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unusual facts about Snowy


Lucy Bell

She appeared in several shows as a guest role for a number of years, before having a lead role in Snowy in 1993.


1927 in Australia

27 October – Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor is killed in a shootout with Sydney gangsters (including Snowy Cutmore, who also dies) in Carlton.

1967–68 Manchester City F.C. season

Midway through their unbeaten run, City faced Tottenham Hotspur at home in snowy conditions, in a match televised on Match of the Day.

1988 in home video

The Man from Snowy River II (American title: Return to Snowy River) - November 1

2008 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team

Middle Tennessee put itself back in strong position to become bowl eligible following an impressive 21-10 win against hated rival Western Kentucky, on a cold rainy/snowy day in Bowling Green, KY.

Abbasgulu bey Shadlinski

In 1971, “Azerbaijanfilm” film studio shot the “Snowy pass” film based on motifs of the novel, where Hasan Mammadov played Shadlinski’s role.

Ankara Güvercinlik Army Air Base

The statement of the Chief of the General Staff, Gen. Doğan Güreş, that the accident on that snowy day was caused by atmospheric icing was denied by the crash investigators.

Anne Weale

XXI: The Doctor's Daughters / Gates of Dawn / The Gift at Snowy River (1972) (with Susan Barrie and Joyce Dingwell)

Apamea niveivenosa

The Snowy-veined Apamea (Apamea niveivenosa) is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

Blaine Hogan

While at Butler, he adapted Franz Kafka's "Before the Law" as the short play "The Door", which was performed on two snowy evenings in an alleyway in Broad Ripple.

Christmas in the Sand

And "Happy Christmas," a co-write with Toby Gad, recalls traditional, snowy Christmases at Caillat's grandparents' home in Lake Tahoe.

Clinton Voss

Ship to Shore's creators David Rapsey and his writer brother John Rapsey also favoured Clinton for such roles as 'Snowy Bowles', a gay cyclist in the series 'Sweat' played by Heath Ledger.

Daveys Hut

Mary spent only one winter on Snowy Plain before moving to Kiandra and Adaminaby.

Elyne Mitchell

Set in the Snowy Mountains area of the Australian Alps around Mount Kosciuszko in southern New South Wales and northern Victoria, the Snowy Brumby books recount the life of the pale palomino brumby stallion Thowra from his birth in The Silver Brumby (first published 1958) to Silver Brumby Whirlwind.

Engelberg

Due to the risks of filming in the disputed region of Kashmir, many Bollywood films requiring a Kashmir/snowy mountain setting are filmed in Engelberg.

Fort Stanton – Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area

The Fort Stanton – Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area is a National Conservation Area in the eastern foothills of the Sierra Blanca, between Capitan and Lincoln in south central New Mexico.

Geology of Australia

Andesite and Rhyolite volcanoes were found in central NSW, the Snowy Mountains, Eden, New England and near Clermont, Queensland.

Helsinki Senate Square

Snowy night scenes from Jim Jarmusch's film Night on Earth (1991) were filmed on the square, but given the impression that there is a traffic roundabout at the centre.

Human–animal communication

Once, in the early volume Tintin in America, Tintin was able to directly understand Snowy.

Hvítá bridge

The opening ceremony on 1 November 1928 was attended by prime minister Tryggvi Þórhallsson and 500 others despite cold and snowy weather.

Invicta International Airlines Flight 435

On 10 April 1973 Invicta International Airways Flight 435 was a Vickers Vanguard 952, flying from Bristol Lulsgate to Basel-Mulhouse that ploughed into a snowy, forested hillside near Hochwald, Switzerland.

Jack Lengyel

On January 12, 2008, seven members of a high school basketball team from Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada and their coach's wife were killed in a highway crash when the 15-seat van they were traveling in collided with a tractor-trailer while returning from a game in Moncton in snowy conditions.

Kebnekaise

On 15th March 2012 a Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules military aircraft crashed into the western snowy mountain side a short distance below the ridge that runs between the mountain's two highest peaks, the 2012 Norwegian C-130 crash.

Merry Dog

Down on the snowy terrain, Pooch rides on a dachshund-pulled sled, and sings a jazzy version of the song Jingle Bells.

Montenegro Airlines

On 25 January 2005 at about 11 p.m., a Montenegro Airlines Fokker 100 (YU-AOM) ran off the side of the runway during a night landing in snowy conditions at Podgorica.

Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit

Due to Morgantown's snowy winter climate, the concrete pathways feature embedded piping containing a glycol solution used to melt snow and ice.

Mundell music

Successive artists at the Famous Bein Inn included Curtis Stigers, Long John Baldry, John Martyn, Gene Parsons, Fairport Convention, John Hammond, Andrew Gold, Tony Joe White, Micky Moody, B A Robertson, Albert Lee, Snowy White and the venue developed a reputation as a "living room feel" where you could be part of an intimate audience (max 60) and rub shoulders with legends from the past.

Murray Hydroelectric Power Station

Fed by the pumped flows via the Snowy-Geehi Haupt-tunnel from Island Bend Pondage, it receives water from the Geehi Reservoir on the Geehi River and discharges into the Murray 2 Pondage.

O RLY?

In 2006, anti-virus company Sophos discovered a computer worm known as "W32/Hoots-A", which sends a graphical image of a snowy owl with the letters "O RLY?" to a print queue when it infects a Windows-based computer.

Oecanthus fultoni

It is a major plot point in the The Big Bang Theory episode "The Jiminy Conjecture", where Sheldon wrongly believes that a common field cricket, Gryllus assimilis, found in the apartment, is a snowy tree cricket.

Perisher

Perisher Ski Resort, formerly known as Perisher Blue, a ski resort in the Australian Snowy Mountains, New South Wales

Polytrichum alpinum

The moss may also colonise stony soil, boulders and snowy grikes above the treeline.

Poor Leno

Additionally, footage of snowy mountains were sampled from the film adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Witches.

Populonia

Populonia features in Horatius, the celebrated poem by Lord Macaulay - 'From seagirt Populonia,/Whose sentinels descry/Sardinia's snowy mountain-tops/Fringing the southern sky'.

Rally of Turkey

The 2006 event was held from October 13 to October 15, 2006 around Kemer – Kumluca – Antalya in southwestern Turkey on rough, gravel roads up into occasionally snowy mountain roads.

SMEC Holdings

SMEC Holdings Limited (formerly Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation) is a Melbourne-based firm that provides consulting services on major infrastructure projects around the world.

Between 1949 and 1974 the Snowy Mountains Authority (SMA) undertook a massive hydro-electric and irrigation project, the Snowy Mountains Scheme, in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales.

Snowy Farr

A familiar sight in the city's Market Square and Lion Yard/Petty Cury slope over several decades, Snowy Farr collected many thousands of pounds for The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.

The History of Henry Esmond

One day, in the snowy winter of 1852, I met Thackeray sturdily ploughing his way down Beacon Street with a copy of Henry Esmond (the English edition, then just issued) under his arm.

The Way It Is...Live!

.Live! is a concert film by Snowy White, and his band The White Flames, released in 2005 (see 2005 in music), during 2004 Snowy White tour, featuring a promotional video of Peter Green's "Black Magic Woman".

Tintin postage stamps

A set of six stamps, each depicting one of the characters - Tintin and Snowy, Professor Calculus, Captain Haddock, Thomson and Thompson, Bianca Castafiore and Chang.

The stamp featured Tintin and Snowy with a magnifying glass examining a stamp depicting Captain Haddock.

White Crane

Siberian Crane, a nearly all snowy white birds in Gruidae family

Winter Sleepers

The film is set in the deeply snowy alpine winter resort of Berchtesgaden in Bavaria; the story begins shortly after Christmas Day, with five people returning, not all of whom are connected.

You and Me Both

The album's artwork of two Dalmatian dogs barely visible against a snowy outdoor scene was created by design team 23 Envelope, who at the time were also designing many of the album covers for another British independent label, 4AD.


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