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unusual facts about The Connection



Frank Hewitt

In the 1950s and 1960s he worked with Howard McGhee, Cecil Payne, John Coltrane, Dinah Washington and Billie Holiday, among others; in 1961 he also participated in the Living Theater's production of Jack Gelber's The Connection.

Tina Brooks

Around the same period, Brooks was McLean's understudy in The Connection, a play by Jack Gelber with music by Redd, and performed on an album of music from the play on the Felsted Label.


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Aircraft catapult

Like Brunel's Atmospheric Railway the tube of the catapult has a longitudinal valve covering the slot except where it is displaced to allow the connection to the internal piston to pass through.

Anthony Poshepny

Several press stories have suggested that Poshepny was the model for Colonel Walter Kurtz in the film Apocalypse Now, but both Poshepny and director Francis Ford Coppola have denied the connection.

Bali–Sasak languages

However, the similarities are with the "high" registers (formal language/royal speech) of Balinese and Sasak; when the "low" registers (commoner speech) are considered, the connection appears instead to be with Madurese and Malay.

Catasauqua and Fogelsville Railroad

The connection in West Catasauqua with the Lehigh and New England Railroad (formerly the Crane Iron Company tracks) had been abandoned in 1961.

Château de Montségur

Kate Mosse's novel, 'Labyrinth' also describes the besieging of the Cathars at Montsegur and explains some aspects of the connection between the Cathars and the Grail Legend

Chicago Institute for the Moving Image

Founded in 2000 by Joshua Flanders, their first seminar "Intention, Movement, Perception" examined the connection between intention and action in the arts, sciences, and religion.

Chullpa

Recent research has focused on the connection between chullpas and the ritual pathways etched into the landscape around Nevado Sajama, as well as possible patterns within chullpa sites.

Connection Machine

Lewis W. Tucker, George G. Robertson, "Architecture and Applications of the Connection Machine," Computer, vol.

David E. Shaw's NON-VON machine, which preceded the Connection machine slightly.

Daebul Industrial Complex

The connection from Seohaean expressway also increased the easier approach from Seoul via cars and also railroad via Mugunghwa-ho.

Dakini

As another example of the connection between Dakini-ten and the government of Japan, in the Genpei Jōsuiki it is claimed that Taira no Kiyomori met a kitsune on the road and that his subsequent performance of Dakini-ten rites caused him to rise from an unimportant clan leader to the ruler of the entire nation.

Dan Carlin

Dan looks at the connection between tough times and the "Greatest Generation".

David Arianites

David is generally considered to be the first member of the Arianiti clan active in late medieval Albania, but the connection can't be verified due to lack of sources.

Donald Barrios

Donald Barrios is a wealthy American businessman, in addition to being the connection between the former United States' Drug Enforcement Administration field agent Oscar Danilo Blandon Reyes and Juan Norwin Meneses Cantarero, a prominent Nicaraguan drug lord.

Dunbar railway station

A year later in May 2011, all Scotrail services between Dunbar and Edinburgh introduced a one intermediate stop at Musselburgh to allow the connection of Dunbar students to Queen Margaret University.

Fréjus Rail Tunnel

The Fréjus tunnel remains today as an important link in the connection between Rome and Paris, via Turin and Chambéry.

Goulburn railway station

The station buildings were opened in 1869 with arrival of the railway from Sydney, which was opened by the Governor Lord Belmore (an event commemorated by Belmore Park in the centre of the city), along with the completion of the line from Sydney to Albury in 1881 (and the connection with Victorian Railways in 1883), was a boom to the town.

Halford Mackinder

The German interpretation of the Heartland Theory is referred to explicitly (without mentioning the connection to Mackinder) in The Nazis Strike, the second of Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series of American World War II propaganda films.

Haltern–Venlo railway

With the connection of the Boxtel Railway to the bridge over the Rhine at Wesel before the First World War, a long-distance connection was established on the (London–) Vlissingen–Wesel–OsnabrückBerlin–Eydtkuhnen (now Chernyshevskoye)–Saint Petersburg route.

Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp

Another question to which he gave much attention was the connection of the boiling point of compounds, organic ones in particular, with their composition.

Homo Sapiens 1900

The Institute's chairman, Eugen Fischer, says its task is to 'investigate the connection between heredity, environment and crossbreeding, and to promote social measures which benefit racially sound individuals'.

Hooping

The spokes typically extend 6-8 inches from the connection points on the hoop, and are capped with a roll of cotton and Kevlar wicking, which can then be lit on fire.

Imjin Barracks

The Barracks were named after the Battle of Imjin because of the connection with the Gloucestershire Regiment which formed part of the United Nations contingent in the Korean War, and was thought to be an appropriate name, for ARRC which is the HQ of a multinational force.

Jambyn Batmönkh

Batmönkh's reign contributed to the creation of major energy (the construction of Ulaanbaatar and Erdenet power stations, and the connection of the Central high-power electric grid with the Soviet Union's Siberian Grid) and mining (the beginning of the operations of Erdenet and Baganuur coal mines, and Bor-Ondor gypsum mine) infrastructure, together with, various other light production and food processing factories.

John Lancelot Todd

In 1903 Todd and Dutton accepted an invitation by King Leopold II of Belgium to research the connection between trypanosoma and sleeping sickness in the Congo Free State.

Joseph Finder

Finder published Red Carpet: The Connection Between the Kremlin and America's Most Powerful Businessmen (1983), about Dr. Armand Hammer's ties to Soviet intelligence.

Kristinn Hrafnsson

In February 2009, while investigating the connection between Iceland's Kaupthing Bank and Robert Tchenguiz, the programme was taken off air and Kristinn and his crew were sacked.

Margaret Oliphant

The connection was to last for her whole lifetime, during which she contributed well over 100 articles, including, a critique of the character of Arthur Dimmesdale in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.

Master equation

When the connections are time-independent rate constants, the master equation represents a kinetic scheme, and the process is Markovian (any jumping time probability density function for state i is an exponential, with a rate equal to the value of the connection).

Mathematics of general relativity

The connection and curvature of any Riemannian manifold are closely related, the theory of holonomy groups, which are formed by taking linear maps defined by parallel transport around curves on the manifold, providing a description of this relationship.

Morris and Essex Railroad

In 1876 the new tunnel under Bergen Hill opened, after hostilities including a frog war in late 1870 and early 1871, caused by the M&E's attempts to modify the connection between their Boonton Branch, a newer freight bypass, and the Erie tunnel.

On Love and Death

On Love and Death is a collection of essays written by Patrick Süskind concerning the connection between "the two elemental forces of human existence."

Ōshima District, Yamaguchi

In May 2007, Hawaiʻi’s replica ancient voyaging canoe Hōkūle‘a visited this small island to honour the connection between Suō-Ōshima and Hawaiʻi.

Ottokar III of Styria

To improve the connection to that territory, he improved the road across the Semmering, and he also erected a hospital in Spital am Semmering in 1160 and completed the colonization of the area around the Traisen and Gölsen rivers.

Partial-order planning

Promotion orders the possible threat after the connection it threatens.

Paul Valéry

The title was chosen late in the poem's gestation; it refers to the youngest of the three Parcae (the minor Roman deities also called The Fates), though for some readers the connection with that mythological figure is tenuous and problematic.

Point Counter Point

In the 1996 reprint of Point Counter Point, Mosley's son Nicholas discusses the connection in a new introduction to the novel.

Røros Line

The connection southwards from Hamar was with boat over the lake Mjøsa to Eidsvoll, and the Hoved Line to Oslo (Kristiania).

Saint Fiacre

The connection between Saint Fiacre and taxi drivers arose because the Hotel de Saint Fiacre in Paris, France, rented carriages, usually to travel to the hospice at Saint-Fiacre, Seine-et-Marne.

Stahnsdorf

In the following decades, the current site was created by the development of privately owned homes, the connection to Berlin-Lichterfelde by a tram and building a settlement for workers at the Bosch manufactures in Kleinmachnow.

Super Brand Mall

The connection with Thailand is most visible at the front of the building, with a Thai Buddhist shrine located just outside the front door.

Super Dodge Ball

In Japan, it was the second game starring Technos Japan's video game character Kunio-kun, following Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun (the Japanese version of Renegade), although the connection between the two games was removed in the western release.

Takadanobaba Station

Takadanobaba was the western terminus of the Tozai Line until the connection to Nakano Station and the Chuo Main Line opened in March 1966.

Tanzplagen

The connection was strengthened when Oh-OK Lynda Stipe and Linda Hopper contributed backing vocals at a 40 Watt Club appearance that was taped to provide a rough-and ready three track demo.

Tolland, Somerset

The connection was Henry Wolcott who emigrated to America and founded a prominent family which included Oliver Wolcott who signed the United States Declaration of Independence.

Wodonga railway station

The connection through to the standard gauge system across the Murray River to Albury was not completed for a few years, partly because the New South Wales standard gauge system had not yet extended as far south as Albury.