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5 unusual facts about chute


Chute-Saint-Philippe, Quebec

The settlement initially had the name Chute-Leon at the beginning of the 20th century, in memory of Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903), and was called Victoria Falls by 1903, in honour of Queen Victoria (1819-1901).

Chute, Wiltshire

A 'Save Our Pub' campaign was mounted by locals with the support of the Campaign for Real Ale, and in March 2006 the Cross Keys Inn reopened under new ownership.

David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles

In 1962 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Eccles, of Chute in the County of Wiltshire, and in 1964 he was created Viscount Eccles, of Chute in the County of Wiltshire.

Outarde

Chute-aux-Outardes is a village in at the mouth of the Outardes River

Viscount Eccles

Viscount Eccles, of Chute in the County of Wiltshire, England, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.


A. M. Schreyer

In 1902 Laurent J. Tonnelle dedicated his March and Two Step 'To My Friend A. M. Schreyer, Mile a Minute Aerial Cyclist in his Dare Devil ride "Down the Chute".

Batiscan River

# "Grande chute" (Great Fall) (altitude 15 meters), in Saint-Narcisse(West side of the river) and Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan (East side), where the Saint-Narcisse dam is built;

Bridge Day

In 1987, Steven Gyrsting of Paoli, Pennsylvania, jumped using gear that was not BASE-specific gear and was killed after he was unable to open his reserve chute in time when his main chute failed to deploy.

Carolyn Chute

Chute's first, and best known, novel, The Beans of Egypt, Maine, was published in 1985 and made into a 1994 film of the same name, directed by Jennifer Warren.

Chute Boxe Academy

He was quoted in an ESPN article as stating that friendships formed with his former rivals helped to save his career upon his departure from Chute Boxe.

Doole, Texas

For nearly a half-century he was a chute director at the Cheyenne Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Howick Falls

In 1999, Jeb Corliss had a near-fatal BASE jump into the waterfalls where his chute opening went asymmetric and he could not avoid flying into the downpouring water.

La chute de la maison Usher

La chute de la maison Usher is the French translation of the title of Edgar Allan Poe's tale The Fall of the House of Usher (1839).

Paranapanema River

Navigation of the Paranapanema River is practical along the lower course up to the port of Euclides da Cunha, down the chute of the Coroa do Frade, with a length of about 70 km, counting from the mouth into the Paraná river.

Poop Chute

As with the two other Martin/Molloy albums, Poop Chute won the Best Comedy Release at the ARIA Music Awards, taking the award in 1997.

Ross Lee

Apart from Chute!, Lee appeared in other CBBC shows; once on SMart, and twice on TMi as Mark Rhodes' "friend", and on the last show for Flack's Musical Chairs.

The Airport

Elaine's bag never arrives (This was due to an earlier scene where Elaine complains to the skycap that he does not deserve to be tipped. In revenge, he sends her luggage on a different flight to Honolulu.), and Kramer comes sliding down the baggage chute, as his escape was successful.

Tourville, Quebec

A roundhouse was built, in addition to a carbon chute, a water reservoir, and a train station named in the honor of former Chief Justice of Lower Canada James Monk.

Trevor Chute

In 1861 Chute and his regiment arrived in New Zealand, where they helped construct the military road from Drury to the Waikato River.

Chute led a 620-strong force across South and Central Taranaki, from Wanganui to New Plymouth, destroying approximately twenty villages between the Waitotara River and Mount Taranaki/Egmont.


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