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6 unusual facts about U-turn


Defence Aviation Repair Agency

Since a distinct U-turn in MOD policy from centralised repair expertise to diversified line repair, DARA's operations were either scheduled to be closed or under review, with an intended strategy to privatise the various remaining divisions.

Horseshoe Bend, Idaho

It is named for its location at the horseshoe-shaped U-turn of the Payette River, whose flow direction changes from south to north before heading west to the Black Canyon Reservoir.

Melbourne tram route 75

Despite this, motorists are still required to turn across the tracks to enter businesses or do U-turns, leading to several incidents and accidents.

No U-turn syndrome

In his book Chaotic Thoughts from the Old Millennium, he uses a comparison of traffic rules in Singapore to those found overseas, to describe the phenomenon : In Singapore, drivers are not allowed to make a U-turn unless a sign specifically allows them to do so, while in some other countries drivers may make U-turns freely so long as the 'No U-turn' sign is not present.

Norifumi Abe

On October 7, 2007 while riding a 500 cc Yamaha T-Max scooter in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Abe was involved in a traffic accident with a truck, which made an illegal U-turn in front of him, at 6:20pm local time.

Robert S. MacAlister

On July 1, 1943, MacAlister was arrested and charged with drunk driving when he made a U-turn in front of a police car, and his then wife, Clara Blaz MacAlister, was charged with being drunk in an automobile.


Barbara Nessim

Like her contemporary, Jacqui Morgan, she briefly worked in textile design after graduating from Pratt, then decided to turn her efforts towards illustration work.

Bi-Beast

The Bi-Beast is an android with two heads (one atop the other - the top skull is given knowledge of warfare while the bottom skull was given a knowledge of culture) created many years ago by an avian race that were in turn a sub-species of the Inhumans.

Bobrowniki castle

Bobrowniki castle was erected at the turn of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, after the purchase of Bobrowniki village by the Teutonic Knights in 1392, possibly as an extention of an earlier fortress.

Brachinite

Brachinites are named after the Brachina meteorite, the type specimen of this group which in turn is named after Brachina, South Australia.

Dabo Arrondissement

The arrondissement is divided administratively into rural communities and in turn into villages.

Daihatsu Sirion

Since 2011, the name has been used in Indonesia for the second generation of the Malaysian-built Perodua Myvi (2011–present), a model which in turn is a redesigned version of the second generation of the Daihatsu Boon (2010–present).

David Lindsay, 12th Earl of Crawford

He killed his cousin Sir Walter Lindsay of Balgavie, son of David Lindsay, 9th Earl of Crawford, and narrowly escaped being killed in turn by the murdered man's nephew

De Stefano 'ndrina

According to the sociologist Pino Arlacchi, the background of the war was the attempt of the De Stefano brothers to turn their accumulated wealth and power to account by claiming contracts for the Gioia Tauro port.

DLGAP2

DLGAP2 has been shown to interact with DLG4, the canonical synapse marker protein, which in turn binds to N-methyld-aspartate (NMDA) receptors and Shaker-type K+ channels.

Dragalevska River

The river flows from the lower northern part of Torfeno Branishte Nature Reserve on Vitosha Mountain, and passes by Kominite area; at the northern foothills of Vitosha the river crosses the village of Dragalevtsi (now part of Sofia, from which the river takes its name), then join few other minor rivers to form Slatinska River, and flow into Perlovska River which in turn flows into Iskar River in the northeastern outskirst of Sofia.

Ek Ruka Hua Faisla

It is a remake of the Golden Bear winning, American motion picture 12 Angry Men (1957), which was directed by Sidney Lumet, the film in turn was an adaptation from a teleplay of the same name by Reginald Rose.

Federal State of Austria

In turn Austria under Schuschnigg sought the backing by its southern neighbour, the fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

Fortified Sector of Thionville

The Thionville sector was under the overall command of the French 3rd Army, headquartered at Fort Jeanne d'Arc at Metz, under the command of General Charles Condé, which was in turn part of Army Group 2 under General André-Gaston Prételat.

Fraser Tranter

In May 1998, a win in the Farmer's Walk helped Fraser towards a 2nd place finish in the UK Docklands Strongman Challenge, and this in turn led to an invite to the 1998 World's Strongest Man in Morocco.

Gentry Lee

Lee attempted to turn the Rama series into a more character-driven story following the adventures of Nicole des Jardins Wakefield, who becomes the main character in Rama II, The Garden of Rama and Rama Revealed.

Gillian Morgan

At the turn of the century Morgan was Chief Executive of the North & East Devon Health AUthority, based in Exeter where her husband was teacher at Exeter School.

Grace Woodward

Woodward has also done styling for charity, helping climate change organisation Global Cool with their Turn Up The Style, Turn Down The Heat campaign.

Gregg Steinberg

He also has made numerous national television and radio appearances, and is a regular guest on "Making The Turn" on the PGA Tour Network on Sirius XM Radio, a show hosted by Peter Kessler.

Hannibal Gamon

Gamon was instituted to the rectory of Mawgan-in-Pyder, on the north coast of Cornwall, on 11 February 1619, on presentation of Elizabeth Peter, the patroness for that turn, on the assignment of Sir John Arundell, knight, the owner of the advowson.

Historical behaviour studies

A particular characteristic of the Stuttgart studies of historical behaviour was the comparative turn towards non-Western societies like Indonesia, Japan, and China.

ICL Series 39

Trimetra in turn was replaced by Fujitsu's mainframe platform, Nova, which emulates the Trimetra architecture on generic Unisys ES7000 Intel-based server hardware.

Ira Reiner

In 1990 Reiner was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for California Attorney General, losing to Arlo Smith, who in turn was defeated by Republican Dan Lungren.

Itasca Community Television, Inc.

Communities that support the Grand Rapids Area Cable Commission with franchise and PEG fees which, in turn, supports ICTV include Grand Rapids, Cohasset, La Prairie and the townships of Harris and Grand Rapids.

Jaca Navarra

The word jaca has an unusual history, from Old Spanish haca, itself from Old French haque, which in turn is ultimately derived from the English place-name Hackney, a place famous for its horses.

John Dods

His creation of latex-covered animation models led him toward the crafts of sculpting, mechanics and mold-making, which in turn led toward a budding career as a mask- and monster-maker (as displayed in the independent 1980s horror films Nightbeast, Return of the Aliens: The Deadly Spawn, Spookies, and My Demon Lover).

Kathryn Joosten

In the 1997 episode of Frasier, 'Roz's Turn', Joosten appeared as Vera, the mother and personal secretary of Frasier's conniving agent, Bebe Glazer, played by Harriet Sansom Harris.

La Chorrera, Colombia

The municipality was once a notable site for rubber production, exploited by the Peruvian Julio César Arana brothers at the turn of the 20th century, north of the Putumayo River.

Leee John

He released a number of dance singles in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including the UK Garage tracks "Your Mind, Your Body, Your Soul" and "U Turn Me" with Ten City vocalist Byron Stingily (2000).

Lorelei Travis

When a group of superheroes known as the New Warriors accidentally blow up a town causing the general public to turn on superheroes and eventually ignite a superhero civil war.

Lundy's Restaurant

At the turn of the 20th century, Irving Lundy started a business selling clams out of a pushcart.

MLB on 5 Live

For the 2011 season, Coombs took over hosting duties from Gould on a full-time basis, with Simon Brotherton in turn covering when Coombs is unavailable.

Montmorency, Victoria

Montmorency was named after a local farm, Montmorency Estate, which in turn was named for the town of Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, where the French Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau lived briefly.

MTV Unplugged: Los Tigres del Norte and Friends

Barajas noted that De La Rocha sounded "out of place" on "Somos Mas Americanos", trying to turn the track into a rendition of his own song "Bulls on Parade".

Na Gathan

The story was in turn a response to the work of art by Damien Hirst, For the Love of God.

Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth

As documented in the film Dig!, the song is dedicated to the band The Brian Jonestown Massacre, friends/rivals of The Dandy Warhols at the time, who in turn dedicated their own track "Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth" to them; although frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor revealed in an interview that the song is also about his girlfriend at the time who, according to him, had become a heroin addict.

Petoskey, Michigan

Petoskey and the surrounding area are notable for being the setting of several of the Nick Adams stories by Ernest Hemingway, who spent his childhood summers on nearby Walloon Lake, as well as being the place where for Calliope, the protagonist of Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, events take a severe and lasting turn.

Roslyn, Pennsylvania

He built lime kilns to turn the abundant local limestone into quicklime, starting an industry that operated into the late 20th century.

Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment

The project was contracted by FVAP to Accenture, who in turn subcontracted Avenade, Hart InterCivic, Hewlett-Packard, VeriSign, election.com, and others.

Skaar

After a confrontation with the Red Hulk that angers Banner, Banner, fearing he will turn into the Hulk, teleports to the country of Latveria, supposedly to transform in private.

Sumas y restas

Gerardo has many contacts in the rural region of Frontino, Antioquia were the authorities turn a blind eye to his rustic laboratory to process cocaine.

Sutton House, London

At the turn of the 18th century, Hackney was renowned for its many schools, and Sutton House contained a boys' school, with headmaster Dr Burnet, which was attended in 1818 by the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

Tarnished Heisman

Tarnished Heisman: Did Reggie Bush Turn His Final College Season into a Six-Figure Job? is a book written by Don Yaeger.

Une vie meilleure

But things turn upside down, high financing costs make things difficult, and Nadia, has to accept a temporary work opportunity in Montreal to pitch in with extra money.

USS Galena

They were named for various communities that, in turn, were named for a native lead sulfide, the chief ore of lead.

William Bell Clark

He was succeeded as editor and his work continued by Dr. William J. Morgan, who in turn was succeeded by Dr. William S. Dudley, and then by Dr. Michael J. Crawford.

Willie Stark

Willie Stark is an opera in three acts and nine scenes by Carlisle Floyd to his own libretto, after the novel All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, which in turn was inspired by the life of the Louisiana governor Huey Long.

Wisconsin Highway 42

Outside of Fish Creek, WIS 42 takes an abrupt left-hand turn to follow the bluff down to Main Street and the Alexander Noble House.


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Blériot VII

On this occasion he succeeded in making a U-turn in the air, and the performance of the aircraft was impressive enough for Patrick Alexander to write "I think Blériot is now leading the way".

Carson Yeung

He was held responsible for the club's U-turn on the contract offered to manager Steve Bruce in May 2007, which led to Bruce's decision to resign from the club and move to Wigan Athletic F.C. of November that year.

Cheshire Show

Because it attracts a huge amount of traffic, traffic coming to it from the Manchester direction along the A556 road cannot make a right turn in but has to go on past the showground and make a U-turn at the roundabout at the east end of the Northwich bypass and come back to the showground and make a left turn in.

National Zoo of Malaysia

Using Middle Ring Road 2 (MRR2) - from Ampang, u-turn at the Taman Melawati exit and take the first left; from Gombak, take the first left after the Taman Melawati exit flyover.

Paperfaces

Frontman Grant Nicholas said the band were invited to perform the track on TFI Friday, but decided to U-turn on the band and instead gave the slot to the Stereophonics, meaning they appeared twice on the show and Feeder missed out on widespread promotion for this single.

Roundabout interchange

U.S. Route 9 & New York State Route 2, Latham, New York, is a roundabout interchange with U-turn lanes for the freeway.

Russell Poole

While waiting for the light to change, a white Toyota Land Cruiser made a U-turn and cut in-between Biggie's vehicle and the Chevrolet Blazer behind.

Scat Paradise

It features the song "Hey, You!", a rarity previously only available as the B-side to the infamous "Song of Scatland" single and later remixed and re-released as "U-Turn" on the Everybody Jam! album.

Texas U-turn

In Queens, also in New York City, there is a Texas U-turn at I-678 near northbound exit 14 (Linden Place).

Ullathai Allitha

The film remade in Telugu as Veedevadandi Babu with Mohanbabu, in Kannada as Galate Aliyandru with Shivrajkumar and in Malay version as Cinta U-Turn in 2008.