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unusual facts about The National



Canadian political blogosphere

The CBC's hallmark news programme The National launched its first website in 1996, with the intention of creating a more interactive experience for its viewers.

Don't Swallow the Cap

"Don't Swallow the Cap" is a song written and recorded by American indie rock band The National for their sixth studio album Trouble Will Find Me.

I Need My Girl

"I Need My Girl" is a song written by Matt Berninger, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Bryan Devendorf and Scott Devendorf of the American alternative rock band The National.

Little Scream

Prior to her solo recording as Little Scream, Laurel Sprengelmeyer contributed vocals to The National's album High Violet.

Locas in Love

They can be compared to bands like The Good Life, Herman Düne, Bright Eyes, Arcade Fire, The National, Pavement, Luna, The Velvet Underground, Silver Jews, Sonic Youth or German art rockers Blumfeld in their wide array of musical spectres held together by the distinct voices of Björn Sonnenberg and Stefanie Schrank.

Music of Portal 2

The game's music includes original scores composed by Valve's Mike Morasky, and two original songs provided by Jonathan Coulton and the band The National.

Red Hot + Rio 2

The project follows Red Hot’s latest successful benefit album, Dark Was the Night (Beggars Banquet, 2009), which features top indie-rock artists such as Arcade Fire, The National, Feist, Grizzly Bear, Bon Iver, David Byrne and many others and raised over $1 million dollars for AIDS relief.

Russian Winters

Citing bands like The Cure, Ride, The National, Foals, Silversun Pickups, Fleet Foxes and Sparklehorse as influences, the band strove for a darker and more complex sound than previous work.

Stanley Burke

The show was renamed The National after he resigned to launch a public campaign on the Biafran civil war.

Sufjan Stevens discography

"Afraid of Everyone" and "England" from High Violet by The National (Beggars Banquet Records, May 11, 2010) (Sufjan Stevens — piano, vocals)


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2006–08 Lebanese political protests

October 30, 2006 – In a televised interview on Al-Manar, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned of "street demonstrations" to demand early elections if the National Dialogue conference failed to form a national unity government.

2010 NCRHA Division I Collegiate Roller Hockey National Championships

The 2010 NCRHA Division I Collegiate Roller Hockey National Championships involved 21 schools playing in a round robin followed by a single elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCRHA Division I college roller hockey.

A Season with Verona

Aside from detailing Hellas Verona's on the pitch exploits, Parks provides a commentary of political events in Italy at the time (namely the national election held in 2001 that brought Silvio Berlusconi into power).

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program, a United States federal government program under the purview of the National Park Service

Adel Sellimi

But the Frenchman's replacement with Ammar Souayah coupled with the national team's goal drought brought about his recall.

Adrano

Adrano is not linked with the national train system of Trenitalia.

Amyraldism

The national Synods at Alençon, 1637; at Charenton, 1645; and at Loudun, 1659 (the last synod permitted by the French government), decided against the excommunication of Amyraut but delimited his views in order to avoid further variance with historic Reformed orthodoxy.

Antoine Cormery

Antoine Cormery graduated from Centre de formation des journalistes (the national centre for education in journalism) in Paris, 1991, then worked for AFP and RFI, before being hired by Europe 1 radio station by winning the bourse Lauga competition.

Anton Schmid

On May 8, 2000, by invitation of German Federal Minister of Defence Rudolf Scharping, President Heinz Fischer attended the barracks-appellation as President of the National Council of Austria in Rendsburg.

Arjun Ray

He holds a master's degree in Defence Studies from the University of Madras, and he has attended the Higher Command Course and the National Defence Course at the National Defence College, New Delhi.

Bow High School

Student Teal Van Dyck won second place in the national Poetry Out Loud in 2006, earning a $10,000 scholarship.

Carmen Moral

Since then, several orchestras have entrusted her with the post of Music Director, such as the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra (Colombia), I. Frauen-Kammerorchester von Osterreich (Vienna), the Symphony Orchestra of Mimar Sinan University (Istanbul), and, for a second time, the National Symphony orchestra of Peru.

Carquefou

In 2008, the local football team Union Sportive Jeanne d'Arc Carquefou reached the quarter finals of the French Cup after a win over the 8-times national champions Olympique de Marseille on March 19, putting the town in the national headlines.

Chin Liew Ten

Before taking up his appointments at the National University of Singapore, he was Professor of Philosophy (Personal Chair) and Acting Head of the School of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Bioethics at Monash University, Australia.

Christopher Ward

Christopher J. Ward, American politician, former treasurer of the National Republican Congressional Committee

City of Coffs Harbour

A significant exception was that households in the Coffs Harbour local government area where Punjabi was spoken was three times the national average.

David Twohill

Twohill, with his wife Sue, was in the national news on Christmas Day 2001 when their house was lost in bushfires—a benefit gig, Bird's Big Burnout, occurred at Revesby in early 2002 and a four piece Midnight Oil minus Peter Garrett performed.

Dixie Network

Marston also was elected to the National Association of Broadcasters Board of Directors in 1970 Edward B. Fritts, who began his broadcast career at WENK, Union City, Tennessee, was elected President of The National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, D.C., where he led the national trade association with distinction.

Doug Logan

Logan was the CEO of USA Track & Field, the national governing body for track and field, long distance running and race walking from 2008 to 2010.

Earl C. Tingey

For periods of time he has also been a member of the University of Utah Alumni Board and the National Advisory Board of the Utah Symphony.

Hans Markowitsch

For many years, he was co-director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, ZiF)) at Bielefeld University and has cooperated with neurologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists at the national and international level.

Healthcare in Estonia

Healthcare in Estonia is supervised by the Ministry of Social Affairs and funded by general taxation through the National Health Service.

HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean

Currently, there are five countries where the national prevalence is over 2 percent, those being the Bahamas, Belize, Guyana, Haiti, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Iguanita Wildlife Refuge

Consequently, the proposal was approved by Executive Order 23217 from MIRENEM ( currently MINAE ) ICT ( The National Tourism Board) created Iguanita Wildlife Refuge in 1994 to maintain and develop low-impact tourism.

Isaiah Williams

His twin sister, Tahirah, played basketball as a guard at Connecticut She was a senior on the 2008–09 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team that went undefeated and won the National Championship.

Kipchumba

Boaz Kipchumba Kaino, Kenyan politician and Member of the National Assembly for the Orange Democratic Movement

Lakeshore Catholic High School

In addition to this the Lakeshore Catholic Concert and Jazz bands are always ranked highly at festivals and competitions, the most recent of which is the attaining of a Gold level Standing in the regional Golden Horseshoe Festival and A Silver standing at the National MusicFest Canada Competition.

Law enforcement in Poland

In Poland, the national police service Policja is directly responsible to the central government, and whilst it operates with an organisational structure that allows voivodeship commands to exist, the regional authorities do not have any major say in law enforcement policy, and cannot affect the day-to-day operations of their local force.

Luis del Sol

Signing with the Merengues in January 1960 for 6.5 million pesetas, del Sol netted a career-best 17 goals in his first full season, while not missing one single minute of action in his 29 appearances as his team won the national championship, after starting the season with the Intercontinental Cup triumph against C.A. Peñarol.

Marc H. Tanenbaum

He served on the boards of various institutions, including the American Jewish World Service, the International Rescue Committee, the Overseas Development Council, the United Nations Association, the National Peace Academy, the A. Philip Randolph Institute, and Covenant House.

Marxism and the National Question

"Marxism and the National Question" (Russian:Марксизм и национальный вопрос) is an article written by Joseph Stalin at the end of 1912–1913 in Vienna, at the insistence of Lenin.

Museum of the National Struggle for Liberation

The Museum of the National Struggle for Liberation is a museum located in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

National Human Genome Research Institute

November 17, 2009 - NIH Appoints Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D. to be Director of The National Human Genome Research Institute.

National Museum of Rural Life

National Museums Scotland and partners have developed the National Museum of Rural Life, previously known as the Museum of Scottish Country Life, which is based at Wester Kittochside farm, lying between the town of East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire and the village of Carmunnock in Glasgow.

Norge, Virginia

Other landmarks in Norge include the former Doll Factory, the former Williamsburg Soap and Candle Factory, Our Savior's Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Norge Train Depot, which was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

Paul Schenck

The Schenck brothers work side by side on Capitol Hill in Washington where Robert is president of Faith and Action, an ecumenical mission, and Paul is chairman of the National Pro-Life Center.

Poulaphouca

The reservoir at Poulaphouca has been designated as a Special Protection Area by the National Parks and Wildlife Service and is of international importance for its Greylag Goose population.

Russian Village

Russian Village Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut

Sappleton

Wayne Sappleton (born 1960), Jamaican basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association

Sarjana Muda

10.Bangunlah Putra Putri Pertiwi (Awaken Sons & Daughters of the (mother)land) - A nationalistic song referencing three aspects of Indonesian national identity, Garuda, the winged bird, Pancasila, the national philosophy, and the Indonesian flag

Sticky-shed syndrome

Dr. John Van Bogart at the National Media Laboratory has recommended the process, as well as the tape manufacturer Ampex, the sound recording industry magazine, Mix, the Association of Moving Image Archivists and the American Folklife Center and the Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division of the Library of Congress.

Sunita Godara

She became the national marathon champion first time in 1984 by winning Delhi Marathon She won medals in the Penang and Kedah marathons.

Top Secret America

Matthew Aid, The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency, 432 pages, ISBN 978-1-59691-515-2, Bloomsbury Press (June 9, 2009)

Trans-Andean railways

Empresa Nacional de Ferrocarriles - ENFE, operator of the National Railways of Bolivia, and consultant Hagler Bailly, United States, have signed a contract to undertake an economic feasibility study into the proposed $US 1 billion 338 km AiquileSanta Cruz Railway (IRJ July p6).

Universidad Central del Este

UCE was founded at a time in which the Dominican Republic only counted with a handful of other universities nationwide, which included the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), founded by Pope Paul III in 1538; the Catholic University Mother and Teacher (now Pontifical) founded in Santiago in 1962; and the National University Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU), founded in 1966.

Vungwi Primary School

It is along the road between Cha Cha Cha Township or, Donga Town Ship and Tongogara High School in Shurugwi Rural Areas under the chieftainship of Chief Nhema.The school was known for its academic excellency during the late 80s and early 90s when it was used to attain a pass rate of 100% on the national grade 7 examinations set by the Ministry of Education, Zimbabwe.

Wilbur Breslin

Active in real estate development, leasing and brokerage for over 45 years, Breslin is an active member of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, the National Institute of Real Estate Appraisers, the International Council of Shopping Centers, the National Association of Real Counselors and the National Association of Review Appraisers.

Xgrid

Zilla won the national ComputerWorld Smithsonian Award (Science Category) in 1991 for ease of use and good design.

YLC

The Young Liberals of Canada, the national youth wing of the Liberal Party of Canada

Youth ministry

There are organizations within the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (the primary organization of Unitarian Universalist congregations in the United States), as well as within the Canadian Unitarian Council (the national body for Unitarian Universalists in Canada), which minister to and with youth, of which Young Religious Unitarian Universalists (YRUU) is the largest and most apparent.