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unusual facts about The Visitor



Conrad Westmaas

Westmaas appeared in a range of audio dramas by Big Finish Productions based on the BBC television series Doctor Who from 2003-2007, starred alongside Ciaran Griffiths in the 2007 short film The Visitor and in Romeo and Juliet for Shakespeare's Globe.


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Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre

The Visitor Centre is located near the village of Donore, County Meath.

Costa Rica Traveler Magazine

The magazine offers active narratives, accurate reporting, modern design and photographs that show the visitor what they can expect when visiting the different areas.

Devils Tower

A painting depicting this legend by artist Herbert A. Collins hangs over the fireplace in the visitor's center at Devils Tower.

Diane Cary

She also starred in V and V: The Final Battle in the 1980s as Harmony Moore, a human who fell in love with the visitor, Willie (played by Robert Englund).

Driver's license

Cook Islands driving licences are issued at police headquarters on Rarotonga, on production of a valid licence from the visitor's home country.

Francisco Matos Paoli

On March 1, 1954 Lolita Lebrón, together with three other members of the Nationalist Party, entered the visitor's gallery above the chamber in the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C..

Grand Canyon National Park Superintendent's Residence

The visitor information room was financed by a donation from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper.

Gruta das Torres

At the visitor centre, audiovisual presentations in English and Portuguese give details about the cave.

London Colosseum

Another attraction was the "Chalet or Swiss Cottage" from the window of which the visitor could look at real waterfalls, against the background of the Mer de Glace and Mont Blanc, as painted by Mr Danson.

Loutra, Rethymno

The visitor can see the medieval fountain with the Turkish inscription, and at the house of Ilias Spantidakis (aka Louis Tikas), leader of a workers' union of coalminers in Colorado, USA.

Memorial to the German Resistance

The visitor enters the museum from Stauffenbergstrasse through an archway, on the wall of which is inscribed: "Here in the former Supreme Headquarters of the Army, Germans organized the attempt of 20 July 1944 to end the Nazi rule of injustice. For this, they sacrificed their lives. The Federal Republic of Germany and the State of Berlin created this new memorial place in the year 1980."

National World War II Museum

An award-winning 4-D film, Beyond All Boundaries, gives the visitor an overview of the war on every front.

Porlock

Copses of white dead trees remind the visitor of when this was freshwater pasture.

Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area

The visitor center museum and offices for the national heritage area are located in the Bost Building in Homestead.

Robert E. Sackley

In 1983, Sackley and his wife became the directors of the visitor's center at the Washington, D.C. Temple in Kensington, Maryland.

Sir William McAlpine, 6th Baronet

After the efforts of Dr Peter Beet to preserve Carnforth LMS 10(A) shed, McAlpine bought shares in 1970, and then took the controlling interest from 1974 until 1987 in the visitor attraction that became Steamtown.

Steve Randell

His last Test match involving Australia was against South Africa at Adelaide on 30 January to 3 February 1998, a drawn match in the visitor’s favour, with captain Mark Taylor dominating the first innings with 169 and Mark Waugh scoring a century in the second innings.

T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.

Cribb also serves on the Board of Advisors of the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, an educational organization that continues the intellectual legacy of noted conservative icon Russell Kirk, and on the Board of Visitors of Ralston College, a start-up liberal arts college in Savannah.

The Freedom of the City

Lily, a 43-year-old mother of eleven, Michael, a 22-year-old man (unemployed), and 'Skinner', 21 and unemployed (signs himself as Freeman of the City in the Visitor's Book), are the antiheroes, who perish as British soldiers shoot them in cold blood when they surrender.

Tovar Municipality, Aragua

The visitor will occasionally see Germanic oddities such as waitresses in traditional Bavarian dress hawking "torta selva negra" and the odd "D" plate on some cars, but will be unlikely to find anyone who understands German fluently.

Universal Studios Theme Parks Adventure

Then you must face the Tyrannosaurus, then you will find Velociraptors attacking, after you face them you will drive through a herd of Triceratops, then Pteranodon will start attacking, after that you will drive towards the Visitor's Center of the park and be attacked by more raptors, then you battle the boss, the Tyrannosaurus rex.

USS Arizona Memorial

A one-hour audio tour of the Memorial and Center exhibits, narrated by actress Jamie Lee Curtis, is available for rent at the Visitor Center.

Villa Badoer

The very elegant curvilinear barchesse are the only ones that were actually realised by Palladio from the many projected (for example, those for the Villa Mocenigo on the Brenta, the Villa Thiene at Cicogna or the Villa Trissino at Meledo) and their shape — as Palladio himself writes — recalls arms opening to receive the visitor: the relevant antique source was very probably the exedrae of the Temple of Augustus in Rome.

Vivienne de Watteville

She narrowly escaped death in a close encounter with a lion (thinking the visitor one night was a hyaena, she left her tent to chase it off with a pail, realising her mistake too late to retreat: she was so close to the lion she could have touched it), and twice with charging rhinos that missed her by inches; she climbed two mountains (Ol Doinyo Orok and Longido); and she killed no animals except, at the request of the local Maasai, a man-eating lioness, shot by her askari.