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unusual facts about Umbrella



All India Kurmi Kshatriya Mahasabha

This was followed by an organisation in Awadh that sought to draw other communities - such as the Patidars, Marathas, Kapus and Naidus - under the umbrella of the Kurmi name.

As the Stomach Turns

The sudden dropping of young characters was humorously spoofed in As the Stomach Turns by Marion's daughter (played by Vicki Lawrence) arriving at the door holding a baby and announcing, "Hi, Mom. I've had a baby," and immediately dropping the baby (a doll) into the umbrella stand next to the door.

ASIMCO Technologies

ASIMCO Technologies was founded in 1994 by Jack Perkowski with a business model based on accessing and transferring capital, technology and managerial techniques from the United States and Europe to upgrade existing Chinese manufacturing operations that fall under the ASIMCO umbrella.

Australian League of Rights

In 1972 Butler created an umbrella group the Crown Commonwealth League of Rights to represent the four groups; it also served as a chapter of the World Anti-Communist League.

Bennett's tree-kangaroo

It lives almost completely on the leaves of a wide range rainforest trees, notably Schefflera actinophylla (the Umbrella Tree), vines, ferns and various wild fruits.

Brazilian Democratic Movement Party

Under military rule from 1965 to 1979, Brazil had a legally enforced two party system, with supporters of the regime gathered under the National Renewal Alliance Party (ARENA) umbrella, and the official opposition making up the MDB.

Buddy's Show Boat

Buddy and Cookie perform a rendition of "Under my Umbrella," after which Buddy introduces, to his pleased crowd, an Aboriginal performer called "Chief Saucer-lip", who, upon the captain's departure, immediately becomes a caricature of Maurice Chevalier, who recites "So I Married the Girl," with a kangaroo at the piano.

Chess Oscar

The Chess Oscar statuette originally took the form of "The Lady of the Umbrella", a figure based on a statue in Parc de la Ciutadella in Barcelona, Spain.

Communion and Liberation

Since then, the movement has been highly supportive of Silvio Berlusconi, first under the umbrella of a small party called The United Christian Democrats, then (after 1998) directly within Forza Italia, later revamped into the People of Freedom.

Crimetime After Primetime

Crimetime After Primetime is the umbrella title for a group of late-night crime-investigation shows that debuted at various times on CBS during 1991 and 1992, running through late summer of 1993.

DC Special

With DC Specials cancellation following issue #29 (Aug./Sept. 1977), DC immediately begin publishing the umbrella one-shot title DC Special Series, which lasted until Fall 1981.

Defence Medical Services

The Defence Medical Services (DMS) are an umbrella organisation within the Ministry of Defence in the United Kingdom, which organises all medical, dental and nursing services within the British Armed Forces.

Ed Acker

Acker met with Continental's legendary founder and Chairman Robert Six to discuss the possible merger which would put both companies under the Greatamerica umbrella.

Emai people

They include Emai union worldwide with branches in Lagos, Gothenburg, London and New York and other umbrella organizations.

EOA

European Outsourcing Association, an umbrella body for national outsourcing trade associations

EuroLinux

Members include FFII, APRIL, AFUL, AEL, and European Linux user group (LUG) umbrella associations.

Friedrich Rosen

Rosen became chairman of the German Oriental Society, the umbrella organization of the Orientalists in Germany, and dedicated himself increasingly to scientific work.

Gamp

Gamp is a colloquial, primarily British, term for an umbrella, after the Dickens' character Mrs Sairey Gamp.

Graduate Management Association of Australia

The Graduate Management Association of Australia (GMAA) is the nationally recognised umbrella Professional Association for graduates having MBA, DBA and other postgraduate business management qualifications in Australia.

Greyworld

In each case greyworld took a set of ordinary street railings and tuned them so that when you run a stick or an umbrella along them, rather than making the 'clack-clack-clack' sound as expected, they played The Girl from Ipanema.

IAPS

International Association of Physics Students, a non-profit umbrella organization for physics students associations worldwide

Iraqi Council

Iraqi National Dialogue Council, a Sunni Arab political party initially established as an umbrella organization of approximately 10 smaller Sunni parties to take part in the 2005 Iraqi Constitution drafting process

Jheryl Busby

Umbrella Recordings, which he created with producer Mike City, released the Carl Thomas album So Much Better in 2007 and Patti LaBelle's The Gospel According to Patti LaBelle, her first gospel album.

John R. Harvey

Dr. Harvey is one of the two founding members (with Jennifer Decker) of the Houston based Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company.

Lake Barrine

The surrounding rainforest contains giant kauri (Agathis microstachya), Red cedar trees and flowering umbrella trees (Schefflera actinophylla).

Lauren Toyota

While working in Vancouver under the CTVGlobemedia umbrella, Toyota also acted as the West Coast Correspondent for Fashion Television in addition to producing for other CTVGlobemedia specialty channels including SPACE, Bravo, and Etalk.

Lotus Racing

The umbrella name for Lotus Cars parent company Group Lotus plc's racing division, formerly Lotus Motorsport

Michael Gartner

Gartner is also chairman of Raccoon Baseball, Inc., which has owned the Iowa Cubs baseball team since 1999, and is co-owner of Big Green Umbrella Media, which publishes the Cityview alternative weekly newspaper in Des Moines.

New literacies

In the Handbook of New Literacies Research, Coiro, Knobel, Lankshear, and Leu (2008) note that all these terms “are used to refer to phenomena we would see as falling broadly under a new literacies umbrella” (pg. 10).

Not Barking But Howling

These were given the umbrella title of “The Girl Who Cried Wolf”, and featured the actress India Fisher in a guest-starring role as a character named Delilah Tripp.

Passive-aggressive behavior

Murphy and Oberlin also see passive aggression as part of a larger umbrella of hidden anger stemming from ten traits of the angry child or adult.

Phillips Recording

This Memphis studio was originally a division of a larger corporation, Sam Phillips Recording Service, Inc., which also briefly included under its umbrella a Nashville studio, where famed CBS Records producer Billy Sherrill got his start, and a studio in Tupelo, Mississippi for demos.

Pisonia

Pisonia umbellifera (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Seem. – Umbrella Catchbirdtree (Indo-Pacific)

Ramesh Kallidai

Ramesh Kallidai is Secretary General of the Hindu Forum of Britain which is the largest umbrella body representing British Hindus.

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City

On the Umbrella Security Service team there is: Vector (Andrew Kishino), the team's recon expert and is equipped with a cloaking ability; Beltway (Ramon Fernandez), who is proficient in the use of explosives; Bertha (Lydia Look), the medic; Spectre (David Cooley), the marksman; Four Eyes (Gwendoline Yeo), the scientist, with the ability to program the bio-organic weapons (BOWs); and Lupo (Nika Futterman), who is the team leader.

Richard Derrick

In 1997, two weeks after the final Another Umbrella show, Derrick began performing with drummer Bob Lee and a core of revolving musicians (including Nels Cline and Joe Baiza) under the name Solo Career, a side-project which lasted until 2002, performing whenever the musicians' schedules allowed.

Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution

Whitfords Volunteer Sea Rescue Group - One of the 3 last independent charitable lifeboat stations left in Western Australia after the others came under the government FESA umbrella (some coerced, some voluntarily), the group and the other two still face government pressure to be nationalised)

Some Bizzare Records

Pearce went on to manage Soft Cell, got them a deal with Phonogram under the Some Bizzare umbrella, and their cover of "Tainted Love" topped the charts.

SportAccord World Mind Games

The World Mind Games were initiated by SportAccord, the umbrella organisation for international sports federations and organisers of sports events, in order to bring these sports closer to a worldwide public.

St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton

1910 he was regarded as the nominal leader of the Irish Unionist Alliance (the umbrella body for Southern Irish Unionists, corresponding to the Ulster Unionists' Ulster Unionist Council).

Štefan Banič

Although the idea of parachutes was known long ago, and Banič's invention is a radically different type of a parachute from the type known today (it was a kind of umbrella attached to the body), it was the first parachute known to be actively used, saving the lives of many American aviators during World War I.

The Fox and the Crow

Deadshot's daughter mentions wanting a The Fox and the Crow umbrella in The Secret Six #1.

The Three Mesquiteers

The Three Mesquiteers is the umbrella title for a Republic Pictures series of 51 Western B-movies released between 1936 and 1943, including 8 films starring John Wayne.

The Tomfoolery Show

Though the works of other writers were also used, notably Lewis Carroll and Ogden Nash, Lear's works were the main source, and characters like The Yongy Bonghy Bo and The Umbrageous Umbrella Maker were all Lear creations.

Two Souls

Two-Spirits, an umbrella term sometimes used for what was once commonly known as berdaches

Under the Umbrella Tree

Jacob Bluejay (performed by Stephen Brathwaite) – Jacob is the only member of the Umbrella Tree household capable of flight, and sometimes enters the house by flying through open windows.

Union Internationale du Cinéma

UNICA aka Union Internationale du Cinéma Non Professionel, also UNION INTERNATIONALE DU CINÉMA, is an international umbrella for national non-commercial film making organisations.

Universal Motown Records

In 2005 Motown Records was merged with the urban artists on Universal Records to create Universal Motown Records, headed by former CEO of Elektra Records Sylvia Rhone, and placed under the newly created umbrella division of Universal Motown Republic Group.

World Federation for Culture Collections

The World Federation for Culture Collections is an international body formed under the umbrella of the International Union of Biological Sciences and a Federation within the International Union of Microbiological Societies.


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