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6 unusual facts about carpet


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The town is also well known in the region for its production of handicraft items, particularly rugs made from camel or goat hair, as well as silver crafts.

Dorothy McHugh

McHugh dropped out school in the sixth grade and worked in a rug factory; she would frequently attend burlesque shows during her off-time and memorized many of their routines.

Michael J. Wytrwal

At the age of 14, Wytrwal immigrated to the United States through Ellis Island, and moved to Amsterdam, a city located in Montgomery County, New York, just in time for the initial stellar growth of the booming textile, carpet and rug-making industries, powered by the rushing waters of the Chuctenunda Creek into the Mohawk River.

New Elephant road

It is especially well known for its shops selling Carpet, Floorcoverings, computers, computer accessories, shoes, ceramics, garments, show pieces, and food.

Nouakchott

Salt, cement, insecticides, rugs, carpets, embroidery, and craft products are produced in Nouakchott, with the port also exporting copper.

Yeghishe Charents

Yeghishe Charents was born Yeghishe Abgari Soghomonyan in Kars (Eastern Amenia, then a part of the Russian Empire) in 1897 to a family involved in the rug trade.


Antonio Rattín

As a way to show his disgust, he sat on the red carpet which was exclusively for the Queen to walk on.

Arctic roll

While some consumers view the Arctic Roll as comfort food, others view it as old fashioned and the food writer Nigel Slater has even described it as tasting of "frozen carpet".

Armenian carpet

According to the 13th-century Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi, the origin of the word kali/khali/hali, a knotted carpet, is from one of the early and important Armenian carpet centers, Theodosiopolis, Karin in Armenian, Qaliqala in Arabic, modern Erzerum.

Australia Live

Other presenters included Paul Hogan, Tony Barber, George Negus, Derryn Hinch, Greg Evans, Daryl Somers and Graham Kennedy who billed the programme as a "unique electronic carpet ride"

CHDI-FM

Former bands of the month include: Drive By Punch, The Red Threat, Screwtape Lewis, Murder City Sparrows, Jets to Theory, Red Shag Carpet, Our Mercury, Whitey Houston, Mark Birtles Project, Casanova Playboys, Calico Drive, Rake, Ellis, The Surgents, Tim Gilbertson, Hot Panda, Radioforhelp, Greater Than Giants, Portal, Michael Rault and the Mixed Signals, Christian Hansen and the Autistics, and Parachute Penguin.

City Channel

Presented by Judy Gilroy and Olive Geoghegan, the show features a strong mix of red carpet, fashion and music events.

Claude Bloodgood

According to reports, he rolled her body in a carpet and left it in Dismal Swamp, where it was soon found.

Coronation Carpet

The Coronation Carpet is only shown to the public once a year in the fall together with a small group of chenille carpets.

Corynactis californica

The anemone is known to carpet the bottom of some areas, like Campbell River in British Columbia, and Monterey Bay in California.

David Evangelista

David Evangelista is a fashion/beauty contributor to The Early Show, as well as a guest judge on Iron Chef America and a well known red carpet regular who seeks Joan Rivers as his rival.

Fritz Bayerlein

During the allied break out attempt allied carpet bombing near the French village of Saint-Lô decimated the division.

Gessica Brooke

At the 81st Academy Awards, celebrity reporter Jessica Holmes wore a couture Gessica Brooke gown on the red carpet.

Ghazi of Iraq

When the Prince was a school boy he was taken for a biplane ride by Moye Stephens, pilot of The Flying Carpet and Richard Halliburton, traveller-adventurist, during their round-the-world flight, shortly after Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight.

Green Versace dress of Jennifer Lopez

Lopez arrived on the red carpet of the Grammy Awards in the company of then-boyfriend Sean Combs; he was dressed in a gray suit.

Harry Winston, Inc.

Harry Winston was the first jeweler to loan diamonds to an actress for the Academy Awards, in 1943, influencing red carpet style.

Haunting the Chapel

Recorded in Hollywood the recording process proved difficult when recording drums in a studio without carpet, although it resulted in drummer Dave Lombardo meeting Gene Hoglan who was to become an influence in his drumming style and speed.

Jenny Logan

Though she played WPC Sally Reed in the TV series Dixon of Dock Green between 1968 and 1969, she is most familiar from her appearances as the woman in the television commercial for the carpet freshener Shake n' Vac, which was shot in 1979, and ran from 1980 to 1989.

The advert featured Jenny Logan dancing around a typical British living room in high heels, shaking the powder onto the carpet and vacuuming it up, while singing a musical jingle.

Joseph Finder

Finder published Red Carpet: The Connection Between the Kremlin and America's Most Powerful Businessmen (1983), about Dr. Armand Hammer's ties to Soviet intelligence.

Karabakh carpet

The oldest extant Armenian carpet from the region, referred to as Artsakh during the medieval period, is from the village of Banants (near Gandzak) and dates to the early thirteenth century.

Lichfield Gospels

Interlaced bird patterns on the cross-carpet page on page 216 of the book strikingly resemble the ornament on a cross-shaft of Aberlady, Lothian, a Northumbrian site of the mid 8th century: the author/artist of the book and the sculptor of the cross-shaft ornament may have had similar source for their designs.

Natalia Villaveces

She also was a correspondent for the network's flagship news magazine show "Al Rojo Vivo con Maria Celeste" and has co-hosted televised red carpet events for prestigious specials like the Latin Billboard Awards.

Nina Morgan-Jones

Her designs have since been commissioned by Hollywood shows such as American Idol and Melrose Place and have been featured on the red carpet and on stage for shows such as the MTV Video Music Awards.

Omar Mansoor

The brand has been worn by a number of actresses on the red carpet including Miss United Kingdom Amy Guy.

On the Red Carpet

On The Red Carpet is an American syndicated talk show that highlights celebrity news, Hollywood events and star style.

Operation Magic Carpet

The army's Air Transport Command (ATC) and the navy's Naval Air Transport Service (NATS) were also involved in Magic Carpet operations, amassing millions of flying hours in transport and cargo aircraft, though the total number of personnel returned home by aircraft was tiny in comparison to the numbers carried by ship.

Paper shredder

After the Iranian Revolution and the takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979, Iranians enlisted local carpet weavers who reconstructed the pieces by hand.

Pollagh

In 2007 the carpet surrounding the altar was replaced with wood, in preparation for the celebration of mass live on Irish television channel RTÉ One.

Ross Mathews

In 2010, Mathews joined the E! Network's red carpet team, filling in for Ryan Seacrest as co-host alongside Giuliana Rancic for E! Live From the Red Carpet coverage of the 2011 Screen Actors Guild Awards, the 2010 Emmy Awards, the 2011 Golden Globe Awards and the 2011 Academy Awards.

Rudolf Stingel

In his site-specific Plan B (2004), he covered the entire floors of Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall and the Walker Art Center with an industrially-printed pink and blue floral carpet.

S. debile

Sedum debile, the orpine stonecrop or weakstem stonecrop, a low growing carpet forming flowering plant species

Sean Slemon

In 2005, he filled the internal space of the Premises Gallery at the Civic Theatre in Braamfontein with two-and-a-half tons of carpet layers, a work called "Uplift:The Mountain Premises." "By entirely occupying a space with an artwork, an act that must have caused a certain degree of inaccessibility and inconvenience, Slemon sought to probe the manner in which we attempt to control the personal and public spaces that we occupy." -Jackie McInnes, SA Art Times, Issue 8, August 2006

Sir Herbert Smith, 1st Baronet

During the First World War he was chairman of the Carpet Trade Rationing Committee and the Man-Power and Protection Committee and was a member of the Board of Control of the Wool and Textile Industries.

Somerleyton Hall

In 1863 the Somerleyton estate was sold to Sir Francis Crossley of Halifax, West Yorkshire who, like Peto, was a philanthropist, a carpet manufacturer, and a Member of Parliament.

South Geelong, Victoria

Major industry in South Geelong includes the Godfrey Hirst Pty Ltd carpet manufacturers on Barwon Terrace currently (2009) owned by the McKendrick family.

The Carpet Makers

The Carpet Makers (ISBN 0-7653-0593-3), a novel by Andreas Eschbach

The Phoenix and the Carpet

However, the children in The Phoenix and the Carpet are not surprised because they have encountered fantastic elements in The Five Children and It.

Thunderbird Motel

The hotel is referenced by former Minnesotans, The Hold Steady on their album, "Separation Sunday" in the song, "Stevie Nix." The song contains the lyrics, "...and the carpet at the Thunderbird has a burn for every cowboy that got fenced in."

William C. Wampler

Wampler was again an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1956 to the 85th Congress, and served as vice president and general manager of Wampler Brothers Furniture Company in Bristol, Virginia from 1957 to 1960 and the vice president and general manager of Wampler Carpet Company from 1961 to 1966.

Won Ho Chung

Chung covered the red carpet at the Dubai International Film Festival in 2008 where he interviewed the likes of Goldie Hawn and Danny Glover and in 2009 as well where he interviewed Indian film actor Amitabh Bachchan and numerous Arabic celebrities.

In 2009, Chung covered the red carpet at the inaugural Doha Tribeca Film Festival in Qatar where he interviewed actors; Sir Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Wright, Patricia Clarkson, Alexander Siddig and film director Mira Nair.

Woolton Picture House

The cinema celebrated the film Premier of the Blockbuster movie Madrasapattinam with film stars hosting the cinema's red carpet event.

XXXO

On the red carpet to the Spike TV 2010 Scream Awards she wore the "XXXO Burka", a black burka – a traditional Islamic garment – printed with lyrics, the graphic "XO I Love You" inside a heart and artwork to the song and album, and revealing teal eye shadow, studded stilettos and yellow nail polish.


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