a new path through the hedge maze, rather than complete it fairly.

Hesperus

"Heosphoros" in the Greek Septuagint and "Lucifer" in Jerome's Latin Vulgate were used to translate the Hebrew "Helel" (Venus as the brilliant, bright or shining one), "son of Shahar (Dawn)" in the Hebrew version of Isaiah 14:12.

In Death characters

Eve thus names the cat "Galahad", after the Arthurian knight, because he was her "knight in shining armor." He does something similar in "New York to Dallas".

Jack Torrance

In the sequel novel to The Shining, Doctor Sleep reveals Jack is also the biological father of a woman named Lucy, whose daughter Abra also has the shining meets with Danny years later.

Karamu

Coprosma lucida, sometimes called Shining Karamu, and distinguished by its pale bark

Koh-i-Baba

The high jagged peaks above the Hajigak Pass, blue-black and shining, shimmer in the sunlight for they contain an estimated reserve of 2 billion tons of iron ore; Asia's richest deposit.

Lampadarius

"The priests," he says, "are still, and the deacons stand in silence, the whole people is quiet and still, subdued and calm. The altar stands crowned with beauty and splendor, and upon it is the Gospel of life and the adorable wood i.e. the cross. The mysteries are set in order, the censers are smoking, the lamps are shining and the deacons are hovering and brandishing fans in likeness of watchers" (Conolly "Liturgical Homilies of Narsai", p. 12).

Lucanamarca massacre

In March 1983, ronderos killed Olegario Curitomay, a Shining Path commander in Lucanamarca, a small town in the Huanca Sancos Province of Ayacucho.

Mark Shasha

In recognition of his work with more than 150,000 children, the Children's Museum of Southeastern Connecticut awarded him the Shining Star Award for his "Outstanding contribution to the education of young people."

Mikael Rickfors

Among the artists who have recorded songs Mikael has written, in addition to The Hollies, are: Carlos Santana ("Daughter of the Night"), Cyndi Lauper ("Yeah Yeah" on her multi-million selling debut album), Percy Sledge ("Blue Night", "Misty Morning", "Shining Through the Rain", "Road of No Return"), Richie Havens, Jim Capaldi, Carla Olson, and Paul Jones (on his 2009 solo album Starting All Over Again).

Mysterious Ways

"Mysterious Ways," hymn by William Cowper (1731-1800), originally titled "Light Shining out of Darkness"

Nanatsuiro Drops

The opening theme is "Shining stars bless☆" by Kaori Utatsuki, and the ending theme is "Mo・o!" by Loverin Tamburin

Neil Sheehan

Sheehan eventually completed the book, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988, published by Random House and edited by Robert Loomis).

Nosratollah Noohian

His literary compilations include "Biographies of Poets of Semnan" (1958), which was republished in the US in 2001, "Shining Stars" (1959) a collection of published articles relating to Persian poetry, and "Works of Raf'at Semnani" (1960) (رفعت سمنانی) with an introduction by Zabihollah Safa.

Pelantaro

Pelantaro or Pelantarú (from the Mapuche pelontraru or "Shining Caracara") was one of the vice toquis of Paillamachu, the toqui or military leader of the Mapuche people during the Mapuche uprising in 1598.

Please Don't Leave Me

Pink looks in though the hole (a direct imitation from the Stephen King-based film The Shining), as the man grabs a spray can, spraying her in the eyes.

R. nitida

Rosa nitida, the shining rose, a plant species native to northeastern North America, from Connecticut north to Newfoundland and Quebec

Robert Falls

He directed the American premiere of Conor McPherson's Shining City on Broadway, starring Oliver Platt; both the production and Platt's performance were nominated for 2006 Tony Awards.

Roseberry Topping

Gordon Giltrap released an instrumental track named 'Roseberry Topping' on his 2010 album Shining Morn.

S. nitida

Segmentina nitida, the shining ram's-horn snail, a freshwater snail species found in Europe

Soletellina nitida, the shining sunset shell, a bivalve mollusc species

Shining Bronze Cuckoo

Insectivorous, the Shining Bronze Cuckoo eats insects that are avoided by other birds, such as caterpillars, particularly those of the magpie moth, and beetles, particularly ladybirds.

Shining Energy

Shining Energy is considered as the 2nd Japanese album by Twelve Girls Band.

The Eternal Idol

It was offered as a B-side to "The Shining" single and an early version of "Black Moon", which was released on Headless Cross, was released as a B-Side to the "Eternal Idol" single.

The Stanley Hotel

Parts of the television mini-series version of The Shining were filmed there, whereas Stanley Kubrick's cinematic adaptation The Shining was filmed at another resort hotel, the Timberline Lodge in Oregon (besides Elstree Studios in England).

Tim Southam

In not the most shining moment of his career he directed the 2000 horror thriller, Island of the Dead starring Malcolm MacDowell.

Tocharians

The native name of the historical Tocharians of the 6th to 8th centuries was, according to J. P. Mallory, possibly kuśiññe "Kuchean" (Tocharian B), "of the kingdom of Kucha and Agni", and ārśi (Tocharian A); one of the Tocharian A texts has ārśi-käntwā, "In the tongue of Arsi" (ārśi is probably cognate to argenteus, i.e. "shining, brilliant").

Yotsunoha

Aside from the in-game soundtrack, he has also composed the two theme songs used in the game, "Yotsunoha", the opening theme sung by Chata, and "Shining Orange", the ending theme sung by Yui Sakakibara.


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