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unusual facts about Swans



1975 WANFL season

Subiaco send Peter Burton out a winner, as the retiring ruckman dominates Swans’ danger players Sidebottom and Bob Beecroft.

Algis Kizys

Of Cabbages and Kings featured Kizys, founder/guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist/producer Carolyn Master, Vinnie Signorelli (Unsane), Ted Parsons (Prong, Swans, Godflesh, Jesu, Teledubgnosis) and Diane Wlezein.

Aquatic animal

Aquatic animals include for example the seabirds, such as gulls (family Laridae), pelicans (family Pelecanidae), and albatrosses (family Diomedeidae), and most of the Anseriformes (ducks, swans and geese).

Bee and Flower

Dana formed the band while a recording/touring member of Michael Gira's (Swans, Young God Records) band Angels of Light.

Members featured on Bee and Flower's albums and in the live group include members of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Calexico, Keren Ann, Iggy Pop, Angels of Light, Stephan Eicher, Swans, and Bertrand Burgalat.

Black Swan

In the south west the range ecompasses an area between North West Cape, Cape Leeuwin and Eucla; while in the east it covers are large region bounded by the Atherton Tableland, the Eyre Peninsula and Tasmania, with the Murray Darling Basin supporting very large populations of Black Swans.

Black Swans were first seen by Europeans in 1697, when Willem de Vlamingh's expedition explored the Swan River, Western Australia.

Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards

Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards is the thirteenth studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani, released on October 5, 2010 through Epic Records.

Bob Skilton

He was also the player featured inside the cover of the booklets of stamps featuring the Swans released by Australia Post to commemorate the centenary of the VFL/AFL.

Brett Kirk

In 2008, Kirk was given the honour of meeting with the Dalai Lama during his Australian tour in which he presented the Dalai Lama with a signed Swans jersey.

Bryce Goggin

He has since worked with a number of musicians including The Apples in Stereo, Luna, Swans, Evan Dando, Sean Lennon, Sebadoh, Heave, Come, Spacehog, Ramones, The Morning Glories, Band of Susans, Danish band Grand Avenue, Phish, The 45's, Akron Family, Dylan Connor, The Spring Standards, and cabaret pop group Antony and the Johnsons.

Bunjil

Bunjil himself became the star Altair and his two wives, the black swans, became stars on either side.

Caer Ibormeith

She eventually married Aengus of the Tuatha de Dannan, but first he had to pick her out, in swan form, from a group of one hundred and fifty other swans at Loch Bel Dragon (Now Lough Muskry in the Galtees.) Having chosen correctly, he turned into a swan himself and they flew away, to the fortress of the River Boyne at Drogheda, singing beautiful music that put all its listeners asleep for three days and nights.

Chiltern Football Club

The Chiltern Football Club, nicknamed the Swans, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Tallangatta & District Football League.

Circus Mort

Dan Braun also joined Swans for a short period, and recorded live with them at CBGB, which was released as Body to Body, Job to Job.

Corowa

John Longmire is a retired Australian rules football player (North Melbourne Kangaroos), now coach (Sydney Swans) from Corowa

Ben Mathews is another Australian rules football player from Corowa (Sydney Swans)

Guillem Bauzà

On 26 April 2008, he scored his first hat-trick for the Swans as they beat Leyton Orient 4-1 in the final game of the season.

Hazelwood, County Sligo

The wood is situated on the shores of Lough Gill, which contains Yeats's Lake Isle of Innisfree, and is popular among tourists and locals for its scenic walks, which is dotted with sculptures; swans, mallards and gulls who congregate at the picnic area, and for the fishing on Lough Gill.

History of violence against LGBT people in the United States

May 29, 2008 – Eighteen-year-old Steven Parrish, a member of the 92 Family Swans subgroup of the Bloods, was murdered by Steven T. Hollis III and Juan L. Flythe on orders from gang leader Timothy Rawlings Jr., in Baltimore County, Maryland after they found "gay messages" on his cell phone.

Jarvis v Swans Tours Ltd

"Swans House Party in Mörlialp. All these House Party arrangements are included in the price of your holiday. Welcome party on arrival. Afternoon tea and cake for 7 days. Swiss dinner by candlelight. Fondue party. Yodeler evening. Chali farewell party in the 'Alphütte Bar'. Service of representative."

Josh Kennedy

Josh P. Kennedy (born 1988), Australian rules footballer with the Sydney Swans and previously Hawthorn

Leonardo's Swans

Leonardo’s Swans is an international bestseller by Karen Essex, published by Doubleday in 2006.

London Swans

In 2001, ten members of the Swans' squad were selected for the British Bulldogs side for the Atlantic Alliance Cup held in London.

Meryl Tankard

2002 = Merryland, for Netherlands Dance Theatre 3; 2003 Wild Swans, commission from the Australian Ballet and the Sydney Opera House, a full length work based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy story to a commissioned score by Elena Kats-Chernin ;

Mount Sims

It was produced by Thomas Stern of Crime & the City Solution and features guest appearances by Jessie Evans (formerly of Subtonix, Autonervous, and The Vanishing), Toby Dammit (Swans, The Residents, and Iggy Pop), and Bryan Black (Motor).

Neville Jetta

In September 2008 he was awarded the Mel Whinnen Medal for being the best player in the Swans colts grand final win.

Newport Pagnell Town F.C.

When the only other local team (based at the Aston Martin works) folded, many of their players joined the Swans, who won Division Two and then One in successive seasons, before becoming the almost unbeatable champions for three seasons

Noise Fest

Among an art installation created by David Wojnarowicz and Joseph Nechvatal, various performance artists such as Ilona Granet and Emily XYZ did their acts intermixing with the music of The Fall, Beastie Boys, Live Skull, Sonic Youth, Lydia Lunch, Elliott Sharp, Swans and Arto Lindsay.

Peg Kerr

Her second novel The Wild Swans, based in part on Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale The Wild Swans, was published in 1999.

Raised by Swans

Raised By Swans' song 'Violet Light' is featured in Douglas Coupland's film Everything's Gone Green.

The Dying Swan

Inspired by swans that she had seen in public parks and Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "The Dying Swan", Anna Pavlova (who had just become a ballerina at the Mariinsky Theatre) asked Michel Fokine, who had also read the poem, to create a solo ballet for her for a 1905 concert being given by artists from the chorus of the Imperial Mariinsky Opera.

The Royal Mallows

By the term "Mallow" it refers either to the town of Mallow, County Cork (Gaelic >Magh Ealla, "Plain of the Swans") or to a flowering plant of the Mallow family.

The World of Skin

The World of Skin was a project springing out of the American group Swans, which was a collaboration between the core Swans members Michael Gira and Jarboe.

UVB-76

At 2225 UTC on September 1, 2010, the buzzer was interrupted by a 38-second fragment of "Dance of the Little Swans" from Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake.

Vanessa Van Basten

Their influences are cosmic psychedelia, industrial rock (like Swans or Godflesh), Neurot & Hydrahead catalogue, old 4AD bands, krautrock, Norwegian black metal.

Videodance

That’s when Toni Basil paired four of The Lockers (including Don Campbell, father of locking) with four ballet dancers...in the Four Little Swans variation from Swan Lake.

Violette Verdy

She has also written many articles and journals, including a children's ballet book called "Of Swans, Sugarplums, and Satin Slippers", which was illustrated by Marcia Brown.

WRWM

As of noon on Christmas Day, WWFT dropped Christmas music and stunted again, repeating the tracks "Lonesome Road" by Dean Elliot & His Big Band and "Swans Splashdown" by Jean-Jacques Perrey.

Young God Records

The label's original intent was to facilitate the release of Swans music, while it was disbanded it grew to host the Angels of Light before Swans' reformation in 2010, as well as a number of other unique bands and artists, including: Akron/Family, Devendra Banhart, Lisa Germano, Ulan Bator, and Mi and L'au.


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