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unusual facts about Wreck-Gar


The Return of Optimus Prime

Rodimus asks Wreck-Gar and the Junkions if they can revive Optimus but they are unsuccessful.


1942 KNILM Douglas DC-3 shootdown

The following day, as the survivors awaited a rescue party, a Japanese Kawanishi H6K flying boat spotted the wreck and dropped two bombs.

1989 Helena train wreck

The Helena Train Wreck occurred in the early morning on February 2, 1989 in Helena, Montana, USA, when 48 cars of a Montana Rail Link freight train that had been decoupled from their locomotives by a train crew on Mullan Pass rolled backwards down the pass, traveling nine miles back into the city of Helena and colliding with a work train at a railway crossing near the center of the community.

2012 Daytona 500

On lap 177, the eighth caution flag was waved for a minor wreck exiting the tri-oval, when Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.'s car made contact with Aric Almirola.

Abronia umbellata

While Collignon and his shipmates perished in a wreck near Vanikoro, some of his collection had previously been shipped back to France during a stop at the Portuguese-held Macao, including the seeds of Abronia umbellata.

Atago Maru

Much of the wreck has been covered by silt from the nearby Baram River over the years; however, the bow, the main superstructure and the engine room skylights all stick up several metres above the silt.

Banner Pilot

Fat Wreck Chords also released a remixed version of the band's first album, Resignation Day in 2010.

Bnied Al-Gar

The word "Gar" in Arabic means Tar, and so it was thus named due to the natural discharge of oils.

Boxcar Satan

Honing their songs with a newfound melodicism and complexity, the Boxcars spin tales of train-wreck lives, bandit queen Phoolan Devi and carnival freakshow stars.

Brian Kesinger

In Wreck-It Ralph Kesinger's voice is used for the Cyborg, a character based on 'Kano' from Mortal Kombat.

CGS Aberdeen

At about 13:00 Aberdeen was approaching the Black Ledge, about one and a quarter miles from Seal Island, when she struck the wreck of the trawler Snipe, which had sunk the previous June.

City of Bad Men

A heavyweight championship fight between James J. Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons is coming to Carson City, Nevada at exactly the same time outlaw Brett Stanton and brother Gar return to town.

Cliff Allison

The Lotus of Bruce Halford came next into the blind curve and became part of the wreck.

Dyvers

Dyvers has a somewhat declining income from trade, but its fishing vessels still capture good harvests of gar, pike, and a golden, carp-like fish from the Nyr Dyv.

Edgar Neale

Gar Neale's great grandfather and family migrated to New Zealand from Stroud, Gloucestershire, England in the 1840s, settling in Auckland.

EML Kalev

Kalev’s ultimate fate or the location of the wreck was unknown for a long time (it was usually assumed that she hit a mine and sunk off Keri in the Gulf of Finland between Tallinn and Helsinki, but she could have been anywhere between Kronstadt and Hanko; some sources suggested she was scuttled in the Tallinn Bay during the Soviet evacuation on 28 August 1941).

Emory Kristof

Kristof has participated in multiple undersea expeditions with Canadian explorers Joseph MacInnis and Phil Nuytten, including the exploration of the Breadalbane, the world's northernmost known shipwreck, and the 1995 expedition to recover the bell from the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

Fay Templeton

Music written by Fay Templeton and preserved on two 1896 and 1897 gramophone recordings was discovered in June 2010 aboard the wreck of the Klondike Gold Rush paddlewheeler A. J. Goddard.

Francesco Fonti

Fonti personally sank three ships and identified a wreck located 28 kilometres off the coast of Cetraro, in Calabria, as MV Cunsky.

FV Gaul

This prompted UK Deputy Prime Minister (and Hull MP) John Prescott to ask the Marine Accident Investigation Branch of the Department for Transport to carry out extensive surveys of the wreck, which it did in 1998 and 2002.

Garin Torani

A Garin is always founded on a group of individuals who make their home in the community they seek to impact.

Henry D. Cooke

He was detained after the wreck at St. Thomas, where he conceived the idea of a steamship line from New York to San Francisco via the isthmus of Panama, and wrote about his idea to the Philadelphia United States Gazette and the New York Courier and Enquirer.

História trágico-marítima

- the wreck the great galleon, São João, captained by Manoel de Sousa Sepulveda, off the coast of Natal, South Africa in 1552.

Iron rings

In the opening scene of The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978), Gordon Liu practices the Hung Gar form "Tien Sin Kuen" or "Iron Wire Form" using iron rings.

In the movie Kung Fu Hustle, iron rings were used by actor Chiu Chi Ling (a master of Hung Gar), who played the role of an effeminate tailor who specializes in fighting with iron rings.

J. B. Ford

The Holmes sailed into the Duluth piers past the broken and battered wreck of the Pittsburgh Steamship Companies SS Mataafa which wrecked while trying to enter the piers and subsequently grounded and broke her back on the beach just a few yards from the shore, 9 of the Mataafa crew perishing in the wreck giving history the name Mataafa Storm.

Kirk Pride

A brief film of the wreck can be viewed on the episode "Reefs and Wrecks" of the BBC television series Wild Caribbean, produced in 2008.

Kyrenia ship

Having lost the exact position Cariolou carried out more than 200 dives until he re-discovered the wreck in 1967 close to Kyrenia in Cyprus.

Loose Talk Costs Lives

In December 2010 they released their first double A-side single “Some Nice Flowers / Wreck Ashore” and in Spring/Summer 2011 they are due to release their debut EP “Wax and Gold” - recorded and produced by James Kenosha (Grammatics, Chapel Club, Dinosaur Pile-Up and Pulled Apart By Horses).

Maiden Island

Debris from the wreck was carried by the tide towards Oban Bay and four days later a Sunderland Flying Boat of 210 Squadron hit a horsebox floating in the water whilst attempting a routine landing in the dark.

Morgan Robertson

Episode 17 (segment "Titan") of the American television show Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction tells the story of Robertson (Harris Fisher) writing Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan/Futility.

MT Unirea

This action resulted in a thorough inspection of the ship's wreck by independent survey teams, employed by the insurance company from Lloyd's Register, Japan.

MV Aeolian Sky

Divers report that the wreck is surrounded by thousands of jars of Marmite.

Nia vibrissa

Fruit bodies of the fungus were found on wood salvaged from the wreck of King Henry VIII's 16th-century warship, the Mary Rose.

Paul Harather

The series is also broadcast in Germany on Bayerischer Rundfunk, in Denmark (as Går det godt?) and in the UK (as Smooth Operators).

Peter Iredale

The wreck is contained within Fort Stevens State Park as part of the Lewis and Clark National and State Historical Parks.

Point Cabrillo Light

The opium trading brig Frolic wrecked on a reef near Point Cabrillo in 1850; the investigation of the wreck by agents of Henry Meiggs led to the discovery of the coast redwood forests of the Mendocino area and the beginning of the timber trade that would drive the local economy for decades.

RMS Queen Elizabeth

Parker Pen Company produced a special edition of 5,000 pens made from material recovered from the wreck in a presentation box and these are highly collectible.

Sanders Creek

It contains several species of catfish and gar, largemouth bass, carp, bowfin, buffalo, pickerel and various other local species of freshwater fish.

Sêrtar County

It is home to the Larung Gar Buddhist Institute, the largest Tibetan Buddhist institute in the world.

Servants' Entrance

This film was adapted from Sigrid Boo's 1930 Norwegian novel Vi som går kjøkkenveien ("We Who Enter Through the Kitchen") which has an almost identical plot to Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd's popular 1917 novel How Could You, Jean? Brainerd's novel had already been adapted into the film How Could You Jean? (1918), directed by William Desmond Taylor and starring Mary Pickford.

SS Alba

Alfred Wallis painted several versions of Wreck of the Alba, one of which is held by Tate St Ives.

SS Carolina

In the event, Chatteron would eventually salvage the purser's safe from the Carolina with renowned wreck diver Gary Gentile, which was found to contain gold coin and jewelry.

Stacey Levine

She wrote the libretto for an historical puppet opera, The Wreck of the St. Nikolai (2004); this work was directed and performed in Seattle by cellist Lori Goldston and accordionist Kyle Hanson.

Tek Sing

On May 12, 1999, British marine salvor Michael Hatcher discovered the wreck of the Tek Sing in an area of the South China Sea north of Java, east of Sumatra and south of Singapore.

Texan schooner Invincible

The wreck site may have been discovered in 1995 by the National Underwater and Marine Agency, founded by Clive Cussler.

This Modern Age

When Valentine and Tony are involved in car wreck, they are rescued from his overturned car by football-playing Harvardian Bob Blake Jr. (Neil Hamilton).

When Can I See You Again?

"When Can I See You Again?" is a song recorded by Owl City for the 2012 Walt Disney Animation Studios film Wreck-It Ralph.

Wingan Inlet

On the return trip, the party encountered marooned sailors along the Victorian coast from the wreck of the ship Sydney Cove south of Victoria at Preservation Island, Tasmania.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

On 1 September 1985, a joint French-American expedition led by Jean-Louis Michel of IFREMER and Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution identified the location of the wreck of the RMS Titanic which sank off the coast of Newfoundland 15 April 1912.

WRSO

During this phase, "The Mancow Experience," "The Ed Tyll Show", "The Shannon Burke Show", "The Doc Show" with former WXXL morning host Doc Holliday; "Alex Jones, "The Todd Schnitt Show, "The Free Radicals" with hosts Whit Kincaid and John Kurtz; "The Train Wreck with Tim Vestite"; "The Nick and Artie Laing Show" and "The Phil Hendrie Show" all aired on the station at one time or another.


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