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2 unusual facts about Unison


National Union of Students LGBT Campaign

Stonewall, The National Aids Trust, Unison LGBT and others have joined the NUS with the campaign against the ban.

Spennymoor

The banner was unfurled on the night before the big meeting, by MEP Stephen Hughes and long-time trade unionist Rodney Bickerstaffe, General Secretary of the trade union UNISON from 1995 to 2001.


ASCII Corporation

On November 26, 2001 CSK Corporation and Unison Capital Partners L.P. announced the approval of transferring the control of its subsidiary ASCII to Unison Capital Partners L.P., effective on 2002-03-30, as part of the strategy to focus the CSK's group operations on B2B businesses.

Butterfly stroke

One year later, in 1935, Jack Sieg, a swimmer also from the University of Iowa, developed a kick technique involving swimming on his side and beating his legs in unison, similar to a fish tail, and then modified the technique afterward to swim it face down.

Civil Assistance

Formed as a breakaway of Unison by General (retd.) Sir Walter Walker, Commander in Chief of NATO forces in Northern Europe from 1969 to 1972, it was a voluntary group that aimed to break any planned general strike.

Cornettino

In the time of Praetorius, the cornettino seems to have sometimes been used in sacred vocal music to play in unison with voices (esp. tenors) an octave higher.

Face perception

This model (developed by psychologists Vicki Bruce and Andrew Young) argues that face perception might involve several independent sub-processes working in unison.

Have a Heart

There was no music video for the song, although the Unison home video contains a live performance of it, recorded at the Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto, Canada.

Keep Holding On

For Children in Need 2011, this song was sung by choirs all over the UK in unison to raise money.

Korean nationalism

On June 11, over 20,000 Korean-Americans filled the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California at 4:30 a.m. to cheer and support their team in unison.

Puroslam

Mimicking the opening rhythm of the Rose Royce song "Car Wash", the audience slowly starts to clap, in unison, gaining in volume until the funk rhythm overwhelms the funkless rhymes of the poet.

Sasthamcotta Sree Dharma Sastha Temple

The concept of Dharma Sastha represents the unison of Vaishnava and Saiva beliefs.

Shinji Orito

He used to visit a music BBS named Unison-BBS; Orito named his dōjin circle Unison Label after the website, which has since disappeared from the Internet.

Singapore National Pledge

It is commonly recited by Singaporeans in unison at public events, especially in schools, in the Singapore Armed Forces and during the National Day Parade.

Synchronic

Synchronization, the coordination of events to operate a system in unison

U.S.–Soviet Space Bridge

The first Space Bridge was an arrangement between the Unison Corporation and Gosteleradio of the USSR for the US Festival, sponsored by computer pioneer Steve Wozniak.

XHUS-TV

XHUS channel 8, also known as "Televisión Universitaria", is an educational television station owned and operated by the University of Sonora (UniSon) in Hermosillo, Sonora.


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