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unusual facts about Slide


Lew Fonseca

It is said that his interest with cameras began while shooting Slide, Kelly, Slide in 1927.


Across the Sea of Suns

Now the leader, Nigel vetoes suggestions that they return to Earth and quoting Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ("Le's all slide out of here one of these nights and go for howling adventures amongst the Injuns over in the territory and I says all right, that suits me.") energizes everyone for a voyage to the Galactic Center, the most important place of all for the machines.

Albert Blithe

Ambrose's errors were compounded in the mini-series, in which episode 3, "Carentan", episode ends with a slide stating that "Albert Blithe never recovered from the wounds he received in Normandy. He died in 1948."

ASP pistol

The ASP was a reworked Smith & Wesson Model 39 or 39-2, employing a shortened slide; a fixed bushing (in lieu of the Smith and Wesson designed collet bushing); the unique Guttersnipe sight system; clear Lexan grip-panels; a fully ramped and throated, shortened barrel; and a smoothed and radiused profile to ensure no risk of snagging on the draw.

Barnsdall Art Park

The theatre is equipped with dual sound, lights, a HD ready digital projector, plus a built in 16mm film, slide and video projectors; as well as dressing rooms, spacious upper and lower lobbies with box office and refreshment counters.

Black Angel Blues

Robert Nighthawk recorded "Black Angel Blues" in 1949, with Nighthawk (electric slide guitar), Willie Dixon (double bass), and Ernest Lane (piano) (Aristocrat 2301).

BMW R90S

The R90S came equipped with standard 38 mm Dell'Orto 'pumper' carburetors, differing from the previous 26 mm Bing slide carbs or 32 mm Bing CV carbs of the standard "/6" and "/7" 800 cc, 900 cc and 1000 cc series machines.

Circle Slide

Even with all the popular success that greeted Wide-Eyed Wonder and the band's relentless touring in support of that record, the circumstances that surrounded the creation of Circle Slide were fraught with difficulty, not unlike Chase the Kangaroo, to which this album is often compared.

Coricidin

Other prominent slide guitarists, such as Derek Trucks, Rory Gallagher, and Gary Rossington adopted the Coricidin bottle as well, but such bottles eventually went out of production in the early 1980s (although replicas have been produced since 1985).

D'Arcy Broderick

:Saint Brendan's Voyage
The Galtee Mountain Boy
New Mown Hay
Streets of New York
Phil The Fluthers Ball
Cliffs of Baccalieu
Jigs: Dr. Keiley-O/Whe're you goin' me silly old man/ Kerry Slide
Black Gold
Shores of Amerikay
Nancy Spain
Daisy A Day
Reels: The leaky roof/ Fiddles on the wall.

Disney's Port Orleans Resort

Disney's Port Orleans Resort French Quarter features the Doubloon Lagoon 225,000 gallon swimming pool which has a sea-serpent themed water slide named Scales that is jockeyed by King Neptune.

Do Thangz

It opens with Missy Elliott performing her rap while doing her infamous slide-dance move on a pavement outside of a barbershop.

Due West

The lead off single, Slide on Over, was written by Erin Enderlin, Dylan Scott, and Will Bowen.

Earl Hooker

His "Blue Guitar", a popular Chicago area slide-guitar instrumental single, was later overdubbed with vocals by Muddy Waters and became the popular "You Shook Me".

Freddie King

In 1974 he recorded Burglar, for which Tom Dowd produced the track "Sugar Sweet" at Criteria Studios in Miami, with guitarists Clapton and slide guitarist George Terry, drummer Jamie Oldaker and bassist Carl Radle.

Gigapixel image

Health care providers, such as pathologists, for virtual microscopy utilizing whole slide images (digitally scanned glass microscope slides, also called virtual slides)

Gracie Gilbert

Gracie Gilbert (born 20 October 1992) is an Australian actor, best known for her role as Tammy Lane in the Fox8 teen drama series, SLiDE and also as Vicki in Lockie Leonard.

Graham Yallop

Englishman Mike Brearley (his opposite number in the 1978–79 series) noted that Yallop used to "... slide his back foot to and fro in a grandmotherly shuffle ... More than most Test players, Yallop can range from the inept to the masterly."

Gregory Charles Royal

The son of biochemist and microbiologist husband and wife team Gladys W. Royal and George C. Royal, Royal, who is described by Slide Hampton as "one of the important guys on the horn", grew up in Washington, DC.

Harry Bolton Seed

He investigated many major disasters, such as the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake, the 1971 San Fernando earthquake in California, the 1976 failure of the Teton dam, the 1979 slide at the port of Nice in France, and the 1985 Mexico City earthquake.

Hope Slide

On 23 April 1966, a Royal Canadian Air Force Grumman CSR-110 Albatross (9302) serving with No. 121 Composite Unit (KU) at RCAF Station Comox, BC crashed on the Hope Slide.

I'm a Big Sister, and I'm a Girl, and I'm a Princess, and This Is My Horse

The download-only package is a .zip file containing a 192kbit/s encoded .mp3 file, a 6-minute QuickTime slide-show of black-and-white photographs set to ambient sounds, and a PDF of the CD insert.

Ice Cream for Crow

Gary Lucas – glass–finger guitar, slide guitar, guitar, National steel duolian

If the Cap Fits...

Hodges arrives, and accuses them of looking at dirty pictures, then Jones finally messes up and shows a picture of a topless Zulu native from the Vicars slide collection, "Light into Darkest Africa", much to Hodges delight and Mainwaring's discomfort.

Jacques Telesphore Roman

His valiant efforts to preserve the position and holdings of his family failed against the overwhelming social and political turmoil resulting from the Civil War and Reconstruction, joined the ever-growing tide of once powerful and proud Creoles caught in a downhill slide toward oblivion.

Joseph L. Campbell

After hearing the striking slide-guitar piece Duane Allman added to Aretha Franklin's recording of "The Weight", Campbell was determined to see Allman perform solo.

Keuffel and Esser

A special slide rule was designed in the mid-1930s by Nelson M. Cooke of the Navy's Radio Materiel School; many thousands of the 4139 Cooke Radio Slide Rule were made by K&E.

Knucker

On the cartoon Dragon Tales which airs on PBS Kids Sprout (SPRT), the characters Zak and Wheezie use Knuckerholes to slide underground as a means of quick travel.

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

In addition to slide and artist files, information on each artist is also contained in a computer database.

Martini Creek

Biological Assessment, Species of Concern, Proposed Route 1 Devil's Slide Tunnel Bypass Project, San Mateo County, California Prepared by; Caltrans, Office of Environmental Planning, South.

Mick Kelleher

That August 7, in the second game of a doubleheader against the San Diego Padres at Wrigley Field, Kelleher, at 5-9 and 170 pounds, responded to Dave Kingman's hard slide into him on a double play attempt (Kingman was apparently angered over being hit by a Steve Renko pitch) by jumping on the 6-6, 210-pound Kingman's back and pummeling him with blows; the ensuing bench-clearing brawl resulted in the ejections of both players.

Nancy Falkow

Nancy also was the main female vocalist with Mike Brenner's slide guitar hip-hop hybrid "Slo-Mo" and appeared extensively on their second album "My Buzz Comes Back".

Philip Jeck

He is perhaps best known for his work Vinyl Requiem with Lol Sargent (a performance for 180 Dansette record players, 12 slide-projectors and 2 movie-projectors) which won the Time Out Performance Award in 1993.

Prospectors Delite

Bred back to A.P Indy, Prospector's Delite produced another stakes winner, Rock Slide, who is currently standing at stud in Woodbine, Maryland, at Shamrock Farms.

Purple Onion

Warren Haynes (Allman Brothers Band) adds slide guitar on the "Buzzards of Green Hill" and Fish Fisher (Fishbone drummer) guests on "Whamola." "Whamola" was a live show staple named after the unique instrument Les employs -- a one-string bass played with a drumstick.

Quiggly hole

The reason for the abandonment is believed to have been the collapse of a slide which had blocked the Fraser River, forming a lake reaching upstream many miles, such that the location at Keatley Creek was near the shoreline (it is today on a benchland high above the river's canyon).

Sales Graphics

Its offerings include slide design, video production, and enterprise presentation software called CustomShow, which is offered as SaaS.

Sarah's Cottage, Isle of Man

The notoriously difficult uphill section of the Mountain Course at Sarah's Cottage and the heavy rain and slippery conditions caused Giacomo Agostini to slide-off on lap 2 of the 1965 Senior TT Race.

Slide Mountain Wilderness Area

According to Catskill forest historian Michael Kudish, the Slide wilderness contains the most extensive tract of first-growth forest in the Catskills.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini

Text input is done via a virtual keypad on the Mini and a full QWERTY, QWERTZ, or AZERTY slide-out keyboard on the X10 mini pro.

South African rand

A host of local and international events influenced the currency after that, most notably the 1994 democratic election which saw it weaken to over R 3,60 to the dollar, the election of Tito Mboweni as the new governor of the South African Reserve Bank, and the inauguration of President Thabo Mbeki in 1999 which saw it quickly slide to over R 6 to the dollar.

Sunnyland Slim

In turn, members of Canned Heat - lead guitarist Henry Vestine, slide guitarist Alan Wilson and bassist Larry Taylor - guested on Sunnyland Slim's Liberty Records album Slim's Got His Thing Goin' On (1968), which also featured Mick Taylor.

Television in Malaysia

The test signals consists of a single DAB stream, Fly FM, and two T-DMB streams, TV3 and a Hot Visual, which carries a slide show with audio signal streamed from the radio station Hot FM.

Teufelsrutsch

The name "Devil's Slide" was inspired by a local tale, according to which the residents of Wendelsheim (a nearby village) once tricked the devil into sliding down the stony slope on his bare bottom.

The Indigo King

In the fifth slide, the companions meet Geoffrey of Monmouth, and visit the Keep of Time, where the Cartographer gives them a key to the Keep's topmost room.

The Little Lost Child

A production of The Old Homestead at Brooklyn's Amphion Theater, where Thomas was chief electrician, featured the song "Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight?" illustrated by a single slide of a young man in a saloon.

Thousand Mile Tree

The gorge just east of Devil’s Slide was named Wilhemina Pass and was the subject of several views by Union Pacific’s official photographer A. J. Russell for his stereographic tour of the new line.

Tungsten carbide

English guitarist Martin Simpson is known to use a custom made tungsten carbide guitar slide.


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