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81 unusual facts about Sun


10-meter band

Long distance opportunities via F2 seem to follow the Sun across the globe.

2013 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

During the race it was possible to observe a partial solar eclipse from 17:22 local time to 17:39 local time when the Sun set, and this was shown briefly during the race live broadcast.

Aashaadha

In solar religious calendars, Āsāṛh begins with the Sun's entry into Cancer.

Ab urbe condita

Romulus vanished in the 54th year of his life, on the Nones of Quintilis (July), on a day when the Sun was darkened.

Acaryochloris marina

Scientists including NASA's Nancy Kiang have proposed that the existence of Acaryochloris marina suggests that organisms that use Chlorophyll d, rather than Chlorophyll a, may be able to perform oxygenic photosynthesis on exoplanets orbiting red dwarf stars (which emit much less light than the Sun).

Agrahayana

In solar religious calendars, Agrahāyaṇa/Maarkazhi begins with the Sun's entry into Sagittarius, and is usually the 9th month of the year.

Akilam two

The Sun, Moon and all celestial objects should revolve around my forts.

Ravana ordered the Sun and Moon to bow their heads when they approach his nation or

Alan Stern

They use the camera to search for a hypothetical group of asteroids (Vulcanoids) between the orbit of Mercury and the Sun that are so elusive and hard to see that scientists aren't sure they exist.

Anjana Ahuja

Ahuja, who was educated at a comprehensive school in Essex, read physics at Imperial College London, followed by a postgraduate course in space physics during which she worked on data about the Sun's magnetic field from the Ulysses probe.

Arthur B. McDonald

Theoretical models of the Sun predict that neutrinos should be made in staggering numbers.

Barharwa

The main temple is welcomed by a beautiful statue of God Surya (Sun).

Bhaadra

In solar religious calendars, Bhaadra begins with the Sun's entry into Virgo, and is usually the sixth month of the year.

Cebuano language

The more modern form, the "Tamdanan Standard", is widely used by the Superbalita magazine published by Sun.Star Publications.

Chung Eui-sun

Chung received the bachelor's degree in business management administration from Korea University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of San Francisco School of Business.

CoRoT-7d

CoRoT-7d is an unconfirmed exoplanet that orbits around CoRoT-7, an orange-yellow star younger and smaller than the Sun.

Dark Is the Sun

It tells the story of the people and creatures left on Earth when the Sun is dead and the universe is heading towards the Big Crunch.

David Charbonneau

His research focuses on the development of novel techniques for the detection and characterization of planets orbiting nearby, Sun-like stars.

David Radler

The next day, it was announced that Mr. Radler has settled with the Sun-Times Media Group, agreeing to pay them $64.1 million.

Denis Potvin

On May 6, 2009, the Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that the Panthers would not renew his contract in order to save money.

Duckpin bowling

The Baltimore Sun of December 28, 1899, said that at the McGraw-Robinson bowling, billiards and pool hall the night before, the facility's manager had introduced duckpins.

The Sun did not cast the introduction as nationally significant.

Earth's shadow

When the Sun, the Earth and the Moon are aligned perfectly (or almost perfectly), with the Earth in between the Sun and the Moon, the Earth's shadow falls onto the surface of the Moon which is facing the night side of the Earth, such that observers see the shadow gradually turn the bright full Moon dark, and then light again, creating a lunar eclipse.

Emanuel Cook

Cook graduated from Palm Beach Gardens Community High School where he rushed for 2,027 yards and 27 touchdowns as a senior and was recognized as the South Florida Sun-Sentinel Player of the Year for large schools.

Fraunhofer lines

The lines were originally observed as dark features (absorption lines) in the optical spectrum of the Sun.

Fujio Ishihara

That's as defined the sphere with a diamerer of 100 light years (within 50 light years radius from the Sun).

Gary L. Bennett

Prior to coming to NASA, Bennett held key positions in DoE's space radioisotope power program, including serving as Director of Safety and Nuclear Operations for the radioisotope power sources that were used on the Galileo mission to Jupiter and that are being used on the Ulysses mission to explore the polar regions of the Sun.

Gawad Plaridel Award

For 2008, Pachico A. Seares, editor-in-chief of Sun.Star Cebu and Sun.Star Superbalita (Cebu), was chosen as the recipient of the award for his “outstanding contributions to the print media industry.”

GEC Computers

GEC Computers extensive presence in UK academic and research organisations, and the UK field service organisation, led Sun Microsystems to choose GEC Computers to be its presence in the UK for the UK launch of its Sun-2 product range in the early 1980s, which GEC Computers sold under the name of GEC Series 42.

Gnowee

In the mythology of the Aboriginal people of south-eastern Australia (specifically, the Wotjobaluk people who spoke the Wergaia language), Gnowee is a solar goddess whose torch is the Sun.

Great Apostasy

The Great Apostasy is a term used by some religious groups to describe a perceived fallen state of traditional Christianity, especially the Roman Catholic Church, because they claim it allowed the traditional Greco-Roman mysteries and deities of solar monism such as Mithras and Sol Invictus and idol worship into the church.

Guilherme Leal

He is the co-chairman of the Board of Directors of, and owns a 25% stake in, Natura, Brazil's leading manufacturer and marketer of skin care, solar filters, cosmetics, perfume and hair care products.

Heather Nedohin

Nedohin beat Pottinger in the tie breaker match, qualifying them for the playoffs against Korea's Kim Ji-sun.

Hill of Tara

The mound's passage is shorter than the long entryways of monuments like Newgrange, which makes it less precise in providing alignments with the Sun; still, Martin Brennan, in The Stones of Time, states that the daily changes in the position of a 13-foot (4-m) long sunbeam are more than adequate to determine specific dates.

Ibn Hazm

And after detailed studies using celestial globes he concluded proof, and the now astronomer Ibn Hazm stated publicly stated that: "the Sun is always vertical to a particular spot on Earth".

Izamal

Its principal temples were sacred to the creator deity Itzamna and to the Sun God Kinich Ahau.

Joseph Clinton

Some five years later, Clinton founded Clinton International Design Consultants, an interdisciplinary design and consulting firm based on the philosophy of what he termed "the structures field of Design Science." Clinton’s work has specialised in environmentally sensitive design systems, incorporating elements such as solar and wind structures and systems.

Jung Jin-Sun

He was one of the top seeds for the individual épée competition, but lost to eventual silver medalist Fabrice Jeannet of France 15-11 in the quarterfinals

Kim Fletcher

He left to become editor of The Independent on Sunday from 1998 to 1999, then returned to be Editorial Director of Hollinger's Telegraph New Media, the internet arm of Telegraph Group Limited, from 2000 to 2003 and Editorial Director of Telegraph Group Limited from 2003 to 2005.

Lee Ji-sun

Ligron was responsible for the training of former Miss Universe 2007 Riyo Mori and 1st runner up of 2006 Kurara Chibana.

Mausumi Dikpati

She was the first person to predict, in March 2006, the strength and timing of the next solar cycle based on simulations of the physics of the solar interior.

Mesoplanet

Asimov noted that the Solar System has a large number of planetary bodies (as opposed to the Sun and natural satellites) and stated that lines dividing "major planets" from minor planets were necessarily arbitrary.

North Korea women's national football team

During the team's participation at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, on 7 July 2011, FIFA announced that two of its players, Song Jong-Sun and Jong Pok-Sim, were provisionally suspended prior to their team’s match against Colombia after failing doping tests during the tournament.

Nueces Hotel

The Sun Parlor had fine brickwork, potted plants, area rugs, and wicker furniture, and tall windows that admitted abundant daylight creating a pleasant dining experience with an outdoor atmosphere and indoor comfort; the tropical outdoor garden let guests and others enjoy their meals among palm trees, sheltered by walls from the street and from the prevailing winds that cooled the east lobby.

Orji Uzor Kalu

The paper offers quality information, and is similar in format to the popular Sun newspaper in the United Kingdom.

Dr. Kalu is the chairman of the Daily Sun, a Nigerian daily print newspaper founded and published in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria.

Paul Capon

He began writing science fiction in the early 50s with the Antigeos trilogy, dealing with the discovery of a Counter-Earth, usually hidden behind the Sun.

Pausha

In the Tamil solar religious calendar, Tai begins with the Sun's entry into Capricorn, and is the tenth month of the year.

Phalguna

In solar religious calendars, Phalguna begins with the Sun's entry into Aquarius, and is usually the eleventh month of the year.

Powderhorn Park, Minneapolis

Many details of the final act change from year to year, but there are several figures that consistently appear: River, Woods, Prairie, Sky, Sun, and the Tree of Life.

Rahukaalam

The planets according to Indian astronomers were the Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Rahu and Ketu.

Robb Montgomery

Montgomery began his career as an editorial artist at the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel in 1990 after graduating from Eastern Illinois University with a degree in journalism.

Robi

On 28 March 2010, the service name was rebranded as ‘Robi’ which means Sun in Bengali.

Sakinalu

Once prepared it is eaten, after it is offered to Sun God, along with Chutneys like, Tomato, Pudina or Mint or Ginger also called "allam" chutney for tangy taste.

Sanatan Sangeet Sanskriti

In India, it is believed that the divine principle which was all pervading, before becoming and evolving into the material worlds viz., the Earth, the Planets, the Sun & the Stars which are numberless, was in the form of sound – Nadha Brahman – which is symbolized by the mystic word “OM”.

Śaṅkaranārāyaṇa

"(To the King): Oh Ravivarmadeva, now deign to tell us quickly, reading off from the armillary sphere installed (at the observatory) in Mahodayapura, duly fitted with all the relevant circles and with the sign (-degree-minute) markings, the time of the rising point of the ecliptic (lagna) when the Sun is at 10° in the Sign of Capricorn, and also when the Sun is at the end of the Sign Libra, which I have noted."

Seo In-guk

The title song is the first time he sang a soulful ballad, and actress Ku Hye-sun appeared in the music video, which depicts the agony after a break up.

Silent Poets

The latest album "Sun" was released after 6 years gap in the end of 2005.

Sothic cycle

Normally, a sidereal year is considered to be 365.25636 days long, but that only applies to stars on the ecliptic, or the apparent path of the Sun.

Sporting Clube Lourinhanense

In the white side lays a black laurel with golden fruits, with two flowers of a first quarter and the Sun, everything in golden.

Squamous-cell carcinoma

SCCs usually occur on portions of the body commonly exposed to the Sun; the face, ears, neck, hands, or arm.

Srivaikuntanathan Permual Temple

On the 6th day of Tamil month Chittirai(April), the Sun rays fall on the main deity as a token of worship.

Sun-1

Andreas Bechtolsheim, Forest Baskett, and Vaughan Pratt, ftp://reports.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/csl/tr/82/229/CSL-TR-82-229.pdf The SUN Workstation Architecture, Stanford University Computer Systems Laboratory Technical Report No. 229, March 1982.

½-inch 9-track reel-to-reel tape drives and QIC-02 ¼-inch cartridge tape drives were also added to the offering.

The Sun 1 workstation was based on the Stanford University SUN workstation designed by Andy Bechtolsheim (advised by Vaughan Pratt and Forrest Baskett), a graduate student and co-founder of Sun Microsystems.

A Ball model HD17H 17-inch video display monitor was used.

Sun-chang Lo

From 1977 to 1979, while participating in the Lukang Landmark Preservation Project, he taught architecture and design at Tunghai University, Taiwan.

Sun-Eater

This led into the Sun-Eater's first post-Zero Hour appearance, in the Final Night miniseries (1997) (set in the present day, rather than the Legion's future).

Sun-Herald

The Sun-Herald, the Sunday edition of The Sydney Morning Herald, a newspaper based in Sydney, Australia

Sun-Rype

This expansion plan almost immediately started to falter, and in 1997, Sun-Rype was forced to create a new joint venture with Lion Group, a Malaysian conglomerate.

Sun-Sentinel

(The latter investigation was featured in the PBS documentary series Exposé: America's Investigative Reports in an episode entitled "Crisis Mismanagement.") It also produced a significant contribution to information graphics in the form of News Illustrated, a weekly full-page graphic that has received more than 30 international awards.

Sun-Shooting Tower

The tower is accessible within walking distance South East from Beimen Station of the Alishan Forest Railway.

Sun-Yung Alice Chang

She received her Bachelor of Science degree in 1970 from National Taiwan University, and her doctorate in 1974 from the University of California, Berkeley.

Sun4u

Sun-4, an architecture used in workstations and servers

The Armageddon Inheritance

During the months that Colin's crew in Birhat labor to get the Imperial Guard up and running, the scouts duel the Earth forces, hurling asteroid after asteroid at the shield while whittling down the fortresses and ships, all in preparation for their final blow: hurling the entire moon of Iapetus down the gravity well of Sol at high speed, and aimed directly at Earth.

The Eclipse, or the Courtship of the Sun and the Moon

The class rushes to an observation tower to witness the event, which features an anthropomorphic Sun and Moon coming together.

The Sandman: Endless Nights

The story is narrated by the Sun, depicted within the comic as a very young and clumsy star known by his Latin name Sol.

Titan Empire

If the player activates the shields and flies directly towards the Sun, they would have enough time to beam down one or two colonists before their ship exploded, thus allowing them to colonize the Sun.

University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication

Cheche Lazaro received the award for 2007 for her outstanding contributions to the local television industry and broadcast journalism, while for 2008, Pachico A. Seares, editor-in-chief of Sun.Star Cebu and Sun.Star Superbalita (Cebu), was chosen as the recipient of the award for his contributions to community journalism.

Vue Weekly

Vue filed a suit against the Canadian government for giving tax breaks, which were designed for Canadian-owned newspapers, to its rival See because Sees parent company was ultimately owned by US-based Hollinger.

Wu Yee-sun

Many of these he donated to public institutions in Europe and North America, including the Seventh University of Paris (France, five trees in c.1982), Montreal Botanical Garden (Canada, thirty trees in 1985, over twenty more in 1987), and the Sun Yat Sen Park in Vancouver (Canada).


2011 Sun Belt Conference football season

The 2011 Sun Belt Conference football season is a college football season for the Sun Belt Conference.

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 2006

Freshford qualified for the final when sun blinded the Cashel goalkeeper, Jovita Delaney, enabling Imelda Kennedy’s speculative shot to drop under the bar for the only goal of the semi-final.

Arecibo message

The solar system, showing the Sun and the planets in the order of their position from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.

Aristaeus

He found the islanders suffering from sickness under the stifling and baneful effects of the Dog-Star Sirius at its first appearance before the sun's rising, in early July.

Arizona Summer League

All teams are based in the Yuma, Arizona, area playing all games at Desert Sun Stadium (home of the Scorpions) and utilizing the Ray Kroc Complex which used to house the San Diego Padres and Yakult Swallows spring training operations.

Automatic identification and data capture

The global association Auto-ID Center was founded in 1999 and is made up of 100 of the largest companies in the world such as Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Gillette, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, UPS, companies working in the sector of technology such as SAP, Aliens, Sun as well as five academic research centers.

Ballou High School

Kevin Richardson (1982), Journalist and videographer for The Baltimore Sun newspaper and website.

Bruce Tognazzini

While working at Sun, in 1992 and 1993, he produced the Starfire video prototype, in order to give an idea of a usability centered vision of the Office of the future.

C-Cube

key people = Edmund Sun, co-founder
Alex Balkanski, co-founder
Bill O'Meara, CEO
Don Valentine

Choshi Electric Railway 1000 series

DeHa 1002 was repainted into a new orange and blue livery in 2007 designed by Tetsuko no Tabi writer Naoe Kikuchi, intended to evoke an image of the sun rising across the sea.

Compositing window manager

A few years into its development, it was discontinued by Sun, whose primary business was selling enterprise mainframes.

Flag of Uzbekistan

The 12 stars depicted on the state flag of the Republic of Uzbekistan are also directly connected with Uzbek historical traditions, with the ancient calendar-cycle of the sun.

Fruit in Iran

Since 1963 Iran is one of the major leading producer and exporters of dried fruit such as all kinds of pistachios, Sultana raisins, golden raisins, sun-dried raisins, Malayer raisins, Kashmar raisins, all kinds of Iranian dates and with its modern facilities is ready to provide its customers with all these products.

Gerald Hawkins

He fed the positions of standing stones and other features at Stonehenge into an early IBM 7090 computer and used the mainframe to model sun and moon movements.

Greenplum

Greenplum Database was supported for production use on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.2 (64-bit), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x (64-bit), CentOS Linux 5.x (64-bit) and Sun Solaris 10U5+ (64-bit).

Harry Crosby

Wolff, Geoffrey: Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby (Random House, 1976) ISBN 0-394-47450-3; (repr. New York Review of Books, 2003) ISBN 1-59017-066-0

History of sundials

The Romans adopted the Greek sundials, and the first record of a sun-dial in Rome is 293 BC according to Pliny.

Isopogon prostratus

It usually is found as a heath plant, or in dry open Eucalyptus woodland, and often is exposed to wind, frost, snow, sun and rain.

Jos mä oisin sun mies

"Jos mä oisin sun mies" is a song by a Finnish pop singer Jontte Valosaari.

Kiwi Travel International Airlines

Both Kiwi and Freedom operated with ad hoc liveries based on those of their lessors; Kiwi used a stylised Kiwi bird, while Freedom Air used a stylised sun.

La Plata Astronomical Observatory

A year earlier, the Paris Observatory had sent astronomical instruments to the city of Bragado, Buenos Aires, to observe a transit of Venus in front of the Sun, for which the location was particularly suitable, and which raised considerable interest in scientific circles.

Locnville

The single "Sun in My Pocket" is also featured in EA Sports FIFA 11.

Matthew Porter

Educated at Wanstead High School, he studied Politics and Modern Languages at the University of East Anglia and became a regular reporter and commentator on Capital Gold Sport and BBC London radio as well as working on a freelance basis for numerous national newspapers, including The Sun, Daily Telegraph and News Of The World.

Modesto Seara Vázquez

- In El Sol de Mexico in the 1970s, he wrote the Sunday supplement "The World from the Sun", worked on the editorial page

Oenopides

However, when it saw how Thyestes, a mythological figure, was served his own son for dinner by his brother Atreus, the sun was so horrified that it left its course and moved to the zodiac instead.

Order of the Lion and the Sun

On 6 September 1900, the mayor of Mariánské Lázně, Dr. Nadler, was decorated with the Commander Cross of the Lion and the Order of the Sun by the Shah during an official visit.

Orthographic projection

In about 14 BC, Roman engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio used the projection to construct sundials and to compute sun positions.

Packard Stadium

Bobby Winkles Field sits in Packard Stadium at Brock Ballpark, in honor of William Guthrie Packard and the Sun Devils' Hall of Fame coaches Jim Brock and Bobby Winkles.

Philolaus

By nature the middle is first, and around it dance ten divine bodies - the sky, the planets, then the sun, next the moon, next the earth, next the counterearth, and after all of them the fire of the hearth which holds position at the centre.

Season

For example, at the military and weather station Alert located at 82°30′05″N and 62°20′20″W, on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island, Canada (about 450 nautical miles or 830 km from the North Pole), the sun begins to peek above the horizon for minutes per day at the end of February and each day it climbs higher and stays up longer; by 21 March, the sun is up for over 12 hours.

Sun Carriage

Relocating to Camden and joined by fellow Plymouth exile Chris Leech on second guitar they recorded the "Sun Carriage/Determined" (written by Ron Price) demo 7" (very rare, only about ten were pressed) for the fledgling Head Records run by Jeff Barrett (later the founder of Heavenly).

Sun Electric

Sun Electric have worked with graphic artist and videographer Nick Philip; "Meccano", created for MTV's Amp, was the first video played on that show.

Sun Java System Portal Server

At JavaOne 2008, Sun and Liferay announced a strategic partnership that combines efforts and technologies from both company's communities to enhance and maintain web aggregation and presentation technologies that are utilized in existing and future products.

Sun Valley Charter High School

Sun Valley Charter High School was a small charter high school in Ramona, California, chartered by the Ramona Unified School District.

Sun Valley Serenade

Sun Valley Serenade is the first of the only two movies featuring The Glenn Miller Orchestra (the other is 1942's Orchestra Wives).

Sun Yee On

Tai Hau, leader of another Sun Yee On faction in active in Tuen Mun tried to encroach upon Lee's West Kowloon and Tsim Sha Tsui operations.

Sunye

Sun was one of the longest serving trainees at JYP Entertainment, along with Jo Kwon of 2AM and Min of miss A.

Svaðilfari

In chapter 42 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, High tells a story set "right at the beginning of the gods' settlement, when the gods at established Midgard and built Val-Hall" about an unnamed builder who has offered to build a fortification for the gods that will keep out invaders in exchange for the goddess Freyja, the sun, and the moon.

Synemon theresa

The Cryptic Sun Moth (Synemon theresa) is a moth in the Castniidae family.

Talagunda pillar inscription

Raghu’s brother was Kākusthavarman (c. 435-55) who "was like the sun and by means of rays (daughters) caused the lotuses of Gupta and other royal families to bloom in friendless, eagerness and love."

Telluric current

In William Hope Hodgson's novel The Night Land, the "Earth-Current", a powerful telluric current, is the source of power for the Last Redoubt, the arcology home of man after the Sun has died.

The Ancient Art of War

The player can also select from among several Artificial Intelligence opponents represented by various historical figures such as Geronimo and Sun Tzu himself.

The Firebird Band

Erik Bocek - (of Joan of Arc, Ghosts and Vodka) bass on tracks 2, 8-11 on The Setting Sun and Its Satellites.

Troy Trojans

In 2006, Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year Bobby Pierce led the Trojans to a regular season conference title, conference tournament title, and an NCAA Regional appearance with an overall record of 47–16.

Uglydolls

Uglydoll is a brand based upon a line of plush toys which began as a long distance letter between the creators David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim.

Van Allen Probes

The Van Allen radiation belts swell and shrink over time as part of a much larger space weather system driven by energy and material that erupt off the Sun's surface and fill the entire Solar System.

Winnipeg Sun

Some of the initial comics published in the Sun were Ziggy, Frank and Ernest, Dallas, Ben Swift, John Darling, Graves, Inc., Barbara Cartland's Romances, Heathcliff, The Neighborhood, and Winthrop.