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4 unusual facts about Upside Down


Cold Rock a Party

The original version of the song that appeared on the album was produced by Jermaine Dupri and sampled Audio Two's "Top Billin", the single version featured Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, was produced by Sean Combs and Rashad Smith and sampled Diana Ross' 1980 hit "Upside Down".

Upside Down

Linguistically the song is notable for its use of the archaic form of the second person singular pronoun, Thou/Thee, in the phrase: "Respectfully I say to thee I'm aware that you're cheatin'."

Upside Down; or, the Human Flies

The film, "exploits a very simple illusion: that of filming with the camera turned upside-down so that the actors appear to be performing on the ceiling," and according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "the effectiveness of the final result is such that nearly seventy years later Stanley Kubrick used the same technique in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)."

Upside Down: The Creation Records Story

Over a quarter of a century since it began and a decade after it folded, this is the definitive story of Creation Records, which operated under the stewardship of Alan McGee between 1984 and 1999.



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5317704

The album title is the band's name upside down in digital number view (it would appear like this: hOLLIES).

9/11 Heroes Medal of Valor

The 9/11 Heroes Medal of Valor, which intentionally resembles the Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor and the military's Medal of Honor, is a gilt, light blue-enamelled, five-pointed, upside-down star (i.e. one arm points downwards), surrounded by a wreath of laurel.

A Band Called Quinn

A Band Called Quinn played The Refract Festival in Serbia in 2005 after their song The World Is Upside Down was played on Serbian radio station B92 by Slobodan Konjovic and went to number eight in the Serbian Diskomer Chart.

Academic dress in the United Kingdom

One is known as the 'Dan Dare' or 'Mickey Mouse' cap which is a skull cap with a narrow rim around the top for bachelors; the other was known as the tricorn or upside-down iron, which was basically a mortarboard but with a triangle instead of a square for the top board for masters.

Aeroméxico Flight 576

Flores asserted mystical, religious motives for the hijacking, claiming that the date the hijacking took place was 9/9/09, which is the satanic number 666 upside down.

Anne B. Fisher

Her two most significant works were her novel Cathedral in the Sun (1940) and her contribution to the Rivers of America Series, The Salinas: Upside Down River (1945).

Avanti Corporation

Avanti Corporation (the 'i' in "Avanti" is upside down, so it is also often seen as Avant!) was an electronic design automation company, purchased by Synopsys in 2002.

Batumi

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Bombay to Bangkok

In Bangkok, his world turns upside down at a massage parlour where he bumps into Jasmine (Lena Christensen).

Brahmarakṣasa

In most of the stories, they are depicted as huge, mean and fierce looking having two horns on head like a Rakshas and a Choti like a Brahmin and usually found hanging upside down on a tree.

Caroline Crawford

Her best known recording,"My Smile Is Just a Frown (Turned Upside Down)", is featured in the UK-Irish drama-documentary Dreams of a Life, released in December 2011.

Coral reef protection

Lettuce corals and branching corals such as elkhorn and finger coral are extremely fragile, but even massive boulder corals can be crushed or snapped off and turned upside down to die by a sailboat keel.

Crouse-Hinds Company

Crouse-Hinds produced traffic signals locally for many years, including the famous Tipperary Hill upside down light on the city's Far Westside.

Crush My Soul

Performance artist Bob Flanagan was also featured in the video, portraying an upside down Christ-figure hoisted up on a ceiling.

Dil Kya Kare

Their happy and lovely life together is turned upside down when Kavita finds out that Neha is being stalked by a woman named Nandita Rai (Kajol), who comes to see her at school everyday.

Ducati PaulSmart1000LE

For the suspension, an Öhlins 43 mm upside-down fully adjustable fork is used for the front while a fully adjustable monoshock also from Ohlins is mounted on the left side of the rear wheel.

Edward S. Herman

Herman and Peterson wrote that the Western establishment has "swallowed a propaganda line on Rwanda that turned perpetrator and victim upside-down....the great majority of deaths were Hutu, with some estimates as high as two million".

Expektoration

The album has a Klingon theme, with a slightly altered, upside-down Klingon Empire logo on the front cover, DOOM's hype man Big Benn Klingon, and samples from the Power Klingon language kit throughout the set.

Fan service

Intertextual fan service is now being inserted into media aimed at younger children as well; this can be seen in Shreks upside-down kiss scene, which is a reference to an upside-down kiss scene in Spider-Man.

Gerrard Winstanley

The song, "The World Turned Upside Down," by English folksinger Leon Rosselson, weaves many of Winstanley's own words into the lyrics.

Gold and Fizdale

This lunch ended with Auric and Tailleferre taking the score of Thomson's "The Mother of Us All", which Thomson had given as a gift, turning it upside down on the piano and having Poulenc singing all of the roles (including Susan B. Anthony) in nonsense English syllables which were supposedly an imitation of Gertrude Stein's Libretto while Tailleferre and Auric improvised a four-hands version of Thomson's score.

Hari Hari

Hari Hari's main claim to fame occurred on 7 January 1931, when Australian aviator Guy Menzies landed upside down in a swamp near Hari Hari, completing the first solo flight across the Tasman Sea.

Hassan bin Mohamed bin Ali Al Thani

The first artwork he bought was an upside-down pyramid by a Doha-born painter called Yousef Ahmad.

Heinie Conklin

Claimed to be one of the original Keystone Kops, Conklin's silent screen makeup consisted heavy eyebrow lining and a thinnish, upside-down, painted-on variation of Kaiser Wilhelm's moustache.

History Upside Down: The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression

History Upside Down: The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression, is a book by author David Meir-Levi, published by Encounter Books in 2007.

Hook 'em Horns

A variant of the Horns, formed upside down with the thumb pointed outward, is often used by rivals of the Longhorns and is considered insulting, especially when performed by a player or coach of the team in question.

Jake Childs

“The Golden Boy: Producer-remixer Jake Childs wants to turn Houston’s house scene upside down.” Houston Press.

James Stevenson-Hamilton

Stevenson-Hamilton was dubbed “Skukuza” by the Tsonga Shangaans who lived on the reserve, meaning ‘the man who has turned everything upside down’ or ‘the man who swept clean’.

James V. McConnell

He decided to publish the satirical Worm Runner's Digest upside down with its cover as the back of the Journal of Biological Psychology to make it clear which articles were satire.

Joseph W. Boyle

Boyle was early to recognize the potential of large-scale gold mining in the Klondike gold fields, and as the initial placer mining operations waned after 1900, Boyle and other companies imported equipment to assemble enormous dredges, usually electric-powered, that took millions more ounces of gold from the creeks while turning the landscape upside-down, shifting creeks.

Kab 101

The next day Lifeboat #2 reached the shore west of Nuevo Progreso upside down, with 12 survivors on top, and one survivor and four bodies inside.

Lardy cake

As reported by the author Elizabeth David, a Hampshire cookbook advises that the cake be turned upside down after baking "so the lard can soak through."

Love Somebody Today

Love Somebody Today was one of four albums to be written and produced by Edwards and Rodgers in 1980, the other three being Sheila and B. Devotion's King of the World including its hit single "Spacer", Chic's fourth studio album Real People and Diana Ross' multi-platinum selling diana which includes "Upside Down", "I'm Coming Out" and "My Old Piano".

Martin Margiela

During the 1980s, the Japanese avantgardists, with Rei Kawakubo—creator of the label Comme des Garçons—had turned the fashion scene upside-down with their eccentric and ground-breaking designs.

Oxana Zubakova

Zubakova stated "I got back late one night about 11:30pm. I came to the door and it fell down on one side. It had been broken down with force. I walked in and everything was turned upside down. The computer was missing, the telephone. I thought I’d been robbed. But I looked at the shelf where my watches were – there were some expensive ones such as Rolex and Cartier – and they were still there."

Pittura infamante

Konrad von Landau, painted on the walls of Bologna for treachery; in response Landau created his own "pittura infamante" on the saddle of his horse, depicting the local politicians hung upside down by their feet in the hand of a giant whore.

Predicament escape

Classic examples include the Table of Death, Houdini's Chinese Water Torture Cell, Princess Tenko's escape from an exploding boat and the Upside Down Suspended Straitjacket escape, in which a performer is suspended high in the air from a burning rope.

Queens–Midtown Tunnel

In the 1997 feature film Men in Black, Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith star in a scene in which their Ford LTD car rides upside down on the ceiling of the tunnel.

Restoration of Peter

According to a tradition found in the apocryphal Acts of Peter, Peter was crucified upside-down.

Slaughter Daughter

"Do It or Die" and "Saved By Strangers" were produced by Ian D'Sa of Billy Talent fame and "Upside Down Cross" and "Lonely of a Woman" were produced by Junior Sanchez.

The Age of the Fall

The following night in Chicago Ridge, IL, after KENTA had defeated Black, Jacobs and his followers attacked again and tried to hang him by his ankles upside down above the ring.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Caroline and a group of other women—the Upside Down Society—are petitioning to let their children with Down Syndrome go to public school.

The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get

The cover art for the album features a British Sopwith Snipe fighter that appears to be flying upside down (sky blue

The World's Most Dangerous Magic

Dean Gunnarson-Gunnarson escaped suspended upside down hanging from a trapzee bar over a swamp of 130 hungry alligators in the Florida everglades covered in chicken meat and blood.

Tradeoffs for locomotion in air and water

Gymnotiform: undulations of a long anal fin, essentially upside down amiiform

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.

Will Hoy

The closest Will came was at Silverstone in 1993, when he was punted off onto his roof by team-mate Julian Bailey, an incident remembered for Murray Walker's commentary line "the car upside down is a Toyota", a play on the company's advertising slogan of the time (The car in front is a Toyota).

Young tableau

Since the former convention is mainly used by Anglophones while the latter is often preferred by Francophones, it is customary to refer to these conventions respectively as the English notation and the French notation; for instance, in his book on symmetric functions, Macdonald advises readers preferring the French convention to "read this book upside down in a mirror" (Macdonald 1979, p.2).