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6 unusual facts about arrow


Arrow, Warwickshire

From Alcester the River Arrow flows southwards to the Avon, and to the west of the river the present road to Evesham joins that to Worcester at a busy junction where, near the Old Toll House, stands the hamlet of Arrow, a group of modernized black and white farm workers' cottages which have risen up the social scale to become homes for business people.

In the village church is a statue of one of the Marquesses sculpted by Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, a nephew of Queen Victoria.

Arrow's impossibility theorem

; Unrestricted domain: (or universality) For any set of individual voter preferences, the social welfare function should yield a unique and complete ranking of societal choices.

Edward Conway, 1st Earl of Conway

He was buried in Arrow, Warwickshire, and with no heirs, his titles became extinct on his death.

KVHP

KVHP CW Lake Charles is a CW Network affiliate delivering favorite shows like The Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, Arrow, American Next Top Model and more.

Thomas Billing

In 1477 Billing tried Burdet of Arrow, Warwickshire, a dependent of the Duke of Clarence, for treason, committed in 1474, in saying of a stag, 'I wish that the buck, horns and all, were in the king's belly,' for which he was executed.


Abaris Golden Arrow

The craft derives its name from a legendary arrow, carried by the ancient Greek sage Abaris the Hyperborean.

Amazon-class frigate

The Amazon class frigates, or Type 21 frigates, comprising eight ships - the Amazon, Antelope, Active, Ambuscade, Arrow, Alacrity, Ardent and Avenger - launched from 1971 to 1975

Arrow Dynamics

Arrow reached additional milestones over the years by introducing the first suspended roller coaster in almost a century, The Bat, which opened in 1981, and the world's first hypercoaster, Magnum XL-200, which opened in 1989.

Arrow Films

For over 15 years Arrow Films has pioneered the best directors from Europe and around the world, such as Denys Arcand, Tinto Brass, Luis Buñuel, Claude Chabrol, Jules Dassin, Vittorio De Sica, Abel Ferrara, Lasse Hallström, Eric Rohmer, Roberto Rossellini, Giuseppe Tornatore, Andrzej Wajda, and Wim Wenders.

Arrow Rock

Arrow Rock Historic District, a U.S. National Historic Landmark district in Arrow Rock, Missouri

Artemis Chasma

It is named after the Greek virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon, the hills, the forest,birth, virginity, fertility, and known to carry a bow and arrow, Artemis.

Australian barracuda

The Australian barracuda, arrow barracuda, Australian sea pike, sea pike, snook, or shortfin barracuda, Sphyraena novaehollandiae, is a barracuda of the genus Sphyraena, found between North Cape and East Cape on the North Island of New Zealand, in semiprotected areas.

Blake Neely

He has frequently collaborated with writer/director/producer Greg Berlanti, including Everwood, Jack & Bobby, Brothers & Sisters, Eli Stone, Dirty Sexy Money, Political Animals and currently Arrow.

Boomhauer

Boomhauer is missing his left pinky toe, due to an accident while he was in the Order of the Straight Arrow ("Straight as an Arrow").

Brynbach

There was planted there a Scout Emblem the Fleur de Lys, and an arrow pointing to Gilwell Park in the trees in Golden Larch.

Danik

Porcelain-skinned sage of Quin, mentoring both Arwyn, as she collects the remaining pieces of Ayden's arrow, and Mordath, in his quest to conquer the world.

Diego de Rojas

He died shortly afterwards in 1544 from the effects of a poisoned arrow in Santiago del Estero.

Earth-One

Green Lantern (vol. 2) #85 (1971): "Snowbirds Don't Fly" A story focusing on drug addiction, showing Green Arrow's ward Roy Harper addicted to heroin.

East Meadow Fire Department

Arthur Brisbane, the famous publisher, donated his 1920's Peirce Arrow touring car to the fire department.

Edward Conway, 1st Viscount Conway

He was the son and heir of Sir John Conway of Arrow, and his wife Ellen or Eleanor, daughter of Sir Fulke Greville of Beauchamp's Court, Warwickshire.

Fancy Dress Festival

One of the group's members was enamored of the character of Robin Hood, but accidentally shot the nephew of a priest in the eye with a stray arrow on Christmas Day in 1930.

Fujiwara no Michimasa

His father, Fujiwara no Korechika, was promoted to Minister of the Interior (Naidaijin) the following year, but following an incident in which an arrow was shot at Emperor Kazan, he was demoted to the post of governor of Dazai.

Geryon

He pursued Heracles at the River Anthemus but fell victim to an arrow that had been dipped in the venomous blood of the Lernaean Hydra, shot so forcefully by Heracles that it pierced Geryon's forehead, "and Geryon bent his neck over to one side, like a poppy that spoils its delicate shapes, shedding its petals all at once".

Green Arrow and Black Canary

After Black Canary murders 'Green Arrow' on their wedding night, it is discovered that it was actually Everyman posing as him.

Gulf Ridge Council

In 2004, Hurricane Charley, Hurricane Frances, and Hurricane Jeanne passed over Flaming Arrow causing damage to many areas of the camp.

Has a Good Home

# "An Arrow in the Side of Final Fantasy" – 2:45 (Kazumi Totaka, Owen Pallett)

Heartless Bastards

On November 17, 2011, the band announced they had signed with Brooklyn based Partisan Records to release their fourth album Arrow on Valentine's Day 2012 (February 14).

History of Kaohsiung

During this time, Lin was told by a feng shui master named Wu Ban-hsien (吳半仙) that if he were to bury his deceased father in a "dragon cave" near modern day Jiali, leave an offering of an arrow upon the altar

Janusz Żurakowski

On 20 February 1959, the infamous "Black Friday", Żurakowski, along with the approximately 15,000 employees of Avro and Orenda plants learned that the Diefenbaker government had precipitously cancelled the Avro Arrow program and its Orenda Iroquois engine.

Jayme Lynn Blaschke

Elliot S! Maggin, The Unofficial Green Arrow Fansite, Nov. 2001

London Outer Orbital Path

In countryside locations the waymarks consist mostly of a simple white disc mounted on a wooden post, with a directional arrow and flying kestrel logo in blue and text in green.

Long Walk of the Navajo

They include the murder of a personal servant of Major Brooks, commander of Fort Defiance, by an arrow in the back on July 12, 1858 for the slaughter of the Navajo livestock on the grazing grounds.

Narwee, New South Wales

The main street of Narwee is Broad Arrow Road, which runs from King Georges Road in Beverly Hills to just past Bonds Road in Riverwood.

Omishi Magical Theater: Risky Safety

She can summon a bow and arrow which acts like Cupid's arrow, causing anyone to fall in love with the first person they see.

Philip of Acarnania

Philip was still Alexander’s doctor at the siege of Gaza in 332 BC, as Curtius reports that he extracted an arrow from the king’s shoulder (QC 4.6.17-20)

Powhatan Arrow

They were the pride of the N&W, pulling crack passenger trains such as the Cavalier, the Pocahontas, and the Powhatan Arrow, as well as ferrying the Southern Railway's Tennessean and Pelican between Monroe, Virginia and Bristol, Tennessee.

Professor Ivo

Professor Ivo appears in Arrow, portrayed by Dylan Neal, as the employer of the crew of a ship called Amazo.

Robert Weingard

Weingard supervised the PhD thesis Explaining Time's Arrow (1997) of Craig Callender, now professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.

Ronnie Arrow

After reviewing the video, Arrow argued with officials while a sports intern from KLFY-TV filmed the incident.

Sagitta

α Sge: also known as Sham, this yellow bright giant star of spectral class G1 II (with 4.37m) lies at a distance of 610 light-years and together with β Sge (also 4.37m) forms either the feathers of the shaft or the two-pointed arrow once used in the Roman army.

Second Opium War

Following the election and an increased majority for Palmerston, the voices within the Whig faction who were in support of China were hushed, and the new parliament decided to seek redress from China based on the report about the Arrow Incident submitted by Harry Parkes, British Consul to Guangzhou.

SEPTA Route 104

Route 104 initially was a streetcar line which operated parallel to the West Chester Pike (PA Route 3) and was operated by the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company (aka "Red Arrow Lines").

Shelter Bay

Shelter Bay, British Columbia, a ferry terminal on Upper Arrow Lake, British Columbia

Steamboats of the Columbia River, Wenatchee Reach

By contrast, no steamboat could ever ascend or descend the entire route of the Columbia, although the nature of the river was that even far inland, such as at Arrow and Kootenay Lakes, vast areas remained navigable, but separated by rapids and shoals from the rest of the river.

Text box

Pressing Home/End keys (Microsoft's Windows OS) or Command-left arrow/Command-right arrow (Apple's Mac OS) moves the caret to the beginning/end of the line;

The Flame and the Arrow

The Flame and the Arrow is a 1950 American adventure film made by Warner Bros. and starring Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo and Nick Cravat.

United States military nuclear incident terminology

In the 1994 film True Lies, Arnold Schwarzenegger's character Harry Tasker calls a "Bright Boy Alert" for the impending detonation of a stolen Russian warhead on U.S. soil by terrorists, although this presumably should be termed a "Broken Arrow" event since it involves a nuclear incident unlikely to result in nuclear war.

Vic Wunderle

In the semifinals, he barely defeated Magnus Petersson of Sweden, scoring 108-107 in the 12-arrow match to advance to the gold medal final.

Vividred Operation

The next day, after Rei goes off on her own and Akane and the others are informed of a strategy to pinpoint the source of the arrows, another Alone (Bacteriophage) appears, which Rei powers up with another arrow.

WCOA-FM

In 1993, WJLQ shifted to Urban Adult Contemporary as "Magic 100.7", which lasted only about a year before the station became "Arrow 100.7" with a classic rock format on April Fools' Day 1994, with the WWRO call letters being assigned on April 22, 1994.

World's Finest Team

Green Arrow supported her decision and they both journeyed to the Justice League Headquarters to use the Transmatter Machine, the device used to travel from Earth-One to Earth-Two.

YMCA Camp Flaming Arrow

Camp Flaming Arrow is a year-round camping retreat in Hunt, Texas and is under ownership of the YMCA of Greater San Antonio for children ages 6–16 years old.


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