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2 unusual facts about The Pledge


Das Versprechen

The 1958 German-language novella Das Versprechen: Requiem auf den Kriminalroman, by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt, which is known in English as The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel, and was adapted into the 2001 American film The Pledge, directed by Sean Penn and starring Jack Nicholson.

The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel

In such literature, the task of solving a crime is presented in a way that makes it akin to that of solving a mathematical equation.


Wazimbo

The song was featured first in a Microsoft commercial in California and in 2001 was part of the song track for the movie 'The Pledge' directed by Sean Penn and starring Jack Nicholson.


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2008–13 Irish protests

As the year went on students became increasingly concerned about the honesty and integrity of the pledge signed by Ruairi Quinn before the election that the Labour Party would oppose increased tuition fees.

Action of 12 October 1950

The USS Pirate, the Pledge and the Redhead each received the Presidential Unit Citation and their commanders were awarded the Silver Star for bravery.

Alpha Gamma Kappa Fraternity

Mercury, the Roman God is referred to as the "Patron of Alpha Gamma Kappa." His winged sandal is a prominent symbol, which is displayed upon the coat-of-arms and the pledge pin.

American Pie Presents: Beta House

Steve Talley as Dwight Stifler, the pledge master and leader of the Beta House

Anti-prostitution pledge

In September 2012, the Brennan Center for Justice obtained a ruling forcing the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel to hand over the original February 2004 memorandum which had argued that the pledge, as applied to U.S. based organizations, was unconstitutional.

Gene Nichol

McGlothlin's rescinding of the pledge pushed the fundraising back under $500 million, and he had revealed to former President Timothy J. Sullivan in an e-mail that he would take back the pledge.

History of Orkney

When the islands were given as security for the princess's dowry, there seems reason to believe that it was intended to redeem the pledge, because it was then stipulated that the Norse system of government and the law of Saint Olaf should continue to be observed in Orkney and Shetland.

Independent Monitoring Commission

handling claims by parties in the Northern Ireland Assembly that a Minister, or another party in the Northern Ireland Assembly, is not committed to non-violence and exclusively peaceful and democratic means, or that a Minister has failed to observe any other terms of the pledge of office, or that a party is not committed to such of its members as are or might become Ministers observing the other terms of the pledge of office.

Minister of Technology

The pledge was included in the Labour Party's 1964 general election manifesto: "A Labour Government will .. set up a Ministry of Technology to guide and stimulate a major national effort to bring advanced technology and new processes into industry."

Nicolas Tétrault

He argued that the pledge would create instability for municipal government on the Island of Montreal, where several municipalities had recently been merged to create a united city.

Nightingale Pledge

Lystra Gretter and a Committee for the Farrand Training School for Nurses in Detroit, Michigan, created the pledge in 1893.

Outdoor Life Conservation Pledge

The pledge was written to remind readers of Outdoor Life magazine and other sportsmen of the vigilance needed to preserve the natural world.

Super Bowl III

Astronauts of the Apollo 8 mission (Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders), the first manned flight around the Moon, which had returned to Earth just 18 days prior to the game, then led the Pledge of Allegiance.

The Mystics

Phil Cracolici and Ken Filmer were featured with the Brooklyn Reunion in the pledge breaks of Doo Wop 50 when the special was broadcast in May 2000.

Treaty of Arras

the Union of Arras, the pledge of loyalty to Spain by the Southern Netherlands

Viswa Sadasivan

In the end, Viwsa's motion was adopted by the House with two amendments – one from Lee highlighting the principles of the Pledge as aspirations, and one from PAP MP Zainudin Nordin noting Singapore's progress towards nation building.

Yeap Ghim Guan

Another famous stunt was pledging to dive off the Penang Bridge if the then Chief Minister of Penang, Tun Lim Chong Eu could successfully build Penang Bridge, he failed to fulfill the pledge when the bridge was completed.