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3 unusual facts about The Power


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Similar sentiments were expressed by other writers of the period, including Nietzsche, Freud and Conrad.

Harvie cites a comparable passage from the second volume of The Golden Bough, where Frazer speaks of "a solid layer of savagery beneath the surface of society," which, "unaffected by the superficial changes of religion and culture," is "a standing menace to civilisation. We seem to move on a thin crust which may at any time be rent by the subterranean forces slumbering beneath."

The Power, The Passion

The series was devised to lure audiences away from American imports such as The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless but failed to make an impact and was cancelled due to low ratings after 168 episodes.


The Perfect Weapon

The hit 1990s song The Power by rap group Snap! is featured extensively in the movie's soundtrack.

Wah Chang

In addition, Chang built the artificial creature in "The Architects of Fear" episode of the original The Outer Limits, some props for the original Planet of the Apes film, the frightening skeleton animated in The Power, the flying machine in The Master of the World, and the dinosaurs in Land of the Lost.


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2003 London blackout

The power transmission company National Grid plc responded that, as they had invested £3000 million in the last 10 years, the system certainly could not be described as old and decrepit.

2003–04 Luton Town F.C. season

The successful run of form coincided with welcome news for the club off the pitch, with confirmation from the Companies Court on 21 November that the administrators now had the power to sell the club to an appropriate bidder, safeguarding the future of Luton Town.

Abdus Suttar Khan

Abdus Suttar Khan a Bangladeshi Oxford Scholar and distinguished aerospace researcher for four decades with NASA, Pratt & Whitney, and the power generation company Alstom (Switzerland).

Acatlán de Juárez

In the year of 1550 the area for the first time attained the first level of a municipality, under the power of the viceroy of the New Spain, Antonio de Mendoza.

Backbiter

They jammed with drummer Bob Lee (one of the Devo Bob drummers) and the power trio came together, playing local clubs such as the notable post-punk hangout, Raji's.

Balcombe drilling protest

A few protesters gained entry to Cuadrilla's building and posted banners reading "Reclaim the Power" and "Power to the People," and, at Bell Pottinger, several protesters super glued themselves to the entrance, posting a banner over its entrance reading "Bell Pottinger Fracking Liars."

Charlie Powell

After High School, Charlie was recruited by Notre Dame and UCLA to play football, St. Louis Browns baseball owner Bill Veeck, who had acquired the legendary pitcher Satchel Paige from the Cleveland Indians, signed the power-hitting outfielder to a professional baseball contract.

Comtrade

The IEEE Power Quality Subcommittee of the IEEE Power & Energy Society has also developed a file format called the Power Quality Data Interchange Format (PQDIF) that is similar to COMTRADE in structure but is used primarily to convey power quality data instead of transient disturbance data.

Desmarais

Paul Desmarais (born 1927), Canadian billionaire and CEO of the Power Corporation of Canada

Dětmarovice

The power station is situated on an important main railway line from Prague/Vienna to Warsaw.

Don Coutts

The Power List: 50 Minute documentary presented by Jon Snow looking at changes in Power in Britain.

Electric Shadows

The film's reverent attitude towards the power of film and particularly classic film has brought it comparison to, or at least reference to Italy's Cinema Paradiso.

Erwin Hochmair

They built a multichannel intra-cochlear electrode, and developed all the implantable and the external electronics for the transcutaneous transmission, the coding and decoding of circuits and the electrode driving circuitry while trying to minimize the power consumption.

Evander Holyfield vs. Vaughn Bean

Evander Holyfield vs. Vaughn Bean, billed as "The Power and the Glory", was a professional boxing match contested on September 19, 1998 for the WBA and IBF heavyweight titles.

Fairy godmother

In William Makepeace Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring, the fairy Blackstick concludes that her gifts have not done her godchildren good; in particular, she has given two of her goddaughters the title ring and the title rose, which have the power to make whoever owns them beautiful, which have ruined the character of those goddaughters; with the next prince and princess, she gives them "a little misfortune", which proves the best gift, as their difficulties form their characters.

Four Feather Falls

The four feathers of the title refers to four magical feathers given to Tex by the Indian chief Kalamakooya as a reward for saving his grandson: two allowed Tex's guns to swivel and fire without being touched whenever he was in danger, and two conferred the power of speech on Tex's horse and dog.

Gaspare Pulizzi

Pulizzi was one of Lo Piccolo’s soldiers in the power struggle with Antonio Rotolo in Palermo.

Gottlieb Schuler

It could be said that The Age lost prestige under his editorship, but circumstances in Australia were changing rapidly, it is unlikely that any newspaper will have the power wielded by The Age under David Syme and Arthur Windsor during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

Heraclea Minoa

The Agrigentines won it back in 309 BC, but it soon fell under the power of Agathocles.

Hugh Prather

His work underscored the importance of gentleness, forgiveness, and loyalty; declined to endorse dramatic claims about the power of the individual mind to effect unilateral transformations of external material circumstances; and stressed the need for the mind to let go of destructive cognitions in a manner not unlike that encouraged by the cognitive-behavioral therapy of Aaron T. Beck and the rational emotive behavior therapy commended by Albert Ellis.

Island Generating Station

The Power Station consists of one 254 MW gas turbine (supplied by ABB),

JT Bowen

One of the highlights of Bruce Springsteen’s 1985 Born in the USA multi-night Meadowland’s engagement at Giants Stadium was JT’s appearance singing “Woman’s Got the Power” alongside Springsteen

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore

Homer, Smithers, and Mr. Burns get a positive (if inaccurate) impression from this, and Homer is put in total charge of the power plant while Mr. Burns takes time off to have fun floating down the Ganges with corpses he has befriended.

Konrad VI the Dean

After an analysis of Konrad VI's titles and documents is assumed that he held the power directly over half of Ścinawa, Wołów and Lubiąż.

Leetonia, Pennsylvania

Shay locomotives provided the power on this mountainous spur line.

Lewis Benson

T. Canby Jones, onetime Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Wilmington College, and author of George Fox's Attitude Toward War and "The Power of the Lord Is Over All": The Pastoral Letters of George Fox, said,

Luggage of the Gods!

When they leave the tribe, they find clothing, cassettes, and counterfeit paintings, which wreak havoc on the power structure and economy of the tribe.

Magic ring

William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical novel The Rose and the Ring features a ring that has the power to make whoever owns it beautiful; its passage from person to person in the novel is an important element of the story.

Merry-go-round train

This is the nickname (from its appearance) given to the automatic door opening/closing equipment located on the approach to and from the bunker in the power station.

Mira Schor

Schor has written frequently on issues of gender representation, including “Backlash and Appropriation,” a chapter of The Power of Feminist Art, 1994, an historical overview of the Feminist movement published by Abrams, “Patrilineage”, 2002, republished in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader edited by Amelia Jones, and on artists such as Ida Applebroog, Mary Kelly, and Ana Mendieta.

Mochovce

In contrast, the power plant construction has brought an economic and demographic boom to the nearby town of Levice in the 1980s.

Money and the Power

"Money and the Power" is a song by American rapper Kid Ink, produced by N4, Ned Cameron and Jonathan Lauture.

Monique Villa

In June 2013, Monique Villa spoke at the TEDxHousesofParliament event highlighting how the Thomson Reuters Foundation is reshaping modern philanthropy through the power of data, news and information.

Or Give Me Death

As the mother of a large family and wife of Patrick Henry succumbs to a genetic mental disorder, she is removed to a cellar prison in her own house, where she shows the power to predict future outcomes.

Paul Merton's Birth of Hollywood

MGM's powerful young producer, Irving Thalberg, challenged the power of the director in making films and refused to allow his own name to appear in his films' credits.

Pepin of Herstal

In foreign conflicts, Pepin increased the power of the Franks by his subjugation of the Alemanni, the Frisians, and the Franconians.

Phil Simon

Simon's belief in the power of platforms is supported by the extensive economic research of people like Marshall Van Alstyne.

Pierre Coton

At this period a book published by Santarelli, an Italian Jesuit, who attributed to the pope the power of deposing kings who were guilty of certain crimes, and under such circumstances of absolving their subjects from their allegiance, was the object of severe attacks from the many enemies of the Society of Jesus in France.

Power user

The Power Users group has been removed in Windows Vista as part of the consolidation of privilege elevation features in the introduction of User Account Control.

Power-Plate

Stevie Nicks has said that the Power Plate machine is a central part of her exercise regimen.

Radio Milinda

Although it has been stated that the power output was of 50 Watts, Radio Milinda had QSLs from Wales, Brighton and other locations in the United Kingdom.

Raker Act

The San Francisco Bay Guardian claims that San Francisco sold the power to PG&E, who then resold it back to the public at a profit, in violation of the act.

Rebel Angels

It is the sequel to A Great and Terrible Beauty and continues the story of Gemma Doyle, a girl in the late 19th century with the power of second sight.

Rübeland Railway

The power system used for this isolated network was not the usual German, single-phase, electrification system, 15 kV AC, 16 2/3 Hz, but single-phase, 25 kV AC, 50 Hz, which was taken from the 110-kV state electricity network at a substation at the exit to Blankenburg with the aid of transformers.

Ruddock v Vadarlis

French said that this "gatekeeping" function had been recognised in a number of English cases, including an 1837 case concerning the power of the Governor of Mauritius to eject non-citizens, and a 1906 case concerning the deportation of foreign workers from Canada.

Stan Bisset

A back-rower, Bisset played with the Power House Rugby Club in Melbourne.

The Autumn Wind

It has been used on numerous official NFL Films audio album soundtracks, most notably The Power & The Glory LP, featuring Facenda narrating over it, as well as numerous other Sam Spence-composed and conducted NFL Films Orchestra tracks.

Tong Wars

This was later taken away by Chief of Police Patrick Crowley, who instead of focusing on the warring tongs, aided in the promulgation of the Felton Act, which removed the power of the exit visa from the Companies.

Vojinović noble family

The power of Vojinović family, left its mark in the Serbian folk tradition, so that they appear in the epic folk poetry, in Pretkosovski Cycle (Miloš Vojinović), and they are mentioned as builders and architects of Serbian medieval buildings in Vučitrn, Old Bridge (Vojinovića most) and fort (Vojinovića Kula).

Württembergischer Yacht Club

In 1937, during Nazi rule in Germany, the Sports Office of the Reich took away the power and freedom of all German sport associations.