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2 unusual facts about The Spot


The Spot

The site was started in June 1995 by Scott Zakarin, who at the time was an aspiring filmmaker from New York who had been directing television commercials for advertising agency Fattal and Collins.

The Spot was likened to "Melrose Place-on-the-Web" and featured a rotating cast of attractive actors playing trendy and hip twenty somethings who rented rooms in a fabled southern California beach house called “The Spot”, in Santa Monica, California.


Web series

Scott Zakarin created the first advertiser supported web series in 1995, The Spot.


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2013 Taiwan food scandal

ROC Minister of Economic Affairs (MOEA) - Vice Minister Woody Duh said that the MOEA Industrial Development Bureau is reviewing the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) system and might require a manufacturer to present its export and import invoices and declarations and to allow on-the-spot inspection for its production line when it seek certification.

André Mollet

In the autumn of 1646, a Swedish delegation arrived in Paris, led by Christina's favourite, the connoisseur Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, who was so pleased with recent French developments in the art of gardens that he engaged André Mollet for the queen on the spot.

Battle of Luchana

The battle of Luchana took place in the district belonging to the parish of Deusto and the municipality of Desierto-Erandio, on the banks of the Asúa River, which empties into the Nervión at the spot known as Luchana.

Bernard Chandran

Lolita Lempicka offered him a job on the spot, which was flattering but he felt it was still too early.

Brian Calley

In securing the nomination for lieutenant governor, the state Senate nomination was vacated and former state Representative Judy Emmons was chosen to fill the spot.

Bryn Station

In the Norwegian version of the board game Monopoly, Bryn is the fourth railway station on the board, in the spot corresponding to Short Line (Atlantic City version) or Liverpool Street station (London version).

Carl Wieman

He has used and promotes Eric Mazur's "peer instruction", a pedagogical system, where teachers repeatedly ask multiple-choice concept questions during class, and students reply on the spot with little wireless "clicker" devices.

Charles William Andrews

He noticed the connections among widely separated flightless rails of Mauritius, the Chatham Islands and New Zealand and deduced that their flightless character had been independently evolved on the spot.

Château Cheval Blanc

Château Cheval Blanc is featured in the Mad Men Season 5 episode, "The Other Woman", when Peggy Olson transforms Michael Ginsberg's ad concept about a leather-jacketed bar patron in London (which the client dislikes) into a Paris-based "Lady Godiva"-like pitch (which the client likes) on the spot.

Cheryl Arutt

She was signed on the spot by Rosemary Brian at the Mary Ellen White Agency, and first appeared on TV in a Sarah Lee cake commercial at the age of three.

Ebenezer Moseley

After leaving Halifax, bad weather forced them to land near the LaHave river, and the quality of trees there convinced the Moseley's to abandon their trip to Australia and open a shipyard on the spot.

Elevation of the Holy Cross

On the spot where the Cross was discovered, there was also found a hitherto unknown flower of rare beauty and fragrance, which has been named Vasiliko (Basil), meaning the flower of royalty, out of respect for the Dowager Queen who led the expedition.

Elzéar Goulet

In 2007, Winnipeg City Councillor Dan Vandal led a drive for Winnipeg to establish an Elzéar Goulet Memorial Park near the spot where Goulet was killed.

Faithlift

"6th Floor" is about visiting Dallas and finding it impossible to resist going to see Dealey Plaza, the spot where John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Farm to Market Road 466

A handsome 100-year-old marker with bronze and stone sculptured reliefs by the renowned Italian-born San Antonio artist Pompeo Coppini marks the spot.

Free kick

Fair catch kick, a field goal attempted freely from the spot of a fair catch

Gereon

Later medieval legends increased the number of Gereon's companions to 290 or 319, and Saint Norbert of Xanten is said to have discovered, through a vision, the spot at Cologne where the relics of Saint Ursula and her companions, of Saint Gereon, and of other martyrs lay hidden.

Goldbach, Bavaria

The sandstone Romanesque Revival church that stands today was built in 1894 and 1895 on the spot where once stood an older building that had become too small.

Halaesa

Some of these are undoubtedly corrupt or erroneous, but on the whole there can be no doubt that its situation is correctly fixed by Cluverius and Torremuzza at the spot marked by an old church called Santa Maria le Palate, near the modern town of Tusa, and above the river Pettineo.

Harry Reser

Harry Reser played "Tiger Rag" and "You Hit the Spot" in the Vitaphone musical short Harry Reser and His Eskimos (1936).

HGTV Star

Candice Olson ("Divine Design", "Candice Tells All") served as a judge for seasons 5 and 6; starting with season 7, a third rotating judge was brought in to fill the spot left by Olson.

History of Kodagu

On the spot where he had first met the British commander, General Abercromby, the Kodagu Raja founded the city of Virarajendrapet (this is now usually called Virajpet).

John Leerdam

On 3 April 2012 reporter Lex Uiting asked for the morning show of radio DJ Giel Beelen; Leerdam what he thought of the early release of terrorist suspect Jablabla Jael, a name invented on the spot.

Lord Beginner

The first song was reputedly devised on the spot following the West Indies cricket team's victory against England at Lord's in 1950, inspiring Beginner and Lord Kitchener to begin a musical march from the ground to Piccadilly followed by dancing spectators.

Maksutov telescope

The spot Maksutov–Cassegrain design has been used extensively in military, industrial, and aerospace applications.

Malinta Tunnel

A plaque in the Malinta Tunnel, donated and placed by a Texas A&M Aggies club with permission from the Philippine government, now marks the spot of the most well-known Aggie Muster that took place during World War II in 1942 on the island of Corregidor.

Marion Jollès Grosjean

During the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, she hosts the program alone in studio, with Christian Jeanpierre and Arsène Wenger both on the spot via a screen.

Mark DeRosa

He had been strictly a backup the previous bunch of years, but the departure of Vinny Castilla opened the spot for him.

MiddlePeak Railways

MiddlePeak Railways specializes in the spot-hire and long term lease of shunting locomotives similar to the ex-British Railways Class 08 and NS 0-6-0 600 Class shunting locos.

Osci

They appointed Lucius Furius Camillus dictator, halted business, drafted an army on the spot and sent it into the field against the Aurunci, but "the war was finished in the very first battle."

Panagiotis Katsouris

A bust was erected in his memory in Toumba Stadium, and a memorial was erected near the spot where he died.

Penukonda train collision

While 24 passengers died on the spot, another person, identified as Maganappa, died while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Pavagada in Karnataka.

Rajgir hills

Because the spot was protected by two parallel ridges, Ajatasatru made it the capital of the north Indian empire Magadha in the 5th century BCE, naming it Rajgriha.

S.F. Sorrow

Working with noted EMI staff producer Norman "Hurricane" Smith (who had engineered the earlier Beatles recordings and produced Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn) and house engineer Peter Mew, the group experimented with the latest sound technology, including the Mellotron and early electronic tone generators, often employing gadgets and techniques devised on the spot by Abbey Road's technicians.

Samuel Garland, Jr.

In 1993, the Central Maryland Heritage League, owners of parts of the Fox's Gap battlefield (part of the South Mountain State Battlefield Park, erected and dedicated a commemorative marker near the spot of Garland's death near the earlier 1889 marker erected by Union soldiers of the IX Corps to Gen Jesse L. Reno on Reno Monument Road.

Sankey tank

The quality of water was not very good and when Lord Connemara, Governor of Madras visited in July 1888 it was commented upon by a local wit: "The men who are thrown off their horses and killed on the spot at Bangalore are the only ones that are allowed by doctors not to have died from drinking bad water".

Saturday Night Wrist

Recorded at the Carriage House, Stamford, CT; The Spot, Sacramento, CA; The Airport, Burbank, CA; The Hangar, Sacramento, CA; Morning View House, Malibu, CA

Somerset, Ohio

The village of Somerset was established in 1810 by settlers from Somerset, Pennsylvania at the spot on Zane's Trace located midway between Lancaster and Zanesville.

Spot-crowned Woodcreeper

The Spot-crowned Woodcreeper (Lepidocolaptes affinis), is a passerine bird which breeds in the tropical New World from central Mexico in the east, the Sierra Madre Orientals, to northern Panama.

Springbank Park

In the years following the creation of the waterworks the city began to purchase more land in the surrounding area and the spot became a resort serviced by steamers to and from London via the Thames River.

The Legend of Lucy Keyes

The Cooley family experiences a cold reception in town, and while voting for the approval of the project, an old woman named Gretchen Caswell (Jamie Donnelly) votes against the construction (along with several other people) and mentions the historic importance of the spot and the name of Martha.

The Traffic Policeman

He hurries to the spot and makes friends with the actress, managing to invite her for a coffee at a near bar, and after repairing her car (he actually only makes the situation worse and is then forced to call his little son who is a mechanic) asks Sylva to greet him on television at that night's broadcasting of the program Il Musichiere (the Italian version of Name That Tune).

Valencia, Negros Oriental

It stands at the foot of Mount Talinis and marks the spot where the combined Filipino and American troops including the Negrosanon guerrilla units fought the Japanese Imperial Army toward the end of World War II.

Wang Lang

Cao Zhen called for his subordinates to help, and Wang Lang decided to try and persuade him to surrender (even though Guo Huai was skeptical about it) and engaged Zhuge Liang in a battle of words, but was soundly defeated, with Zhuge Liang scolding him as a dog and a traitor and other nasty words and from the shock of this, he fell off his horse, and died on the spot.

White Massacre

Along the way they stopped at Reyado where Kit Carson joined them, eventually leading them to the spot where the attack had occurred.

Wolfach

On April 21, 1945, before fleeing the city, the Gestapo took the French resistants and political prisoners held in the prison of Wolfach to a forest outside of the town, forced them to dig their own graves, and shot them on the spot, just three hours before the arrival of the French 2nd Armored Division commanded by General Leclerc.