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unusual facts about The Paradise



Lambton Castle

In 2012, Lambton Castle was the setting of the new BBC One drama The Paradise.


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Baltimore Elite Giants

Before his death in 1947, Wilson converted the park into a dog racing track and later the Paradise Ballroom, a popular black nightclub that attracted top musical talents of the day, including Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong.

Iriy

Iriy, Irij or Vyriy, according to neo-paganist manuals, was the paradise in old Slavic religion and part of Svarga.

Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt

Jesse Stone still misses the Paradise, Massachusetts police chief position, which he lost because the current town council president, Carter Hansen (Jeremy Akerman), wanted his son-in-law, William Butler (Jeff Geddis), to have the job.

John Stanislaw Kubary

Kubary discovered at least four bird species -- the Samoan Wood Rail (Gallinula pacifica), the Mariana Crow (Corvus kubaryi), the Caroline Islands Ground Dove (Gallicolumba kubaryi), and the Pohnpei Fantail (Rhipidura kubaryi) -- as well as numerous insects, among them the Paradise Birdwing (Ornithoptera paradisea).

Lyon Arboretum

Funds to purchase the Paradise Park parcel were appropriated by the state in 2002, but the purchase was refused by governors Ben Cayetano and Linda Lingle.

North–South All-American Game

The North–South All-American Game (formerly known as the Las Vegas All-American Classic and the Paradise Bowl) is an annual post-season college football all-star game that was played each January or February from 2002 (for the 2001 season) to 2006 (for the 2005 season), and then took 2 years off due to lack of sponsorship.

One Park West

Argentinian architect César Pelli – best known for designing Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur – and his team at Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects worked with the masterplan of the Paradise Project to create a design that fitted with the proposal for the rest of the site.

Paradise Theatre

Paradise Center for the Arts, a 1929 theater in Faribault, Minnesota, originally called the Paradise Theatre

Stipo a bambocci

One some surviving examples the Bambocci-figures correspond with each other and are composed in a certain iconographical context, such as the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Paradise on one Stipo a Bambocci in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan.

The Good Rats

During the following years, the Rats performed at venues such as Madison Square Garden, The Philadelphia Spectrum, The Nassau Coliseum, The Hammersmith Odeon in England, and New York’s Central Park, as well as showcase rooms such as The Bottom Line (Manhattan), My Father’s Place (Roslyn, New York), Whiskey a Go Go (Los Angeles) and The Paradise Room (Boston).

The Palace of Eternal Life

Meanwhile, moved by the plight of Lady Yang's forlorn soul, the Spinning Damsel persuades the Jade Emperor of Heaven to permit Lady Yang to become an immortal in the paradise of Penglai.

The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids

Melville was inspired to write "The Paradise of Bachelors" by a trip to the Inns of Court in December 1849.

The Paradise Virus

The Paradise Virus is a 2003 thriller film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith shot on Grand Turk Island.

Tower Town

Bars and nightclubs included Chez Pierre, the Dil Pickle Club, Kelly's Stables, the Little Club, the Paradise Club and the Tent.

W. J. Lincoln

In 1908 he was manager of the Paradise of Living Pictures movie theatre in St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, and had begun to write and direct films for show in the theatre.

William Blake's illustrations of Paradise Lost

In the Paradise Lost illustrations, Adam is analogous to the fallen Albion, Satan to Adam's Spectre and Eve to Adam's emanation.

Zoo Quest

For example, Zoo Quest for a Dragon featured the first-ever television footage of the Komodo dragon, while Quest for the Paradise Birds was centred on the birds of paradise of New Guinea.