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unusual facts about The Vandals


No Stars, Just Talent

#The Vandals – "Clowns Are Experts (At Making Us Laugh)" (from Slippery When Ill/The Vandals Play Really Bad Original Country Tunes)


Beneath the Shadows

Such positive reviews led T.S.O.L. to be included, along with fellow Southern California punk groups D.I. and The Vandals, in director Penelope Spheeris' film Suburbia (1983).

Jughead's Revenge

Produced by The Vandals' Warren Fitzgerald, it was recorded at Paramount Studios and was engineered by Barry Conley.

That Darn Punk Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

# The Vandals featuring Katalina - "My Heart Will Go On" (originally performed by Celine Dion)

When in Rome Do as The Vandals

When in Rome Do as the Vandals is the first album by the Huntington Beach punk rock band The Vandals, released in 1984 by National Trust Records.


see also

487

The Lateran Council convened by pope Felix III establishes conditions for readmitting to the Church those Christians who have been rebaptized by the Vandals.

Avitus

The new Emperor needed the support of both the civil institutions, the Roman senate and the Eastern Roman Emperor Marcian, as well as that of the army and its commanders (the generals Majorian and Ricimer) and the Vandals of Gaiseric.

Calonymus

For all the Libyans had been Romans in earlier times and had come under the Vandals by no will of their own and had suffered many outrages at the hands of these barbarians.

Chebba

The Byzantine general Belisarius landed here in 533 and went on to inflict a devastating defeat on the Vandals.

Ed Troxel

At the time, it was the Vandals' second best football record in history, surpassed only by the 1971 team at 8-3.

Eugenius of Carthage

His episcopal election was deferred owing to the opposition of the Arian Vandal kings and was only permitted by King Huneric at the instance of Zeno and Placidia, into whose family the Vandals had married.

Iazyges

In the summer of 166, while the Romans were tied down in a war with Parthia, the peoples north of the Danube, the Marcomanni, the Naristi, the Vandals, the Hermanduri, the Lombards and the Quadi, all swept south over the Danube to invade and plunder the exposed Roman provinces.

Luxorius

While his chief task was to accurately translate the writings of Luxorius, Rosenblum also included a detailed introduction on the Vandals and Carthage, the Latin Anthology and the life of Luxorius.

Mike Iupati

Nansen, then an assistant at Idaho under head coach Nick Holt, offered him a spot with the Vandals the next day and spent considerable time trying to convince Iupati and his family that the Western Athletic Conference university on the Palouse was a better choice than junior college.

Saint Possidius

The dates of his birth and death are unknown; he was alive and in exile in 437 according to Prosper, who, in his Chronicle, records that Possidius and two other bishops were persecuted and expelled from their sees by the Vandal king, Gaiseric, who was an Arian.

Spoleto

Owing to its elevated position Spoleto was an important stronghold during the Vandal and Gothic wars; its walls were dismantled by Totila.

Vandal Kingdom

It was originally created by the settlement of the Vandals in the province of Numidia and Mauretania by the Roman government and then extended by conquest further into North Africa and the Mediterranean.

Peace was made between the Romans and the Vandals in 435 through a treaty giving the Vandals control of coastal Numidia and parts of Mauretania.

Vandalia, Illinois

Another theory put forth is that Vandalia was named by those who located the state capital in the town; according to the story, they mistakenly thought the Vandals were a brave Native American tribe, rather than of Germanic origins.

Walter of Aquitaine

Walter is not a historical king, but the historical nucleus of the events lies in the 5th century (the reign of the Balti dynasty), after king Wallia established a Visigothic kingdom in Aquitaine in 417, clashing with the Vandals under king Gunderic.