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7 unusual facts about The Stand


American Tune

Lyrics from the song are also used at the beginning of Book 2 of Stephen King's The Stand.

Captain Trips

The Stand: Captain Trips, the first volume of The Stand comic adaptation

Hemingford, Nebraska

Author Stephen King adapted Hemingford's name for the fictional town of Hemingford Home, Nebraska, which appears in The Stand and in Children of the Corn as a town close to the fictional destination of Gatlin.

Polk County, Nebraska

Polk County is the locale for the fictional town of Hemingford Home in Stephen King's novel The Stand.

The Stand: American Nightmares

The Stand: American Nightmares is a five-issue comic book miniseries, the second of five The Stand series by Marvel Comics, adapting Stephen King's novel of the same name.

The Stand: Captain Trips

The Stand: Captain Trips is a five-issue comic book miniseries, the first of six The Stand series by Marvel Comics, adapting Stephen King's novel of the same name.

Artist Mike Perkins appeared at a midnight signing at Midtown Comics in Times Square, Manhattan to promote the book.


Jake O'Kane

O'Kane has toured extensively, working with some of the biggest names on the comedy circuit and has also appeared at some of the country’s top comedy clubs including The Stand, Jongleurs and The Comedy Store.

The Dark Tower: Treachery

Artist Mike Perkins was also present to promote The Stand: Captain Trips, Marvel's comic book adaptation of Stephen King's novel, The Stand.


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2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship

Irate Louth fans pursued the referee around the pitch at the final whistle, bottles were hurled from the stand and the mayhem was compared to soccer player Thierry Henry's handball that cheated the Irish soccer team of their place at the 2010 FIFA World Cup the previous November.

Alpro

Alpro also encourage visitors to have their photo taken at the internet pod on the stand and upload it to Facebook, therefore joining the Alpro Soya Facebook page.

April Macie

She has appeared on Showtime in the documentary, I Am Comic which premiered at the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival and in the stand-up special Vegas Is My Oyster premiering August 5.

Assistant Secretary of the Army

In May 1952, Assistant Secretary of the Army Earl D. Johnson's office was renamed Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research and Materiel), making Jones the last individual to bear the stand-alone title of Assistant Secretary of the Army.

Asu Mare

It's a movie adaptation of the stand-up comedy show by the same name by Carlos Alcántara, starring himself.

Bay Area Video Coalition

As Executive Producer, BAVC produced The Stand In, directed by Bob Zagone and starring Danny Glover.

Brandon Darby

In 2008, Darby infiltrated a small group of protestors at the 2008 Republican National Convention, while working as an FBI informant and subsequently took the stand against them in court.

Browser wars

During the United States Microsoft antitrust case in 1998, Intel vice president Steven McGeady, a witness called by the government, said on the stand that a senior executive at Microsoft told him in 1995 of his company's intention to "cut off Netscape's air supply".

C-Stand

It is nicknamed a "Gary Coleman" or a "Billy Barty" stand in the US, and a "shotgun" in the UK (a reference to the stand having been "sawn off").

Complete Madness

It was released in 1982 (see 1982 in music) and included Madness' biggest hits from their first three studio albums and the stand-alone singles.

Cyrenus Cole

While serving as editor, Cole was very active in one of the two factions of the Iowa Republican Party — known as the "stand-patters," a more conservative alternative to the party's progressive wing.

Divya Dhar

She organised OXFAM’s Biggest Coffee Break at the University of Auckland to promote Fair Trade, where she was also behind the STAND UP: UN Millennium Campaign which broke a Guinness World Records as millions around the world stood together to show support for eradicating extreme poverty.

Duncan Weir

Glasgow coach Sean Lineen said of the stand-off: "We've been watching Duncan for a while now. He is a talented youngster with an outstanding kicking game. I really like his attitude and I'm looking forward to working with him."

Firhill Stadium

The stand was constructed in 1994 with a capacity of 6,263 and is named after former Thistle player Jackie Husband.

Fleet in being

The first modern example was the stand-off between the Imperial Russian Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) at Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904.

Gilles Frozen Custard

Gilles is a favorite of Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, who stops in to the stand for a hot dog and soda nearly every time he visits Milwaukee.

Good Ventures

The grants were for $50,000 to five of the stand-out charities (Nyaya Health, KIPP (Houston), Small Enterprise Foundation, Innovations for Poverty Action, and Pratham) and for $100,000 to GiveDirectly.

Halifax Minster

On Saturday the (31 March 2007) the stand of the 1st Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) Regulation colours, taken out of service in 2002, in Osnabrück, Germany, at the Regiments Tercentenary parade, were laid up in the Parish church.

Hamilton Place Theatre

The stand-up comedy film Bill Cosby: Himself was recorded at The Hamilton Place Theatre in 1983.

Herndon Stadium

It was also used as the stand-in for the demolished Fairfield Stadium in Huntington, West Virginia during filming of the 2006 movie We Are Marshall.

International museum and library of music

In Room 3, the relationships between Padre Martini and the stand-out personalities of the music world of the time, such as the young Mozart or Johann Christian Bach, who is represented in the famous portrait by Gainsborough, are displayed.

Invisible plane

This was not the case, and the film was never made, but the origin story of the invisible plane intended for Worlds Collide was later worked into the stand-alone film Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, as noted below.

John T. Scopes

After the trial Scopes admitted to reporter William Kinsey Hutchinson "I didn't violate the law," (DeCamp p. 435) explaining that he had skipped the evolution lesson, and that his lawyers had coached his students to go on the stand; the Dayton businessmen had assumed he had violated the law.

Keko

Her buzz and success in a short period of time also led to an invitation to join the cream of the crop of African artists to perform at the Big Brother Africa 6 Amplified show in South Africa, which she was described by the host's as the stand out performer.

Kelvin Leerdam

Because of the departure of the right backs Theo Lucius, Serginho Greene and Dwight Tiendalli, Leerdam remained at Feyenoord and is mainly used as the stand-in for first team right back Dani Fernández.

Man and Myth

The song, "January Man" was mentioned as the stand out track, and was included on their 'Best of 2013' Covermount CD.

Millmoor

The railway referred to in the stand's name is the now closed line to the former Rotherham Westgate railway station.

Nicholas Calabrese

While on the stand, Calabrese stated that his association with the Chicago Outfit dated to May 1970, and that he began cooperating with the government in January 2002, after federal investigators confronted him with a bloody glove containing his DNA that he had inadvertently dropped at the scene of the Fecarotta slaying.

Øystein Bache

He also often takes part in the panel on the radio show Twenty Questions on NRK P1 and has also been the stand-in host.

Paul Peos

He became the stand-in East Perth coach in the latter part of 2006, nurturing talent such as Matthew Leuenberger.

Priscilla Morrill

Jean Stapleton stated in an interview for the Archive of American Television, Morrill was the stand-in for her in the ninth season episode of All in the Family "A Girl Like Edith" where Stapleton had a dual role.

Rilana Erades

Erades qualified for the 2009 BDO World Darts Championship as the stand-by qualifier where she defeated number 3 seed Julie Gore in the quarter finals via a sudden death leg before losing to Francis Hoenselaar in the semis.

Sparta Stadion Het Kasteel

The stand was named after one of Sparta's most famous sons, Tonny van Ede, in 2010.

Sunil Grover

He was part of the stand up comedy show Comedy Nights with Kapil and became immensely popular playing the fictional character Guthi.

Tail o' the Pup

Despite its appearance in countless movies and commercials, the stand faced demolition in the mid-1980s, creating an outcry that resulted in the stand being moved a few yards from its original location at 311 North La Cienega Boulevard, to 329 North San Vicente Boulevard.

Tom Mason

Best known as the stand-in for the recently deceased Bela Lugosi in Wood's movie Plan 9 from Outer Space, Mason, who was taller than and bore a questionable physical resemblance to Lugosi, hunched over and held a cape over his face in all of his scenes.

Tree stand

The part that wraps around the tree is fastened to the stand with a bolt or pin for easy adjustment for different tree sizes.

ZERO—The Project to End Prostate Cancer

ZERO supported other cancer organizations in 2009 in launching the "Stand Up to Cancer" awareness campaign featuring tennis pro John McEnroe, who encouraged men age 40 and older to get an annual prostate cancer check-up.