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4 unusual facts about cul-de-sac


Cul-de-sac

Built examples of such connected culs-de-sac can be found in the United States (such as Radburn, New Jersey and Village Homes, California), England (such as Milton Keynes) and Greece (such as Papagou, a suburb of Athens) (see photo).

Daniel MacIvor

While the direct address of the audience continues in Monster and Cul-de-sac, MacIvor portrays several characters throughout the course of the piece and this direct address is occasionally broken up by dialogue between these characters.

Maze solving algorithm

The random mouse, wall follower, Pledge, and Trémaux algorithms are designed to be used inside the maze by a traveler with no prior knowledge of the maze, whereas the dead-end filling and shortest path algorithms are designed to be used by a person or computer program that can see the whole maze at once.

My Cat from Hell

Certain cats (whom he calls "tree-dwelling cats") behave better when they have access to above-ground perches, and he often instructs owners of such cats to install an above-the-floor walkway with no dead ends, in order to provide these cats with the psychological comfort of escape routes.


1967 Philadelphia Student Demonstrations

SAC was active in a number of demonstrations in that period, such as the Philadelphia Post Office demonstration to demand African-Americans to be hired on an equal basis, the Girard College integration marches, various civil rights marches as well as a number of anti-war marches

380th Air Refueling Squadron

It moved to Plattsburgh Air Force Base, New York in 1956 with Boeing KC-97 Stratotankers providing air refueling to SAC B-47s and other USAF aircraft as directed.

Amietophrynus cristiglans

The throat has a light dusting of melanophores and the vocal sac is black and visible through the gular skin.

Anthony Stevens-Arroyo

During his term, he was instrumental in the conduct of a SAC testimony in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania in 2009.

Ashton Lane

Other bars and restaurants were opened: the Cul-de-Sac creperie in the former Barr and Stroud factory and Bar Brel in the old coachhouse that had been used latterly as a landscape gardener's yard but was, in 1910, the chauffeur’s house and garage for Dr Marion Gilchrist’s 'prim dark green Wolseley landaulette'.

Autonov 1

Its inventor, the late engineering professor Ayodele Awojobi, imagined the advantage of the invention in such a situation as when a motor vehicle drives forward into a cul-de-sac and needs to make a fast, backward retreat.

Beale Air Force Base

In 1963 the 456th Strategic Aerospace Wing was featured as the fictional 904th Strategic Aerospace Wing in the Hollywood film production A Gathering of Eagles, with the Air Force, SAC and the wing providing maximum support to the Universal Studios film crews.

Boffa Island

Named by the US-ACAN for W. C. Boffa, observer with the then Army Strategic Air Command (SAC), who assisted Operation Windmill parties in establishing astronomical control stations in the area in January 1948.

Boyer River

In southern Sac County it turns southwestward and flows through Crawford, Harrison and Pottawattamie Counties, past the towns of Deloit, Denison, Arion, Dow City, Dunlap, Woodbine, Logan and Missouri Valley.

Cefn Cul

Cefn Cul is a hill in the Fforest Fawr sector of the Brecon Beacons National Park in the county of Powys, south Wales.

Clydach Gorge

Subsequently considerable parts of the gorge have also been protected for their wildlife and habitats including the Cwm Clydach SSSI, Cwm Clydach National Nature Reserve, the Cwm Clydach Woodlands SAC and the Usk Bat Sites SAC which also extends across much of the neighbouring Mynydd Llangatwg.

Congalach mac Conaing Cuirre

In 695 Congalach and his kinsman Áed mac Dlúthaig (died 701) of the Síl nDlúthaig of Fir Cúl Breg killed Fínsnechta Fledach, the High King of Ireland, and his son Bresal of the Clan Fínsnechtai sept at Grellaigh Dollaith.

Diarmait Dian

Diarmait himself was killed in 689 as part of the old feud by Áed mac Dlúthaig (died 701) of the Fir Cúl Breg sept of Síl nÁedo Sláine.

Dongducheon Rock Festival

The line-up included Megadeth, BUCK-TICK, Cul-de-sac, Shin Joong Hyun, Yoon Do Hyun, Do Won Kyoung, Kim Kyung Ho, Lee Eun Mi, Crash, Crying Nut, Sinawe, Blackhole, Gigs, Black Syndrome, 3rd Line Butterfly, Rainysun, Bulldog Mansion, Diablo, No Brain, Pia, Jeremy, Frida Kahlo and Lazybone

Dragoon Trace

Keokuk let the Sac people single file out of Iowa on September 10, 1845 down the Draggon Trace to Fort Leavenworth.

Flann mac Áedo

He was the son of Áed mac Dlúthaig (died 701), King of Fir Cúl and great-grandson of Ailill Cruitire mac Áedo Sláine (died 634), a king of Brega.

GHAR

Għar Dalam, a prehistorical cul de sac located on the outskirts of Birżebbuġa, Malta

Granzyme

However, new evidence indicates that a multimeric complex (Granzyme B, perforin, and granulysin) can enter a cell through the mannose 6-phosphate receptor (or another receptor found in tumor cells) and is enclosed in a vesicle (a sac).

Hilmer Lodge Stadium

The stadium is also the finish for the famous Mt. SAC Cross Country course, which hosts as many as 17,000 participants to the Mt. SAC Cross Country Invitational, as well as playing host to the CIF Southern Section Cross Country prelims and finals, and the Western Regional preliminary to the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships.

John Darwall

He is probably best known for his setting of Psalm 148, known as DARWALL 148, which is most often sung to the words "Rejoice the Lord is King" (from Charles Wesley's Mor­al and Sac­red Po­ems of 1744) or "Ye holy angels bright" (from Richard Baxter's Po­et­ic­al Frag­ments of 1681).

Killykeen Forest Park

Responsibility for the upkeep of Killykeen is through the state's commercial forestry service Coillte together with the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) where Lough Oughter and its associated loughs are protected under the EU Habitats Directive as a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) and a Special Protection Area (SPA) for wildlife and particularly wintering birds.

Lạc Long Quân

Quân's wife, Âu Cơ, gave birth to a sac containing 100 eggs from which 100 children were born; this is the origin of the story of the 100 Vietnamese family names.

Lluís-Anton Baulenas

In 2005 Baulenas won the most prestigious award in Catalan letters, the Ramon Llull prize, for his novel Per un sac d’ossos (For a Sack of Bones), dealing with the Spanish civil war.

Micropterix aglaella

Terminal papillae consisting of two somewhat weakly sclerotized plates forming a band; receptaculum seminis more or less short and stout, the second half like a sac, with typical striation; vestibulum a large sac, without any special characters.

Milecastle 12

One reads "LEG·VI·V·P·F·REF·TER·ET·SAC·COS", referring to Tertullus and Sacerdos (Consuls for 158AD).

Mynydd y Grug

The hill is crossed by a number of public footpaths, one of which is a restricted byway linking two cul-de-sac minor roads approaching from Machen to the east and Blackwood to the north.

Pacific sheath-tailed bat

The Pacific sheath-tailed bat or Polynesian sheath-tailed bat (Emballonura semicaudata) is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae found in American Samoa, Fiji, Guam, Micronesia, Palau, Samoa (where it is called pe'a vai, tagiti or pe'ape'a vai), Tonga, and Vanuatu.

Programmable read-only memory

The first PROM programming machines were also developed by Arma engineers under Mr. Chow's direction and were located in Arma's Garden City lab and Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) headquarters.

Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac

Another Man's Sac is the first full-length studio album by American noise rock band Butthole Surfers, released in December 1984 by Touch and Go Records and Fundamental Records.

RAF Chelveston

Starting in November 1955 the airfielf was transferred to the SAC 7th Air Division as a standby facility,operated by the 3914th Air Base Group (SAC).

RAF Eastcote

In 1949 the United States Air Force established a non-flying base at RAF South Ruislip to coordinate the USAFE's Third Air Force and 7th Air Division (SAC) activities in Great Britain with the British Government.

Robert William Strong, Jr.

Two years later in July, he came back to SAC and was an 817th Air Division commander there at Pease Air Force Base in New Hampshire.

Rocco DiSiglio

In August 1967, after H. Paul Rico testified before a Suffolk county grand jury about his conversations with Joseph Barboza concerning the murder of DiSiglio, the Boston SAC sent an urgent teletype to J. Edgar Hoover at 1:03 a.m.

Rung Sat Special Zone

Rung Sat Special Zone (Vietnamese: Đặc khu Rừng Sác) was the name given during the Vietnam War by the South Vietnam Government and American forces to a large area of the Sác Forest (Vietnamese Rừng Sác), which is today known as the Cần Giờ Mangrove Forest.

Sauk language

Sauk language of the Sac tribe of Native Americans (Sometimes considered a dialect of Fox language, also called Meskwaki)

Search activity concept

Search Activity Concept (SAC) is a psychophysiological concept that integrates subject’s behavior, resistance to stress and deteriorating factors, pathogenetic mechanisms of different mental and psychosomatic disorders, REM sleep functions, brain monoamines activity and brain laterality.

Solli Adippen

Solli Adippen is a Tamil film, directed by art director turned debutant director SAC Ramki and was to be the debut of Tamil film comedian Vivek, which also starred Chaya Singh and Tejashree.

Sri Kandaswamy Kovil, Brickfields

The land between the closed end of the cul-de-sac of the present Jalan Scott and the Klang River was considered most appropriate for the proposed temple because of its central position and because the land was quite empty.

Stamp Advisory Committee

In 1996 for instance, questions were asked in the House of Lords about the choice of a stamp showing the British children's television character Muffin the Mule over one showing the designer William Morris and a government minister was forced to explain that such choices were not part of the work of the SAC.

Sullivan Line

In 1832, at the conclusion of the Black Hawk War, the Sac and Fox conceded the eastern section of Iowa and the western section of Illinois.

Superior Art Creations

The first SAC Art Pack was released the same month at "The Party" Demo Party in Herning, Denmark.

Supreme Audit Court of Iran

In December 2010, Supreme Audit Court (SAC) Director Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said that the case was mentioned in a report presented to the Majlis and the report neither called it fraud nor said the money was missing, but only referred to it as "a deficit in the account".

Syrian American Council

SAC advocates the U.S. government including President Barack Obama, Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, the United States Senate, and the United States House of Representatives through its Washington, D.C., office for statements and policy changes to support the Syrian revolution.

As of April 10, 2013, SAC has 21 chapters across the U.S. in Chicago, Orlando, Los Angeles, Northern California, Washington, D.C./Virginia, Dearborn, New Jersey, Georgia, Indianapolis, Panama City, West Virginia, North Carolina, San Diego, Tampa, South Florida, Flint, Dallas, Houston, Austin, Raleigh, and Detroit.

Vietbocap thienduongensis

This species was found by Phạm Đình Sắc (Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (IEBR), an organ under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST)) and Wilson Lourenço (Paris Museum of Natural History – National Museum of Natural History) inside Thiên Đường Cave, a cave located in Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park, Quảng Bình Province and they announced their discovery in Comptes Rendus Biologies.

Wes Kussmaul

In 1971, while stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base (SAC), Kussmaul received a degree in physics from the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Missouri.


see also

Castle Street, Dunedin

A small cul-de-sac south of Albany Street that was formerly part of Castle Street was renamed Ethel Benjamin Place.

Dongducheon Rock Festival

The line-up included Cul-de-sac, Dr.Core 911, Rust Eye, Black Syndrome, Harlequin, Blackhole, Do Won Kyoung, Sinchon Blues, Love And Peace, Boohwal, Sinawe and Yoon Do Hyun

Ernest Gambart

Avenue Gambart in Nice (a small cul-de-sac boulevard de Cambrai) was named for him.

Royal Over-Seas League

The London clubhouse is at the end of Park Place, a cul-de-sac off St James's Street in the West End backing onto Green Park and has its own private garden; the Edinburgh clubhouse at 100 Princes Street overlooks Princes Street Gardens and has unrestricted views of Edinburgh Castle.

The Dream Life of Balso Snell

Balso, the protagonist, comes across the Trojan Horse in the tall grass around Troy and promptly seeks a way to get in: “the mouth was beyond his reach, the navel provided a cul-de-sac, and so, forgetting his dignity, he approached the last. O Anus Mirabilis!”