X-Nico

unusual facts about alter-globalisation



A Constitution for a Free Scotland

(2) The Constitution for Scotland states that the monarch would hold title under the law of Scotland, so presumably the Parliament of Scotland could, at some future time, alter the law of succession in such a way that this personal union is dissolved.

Alter és Kiss

The brand was revived in 2009 by its new creators, Central St. Martins graduates Gabor Fabricius and Mei Mei Ding, with the support of the Alter family.

Antonio Valero

He appeared in TVE in La Forja del Rebelde (The Forging of a Rebel) (1989), directed by Mario Camus, where he had the starring role as the alter ego of Arturo Barea, author of the novel.

Automated sales suppression device

A "zapper" is a software program, often run untraceably from a USB flash drive, that accesses the POS system records and allows the owner of a business to alter the records so as to make it credibly appear that fewer transactions have occurred than has actually been the case.

AWS Shopper

AWS Shopper (A.W.S = Automobilwerk Walter Schätzle) was a German Automobile manufactured in Berlin (Germany) from 1971 to 1974.

Bat Country

The song's main influence comes from Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and the title itself also comes from a line from the book in which Raoul Duke, the alter-ego pseudonym of Thompson himself, is on his way to Las Vegas while being affected by various drugs, and thus hallucinates, seeing huge bats and manta rays in the sky.

Brawling Act 1553

Section 6 of the Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860 provided that nothing contained thereinbefore in that Act was to be taken to repeal or alter the Brawling Act 1553.

Brown-headed Cowbird

Song Sparrow nestlings in parasitized nests alter their vocalizations in frequency and amplitude so that they resemble the cowbird nestling, and these nestlings tend to be fed equally often as nestlings in unparasitized nests.

Claude Lenners

He has composed for a number of ensembles including Alter Ego, Asko Ensemble, Cambridge New Music Players, Court-circuit, Ensemble Accroche Note, Ensemble 13 and Ensemble Intercontemporain.

Climate change in Montana

A report from the University of Lethbridge found climate change may alter stream flow and water supply volume by lowering snowpack which may cause low reservoir storage in the spring and dangerously low flows in the summer making perennial streams potentially intermittent.

Code as data

Self-modifying code, the capability of a language to alter its own instructions while it is executing.

Constantinos Tsakiris

One of his first actions was to alter the name of Panionios to its original name Panionios GSS (which stands for "Πανιώνιος Γυμνάστικος Σύλλογος Σμύρνης" or Panionios Gymnastic Club of Smyrna) and hire Ewald Lienen as first team manager.

Cosmic treadmill

In a possible future where members of the current incarnation of the Teen Titans mature into a corrupt and tyrannical Justice League, the Cosmic Treadmill is absent from the Flash Museum; it is instead kept in a more secure location inside the Batcave, presumably to ensure that their "enemies"—in truth, a group of right-minded Titans—cannot alter the past and change their timeline.

Crazy Loop

Crazy Loop is a character created (as his alter ego) by Dan Bălan, former leader of the band O-Zone.

DC Comics Two Thousand

DC Comics Two Thousand, also known as DC Two Thousand and DC 2000, is a two-issue miniseries by DC Comics in which the Justice League of America and the Justice Society of America team up, via time travel, to stop the attempts of T. O. Morrow to alter the present by changing the past.

Deeper Shade of Blue

The music video has a futuristic style, with the group wearing blue latex uniforms for the dance sequences and each transforming into a darker alter-ego during the video.

Dick Dolman

In 1981, Dolman asked cabinet member Til Gardeniers in writing, if the "original was true, that the minister wanted to distribute fines" following possible surreptitious advertising made by the television comedy duo, Van Kooten en De Bie in their alter egos, Jacobse and Van Es.

Douglas Walker

The Nostalgia Critic, alter ego of internet humorist Doug Walker from That Guy with the Glasses

El Ejido, la loi du profit

In a destroyed environment where the air is vitiated by pesticides and ground water is running out, the village of El Ejido illustrates, almost to the point of caricature, this industrial exploitation of men and the land encouraged by globalisation.

English Freakbeat, Volume 4

"Security" comes from the first of two later singles for CBS Records that were produced by Paul Raven, one of several alter egos for the man who is best known as Gary Glitter; "I Need You", from the second single, is on English Freakbeat, Volume 5.

Excitebots: Trick Racing

For example, in Kilimanjaro, there are dinosaur fossils that come to life, Guatemala, the Moai statue heads can breathe fire at times, and in Tasmania, several rock monsters will alter tracks or attack players.

Georges Blond

Blond initially came to attention as a disciple of Alexis Carrel, and when reviewing Carrel's book L'Homme, cet inconnu for the journal Le petit dauphinois commented that Carrel was one of the few writers who would genuinely alter who people thought of themselves.

International English

In Europe, English received a more central role particularly since 1919, when the Treaty of Versailles was composed not only in French, the common language of diplomacy at the time, but, under special request from American president Woodrow Wilson, also in English - a major milestone in the globalisation of English.

John Gaunt

John Gaunt, the alter ego of the comic book mercenary Grimjack

Kazakhstan–United Kingdom relations

Ambassador Idrissov is best known in the West for his criticism of Borat Sagdiyev, the fictional Kazakh journalist and alter ego of British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.

Khanya College

Established in 1986, the primary aim of Khanya College is to assist various constituencies within working class and poor communities to respond to the challenges posed by the forces of economic and political globalisation.

Komiks Presents: Flash Bomba

Dubbed as the “Superhero for All Seasons”, Flash Bomba stars Luis Manzano and his alter-ego is Roldan Legazpi/Flash Bomba, a man who overcomes a physical disability resulting from a hunting trip accident and becomes a crime fighter.

L-vocalization

Before coronal consonants, this produced Alderney, alter, bald, balderdash, bold, cold, false, falter, fold, gold, halt, hold, malt, molten, mould/mold, old, palsy, salt, shoulder (earlier sholder), smolder, told, Wald, Walter and wold (in the sense of "tract of land").

Lieutenant Kijé

In the eighth season episode of Seinfeld "The Susie" (episode #149), Elaine Benes inadvertently creates an alter ego named "Susie", whom co-workers believe is real.

Lolita, Texas

The notes on the text, written by Vivian Darkbloom (Nabokov's alter ego), state that "this town exists, or, rather, existed, for it has been renamed, I believe, after the appearance of the notorious novel," referring, of course, to Nabokov's own novel Lolita.

Lowesby Hall

Brassey commissioned Edwin Lutyens (1866–1944) to alter and extend the Hall and gardens.

Lyubov Holota

Her most notable recent achievement was the publication of Episodic Memory, a groundbreaking novel which deploys Tulving's theory of memory as a metaphor for changes within Ukrainian society and shifts in the human psyche caused by globalisation.

Martha Chen

Born February 9, 1944 to Barry and Jim Alter, Chen, with her brother, Tom Alter, was raised in India as a third-generation American.

Morphological freedom

The term may have been coined by strategic philosopher Max More in his 1993 article, Technological Self-Transformation: Expanding Personal Extropy, where he defined it as "the ability to alter bodily form at will through technologies such as surgery, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, uploading".

Muhammad X

Muhammad X is the self-proclaimed protector of Harlem NY, using his ability to alter density and gravity to protect the community.

Pac-Man Collection

With the exception of Pac-Attack, the player can alter various settings such as lives, difficulty and bonus life counters, similar to the DIP switch-enabled settings in the original arcade versions.

S – Portrait of a Spy

Former Minister of National Defence Paul Hellyer wrote that information in the novel seemed sufficiently credible to alter the mandate of a high-profile inquiry into wrongdoing by the RCMP Security Service.

Silent e

In Alphablocks, Magic E is E's impish alter-ego, with a black body and a top hat.

Southampton and Dorchester Railway

He also criticised the sharp curve at Northam where the line joined the existing LSWR route; the company agreed to alter the curve to a larger radius.

The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq

Instead, Paker reports that a small clique of policy people in key administration positions, primarily Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy Paul Wolfowitz, sought to fundamentally alter the future of the Middle East.

The Butcher Brothers

The Butcher Brothers are the filmmaking alter-egos of American film directors Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores.

The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography

The autobiographical section is bookended by two letters, one from Roth to his fictional alter-ego Nathan Zuckerman, the other from Zuckerman himself, telling Roth what he sees as problems with the book.

Tommy Duckworth

In August 2013, producers discovered that Fountain had appeared in numerous videos on YouTube as his alter-ego "The Phantom", rapping about raping a girl and committing acts of extreme violence.

Tommy February6 discography

The discography of Japanese pop singer Tomoko Kawase's alter-ego pseudonym "Defstar Records between 2003 and 2009, and later Warner from 2011 onwards.

Tommy Heavenly6 discography

The discography of Japanese pop singer Tomoko Kawase's alter-ego pseudonym Defstar Records between 2003 and 2009, and later Warner from 2011 onwards.

Tremonti

Mark Tremonti (born 1974), American lead guitarist for the bands Alter Bridge and Creed

Wade Wilson

Wade Wilson, the alter ego of fictional comic character Deadpool, an identity possibly stolen from his nemesis, T-Ray

Western railway elevated corridor

On 29 September 2012, following a meeting between Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and the Railway Board chairman Vinay Mittal, railway officials announced that a decision had been taken to alter the earlier alignment and go underground for an additional 8.5 km stretch between Bandra and Jogeshwari.

Yechezkel Sarna

Rabbi Yechezkel Sarna (1890–1969) was a disciple of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, (known as the "Alter (elder) of Slabodka"), spiritual mentor of the Slabodka yeshiva.

Yvonne Craig

Most famously, in Batman, she had the role of Batgirl (and her alter ego, librarian Barbara Gordon, Commissioner Gordon's daughter).


see also

National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers

The RMT announced in March 2009 that it would be standing a slate of candidates in the 2009 European Parliament elections under the banner of No to EU – Yes to Democracy, a broad left-wing alter-globalisation coalition which aims to offer an alternative to the "anti-foreigner" and pro-business policies of the UK Independence Party.