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unusual facts about Throw-away society


Throwaway

Throw-away society, a human society strongly influenced by consumerism


1904 Sasun uprising

To hide traces of genocide from European observers, the Wāli of Bitlis gave orders to cut corpses into pieces and throw them into the Tigris.

1994 Minnesota Vikings season

Looking for only their third win of the season, the Bucs held off the Vikings for a 17–9 lead in the fourth until Warren Moon once again found Qadry Ismail; a two-point conversion throw to Cris Carter forced overtime tied 17–17, but the Bucs drove downfield for Michael Husted's winning field goal and the 20–17 loss, the third loss in a row and second in overtime in that span.

Agri people

The god Parashuram, intending to throw back the sea, was prevented by the intervention of the Agri and Mangela women.

Amélie Perrin

Her personal best throw is 71.38 metres, achieved in July 2006 in Sotteville-lès-Rouen.

Andrew Hilditch

When a wayward throw from a Pakistani fieldsman dribbled onto the pitch, Hilditch picked up the ball and handed it back to the bowler, Sarfraz Nawaz.

Anna May Hutchison

Nevertheless, Hutchison was able to make the adjustment to pitching before the 1946 season, when Leo Murphy, former Pittsburgh Pirates catcher and Belles manager, helped her to throw a fastpitch underhand delivery during spring training.

Anthony Adverse

In the 1934 short comedy What, No Men!, when their plane lands in "Indian Country" and Gus (El Brendel) is told to throw out the anchor, he tosses out a rope attached to a huge book titled Anthony Adverse.

Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's javelin throw

On 11 June 1972 Ewa Gryziecka from Poland broke the javelin throw world record with a throw of 62.70m only to have Ruth Fuchs break that record on the same day with a throw of 65.06m.

Babe Borton

As details in the scandal emerged, it was discovered that he and some Vernon teammates had also bribed opponents in 1919 to throw the pennant to the Tigers.

Balázs Kiss

His season's best throw was 81.76 metres, achieved in July in Nice.

Bob Backus

Backus set a world record and career best of 45 feet 2 inches in the 56-pound throw at the New York Athletic Club's annual spring games, held on June 8, 1957 in Pelham Manor, New York, setting a record that broke a record he had previously set, adding an additional foot to the world mark.

Bobby Riggs

Selena Roberts claimed in her book documenting the match, A Necessary Spectacle, that Riggs later undertook a public lie detector test to prove he did not throw the match.

Caught

In a Super Sixes match in the 1999 Cricket World Cup, South Africann Herschelle Gibbs caught Australian captain Steve Waugh but Waugh was given not out when Gibbs was ruled to not have control of the ball when attempting to throw the ball in celebration.

Chicago: City on the Make

Unrivaled in its depiction of Chicago's downtrodden, the essay recounts the repeated ways Chicago sells out its dreams and disappoints its dreamers, including the 1919 Black Sox scandal, in which eight Chicago White Sox players were accused of accepting bribes to throw the world series.

David Elleray

Counting an own goal against Peter Enckelman during the Second City derby in 2002 after a throw-in back to the goalkeeper.

Dead Ends

Al Dimalanta continues to create and play punk music with his new band Throw (2001-present).

Dinner Party Wars

Over the years, she has appeared on several UK TV shows including Top of the Pops, ITV’s breakfast show GMTV, and the children’s show Blue Peter, and now watches over the Dinner Party Wars contestants to spot all the ‘do’s and don’ts’ of hosting and provides advice on how to throw the ultimate dinner party.

Doug Swift

Swift's blitz late in the second quarter of Super Bowl VII forced Washington Redskins quarterback Billy Kilmer to make a hurried throw, which Nick Buoniconti intercepted and returned into Washington territory to set up the Dolphins' second touchdown in a 14-7 victory, cementing Miami's 17-0 season.

Eddie Aikau

Other variations of the phrase include "Eddie would throw" (in support of the University of Hawaii's passing attack by Colt Brennan and Timmy Chang under head coach June Jones), "Eddie wouldn't crow" (in opposition to boastful and egotistical surfers), and "Eddie would hoe" (in support of Native Hawaiian agricultural outreach programs).

Elizabeth Wanless

Her personal best throw is 18.60 metres, achieved in June 2008 in Berea, Ohio.

English irregular verbs

Steven Pinker's book Words and Rules describes how mistakes made by children in learning irregular verbs throw light on the mental processes involved in language acquisition.

Evdokia Tsamoglou

Her personal best throw is 68.12 metres, achieved in August 2003 in Nikiti, Sithonia.

George Odlum Stadium

It is approximately five minutes away from the main population centre in the south of St Lucia, and virtually a stone’s throw from the Hewanorra International Airport.

Gyroball

In the video game MLB 07: The Show and the more recent The Bigs, only Daisuke Matsuzaka has the ability to throw the gyroball, although the movement of the pitch in the video game differs from the movement of the actual pitch.

Hisham Greiss

Along with his colleagues Nagui Asaad, Hassan Ahmed Hamad and Mohamed Naguib Hamed, Greiss formed one of the strongest Egyptian teams in throw events.

Isabelle Devaluez

Devaluez set her personal best in the women's discus throw event (62.02 metres) on 15 June 1996 in La Garde.

Jay Baller

Baller was a throw-in player in a major trade after the 1982 season, as the Cleveland Indians sent Von Hayes to the Phillies in exchange for Julio Franco, Manny Trillo, George Vukovich, Jerry Willard, and Baller.

Joe Tiller

In 1990, quarterbacks Brad Gossen and Drew Bledsoe combined to throw for 2,514 yards with 15 TD vs 7 INT.

Johan Trandem

His personal best discus throw was 44.60 metres, achieved in September 1928 in Skotterud.

Johnny Stevens

Detroit won with two runs in the ninth inning, tying the game on a Barber wild pitch after he had issued two walks, and then bringing in the lead run on an infield error by normally sure-handed second baseman Mark Belanger, who dropped a perfect throw from shortstop Luis Aparicio.

Kevin Nolan

Nolan's long throw-in set up a goal, which helped Bolton achieve a 2–2 draw away against German champions Bayern Munich, who dominated the match.

Mama Bhagne

When Rama decided to attack Ravana he found it necessary to throw a bridge across the straits for the conveyance of his troops, he drove in his aerial chariot to the Himalayas, picked up what stones he needed and drove back.

Michael Weisskopf

While embedded with a U.S. Army unit in Iraq on December 10, 2003, his right hand was blown off as he tried to throw an enemy grenade back out of the Humvee in which he was riding.

Mike Aguirre

In 1996 Aguirre went to court to throw out a 1995 contract between the City of San Diego and the San Diego Chargers football team.

Milan Haborák

Haborák's personal best throw is 20.87 metres, achieved in May 2004 in Turnov.

Moisés Campeny

His personal best throw of 75.42 metres, set in 2003, stood as the national record for nine years before being broken by Javier Cienfuegos in 2012.

Peter Sack

His personal best throw is 21.19 metres, achieved in May 2008 in Versmold.

Pound the Alarm

Minaj is then seen onstage holding a concert with Trinbagonian artistes: Machel Montano, Bunji Garlin and Fay-Ann Lyons, while confetti comes down and the audience throw up the Trinbagonian flag.

Raphaël Piolanti

His personal best throw is 79.68 metres, achieved in September 1992 in Bourgoin-Jallieu.

Return of the One-Armed Swordsman

Whirling Blade and his henchmen wield and throw two bladed bucklers, which return to them like Captain America's shield.

Shareece Wright

In September 2011, he was invited to throw out the first pitch at a San Diego Padres game as an introduction to his partnership with the foundation.

Simon Gillis

Gillis was practicing with a 16 pound hammer in a vacant lot on Park Avenue between 134th and 135th street on September 30, 1904, and "just as he had let the 16 pound hammer go for an extra long throw, Christian Koehler, a fourteen-year old boy, climbed the fence in pursuit of a baseball. Gillis and several boys shouted a warning, but Koehler did not hear. The hammer struck him in the head and he was instantly killed."

Simoné du Toit

In the discus throw she has 53.07 metres, achieved in February 2006 in Roodepoort.

SpongeBob SquarePants: SuperSponge

Coral Blower: While with his coral blower, SpongeBob can suck scattered seashells and throw them in order to break rock walls.

Steve Ihnat

At the age of thirty-seven, he suffered a heart attack while visiting the Cannes Film Festival in France, where he was promoting his "Do Not Throw Cushions in the Ring."

Sylvi Saimo

That was first gold medal by Finnish woman in Summer Olympics, and only for 44 years, until Heli Rantanen won gold in javelin throw at 1996.

The Bay Club at Mattapoisett, Massachusetts

The 18 championship hole course was carved out of a forest of untouched land a stone’s throw to Buzzards Bay.

Torsten Schmidt

His personal best throw is 64.78 metres, achieved in August 2004 in Thum.

X-Kaliber 2097

In combat, Cocktail uses his cane like a sword and can throw his hat like a flying blade (similar to Oddjob of the James Bond movies).


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