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unusual facts about The Opposite Direction


Faisal al-Qassem

Faisal Al-Qassem, also written as Faisal Al-Kasim (Arabic:فيصل القاسم ) is an internationally-renowned British-Syrian veteran and television personality based in Qatar, who is known for hosting the famous and controversial live debate show The Opposite Direction (Arabic:الاتجاه المعاكس ) on Al Jazeera, where two guests with extremely opposed view points debate on current affairs.



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Airline booking ploys

Then the traveler could book a second round-trip ticket in the opposite direction, leaving Los Angeles on Friday of week 1 and return to Los Angeles Monday of week 2.

Colony stimulating factor 1 receptor

The first intron of the CSFR1 gene contains a transcriptionally inactive ribosomal protein L7 processed pseudogene, oriented in the opposite direction to the CSFR1 gene.

Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld

After Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic from West to East in May 1927, the idea of flying in the opposite direction, which is more difficult because of the prevailing winds, became more and more popular.

Field arithmetic

Peter Roquette proved the right-to-left direction of this theorem and conjectured the opposite direction.

Focal-plane shutter

In the Kodak Cirkut (1907, USA) and Globus Globuscope (1981, USA) cameras, the entire camera and lens revolved as the film was pulled past the slit in the opposite direction.

Frauenfeld

Frauenfeld railway station supports a regional train, part of the Zürich S-Bahn, from Weinfelden to Winterthur (S8 and S30) every 30 minutes, as well in the opposite direction and a fast train (InterCity and InterRegio) that travels to Zurich every 30 minutes, as well in the opposite direction to Weinfelden and further to Constance in Germany or Romanshorn.

George A. Smith

On August 25, 1857, Smith's group camped next to the Fancher-Baker party, headed the opposite direction, at Corn Creek (now Kanosh).

Hinduism in Arab states

In the opposite direction, medieval Gujaratis and other Indians traded extensively with Arab and Somali ports, including Ormuz, Socotra, Mogadishu, Merca, Barawa, Hobyo and Aden.

Holy Way

It led from Bohemia to Meissen and ran between Grillenburg and Wilsdruff in the present-day district of Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge in the opposite direction and parallel with the Saxon St. James' Way (Sächsischen Jakobsweg).

Hrusice

Trains run each half-hour on workdays and hourly on weekends, a ride from or to Prague Main Station takes up 43 minutes, to Benešov in the opposite direction it takes up 27 minutes.

Lessepsian migration

Lessepsian migration (also called Erythrean invasion) is the ongoing migration of marine species across the Suez Canal, usually from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, more rarely in the opposite direction.

Magnus hitch

This is tied exactly as #1734 (Rolling hitch), but with the final hitch in the opposite direction.

Mitsuo Tsukahara

twist the opposite direction of their entry side, e.g. Gervasio Deferr, who repeated as Olympic Vault Champion in 2004 by premiering the Tsukahara with 2.5 twists

Offenbach-Bieber station

In the opposite direction service on line S1 run via Obertshausen and Rodgau to Ober-Roden and on line S2 to Dietzenbach via Heusenstamm.

Protoconch

In some gastropod groups (such as the Architectonicidae), the teleoconch whorls actually spiral in the opposite direction to the protoconch.

Raneb

Kahl also points out that king Ninetjer wrote his name mirrored, so that his name deliberately runs in the opposite direction to Nebra's name.

Sander Thoenes

Thoenes was riding pillion on a local motorcycle taxi in the neighborhood of Becora, just east of Dili, when he encountered the column of motor-cyclists and heavy lorries as it approached Dili from the opposite direction.

Saône-et-Loire

The Loire makes its way in the opposite direction, draining into the Atlantic Ocean.

Stevica Ristić

Pohang Steelers agreed a player swap loaned with Shin Kwang-Hoon going in the opposite direction for two and a half years in 2008.

SYN3

The TIMP3 gene is located within an intron of this gene and is transcribed in the opposite direction.

Synapsin 2

The TIMP4 gene is located within an intron of this gene and is transcribed in the opposite direction.

Walram of Thierstein

They were very boisterous and at first failed to notice a pilgrim travelling in the opposite direction, near Reinach.

Westwood, Boyd County, Kentucky

The flat hilltop is unusual to eastern Kentucky and was created by the preglacial Teays River which existed in ancient times and flowed in the opposite direction of the Ohio River.