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unusual facts about The Nose



Alex Honnold

He has broken a number of speed records, most notably the only known solo climb (95% free climbing with a few points of aid) of the Yosemite Triple crown, an 18 hour 50 minute link up of Mount Watkins, The Nose, and the Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome.

Mari Gingery

From 1979-83 Gingery climbed with Lynn Hill every weekend in Yosemite, completing an ascent of The Nose and then the first female-only ascent of The Shield on El Capitan over a period of six days.

Rogue Artists Ensemble

In 2009 the Rogues created an original adaptation of three shorts stories by Nikolai Gogol- "The Overcoat", "The Nose", and "Diary of a Madman"- entitled Gogol Project.


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547th Intelligence Squadron

Trained in Southern California, under IV Fighter Command initially equipped with specifically modified twin-seat black painted P-38M Lightnings equipped with AN/APS-6 radar in an external radome underneath the nose, relocated radio equipment and anti-flash gun muzzles.

A Kiss on the Nose

A Kiss on the Nose is a short film first released in the USA on August 15, 2004 during the Rhode Island International Film Festival, written and directed by Laura Neri.

A Mouse in the House

Tom turns around early and shoots Butch as he turns around, but both finds out he is holding a "novelty gun", which whacks Butch on the nose.

Aja Kong

Kong also appeared on two episodes of Monday Night Raw and was victorious in both bouts, including one vicious bout where she broke the nose of Chaparita Asari.

Anosmia

In this case a genetic condition had affected cilia in their bodies which normally enabled them to detect air-borne chemicals, and an adenovirus was used to implant a working version of the IFT88 gene into defective cells in the nose, which restored the cilia and allowed a sense of smell.

Baboon and Young

On top was a model of a Panhard Dyna X, with its windscreen forming the baboon's eyes, and the car's bonnet for the nose.

Bach Air Yacht

Different models were powered by varying combinations of Wright, Ryan-Siemens, Kinner, Comet, and Pratt & Whitney engines, a large engine in the nose of the aircraft and two smaller "helpers" under the wings in nacelles supported by struts.

Bloch MB.131

It was an all-metal, twin-engine, low-wing monoplane with retractable landing gear, and armed with three flexible machine guns, one each in the nose, dorsal turret, and ventral gondola.

Bloch MB.480

Defensive armament was a 7.5 mm Darne machine gun in the nose and a ventral bath, while a 20 mm cannon was fitted in a powered dorsal mounting.

Breathing mask

Dust mask, a flexible pad held over the nose and mouth by elastic or rubber straps to protect against dusts encountered during construction or cleaning activities

Paint mask a flexible pad held over the nose and mouth by elastic or rubber straps to protect against paint mists or vapors

Breda Ba.88

A modern "San Giorgio" reflector gunsight was fitted, and there was even a provision to mount a 20 mm cannon instead of the central Breda-SAFAT machine gun in the nose.

CAAC Flight 301

The nose and left main landing gear then collapsed and the aircraft slid over the parallel taxiway and into Kowloon Bay.

Cochise County in the Old West

Harry Ernshaw, a milk farmer, was grazed by a bullet on the nose; Billy Byers feigned death until the perpetrators left.

Conroy Tri-Turbo-Three

The Conroy Tri-Turbo-Three was a Douglas DC-3 fitted with three Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 engines by Conroy Aircraft; the third engine was mounted on the nose of the aircraft.

Creaton UAV

T10 Hornet (Da-Huang-Feng or Dahuangfeng, 大黄蜂) is a micro air vehicle (MAV) that resemble a Boeing Insitu ScanEagle, but propulsion of T10 is provided a two-blade propeller driven by a tractor electric motor mounted in the nose, as opposed to the pusher engine at the rear end of the empennage in ScanEagle.

Dewoitine D.500

British"?title=Vickers machine gun">Vickers machine guns or 2 × 7.5 mm (.295 in) Darne machine guns in the nose, provision for 2 × additional Darnes in the wings.

Douglas DC-5

The aircraft arrived at Haifa in May 1948, and from there went to Sde Dov, where its markings were removed and the name "Yankee Pasha - The Bagel Lancer" was crudely painted on the nose by hand.

El morro del tulcán

El Morro del Tulcán (lit. The nose of the Tulcán) is an Indian pyramid in Popayán, Colombia.

Friedrichshafen G.I

The G.I was a biplane with a crew of three and armament of a single machine gun mounted on a gun ring in the nose of the aircraft.

Glossary of psychiatry

The omega sign is the occurrence of a fold (like the Greek letter omega, Ω ) in the forehead above the root of the nose produced by the excessive action of the corrugator muscle.

Gypsy Joe

In April 2003 Joe was involved in a memorable hardcore match with New Jack in which, due to Joe no-selling throughout the match and when Joe hit New Jack on the nose, Jack legitimately attacked Joe with a chain, a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire, and several other weapons.

Heitor Villa-Lobos

The works use Brazilian folk tales and characters, imitations of the sounds of the jungle and its fauna, imitations of the sound of the nose-flute by the violinophone, and not least imitations of the uirapuru itself.

Henschel Hs 123

Two 7.92 mm (.312 in) MG 17 machine guns were mounted in the nose synchronized to fire through the propeller arc.

History of rhinoplasty

Dr. von Gräfe’s protégé, the medical and surgical polymath Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach (1794–1847), who was among the first surgeons to anaesthetize the patient before performing the nose surgery, published Die Operative Chirurgie (Operative Surgery, 1845), which became a foundational medical and plastic surgical text.

The cicatrix of the stump of the nose is next pared off, and, immediately behind the new part, an incision is made through the skin, which passes around both alae, and goes along the upper lip.

IMAM Ro.58

More heavily armed than its predecessor, with five forward-firing MG 151s; three in the nose and two under the belly (the underbelly guns were not present during the first flight tests) and one 12.7 mm rear-facing Breda-SAFAT machine gun.

John Stevenson Bushnan

Translated from the German, Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach's Surgical Observations on the Restoration of the Nose, and an Introduction to the Study of Nature (1833);

Junkers Ju 188

The sole Ju 88 E-0 was modified with several additional guns, another 13 mm (.51 in) MG 131 firing rearward just below the turret, one firing forward through the nose, and the twinned 7.92 mm (.312 in) MG 81Z machine guns in the integrated ventral Bola gondola firing rearward.

Kabary Salem

He expressed no regrets for that accident and he has keep fighting with dirty tactics and headbutts constantly, in one occasion, against German boxer Mario Veit, he broke the nose of the referee with an accidental head-butt.

Lioré et Olivier LeO H-246

The third production aircraft was completed for the Navy in June 1940, with a glazed position being fitted in the nose for a Bombardier/navigator, bomb racks fitted below the wings and four 7.5 mm Darne machine guns fitted as defensive armament.

Local anesthetic with vasoconstrictor

Local anesthetics with vasoconstrictors should not be used in the nose, fingers, toes and penis, because the arteries here are end arteries, so the vasoconstrictor effect could cause ischemia and even gangrene of the affected part.

Lockheed LC-130

Another LC-130F crashed in Victoria Land in late 1971 when the nose landing gear collapsed following a JATO malfunction during an open field takeoff.

Marianne Pretorius

Here they climbed in 9 different states over a period of 5 months including Yosemite, where they started on the "Leaning Tower" and then went on to climb "The Nose" and "The Zodiac" on El Capitan in August 1999 - their first experience of big walls.

Movie violence

In the movie 10 Things I Hate About You younger sister Bianca punches a fellow student in the nose for hurting some people close to her.

Noes Goes

The Nose Game appears in an episode of American Dad! (Season 2, Episode 15) “Four Little Words” at a CIA conference to determine who has to find their boss a woman.

Picoo Z

The helicopter includes 3 stick-on weights that can be attached to the nose in order to achieve forward flight, and some owners add greater weight (paper clips or pellets) to the nose, or nose canards.

Port Columbus International Airport

A Piper Aztec from Duluth, Minnesota, veered off the left side of the runway when the nose gear collapsed on landing.

PVAXX

The PVAXX logo will feature on the side of the nose and on the drivers’ helmets, beginning at the 2006 Chinese Grand Prix.

Ravana Falls

The reason for the kidnapping is said to be a revenge for slicing off the nose of his sister by Rama (husband of Sita) and his brother Laxmana.

Retrorocket

Rockets were fitted to the nose of some models of the DFS 230, a World War II, German Military glider.

Rhinitis medicamentosa

Rhinitis medicamentosa (or RM) is a condition of rebound nasal congestion brought on by extended use of topical decongestants (e.g., oxymetazoline, phenylephrine, xylometazoline, and naphazoline nasal sprays) that work by constricting blood vessels in the lining of the nose.

Sonderkommando Elbe

This is quite unlike the Japanese kamikaze attacks against Allied ships in the Pacific Theatre, in which Japanese forces loaded their pilots' aircraft with explosives, most often within the structure of the aircraft, and therefore had no chance of survival, as the explosives detonated with the crash of the aircraft itself - purpose-designed into the nose of the dedicated Ohka rocket-powered suicide aircraft.

Stuart Getz

Getz is perhaps best known for his role of "Charlie" in a 1973 The Brady Bunch episode, The Subject Was Noses (in which Marcia is struck on the nose with a football).

Susan Diol

On November 21, 1991, she appeared in Seinfeld episode no. 26, "The Nose Job", as Audrey (the one who needed the nose job).

The Cry of the Icemark

The Guardian described it as "a supremely satisfying read which really deserves to be called a page-turner...Hill's original and quirky approach could yet make him the proper heir to Joan Aikens crown." The Times also gave it a good review saying, " It will have readers shivering with delight...From the moment that its 13-year-old heroine, Princess Thirrin, punches a werewolf on the nose you know you're in for a rollicking good read."

The Devil's Nose

From its southern end near Neals Run on Johnsons Hollow, The Nose rises from the landscape curving along a bend in the Little Cacapon River.

Thunder Machine

Since an engine wasn't required, the front of the truck was replaced with the nose of a 1970's era Pontiac Trans Am on top of which was mounted a roll cage and two huge armor-piercing Gatling guns.

Vince Wilfork

Wilfork saw considerable playing time during his rookie season, sharing the nose tackle position with veteran Keith Traylor and started Super Bowl XXXIX against the Philadelphia Eagles, a Patriots victory.

Yakovlev Yak-3

Like the early Yak-1, it had a 20 mm ShVAK cannon firing through the nose spinner and twin 7.62 mm ShKAS machine guns on the fuselage(firing through the propeller), but was also fitted with a ShVAK cannon in each wing.