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2 unusual facts about Wasn't That a Mighty Storm


Wasn't That a Mighty Storm

The song started as a spiritual and was first recorded by John A. Lomax in 1934 at Darrington State Farm (now the Darrington Unit), a prison near Sandy Point, Texas, and sung by "Sin-Killer" Griffin, who claimed authorship.

"Wasn't That a Mighty Storm" is an American folk song concerning the 1900 hurricane that destroyed Galveston, Texas.


1926–27 Detroit Cougars season

Olympia Stadium wasn't finished being built in time for the 1926–27 season, so the Cougars began play in Border Cities Arena right across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario.

1989 Australian Touring Car Championship

Holden's lack of interest in the 1989 ATCC wasn't well received either by the fans or television broadcaster Channel 7.

2013 British Touring Car Championship season

Matt Neal won the race after taking the lead from Nick Foster on lap three, however it wasn't plain sailing.

2013–14 Cincinnati Saints season

On January 8, team president David Satterwhite announced that head coach Matt Breines "simply wasn't the right fit" for the organization and that he would be replaced by interim head coach Chris Morman for the remainder of the season.

Ali Haydar Şen

But it wasn't enough to convince Ali Şen, and at the end of the season both players and Emre Aşık were sacked, leading to huge controversy amongst the club's faithful.

Aryana Sayeed

It wasn't long before Aryana Sayeed was signed on by one of the leading entertainment channels inside of Afghanistan, 1TV.

Ayala Truelove

After plucking up the courage to take the lesson, Ayala was able to overcome her own fear of flying: "After that first flight I wasn’t afraid any longer. I joined the gliding club at my university, and soon I had fallen in love with the sport."

Boukary Dramé

Drame played two years in PSG he wasn't a manly player of the team, and he played poorly only 25 matches in two years.

Chuck Feeney

Feeney cooperated in the publication of a biography about him by Conor O'Clery, The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Made and Gave Away a Fortune Without Anyone Knowing (ISBN 978-1-58648-391-3).

Crawford Mystery Theatre

Internet Archive has two episodes, "The Case of the Comic-Strip Murder" (September 20, 1951) and "The Case of the Man Who Wasn't There" (January 17, 1952).

Dai Morgan Evans

The "villa urbana" erected at Wroxeter during the Channel 4 series Rome Wasn't Built in a Day was designed by Morgan Evans and is based on one of the villas excavated on the Wroxeter site.

Dick Zimmerman

But it wasn’t until 1973, when the movie The Sting began the revival of ragtime with a musical score by Marvin Hamlisch, which adapted the original rags of Scott Joplin, that Zimmerman turned his attention to performing and recording.

Djehutihotep

Lived under the reigns of Amenemhat II, Senusret II and Senusret III, Djehutihotep was one of the most powerful nomarchs of the Middle Kingdom; his tomb is the only one of the necropolis of Deir el-Bersha which wasn't damaged by the quarrymen's explosives, and is well known for the great quality of its decorations.

Dobbins Air Reserve Base

Legend has it that the only reason the building wasn't burned to the ground during Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's "March to the Sea" in 1864 was because the building's owner, a British citizen, had flown the British flag during the occupation of Marietta, part of the Atlanta Campaign.

Ecurie Bonnier

In the first race of the season at Hockenheim Marko wasn't classified because he failed to finish in both heats.

Everybody Cries

Whilst discussing the single during the ITV2 documentary The Big Reunion, band member Kelli Young revealed that the band were worried that releasing "Everybody Cries" as a single would be a risk, and she wasn't sure whether the fans "would get it", as the song was a power ballad.

Expensive Tape Recorder

In 1984, when Jack Dennis asked if they could recognize Beethoven, Computer Museum meeting minutes record the authors as saying, "It wasn't bad, considering."

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn

It was also not the first use of profanity since the Production Code came into effect – Warner Bros. made a "blooper" reel featuring Looney Tunes character Porky Pig saying the word "bitch", though the "blooper" reel was an inside joke and wasn't released publicly until 2006.

Gail Furman

At the second meeting of the Democracy Alliance in October 2005, Furman "demanded to know why the alliance wasn't creating a 'nerve center' that could book progressives on TV news shows".

Giovanni Passannante

In 1998, the then Italian Minister of Justice, Oliviero Diliberto, authored a decree allowing for the displacement of his remains to Savoia di Lucania, but it wasn't acted on until 2007.

Harry Frei

It wasn't until the age of 31 that he made his first-class cricket debut, picked to play against a Bob Willis led England XI.

Heinz Lammerding

In 1953, he was tried for war crimes for the massacre of Tulle and Oradour-sur-Glane and sentenced to death in absentia by the court of Bordeaux, but he wasn't extradited by West Germany.

Hickory Wind

In 2002, an article on the website www.folklinks.com controversially claimed that "Hickory Wind" wasn't, in fact, written by Gram Parsons, but by Sylvia Sammons—a blind folksinger from Greenville, South Carolina—with Bob Buchanan later contributing an additional verse.

I Was Killing When Killing Wasn't Cool

"I Was Killing When Killing Wasn't Cool" was the first of Columbia's comics to conspicuously show the influence of the animated cartoons of Fleischer Studios, particularly the Out of the Inkwell series with Koko the Clown and "dark" cartoons such as Bimbo's Initiation.

It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown

It wasn't the first time Jahan had substituted for another performer as a dancer—she doubled for Jennifer Beals in Flashdance as well.

Jack Fina

He started out playing piano in Clyde McCoy's band sometime in the 1930s, but it wasn't until he joined Freddy Martin’s band in 1936 that he gained real fame, when he was featured on Martin’s famous recording of "Tonight We Love".

Jean Noël Desmarais

Born in Sudbury, Ontario, the brother of Louis Desmarais, he wasn't involved in politics before being appointed to the Senate of Canada representing the senatorial division of Sudbury, Ontario in 1993.

JLF

The raid wasn't due however to the fact that JLF was selling analogues of then illegal drugs, but rather it was a part of a larger Food and Drug Administration (FDA) crackdown against a large group of herbal medicine providers.

Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre

His next major appearance on record wasn't until 1998, with Pheeroan akLaff and Michael Logan; the following year, he played with many AACM ensemble members on the album Bright Moments.

Medal of Honor Aircraft

Some aircraft were recognized following their crew's award but were not preserved, including Butch O'Hare's F4F, which wasn't stricken until two and one half years after his MoH action, as well as Maj. James H. Howard's "borrowed" P-51, whose identity remains a mystery.

Medical Center of Central Georgia

In 1960, the hospital became a member of the American Hospital Association, though it wasn't until 11 years later, in 1971, that the name was changed to The Medical Center of Central Georgia.

MS Princesa Marissa

However, she stayed in finnlines traffic for the time being, as a buyer wasn't found until September 1977 when she was sold to Birka Line, Finland, with the price of 50 million Swedish kronor, to be delivered in January 1978.

Nancy Addison

When Addison wasn't acting, she volunteered a considerable amount of her time to helping children with HIV/AIDS.

Natalia Lafourcade

When she was 17, Loris Ceroni gave Natalia the opportunity to be in a pop/rock group under his guidance, but when she wasn't sure, he encouraged her to go solo.

Niklaus Meienberg

The Austrian writer Erich Hackl thinks, Meienberg killed himself, because he wasn’t anymore able to bear the course of the world.

Rita Brannigan

However, Jasmine's boss, John McNally, wasn't pleased with the article and edited it so the story detailed the scandal caused by Hari and also made it seem like Paddy was in on it.

Sky Lakes Medical Center

In 1968, the hospital became a member of the American Hospital Association, though it wasn't until the 1970s, that the name was changed to Merle West Medical Center.

Steve Curtis

He won his second title in 1987, but it wasn't until 1998 that he won his third title as throttleman on Spirit of Norway, with driving partner Bjørn Rune Gjelsten.

Steve Englehart

When the plot did not arrive, I called him, and he denied he'd ever made any commitment to delivery by Friday — as far as he was concerned, artist Steven M. Biskupic

In an April 20, 2007 article TPM muckraker reporter Paul Kiel noted:"the federal appeals court released its written opinion on the case. And it wasn't any more sparing than the verbal remarks (e.g. that the evidence was "beyond thin") of the judges when they made the ruling.

Streaming audio in video games

It wasn't until Creative Labs's Sound Blaster series, introduced in 1989, that PCs became capable of playing back pre-recorded audio.

The Classics

The follow-up, "Angel Angela", also narrowly missed the national charts, and the 1961 single "Life Is But a Dream" hit the lower regions of the Black Singles chart when Mercury Records picked it up for national distribution, but it wasn't until they released the single "Blue Moon" with Herb Lance on lead vocals that they charted a hit.

The FBI Story

But it wasn't until a KGB agent, Reino Häyhänen, wanted to defect in May, 1957, would the FBI be able to link the nickel to KGB agents, including Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher (aka Rudolph Ivanovich Abel) in the Hollow Nickel Case.

The Week That Wasn't

The Week That Wasn't is an Indian satirical late night television programme hosted by Cyrus Broacha and shown on the CNN-IBN channel.

Tommy Bowe

He wasn't included for the next two games before coming back for the match against Western Province where he scored his fourth try of the tour and set up another for Ugo Monye.

When It All Falls Apart

Eiza González a.k.a. "Lola" (for her role in the Mexican soap opera Lola...Érase una vez, or Lola...Once Upon a Time) is a Mexican singer/actress who made a cover in Spanish of this song called "Lo Que No Fue Sera" ("What Wasn't Will Be") for the soundtrack of the Mexican soap opera Lola... Érase una vez.

Williams FW09

The problems with the 1984 chassis were noted by broadcaster Clive James, opining in FOCA's season review video that Rosberg had managed "to make the Williams look driveable, which everyone including Frank Williams knew it really wasn't".

Win–loss

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You Sang to Me

The song was written and produced by Marc Anthony and Cory Rooney, and like the previous English single from Marc Anthony also a Spanish version was recorded, but wasn't included on the first edition of the album.


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