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unusual facts about Solitude/Solitaire



Alfred Gatley

Before long he completed a bust of "Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude", and began statues of "Echo" and "Night".

Belinda Chapple

She has released two solo singles; the Olympic Games ballad "Where It All Began" in August 2004 and in April 2005 returned with "Move Together", a dance-pop collaboration with UK mix master Solitaire.

Benjamin Diamond

The following year he released the EP Solitaire, which included a number of tracks he had produced especially for the Dior Autumn-Winter'01 fashion parade.

Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack

FreeCell - a solitaire card game that is now bundled with Windows

Blaise Garza

After various commercials and industrials, Blaise was cast in his first feature film, Solitude Point, playing the grandson of Bo Svenson and Mitsuko Baisho.

Blood in Our Wells

The lyrics to "Furrows of Gods" are adapted from a 1980 poem by Lina Kostenko; the lyrics to "When the Flame Turns to Ashes" are adapted from a 1908 poem by Oleksandr Oles; the lyrics to "Solitude" are once again taken from the 1839 work of Taras Shevchenko; and the lyrics to "Eternity" are lifted verbatim from the 1929 work of Yuriy Klen.

Brad Fregger

He was the producer of Activision's Ghostbusters, the game Hacker, the Atari and Commodore 64 versions of Pitfall II and Shanghai (the first commercial version of Brodie Lockard's Mahjong solitaire), and he designed and produced the first commercial version of computer solitaire (Solitaire Royale, published by Spectrum Holobyte).

Broadhaven Bay

Broadhaven Bay has in recent years (approx 2002–2010 and ongoing) been the site of the Corrib gas controversy where Royal Dutch Shell sent the Solitaire, reputedly the largest pipelaying ship in the world, into the bay to lay an offshore section of proposed extremely high pressure gas.

Catald

His monastery was in Lismore, County Waterford but his apparent desire for a life of solitude saw him venture off to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage.

Chess puzzle

Solitaire Chess is a chess puzzle produced by ThinkFun.

Elzéar of Sabran

At the age of twenty he moved with his wife from Ansouis to Puimichel for greater solitude, and formulated for his servants rules of conduct that made his household a model of Christian virtue.

Fairway Solitaire

Originally designed by John Cutter of Big Fish Games, Fairway Solitaire is built in the Blitz programming environment and was initially developed by Grey Alien Games and published by Big Fish Games, before being completely redesigned by Big Fish Studios.

Gamebook

Examples of games with prolific solitaire lines were Dungeons & Dragons, GURPS, Das Schwarze Auge, DC Heroes, and Call of Cthulhu.

The second type is the role-playing game solitaire adventure (an example of this is the Tunnels and Trolls series of gamebooks), which combines the branching-plot novel with the rules of a role-playing game, allowing the game to be played without a Gamemaster but requiring the purchase of separate manuals.

Glory of Love

The song was Cetera's first hit single and was included on his 1986 album, Solitude/Solitaire.

Heads and Tails

Heads And Tails, a solitaire card game which uses two decks of playing cards.

Hermann Hesse

Shortly after his new successful novel, he turned away from the solitude of Steppenwolf and married art historian Ninon Dolbin, née Ausländer.

In Solitude

In Solitude signed a worldwide deal with Metal Blade Records in 2010, as Henrik Palm joined the band, and in November of that year the band began recording their second full-length album, 'The World, The Flesh, The Devil.'

Isotta Nogarola

She lived in celibacy and solitude, becoming devoutly religious, choosing instead to submerge herself in God and the Bible rather than humanism.

Las Vegas Cool Hand

Other varieties of play for the solitaire round include Elevens, Calculation (also known as Broken Intervals), and Monte Carlo (also known as Weddings and Double and Quits).

Luis González Velázquez

Between 1741 and 1742 he worked in La Puebla de Montalbán, (Province of Toledo), where he executed the murals in the chapel of Our Lady of Solitude, including a series of biblical heroines, which manifests emphatically a rococo style.

Martin of Vertou

In about 577, he withdrew into solitude in an area of wasteland on the right bank of the Sèvre Nantaise.

Master McGrath

He was buried in the grounds of a house called "Solitude" in Lurgan.

Maximinus of Aix

Mary Magdalene later left him to continue his apostolate alone when she withdrew to the solitude of a cave, around which later Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume was built.

Monastic Family of Bethlehem, of the Assumption of the Virgin and of Saint Bruno

The vocation of the Monastic Family of Bethlehem, of the Assumption of the Virgin and of Saint Bruno communities consists in listening to the Gospel with the Blessed Virgin Mary in the heart of the Church, in love, in solitude, through liturgical life, study, work and poverty.

Mucho Muchacho

Mucho Muchacho, also called Mucho Mu, is the pseudonym of Oliver Gallego Sarmiento, MC of Barcelona born in 1976, member of the group 7 Notas 7 Colores and that founded on 2003 the musical seal C.R.E.A.M., under which it published his only LP in solitaire like MC, Chulería.

North Belfast derby

The two are separated by around 1.5 miles with Cliftonville based at Solitude on Cliftonville Road and Crusaders at Seaview on the Shore Road.

Ossabaw Island

Over the years the island's solitude and natural beauty served as the setting for such luminaries as: composers Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber; writers Ralph Ellison, Annie Dillard, Olive Ann Burns, and Margaret Atwood ; sculptor Harry Bertoia; and scientist Eugene Odum among many others.

PSPACE-complete

Examples of games that are PSPACE-complete (when generalized so that they can be played on an n × n board) are the games hex and Reversi and the solitaire games Rush Hour, Mahjong, Atomix, and Sokoban.

Robert V. Bruce

In April 1998, Bruce accused Scottish historian James A. Mackay of plagiarizing his book Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and The Conquest of Solitude, even as Mackay acknowledged Bruce on page 12 of his book.

Rutan Solitaire

The Rutan Model 77 Solitaire is an American, single seat, canard, mid-wing motor glider that was developed by Burt Rutan in response to the 1982 Sailplane Homebuilders Association Design Contest for a homebuilt glider.

Saint Fiacre

Seeking greater solitude, he left his native land and sought refuge in France, at Meaux.

He approached St Faro, the Bishop of Meaux, to whom he made known his desire to live a life of solitude in the forest.

SASL

Solitaire Advanced Squad Leader, a single-player variant of the World War II board wargame Advanced Squad Leader

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne

The Reason Musubi closely resembles René Descartes' idea of solipsism, a philosophy of the solitary self which is based in individualism and solitude.

Sociological illness

The term, social illness, implies that the cause of the illness is from social interaction with others and emphasizes that people don't live in isolation, but have complex social interactions with others that can cause cognitive, behavioral, or affective illness.

Soledad Miranda

The first child of Portuguese parents, Soledad (whose name translates as solitude or loneliness) was the niece of the famous Spanish singer-actress-flamenco dancer Paquita Rico.

Swami Ramdas

As a result of this, he went into his first retreat, living for 21 days in solitude in a cave in Arunachala.

Tamas Galambos

His 1981 painting 'Summer' is featured on the book cover of the Penguin Classics edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.

Teju Babyface

In the same period, whilst waiting for Solitaire to hit the screens, he acted in another TV series called ‘One Too Much’ with a then unknown Desmond Elliot which was received by viewers averagely.

Despite the huge production budget and impressive line up of stars (including Richard Mofe-Damijo, Keppy Ekpenyong, Ireti Doyle, Barbara Soky and others), all the great expectations for Solitaire were not met as the series hit television screens years behind schedule.

The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary

Westoll explains that most were separated from their mothers at birth, injected with diseases and deadly viruses, repeatedly operated on, and frequently driven mad through isolation and social deprivation.

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

In a review published, shortly after the book's publication, in the New Statesman, J. B. Priestley argued that the autobiographical Pinfold was intoxicating himself in solitude with drugs and alcohol to deaden his mind in a conflict between his writerly self and his assumed persona as a Catholic landed gentleman.

The Solitaire Man

Suave cat burglar Oliver Lane (Herbert Marshall), fashioned the "Solitaire Man" in the newspapers after seven years of eluding Scotland Yard, proposes marriage to his lovely accomplice Helen (Elizabeth Allan) and informs her he has bought a country house in Devonshire to which they can all retire.

The Tra-La Days Are Over

The album was the second to be produced at Strawberry Studios in England in collaboration with Graham Gouldman, Lol Creme, Kevin Godley and Eric Stewart, who had formed the band 10cc since their first joint venture with Sedaka on Solitaire (1972).

Tom Robertson

Tommy received 1 international cap for Scotland playing against Northern Ireland in a British Championship match on the 26 March 1898 at Solitude, Belfast, Robertson also managed to find the net in the 3–0 victory.

Wendy Repass

Eddie from Ohio, Anton Chenko, producer of Suzanne Vega's "Solitude Standing", Daemon recording artist Kristen Hall, The Marshall Tucker Band, Indigo Girls, and Matthew Sweet, Dave Matthews Band, former US Poet Laureate Rita Dove, John McCutcheon, producer Kevin McNoldy, drummer Stuart Gunter of Clare Quilty, bass by Andy Waldeck of Earth to Andy and violin by former National Symphony Orchestra member Ann Marie Simpson.

Yves Saint-Martin

Prix Saint-Alary - (6) - Solitude (1961), La Sega (1962), Tonnera (1966), Saraca (1969), Madelia (1977), Grise Mine (1984)


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