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2 unusual facts about Sunburst


Harold E. Kleinert

Born near Sunburst, Montana, Kleinert graduated from Temple University Medical School in 1946 and received its Distinguished Alumni Scientific Achievement Award in Surgery in 1987.

RAF Shepherds Grove

Markings of the 78th FIS F-84s were a three-beamed, black-trimmed red sunburst design.


Bertha Palmer

According to the author Aline B. Saarinen, "so fabulous were her jewels that a newspaper declared that when she appeared on the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse with a tiara of diamonds as large as lima beans, a corsage panned with diamonds, a sunburst as big as a baseball, a stomacher of diamonds and all the pearls around her neck, Alois Burgskeller of the Metropolitan Opera, who was singing at the ship's concert, was stopped right in the middle of a high note."

Color grading

Older systems are: Renaissance, Classic analog, Da Vinci Systems's: The Whiz (1982) and 888; The Corporate Communications's System 60XL (1982–1989) and Copernicus-Sunburst; Bosch Fernseh's FRP-60 (1983–1989); Dubner (1978-1985?), Cintel's TOPSY (1978), Amigo (1983), and ARCAS (1992) systems.

Epiphone Supernova

The guitar was available in five colours, a Union Jack paintjob (which Gallagher had on his own guitar), Manchester City blue (City is Gallagher's favourite football club), cherry red, vintage sunburst and the very rare ebony black.

Gibson Advanced Jumbo

Gibson's Ray Whitley-branded "Recording King", introduced in 1939, was a similar sized flat-top guitar with rosewood back and sides and a sunburst spruce top.

Love over Gold

Knopfler used several guitars during the sessions, including four Schecter Stratocasters—two red, one blue, and one sunburst—a black Schecter Telecaster, an Ovation classical guitar on "Private Investigations" and "Love Over Gold", a custom Erlewine Automatic on "Industrial Disease", and his 1937 National steel guitar on "Telegraph Road".

Sunburst flag

During the American Civil War, the sunburst motif was incorporated by several Irish regiments in their standards.

The sunburst flag is still used today, by both republican groups and the Irish language group Conradh na Gaeilge.

X. elegans

Xanthoria elegans, the elegant sunburst lichen, a lichenized fungus species


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