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8 unusual facts about arena


ConnectM-Arena

connectM-Arena is a multi-use stadium in Lotte, Germany.

Frankfurt Stadion station

Stadion station was given the name because the S-Bahn station is about a kilometre on foot from the Frankfurt stadium, the Commerzbank-Arena.

Kinetic architecture

The first is for functional buildings such as bridges which can elevate their midsections to allow tall ships to pass, or stadiums with retractable roofs such as the Veltins-Arena, Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, or Wembley Stadium.

Rose George

In 1999, she moved to London and began a freelance career, and has since written for the Independent on Sunday, Arena, the Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Details and others.

Rostock Piranhas

The team's home ice is the Eishalle Rostock at the Schillingallee in the Kröpeliner-Tor-Vorstadt (KTV) area of Rostock, next to DKB-Arena.

The Big Chill at the Big House

The rematch broke the previous world record for attendance at an ice hockey game of 77,803, set in the opening game of the 2010 IIHF World Championship at Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

UPC-Arena

UPC Telekabel won the sponsorship rights over Therme Loipersdorf and the former tennis player Thomas Muster (T-Mobile) and pays more than 150,000 euros per annum, according to president Thomas Hintze.

Wyoming Cowboys and Cowgirls

Built in 1982 at a cost of $15 million, the Arena-Auditorium commonly called the AA (or "Dome of Doom") seats over 15,000.


40/40 Club

The newest, and fourth active, 40/40 Club is located inside the Barclays Center, the arena that the Brooklyn Nets play in.

Alan M. Powell

His close association with NASCAR has allowed him to bring talented performers to the arena, such as Tyrese Gibson.

Aluminum Model Toys

Newcomer MPC (Model Products Corporation) entered the arena in 1964 with their Corvette kit, followed by 1965 promotionals of the Dodge car line.

Arsys Software

The viewpoint switches between several different perspectives: a 2D top-down perspective while flying, a side-scrolling view during on-foot outdoor exploration, a fully 3D polygonal third-person perspective inside buildings, and arena-style 2D shoot 'em up battles during boss encounters.

Big Sandy Superstore Arena

Big Sandy Superstore Arena was the lone West Virginia stop of singer Katy Perry's California Dreams Tour in 2011.

Bruce Arena

However, while Arena failed to add another MLS championship to his resume, he guided United to the CONCACAF Champions' Cup title with a 1-0 victory over Toluca on August 16, 1998.

Arena's first match with the club came on August 12, 2006, in a friendly against FC Barcelona.

Canlan Ice Sports Etobicoke

The arena is owned and operated by Canlan Ice Sports Corporation, of Burnaby, British Columbia.

Council for Agricultural Science and Technology

The Borlaug CAST Communication Award is presented annually for outstanding achievement by a scientist, engineer, technologist, or other professional working in the agricultural, environmental, or food sectors for contributing to the advancement of science in the public policy arena.

Crisler Center

The arena has also hosted concerts, perhaps most famously, the opening show of Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band's The River Tour, in which Springsteen began the show by completely forgetting the words to "Born to Run", but was rescued by the Michigan audience.

Cumberland County Crown Coliseum

During the early stages of its construction, Fayetteville’s Crown Coliseum was mentioned as a possible temporary home for the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes, but this was blocked by minor-league hockey executive Bill Coffey who had signed an exclusive lease agreement with the arena for the Fayetteville Force of the Central Hockey League.

DJ Tintin

His reputation as a 'stadium' DJ grew when he was given the headline DJ spot at the legendary Manchester Versus Cancer gig at the Manchester Arena in 2006 - and was invited back as the headline DJ at the VersusCancer MEN arena events in both 2007 and 2008.

Donald L. Tucker Civic Center

The arena was named the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center in 1977 in honor of Donald L. Tucker, Esq., a former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and Special Ambassador for the United States to the Dominican Republic.

Downtown Bakersfield

The Rabobank Arena (formerly known as the Centennial Garden), is a large indoor multipurpose arena.

Edge Ice Arena

It had been used by the official training facility and practice arena for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League before the team built a new downtown Chicago training facility.

F. Ritter Shumway

When RIT was forced to move in the mid-1960s, he ensured that the new Henrietta campus would also have an ice arena.

Hampton Roads Rhinos

In November 1996, Shinn announced that his preferred site for an arena would be in Downtown Norfolk between the Norfolk Scope and the MacArthur Center.

Himmelstalundshallen

The arena hosted the preliminary games of group B at the 2003 EuroBasket.

Hynes Athletic Center

The Hynes Athletics Center is a 2,611-seat multi-purpose arena in New Rochelle, New York.

Jæren Arena

Jæren Arena was a proposed multi-use stadium in Bryne, Norway, that was expected to begin construction sometime in 2008.

John Paul Jones Arena

The arena is not named after the American naval hero, or the Led Zeppelin bassist, rather it is named in honor of the father of Paul Tudor Jones, who donated $35 million for the construction of the arena.

KK Igokea

Laktaši Sports Hall (Serbian Cyrillic: Хала спортова у Лакташима) is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in the city of Laktaši, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Lashina

During the events of Final Crisis, Lashina, once again in her bald-headed human form, is seen as one of the villains running the Dark Side Club, an illegal arena where spectators gamble on battles between brainwashed teen metahumans.

Ligue Centrale de Hockey

CHOX-FM de La Pocatière (Taking the 2007-08 season off upon completion of new arena)

Mabee Arena

Mabee Arena is a 1,500-seat indoor arena in Salina, Kansas.

Mario Mandžukić

Mandžukić scored his first Champions League goal of the season when Bayern Munich began the defence of their Champions League title against CSKA Moscow with a 3–0 victory at the Allianz Arena.

Milt Stegall

He also was honoured with a street in Winnipeg adjacent to Canad Inns Stadium formerly called Arena Road (in reference to the former Winnipeg Arena) which was renamed Milt Stegall Drive.

NASAspaceflight.com

NASASpaceFlight.com is dedicated to expanding the public's awareness and respect for the space flight industry, which in turn is reflected in the many thousands of space industry members on the site, ranging from NASA to Lockheed Martin, Boeing, United Space Alliance and the commercial space flight arena.

Olga Korbut

She watched the gymnastics competitions in the North Greenwich Arena, providing commentary by way of Twitter and Facebook.

Pavilhão Dream Space

The Pavilhão do Dream Space is a private-owned sports arena located in Kikuxi, Viana, Luanda.

Peter Corry

Corry's production company, 'PC Productions" brought One Enchanted Evening to the Odyssey venue. Joanna Ampil, Barbara Dickson and Brian Kennedy shared the stage with Corry and a choir of 850 and "The Night of 1000 Voices" at the Odyssey Arena. It also staged "The Night of 1000 Voices" starrind David Essex and Sir James Galway.

Photon: The Ultimate Game on Planet Earth

Dramatic music by Ken Caillat, strobe effects, and smoke machines were used in the arena during games to enhance play.

Purina Mills

At one point, Ralston Purina owned an interest in the St. Louis Blues National Hockey League team; during this period, the arena they then used was referred to as the “Checkerdome”.

Ralston Purina

In 1977, Ralston Purina acquired Missouri Arena Corporation and the St. Louis Blues National Hockey League franchise.

SAP Arena

A tram line (number 6) connects the SAP Arena to Mannheim city center and a newly built road connection to the B 38a highway connects it to the A 656 Autobahn, leading to the A656/A 6 interchange, connecting eastbound Mannheim to Heidelberg (A656), and north/southbound to Frankfurt, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart (A6), as well as a little north on the A6 to Kaiserlautern (westbound).

Scheels Arena

It is part of the Sanford Health Athletic Park which consists of the arena, Family Wellness Center (a partnership between Sanford Health and the YMCA), Sanford POWER Athletic Center, and there are plans to add four additional ice sheets.

Sebastian Teo

Teo first stepped into the political arena in the 2001 general election, contesting as one of five members representing the Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA) together with Yip Yew Weng, Christopher Neo, Foo Kok Wah and Abdul Rahim bin Osman in Tampines GRC against the team from the People's Action Party (PAP) represented by Mah Bow Tan, Yatiman bin Yusof, Ong Kian Min, Sin Boon Ann and Irene Ng.

Soul Action

Soul Survivor trustee David Westlake said: 'Mission had been integral to the ministry but exploded into the public arena with Manchester 2000.

South Lakes High School

Andrew Siciliano, broadcaster for Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Net television, DirecTV Red Zone Channel, Arena Football

Spokane Coliseum

After more than a year of construction, the arena was dedicated on December 3, 1954, in a program headlined by Metropolitan Opera soprano Patrice Munsel, a Spokane native.

Stefano Scozzese

Stefano Scozzese started his DJ career in 1992 at age 17 playing at club Dimodà and during various events at the indoor sports arena of Schio.

Steffen Kretschmann

He turned pro for Arena and beat his first 13 opponents among them Corey Sanders.

Steven Baillie

As Arena Homme Plus gained prominence and influence, Baillie was hired back to New York to work for the New York Times’s The Fashion of the Times (later T magazine), and Fabien Baron took over AD duties at Homme Plus (later succeeded by Doug Lloyd, M/M Paris, and Neville Brody).

The Robe

There was a sequel known as Demetrius and the Gladiators starring Victor Mature as the title character who fights in the Roman arena.

Toni Hoffman

Hoffman faced ridicule for suggesting that his presence was not beneficial and as a last resort chose to bring the matter into the public arena by approaching local MP Rob Messenger.

Ulster Independence Movement

The UIC initially had a network of 11 branches and first entered the political arena in 1990 when Ross stood in a by-election for the Upper Bann constituency following the death of sitting MP Harold McCusker.

Unipol Arena

Unipol Arena (previously known as Futureshow Station and PalaMalaguti) is an indoor sporting arena located in Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna, Italy.

United States Open Cup for Arena Soccer

The United States Open Cup for Arena Soccer is a cup-style tournament for all Professional Arena Soccer League and Premier Arena Soccer League teams.

Web of Spies

They are summoned to meet Judas at the bullfighting arena in Girona where he intends to sell Todd to the highest bidder.

Yogi Berra Stadium

Floyd Hall, a resident of Montclair who was then serving as chief executive officer of Kmart, donated money to the university in order to build an ice arena, which is known as Floyd Hall Arena and is a multi-use facility that several of the area's high school hockey teams call home, and a new baseball stadium for Montclair State's team to replace their previous venue, Pittser Field.


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