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unusual facts about Squeeze



Backwash squeeze

A variation of this, known as the "Sydney Squeeze" or "Seres Squeeze", was discovered in play at a rubber bridge game in Sydney, Australia in 1965, by the Australian great Tim Seres; it was later attested by famous bridge theorist Géza Ottlik in an article in The Bridge World in 1974, as well as in his famous book Adventures in Card Play, co-authored with Hugh Kelsey.

Battle of Rooiwal

The plan was to 'squeeze' the Boers against the British mobile columns and a line of blockhouses and entrenchments at Klerksdorp.

Cha Burns

A high point for the band was a support slot on a Squeeze tour which culminated in a gig at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan.

Continental Airlines Flight 1713

As the plane skidded, the left side was tilted over and the tail was inverted; this action caused the middle part of the plane to squeeze and crush many of the passengers on board.

CrunchBang Linux

The first letter of the code name also corresponds to the first letter of the upstream Debian release (previously Debian Squeeze and CrunchBang Statler and currently Debian Wheezy and CrunchBang Waldorf).

Funky Monks

The newly released footage includes scenes of the band recording "They're Red Hot", "Search and Destroy", "Sikamikanico" and "Soul to Squeeze".

Glenn Tilbrook

Following Squeeze's second breakup in 1999, Tilbrook pursued a solo career, often touring around the UK and US in an RV, playing small venues.

Karen Kamon

She also sang "Squeeze Play" on the soundtrack to the movie, D.C. Cab, and she has provided voice for the movie, Oliver & Company.

Kevin Wilkinson

Born Kevin Michael Wilkinson in Stoke-on-Trent, he is credited as a former official member of several successful British pop groups, including The League of Gentlemen (1980), Holly Beth Vincent "Holly and the Italians" Virgin/Epic album (1981-82), The Waterboys (1983–84), China Crisis (1983–89) and Squeeze (1995–96).

Littlejohn adaptor

"Littlejohn" came from the literal anglicization of the name of František Janeček, the Czech designer and factory owner who had been working on the squeeze-bore principle in the 1930s and his son František Karel Janeček had brought his know-how to Britain after he fled from the Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.

Michael Dakin

He later claimed the BNZ had helped squeeze the company dry in the six months before the towel was thrown in.

Michelle Collins

Her career changed direction when, having performed in the 1978 video for the Squeeze song "Up the Junction", she joined Mari Wilson and The Wilsations as the backing singer, "Candide".

Short squeeze

Short squeezes are more likely to occur in stocks with small market capitalization and small floats, although can involve large stocks and billions of dollars, as happened in October 2008 when a short squeeze temporarily drove the shares of Volkswagen on the Xetra DAX from 210.85 to over €1000 in less than two days, briefly making it the most valuable company in the world.

Sovremenny-class destroyer

ECM and ESM are many: 2 ESM MR-410 or MP-405; 2 ECM MRP-11M or 12M ('Bell Shroud'), 2 'Bell Squat', 4 'Foot-ball B' and one MR-407; 2 PK-2M rocket launchers (140 mm), and 8 PK-10 (120 mm), 2-8 laser-warning systems Spektr-F, one Squeeze Box (TV, laser and IR system).

Squeeze mapping

Furthermore, Wolfgang Rindler, in his popular textbook on relativity, used the squeeze mapping form of Lorentz transformations in his demonstration of their characteristic property (see equation 29.5 on page 45 of the 1969 edition, or equation 2.17 on page 37 of the 1977 edition, or equation 2.16 on page 52 of the 2001 edition).

Sterno

In Michael Crichton's 1969 novel "The Andromeda Strain" and the 1971 movie based on it, one of the survivors of the deadly extraterrestrial virus is an old man who utilizes "Squeeze" along with aspirin to alleviate the pain caused by a bleeding ulcer diagnosed two years prior to the "Piedmont Incident".

The 1956 American documentary On the Bowery includes footage of three homeless men straining Sterno cooking fuel to make "squeeze" and then drinking the alcohol.

Stylorouge

Formed by creative director Rob O'Connor in 1981, it is notable for creating record sleeve designs for bands such as Blur, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Stereophonics, Killing Joke, Sandie Shaw, Adam Ant, Catatonia, Jesus Jones, Squeeze, Crowded House, Dr John, Simple Minds, Sarah Brightman and Menswear.

Suicide squeeze

Cannibal squeeze, a contract bridge squeeze also known as a suicide squeeze.

The Cotton Jones Basket Ride

Cotton Jones (formerly The Cotton Jones Basket Ride), is an indie folk band, with elements of psychedelic folk, dream pop, baroque pop, and Americana (music), based in Cumberland, Maryland and currently signed to Suicide Squeeze Records.

Twin-A

Some of the their achievements include a SXSW performance at the Hard Rock Café and a highly attended industry showcase in the UK, as well as a handful of opening performances for national acts like Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze, Vanessa Carlton, The Samples and Fuel.

Willie Alexander

After completing the tour on November 21, 1971, in Groningen, the band planned to start recording a new album, but band manager Steve Sesnick sent all of the band but Yule home, presumably to retain maximum control of the product (the resulting album was Squeeze, released in 1973) and effectively ending Alexander's time with the band.


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