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26 unusual facts about cat


Aima of the Maldives

His father was Volumidi Bodu Kilege (Dhivehi: ވޮލުމިދި ބޮޑުކިލޭގެ) of Fehendu and his mother was Bulhaa (lit. Cat) Kabaaidhi Kilege (Dhivehi: ބުޅާ ކަނބައިދި ކިލޭގެ) or Hirirashu Kabaaidhi Kilege (Dhivehi: ހިރިރަށު ކަނބައިދި ކިލޭގެ).

Apache Tomcat

He came up with Tomcat since he reasoned the animal represented something that could fend for itself.

Cat-Tails for Two

Figuring the ship will have plenty of Mexican mice, i.e. "Mexican food" (Benny: "It gives me the heartburn and I love it!"), they climb on, only to find an unkempt mouse calling himself "Speedy Gonzalez sic: Fastest Mouse in All Mexico".

Cat-Women of the Moon

They were presented by the writer Sarah Hall, and produced in Manchester by Nicola Swords; they featured a number of British writers including Iain M. Banks, China Miéville, and Nicola Griffith.

Cat's cradle

it is referred to as "scratch cradle", a name supported by Brewer's 1898 Dictionary.

Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark

After meeting Herne, a strange creature who apologizes to the Doctor for something that hasn't happened yet, they are captured by the Sidhe, evading execution when the Sidhe are attacked by an unseen force, allowing them to escape.

Cat's whiskers

For whiskers found on cats and other animals, see Whiskers.

Cat's-whisker detector

The "unilateral conduction" of crystals, as it was then called, was discovered by Ferdinand Braun, a German physicist, in 1874 at the University of Würzburg, before radio had been invented.

Collisional excitation

For this reason, when CELs were first observed by William Huggins in the spectrum of the Cat's Eye Nebula, he did not know what they were, and attributed them to a hypothetical new element called Nebulium.

Continental Copters

In the late 1970s, Continental worked on single-seat agricultural versions of the Bell 204 and 206, the latter flying as the Jet-Cat.

Dynamic tension

This term is used by the religious leader Bokonon to describe the way to create a good society in Cat's Cradle.

Holyoke Publishing

The Holyoke Publishing Company was an American magazine and comic-book publisher with offices in Holyoke, and Springfield, Massachusetts, and New York City, Its best-known comics characters were Blue Beetle and the superhero duo Cat-Man (later rendered as Catman, sans hyphen) and Kitten, all inherited from defunct former clients of Holyoke's printing business.

Jack in the pulpit

Cat's cradle, a well known series of string figures created between two people as a game

Miles v. City Council of Augusta, Georgia

In May 1981, Carl and Elaine Miles, an otherwise unemployed couple, began exhibiting Blackie the Talking Cat on the streets of Augusta, Georgia.

Nape

In domestic cats, the scruff is used when a mother cat transfers her kittens to a new nest or den site (carrying each kitten by gripping its scruff in her teeth), and in mating, when the male cat (tom) grips the female cat's scruff with his teeth to help keep her relatively immobile.

Old Bear Stories

Cat: a toy cat who likes to nap in any place she finds.

Queen of Outer Space

The film recycled many ideas such as a planet ruled by women from other science fiction films of the era as Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Cat-Women of the Moon (both 1953) and the British Fire Maidens from Outer Space (1955).

Rada Tilly

Among the variety of flora found along Punta del Marqués, local species such as: uña de gato, zampa, adesmia, malaspina, duraznillo, and coiro predominate.

Sandra Chapin

She helped write lyrics to several of Chapin's songs, including the well-known "Cat's in the Cradle".

Seconds Before the Accident

Seconds Before The Accident was recorded in November, 1998 at the Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Secret Agent X-9

In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle, the character Franklin Hoenikker was known as Secret Agent X-9 in high school.

She-Cat

For the unrelated character created by AC Comics, see She Cat.

Sulfathiazole

Sulfathiazole is mentioned in chapter 104 of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle and New Dictonary, and several of his short stories.

The Night That Made America Famous

The music consists of a combination of songs written for the musical and songs from Chapin's previous albums, the latter including "Cat's in the Cradle", Chapin's best-known song, as well as "What Made America Famous?", a song about a plumber who rescues a group of hippies from a fire, that includes the lyric that gave the musical its title.

Troy, New York

His 1963 novel, Cat's Cradle, was written in the city, and mentions being in Ilium.

Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons

:Dear Reader: The title of this book is composed of three words from my novel Cat's Cradle.


Affinity Business School

Students are admitted based on the performance of CAT, XAT or MAT scores followed by group discussion and personal interview.

Alleycat Rock: Female Boss

It is the first entry in the five-film Alleycat Rock or Stray Cat Rock series and was followed by Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo, Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter, Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal and Alleycat Rock: Crazy Riders '71.

Beyond a Joke

Meanwhile, Kochanski (Chloë Annett) decides to educate Lister (Craig Charles) and Cat (Danny John-Jules) on the finer points of etiquette by introducing them to a virtual reality rendition of "Pride and Prejudice Land" in "Jane Austen World".

Candygram For Mongo

The band has performed at world famous venues including the Viper Room, House of Blues, The Key Club, The Derby, Cat Club and the Mint.

Carbonel series

It has three novels, first Carbonel: the King of the Cats and two sequels, The Kingdom of Carbonel (Puffin, 1961) and Carbonel and Calidor: Being the Further Adventures of a Royal Cat (Kestrel Books, 1978), and was based on the old British folk tale "The King of the Cats".

Carleton W. Angell

Girl with a Cat, Bath School disaster memorial, James Couzens Memorial Auditorium, Bath Middle School, Bath, Michigan, 1928

Cat and Fiddle Inn

Various etymologies are claimed: some believe it is a corruption of le chat fidèle ('the faithful cat'); others (including Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable) that it comes from 'Caton le Fidèle' (a former governor of Calais); a third theory is that it derives from 'Catherine la Fidèle' (Catherine of Aragon).

Cat Creek, Montana

The vegetation of the Cat Creek area is diverse with the plains areas featuring a sparse growth of buffalo grass, black sage and greasewood while on the northern bluffs, bull pine grow.

Cat flea

Humans can be bitten, though a long-term population of cat fleas cannot be sustained and infest people.

Champagne in Seashells

It includes a bonus track Captain Cat Is Crying with lines from the Dylan Thomas poem Under Milk Wood.

Chemistro

During the Shadowland storyline, Chemistro was seen as member of Flashmob (a group of former opponents of Luke Cage consisting of Cheshire Cat, Commanche, Dontrell "Cockroach" Hamilton, Mr. Fish II, and Spear) when they confront the new Power Man on the rooftop.

David Spencer

Spencer has won the Verity Bargate Award twice, for his plays Releevo and Killing the Cat.

Deloris

In 2002 Deloris began work on their third record 'Fake Our Deaths', soliciting the services of engineer Matt Voigt (Cat Power, The Nation Blue, Augie March, The Dirty Three) and assistant engineer Hugh Counsell (later worked with Race the Fray), to commence recording at Melbourne's Sing Sing studios.

Dipylidium caninum

Dipylidium caninum, also called the flea tapeworm or the double-pore tapeworm, is a cyclophyllid cestode that infects organisms afflicted with fleas and canine chewing lice, including dogs, cats, and pet-owners, especially children.

Dora Maar

On 3 May 2006, one of Picasso's portraits of her, Dora Maar au Chat ("Dora Maar with Cat") was auctioned at Sotheby's at a closing price of $95,216,000.

Dumbshow

Eventually, dumbshow became a risible subject: in Henry Fielding's The Author's Farce (1729), the protagonist Author intends to have his Epilogue acted in dumbshow...by a cat.

Farmer Al Falfa

Next came a series of shorts produced by Terry for Bray Studios, starting with Farmer Al Falfa's Cat-Tastrophe (1916).

Freak the Freak Out

Justice continues singing as Elizabeth Gillies and Ariana Grande, playing Jade West and Cat Valentine, come up on stage and dance beside her.

Funki Porcini

Unitone HiFi - "Guiding Star (Funki Porcini Remix)" from Rewound + Rerubbed (1996, Incoming!, Cat. no: INC!LP 3402/INC!CD 3308, 2x12"/CD)

Garry Hocking

In the late 1990s (1999) Hocking was part of a promotion with cat-food company Whiskas, where for a short period of time he changed his name by deed-poll to "Whiskas".

GG45

The GG45 (where GG stands for GigaGate, and 45 is to remind the backward compatibility with the 8P8C modular connector - often colloquially called RJ45) is a connector for high-speed Category 7 cable (generally known as Cat 7) LAN cabling developed by Nexans.

Gippsland phantom cat

In June 2005 Kurt Engel, a deer hunter from Noble Park, shot what he claimed was a large cat in rugged terrain near the town of Sale.

Hippety Hopper

Hippety Hopper returns in McKimson's Pop 'Im Pop! (1950), in which proud papa Sylvester boasts of his mousing skills to his son, Sylvester Jr. In Cats A-Weigh! (1953), Sylvester Cat accepts a position as mouse-catcher on a ship.

Human equivalent

The ages of domestic cats and dogs are often referred to in terms of "cat years" or "dog years", representing a conversion to human-equivalent years.

If You're Ever Down in Texas, Look Me Up

A recording of this song was used in the 1950 Tom and Jerry short, Texas Tom, in which Tom lip-synchs the song to a female cat, only to be exposed when Jerry alternates the speeds on the hidden record player.

Il Discotto Records

It released material by many well-known artists like Gary Low, Doctor's Cat, Brand Image, Martinelli, Paul Sharada, Betty Miranda, Reeds, Mike Rogers, Raggio Di Luna, Hot Cold, Eugene, Max Coveri, as well as obscure Italo disco acts.

June Harding

She became a successful artist in Blue Hill, Maine (where she currently resides), with most of her pictures having a cat theme.

Kaboodle

"Secretly, Kitten Kaboodle wished she were a dog. She was aware of the natural superiority of a dog, and it bothered her." Linus to Snoopy: "I think your anti-cat stories show too much prejudice.... I think you're going to make a lot of enemies.... Not everybody hates cats, you know!"

L. bakeri

Leptodeira bakeri, Ruthven, 1936, the Baker's cat-eyed snake, a snake species in the genus Leptodeira

Locomotive Breath

It was covered by Rabbitt on their 1975 album Boys Will Be Boys, by Italo-disco outfit Cat Gang in 1983, by W.A.S.P. on the reissue of their 1989 album The Headless Children (as a bonus track), Styx on their 2005 album Big Bang Theory, and Helloween on their 1999 album Metal Jukebox.

Mel Novak

Subsequent parts in The Ultimate Warrior (1975) starring Yul Brynner, Cat in the Cage (1978), starring Sybil Danning, and others followed.

Mitraphylline

As a non-narcotic constituent, it also occurs to a significant amount in the bark of Uncaria tomentosa (Cat’s Claw) along with a number of isomeric alkaloids.

Mrs. Chippy

The painting Mrs Chippy, by Wolf Howard, shows the cat "about to be shot", while in the background the crew launch a small open boat on a rescue mission and Endurance is stuck in the ice.

Pirate Cat Radio

In March 2009, Anthony Bourdain brought his show "No Reservations" to San Francisco and visited Pirate Cat Radio to try a drink invented by station founder Daniel "Monkey Man" Roberts: the Bacon Maple Latte.

Pixie-bob

In the spring of 1985, Carol Ann Brewer purchased a polydactyl cat near Mount Baker, Washington, in the Cascade Mountains.

Polydactyl cat

Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway was one of the more famous lovers of polydactyl cats, after being first given a six-toed cat by a ship's captain.

Rollie's Follies

The Switch is On (The tale of switch-pitcher Pat Venditte successfully playing a game of cat and mouse against a switch-hitter)

Scott Adams

An avid fan of the science fiction TV series Babylon 5, he appeared in the season 4 episode "Moments of Transition" as a character named "Mr. Adams," who hires former head of security Michael Garibaldi to locate his megalomaniacal dog and cat.

The Cat's Me-Ouch!

The title, The Cat's Me-Ouch! is a parody of the title of Tex Avery cartoon Cat's Meow, released on January 25, 1957, remake of Ventriloquist Cat (1950).

The Curse of the Cat People

The Curse of the Cat People is a 1944 film directed by Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise, and produced by Val Lewton.

The Hep Cat

At the end of the cartoon the cat says: "Well, I can dream, can't I?" Both quotes were used often in Looney Tunes cartoons of this era (like for instance Plane Daffy, Red Hot Riding Hood,...) and are both catch phrases by Jerry Colonna.

The John B. Sails

Alan Lomax included the song in his 1935 collection, Deep River of Song, as "Histe Up The John B Sail"; sung by the Cleveland Simmons Group, Old Bight, Cat Island, Bahamas, July 1935.

The Last Time I Committed Suicide

The story moves ahead, with Ben (Adrien Brody) visiting Neal, waking him to tell him about the fabulous story of how he got a loaf of bread for saving a lady’s cat.

WLKT

WLKT, also known as 104.5 The Cat, is a Mainstream Top 40 station broadcasting in Lexington, Kentucky.

Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi

Arc System Works' BlazBlue video game series features an anthropomorphic cat character named Jubei.