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22 unusual facts about Ultra


Charles Herbert Little

Because of his position he was one of the few Canadians to handle Ultra decrypts.

Efthemia Papadopoulos

is the publisher, writer, and vocalist (artist name Effi) of the song Sweet Dreams on the Ultra Dance 03 album.

Faubourg Saint-Germain

Moreover, home to the Ultra Party, it was the political center of the country.

Humanite

Ultra-Humanite, a supervillain appearing in stories published by DC Comics

Landis Gores

Gores took part in a top-secret operation known as Ultra that broke the code of the German high command.

Manning Kimmel

On July 3, 1944, Robalo received an Ultra communiqué, and attempted to intercept a Fuso-class battleship.

No. 124 Wing RAF

On 9 June 1944, three days after the Normandy landings, the headquarters' location was revealed to British Intelligence by deciphering of German signals traffic.

The Sun Shines Brighter

The Sun Shines Brighter is the second studio album from English band Ultra, released in October 2006, seven years after their debut album Ultra.

Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene

UHMWPE was first used clinically in 1962 by Sir John Charnley and emerged as the dominant bearing material for total hip and knee replacements in the 1970s.

Ultra-imperialism

The suggestion of a possible "Ultraimperialismus" is normally attributed to Karl Kautsky, the leading theoretician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in the era of the Kaiserreich.

Ultra-leftism

The French equivalent, ultra-gauche, has a stronger currency, as it is a more positive term in that language and is used to define a movement that still exists today: a branch of left communism descending from theorists such as Amadeo Bordiga, Otto Rühle, Anton Pannekoek, Herman Gorter and Paul Mattick, and continuing with more recent writers, such as Jacques Camatte and Gilles Dauvé.

Ultra-mobile PC

In September 2006, Raon Digital launched the Vega running an AMD Geode LX800, 256 MB of RAM, and a 30 GB hard drive.

Ultra-red

Known for their militant brand of political ambient music along with artist Terre Thaemlitz, Ultra-red are also part of a wave of young conceptual artists who combine participatory art with their own commitments to political organizing.

Ultra-short baseline

An acoustic pulse is transmitted by the transceiver and detected by the subsea transponder, which replies with its own acoustic pulse.

Ultra-Tories

This led to the creation of a government with Lord Grey as Prime Minister and the leading Canningites like Lord Palmerston and Lord Melbourne.

Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc

This includes a waterproof jacket, warm clothes, food and water, whistle, survival blanket and head lamp.

Ultra-wideband

Ultra-wideband (also known as UWB, ultra-wide band and ultraband) is a radio technology pioneered by Robert A. Scholtz and others which may be used at a very low energy level for short-range, high-bandwidth communications using a large portion of the radio spectrum.

Ultra.2011

Compared to Ultra.2010, the majority of this compilation consists of extended versions of the normal songs.

Ultra.Dance 07

#"Because of You (Jason Nevins Club Mix)" - Kelly Clarkson

Ultra.Dance 10

#"Us Against the World (Jason Nevins Remix)" - Christina Milian - 5:16

Ultra.Dance 12

# "Miami 2 Ibiza" (Extended Vocal Mix) (Axwell, S. Angello, S. Ingrosso, P. Okogwu) (Swedish House Mafia vs. Tinie Tempah) – 4:11

# "We No Speak Americano" (Johnson Peterson, Sylvester Martinez, Duncan Maclennan, Renato Carosone, Nicola Salerno) (Yolanda Be Cool, DCUP) – 3:38


1971 in Israel

7 August – Yitzhak-Meir Levin (born 1893), Russian (Poland)-born ultra-orthodox Jewish Polish and Israeli politician, an Israeli government minister and a former leader of Agudat Israel.

Anton Enus

He has completed South Africa's premier ultra-marathon, the Comrades (90 km), two times.

Britten-Norman BN-1

In 1951 John Britten and Desmond Norman built and flew an ultra-light monoplane, their first aircraft, which made its first flight at Bembridge, Isle of Wight, on 16 May 1951.

Bunbury Airport

With increasing interest in ultra-light and general aviation, there is a potential for Bunbury Airport to become a major general aviation airport.

Camden South, New South Wales

It sits within the state electorate of Camden, represented by Labor's Geoff Corrigan, the former Mayor of Camden, and the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by Liberal's Pat Farmer, the former ultra-marathon runner.

East African Breweries

Its ongoing projects include the construction of an optical center in Moshi, Tanzania, the support of the Sickle Cell Association of Uganda and the donation of an Ultra Sound Machine to Kirwara Hospital in Thika, Kenya.

Eiji Tsuburaya

In 1966 alone, this company aired the first 'Ultra' series for television, Ultra Q beginning in January, followed it with the highly popular Ultraman in July, and premiered a comedy-monster series, Booska, the Friendly Beast in November.

Ferg Hawke

He has competed in several ultra-triathlons, including the Ultraman World Championships in Hawaii.

Georg Neumann

In the United States, for example, the "sound" of the best-known crooners of the 1940s (e.g. Bing Crosby and later Elvis Presley) had utilized the ultra-smooth, rolled-off tone of RCA ribbon microphones; pop recordings in the 1950s (e.g. Frank Sinatra and later The Beatles) on the other hand were sharper, clearer, much more "present" and more "hi-fi"-sounding as the result of using condenser microphones with elevated upper-mid-range response.

Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath

Her aunt Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman is a poet and songwriter; sister Rukhl Schaechter is a journalist with the Yiddish Forward; sister Eydl Reznik teaches Yiddish and directed a Yiddish chorus among the ultra-Orthodox community in Tsfat, Israel; and brother Binyumen Schaechter is a Yiddish composer and performer.

Gracie Glam

In January 2013, Glam shot a mainstream billboard ad campaign for the event she hosted along with Miles Long, Kendall Karson and Nikki Phoenix at TABU Ultra Lounge in the MGM Grand Las Vegas during the 2013 AVN Awards weekend.

Guerrilla filmmaking

No permits were secured (or sought) for the ultra-low-budget documentary, which was funded through the sale of used books at the book stand during shooting and a small grant from the Playboy Foundation.

Gunga Din

A much shorter animated version of the poem and film was made as an episode of The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo, with the ultra-myopic Mister Magoo in the title role.

Honeycrack

With Dowling opting to front the band on lead vocals and guitar (and CJ playing a similar role to the one he'd performed with the Wildhearts), the Honeycrack lineup was completed by the addition of third guitarist Mark McCrae (previously with hotly tipped London rock band Rub Ultra), session drummer Hugo Degenhardt and bass player Pete Clarke.

Hydrogen purifier

A hydrogen purifier is a device to purify hydrogen if hydrogen production is done from hydrocarbon sources, the ultra-high purified hydrogen is needed for applications like PEM fuel cells .

Imagineering Australia

November 1989: The MyPC, basically an Ultra XT using cut-price components and secondhand CPUs in brightly coloured chassis, was released for sale through Grace Brothers and Myer stores at Christmas.

Jean Louis Barthélemy O'Donnell

He fell from favour under the ultra-Royalist administration of the Jean-Baptiste, comte de Villèle, the Prime Minister of France from 1821–1828, and during which time largely he concentrated on local government, being Maire (Mayor) of Villiers-sur-Orge for seven years from 1820 to 1826, and was one of the founders of the l'Ecole d'enseignement mutuel (primary school) in Montlhéry, where using his own resources, he had several young pupils educated.

Jeremy Asher

He is also a director of Better Place, a venture-backed private firm providing infrastructure and services for the mass deployment of electric vehicles, and of Pacific Drilling SA, a company on the New York Stock Exchange that owns and operates ultra-deepwater drillships.

Libertarian Marxism

Whereas the central Maoist leaders encouraged the masses to criticize reactionary "ideas" and "habits" among the alleged 5% of bad cadres, giving them a chance to "turn over a new leaf" after they had undergone "thought reform," the ultra-left argued that cultural revolution had to give way to political revolution "in which one class overthrows another class".

Lorentz covariance

They can be tested, at least partially, by ultra-high energy cosmic ray experiments like the Pierre Auger Observatory.

Lubricity

Diesel fuel naturally contains sulfur compounds that provide good lubricity, but because of regulations in many countries (such as the US and the EU) sulphur must be removed.

Luck Be a Lady

On December 14, 2011, Cîroc began airing a "Luck Be a Lady" advertising campaign for Ultra Premium Vodka, directed by Anthony Mandler.

Lycian Way Ultramarathon

The fourth edition of the event in 2013 was cancelled because many foreign ultra runners stayed away or annulled their entry pretending some risk in connection with the 2013 protests in Turkey and 2012 Syrian–Turkish border clashes.

Mark Halliday

The poet David Graham has described Halliday as one of the "ablest practitioners" of the "ultra-talk poem," a term said to have been coined by Halliday himself to describe the work of a group of contemporary American poets, including David Kirby, Denise Duhamel, David Clewell, Albert Goldbarth, and Barbara Hamby, who frequently write in a wry, exuberant, garrulous, accessible style.

Mikhail Katkov

During the twenty-four years of editorship he exercised considerable influence on public opinion and even on the Government, by representing with great ability the moderately Conservative spirit of Moscow in opposition to the occasionally ultra-Liberal and always cosmopolitan spirit of St Petersburg.

Molecular beam epitaxy

In solid-source MBE, elements such as gallium and arsenic, in ultra-pure form, are heated in separate quasi-Knudsen effusion cells until they begin to slowly sublime.

Nanorod

Recent years, ZnO nanorods have been intensely used to fabricate nano-scale electronic devices, including field effect transistor, ultraviolet photodetector, Schottky diode, and ultra-bright light-emitting diode (LED).

Oran Park, New South Wales

The suburb is contained within the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by former ultra-marathon runner Pat Farmer (Liberal), and the state electorate of Camden, currently held by former mayor Geoff Corrigan (Labor).

Reflecto

His initial appearance suggested that he was Ultra Boy with amnesia, but he was soon revealed to be Superboy, (whose body was being possessed by the consciousness of the apparently dead Ultra Boy), who was suffering from a form of amnesia brought on by his inadvertent disobedience to a post-hypnotic command implanted in his mind by Saturn Girl.

Ricky Memphis

His first role in a major picture was in the 1990 film Ultrà, directed by Ricky Tognazzi.

Sibthorp

Colonel Sibthorp (1783–1855), widely caricatured British Ultra-Tory politician in the early 19th century

Silverleaf whitefly

Currently, the most effective oil in the market is the ultra-fine oil, which is a paraffinic oil product that reduces the settlement of the adult flies, decreases oviposition, and abates the transmission of the tomato yellow leaf curl virus.

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra

However, unlike the first film, it does not repeat the "ultra-cheap independent" feel, but is intended to look more like a studio B-picture from the same era, such as those produced by Sam Katzman or Edward Small.

The X-Files Collectible Card Game

Ultra-rare cards included photo variants of Agents Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, Alex Krycek and Assistant Director Walter Skinner, as well as cards for Deep Throat, X, the Lone Gunmen, and pivotal events in the first two seasons.

Toyota 2000GT

Prior to the decision to make fully roofless cars, building the car as a targa was tried, allegedly due to Sean Connery's height not allowing him to fit into the ultra-low coupé version.

Ultra high definition television

On July 2, 2013, Jimmy Kimmel Live! recorded in 4K Ultra HD a performance by musical guest Karmin and the video clip will be used as demonstration material at Sony stores.

Ultra Seven

Ultra Seven is sometimes incorrectly called "Ultraman Seven" by many sources outside Japan (or in the case of KHON/Honolulu, Hawaii, Ultra7, as listed in TV Guide when it ran in 1975).

Ultra trust

An Ultra Trust is a legal entity with special provisions, benefits, and limitations created and drafted by an attorney who has expertise with debtor—creditor law, income tax law, gift tax law, and estate tax law, as well as trust law.

United States Senate election in Pennsylvania, 1992

Specter subsequently faced a primary challenge from an ultra-conservative State Representative named Stephen Freind; although the incumbent won handily, the battle was expensive and featured many damaging attack ads.

Wolfgang Fasching

2011 RAAM winner and fellow Austrian Christoph Strasser has stated that his decision to begin ultra cycling was inspired by Fasching, and Fasching has subsequently mentored Strasser.