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15 unusual facts about Witness


Andrew J. Kuehn

Mr. Kuehn developed trailers for films including the original Jaws, the Indiana Jones trilogy, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Schindler's List, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, The French Connection, The Sting, Funny Girl, Aliens, Top Gun, Back to the Future, JFK, and Witness.

Crownhill

"Union Street (Last Post)", a track on the 2006 Album "Witness" by contemporary West Country folk duo "Show of Hands" features Crownhill as the home of one of the song's subjects.

Damon Johnson

He would later get his first taste of "bands with record deals" as the guitarist for the Atlanta, Georgia band Witness in 1988 and with the Memphis, Tennessee band, Delta Rebels, in 1989.

Eyewitness

Witness, someone who has knowledge about a crime or dramatic event through first-hand experience via any of the senses

Kira Salak

Several of Salak's short stories have been published in journals such as Prairie Schooner, The Massachusetts Review, Quarterly West and Witness.

Mass graves in Chechnya

According to eyewitnesses, they decided to go public about the mass grave only after an official investigation of the mass grave in Grozny began in June, the wounded were finished-off by sniper and the bodies were then collected by the military and buried together with their smashed vehicles in an enormous pit on the territory of an asphalt factory.

Nestor the Chronicler

As an eyewitness he could describe only the reigns of Vsevolod I and Svyatopolk II (1078–1112), but he could have gathered many interesting details from the lips of old men, two of whom could have been Giurata Rogovich of Novgorod, who could give him information concerning the north of Rus', Pechora River, and other places, and Yan Vyshatich, a nobleman ninety years of age, who died in 1106.

Northern Downpour

A news reporter interviews an eyewitness about it, who has "You clicked your heels and wished for me" printed on his shirt.

Park Seong-won

From 1986 to 1990, Park worked in the World Alliance of Reformed Churches as Assistant to General Secretary, with the responsibility of coordinating a theological study programme, “Called To Witness To the Gospel Today”.

From 1995 to 2004 Park was invited again to work for the World Alliance of Reformed Churches as Executive Secretary of the Department of Cooperation and Witness.

Stephen Wiley

The latter album sought to bring in fans of more traditional gospel by including harmonies from gospel group Witness on the song "Real".

The Burglars

Follows a chase between Azad and the corrupt cop through Athens' streets which culminates to the final scene which will be later borrowed by Witness in 1982.

Unexplained Mysteries

The show deals with eyewitness accounts of paranormal activity, especially aliens, UFOs, and ghosts; almost all of them rehashed reports from the series Sightings.

William Weston Patton

Where Patton only wrote "of the Christ we are to see", Howe testified that her eyes had already "seen the glory of the coming of the Lord".

Witness: Five Plays from the Gospel of Luke

Each play was followed by a 15 minute documentary presented by Ernie Rea on the themes covered in the preceding play.


2013 Glasgow helicopter crash

One witness, Gordon Smart, editor of the Scottish Sun newspaper, stated that he did not see a fireball or hear an explosion, and that the engine seemed to be misfiring.

Aarne Ruben

He goes to the pilgrimage into the Council of Constance and become a witness of the condemning and burning of Jan Hus.

Adolf Hitler's possible monorchism

In November 2008, the discovery of an eye-witness account on how Hitler was treated after being shot on the Western Front during World War I was announced in the press.

Akhtar Abdur Rahman

General Akhtar and General Zia along with a number of other top Pakistani military personnel were earlier in Bahawalpur to witness a US M1 Abrams tank demonstration.

Albert Meserlin

With the passing of British Staff Sergeant Susan Hibbert, Mr. Meserlin was believed to be the last surviving witness to the German surrender ceremony at the end of World War II.

Angela Cannings

Expert witness Professor Sir Roy Meadow was later temporarily struck off the General Medical Council register partly as a result of his evidence at the Cannings trial.

Antillean Adventist University

Walter J. Brown, then president of the college, provided an eye witness account for the Adventist flagship journal, the Review and Herald.

Australia at the 1996 Summer Paralympics

Media outlets that covered Australia at the Paralympics included Who Weekly, ABC Radio National, Nine Network's Today Show, Channel Seven's AM and Witness programs, and coverage in all the national newspapers.

Baglan Taluka

A grand fair is held there annually during Kartik (September–October) where Hindus and Jains visit in large numbers to witness the grand rath yatra.

Biblical Witness Fellowship

Founded in 1978 as the United Church People for Biblical Witness, the movement reorganized as the Biblical Witness Fellowship at a national convocation in Byfield, Massachusetts in 1984, hosted by the current president of BWF, the Rev. Dr. William Boylan.

Brenda Jefferson Foster

Brenda Jefferson Foster (born 1955 - May 17, 2010 Lake Providence, Louisiana) was a witness for the prosecution in the 2008-2009 trials of her older siblings Betty Jefferson and Mose Jefferson, Betty Jefferson's daughter Angela Coleman, and Mose Jefferson's companion former City Councilwoman Renée Gill Pratt.

Carmine Schiavone

After living in the Witness Protection Program for some years, Schiavione retired to live in the province of Viterbo, with his wife and two children.

Cecil Chesterton

That same year he bought Belloc's failing weekly Eye-Witness; Charles Granville who published it had been made bankrupt.

Der Wixxer

At some point, a tourist couple from Bitterfeld gets lost in the woods and witness a murder: the Monk with the Whip gets overrun by a truck.

Don Alden Adams

By the 1960s, Adams served directly under the Governing Body as a zone overseer, visiting various countries to audit branch offices and meet with Witness missionaries.

Freidank

During the crusade he may have reached Jaffa and was probably a witness of the conclusion of the peace treaty with Sultan Al-Kamil on 18 February 1229 at Jerusalem and Frederick's self-coronation as King of Jerusalem.

Giles v. California

In a majority opinion by Justice Scalia, the Court held that a defendant only forfeited his confrontation rights when he intended to procure the unavailability of the witness.

Hichem Yacoubi

He is a hostile witness, willing to testify against the Corsican mafia group which is led by a fellow inmate, César Luciani (Niels Arestrup).

Hikmet Fidan

According to a Milliyet daily report, Tarık Fidan said his father was against political interference coming from Abdullah Öcalan or the PKK groups in the north of Iraq, adding: “It's obvious who committed the murder. When one puts the pieces together, it points in one direction.” He said his father supported democratic efforts instead of armed confrontation, adding, “My father was a threat to them. He was dividing the organization. I was a witness to many threats made against him.”

Howard Russell Butler

In 1918, Butler's association with Carnegie led to him being invited to witness and record the 1918 Solar eclipse that was observed from Baker City in Oregon.

Ingram Wilcox

He also appeared a few times on Fifteen to One in 1995 and 1996, and was a notable witness to the famous outtake where host William G. Stewart dropped his question cards whilst explaining the rules of the first round in 1995.

Jerry Cruncher

Back in England, he helps Sydney Carton "get something" on the paid government witness and spy, John Barsad.

Jerry Fodor on mental architecture

Thomas Kuhn (1962), Norwood Russell Hanson (1958) and Nelson Goodman (1968), for example, maintain that the perception of the world depends on how the percipient conceives the world: two individuals (two scientists) who witness the same phenomenon and are steeped in two radically different theories will see two radically different things.

John Hanbury-Williams

In 1934 he appeared as a witness in Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia’s famous and successful libel suit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Limited following the release in England of the film Rasputin, the Mad Monk (USA title: Rasputin and the Empress).

John Zarnecki

In 1961, the school gave its pupils a day off to witness the first person in space, Yuri Gagarin, visiting the tomb of Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery nearby.

Liberhan Commission

Appointed by former prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao two weeks after the demolition on 6 December 1992, to ward off criticism against his government for having failed to protect the mosque, the commission in August 2005 finished hearing its last witness Kalyan Singh – who was Uttar Pradesh chief minister at the time of the demolition and was dismissed soon after.

Lorcan Cranitch

He appeared in several other British television dramas, including Deacon Brodie (with Billy Connolly), Shackleton (as Frank Wild) with Kenneth Branagh, Omagh, Hornblower (with Ioan Gruffudd), The Street, Waking the Dead, Spooks, Silent Witness and New Tricks.

Mahmut Bakalli

In 2002, Bakalli was the first witness to testify at The Hague International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at the trial of Slobodan Milošević.

Main Khiladi Tu Anari

Mona (Shilpa Shetty), a cabaret singer and Goli's mistress, agrees to testify against Goli and is placed into witness protection by Inspector Karan (Akshay Kumar), Arjun's younger brother, who aims to fight any injustice and avenge his brother's murder.

McFarlane v Relate Avon Ltd

The case attracted significant media attention due to the issues involved, particularly the balance of religious and LGBT rights, the intervention of former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, Lord Carey of Clifton, who provided a witness statement in support of the application, and the judge's strongly worded rebuttal of the applicant's submissions.

Meredith Emerson

Two days later on January 4, 2008, a witness at a Chevron gas station called DeKalb police and stated that "The guy you are looking for is cleaning out his van."

Molangoor Quilla

The ruins of palaces, Garrisons, stables and other structures stand as mute witness to the valour and pride of the fort.

Nancy Oestreich Lurie

Between 1954 and 1963, Lurie worked frequently as a researcher and expert witness for tribal petitioners in cases brought before the U. S. Indian Claims Commission, including Lower Kutenai (Ktunaxa), Lower Kalispe l(Kalispel), Quileute, Sac and Fox Nation, Winnebago (aka Ho-Chunk), Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, Eastern Potawatomi; after 1963 she appeared as an expert witness in regard to the Wisconsin Chippewa and Menominee in federal courts.

Oberstaufenbach

He enjoyed worldwide fame, bearing witness to which was his engagement at the age of 31 as a violin soloist at Bayreuth’s Festspielhaus.

Phosterius the Hermit

Due to the testimony to the truth of the Christian faith given by the witness of his holy life many people left the heresy of Iconoclasm.

Robert Vas

Barrie Gavin and Alan Rosenthal, 'Witness: In Memoriam, Robert Vas', Sight and Sound, Summer 1978 pp.

Rudolf Olden

A witness recalled she had resisted persuasion from fellow passenger-victim, Colonel James Baldwin-Webb, to board a lifeboat in order to remain with her ill husband.

Salvatore Contorno

Salvatore "Totuccio" Contorno (born May 28, 1946) is a former member of the Sicilian Mafia who turned into a state witness against Cosa Nostra in October 1984, following the example of Tommaso Buscetta.

Shedden massacre

The star witness testified to a bungled and 'cheap' plot, led by an indecisive Kellestine: "They were at the very bottom rung of biker gangs. Some were in their 40s but still lived with their parents. They were not making any money, many of them had been rejected by the Hells Angels and half of them didn't even own a motorbike".

Steve Ferrigno

He served under the rule of Joseph Magliocco and was later implicated in drug trafficking and other crimes by government witness Joseph Valachi.

Syd Lieberman

He interviewed the principal scientists and engineers involved in the project, and was present in 2004 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, to witness the historic landing.

Tague

James Tague (b. 1936), a notable witness to the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy

The Fifth Witness

The Fifth Witness is the 23rd novel by American author Michael Connelly and features the fourth starring appearance of Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Michael "Mickey" Haller.

The Penguin Pool Murder

The Penguin Pool Murder (1932) is a comedy/mystery film starring Edna May Oliver as Hildegarde Withers, a witness in a murder case at the New York Aquarium, with James Gleason as the police inspector in charge of the case, who investigates with her unwanted help, and Robert Armstrong as an attorney representing Mae Clarke, the wife of the victim.

Thomas George Roddick

Earlier in 1877, Roddick traveled to Edinburgh to witness Joseph Lister's medical antiseptic system.

Trummy Young

According to his own life story, printed in the July 22nd, 1977 issue of the Awake! magazine published by Jehovah's Witnesses; Trummy Young became a Jehovah's Witness in 1964.

Until Death Do Us Part

Jesus' codename comes from enemies who witness his abilities and can only exclaim "Jesus" in response.

Valerius Coucke

In contrast, the traditional date for Troy’s fall, as derived from Eratosthenes, has only one witness, Thucydides, (1:12) to a critical link, which is the number of years from the fall of Troy to the return of the Heracleidae, a span of time that had many diverse figures given by other ancient authors.