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unusual facts about The Bat



Arrow Dynamics

Arrow reached additional milestones over the years by introducing the first suspended roller coaster in almost a century, The Bat, which opened in 1981, and the world's first hypercoaster, Magnum XL-200, which opened in 1989.

Det Ny Teater

Bent Mejding was the driving force behind the restoration of the theater, which he and Niels-Bo Valbro (b. 1956) reopened as a venue for operetta and musicals with a production of The Bat in 1994.

Emily Fitzroy

Films include Don Juan (1926), The Bat (1926), Bardelys the Magnificent (1926), Dick Turpin (1933), Adventures of Don Quixote (1933), and Vigil in the Night (1940).

Raymond Bailey

He appeared in four Broadway plays, as Howard Haines in Last Stop (1944), playing an unknown man in The Bat (1953), A.J. Alexander in Sing Till Tomorrow (1953), and Captain Randolph Southard in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1954–1955), which starred Henry Fonda.


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36th century BC

Excavations of the Bat Cave in Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico in 1948 and 1950 discovered ears of popcorn dated to circa 3600 BC.

Afzaal Haider

Haider is a specialist medium pace bowler, whose highest score with the bat is 22, coming in a 47-run eighth-wicket partnership with Manoj Cheruparambil against Pakistan at the 2004 Asia Cup.

Alan Dowding

He was only bowling because Cambridge were chasing a small fourth innings score and his three balls also including the winning runs, off the bat of Ted Dexter.

Alan Embree

On July 10, 2009, Embree's right tibia was broken after he was struck in the leg by a line drive off the bat of Atlanta Brave Martín Prado.

Arthur Lockwood

With the bat, he was dismissed for 5 in Wales only innings by Gustavus Kelly.

Baynes Bat

The Bat was last seen in 1958, lying behind a hangar at Croydon Airport.

Brick Owens

In one instance, he called three straight strikes on a batter for Crookston to end a game when the team was mounting a comeback against visiting Winnipeg; the batter dropped his bat and got into a fight with Owens, whereupon a fan jumped from the stands, picked up the bat and hit Owens over the head.

Charlie Reliford

Roger Clemens of the New York Yankees fired the sawed-off piece of the bat toward Piazza, causing both benches to empty and reigniting the controversy that had begun the previous July when Clemens had hit Piazza in the head with a pitch during an interleague game at Yankee Stadium.

Chris Read

Chairman of Selectors David Graveney stressed that this was down to Jones' poor form with the bat rather than his injury.

Clyde Mashore

His first career hit, RBI and run scored all came on one swing of the bat on September 14, 1970 against the New York Mets at Montreal's Jarry Park.

Col Timmins

His first match was between Australia and Sri Lanka at Brisbane on 8 December to 12 December 1989, a drawn match on which the bat dominated, Tom Moody and Mark Taylor scoring centuries.

Colin Guest

He scored 26 not out and 74 (his highest first-class score) in his first game for Western Australia and made some other useful contributions with the bat, but his bowling lacked its former penetration, and with strong competition for pace-bowling places in the state side from McKenzie, Sam Gannon, Laurie Mayne, Ian Brayshaw and Jim Hubble, he played no further first-class cricket after that season.

Court of Owls

The Penguin shot him through the head before an exchange could be made, and so Catwoman - feeling as though she and the Talon were kindred spirits - laid his body on the roof of Gotham City Police Department with his five knives and turned on the Bat-Signal.

Selina and Spark eventually decide not to steal the Talon daggers that Penguin originally had in his possession and head off to deposit the Talon's body, which they leave at the Bat-Signal, with the Night of the Owls having come to a close.

Crane Wilbur

He wrote a modernization of The Bat, a play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood.

Declaration and forfeiture

In a game against Kent at the Bat and Ball Ground in Gravesend, Wright declared Nottinghamshire's second innings closed on 157 for 5 to set Kent a target of 231 to win.

Fasal Shahid

With the bat he scored 2 runs before being dismissed LBW by Rubel Hossain.

George Kell

A favorite story of his was about the incident when his jaw was broken by a line drive off the bat of Joe DiMaggio.

Giles Ridley

With the bat, Ridley scored 6 unbeaten runs in the Minor Counties first-innings, while in their second-innings he scored 30 runs, before being dismissed by John Inverarity.

H.P. Lovecraft's: Necronomicon

(While the story takes minor elements from "The Whisperer in Darkness", the bat-like aliens have little in common with the Mi-go. The only real similarity seems to be in their ability to transfer a human brain into a new container, albeit one of their own bodies rather than a canister, as a means to expand their population. They also bear no physical resemblance aside from wings.)

Harold Edge

With the bat unbeaten on 19 in the Welsh first-innings, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 5 runs by Cyril Ormerod.

Hernando Calvo Ospina

In January 2005 the documentary The Secret of the Bat: Bacardi between Rum and Revolution where Calvo Ospina took part received the Bronze World Medal at the New York Film Festival.

Ian Harvey

Against New Zealand he failed with the bat making just 2 but he bowled economically again taking 1/11 in 6 overs.

Ian Sturmer

With the bat, Sturmer scored 2 not out in Loughborough's first-innings, while in their second he was dismissed for 5 runs by Adam Riley.

Information Center for Israeli Art

The Bat Sheva and Yitzhak Katz Archive contains personal writings and letters of artists including Sionah Tagger, Israel Paldi and Arieh Lubin.

Jock Livingston

In retirement, he worked for the bat-making company Gray-Nicolls.

JSA: The Liberty Files

Set in Egypt, 1942, the Bat (a.k.a. Batman) has been ordered to work with two new partners, the Clock (a.k.a. Hourman) and the Owl (a.k.a. Doctor Mid-Nite), as a group codenamed the Unholy Three.

The Bat and the Clock are re-activated as government agents when two former KGB agents, the Parasite and Steelwolf, are working for an unknown employer.

KBTE

Before the station acquired the urban contemporary format, KBTE was an active rock station as "The Bat"; however the station began stunting with loops of The Go-Go's 1980s song We Got The Beat before the launch of The Beat.

Kyle Hodnett

With the bat, he scored 6 runs before being dismissed by Dolar Mahmud.

Marsha, Queen of Diamonds

Marsha now tries to find out the whereabouts of the "Bat-Diamond", and is eager to break into the Batcave and find out Batman's true identity, where the diamond is stored.

Mervyn Hill

The 1926 season was Hill's best with the bat and against Gloucestershire at Taunton, batting at No 10, he hit 60 in "just over half an hour", with two sixes and 10 fours and including 18 off a single over from Charles Parker.

Mike Latham

In 1971, he made his only List A appearance, an all-Minor County Gillette Cup match against Lincolnshire in which he made an unbeaten 26 with the bat but failed to take a wicket.

MRF Limited

At one point of time, MRF was the bat sponsor of world-class batsmen including Brian Lara, Sachin Tendulkar, and former Australian captain Steve Waugh.

Popeye the Sailor: 1933–1938, Volume 1

From the vault: Three Bray Productions/International Film Service studio shorts: "Colonel Heeza Liar at the Bat" (1915), "Krazy Kat Goes-a-Wooing (1916), "Domestic Difficulties" (1916)

Royston Trocard

He took a single catch in this match, while with the bat he scored 27 runs before he was dismissed by Orlanzo Jackson.

Trocard made two stumpings in this match, while with the bat he scored 17 runs before being run out by Clifford Walwyn.

Ryan Butterworth

He played a vastly increased number of matches in 2009–10, appearing 12 times for the Mashonaland Eagles, averaging over 30 with the bat, and passing 100 on two occasions.

Stan Stoker

He took 3 wickets in the match for the cost of 16 runs from 12 overs, while with the bat he scored 4 runs before being dismissed by Alan Garofall.

Terry Allcock

In this match Allcock caught-behind Hampshire captain Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie, while with the bat he made 21 runs before being dismissed by Butch White.

The Bat Segundo Show

The Bat Segundo Show started in 2004, as a "shameless excuse to interview David Mitchell." Needing an introduction, Champion took the name of "Bat Segundo" from Mitchell's first novel, Ghostwritten, (later obtaining Mitchell's permission) and created "a deliberately unappealing and grating character" to introduce each segment.

The Sword of Kahless

The sword itself was created specifically for the episode, and was made to seem more elaborate than the bat'leths previously seen in Star Trek, including hand etchings to make it appear similar to Damascus steel.

Triaenops rufus

Triaenops menamena, the bat species from Madagascar to which the name was long, but incorrectly, applied; and

Wilfrid Foster

From 1903 he was employed by the Birmingham-based glassmaking company of Chance Brothers, which might explain his only very moderate success with the bat.

World's biggest cricket bat

Later on, the bat was sent around Pakistan, including the cities of Hyderabad, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Peshawar.