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unusual facts about Survivor: Africa


Shaba National Reserve

In 2001, two thirds of the park was sealed off for four months while a CBS crew shot episodes of Survivor: Africa, the third season of the American reality television competition series Survivor.


ABC Warriors

The immensely strong Mongrol was originally commander of an ABC paratrooper platoon, and the only survivor (save Zippo) of the disastrous drop into Volgan territory at Vilnus – so disastrous it was nicknamed Zarnhem after Arnhem.

Aberllefenni

The quarry reservoir, Llyn Cob, was once known as Llyn Owain Lawgoch, after the last male survivor of the princely house of the Kingdom of Gwynedd.

American Heiress

After a terrifying crash in the family jet, the heiress falls in love with a fellow survivor, a hard-edged former Air Force pilot named JD Bruce (Carter MacIntyre).

Artane, Dublin

Ivan Beshoff, survivor of Russian battleship Potemkin lived in Artane, where he founded the Beshoff's chain of fish and chip shops

Arthur Louis Aaron

Located on a roundabout on the northern edge of the city centre, close to the West Yorkshire Playhouse, the statue of Aaron was unveiled on 24 March 2001 by Malcolm Mitchem, the last survivor of the aircraft.

AUTC UAV

A1 UAV is an unmanned helicopter of conventional layout, and along with its larger cousin A2, it has been deployed for aerial cinematography mission by China Central Television and Survivor: China of CBS.

Ben Scotti

He is the brother of media mogul Tony Scotti, with whom he co-produced a few television programs, most notably the lifeguard drama Baywatch, and also co-founded the Scotti Bros. record label which released music by artists such as Survivor and "Weird Al" Yankovic until the label was dissolved in the mid-1990s.

Buildering

In 2010, Goodwin, now a stage four cancer survivor, scaled San Francisco, California's sixty-storey Millennium Tower to call attention to the fire department's inability to conduct rescue operations in the upper floors of skyscrapers.

Butterworth Stavely

Twain based his story on one sentence in a naval report by Admiral Algernon Frederick Rous de Horsey: "One stranger, an American, has settled on the island – a doubtful acquisition," which probably referred to Peter Butler, a survivor of the 1875 Khandeish shipwreck.

Calixto Bravo Villaso

He dies in 1878, he was the last survivor from the Mexican War of Independence.

Empty World

The death of the girl (and earlier her 4 year old brother) leaves Neil the sole survivor of Winchelsea, and after deciding that Winchelsea is becoming dangerous - due in part to packs of wild dogs - he leaves for London, taking first a manual Mini which he has difficulty driving, followed by an automatic Jaguar.

Eva Hart

Eva Miriam Hart MBE (31 January 1905 – 14 February 1996) was a survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912.

Fashion for a Cure

JaQuitta Williams, a newscaster in Atlanta, appeared at a Fashion for a cure event and sang the Destiny's Child song "Survivor" after taking an 18-month leave of absence to beat her own cancer.

General Aircraft Cygnet

The last flying survivor, company number 111 and registered as G-AGBN (ES915), was retired in 1988 and is now on display at the National Museum of Flight at East Fortune, Scotland.

Grant Mattos

He was a contestant on the twenty-second season of the American television program Survivor, where he came in 8th place and became the 5th jury member.

Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion

Sigourney Weaver in Alien (1979) is heard at the end of the record saying, "This is Lieutenant Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off."

Henry Birkhead

Forty-one years afterwards, in 1684, the collection was reprinted, and Birkhead, the only survivor save one of the thirteen contributors, addressed a long 'Epistle Dedicatory' to John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, son of Sir Bevill Grenvill.

Henry P. Haney

Henry P. Haney (November 25, 1846 - November 19, 1923) was an American Last survivor of The Great Locomotive Chase during the American Civil War.

Jackie Warner

The episode aired on May 6, and by May 9 Gatorade, a major sponsor of the show, dropped its sponsorship and publicly criticized the comments about a breast cancer survivor made on the program.

Jeffrey Sussman

In addition to the seven health and fitness books he wrote with his former wife, Jeffrey is the author of three other non-fiction books: How to Sleep Without Drugs; Power Promoting: How to Market Your Business to the Top! and No Mere Bagatelles, a biography of handbag designer and Holocaust survivor Judith Leiber.

John Thayer

Jack Thayer (1894–1945), his son, survivor of the Titanic sinking

Kim Spradlin

English professor Ellen Sorg compared Spradlin's Survivor win with the notable winning streak of Ken Jennings, a contestant on Jeopardy! in 2004.

Kings in Darkness

Elric is able to collect various sorcerous herbs that grow only there, and they meet the young and beautiful Lady Zarozinia of Kaarlak, sole survivor of a massacre by the physically and mentally twisted Orgians.

Kogan

Eugen Kogon (1903 - 1987), German historian and holocaust survivor

L.E.G.I.O.N.

Lady Quark (co-ruler and lone survivor of Earth-Six, which was destroyed during the Crisis)

Laurence Decore

Decore was a two-time cancer survivor, having survived colon cancer in 1990 and liver cancer two years later, but a third incidence killed him in 1999.

Marcelino Bilbao Bilbao

Marcelino Bilbao Bilbao (16 January 1920 in Alonsotegi–25 January 2014) was a lieutenant in the Isaac Puente battalion of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) of the Basque Country and survivor of Mauthausen concentration camp and the Ebensee concentration camp.

March of Remembrance and Hope

The major funder of the Canadian program is the Azrieli Foundation, founded by Canadian Holocaust survivor, David Azrieli, which is a Canadian philanthropic organization that supports a wide range of initiatives and programs, among which include Holocaust commemoration and education.

Margaret Tobin

Birth name of Margaret Brown, also known as The Unsinkable Molly Brown, American socialite, philanthropist, activist; survivor of RMS Titanic

Megan Spencer

In June 2006 Spencer was criticised for a live on-air review for the movie X-Men: The Last Stand, in which she commented "Jews used to be oppressed and now they are the oppressors" (in reference to the character Magneto, a Jewish holocaust survivor).

Melchbourne

Audrey Lawson-Johnston, the last living survivor of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915

Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey

The only survivor of the three bibles is the Codex Amiatinus, now in Florence, the oldest complete surviving Bible in the world, which was being carried to Rome by Ceolfrith himself when he died in 716.

New York Jewish Film Festival

The 2011 Festival presented three restored films: Lies My Father Told Me (dir. Ján Kadár), a 1975 film about a boy living in a Montreal Jewish community in the 1920s; the 1956 film Singing in the Dark (dir. Max Nosseck), one of the first American feature films to dramatize the Holocaust, starring Moishe Oysher as a concentration camp survivor; and the 1930 Tevye (dir. Maurice Schwartz), restored with new English subtitles.

No Kitchen Required

Upon introduction, the show was described as being, "One part Survivor, two parts Top Chef, with a dash of The Amazing Race".

Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki

Holocaust survivor Yehudis Pshenitse has recounted the efforts of a parish priest from Nowy Dwór to save her life after the murder of more than 2000 Jews in Rembertów ghetto in August 1942.

Ola Lindholm

Described as a children's version of Survivor, the show features two groups of children competing with each other in competitions in the Swedish forest Kolmården, where the contestants live together until the show is over and the winners win a trip to Africa.

Restoring Courage tour

It featured an invocation by Rabbi Moshe Rothchild, remarks by Beck, actor and activist Jon Voight, the screening of the documentary film Kleiner Rudy by Michelle Stein Teer about her grandfather, Holocaust survivor Rudy Wolff and personal family memoirs, a short documentary about a solemn tour by Beck and his wife Tania of Auschwitz, and a panel discussion including Beck, Rabbi David Greenblatt of United With Israel, David Brog of Christians United for Israel, and author Mike Evans.

Rick Moffat

Born October 8, 1960 in Lachine, Quebec, he was one of five children born to James Moffat, a decorated World War 2 hero with the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Belgian and French Resistance whose wartime memoir was published in "Behind Enemy Lines", and to Anne Dosman Moffat, a Prairie survivor of the Depression and the Dustbowl of Saskatchewan in the 1930s.

Robert Deyber

Robert grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut - his mother a talented portrait artist and fashion model who died when Deyber was sixteen, his father Robert Deyber Sr. a real estate broker and POW, survivor of the Bataan Death March.

Samson Option

In 2012, in response to Günter Grass's poem "Was gesagt werden muss" ("What Must Be Said") which criticized Israel's nuclear weapons program, Israeli poet and Holocaust survivor Itamar Yaoz-Kest published a poem entitled "The Right to Exist: a Poem-Letter to the German Author" which addresses Grass by name.

Selina Parvin

A lone survivor of the killing testified to the court that being blindfolded, he heard a woman Selina Parvin screaming and begging Al-Badr men for her life, appealed to spare her as she had a kid and there was none to take care of him but her.

Soul Action

Soul Survivor trustee David Westlake said: 'Mission had been integral to the ministry but exploded into the public arena with Manchester 2000.

Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites

Survivor: Caramoan, the twenty-sixth season of American version of Survivor, also known as Survivor: Caramoan — Fans vs. Favorites

Sydney Jewish Museum

There are also guided tours; one of the guides is Holocaust survivor and writer Olga Horak.

Ten Boom

Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983), author and Holocaust survivor who helped many Jews escape the Nazis during World War II

The Courtship of Betty's Father

Despite a strong showing from CBS' Survivor: Tocantins — The Brazilian Highlands, the episode placed second with a 5.0/8 overall and a 2.3 among 18-49s, with 7.44 million viewers tuning in.

Tomicah Tillemann

Tillemann is the oldest grandson of Tom Lantos, the former Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to the U.S. Congress.

Two Bodies in the Lab

"Two Bodies in the Lab" attracted 12.07 million viewers, placing it first among 18 to 49 years old viewers and second in total viewers behind CBS' Survivor: Panama.

Virginia Holocaust Museum

A main part of the exhibition is about the family story of Holocaust survivor Jay M. Ipson.

Yuddham Sei

J.K. helps send Nishanth aboard, after giving him a book Man's Search for Meaning by holocaust survivor and philosopher Viktor Frankl, and advice to help him deal with his grief.


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