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unusual facts about The Neck


The Neck

The Necks - an experimental jazz trio from Sydney, Australia.



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.204 Ruger

The 222 Remington Magnum provides about 5% more usable (below the neck) case capacity than the most popular member of the family, the NATO 5.56×45 mm (.223

1993 Grand National

At the second attempt, the tape became tangled again — around the neck of jockey Richard Dunwoody — and Brown called another false start.

Anoplosaurus

Harry Govier Seeley named this genus in 1879 for a disarticulated partial postcranial skeleton that had been uncovered at Reach, Cambridgeshire, composed of a left dentary fragment, numerous vertebrae from the neck, back, and sacrum, parts of the pectoral girdle, humerus fragments, part of the left femur, left tibia, foot bones, ribs, and other fragments.

Carter Brown

In the early 1980s, Yates and Richard O'Brien of The Rocky Horror Show fame wrote a musical of The Stripper, described in classic Carter Brown terminology as ‘the girl who says it all from the neck down’.

Chapel Brampton

The (Red) Earl Spencer broke the neck of his favourite horse, Merry Tom, whilst out fox hunting and trying to jump the narrow River Nene.

Chokers

Choker, an item of jewelry fitting tightly around the neck

Civil Air Patrol Ranger

They are worn around the neck and are tucked into the BDU blouse.

Coat of arms of Ghana

Holding the coat of arms and seal are two golden Tawny eagles, which have black stars on a band of the national colors hanging around the neck.

East Barnet Urban District

A crest was added above the shield: a hart from the arms of Hertfordshire County Council, with a shield hanging from the neck bearing the cross of St Alban for the historical associations of the Abbey of St Albans with the area.

Eric Lux

On 17 April 2011, Eric Lux was struck in the neck with a broken champagne glass by Formula One driver Adrian Sutil whilst at a nightclub in Shanghai.

Eugen Weidmann

On September 1 of the same year, Weidmann hired a chauffeur named Joseph Couffy to drive him to the French Riviera where, in a forest outside Tours he shot him in the nape of the neck and stole his car and 2500 francs.

Fagel Attraction

She tells them that violence is never the answer, "but sometimes it is," then chops Val behind the neck, rendering Val unconscious.

Frill-necked Monarch

The Frill-necked Monarch measures around 14 cm (5.5 in) in length, and the neck feathers can become erect into a small frill; the male is predominantly black and white, and can be distinguished from the similar and more common Pied Monarch by its all-white breast-the latter species having a broad black breast band.

Gathorne Robert Girdlestone

The procedure, a Femoral head ostectomy – also known as a Femoral head and neck ostectomy – is a salvage procedure, mostly used in cases of severe damage through Hip dysplasia or Arthritis in which the Head (and, sometimes, the Neck) of the Femur are removed, allowing fibrous tissue to grow in place, creating effectively, a pseudo-joint.

Hämeenmäki

It is located on the neck of land between the lakes Suontee and Vahvajärvi.

John Cavendish

Although Wat Tyler, the leader of the revolt was struck down by William Walworth, mayor of London, during negotiations on 15 June, John Cavendish, the second son of the Chief Justice, gave the finishing stroke to Wat Tyler, the lord mayor having only wounded him in the neck.

Josie Maran

After building a résumé of over 25 commercials and advertisements, including playing Howie D's companion in the music video of Backstreet Boys hit Everybody (Backstreet's Back), in which she was bitten on the neck by Count Dracula (played by Howie D), Maran moved cross-country to join with Elite in New York City.

Kaatedocus

In 2012 Tschopp used a scan to create a replica of the neck by means of a 3D-printer.

Kelvin Felix

On 12 April 2006, Felix was attacked and grabbed on the neck by a man with a knife, as soon as he finished an evening sermon at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Castries.

Ken Tucker

Tucker’s negative reviews of Seth MacFarlane’s animated series Family Guy resulted in a number of MacFarlane counter-criticisms, including a scene in which the baby Stewie Griffin breaks the neck of an Entertainment Weekly writer widely assumed to be Tucker.

Laudakia tuberculata

Upper head-scales smooth or feebly keeled: occipital not enlarged; small closely set spinose scales on the sides of the head near the ear, and on the neck; ear entirely exposed, larger than the eye-opening.

Matt Heafy Signature Dean Guitar

And to help ensure the sound that Matt Heafy wanted he had his custom USA Dean Matt Heafy “MKH86” installed in the bridge pickup position and a USA “Nostalgia” in the neck pickup position (Matt Heafy and Dean designed the custom USA Dean Matt Heafy “MKH86” when they were making the guitar) The bridge consists of an Original Locking Floyd Rose Tremolo System, and to help with keeping the strings in tune when the tremolo or whammy bar is used he had Grover tuners and a locking nut installed.

Matthew Seligman

Matthew has always played a black Fender Jazz bass as his first choice instrument, and in addition uses an Ibanez with a C-ducer contact mic placed on the neck, close to the neck/body junction, for his fretless work primarily with Thomas Dolby, but also Peter Murphy and, more recently, in an ambient collection recorded with Japan/Hong Kong based musician Jan Linton for the Sendai Earthquake relief fund, due to be released by Entropy Records in 2012.

Narragansett Pacer

James Fenimore Cooper described them as: "They have handsome foreheads, the head clean, the neck long, the arms and legs thin and tapered."; however, another source stated, "The hindquarters are narrow and the hocks a little crooked...", but also said, "They are very spirited and carry both the head and tail high. But what is more remarkable is that they amble with more speed than most horses trot, so that it is difficult to put some of them upon a gallop."

Neck creaking

Neck creaking, also known as cracking neck, is a clicking sound being caused by movements of the neck.

Necking

Making out, a term for heavy kissing of the neck or petting of that area

Old River Control Structure

To reduce travel time, Captain Henry M. Shreve, a river engineer and founder of Shreveport, La., dug a canal in 1831 through the neck of Turnbull’s Bend; this canal became known as Shreve's Cut.

Philip Sabu

He got a boot in the neck when Leicester’s outside-right Frank Large crashed into him and he ended up in hospital and was later discharged to find himself alone without food and transport.

Phyllodocida

The prostomium generally has one or two pairs of eyes, a dorsal pair of antennae, a ventral pair of sensory palps and a pair of organs on the neck.

Pletena

Soon after arriving, the archeologists discovered a helmet, a Rhomphaia, a pair of knee-pieces and six pieces of protection equipment for the neck, as well as, other smaller objects.

Purple-necked rock-wallaby

The purple-necked rock-wallaby (Petrogale purpureicollis) was first classified in 1924 by Albert Sherbourne Le Souef, then director of the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, who noted a strange purple colouration around the neck as well as skull differences separating it from other rock-wallaby species.

Samarian spinel

According to a diary entry of the court physician to the Iranian Shah Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar, the King told the physician that the stone once adorned the neck of the biblical golden calf, which the Israelites are said to have made while Moses was receiving the Ten Commandments.

Terret

Most harness has two pairs of terrets, one on the harness saddle, and one on the hames of the collar (or on the neck-strap of a breast collar).

Tom Holloway

Holloway's plays have been performed across Australia and internationally, including "Beyond the Neck" at Belvoir St Theatre (2007), "Red Sky Morning" at Red Stitch Theatre (2008-9) and regional tour, and "Don't Say The Words" (2009) and "And No More Shall We Part" (2011) at Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney, and Hampstead Theatre, London.

Transverse cervical artery

Caption = Superficial dissection of the right side of the neck, showing the carotid and subclavian arteries (transverse cervical artery is labeled, branching from the thyrocervical trunk

Two Roads Diverge

Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson) wakes up alone in the Nevada desert, he takes out a red syringe and injects himself in the neck.

UFC 15

Headbutts, groin strikes, strikes to the back of the neck & head, kicks to a downed opponent, small joint manipulation, and hair pulling all became officially illegal.

Virginia is for Lovers

Will Adler, ESP Guitars artist, has the slogan printed on the neck of his custom guitars.

Walter Brown Arena

While it is known as the home of the four men's hockey NCAA championships, one of its most famous (and tragic) events was in October 1995, when Travis Roy, a 20-year old freshman hockey player, lost his balance attempting to make a check eleven seconds into his first collegiate hockey shift versus North Dakota, breaking his neck at the fourth vertebra and paralyzing him from the neck down.

Wash and Set

In the M*A*S*H episode, Radar's Report, Frank advances and mistakes Klinger under a hair dryer for Margaret, after which Klinger exclaims, "Can't a guy have a wash and set without somebody biting him on the neck?!!"

Weser Depression

The height of this peninsula, comprising Stadland and Butjadingen, lies between 0.8 metres under sea level (NN) and 1.2 metres above it (at a place on the 'neck' of the Jade Bight it reaches 2 metres).

White-collared Starling

The species was first identified by Anton Reichenow and named spreo torquatus, from the Latin for "torquated", referring to the coloration around the neck of the male.

Wild Over You

Later on, Pepé wanders into a wax museum finding the wildcat posing as a boa around the neck of a wax sculpture of Marie Antoinette and he himself poses as a coonskin cap on a sculpture of Daniel Boone.

William H.T. Walker

That winter he was serving in Lake Okeechobee, Florida, where he was seriously wounded on December 25 in the neck, shoulder, chest, left arm, and also his leg.

Winter Harbor, Maine

Many of the buildings on the neck were designed by Lindley Johnson, though the first few were designed by Wilson Eyre.

Yorke Bay

It is located one-half mile north of Port Stanley Airport, four miles to the northeast of the capital city of Stanley, on a peninsula connected to the mainland by the Boxer Bridge and a narrow isthmus known as "The Neck".