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2 unusual facts about The Ladder


National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association

Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen: Known for their work with The Ladder, the Daughters of Bilitis publication; Also participated in early gay rights demonstrations during the 1960s

The Ladder

The track "Lightning Strikes" borrows the opening flute solo from The Kinks' song "Phenomenal Cat" from the album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society.


House of Yes: Live from House of Blues

The album was recorded on Halloween night in 1999 at the House of Blues in Las Vegas, Nevada, during touring obligations for the band's studio album, The Ladder.

Vinny Burns

Vinny Burns has also appeared on other projects like Steve Overland's The Ladder and Shining Line.


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1829 in birding and ornithology

Johann Georg Wagler writes descriptions of new bird species in Isis, oder Encyclopädische Zeitung published by Lorenz Oken Some are: the Russet-throated Puffbird, the Golden-fronted Woodpecker, the Pinnated Bittern, the Chestnut-coloured Woodpecker, the Brown Jay, the Intermediate Egret and the Ladder-backed Woodpecker

2000 Brisbane Broncos season

Brisbane spent the entire 2000 NRL season from round four in first position on the ladder.

Alexandra Grant

The paintings and sculpture based on Joyce’s texts (using them as scores or scripts to interpret rather than follow) have been the subject of at least three series: the Ladder Quartet (shown at MOCA in 2007), the Six Portals (shown at Honor Fraser gallery in 2008), and Bodies (shown at Honor Fraser gallery in 2010).

Božina Ivanović

For years Ivanović steadily moved up the ladder in the Montenegrin branch of League of Communists of Yugoslavia, while simulatenously performing various public duties like that of the general director of TV Titograd.

Diving at the 1983 Summer Universiade

Future four-time Olympic champion Greg Louganis was preparing to climb the ladder to make his next dive when Chalibashvili was hurt; after thefatally injured Soviet was removed from the pool Louganis executed the very same dive.

John Simpson Knox

On 18 June 1855, Knox volunteered for the ladder party in the attack on the Redan, an attempt to finish the Siege of Sevastopol, he was struck by a Russian cannonball, removing part of his left arm.

Ladder of opportunity

The ladder of opportunity is a catchphase coined by former Australian Opposition Leader Mark Latham to describe the process of social advancement or the elevation to higher social classes of Australian citizens.

Pitlochry fish ladder

The ladder was constructed as a result of a 1943 Act of Parliament which laid a duty of care on the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board to preserve fish stocks in the waterways encompassing its power schemes.

Stadium Mackay

On Sunday 24 June 2012, Virgin Australia Stadium hosted its first NRL game when the 2nd placed Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs played a 'home' game at the venue against the ladder leading Melbourne Storm in Round 16 of the 2012 NRL season, the NRL's Women in League Round.

Voltage ladder

Since the ladder is a series circuit, the current is the same throughout, and is given by the total voltage divided by the total resistance (V/Req), which is just the sum of each series resistor in the ladder.