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7 unusual facts about climax


All Mine to Give

Original US TV version The Day They Gave Babies Away, starring Brandon deWilde, aired on the CBS anthology show Climax! on December 22, 1955.

Climax!

The only other episode of Climax! available on DVD is Gore Vidal's adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, retitled on Climax! as "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde".

This was the first screen adaptation of a James Bond novel, made before Eon Productions acquired the Bond film rights.

Gord Kluzak

Gordon Glen Kluzak (born March 4, 1964 in Climax, Saskatchewan) is a retired NHL defenceman who played his entire abbreviated career for the Boston Bruins, and is now a broadcaster for the team.

H. F. M. Prescott

H.F.M. Prescott wrote only one thriller, Dead and Not Buried, and this was adapted for CBS's Climax! television series under the screen title of Bury Me Later in 1954.

Rocky Trottier

Rocky Trottier (born April 11, 1964 in Climax, Saskatchewan) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 38 games in the National Hockey League.

The White Carnation

:For the television episode of this title, see Climax!.


1635: The Cannon Law

The book explores the reactions of the Roman Catholic hardliners to Pope Urban VIII's actions in tolerating the new freedom of religion taking root in Central Europe during the climax of The Galileo Affair.

2008–14 Irish banking crisis

Morgan Kelly, a professor of economics at University College Dublin, was particularly concerned about the real estate bubble which was reaching its climax in the summer of 2006.

Angie Watts

The climax was a trip to Venice when Angie, convinced that Den had finished with his mistress, was taken there for a second-honeymoon, returning to London on the Orient Express.

Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany

At the end of the 20th century, the anti-tobacco campaign in Germany was unable to approach the level of the Nazi-era climax in the years 1939–41 and German tobacco health research was described by Robert N. Proctor as "muted".

Antonio Mohamed

His climax was in Toros Neza when they had made it to the final against Guadalajara in the Verano '97 season alongside other famous players at the time such as Nildeson, Rodrigo Ruiz, and Germán Arangio.

ATV Offroad Fury: Blazin' Trails

ATV Offroad Fury: Blazin' Trails is a racing video game in the ATV Offroad Fury series, developed by Climax Studios and released on April 19, 2005 in North America and on February 10, 2004 in PAL Region, exclusively for the PlayStation Portable.

Basilica Cistern

The cistern with its inverted Medusa pillar was used prominently in the climax of the new Dan Brown novel Inferno featuring Robert Langdon, where the antagonist planned to make his attack.

Battle of Bergendal

There were several other clashes during the battle, but the battle's climax occurred on 27 August, when 74 men of the Johannesburg section of the ZARPs faced an attack on foot by 1,500 men of the Rifle Brigade, 2nd Battalion, Inniskilling Fusiliers, 1st Battalion, the Devonshire Regiment and Gordon Highlanders after a heavy artillery bombardment.

Battle of Sedgemoor

The Battle of Sedgemoor is depicted in detail at the climax of plot in Arthur Conan Doyle's historical adventure novel "Micah Clarke".

Behemoth, the Sea Monster

Except for short bits in the climax of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, this film marked the last time that Willis O'Brien designs and animation would be seen by the public.

Bjarkamál

The nyktomakhi is of about the same length as Bjarkamál, and containing the same elements: The Trojan horse/the smuggling of Swedish weapons; Danes/Trojans are sound asleep when Swedes/Greeks attack them; plus the climax: The godess Venus informs Æneas that it is the will of the gods themselves (that is, Jupiter, Juno, Minerva and Neptune) that Troy shall fall, and so he can honourably flee.

Brian McGinlay

At the domestic level McGinlay has refereed 21 Old Firm derbies, during which he never sent off a player, but he considers his most nerve-racking match to be the RangersAberdeen title decider match at the climax of the 1990–91 season.

Bryson Apartment Hotel

Fittingly, when Stephen Frears shot his 1990 neo-noir, The Grifters, he chose The Bryson Apartments as one of the principal locations—the home of John Cusack's character, Roy Dillon, and the site of the bloody climax.

Climax vegetation

Climax vegetation is the vegetation which establishes itself on a given site for given climatic conditions in the absence of major disturbance after a long time (it is the asymptotic or quasi-equilibrium state of the local ecosystem).

Clyno

In an attempt to minimise costs, Clyno ended their agreement with their long term partner Rootes and stopped using Coventry Climax engines in favour of concentrating on the Hillman design and this hastened the demise of Clyno.

CP Lee

His other works include books about Bob Dylan, one of which, Like The Night (Revisited), focuses on the shout of 'Judas' aimed at Dylan at his Manchester Free Trade Hall performance in 1966, which was the climax of Martin Scorsese's documentary of Dylan, No Direction Home.

Dee Bliss

This comes to a climax when Joel fakes a letter from a noted art gallery, pretending that they wanted to put on an exhibition of Dee's work and enlists his friend Malcolm Kennedy (Benjamin McNair) to pose as a distant relative of Joel's who is interested in Dee's paintings.

Den Watts

The climax was a trip to Venice when Angie — convinced that Den had finished with his mistress — was taken there for a second honeymoon, returning to London on the Orient Express.

Dobara

Taran Adarsh praised the performances of the main actors and the music by Anu Malik such as 'Humnasheen' and 'Mujhse Kyon Roothe Ho?' but said "the sluggish pace of its narrative and classy treatment act as barricades. And the pre-climax portions, involving the child and the conclusion to the triangle, take the graph of the film downhill."

Eagle Mk1

For the 1967 Formula One season the Climax-engined chassis 101 was sold to Canadian driver Al Pease, and all AAR chassis ran as Eagle-Weslake machines.

Edge of Eternity

The climax of the film, involving a fight on a cable car suspended above the Grand Canyon, was filmed in the aerial tramway to the Bat Cave mine, in the western Grand Canyon of Arizona.

Elveon

Originally developed by 10Tacle studios in Bratislava, Slovakia; financial difficulties of the 10Tacle group lead to the closure of its Bratislava studios, the game was expected to be finished by an English studio (Climax) in co-operation with 10Tacle.

Finish What Ya Started

On the Live: Right Here, Right Now concert footage Hagar introduces the song as being about sex, about being about females who don't carry on intercourse until their male partner's climax.

Horned King

In the Super Famicom game Mickey no Tokyo Disneyland Daibōken, Pete plays the role of the Horned King in the game's final level, based on the park's former Cinderella Castle Mystery Tour attraction, where an encounter with the Horned King served as the climax.

Incineration

The climax of Toy Story 3 features an infamous scene, where the working of a moving-grate incinerator (and of a garbage shredder) was shown dramatically from the inside, as the toys face destruction.

Joe In The Future

Joe is a tough rogue and his yarns tend to feature Goodfellas-type petty street tension that boils to a violent climax, but through it all the title character tends to eschew anger, malevolence and disrespect.

Kolilakkam

The climax scene of the movie was being filmed in Sholavaram, near Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Love's Prisoner

At that time Jonathan Twist, a quaint philosopher and their somewhat mysterious neighbor, offers their help and Nancy finds with of the help of him a job as a seller of Cocoa Climax.

Metti Oli

The serial was dubbed in telugu as Mettala Savvadi Gemini and remade in Kannada as Mangalya on Udaya, Malayalam as Minnukettu on Surya and Hindi as Shubh Vivah on Sony tv but the story lines change in all three languages into different stories and all had a different climax.

Nilavinte nattil

In the climax, the couple, with the help of their friend, who is a cop, get the baby back and kills the stranger.

Plovdiv Airport

The airport was the setting for the climax of the 2012 American film The Expendables 2.

Pygmy Nuthatch

The Pygmy Nuthatch features prominently in the climax of the 2000 film Charlie's Angels, in which Cameron Diaz's character, Natalie, discovers the location of the villains' fortress by identifying the call of the Pygmy Nuthatch, which she says only live in Carmel, California—though the bird shown is not a Pygmy Nuthatch, which in any case is found in a much wider range.

Ruggles of Red Gap

The climax of the film is Laughton’s recitation of the Gettysburg Address (something that does not happen in the original story).

Samuel Silke

The climax of Silke's plan came was when he and the rest of Kingpin's men orchestrated a Julius Caesar-like attack on Kingpin, stabbing him several times and leaving him for dead.

Scars of Dracula

This film opens with a resurrection scene set shortly after the climax of Taste the Blood of Dracula, but is set in Dracula's Transylvanian homeland rather than England, as that film was.

Script for a Jester's Tear

There was supposed to be a rubber plant featured on the album's cover, per Fish's request – part of Fish's stage theatrics at the time included tearing apart a rubber plant at the climax of The Web.

Sechseläuten

Following the parade of the Zünfte (guilds), the climax of the holiday is the burning of Winter in effigy, in the form of the Böögg, a figure of a snowman prepared with explosives.

Shawkat Ali

The Language Movement reached its climax in 1952 with the indiscriminate shooting by the police at protesters and killing four young men - Abdus Salam, Rafiq Uddin Ahmed, Abul Barkat and Abdul Jabbar.

Sire Records

The UK signing policy was vindicated when Climax Blues Band scored a Top 40 hit in 1977 with "Couldn't Get It Right".

Space gun

Wells also used the concept in the climax of the 1936 movie Things to Come.

The Courtship of Stewie's Father

The security guard chasing Peter and Stewie in to the "Indiana Jones Ride" (allusion to the Indiana Jones Adventure which is actually at Disneyland in California and not in Florida where the episode takes place), as well as the following encounter with Michael Eisner, is a reference to the climax of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

The Fabulous Rougeaus

Their most notable feud in Montreal was against the Garvin brothers, Ron Garvin and Terry Garvin (who were not actually brothers); the climax of their feud was a match in front of close to 20,000 fans at the Montreal Forum.

The Key to Rebecca

To have it as a mnemonic "key" would have required a different method for the book's climax, either involving a "Bletchley Park" type codebreaker trick (some early "computer" perhaps) or by Vandam pressuring Wolff to reveal it (unlikely, given the obstinate history of the Nazi-Bedouin character).

The Last Flower

Thurber's story was animated as part of the climax of Jack Lemmon's 1972 film The War Between Men and Women, the film takes much from Thurber's life and stories.

The Love Specialist


The romance reaches its climax at the traditional Palio horse race where, after Diana breaks up with the prince upon hearing that he bribed the jockey of the rival contrada into throwing the race so that his horse could win, she fast-talks the rival horse's owner into letting her ride.

The Return of Optimus Prime

Stan Bush's The Touch from The Transformers: The Movie is heard at the climax of part two when Optimus unleashes the Matrix of Leadership.


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