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unusual facts about The Pool



Alex Germains

Working as Alex Mountaineer, and more recently 'Germanager', he produced an album of new songs that have begun to attract attention from the media, garnering plays on 'The Pool' with Dave Monks' on BBC Radio Merseyside, and 'Adam Walton's Magical Mystery Tour' on BBC Radio Wales.


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Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation established the Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program at Howard University to honor the legacy of former Foundation Trustee and Congresswoman Barbara Jordan and to expand the pool of students of color interested in the field of health policy.

Best Friend's Brother

It was one of those things where I would go over her house and we would all play Halo 2 together and go swimming in the pool and stuff.

Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever

Frederica (Amanda Jelks) dies in the swimming pool from the infection and Rick (Thomas Blake, Jr.) is killed when he drowns after hitting his head on the side of the pool and falling in.

Caitlin Atkins

Caitlin's problems worsen when she pushes herself too far during swimming while training to win a place at the AIS and ends up collapsing in the pool at home.

Calcutta auction

For example, even if a bidder knew the University of North Carolina would be the tournament winner and thus pay out 32% of the pool, she would still be unsure of the exact value of the team (unless it was the last team being bid on) since the payout depends on the sum total of all winning bids, i.e. the final size of the pool.

Calum Forrester

He then joined Scotland's under-21 World Championship squad after the pool stage as a replacement for injured player Johnnie Beattie, playing as a substitute in the 46–14 win against Georgia in Issoire.

Cargill Pool Elevator

It was purchased in 1945 by investors who called themselves the "Pool Elevator Company." Pillsbury purchased the elevator facility in January, 1952 for $1 million.

Centennial Station

It was used by the pool trains that ran between Seattle and Portland by all three railroads that used the line, Northern Pacific, Great Northern, and Union Pacific.

Christian archaeology

The biblical narrative describes a Shabbat visit to the site by Jesus, during which he heals a man who has been bedridden for many years, and could not make his own way into the pool.

Cleo Baldon

Baldon is married to novelist, screenwriter and film director Ib Melchior, with whom she co-authored of the non-fiction books, Reflections on the Pool: California Designs for Swimming and Steps & Stairways.

Coral Gables Biltmore Hotel

At one time the pool was the largest pool in the world and among the many attractions was swimming instructor (and later Tarzan actor) Johnny Weissmuller.

Daniel Bego

For his latter event, Bego trailed behind American-trained Filipino Miguel Molina in the last 50 m by more than one body-length, until he surged his path to touch the pool for a gold, and set another national record of 1:49.22, just three seconds ahead of his previous mark set at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games in Bangkok.

Deep Eddy Pool

Other pool amenities included a zip line across the pool and a tall slide, while other attractions included a diving baby and a Ferris wheel.

Devil's Pool

In 2005, the Australia TV program Message Stick gave an account of the Pool through interviews and testimonies of witnesses to investigate the prevalence of deaths to young male travellers over the years.

Diving at the 1983 Summer Universiade

Future four-time Olympic champion Greg Louganis was preparing to climb the ladder to make his next dive when Chalibashvili was hurt; after thefatally injured Soviet was removed from the pool Louganis executed the very same dive.

Eddy Gordo

He also appears in the background of the Pool Party stage of Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection.

Equatorial Guinea at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Swimmer Eric Moussambani achieved international fame when he struggled through a 100 metre swim, alone in the pool after the other two competitors were disqualified.

FOR Swimming

The nearby Maury River Middle School offers a swimming class to its students; the pool is home to the Rockbridge Storm swim team and Rockbridge County High School swim team; and, also serves the needs of local Masters Swimmers, Aquacize enthusiasts, family and lap swimming.

Fun in Acapulco

However, after Mike sees the lifeguard perform a number of dangerous dives, including flips and head-first dives into a section of the pool surrounded by a ring of fire, he decides to get even with him and eventually sets himself up to perform a death-defying dive off the 136-foot cliffs of La Quebrada in front of thousands of people.

Gustavo Borges

On December 20, shortly after the end of the Jose Finkel Trophy, Fernando Scherer, Carlos Jayme, Alexandre Massura and Gustavo Borges, in order, fell the pool at Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama with a time of 3:10.45, which would only be broken in 2000 by the Swedish team.

Jay Haizlip

Sporting contemporaries such as Tony Alva and Steve Olson, Jay recounts many instances of "guerilla" pool sessions, when a group of skaters would sneak into a backyard, drain and skate the pool.

Kerrie Engel

She continued to train at Northlodge during the same era as Greg Fasala who was trained by Jim O'Doherty ('Boss') so the pool deck often held cheering kids watching both overseas athletes do time trials.

Kim Carroll

Carroll also composed music for the dark comedy 'Congratulations', the dramatic feature 'Gone Missing' along with the music for the short films 'Hellholes', 'Insex', 'The Pool', and 'La Carretera'.

King Davids Peak

Like other features of the park, such as Herods Gate, Lake Salome, Solomons Jewels, Damascus Gate, the Pool of Bathesda, many features are named for places and people in the Bible.

Lanai High and Elementary School

The campus boasts the wood sculpture Lanai Ohana by Ken Shutt, the ceramic sculpture The Pool Committee by Kay Mura-Davidson, and the mixed media sculpture Torch to Lana'i's Youth by Bruce Paul Fink.

Liath Macha and Dub Sainglend

He is hit by the second spear thrown by Lugaid mac Con Roí (the first had killed Láeg), and returns to the pool of Linn Liaith in the mountains of Sliab Fuait, where Cúchulainn had originally found him.

Members of JKT48

The pool was then narrowed down from 67 to 31 in a selection round held by RCTI television.

Mermaid's Pool

Henry Kirke White wrote a poem about a young man who drowned in the pool after he had fallen in love with her.

Michael Barrymore

While ringing her son, Noreen Maltby (Elsie Kelly) sees Donald (Kenny Ireland) being taken to hospital, and says, "It looks like someone's died in the pool. Oh, that reminds me -- can you record Strike It Lucky for me? I don't know...one of the cable channels...".

Museum of Anthropology at UBC

Arthur Erickson and landscape architect Cornelia Oberlander originally intended the pool to be opened as part of the new Museum of Anthropology in 1976; now, nearly thirty-five years later, their original vision for MOA has been fulfilled.

Neptune Pool

The pool's main axis centerpiece and north terminus is the façade of an actual Ancient Roman temple that William Randolph Hearst had purchased in Europe and imported to San Simeon.

New York State Executive Mansion

It was subsequently filled in when its building was converted into a greenhouse, but Mario Cuomo had the pool restored during his tenure.

Non-Aligned News Agencies Pool

Although mostly inactive, the Pool was officially led by IRNA until mid-1990s and then by Malaysia's Bernama until 2005, when a ministerial conference of Information by the Non-Aligned Movement called on the creation of a Non-Aligned News Network to resurrect the NANAP.

NTP pool

Joining the pool requires at least a broadband connection to the Internet, a static IP address, and accurate time from another source (for example from another NTP server, from a DCF77 receiver, WWVB receiver or a GPS receiver).

Pool-type reactor

Life preservers are sometimes located around the facility to rescue personnel that may fall into the pool, further adding to the appearance of a swimming pool-like environment.

San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Complex

As spring arrives and the water in the vernal pools evaporates, wildflowers – such as goldfields, purple owl's clover, and butter-and-egg – germinate in colorful patterns of thick rings or halos around the pool basins.

Silent Pool

In recent years the Pool came under attack by the invasive weed Crassula helmsii.

SkyBar

It is used by William Gibson in his 2007 novel Spook Country as a meeting place between the protagonist Hollis Henry and her employer Hubertus Bigend On Wednesday March 9, 2011 WWE superstar John Morrison and WWE Diva Melina were banned from the SkyBar when they jumped in the pool.

The Athenian School

First, the stagflation of the 1970s meant that parents had less discretionary income, thus weakening the pool of prospective boarding students.

The Dance Reduction Agents

Two songs from the album (The Pool and 80s Celebration) appear in the soundtrack to the film Eagle vs Shark.

The Snake King's Child

One day, Soraya is bathing at a waterfall when she encounters a young man, Wae-ha (Winai Kraibutr), who has fallen into the pool after a fight with another man over a woman.

Tomohiko Hoshina

On August 3, 2012 in the pool round, Hoshina was drawn against Kim Sung-Min of South Korea who had previously beaten him at the 2011 World Judo Championships and the 2011 Asian Judo Championships.

Twiggy the Water-Skiing Squirrel

They found an orphaned squirrel after Hurricane David and raised it as a family pet who would ride on their shoulders even as they dipped in the pool.

Upswept Hare

Bugs gets into the pool and realizes that he is not in his stream but thinks his surroundings are a mirage so he plays along by splashing around and singing "There's no place like home" but instead substituting Rome for home.

Wantagh Park

In 2006, the pool at Wantagh Park was named "Best Public Pool on Long Island " by Long Island Press, the weekly newspaper.