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unusual facts about ersatz



Alan W. Moore

The opening night featured "Moving Image Artists' Distribution Then & Now" an ersatz assembly of participants in the MWF video club, introduced by Moore, Andrea Callard, Michael Carter, Nick Zedd and Coleen Fitzgibbon.

Anguish Languish

Anguish Languish, an ersatz language constructed from English language words, was created by Howard L. Chace, who collected his stories and poems in the book Anguish Languish (Prentice-Hall, 1956).

Brummbär

Sturmpanzer-Abteilung 217 was formed on 20 April 1944 at the Grafenwöhr Training Area from cadres provided by Panzer-Kompanie 40 and Panzer-Ersatz Abteilung 18, although it did not have any armoured fighting vehicles until 19 'Sturmpanzer's' were delivered at the end of May It departed 1/2 July for the Normandy Front.

Come On In! The Water's Pink

The storyline of Come On In! The Water's Pink is similar to the 1961 Zagreb Films animated short, Ersatz.

Dušan Vukotić

He won an Oscar for best animated short in 1961 for Surogat ("Ersatz"), being the first foreigner to do so.

Ersatz Audio

The label was started, and continues to be run by, Adam Lee Miller and Nicola Kuperus, who founded the label in part to release records for their own band, Adult. Also on Ersatz Audio are the artists Magas and Blind Leads Nakid, both with a similar sound and concept to Adult.

Ersatz GB

Ersatz GB was recorded partially in London with lead singer Mark E. Smith's vocals being recorded at ToeRag Studios in Hackney and partially in Berlin.

False pleasure

From another angle, Richard Hoggart contrasted the immediate, real pleasures of the working-class from the increasingly ersatz diet fed them by the media.

Fritz Keller

When Alsace was de facto annexed by the Third Reich, Fritz Keller elected to play for SS side SG SS Straßburg in the Gauliga Elsaß rather than continuing with RC Strasbourg's ersatz, Rasensport Club Straßburg.

Gene Sheldon

He was teamed with Calvin once more as a kind of ersatz Laurel and Hardy.

Julius Buckler

He trained in FEA 6 (Flieger-Ersatz-Abteilung 6), and by the summer of 1915 was flying artillery direction missions over Verdun as an Observer in FA(A) 209 before training as a pilot.

Tarzan's Fight for Life

However, the extremely low-budget project failed to sell, and the three half-hour episodes were spliced into an ersatz feature, Tarzan and the Trappers, released to television in 1966.


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