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2 unusual facts about Vancé


AMR 33

Around 10:00, the 10th of May, near Vancé, AMR 33 N° 83950 of 3e DLC had the dubious distinction of being the first French tank to be destroyed in the battle, being hit by German anti-tank gunfire, killing the crew.

Josiah Jamison

Josiah Jamison (born in Vance, South Carolina on August 18, 1982) is an American Paralympian.


1946–47 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team

The starting lineup included 4 of the 5 Whiz Kids, guards Smiley and Vance, forwards Phillip and Ken Menke as well as All-American guard Walt Kirk and Fred Green at center.

Agri Broadcast Network

Lindsay Hill, associate farm director and co-founder of Buckeye Ag Radio Network "The Barn" (and wife of Vance) died in a two vehicle accident at the intersection of Ohio State Routes 235 and 41 just north of New Carlisle and west of North Hampton near Springfield, Ohio on Thursday morning May 19,2011 while she was a new employee for AgDay, a television program produced by Farm Journal Magazine.

Arizona Green Party

Prominent Green candidates in Arizona have included Vance Hansen, who ran for the US Senate in 2000 and received 108,926 votes, Claudia Ellquist who ran for Pima County Attorney in 2004 on a platform largely focused on declaring a moratorium on the death penalty, and Dave Croteau who ran for mayor of Tucson in 2007 on a platform of relocalization and received over 28% of the vote.

At Vance

Several of At Vance's albums contain transcriptions of classical pieces such as the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and "Spring" and "Summer" from Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons."

With the combined credentials of vocalist Oliver Hartmann and guitarist Olaf Lenk on their résumés, At Vance easily obtained a deal with Shark Records.

Barefoot skiing

The tumble-turn maneuver was 'invented' by accident during a double barefoot routine in 1960 when Terry Vance fell onto his back during a step-off and partner Don Thomson (still on his skis) spun him around forward, enabling Vance to regain a standing posture.

Byron Cherry

A few years later, due to merchandising conflicts, Schneider and co-star Tom Wopat walked out on the show, and Cherry, along with close friend Christopher Mayer, were called in to replace them as Coy and Vance Duke.

Carson Mansion

At about the same time, Carson was involved in the founding of the Eel River and Eureka Railroad with John Vance.

CFS Carp Dunrobin Detachment

The Dunrobin Detachment was a military-operated radio communications receiver station linked by land line to CFS Carp located on the corner of Dunrobin Road and Vance's Side Road NW of Dunrobin, Ontario.

D. Van Holliday

Dale Vance Holliday (May 29, 1940 – February 4, 2010) was born in Ennis, Texas and attended the University of Texas at Austin.

Danitra Vance

Vance ultimately chose to leave SNL at the end of the 1986 season (along with many other cast members from that season who were dismissed, including Joan Cusack, Robert Downey, Jr., Randy Quaid, Anthony Michael Hall, and Terry Sweeney—this last, another homosexual cast member, recruited for the 1985-1986 cast, was the show's only gay male to be hired as of 2012.

Dar Sai

Dar Sai is a fictional planet referenced in author Jack Vance's fourth "Demon Princes" novel, The Face.

Dying Earth

According to pulp editor Sam Merwin, Vance's earliest magazine submissions in the 1940s were heavily influenced by the style of James Branch Cabell.

Furniture Style

The magazine was based in Lincolnshire, Illinois, at Vance Publishing's corporate headquarters; it was founded in October 1996.

George Leybourne

Leybourne and Alfred Vance, also known as The Great Vance, have always been seen as rivals, an opinion amplified by the 1944 film Champagne Charlie.

Hal Fryar

He appeared under the name "Harlow Hickenlooper" and was one of a trio of hosts with Curley Myers and Captain Star (Jerry Vance aka Larry Vincent).

Jack Vance

Vance's grandfather supposedly arrived in California from Michigan a decade before the Gold Rush and married a San Francisco girl.

Bad Ronald was adapted to a not particularly faithful TV movie aired on ABC in 1974, as well as a French production (Méchant garçon) in 1992; this and Man in the Cage are the only works by Vance ever to be made into film.

Joseph Vance

Vance was a delegate to the 1848 Whig National Convention and was a member of the Ohio State Constitutional Convention in 1851.

Linda Fairstein

Fairstein assisted District Attorney Vance in his decision not to prosecute Dominique Strauss-Kahn for sexual assault in 2012.

Louis D. Rubin, Jr.

He served as mentor and writing teacher to many of them, including novelists Lee Smith, Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, Annie Dillard, and Sylvia Wilkinson; poets Jane Gentry Vance and Elizabeth Seydel Morgan; literary editor Shannon Ravenel; literary critics Anne Goodwyn Jones and Lucinda MacKethan; and many more.

Major Victory

Major Victory (Marvel Comics), a name used by Marvel Comics character Vance Astro of the Guardians of the Galaxy

Mate Boban

Boban met with Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadžić during May 1992 in Graz, Austria where they agreed on mutual cooperation in the division of Bosnia and Herzegovina that became known as the Graz agreement (the pair met again on 2 September 1993 in Montenegro in order to coordinate their actions after the Bosniaks rejected the Vance-Owen peace plan).

Mick Moon

On 12 May 2008, the Rupert Vance Moon V.C. Memorial Garden was unveiled at the Mount Duneed Cemetery, with a large crowd in attendance, including Moon's descendents, representatives from the Returned and Services League of Australia, and past and present soldiers.

Moss Icon

Its original members are singer Jonathan Vance, guitarist Tonie Joy, bassist Monica DiGialleonardo, and drummer Mark Laurence.

Pinto Colvig

Vance DeBar "Pinto" Colvig (September 11, 1892 – October 3, 1967) was an American vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor and circus performer, whose schtick was playing the clarinet off-key while mugging.

Rascal Video

In the past decade, the label has also signed exclusives Blake Riley, Jeremy Bilding, Mitchell Rock, Brent Everett, Benjamin Bradley and Vance Winter.

Ring of Fire III

# "All God's Children in the Burning East" by Garrett W. Vance covers the troubles of Japanese emigres in the Siamese kingdom of Ayutthaya and their move to the Khmer kingdom.

Rough Edges

#"She Lets Her Hair Down (Early in the Morning)" (Leon Carr, Paul Vance)

Sheldon B. Vance

Sheldon Baird Vance (January 18, 1917 – November 12, 1995), born in Crookston, Minnesota, was the U.S. ambassador to Zaire from May 27, 1969 through March 26, 1974.

Sittin' in My Car

It was released on February 14, 1995 and was produced by Vance Wright, with a remix done by Jermaine Dupri and beatboxing done by Doug E. Fresh.

Tessa Vance

Senior Detective Tessa Vance is a fictional character from a series of detective novels by Jennifer Rowe and TV show Murder Call.

The Canary Murder Case

A film, The Canary Murder Case, was made by Paramount Pictures in 1929, directed by Malcolm St. Clair and Frank Tuttle and starring William Powell as Philo Vance and Louise Brooks as the Canary.

The Casino Murder Case

The Casino Murder Case (1935) starred Paul Lukas as Philo Vance and was a fairly faithful reproduction of the principal details of the novel.

The Detergents

Vance also produced a 1962 collaboration between Jordan and Artie Wayne: "Find a Little Happiness" a Diamond Records release credited to Jordan and Wayne.

The Gracie Allen Murder Case

The novel was adapted into a 1939 film starring Gracie Allen (who received billing above Warren William's portrayal of Philo Vance) which was fairly faithful to the novel.

The Greene Murder Case

Czech television produced TV movie Vyvraždění rodiny Greenů in 2002, directed by Jiří Strach and starring Jiří Dvořák as Philo Vance.

The Scarab Murder Case

In this book, detective Philo Vance's murder investigation takes place in a private home that doubles as a museum of Egyptology, and the solution depends in part on Vance's extensive knowledge of Egyptian history and customs, which enable him to sort through suggestions of godly vengeance and reveal the misdirections perpetrated by the real murderer.

The Winter Murder Case

"The decline in the last six Vance books is so steep that the critic who called the ninth of them one more stitch in his literary shroud was not overstating the case." wrote Julian Symons in Bloody Murder.

"This is Van Dine's last work, left in an only semi-expanded outline form at the time of his death. Philo Vance is still the detective but the pseudo-scholarly footnotes are not in evidence nor is the pearl-handled telephone. In fact, this short book is pleasant reading; add your own nostalgia if you wish.", according to Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor in A Catalogue of Crime.

Thug Misses

#"You My Girl" (featuring Markus Vance) (K. Chambers, M. Vance) – 4:28

Vance Johnson

Johnson owned his own real estate company in Grand Junction, Colorado, and is now the owner of Vance's Epicurious in Grand Junction and VJ's Outlaw Ribs in Parachute, Colorado, where he lived with his son, Scott.

William Vance

Vance meanwhile started two new series, Ramiro, with stories set in medieval Spain, and from 1976 onwards, Bruce J. Hawker, his personal favourite, starring a lieutenant with the Royal Navy.

This science fiction series, based on the novels by Henri Vernes, was started by Dino Attanasio and continued by Gerald Forton before Vance took over and made it a success.

Zebulon Baird Vance

A portrait of Vance hangs in the Dialectic Chamber of The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


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