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unusual facts about Tic-tac-toe


Little League World Series Baseball

The game has an extensive array of minigames called "Skill Challenges", which range from the power-hitting home run tourney to the accuracy-important Tic-tac-toe.


113th Air Support Operations Squadron

In the air defense role, the squadron operated under Air Defense, Tactical Air Command (ADTAC), a named unit that operated at the numbered air force level of TAC.

134th Fighter Squadron

With the disestablishment of Aerospace Defense Command in 1979, the 158th was subsequently transferred to Tactical Air Command (TAC) as a gaining command under Air Defense, Tactical Air Command (ADTAC), which assumed the mission of the former ADC.

312th Tactical Fighter Wing

As part of Eighteenth AF, the 312th furnished units for TAC composite air strike forces in the Far East during 1957 and 1958, deploying F-100s and crews to Taiwan during the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis.

A. T. Mann

Mann graduated from the Cornell University College of Architecture in 1966 and worked as an architect for Gruzen & Partners, Davis Brody Associates, and Robert A. M. Stern in New York City and The Architects' Collaborative (TAC) European office in Rome.

Abbécourt

The nearest railway station serving the town is that of Chauny but previously there was a station serving the commune from TAC (Transport Agglomération Chaunoise).

Alan Kendall

His next known appearances were with Glass Menagerie, In 1970, he joined the bluesy progressive rock band Toe Fat who had released one album called Toe Fat.

Amalie Materna

Amalie Materna(born Amalia, later Amalie Friedrich-Materna) (10 July 1844 St. Georgen in der Steiermark - 18 January 1918 Vienna) was an Austrian operatic soprano.

Aurvandil

Guesses as to the identity of this star have included the polestar, the planet Venus, Sirius and the star Rigel which forms the toe of the constellation Orion, though if Aurvandil is to be identified with the constellation Orion one would expect to find Aurvandil himself being translated into the sky, not just his toe.

Bandini 1000 V

Rear: Independent, triangle and lower arms swinging shock hydraulic telescopic inclined agents on portamozzo, torsion bar, camber caster, and Toe adjustable

Bryn Chapman

Bryn Lawton Chapman (born 1982) is a former beauty queen and young operatic soprano who is a former Miss Indiana representative and a top-ten finisher in the 2004 Miss America pageant.

Caleb Afendopolo

'Asarah Mamarot (Ten Discourses), containing homilies on the Passover lesson (Ex. xii.14); on the Song of Songs as read on the seventh Passover Day; on Psalm cxix, read, according to Karaite custom, on the seven Sabbaths between Passover and Pentecost; and on the Pentecost lesson dealing with the Sinaitic revelation.

Car Stereo Wars

The band released their debut album in 2008 "For Your Comfort and Safety" and has enjoyed recent commercial success with the track "Come to Nothing" being used in a Tic Tac television commercial in the United States and available as a free download from the Tic Tac USA website.

Carl Værnet

In order to further his hormone research, he was introduced to the leading SS physician Ernst Grawitz by the operatic tenor Helge Rosvaenge.

Carlo Buti

Buti has been called the Bing Crosby and the "Frank Sinatra of Italy", because of his preference for the popular songs of the day over the more operatic-type songs.

Cecilian Movement

In many serious church musicians, there was a deep-seated desire to revive Chant as well as the Renaissance polyphony of Palestrina, Lassus, Victoria, Anerio, et al., and to rid Masses of the more entertaining, operatic style of music.

Clean and jerk

Toes may be pointed straight ahead or angled out according to the lifters' preference.

Cloven hoof

Even Phenacodus, the most generalized of the early mammals, has a foot in which the central toe is somewhat larger than the others and could be placed in the division of odd toed ungulates, Perissidactyla.

Coca Guazzini

She appeared in some popular Chilean telenovelas like Sucupira, Aquelarre and Tic-Tac.

Desu

An Internet meme originating from the television show Rozen Maiden, involving a character from the show who repeats the word "desu" (see above) as a verbal tic.

Earl Averill

He's famous for hitting the line drive that broke Dizzy Dean's toe in the 1937 All-Star Game.

East Runton

The story goes that he had developed a gangrenous toe and was in fear of it spreading and causing his death.

Eremopezus

There is a single foramen on the dorsal side of the tarsometatarsus, with a plantar exit hole between the third and fourth metacarpal's distal ends (presumably for the outer toe's adductor tendon) and another (presumably for nerves and blood vessels) on the plantar surface of the tarsometatarsus.

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# Ellen McIlwaine - Toe Hold (Live At The Bitter End, New York) - Mercury

George Zervanos

George (or Giorgos) Zervanos (Greek: Γιώργος Ζερβάνος) (1930 – October 5, 2006) was a Greek operatic tenor.

Hermann Becht

Hermann Becht (19 March 1939, Karlsruhe – 12 February 2009, Marxzell) was a German operatic bass-baritone.

John Flaus

This bloke on the prosecution asks me, "What would you do if you saw an Asiatic attacking your mother?" – remember this is 1953.

John Hubley

Hubley is survived by his daughters Georgia Hubley, who plays drums and sings for the rock band, Yo La Tengo as well as Emily Hubley, a filmmaker and animator, who has made numerous short films, including animated inserts and segments for documentaries such as Blue Vinyl and the film version of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and a feature called The Toe Tactic (www.thetoetactic.com) which combines live action and animation.

Kasou Taishou

Especially in recent years, many of the skits have revolved around clever methods of "faking" cinematic special effects on a live stage.

Kurt Browning

Josef Sabovcik had previously landed a quad toe loop at the 1986 European Championships which was recognized at the event but then ruled invalid three weeks later.

Mark Goffeney

In 1999, seven years after he and a friend established the 'Big Toe' band, PSB Records signed the band to a CD deal on the condition that Goffeney work with Steve Dudas, former producer for Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne and Ringo Starr, to refine the songs for the band's self-titled album.

Parfait Tic!

The live action drama (Taiwanese) of Parfait Tic! is called "Love Buffet."

Polisse

He described the film as "a strong contender for the most awful film of the competition" and "much of it feels like a pretty dodgy evening in front of the television: less The Wire, more The Bill. But I don't think any director of The Bill would have permitted the toe-curlingly embarrassing overacting we get in this movie".

Quix*o*tic

This was followed by their album Night for Day (also on Ixor Stix), which featured a cover of The Miracles 1962 song "What's So Good About Goodbye."

Rome: Total Realism VII

RTR VII: TIC covers the conquest of Iberia by the Hamilcar Barca and his contemporaries in the name of the Carthaginian Republic in a uniquely close and story driven campaign .

Saxa Rubra

(Tac. Hist. iii. 79.) At a much later period (312) it was also the point to which Maxentius advanced to meet Constantine previous to the battle at the Milvian bridge.

Soldier Integrated Protective Ensemble

The SIPE, configured as a head-to-toe individual fighting system, demonstrated considerable potential for enhanced soldier capabilities and operational effectiveness.

Stig Fogh Andersen

Sir Stig Fogh Andersen (February 24, 1950 in Hørsholm) is a Danish operatic tenor.

TCP offload engine

Much of the current work on TOE technology is by manufacturers of 10 Gigabit Ethernet interface cards, such as, Intilop corporation, Broadcom, Chelsio Communications, Emulex, LeWiz Communications, Mellanox Technologies, Neterion Technologies, QLogic and Tehuti Networks Ltd.

The Creation of the World and Other Business

Original director Harold Clurman and most of the cast, including Barbara Harris and Hal Holbrook, were replaced, and the playwright rewrote most of what was material possibly better suited for Neil Simon than the man responsible for dramatic classics like Death of a Salesman.

Tingsek

, Loosegoats, Sideshow Bob, Fjärde Världen, Adam Tensta, Slakah the Beatchild, Ane Brun, Ana Diaz, Ebrahim, Svante Lodén, Chords, Pauline, Sarah Dawn Finer, Paula Nelson, Isak Strand vs. Toe, and Gaby and The Guns.

Toe cleavage

Dominatrix Claudia Varrin references the attraction to "stiletto pumps with the low vamp" that allow "lots of toe cleavage".

Tony Ayrton

Richardson noted with relief that "German Tactical Reconnaissance noticed nothing new. Every morning I received the intercepted Luftwaffe's report of the previous day. 'Nothing to report' was the phlegmatic message on about D-7."

Torhild Staahlen

Torhild Staahlen (born 25 September 1947 in Skien Norway) is a Norwegian operatic mezzo-soprano who was employed at Norwegian National Opera from 1967 to 1969 and from 1971 to 2000.

TwentyWonder

The 2012 event featured an all-star match between the LA Derby Dolls and the San Diego Derby Dolls, Artist Tim Biskup, artists from Tierra Del Sol, Joel Hodgson, the band Jackshit, Dave Alvin, Lucha VaVOOM, Steve-O playing Tic-Tac-Toe, scientists from JPL, Dolores Bozovic, The Kids of Widney High, Hula Hoopist Mat Plendl, Physicist Dr. David Saltzberg, Sock Puppet Sitcom Theater, and Wayne White.

Vilhelm Herold

Vilhelm Christoffer Herold (born March 19, 1865 in Hasle, Bornholm – died December 15, 1937 in Copenhagen) was an operatic tenor, voice teacher, and theatre director.

XIX Tactical Air Command

Wilt, Alan F. (Alan F. Wilt) (1985), Coming of Age: XIX Tac's Roles During The 1944 Dash Across France, Air University Review, March-April 1985

Yordenis Ugás

" Later Ugás beat Russian Khabib Allakhverdiyev and in the final he outfought Romal Amanov from Azerbaidjan. Cubanet.org writes "Yordenis Ugas, a sharp, technically accomplished fighter but with a suspect jaw, won the lightweight gold for Cuba after an explosive toe-to-toe clash with Romal Amanov of Azerbaijan.


see also

Oxo

OXO, the first digital graphical computer game, a version of Tic-tac-toe from 1951