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unusual facts about Sprung



Atomic Wars

Although the Mega Cities had their own laser defence systems, the rest of the world was reduced to vast irradiated wasteland, the most famous being the Cursed Earth, from which many threats have sprung including Shojun the Warlord (from the radlands of Ji in Eastern Asia).

Auster

All designs were evolved from the early Taylorcraft with a sprung skid or tailwheel beneath the fin (except for a low-wing aircraft called the "Agricola" designed for crop-spraying; only two of these were completed).

Ballygunge Circular Road

Many prominent residential spots like "Vedant Apartments", on the plot that used to house legendary Bengali actress Suchitra Sen’s bungalow, have sprung up recently.

Borovo Naselje

Borovo Naselje sprung up around the Borovo rubber products factory, built and owned by Tomáš Baťa before World War II.

Boulton Paul P.10

These were bungee sprung, though there were plans for oleo dampers.

Cherokee, California

Thomas Edison owned one of the mines which sprung up in the area, and he saw to it that the mines were electrified to ease the work.

Della Torre

The family originally sprung from the small fortified burgh of Primaluna, in the Valsassina.

Disability publications in the U.S.

Douglas Lathrop explained in the Society of Professional Journalists The Quill that these rights-based publications sprung up because many in the disability community were tired of the persistent negative media stereotypes of people with disabilities as inspirational or courageous in the mainstream news media.

Elfquest

Both the role-playing game and the comics themselves have sprung a number of online games (mostly MUSHes).

Eton, Berkshire

The land was appropriated by the Normans after 1066, the main road between Windsor and London went through the area and a hamlet sprung up to maintain the road and the bridge.

Gautam Rajputs

They claim descent from the Vedic Saint Gotama, who is also the reputed ancestor of the Sakya clan of Kshatriyas, of whom sprung the great Buddha ; whence, in many countries where his religion flourishes, he is popularly known by his patronymic Gautama.

Hotels in Meridian, Mississippi

Many businesses sprung up in this area, one of them run by E. F. Young, Jr., a local barber and taxi driver.

If You Were Here Tonight

The song was sampled by John Forté on the song "Move On (I'm Leavin')" from the soundtrack to the 1997 motion picture Sprung and again by Ras Kass on the song "It Is What It Is" from his 1998 album Rasassination.

Kirata Kingdom

They are accomplished in fighting from elephants, and are all sprung from the race of Agni.

Literary fiction

In an interview by Lev Grossman for Time magazine, John Updike lamented that "the category of 'literary fiction' has sprung up recently to torment people like me who just set out to write books, and if anybody wanted to read them, terrific, the more the merrier. But now, no, I'm a genre writer of a sort. I write literary fiction, which is like spy fiction or chick lit".

Maurice Colbourne

In 1972 he co-founded, together with Mike Irving and Guy Sprung, the Half Moon Theatre near Aldgate, east London.

Monkey stick

The Keef Trouble ‘Zob Stick’ is distinguished by the addition of a sprung-boot attached to the bottom of the pole and a metal sleeve round its centre, this being hit with a serrated wooden stick.

New Russians

A wide range of elite restaurants and nightclubs catering to the New Russian social circle have sprung up in Moscow.

Operator logo

An industry has sprung up around the use of these logos, and around ring tones, tailored towards phones, such as those made by Nokia, which can receive new logos in a text message.

Panhellenic Union of Fighting Youths

The organization was concentrated in the areas of Athens and Piraeus, and although it never expanded to become a wider movement, it was one of the most active of the multitude of urban resistance groups that sprung up during the Occupation, and one of the first to carry out active resistance, in the form of bombings.

Paracas Bay

The bay appears as the gateway to Paracas National Reserve, its warmer shallow waters foster wildlife and many nautical sports, and its calm shoreline protects the municipality of Paracas and the various cottages and hotels that have sprung up in the last few years.

Pitt Hornung

By buying out other, less successful sugar cane concessions which had sprung up in the region and transforming them into successful entities – including a concession at Marromeu - Pitt’s business went from strength to strength, and he established a sugar cane empire.

Red April

The author also bases a character named Edith, albeit quite loosely, on an actual Senderista martyr of the same first name (Edith Lagos), who was the daughter of a prosperous local businessman and sprung from jail in a Senderista raid on the Centro de Reclusión y Adaptación Social (CRAS) de Huamanga (Penitentiary and Social Change Center of Huamanga).

Reformed Baptists

In Brazil there is a modest association, the Comunhão reformada batista do Brasil, sprung mostly from the work of US missionary Richard Denham at São José dos Campos, SP.

Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora

In only 10 years, "Little Jaffna", located at the last stretch of the winding street of Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis in the 10th arrondissement, between metros Gare de Nord and La Chapelle, has sprung to life and begun to truly flourish.

St Paul's Church, Bristol

It still boasts an ornate Georgian plaster ceiling, stone columns and a wealth of decorative stained glass, but has now been equipped with aerial and trapeze equipment and a pale Maple wood sprung dance floor.

Take Flight, LLC

A recent controversy that sprung up about Take Flight involved their public connection to David Belle where many believed the company was impersonating Belle for marketing reasons.

Tamaki Katori

In the years after Flesh Markets release, several independent studios began specializing in the new pink film genre that had sprung up in the wake of that film's success.

The Night of Morningstar

"The Watchmen" is an international terrorist organization that has sprung out of nowhere and is making major assaults, for example killing the entire Turkish Embassy staff in Madrid, wrecking a French nuclear power plant, and blowing up a dam in Utah.

Ugolino Brunforte

His father Rinaldo, Lord of Sarnano in the Marches, belonged to an ancient and noble family of French origin, from which had sprung the famous Countess Matilda.

Votizen

The catalyst for Votizen's growth sprung from the success of a Twitter campaign in 2010 in support of the Startup Visa, where thousands of people tweeted their support of the bill and Votizen delivered the messages to the appropriate people.

W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of America

The direct forerunner of the DuBois Clubs was the Progressive Youth Organizing Committee (PYOC), established in April 1959, and Advance, the New York City-based youth organization which the PYOC had sprung.

Willacy Detention Center

Detainees are housed in "sprung structures" produced by Hale Mills, the exterior walls of which are constructed from a firm, rubbery, Kevlar fabric.

William Wolk

His classical inclinations sprung from his affinity for the work of artists as varied as Andrew Wyeth, Bouguereau, Rembrandt and a host of High Renaissance painters.

Wu–Sprung potential

For the case of the Riemann zeros Wu and Sprung and others have shown that the potential can be written implicitly in terms of the Gamma function and zeroth-order Bessel function.


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