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unusual facts about Sunset/Sunside



Airnav.com

Additionally available on Airnav.com is METAR, terminal aerodrome forecast (TAF), distance calculator, times of morning and evening civil twilight and sunset/sunrise to aid the pilot for decision-making purposes and to be legally equipped for night flight, airport management remarks, Notice to Airmen (NOTAM), distances to popular landmarks and attractions, hotels, cities, and closest airports.

Alwar

Banghar Fort is a haunted fort and the Archeological Survey of India has put up a board on the fort gate that it is prohibited for tourists to stay inside the fort area after sunset and before sunrise.

Battle of Trent's Reach

Commodore Mitchell lifted anchor at Chaffin's Bluff just after sunset, his first task would be to sneak by the Union battery on Signal Hill and Fort Brady in the darkness.

Chaat masala

In India and Pakistan it is often purchased in large amounts, where it is available in prepackaged form, before the Islamic month of Ramadan as different types of Chaat (especially Fruit Chaat) are prepared at sunset which is the time for the opening of the fast.

D. M. Marshman, Jr.

In 1948, Marshman was recruited by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder to help write the screenplay of Sunset Boulevard.

EP001

On 29 November 2006, Thenewno2 announced that it could also be purchased at Amoeba Music, 6400 Sunset Blvd.

Everybody's Changing

Keane appear on a scene representing a sunset – their performance is broken up with clips of gigs in London, Mexico City and United States.

Faith Brown

The production toured until the end of 2002 and a CD single was released featuring the tracks "Sunset Boulevard" (performed by her co-star Earl Carpenter), "With One Look" and "The Perfect Year" (a duet with Carpenter).

Fred Ossanna

He helped found the Sunset Memorial Park and Funeral Chapel in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1922 by providing funding.

General Tire

General Tire was interested mainly in using the RKO film library to program its television stations, so it sold the RKO lot at Sunset and Gower in Hollywood to Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's Desilu Productions in 1956 for $6 million.

George Tyndale

He recorded with Caribbean singers and appeared extensively at nightclubs, in particular with Joe Appleton's band and for a period as a leader at the Sunset, a rendezvous popular with London's black population.

Gloaming

Gloaming, or twilight, the time after sunset and before dark, celebrated in Harry Lauder's Roamin' In The Gloamin'

Gun port

In the Action of 4 August 1800, the large East Indiaman Exeter passed herself as a 74-gun ship of the line when she endeavoured to chase the much stronger French frigate Médée; after sunset, she perfected the illusion by opening and illuminating all her gun ports, whether armed or not; her appearance was so convincing that when she caught up with Médée, the frigate struck as if hopelessly overpowered.

Johnny Foreigner

The second single, released 21 May 2007, was a split with fellow Birmingham act Sunset Cinema Club and featured the track "Yes! You Talk Too Fast", as well as a cover of Sunset Cinema Club's "Ninki. vs Dingle", whilst SCC covered Johnny Foreigner's "Candles".

Josh Altman

Altman specializes in the Platinum Triangle (Beverly Hills, Bel Air, and Holmby Hills) and the Sunset Strip and Hollywood Hills luxury housing market.

Ken Olin

The film was based on the best selling true crime novel, Dead by Sunset which was written by true crime author Ann Rule.

Kirkja

From here there is a beautiful view over the sound Fugloyarfjørður towards the impressive capes of Svínoy and also towards the northernmost cape of the Faroes, Enniberg on Viðoy' - one of the highest cliffs in the world - and the impressive rounded isthmus of Viðareiði that has been a favorite motive for Faeroese and foreign painters throughout the past century because of its tremendously beautiful sunset.

Lake in the Hills, Illinois

Summer Sunset Idol, a spinoff of American Idol, which allows aspiring amateur performers to showcase their talents.

Llywelyn the Last

The life of Llywelyn the Last is the subject of Edith Pargeter's Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet: 'Sunrise in the West' (1974); 'The Dragon at Noonday' (1975); 'The Hounds of Sunset' (1976); and 'Afterglow and Nightfall' (1977).

Mickey's Choo-Choo

The cartoon ends with an image of Mickey and Minnie Mouse riding a handcar (made from the chassis and a plank of wood from the freight car which came uncoupled accidentally when Mickey tried to push the train up the hill when it got stuck earlier in the film) into the sunset, which inspired a famous toy version, manufactured by the Lionel Corporation.

Mighty Wings

In the film Top Gun, the music (without the lyrics) is played in the first training session at Miramar, while the full version with the lyrics played as the credits rolled over the sunset at the end of the film.

Music for Films

In fact, excerpts from the album did appear in at least four films, "Sparrowfall (1)" in John Woo's A Better Tomorrow, "Slow Water" in Derek Jarman's Jubilee, "Final Sunset" in Jarman's Sebastiane and Breathless and "M386" and "Alternative 3" appear in Rock 'n' Roll High School.

My Name Is Mud

The video features Claypool playing the character of Abercrombie speaking directly to the camera, intercut with footage of the band performing outdoors, silhouetted by sunset, and scenes of Bob Cock visiting a health spa, at which he takes a mud bath and sits in a crowded sauna before accepting and drinking a glass of Pork Soda, referencing the album of the same name.

New Fire ceremony

At sunset on the last day of the year, a procession of priests from the fire cult of Huehueteotl walked from the ceremonial center of Tenochtitlan across the eastbound causeway towards a mountain called Huixachtlan on the eastern bank of Lake Texcoco close to Colhuacan.

Obed Macy and Oscar Macy

On that occasion the plea was successful, and the Macy Street name was retained, but in May 1993 the City Council unanimously decided to change the name of a portion of Sunset Boulevard and all of Macy Street and Brooklyn Avenue to a new appellation—Cesar Chavez Avenue, in honor of the late labor leader.

Penelope Umbrico

Her project "Suns from Flickr " started in 2006 when she found 541,795 pictures of Sunsets searching the word “sunset” on the photo-sharing web site Flickr while looking for the most photographed subject (which the sunset turned out to be).

Ponente

It sometimes appears as Zephyrus, the ancient Greek name, probably derived from "zopho" (meaning dark, gloomy, a reference to the sunset rather than the quality of the wind.) Romans also called it Favonius, probably meaning "favorable", as the westerly wind in the Mediterranean was regarded as a mild wind that brought relief from the summer heat and some useful moisture for crops.

Prenuptial agreement

In states that have adopted the UPAA (Uniform Premarital Agreement Act), no sunset provision is provided by statute, but one could be privately contracted for.

Randal Malone

At an ensuing autograph show for Sunset After Dark Malone was discovered by producers from MTV who cast him opposite Carmen Electra on MTVs 1990s quirky hit show Singled Out.

Rue des Lombards

The rue des Lombards is a street in Paris, France which is famous for hosting three of the main French jazz clubs : Le Baiser Salé, Le Duc des Lombards and the Sunset/Sunside.

Shalem

the Canaanite god of dusk, sunset, and the end of the day, also spelled Shalim

South of Sunset

South of Sunset is an American TV detective series, starring musician/actor Glenn Frey, that only aired one episode on CBS in 1993.

Strike Anywhere

They have also contributed tracks to political benefit albums, such as a live version of "Sunset on 32nd" for 1157 Wheeler Avenue: A Memorial for Amadou Diallo and "To the World" for the Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1 album.

Sunset Drive

Once past SR 985, Sunset Drive almost-immediately crosses the Snapper Creek Canal and enters the eponymous community of Sunset.

Sunset Junction, Los Angeles

Sunset Junction is the site of one of the first actions in the nation against police harassment of gay bars, the Black Cat Tavern protest, which began on February 11, 1967, almost two and a half years before the more famous protest at the Stonewall Inn in New York’s Greenwich Village.

Sunset Park Historic District

The movie Blue Velvet had scenes filmed in Sunset Park including the house of Detective John Williams (George Dickerson).

Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Sunset Park's second age began with a wave of immigration from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and El Salvador, as well as other Latin American countries.

Sunset Records

Based on logo information on the back of this LP cover, Sunset Records was associated with Transamerica, "Sunset Records - Entertainment from Transamerica Corporation."

Sunset Ridge School District 29

Sunset Ridge was the top middle school in Illinois in ISAT testing in 2005, and is always one of the top two public schools in the State of Illinois.

T. Carmi

He wrote the preface to a collection of Gabriel Preil's poems, Sunset Possibilities and Other Poems (1985).

The Chillout Project

Anton is most famous for his sunset sessions in the beach island of Boracay.

Time zone

Near the summer solstice, Muxia has sunset times (after 10:00 pm) similar to those of Stockholm, which is in the same time zone and 16 degrees further north.

TSR Records

Some famous songs released by TSR Records in the 1980s (while TSR was based in the former RSO building at 8335 Sunset Boulevard), include "Coming Out of Hiding" by Pamala Stanley, "Searchin' (Looking For Love)" by Hazell Dean, "So Many Men, So Little Time" by Miquel Brown and "High Energy" by Evelyn Thomas.

Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa

The tablet recorded the rise times of Venus and its first and last visibility on the horizon before or after sunrise and sunset (the heliacal risings and settings of Venus) in the form of lunar dates.

Warren Adler

The Sunset Gang became an American Playhouse three-hour television production in 1991, starring Uta Hagen, Harold Gould, Jerry Stiller, Ron Rifkin, and Doris Roberts.

WBTC

Unlike most radio stations in the Northeastern United States assigned to the clear-channel frequency of 1540 kHz (all of whom must sign off at sunset to protect KXEL in Waterloo, Iowa and/or ZNS-1 in Nassau, Bahamas) WBTC has 5 watts of night power assigned, but signs off nightly at 9:00 p.m., give or take live sports play-by-play events.

Workweek and weekend

Jewish Shabbat or Biblical Sabbath lasts from sunset on Friday to the fall of full darkness on Saturday, leading to a Friday-Saturday weekend in Israel.

WSON

For most of its first four decades on the air, WSON was a daytime-only station, signing off at sunset in order to protect CJBC in Toronto.


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