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unusual facts about enthusiasm



6711 Holliman

It is named in honor of John Holliman, a CNN journalist, who brought his enthusiasm and love of space adventure to the general public.

Adam Lux

However, his parents managed to finance his studies at the University of Mainz (in the Archbishopric of Mainz of the Holy Roman Empire, nowadays in Rhineland-Palatinate), where he became a Dr. phil. with his Latin dissertation on the notion of enthusiasm.

Alberto Henschel

The newspaper A Província de São Paulo (currently O Estado de S. Paulo), while describing with minimal details the new atelier in its inaugural day edition, related the enthusiasm with which Henschel was received by the residents of São Paulo.

Anthems in Animal Farm

Suzanne Gulbin compares the role of "Beasts of England" to that of the conch in William Golding's Lord of the Flies: it serves to create enthusiasm and unity, and its banning represents the loss of hope for a better life.

Aston Martin Owners Club

Having been fired with enthusiasm by winning an automobile race at age twenty and by his first meeting with 'Bert' Bertelli shortly after, his success led to the purchase of the team car LM7 and an invitation to drive “under works control’’ at Le Mans in 1933.

Auguste Denayrouze

Jules Verne, who attended the exposition, discovered the invention with enthusiasm and chose it as the equipment for his fictional Captain Nemo and the crew of the Nautilus in the 1869 novel 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.

Aurél Dessewffy

While still a child he could declaim most of the Iliad in Greek without a book, and read and quoted Tacitus with enthusiasm.

Bahá'í Faith in Hungary

Hungarian vocalist Noémi Kiss participated in the Baha'i Chant Project, aimed at cultivating enthusiasm for collective (group) chant.

Birkenstock

She gained relief from a foot condition, and founded a trading company called Birkenstock Footprint Sandals, Inc., in Novato, California, based on her enthusiasm for the sandals.

Bledington

Charles Benfield ensured a link which touched almost four generations of dancers and his enduring enthusiasm eventually enabled the dances to be recorded by Cecil Sharp and later demonstrated and refined by the Travelling Morrice.

Catholic Christian Outreach

CCO was founded in 1988 by André and Angèle Regnier at the University of Saskatchewan as a reaction to the lack and curbing of enthusiasm they saw in their fellow Catholic students.

Classic Motorsports Mitty

After observing the enthusiasm for that first event, Martha Turner, then editor of the Jaguar Marque, dubbed the proceedings the great Walter Mitty Challenge after the James Thurber short story.

Contrastive analysis

During the 1960s, there was a widespread enthusiasm with this technique, manifested in the contrastive descriptions of several European languages, many of which were sponsored by the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington, DC.

Cornelius van Zierikzee

John Richardson, a graduate of the University of Paris, was a Scot; they were received with enthusiasm by all classes.

Culture and Activities at University of Dhaka

Pohela Falgun, the first day of colorful spring (13 February), is celebrated with lots of enthusiasm and in style in the University of Dhaka campus.

Cyril Desbruslais

Apart from St Ignatius, Pedro Arrupe sj has inspired him most.As Cyril puts it,"He helped the Society come alive for me. He taught me about the inseparable link between faith and justice. He was a true contemplative in action. He was able to meet this charismatic personality twice, when he visited DNC and one of my treasured possessions is a book with his signature in it. Just to re-read one of his writings (especially “On Our Way of Proceeding”) fires me with enthusiasm and fervor all over again."

Daron Roberts

Impressed by his enthusiasm and people skills, Chief's coach Herman Edwards allowed Roberts to volunteer for the 2007 season before hiring him as a defensive quality control assistant in 2008.

Fallingice

The new enthusiasm, shared intentions and common musical influences gave new life to Fallingice that signed a record deal with Ukdivision Records, an indie label based in the UK, for the release of their debut album Meatsuit in July 2010 with a worldwide distribution.

Federation of Children's Book Groups

Anne Wood, a British children’s television producer, and creator of the Teletubbies, established the first Book Group to promote enthusiasm for and about children's book in 1965.

Fixed-price contract

Airbus's German chief executive Tom Enders has noted the fixed-price contract for the A400 transport was a disaster rooted in naivety, excessive enthusiasm and arrogance, stating, "If you had offered it to an American defence contractor like Northrop, they would have run a mile from it".

Gary Windo

In addition to this he did incidental music for Saturday Night Live" and gave music lessons famous for running over time due to his helpful nature and unbounded enthusiasm.

Goons of Doom

This first official release from their record label Volcom Entertainment, was met with humble praise and mixed enthusiasm.

Harold R. Atteridge

Producer George Lederer showed enthusiasm and advised Atteridge to move to New York.

Harold Zirin

Zirin's zeal and infectious enthusiasm in the study of the sun led his Caltech astronomy students in the 1970s (led by David Brin and Dick Trtek) to produce comic books and graffiti on construction fences of Zirin as a mild-mannered professor who transformed into the super-hero Captain Corona whenever he stepped into a solar observatory.

Irma Reichová

In 1888 she appeared at the Hungarian State Opera House, where she raised such enthusiasm that she was offered a permanent contract.

Jonathan Wolken

A review by dance critic Anna Kisselgoff of The Times in 1971 said the troupe's enthusiasm "suggest an interest in dance that can only be applauded", noting their "amazing physical fearlessness, humor, inventiveness and unselfconsciousness", creating "witty and theatrical shapes" and "kinetic gags" using their body movements and groupings.

Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond

The sport, famously dismissed as "unmanly and un-German" and "insufficiently violent" by Adolf Hitler himself, endured thanks in no small part to the dogged enthusiasm of local players, who shrugged off the requisitioning of grounds and restrictions on weekend travel – not to mention the presence of thousands of heavily armed Nazis and the bombing of the main sports dealers in Rotterdam – to organise as many as 300 matches a year.

LaVannes C. Squires

Coach Phog Allen said that Squires in his first game “shows fine early coaching and has a lot of fire, enthusiasm and ability. If he continues to improve as he has in the past few weeks he’ll play a lot for us.”

Louis Ducruet

Louis is a huge fan of soccer and supports his hometeam AS Monaco FC with great enthusiasm.

Lucretia Maria Davidson

Davidson was praised, with varying levels of enthusiasm, by such notable figures as Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Southey, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and Catharine Maria Sedgwick.

Luis Arellano Dihinx

However, when during the May 1957 annual Carlist Montejurra amassment his son, Carlos Hugo, made a fulminant Principe de Asturias entry greeted by exploding enthusiasm of the youth, the supporters of Don Juan mounted a counter-action.

Mario Bernasconi

With enthusiasm he makes the portrait of the German writer Carl Zuckmayer while he made a drawing of the sculptor at work.

Peter Birks

He is widely credited as having sparked academic enthusiasm for the English law of Restitution, and is often considered to have been one of the greatest English legal scholars of the 20th century.

Peter Hartcher

Bubble Man: Alan Greenspan and the Missing 7 Trillion Dollars, Hartcher's critique of the Federal Reserve Board's management of the US economy through the years of irrational exuberance, was published in 2004 to a mixed reception in the US, where Greenspan retained his iconic status, but was met with greater critical enthusiasm internationally.

Pope Gelasius II

He was received with great enthusiasm at Avignon, Montpellier and other cities, held a synod at Vienne in January 1119, and was planning to hold a general council to settle the investiture contest when he died at Cluny.

Raccoon coat

The raccoon coat (many times accompanied with a straw boater, wingtip spectator oxfords, and either a saxophone or a ukelele) has been referenced numerous times in movies and television, both as a symbol of the jazz age and as a cliche motif of collegiate enthusiasm.

Rachel Fury

In 1972, under the name "Weeny Bopper", Brennock recorded the single "David, Donny and Michael", a Pye Records release intended to capitalize on weenybopper enthusiasm for David Cassidy, Donny Osmond, and Michael Jackson.

Raymond Garlick

There with enthusiasm he introduced his students to the works of such writers as David Jones, Idris Davies, Glyn Jones, Alun Lewis, Dylan Thomas, R. S. Thomas, John Ormond and Leslie Norris.

Reactionary modernism

"Reactionary modernism" is a term coined by Jeffrey Herf in 1984 book, Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich, to describe the mixture of "great enthusiasm for modern technology with a rejection of the Enlightenment and the values and institutions of liberal democracy" which was characteristic of the German Conservative Revolutionary movement and Nazism.

Sita Ram Lalas

During this period, he came in contact with Shri Kesari Singh Barahath, a freedom fighter, and his brother Kishore Singh Brahaspatya, whom he supported with zeal and enthusiasm.

Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência

In the next meetings, in Curitiba (1950) and Belo Horizonte (1951), increasing participation and enthusiasm followed, with the Brazilian Academy of Sciences first involvement, as well as of other scientific societies.

Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two

Guests on the show have included celebrities demonstrating their enthusiasm for Strictly Come Dancing, including Ronni Ancona, Michael Ball, John Barrowman, Jason Donovan, Miranda Hart, Jamelia, Marian Keyes, Lulu, McFly, Lee Mead, Meat Loaf, Pauline Quirke, The Spice Girls, Rod Stewart, Westlife, Barbara Windsor, Billy Zane and Tom Ellis.

Team OS/2

Other names associated with Team OS/2 and the user-level enthusiasm movement were "OS/2 Evangelist" David Barnes (IBM's official group-presentation master), Doug Azzarito (OS/2 Programmer now at Dell), Gene Barlow (IBM's Father of PC User Groups), and "Travelin' Man" Keith Wood (an Arizona volunteer featured in PCWeek Magazine's special report on Team OS/2).

The Bronx Casket Co.

2001 saw the release of their second full length release, Sweet Home Transylvania, which was met with the same enthusiasm.

The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

Due to this broad and close style of examination,and enthusiasm for such, The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche may very well be where "Nietzsche Studies" earnestly began in America.

Treasures of the Underworld

Ian Fraser the Commissioner at the NZ Expo said We were overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of the response....

West Park, Wolverhampton

Its opening, by the Duke of Connaught, was received with hopeful enthusiasm, unfortunately not matched by the weather, which contributed to a £30,000 loss, equivalent to nearly £2M at today's value.

William W. Thomas, Jr.

At only 23 years of age, and full of enthusiasm for his task, he was appointed consul to Gothenburg, Sweden on October 23, 1862.


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