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10 unusual facts about Snap!


Love Versus Money

Amongst the well-known names that contributed to the album were Snap! singer Penny Ford, Vika Bull and Michael Hutchence of INXS.

My Name Is Not Susan

In 1998, a remixed version of the song (remixed by Snap! in 1991 as the Logic remix) charted in Germany and reached number 52, five places higher than the original did in 1991.

Penny Ford

She was also a lead singer with the German electronic dance band Snap!, on their 1990 number one hit, "The Power".

SNAP-1

For example: three-axis attitude control, Global Positioning System (GPS) based orbit determination, and orbital manoeuvres.

Snap-on

In 2004, Snap-on began an association with Cruz’s brother Tony Pedregon, a two time champion himself.

Since the early 1980s, Snap-on has been sponsoring Penske Racing teams in the NASCAR Sprint and Nationwide Series as well as Championship Auto Race Teams (CART) and the Indy Racing League (IRL).

Nearly 20 years ago, Snap-on began an association with two time NHRA world champion Cruz Pedregon.

Snap, Wiltshire

It was always a small place: in the 14th century there were 19 poll-tax payers, in 1773 there were between 5 and 10 cottages and in the 1851 Census the population was 41.

Snap!

Jackie Harris was used to mime Penny Ford's voice in the video "The Power" and left the group shortly after and Penny Ford became its full-time lead singer, recording the second single "Ooops Up", a re-working of "I Don't Believe You Want to Get Up and Dance (Ooops!)", a 1980 hit by The Gap Band, with which Penny was a former backing singer.

The Perfect Weapon

The hit 1990s song The Power by rap group Snap! is featured extensively in the movie's soundtrack.


61st Grey Cup

A low snap to Edmonton punter Garry Lefebvre caused him to bobble the ball in the end zone, and he was tackled for a safety by Ottawa's Wayne Tosh at 21 seconds of the second quarter.

African Americans in Atlanta

Producer Fatboi called the Roland TR-808 ("808") synthesizer "central" to Atlanta music's versatility, used for snap, crunk, trap, and pop rap styles.

Al Letson

From there, Letson's State of the Re:Union and Glynn Washington's Snap Judgement Radio were awarded funding by the CPB.

Alan Clay

In the mid-1990s he toured European and Australian festivals with his teenage son, Michael, as the duo Snap and Crackle (pictured right) including performances at the Pflasterspektakel in Linz, Austria and the Vlissingen International Festival in Holland and the Stockholm Water Festival in Sweden.

Argentiniformes

The hypaxial muscle is unusually extended to forward at its upper end and attaches to the neurocranium below the spine, perhaps to snap the upper part of the skull down when catching prey.

Chris Conte

On December 29, 2013, in the final game of the Bears regular season against the Green Bay Packers with a playoff berth on the line, Conte did not get a pre-snap defensive "check" out of zone coverage and into a blitz with man coverage which allowed a wide receiver Randall Cobb to score the go-ahead and eventual winning touchdown.

Corry Brokken

Brokken was one of the most popular women singers of the 1950s and 1960s, performing in the Sleeswijk Revue alongside Snip en Snap and scoring hits, some of which with translated chansons by Charles Aznavour.

David Clohessy

Barbara Blaine founder of SNAP (Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests)

EComStation

These included an updated kernel, a 32-bit TCP/IP stack and associated networking utilities, a firewall, updated drivers and other system components, newer versions of Java, SciTech SNAP Graphics video support, and more.

Electronic Benefit Transfer

Many states stagger the issuing of benefits to EBT SNAP accounts, with the particular day of the month determined for each recipient based on the case number, Social Security number, or date of birth.

Erie J. Sauder

This new company took on the manufacturing of church pews, while the "snap-together" furniture continued at Sauder Woodworking Company.

Geoffrey Johnson-Smith

His time there was dominated by the Kenneth Littlejohn affair, which was still rumbling on when Heath called a snap election in February 1974.

Irnerio Bertuzzi

Paris executive jet (I–SNAP) when it crashed in the countryside surrounding Bascapè in the province of Pavia, on 27 October 1962.

Lisa Andreas

Andreas has also worked with the Kent Police by performing to her peers at Snap shows in Kentish schools.

Marching In

He suggests to Dr. Cray that the irresistible rhythm of a revival hymn can snap anyone out of depression and demonstrates this by humming the opening beat of "When the Saints Go Marching In", which makes the patient feel much better and even gets Dr. Cray's toes tapping.

Mark Rodenhauser

He also made an appearance in the popular series Football Follies, in the 21st Century Follies DVDs, where he could snap a football a full length of a basketball court.

Matt Allen

He is infamously known for attempting to pass to Rich Seubert, after a botch snap from Trey Junkin, on the last play of the Giants-49ers NFC Wildcard game on January 5, 2003, which fell incomplete, ending the Giants' season.

Mike Knapp

Snap went on to drum for Dave Dobbyn and the Stone People band, with tours in both Australia and New Zealand, The Warratahs mostly performing in New Zealand.

Move On Up

A live version by UK group The Jam appeared on a limited edition EP with their 1983 album Snap!.

Next Greek legislative election

Minister of Health and ND MP Adonis Georgiades said snap elections would be held if new cuts were required on October 16 in an interview with Skai TV.

Otto Frankel

Baur suggested that he clarify the linkage relations between one specific mutant (A, fuchsin red) and another nine mutants in Antirrhinum majus, the common snap dragon.

Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak

It was established in 1983, by Datuk Amar (now Tan Sri) Leo Moggie Anak Irok, after seceding from Sarawak National Party (SNAP) following his loss in the contest for the SNAP's president post against Datuk Amar James Wong Kim Ming.

Pushing Buttons

In the United States, the EP was not released, but "Black Friday" and "More Than You Are" ended up on Guide to Better Living and "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck" ended up on an ECW compilation released by Earache Records.

Rapider Than Horsepower

Where The Mae Shi (with whom they shared a split EP), Fat Day or Half Japanese snap, RTH’s brand of geek-rock buckles; they lie at a crossroads between nerdy noise rock and spazz pop, bizarre funk and bizarre-er power balladry.

Red Right 88

The logic behind trying for the touchdown was that Browns kicker Don Cockroft had previously missed two field goal attempts, had one extra point attempt blocked and had another aborted following a bad snap.

Rich Seubert

When Trey Junkin botched the snap, Seubert, an eligible receiver on the play, went out to try to catch holder Matt Allen's pass.

Ruger Alaskan

On August 2, 2009, Soldotna, Alaska resident Greg Brush was walking his dog, and heard a twig snap.

SciTech SNAP

SciTech SNAP Graphics has been ported to MS-DOS, OS/2, Microsoft Windows (CE, NT, 2000, XP), QNX, SMX (the SunOS/Solaris port of MINIX), Linux, On Time RTOS-32, Unununium OS operating systems.

Shelby Howard

He ended the season running five races in the #35 Volvo Trucks/Snap-On Ford Taurus for Team Rensi Motorsports.

Snap music

As this rivalry continued, the resident DJ of Atlanta's Pool Palace DJ T-Roc has claimed that K-Rab was making snap long before Dem Franchize Boys and D4L.

In 2006, Vibe magazine has also mentioned the subgenre of snap, snap&B in connection to the Cherish album Unappreciated.

Spanish general election, 2011

As a result of President of Andalusia José Antonio Griñán's decision not to call a snap election in Andalusia, this was the first time since 1996 that a general election was not held concurrently with an Andalusian regional election.

Therrell High School

K-Rab - Rapper, producer, and the originator of snap music.

Tom Dempsey

The snap from Jackie Burkett was good, and Dempsey nailed the field goal with a couple of feet to spare.

United Malays National Organisation

BN was also challenged in Sarawak after the 1974 election, which saw the Sarawak National Party (SNAP) led by James Wong become tied with the DAP as the most important opposition party in Parliament, both of them holding nine seats each.

World Power

Chicago Tribune writer Mitchell May gave it 3 out of 4 stars and called it "a dance record you can listen to", noting that "pulsating synth chords, slashing guitar riffs, thundering drums and the gospel-like wails of Tinny Ford combine to give Snap a riveting sound".