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2 unusual facts about Wait


Trichome

This distinction is not always easily applied (see Wait-a-minute tree).

Wait-a-while

Smilax australis, a vine that occurs in eastern Australia and the Northern Territory


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision

Pelin then noticed an aircraft on the screen coming from the direction of Metlika and asked Tasić about it, who said 'wait until they cross'.

Air Battle Force

Jeremy Magadevan of the New Straits Times described the novel as "sleep-inducing" and said that readers should "mail it to a terrorist and wait for him to die of boredom".

Andy Dugan

He produced and directed online spots featuring such talent as Jackson Browne, Sylvester Stallone and Mana for the "BURMA, It Can't Wait" campaign, as well as produced the groundbreaking HIV prevention campaign entitled "In The Moment".

Arnd Goldschmidt

However he had to wait until the 2004 retirement of Olympic medalists Stefan Ulm and Mark Zabel to get his chance in Germany's flagship K-4 1000 m crew.

Baby Washington

She has never experienced great crossover recognition, although Dusty Springfield once cited Washington as her all-time favorite singer and recorded "I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face".

Byron Stevenson

Stevenson had to wait until April 1976 before he got anything like a run of games when he made six successive league appearances replacing Paul Reaney at right back.

Cape Chelyuskin

The Maud continued eastwards into the Laptev Sea and the men were instructed to wait for the freeze-up of the Kara Sea and then sledge southwestwards towards Dikson carrying Amundsen's mail.

Chantal Claret

She is featured on the song "Wait (The Nexus)" by Mike Relm.

Die Harmonie der Welt

A truncated monaural recording of the opera appeared on the Stradivarius label, but a complete recording of the work had to wait until the digital era, when Marek Janowski conducted the entire opera for the Wergo label (see section Recordings).

Dudley Seddon

He had to wait a year to make his next first-class appearance, which came against Tasmania in 1927/28.

E. Pierce Marshall

In a February 9, 2007 interview with Fox News Channel's John Gibson, Rusty Hardin, the family's attorney, said that the family would wait until Smith's immediate affairs in the wake of her sudden death are disclosed before discussing the status of litigation.

Earshot

It includes the breakthrough hit "Wait," which was featured on the Madden NFL 2005 video game soundtrack and the MX vs. ATV Unleashed video game soundtrack.

Faroe Islands national under-21 football team

Faroe Islands had to wait until their fourth match for the first under-21 victory, it came when they beat Azerbaijan 1-0 in Toftir.

Flow Joe

It contains samples of "Get Out of My Life, Woman" by Lee Dorsey and "The Long Wait" by Morton Stevens.

Frantic Romantic

# "Don't Wait for the Boys" (written by Jermaine Stewart; Copyright BFG Publishing), released on A Tribute to Jermaine Stewart, Attention.

Hubert Kah

Together with Michael Cretu, Kemmler wrote and produced songs for other artists, including "Dancing Into Danger" by Inker & Hamilton, "Love at First Sight" by the band Münchener Freiheit and a number of tracks by Sandra such as "Maria Magdalena", "Heaven Can Wait", when wife Susanna Kemmler was partly responsible for the background vocals.

Ice hotel

This picturesque setting is next to Bâlea Lake, where each year local craftsmen wait for the lake to freeze, before using the ice to build the small 14 room Ice Hotel and its adjacent Ice Church.

Images and Words

"Take the Time" includes a sample from Frank Zappa's 1979 song "Dancin' Fool", specifically Zappa saying "Wait a minute...", as well as Kurtis Blow's 1980 song "Christmas Rappin'", in which Blow says "Hold it now..."

Iostat

This is because iostat can misinterpret one processor being in a state where it is waiting for I/O, as meaning that all processors in the system are having to wait.

Karl Linn

With an overflowing wait list for plots in the refurbished Karl Linn Community Garden, he set his sights on a large weed-filled vacant lot across the street where the light rail tracks of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) enter an underground tunnel.

Kumar Shahani

He returned to India to make his first feature film Maya Darpan in 1972 and had to wait twelve years before he received funding to make his next full length feature film, Tarang.

Kuroneko

The women return as ghosts with the appearance of fine ladies, who wait at Rajōmon.

Lascivious Biddies

Biddi-luxe!, their debut album, was released in 2002, the I Feel Biddy E.P. was released in 2003 in wait for their next full album and finally Get Lucky was released in October 2004.

Love Won't Let Me Wait

"Love Won't Let Me Wait" is a 1975 single by Major Harris, a former member of R&B/soul group The Delfonics.

Lower Moreland Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Harry Elfont - Screenwriter and director of Can't Hardly Wait and Josie and the Pussycats, was inducted into Lower Moreland High School's Hall of Fame in 1998.

Mataiasi Ragigia

Mary Chapman, Parliament's Secretary-General, revealed, however, that Ragigia had written to Parliamentary Speaker Pita Nacuva to explain his absence on mainly medical grounds, and that Nacuva would wait for the report of the next medical examination before making a decision on whether to declare Ragigia's seat vacant.

Megumi Hinata

She has also translated lyrics for other artists from English to Japanese (Hilary Duff's song "I Can't Wait", for example) as well as from Japanese to English.

Naga Kingdom

Vasuki, Takshaka, and the Naga called Airavata, Krishna and Lohita (see Lauhitya), Padma, Chitra, Kamvala, Aswatara, Dhritarashtra, Valahaka, Matimat, Kundadhara, Karkotaka, Dhananjaya, Panimat, Kundaka, Prahlada, Mushikada and Janamejaya wait upon Varuna.

Nuclear program of Saudi Arabia

In October 2013, Amos Yadlin, a former head of Israeli military intelligence, told a conference in Sweden that if Iran got the bomb, "the Saudis will not wait one month. They already paid for the bomb, they will go to Pakistan and bring what they need to bring."

Outrun the Sky

The response to her latest album is such that Lalah considers the wait between albums to have been worth it: “I’m so happy about the reaction, it’s a real validation” and it comes towards the end of a year that has included a number of highpoints including her participation in the “Daughters Of Soul” European tour which was created by Sandra St. Victor and involved Lalah, Simone (daughter of Nina Simone), Milini Khan (Chaka’s daughter), Nona Hendryx and Joyce Kennedy.

PL/I

It comprised the data types EVENT and TASK, the TASK-option on the CALL-statement (Fork), the WAIT-statement (Join), the DELAY(delay-time), EVENT-options on the record I/O statements and the UNLOCK statement to unlock locked records on EXCLUSIVE files.

Quebec Autoroute 50

There is some support to rename the highway to Autoroute Maurice-Richard after historic Montreal Canadiens hockey player Maurice Richard, but the Commission de toponymie du Québec has chosen to wait until the section between Buckingham and Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours is finished before making a decision.

Rina Ketty

She went to Paris in the 1930s and in 1938 and 1939 made her breakthrough with songs like Sombreros et mantilles and J'attendrai (literally: "I shall wait").

Russian Mental Health Law

According to Moscow psychiatrist Alexander Danilin, the Mental Health Law is certainly a progressive thing but, in reality, nothing changes because the real change is of the attitude of specialists which, however, we will still have to have a long wait for.

Samson Raphaelson

All directed by Lubitsch, the three were Trouble in Paradise, Heaven Can Wait, and Raphaelson’s favorite, The Shop Around the Corner, which had starred James Stewart and Margaret Sullivan and which Kael wrote was “as close to perfection as a movie made by mortals is ever likely to be; it couldn’t be the airy wonder it was without the structure Raphaelson built into it.” (The story was remade in 1998 as You've Got Mail, with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.)

SMS Helgoland

The fleet arrived at the Fjord of Songe by 18 July, but Helgoland had to wait until after midnight for a harbor pilot to guide her into the confined waters of the fjord.

Stanley Harbour

In December 1914, the harbour was the base for a British Squadron lying in wait for the German Far East Squadron led by Adm. Graf von Spee.

Steve Watkin

Watkin made his first-class debut against Worcestershire in 1986, taking the wickets of Graeme Hick and Phil Neale, and also played two Sunday League games, but had to wait until 1988 for a second chance.

Supersemar

He said he had asked Third Deputy Prime Minister Johannes Leimena to take a written order to Suharto, and that he would wait to see what Suharto's reaction was – whether he would obey it or not.

Takashi Nagai

He prolonged the day of hospitalization to wait for the statue of Our Lady, a gift from the Italian Catholic Medical Association.

Taoranting Park

A former location for literati to get together, while most of Beijing's gardens were reserved only for imperial families during the Qing Dynasty, it gained its name from a poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi, "Wait till the chrysanthemums are yellow and home-made wine is ripe, (I'll) drink with you and be carefree."(更待菊黄家酿熟,与君一醉一陶然).

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Satoru Iwata felt that having both versions would satisfy users in the end, even though they would have to wait for the finished product.

The Lillingtons

The album included the song "Wait It Out", written by Ben Weasel and later re-recorded by The Riverdales for their record Phase Three.

The Parliaments

Several songs from the early repertoire of the Parliaments would be re-recorded on future Parliament and Funkadelic albums, including "Testify," "The Goose," "All Your Goodies Are Gone," "Fantasy Is Reality," "Good Ole Music," "I Can Feel The Ice Melting," "What You Been Growing," "I'll Wait," and "That Was My Girl."

Three Hearts

Don't Wait Too Long" is a reworking of "Good Things (Come to Those who Wait)", a Welch composition that had been left off the Fleetwood Mac album Mystery to Me.

Vinnie Barrett

Love Won't Let Me Wait / After Loving You (7", Single) Love Won't Let Me Wait (1974)

W.F.O.

The Wait/New High in Lows" sampled from the movie, Carlito's Way.

Whose Body?

This theme is picked up in Strong Poison, taking place seven years later, when Freddy at last manages to convince Rachel's family to consent to the match despite his being a gentile - after Freddy compared his long wait with that of the Biblical Jacob for his Rachel.

XCore XS1

A program will normally perform its computations and then wait for an event (e.g. a message, time, or external I/O event) before continuing.


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