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3 unusual facts about Smoke


Gun.Smoke

Los Pubro was made the final boss in the NES version as Wingate, a Mexican sadistic and bloodthirsty bandit with some features of an guerrillero of the Mexican Revolution, with a slash over one of his eyes, a cape and a machine gun.

Smoke'n'Soul

The band also performed three times at Exit Festival - in 2002, 2003 and 2005 at the Reggae Stage and in 2008 at the Fusion Stage (opening for Gentleman).

The Pop Shoppe

They are also available in restaurants, such as the Smoke's Poutinerie chain.


118 WallyPower

The hull of the 118 WallyPower is the result of an extensive R&D program including tank testing at the SSPA facility in Gothenburg, Sweden, and smoke testing in the Ferrari Wind Tunnel Facility in Maranello, Italy.

Andy's Gang

The green puppet, Froggy the Gremlin, appeared in a puff of smoke ("Hi Ya, Kids, Hiya, Hiya, Hiya!") and was always interrupting the story and causing trouble.

Augusto C. Sandino International Airport

On October 11, 2013 a Airbus A-320 (registration N492TA) the aircraft 8:20 AM local time,made an emergency landing, of the airline TACA presence to declare emergency smoke in the cockpit.

Benjamin Smoke

He was the subject of a documentary released in 2000 called Benjamin Smoke directed by Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen, filming for which took 10 years.

Bigalow's Last Smoke

"Bigalow's Last Smoke" is an episode of the American Television anthology series Tales from the Darkside.

Bryan Webb

In 2009, Webb received a Genie Award nomination in the category Best Achievement in Music – Original Song for "Big Smoke", a song he wrote for the soundtrack to This Beautiful City.

Cale Case

I don't like being exposed to Kenny G's music, cigarette smoke or patchouli oil, but I will defend the right of other folks to have all that junk, the right of business owners to allow it, and my right not to have to be around it.

Camoflauge

DJ Smallz Southern Smoke 9: Money is Still a Major Issue (pt. 1 of 2) (hosted by Pitbull) "Pure Pain"

Camp Marcella

State of the art smoke and fire detectors, with emergency lighting, have been installed in each cabin and are wired into a central system which will report any activity directly to the nearby Rockaway Fire Department.

Černý Most

The area, whose name means "black bridge" in English, was named after a stone bridge over the nearby railway line from Prague to Čelákovice, which was turned "black" by the smoke from passing steam locomotives.

Charas

The Naga Sadhus, Aghoris and Tantric Bhairav sects smoke it freely as an integral part of their religious practice.

Charles Anthony Deane

It was not until 1827 that the first smoke helmets were built, by Augustus Siebe.

Dead Men Don't Smoke Marijuana

Dead Men Don't Smoke Marijuana is the last album by Sierra Leonean highlife and palm wine musician S. E. Rogie, featuring the double bassist, Danny Thompson.

Deadsoul Tribe

Several Deadsoul Tribe tracks, such as "Black Smoke and Mirrors" on A Murder of Crows and "Toy Rockets" on The January Tree feature Devon Graves on flute, an instrument he picked up largely due to his admiration for Jethro Tull mainman Ian Anderson.

Empetrum nigrum

In Labrador, where the name "blackberry" is used, the smoke of the burning stems and leaves is used to smoke fish, notably Salmon, Sea Trout and Arctic Char.

Evan Adams

He won an Independent Spirit Award in 1999 for Best Debut Performance for his role in Smoke Signals, and a Los Angeles Outfest award in 2002 for his role in Fancydancing.

I Smoke, I Drank

The music video for "I Smoke, I Drank (Remix)" was directed by Bernard Gourley, who also directed the music videos for M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" and 50 Cent's "Follow My Lead".

Jack Wasserman

:Vancouver erupted as the vaudeville capital of Canada, rivaling and finally outstripping Montreal in the East and San Francisco in the south as one of the few places where the brightest stars of the nightclub era could be glimpsed from behind a post, through a smoke-filled room, over the heads of $20 tippers at ringside.

Jeffrey Wigand

Wigand became nationally known as a whistleblower on February 4, 1996 when he appeared on the CBS news program 60 Minutes and stated that Brown & Williamson had intentionally manipulated its tobacco blend to increase the amount of Nicotine in cigarette smoke.

Levy-Dew

This ceremony has a parallel in the Scottish Hogmanay tradition of saining; here water drawn from a "dead and living ford", a ford crossed by both the living and the dead, is sprinkled through the house, and then juniper branches are burnt for the smoke indoors.

Lindsay Armaou

In April 2012, Lindsay was cast in her first feature film role as Sister Georgina in the British indie crime thriller, Two Days in the Smoke alongside Matt Di Angelo, Stephen Marcus and Alan Ford.

M10 smoke tank

The tanks were used to lay aerial smoke screens in combat during the airdrop of the US Army's 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment paratroopers at Nadzab, New Guinea in 1943.

Maureen Muggeridge

In 1979, Maureen married Towie's son John, she became pregnant and she discovered diamond samples in the flood plains surrounding Smoke Creek, a small stream in East Kimberley that drained into Lake Argyle.

Miniature Lop

Agouti, Black, Blue, Brown, Butterfly, Chinchilla, Fawn, Fox, Opal, Orange, Sable Marten, Sealpoint, Siamese Sable, Siamese Smoke, Sooty Fawn, Steel, White

Moog Droog

"Moog Droog" is an ironic anglicised spelling of the Welsh phrase mwg drwg ("bad smoke"), slang for marijuana, making a pun on the Moog synthesizer (and/or its inventor) and the slang word "droog" (based on the Russian for "friend") from A Clockwork Orange.

Natalie Teeger

This knowledge proves useful later, as when Monk and Natalie are taken hostage by "Honest" Jake Phillips, with no form of communication to the outside world to call for help available, Natalie lights some rags, puts them in the fireplace, and opens and closes the flue to emit smoke signals that Stottlemeyer and Disher (who are a few blocks away) notice and interpret as Morse for "SOS" (although Randy almost misinterprets the signals as a soda advertisement).

Orlando Predators

Amway Arena was often nicknamed "The Jungle" during Predators games due to the hostile environment from the fans, harsh smoke that fills the arena during the players intro, and a Guns N' Roses song which "welcomes" other teams followed by their impending death.

Pinus massoniana

Leaves are used to give special smoke flavor to a local black tea, such as Lapsang souchong of Fujian province.

Pure Guava

"Push th' Little Daisies" was released as a single on August Records in 1993, including both the Album and Radio Edit versions of the song (the latter replacing the word "shit" with a sample of Prince squealing from "Alphabet St.") and the tracks "Ode to Rene", "I Smoke Some Grass (Really Really High)" and "Mango Woman".

Ron Sweed

The character of Froggy, together with his own catch phrase "Hiya Kids! Hiya! Hiya! Hiya!" and the associated command "Pluck your magic twanger, Froggy" (his signal to appear from a puff of smoke together with a twanging sound effect) are actually remnants from a much earlier children's television show Andy's Gang where an identical rubber frog toy made appearances as Froggy the Gremlin.

Rorippa sinuata

The Zuni people use an infusion of plant used as a wash and smoke from the blossoms is used for inflamed eyes.

San Rafael High School

The school is often cited as the origin (1971) of the time and codeword 420 in drug culture; originally "420" served as a code word for "The Waldos", a group of marijuana users who would meet in front of a statue of Louis Pasteur at 4:20 P. M. to smoke marijuana, both near the statue and at other clandestine locations on campus grounds.

Shoot-and-scoot

The need for such tactics in World War II became obvious from the noticeable smoke signature produced by the use of anti-tank infantry weapons such as the M1 bazooka, Panzerfaust and Panzerschreck, and also by the various models of Nebelwerfer and Wurfrahmen 40 German barrage rocket systems.

Siege of Ranthambore

As a result of such close bombardment flames began to shoot out from the buildings within the fort's walls and the sky is black with smoke, even War elephants within the fort went rogue.

Smokescreen

Security smoke, generated smoke specifically used as a security measure

Snake Temple

The vipers are believed to be rendered harmless by the sacred smoke, but as a safety precaution, the snakes have also been de-venomed but still have their fangs intact.

Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 74

Due to the smoke generated by the F-4's General Electric J79 engines, the German pilots dubbed the F-4F the "Air Defence Diesel".

The Album of the Year

The album contained ten tracks recorded by Suave House artists including 8Ball & MJG, Tela and South Circle, each of which featured production from Suave House's production team, Smoke One Productions.

The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons

It shows a similar scene from further downstream, closer to Waterloo Bridge, with the flames and smoke blown dramatically over a river as spectators on the river bank and in boats look on.

Tokyo Encore

At each gig, Gumball performed Cheap Trick's "Hello There" (made famous on Cheap Trick's live At Budokan album) and Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" (from their live Made in Japan release).

Trane's Blues

Lee Morgan — trumpet on "Locomotion," "Blue Train," "Smoke Stack"

Tumblebug Complex Fire

NASA satellite images showed that the smoke was being blown into British Columbia.

Western States Endurance Run

In 2008 the run was canceled due to bad air quality and smoke from an unprecedented number of wildfires.

Wizard of the Hood

Along the way, he meets the Scarecrow (Twiztid's Monoxide), who only needs somebody to smoke with, the Tin Man (Twiztid's Jamie Madrox), who wants a "gat", and the Lion (Blaze Ya Dead Homie), who wants some "hoes".

Yuma Desert

The saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) and the ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens) are common on the bajadas, while many of the desert trees found are restricted to dry watercourses; these include paloverde (Parkinsonia), the desert willow (Chilopsis linearis), desert ironwood (Olneya tesota), and smoke trees (Psorothamnus spinosus).


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