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2 unusual facts about Three Hours


Three Hours

Nine years later, Edginton's story also provided the inspiration for the film Adventure in Manhattan.

According to the website Silents Are Golden, a print of Three Hours survives at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York.



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1992 Queensland storms

The meteorological instability in the region resulted in the formation of at least five supercell thunderstorms in the space of around three hours.

2003 Italy blackout

Only part of the Geneva Canton of Switzerland suffered a power outage for three hours.

2007 FIA GT Championship season

Winners at each race were allowed on the GT1 podium, and the crews were awarded three hours of flight from Jetalliance.

2010 Rás Tailteann

John Degenkolb of Thuringer Energie won the 127 km stage in just under three hours alongside Dan Craven of Rapha Condor-Sharp who came second in under a second behind John Degenkolb.

Aishalton

The supply of electricity to the hospital has been limited to three hours per day since the hospital generator provided by Remote Area Medical ceased to work in 2008.

Arctic Ocean

Pytheas of Massilia recorded an account of a journey northward in 325 BC, to a land he called "Eschate Thule," where the Sun only set for three hours each day and the water was replaced by a congealed substance "on which one can neither walk nor sail."

Bapu Nadkarni

Nadkarni scored his 103* in just over three hours, and added 103 runs for the last wicket Sadashiv Patil.

Bizzarrini P538

The first V-8 powered car debuted at Le Mans in 1966, with Swiss drivers Edgar Berney and Andre Wicky, but records indicate that the team retired after three hours with a cooling problem.

British Regulars

Commonly used to describe the Napoleonic era British foot soldiers, the British Regular was known for his flamboyant red uniform (It took three hours for a typical British soldier to prepare his attire for "parade") and well-disciplined combat performance.

Camunare Rojo TV

Camunare Rojo TV is currently on the air for about three hours a day and all of their programs are related to politics, the economy, and the social situation in the community during the "Bolivarian Revolution".

Ciara Whelan

Quiz 6 was broadcast live everyday for three hours from Hilversum, just outside Amsterdam.

Eduard Nikolaev

Along with Aydar Belyaev, the trio finished a creditable second place, three hours down on the winning time set by Hans Stacey.

Emil Dürr

For almost three hours Dürr and the 26th Panzergrenadiers had been subjected to a naval bombardment; salvo after salvo landing in the line of main defense outside the village of Saint Manvieu and on the village itself.

Fokker 70

The Fokker 70's first flight occurred on April 4, 1993, at the company's base at Woensdrecht in southern Netherlands, and had a duration of three hours.

Gary Sturgess

Sturgess grew up in Dalby, Queensland, a small town approximately three hours inland from Brisbane, the second of four sons of Lindsay and Joy Sturgess.

Grove House, Harrogate

The orphanage opened during Easter 1927, with an opening march by donor members taking three hours to travel from Harrogate railway station, accompanied by four brass bands.

Hippomobile

In 1863 the Hippomobile with a hydrogen gas-fuelled one cylinder internal combustion engine made a test drive from Paris to Joinville-le-Pont, covering about eleven miles in less than three hours.

Inhaler

The 15 milliliter supply of methoxyflurane would typically last for two to three hours, during which time the user would often be partly amnesic to the sense of pain; the device could be refilled if necessary.

Isoniazid

Hence, the half-life is bimodal, with peaks at one and three hours in the US population.

John Henry Bryant

As a member of the Park Commission, Bryant was in April 1890 part of a committee that went out canvassing or money "to give employment to idle men in Westlake Park, for three hours." The men were to be put to work on projects to improve the park.

Joseph Guillemot

The 10 000 m final was brought forward by almost three hours by the request of King Albert.

Jyothi Surekha Vennam

At the age of 4, she was entered in the Limca Book of Records after crossing the Krishna River three times with a distance of 5 km in three hours, 20 minutes and six seconds.

KAAY

KAAY's cult status was forged in the late 1960s, when, after 11:00 each evening, the station abandoned the standard Top 40 format for three hours of underground music with the program Beaker Street hosted by Clyde Clifford.

Kiwibank

Jim Anderton revealed in his valedictory speech that after spending three hours trying to convince then Finance Minister Michael Cullen, Annette King told Cullen 'Michael, Jim's beaten back every argument against the bank we've ever put up. For God's sake, give him the bloody bank.'

Leeuwenhosen

Following the Netherlands-Denmark match in Johannesburg, FIFA forcibly removed 36 female fans because they wore the dresses and detained and questioned the three Dutch nationals for three hours (the other 33 were South African).

Leon Feingold

He was the second person in history to complete successfully the Carnegie Deli Challenge (two 3½ pound sandwiches of turkey, corned beef, Swiss cheese, and toppings in one sitting), doing it in just under two hours (Ed "Cookie" Jarvis completed the challenge the same day an hour later, after three hours of eating).

NFL Scoreboard

As part of the network's 2006 revamp, Point After became a five-day-a-week show, Red Zone was reduced to three hours, and this show and NFL GameDay were created.

Operation Tiger Rescue

Because of disorganization at Sana'a International Airport and delays loading (ground times for some C-130 aircraft exceeded three hours), all four C-130s involved departed Sana'a overloaded with passengers and forced to make an emergency divert to Ta'if Regional Airport, landing dangerously low on fuel (in some cases with less than 20 minutes of flight time remaining) before continuing on to Riyadh Air Base.

Richard Dortch

Until just prior to his death he hosted a long-standing two- to three-hours prayer service called "America's Prayer Meeting" on the Christian Television Network.

Russian Far East

However, three hours before Japan's declaration of war was received by the Russian Government, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the Russian Far East Fleet at Port Arthur.

Stanislaus Zbyszko

Crafting a defensive strategy of hugging the mat in order to nullify Great Gama’s greatest strengths, Zbyszko wrestled the Indian legend to a draw after nearly three hours of grappling, though Zbyszko’s lack of tenacity angered many of the fans in attendance.

Sunday Observance Act 1625

The words of commencement, the words from "to the constables or churchwardens" to "shalbe committed" and the words from "and in default of such distress" to "space of three hours" were repealed by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948.

Thomas Braddell

Major John Frederick Adolphus McNair, with a party, was sent ashore to ask the Sultan to come off and see His Excellency, but the Sultan refused, and Major McNair, after waiting three hours, returned, having effected nothing.

Three Hours After Marriage

Three Hours After Marriage was a restoration comedy, written in 1717 as a collaboration between John Gay, Alexander Pope and John Arbuthnot.

University of Brawijaya

Before this date, the Faculty of Fishery had operated since 1963, in Probolinggo, a town about three hours to the northeast from Malang, as a department under UB's Faculty of Veterinary and Agriculture of University of Brawijaya.

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.