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5 unusual facts about dew


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Large scale dew harvesting systems have been made by Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) with the participation of the International Organisation for Dew Utilization (OPUR) at coastal semi arid region Kutch.

Dew-Dew-Dewey Day

"(What Do We Do on a) Dew-Dew-Dewey Day" was a popular song dating from 1927.

The songs, "Let's Put It Over with Grover" and "Oh, Benjamin Harrison", were written for the film The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, which dramatized the 1888 American Presidential campaigns, some 80 years later after the election took place.

Levy-Dew

This ceremony has a parallel in the Scottish Hogmanay tradition of saining; here water drawn from a "dead and living ford", a ford crossed by both the living and the dead, is sprinkled through the house, and then juniper branches are burnt for the smoke indoors.

Morning dew

"Morning Dew", a song by Bonnie Dobson that was covered multiple times


Alex Perelson

He then qualified for the AST Dew Tour on his first attempt at the Panasonic Open, and secured a nomination for the "PlayStation Trick of the Week" at the Right Guard Open that same season which was, according to an article in The San Diego Union-Tribune, a "breakout summer" for the young athlete.

AN/FPS-23

The AN/FPS-23 DEW-Line radar system was manufactured by Motorola, and operated at frequencies between 475 and 525 MHz, with 1 kilowatt of output power.

Bloody Point Range Lights

Two small brick buildings with the sign for the Silver Dew Winery were described by Pat Conroy in his autobiographical book the Water is Wide.

Earl Dew

On January 7, 1941, Iowa native sons Earl Dew and baseball star Bob Feller were honored at ceremonies in the state capital of Des Moines.

Earl Dew was born in Sac City, Iowa, the son of Mable Hass and her husband, John Dew.

Fillmore Theatre – November 5th, 2003

The show was recorded by the Dew Burning Van, a mobile recording system sponsored by Mountain Dew, during Something Corporate's headlining tour with Rx Bandits, Mae and The Format.

Foggy Dew

Early versions of the song refer to her fear of the "bugaboo" rather than the foggy dew.

Henrik H Bull

As a first lieutenant in the USAF, Bull was stationed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and worked with Buckminster Fuller on developing the geodesic radar domes for the Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line) system at the north slope of Alaska.

Holiday at the Dew Drop Inn

Holiday at the Dew Drop Inn is the third and final book in the series initiated by The Family from One End Street (published 1937) and continued with the long-delayed Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street (published 1956).

Hovhannes Shiraz

Novelist Atrpet gave the talented poet the epithet "Shiraz", because "this youth's poems have the fragrance of roses, fresh and covered with dew, like the roses of Shiraz" (Shiraz being one of Iran's major cities, famous for its roses and poets).

Joseph Zobel

While La Rue Cases-Nègres is Zobel's most renowned work, the author started his writing career in 1942 during World War Two with Diab-la (a tentative English title could be "The Devil's Garden"), a socially conscious novel similar to Jacques Roumain's Masters of the Dew (published a year or more later).

Kate Saxon

For the Orange Tree Theatre's Susan Glaspell season she staged the first revival of Glaspell's 1922 comedy Chains of Dew in March 2008.

KBFB

Featuring talent such as John LaBella and John Rody ("LaBella and Rody"), George Gimarc, Charley Jones, Dave Lee Austin, John B. Wells, Nancy Johnson, John Dew, John Dillon, Doc Morgan and Tempie Lindsey, the station's concept and programming were initially under the direction of Ira Lipson.

Liquid Stranger

Seb Taylor from Kaya Project plays Steel Guitar on the songs His Fully Automatic Wheelbarrow, and Dew Point.

Love at First Light

A drop of dew on a leaf is seen on screen before it drips, this scene then fades to reveal Olivia and Natanya on the observation deck of One Raffles Place.

Major Dodge

As a Model he has appeared in ads for the NFL, Abercrombie and Fitch, Panasonic "Pretty Tough", Mountain Dew, Absolut Vodka, Captain Morgan Rum, Nintendo Gamecube, Verizon Wireless, Remote Possibilities, the board game Princes and Frogs, and on a billboard in New York City's Times Square for Conde Nast Publications.

Metaphysical poets

Their style was characterized by wit and metaphysical conceits—far-fetched or unusual similes or metaphors, such as in Andrew Marvell’s comparison of the soul with a drop of dew; in an expanded epigram format, with the use of simple verse forms, octosyllabic couplets, quatrains or stanzas in which length of line and rhyme scheme enforce the sense.

Morning dew

"Morning Dew", a Bad Lip Reading parody of Jay-Z, Bruno Mars, and Lady Gaga, found on YouTube

Nelson's Pillar

"Nelson's Goodbye" by 'Galway Joe' Dolan, released as "Nelson's Farewell" by The Dubliners on their album Finnegan Wakes and as a single "Nelson's Farewell / The Foggy Dew", both in 1966

Okemo Mountain

The main area also includes runs directed at more advanced skiers, such as Searle's Way, Sel's Choice, Nor'Easter Terrain Park, Defiance, and the Dew Zone (Mountain Dew sponsored halfpipe and snowboard park).

Operation Dew

Dew II involved the release of fluorescent particles (zinc cadmium sulfide) and plant spores (Lycopodium) from an aircraft.

Pepsi Globe

Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max use all lower-case fonts for name brands, Mountain Dew has been renamed "Mtn Dew," and Diet Pepsi Max has been re-branded as Pepsi Max, because the original 1993 version is no longer available in the United States.

Pepsi Max

Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max all use lower-case fonts for name brands, Mountain Dew was renamed "Mtn Dew," and Diet Pepsi Max was re-branded as Pepsi Max.

The British advertising campaign involved retouched versions of the American "Do the Dew" commercials for Mountain Dew ( Called Mountain Dew Energy in the UK ), rebranded as "Live life to the Max".

Robb Forman Dew

Dew's first novel, Dale Loves Sophie to Death, was published in 1981 and won the 1982 National Book Award in category First Novel.

T. Graham Brown

Pepper, Mountain Dew, 7-Up,Harrah's and many others.He was also the singing narrator in the Taco Bell "Run For the Border" television spots.


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