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2 unusual facts about disguise


Disguise

Camouflage is a type of disguise for people, animals and objects.

Also, the Clay Camel, one of Mandrake the Magician's foes is considered the Master of the Disguise, because he's able to mimic anyone and change his appearance in seconds.


Achilleid

Achilles is immediately struck by the outstanding beauty of one of these women, Deidamia, and so agrees to disguise himself as a woman and live among the king's daughters in order to be near to her.

Andrés Quintana Roo

She was caught in 1813 and locked in the Colegio de Belén, but managed to escape in disguise, fleeing to Tlalpujahua where she married Quintana Roo.

Baby Buggy Bunny

The story is about a dwarf gangster named "Babyface" Finster (a play on words on Baby Face Nelson) who, after a clever bank robbery, loses his ill-gotten gains down Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole, forcing him to don the disguise of an orphan baby to get it back.

Benjamin Moran

His co-owner was John McHenry, an American businessman who was also based in London, and they arranged the purchase through a nominee, Thornton Leigh Hunt, to disguise their connection.

D' Fightin' Ones

They decide to disguise themselves in human clothes (with the other person hiding in a suitcase) and hop aboard a bus, but hightail it out of there when the bus is revealed to be headed for Sing Sing.

Dead and Deader

On the trail of the final body, Bill Sanderson, the trio change their clothes and general appearance in order to better disguise themselves (the African-American Judson humorously dressing in clothes similar to those worn by Michael Jackson in Thriller), and head to L.A to intercept Sanderson.

Dracula's Dog

The dog of an innkeeper saves a woman from being bitten by a bat, Dracula in disguise.

Edward Chalmers Leavitt

Painter Charles Walter Stetson, for instance, didn't disguise his contempt for Leavitt's steady output for the upper middle classes, which Stetson saw as influenced by the Fall River school.

Eureka Springs and North Arkansas Railway

Built in 1913, the depot is a repository for dozens of railroadiana items, including props which helped disguise the two Moguls as 1860s 4-4-0 American engines for the filming of scenes from the 1982 television mini-series The Blue and the Gray.

Friedrich von Bodenstedt

Though he claimed that the volume was his own poetry published under oriental disguise to gain popularity, it has been argued that the volume was a successful translation of the Persian and Azeri poems of an Azeri poet, and a known acquaintance of his, Mirza Shafi Vazeh.

Gangleri

the name of the ancient Swedish king Gylfi, given while in disguise, as described in the book Gylfaginning collected in the Prose Edda

Georgia Republican Party

"The moral of the fable is that although a fool may disguise his appearance, his words will reveal his true nature. To Nast, the New York Herald is not a roaring lion to be feared, but a braying ass to be ridiculed. The reference in the citation to “Shakespeare or Bacon” is a jibe at Bennett’s contention that Shakespeare’s works were actually written by Sir Francis Bacon."

Giant oceanic manta ray

In the James Bond movie “Licence to Kill” a manta ray over-cover is used to disguise Bond as a fish when he is infiltrating Krest’s ship.

High rail

The traditional toy train layout makes little, if any, effort at realism and often makes use of unpainted plastic buildings, particularly the Plasticville brand, and other toys, making little or no effort to disguise their origin.

Ipomadon

The tournament where the hero fights in disguise and claims to have been busy is a fairy tale commonplace (such as in The Golden Crab or The Magician's Horse, or in Little Johnny Sheep-Dung and The Hairy Man, where it is actual battle), and from there passed into such romances as Robert the Devil, Sir Gowther, and Lanzelet.

Ivyrise

Ivyrise was formed in 2007 by Ben Falinski and began touring the UK with Kula Shaker before working with producer Paul Simm to record "Tips" and the first studio version of "Disguise".

Kung Phooey

He travels to British Columbia (actually filmed in San Francisco, poking fun at movies like Rumble in the Bronx that disguise BC locations to look like US cities), and, with a new band of friends, tries to retrieve the stolen artifact.

Marthe Hanau

A French movie, "La Banquière" (The Lady Banker), by Francis Girod, was made in 1980, starring Romy Schneider as "Emma Eckhert", a thin disguise for Marthe Hanau.

Michael Harari

Before Operation Thunderbolt was launched in July, 1976, to free Israeli hostages at Entebbe International Airport, Harari supposedly took the disguise of an Italian businessman to enter and reconnoiter the airport.

Mission to Venice

Carter (in disguise as American businessman, Robert Corning) and Princess de Verizone meet up on the Orient Express en route from Paris to Venice and spend the night together.

Mrs Miggins

The old woman vaguely resembles Mrs Miggins by style of dress, but also resembles Lord Smedley in disguise as "Madame Guillotine."

Nanga Eboko

Eddie Murphy's character in Trading Places dons a thinly-veiled disguise as an exchange student from Cameroon named "Nanga Eboko."

Plantman

With his "Vege-ray" and a disguise as the Plantman, Smithers wanted revenge on his former employers but was stopped by Johnny Storm, the Human Torch.

Portus Julius

To disguise the activities even more, an access tunnel was dug from Lake Averno north to the town of Cumae.

Prince Ludwig the Indestructible

He appears in "Chains", the final episode of Blackadder II, as a German master of disguise who kidnaps Lord Blackadder and Lord Melchett, in 1566 and imprisons them in his dungeon under the watch of German guards and a Spanish inquisitorial co-conspirator.

Robert Arnold

Before Boyband, Rob had auditioned for every series of New Zealand Idol, as well as achieving minor notoriety by auditioning twice on reality show “Showstoppers”, the second time in disguise, incurring the anger of judge Michael Hurst.

Robots in Disguise

Robots in Disguise's second studio album, Get RID! was released in 2005 through Recall and Ben Prime, produced by Chris Corner.

Rocky Wirtz

This ended up being a blessing in disguise as the goal song "Chelsea Dagger" became a song other teams loved to hate.

Rod Beattie

Other productions include The Loveliest and Sylvia in Victoria, The Crucible and Blessings in Disguise in Manitoba, Oleanna at the National Arts Centre opposite Sandra Oh, and Love Letters opposite wife Martha Henry in an Ontario tour.

Shrine of the Morning Mist

In reality, Kusugi is a disguise used by Michimune to infiltrate the school and hamper his enemies.

Silent Movie

They then disguise themselves as Flamenco dancers to get close to Anne Bancroft at a nightclub, and sign her on as well after a comical dance sequence.

Sir Gowther

Indeed, the tournament where the hero fights in disguise and claims to have been busy is a fairy tale commonplace (such as in The Golden Crab or The Magician's Horse, or in Little Johnny Sheep-Dung and The Hairy Man, where it is actual battle), and from there passed into romance.

Sir James Hutchison, 1st Baronet

He distinguished himself as the principal British liaison officer with the French Resistance during the Second World War in which he needed plastic surgery to disguise his appearance from the Germans; he was nicknamed the "Pimpernel of the Maquis".

StGiNU

It also explains why the Ugandan army now known as UPDF Uganda People's Defence Force caused prolonged brutality on the civilian population, including recruitment of children, forceful displacements under the disguise of fighting LRA.

Sudeshna

Sairandhri chimes in that Uttar should take Brihannala(actually Arjuna in disguise) as his charioteer, saying that if Uttar did so, no harm would come to him.

The Alien Encounters

Described by leading science fiction author David Wingrove in his Science Fiction Source Book as a "Deathly dull B-movie UFO story with dire effects and no real encounters at all...Endless desert scenes and interminable talk-overs disguise crank concerns of writer/director James T. Flocker", the film received generally poor reviews.

The Blind Beggar of Alexandria

The Blind Beggar of Alexandria was hardly the first disguise play to appear on the Elizabethan stage; the anonymous The Knack to Know an Honest Man (1594), another Admiral's play, is one prior instance, and others can be noted.

The Lightning Child

The third examines Caster Semenya and her gender-testing at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, relating it to Dionysus' ambiguous gender and Pentheus' disguise as a woman.

Tony Mendez

2003, with Jonna Mendez and Bruce B. Henderson, Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations that Helped Win the Cold War

Vehmic court

A character in the Dorothy L. Sayers novel Murder Must Advertise appears at a fancy-dress party as a member of the Vehmgericht, which allows him to wear a hooded costume to disguise his identity.

Wolfe Perry

Additionally, he appeared in the controversial 1986 film Soul Man, which starred C. Thomas Howell as a Caucasian student who uses medication to disguise himself as an African American and obtain a Harvard Law School scholarship intended for African American students.

Zoey Van Goey

They released another single, "Sweethearts in Disguise", on seven-inch vinyl in 2008 which was produced by Paul Savage of The Delgados.


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