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2 unusual facts about The Waves


Le Onde

Einaudi claimed that he wrote the piece "Le Onde" when he was thinking of The Waves.

The Waves

Percival (partially based on Woolf's brother, Thoby Stephen) is the god-like but morally flawed hero of the other six, who dies midway through the novel on an imperialist quest in British-dominated colonial India.



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1932 Cuba hurricane

Providence Island had significant agricultural damage and about 36 homes were destroyed by the waves.

Agnes Pockels

Charles Tanford, Ben Franklin stilled the waves: An informal history of pouring oil on water with reflections on the ups and downs of scientific life in general, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Annwyn, Beneath the Waves

Annwyn, Beneath the Waves is the second album by Faith and the Muse.

Blidinje

The large necropolis at Dugo Polje indicates that the waves of Slavs that came in the 7th century also made this area their home.

Buff, Smith and Hensman

Conrad served in the Navy in WWII at a base in Maryland, which was where he met his wife Elizabeth (Libby), a skipper's yeoman in the WAVES; film editor Conrad Buff IV is their son.

Charles Hampden-Turner

1997, with Fons Trompenaars, Riding the waves of culture: understanding cultural diversity in business.

His prolific publication continues, with bestseller ‘Riding the Waves of Culture’ (1997) – now passed 180,000 sales and in its thirteenth language (Bulgarian), and ‘Managing People Across Cultures’ (2004), both authored with Fons Trompenaars.

Dane Suttle

Suttle played for the Waves from 1979–83 and was a two-time West Coast Conference all-conference pick and the 1983 co-player of the year with teammate Orlando Phillips.

Doppler radar

The Doppler effect (or Doppler shift), named after Austrian physicist Christian Doppler who proposed it in 1842, is the difference between the observed frequency and the emitted frequency of a wave for an observer moving relative to the source of the waves.

Farrell Lines

While touring the African Neptune I saw a mural of King Neptune, holding his trident on his left hand, riding atop his chariot above the waves and guided by his sea-horses.

Followed the Waves

"Followed the Waves" is the first single from Auf der Maur's self-titled solo debut.

Fons Trompenaars

Riding The Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business with Charles Hampden-Turner

FV Pelican

The hull, foundering beneath the waves, was first secured near Montauk Point by legendary Montauk fisherman Capt. Frank Mundus on his vessel Cricket II and Carl Forsberg, founder of the Viking Fleet, the largest fishing fleet in Montauk, on his Viking V,and was later transferred to the Coast Guard picketboat, which towed it into Lake Montauk.

Gamma Theta Upsilon

Above the waves significant of the oceans is placed a white star, symbolic of Polaris, the great guide to man as he pushed out from Europe over the uncharted vastness of the ocean.

Golden Minbar International Film Festival

The high award of the festival is the Golden Minbar statuette in the shape of a reel of cine-film with the ends transforming into the waves carrying the ark with a Minbar - a place from where the Imam preaches.

Hurricane Isabel

At Hamilton, the waves surpassed seawalls and produced spray onto coastal streets.

If I Had My Way

The 3-disc set also includes Double or Nothing (1937), Waikiki Wedding (1937), East Side of Heaven (1939) and Here Come the Waves (1944).

Kimberley Rew

Two of his better known compositions, both written for Katrina and the Waves, are "Walking on Sunshine" and "Love Shine a Light", performed by Katrina and the Waves as the United Kingdom's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1997, taking the country to its first victory in the contest since 1981.

After a brief excursion into archaeology at West Stow Anglo Saxon Village and gaining a degree in archaeology from Cambridge, Rew formed the Waves with Alex Cooper in 1975, before joining the Soft Boys in 1978, recording the Can of Bees and Underwater Moonlight albums.

Mikhail Gavrilov

Gavrilov's works broadcast transmissions to the world and the light of life looked out on the waves of the Monte Carlo.

Miroirs

# Une barque sur l'océan ("A boat on the Ocean") - Dedicated to Paul Sordes, the piece recounts a small boat as it sails upon the waves of the ocean.

Miroslav Šuput

He won the Levstik Award in 1989 for his illsutrations in Alexander Grin's story Begavka po valovih (She Who Runs on the Waves).

Nine Mothers of Heimdallr

Some scholars have linked the Nine Mothers of Heimdallr with the Nine Daughters of Ægir (whose parentage and names combined imply waves), an identification that would mean that Heimdallr was thus born from the waves of the sea.

Onomarchus

Onomarchus and many of the fugitives plunged into the sea in hopes of swimming to the Athenian ships under Chares which were lying off the shore, but perished in the waves, or, according to Pausanias, by the darts of his own soldiers.

Panel Histoire de Paris

They appear to be in the shape of an oar, but are actually with meant to recall a ship's paddle, in honour of the motto of the City of Paris "Fluctuat nec mergitur" ("batted by the waves, but never capsized").

RAF Wrexham

The waves of bombing were caused by a single bomber jettisoning its bombs after missing the Monsanto Chemical Works in nearby Cefn Mawr, followed by several targeted raids against the ensuing fire, with Luftwaffe crew believing the fires to be from a burning Liverpool.

Reid Jackson

The 2011 documentary film Tipping Barrels by director Ben Gulliver follows Reid Jackson and his brother Arran as they surf through the waves and fauna of the Great Bear Rainforest on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada.

Robin Levett

She next signed on with the Women's Auxiliary Service, Burma (Wasbees, the Australian equivalent of the WAVES), which sent her to Rangoon.

Rochelle Ballard

The waves in Kauai are considered as some of the best in world and with the encouragement of four-time World Champion and Kauai resident Margo Oberg, she started surfing at 12 years old.

Shah Guido G.

When he learns that the stations that power the Sky-Island's anti-gravitational beams are close to critical, Plat convinces Shah Guido G. to order in a division of Waves (female shock-troops whose name derives from the WAVES of the United States Navy) to put down a supposed rebellion by the technicians.

The Thirty-Fathom Grave

In 1963, a U.S. Navy destroyer is on a routine patrol off Guadalcanal when sonar picks up the sound of metallic clanging beneath the waves; the crew speculates that it sounds like a hammer.

Virgil Howe

Between 2009 and October 2010 the band wrote and recorded their third album "King Of The Waves" working again in Edwyn Collins studio with Edwyn, Seb Lewsley at the controls and Shawn Lee mixing.