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8 unusual facts about eskimo


Biquini Cavadão

Bass player, Sheik, left the band in 2000 and Patrick Laplan from Eskimo and Los Hermanos began playing with the band in shows and recording their albums.

Chancelade

In 1889, Leo Testut announced that the skeleton was of a new race, which he called the "Chancelade race", the ancestor of the Eskimo.

Don't Eat the Yellow Snow Suite

"Don't Eat The Yellow Snow" is a song about a man who dreams that he was an Eskimo named Nanook.

Lips, or Almighty Cod

When Tim returns to the fish farm, it is found that the ship's crew are Eskimos, who have arrived in Britain to take cod back home to make fish fingers.

Michael Silka

Albert Hagen, Jr., 27, Eskimo construction worker who had just returned six weeks previous to visit his parents after a 10-year absence.

Paleo-Eskimo

The scientists reported that the man, dubbed "Inuk", had A+ blood type, genes suggesting he was adapted to cold weather, had brown eyes, brownish skin, dark hair, and would likely bald later in life.

Proto-Eskimo–Aleut language

It was for a long time true that no linguistic reconstruction of Proto-Eskimo–Aleut had yet been produced, as stated by Bomhard (2008:209).

Sireniki Eskimo

Remark: Sireniki Eskimo language is often classified as a third branch of Eskimo languages, alongside with Inuit and Yupik.


Apostolic Vicariate of Keewatin

There were in the vicariate in the early 20th century 15 Oblate Fathers of Mary Immaculate, 8 Oblate Brothers of Mary Immaculate, 12 Grey Nuns (Montreal), 16 Oblate Sisters of the Sacred Heart and Mary Immaculate (St. Boniface), 4 more Grey Nuns (St. Hyacinth), 10 churches with 16 out-stations; 11,000 Indians, Dene, Cree and Eskimo, of whom 7000 were Catholics and 5000 non-Catholics or pagans (chiefly Eskimo).

Beating like a Drum

The EP features six original Eskimo Joe tracks remixed by: Dexter, Sneaky Sound System, Teenager, P-Money, Bumblebeez and a mash-up of "Black Fingernails, Red Wine" and "From the Sea" by Nick Launay.

Bluie West Seven

They would pass close abeam (or visit) the small Eskimo village of Arsuk on the left, then enter Kungnat Bay where a number of vessels were usually anchored in the lee of Mt. Kungnait (4,600 ft).

Canadian Eskimo Dog

The Canadian Eskimo Dog is best kept in a cold climate, and is prone to heatstroke.

Ebdo Mihemed

Several other videos of Mihemed buffalaxed into Finnish have also appeared on YouTube, such as Mursuvaara ("Danger of Walruses"), Lakana ("The Sheet") and Mihemmedin Eskimolaulu ("Mihemmed's Eskimo Song").

Edith Iglauer

She is the author of several non-fiction books, including Denison's Ice Road (1975), Seven Stones, a profile of the architect Arthur Erickson (1971), and The New People: The Eskimo's Journey into our Time (1966).

Erik Holtved

In Eskimokunst : Eskimo art he surveyed Eskimo art, including items such as dolls, Tupilaqs, containers, garments, and maps.

Ernest William Hawkes

His 1914 publication Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo was based on the three years Hawkes spent in the Bering Strait District, including on the Diomede Islands and at St. Michael.

Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak

Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak is a 1964 Canadian short documentary film about Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak, directed by John Feeney.

Eskimo Curlew

In the 1950s the Eskimo Curlew was a subject of the Mark Trail comic strip by Ed Dodd.

Eskimo kissing

Scenes involving Eskimo kissing are included in countless media, including episodes of The Simpsons, South Park and in a Chappelle's Show sketch in which Eskimo kissing is portrayed as a stereotypically white gesture.

Eskimo Pie

George Jones also wrote and recorded a song called "Eskimo Pie" in 1957.

In the 1996 crime drama The Chamber, Gene Hackman's character, Sam Cayhall, has Eskimo Pies and coffee for his last meal.

The seminal Australian punk band Radio Birdman have a song called "I-94" on the EP Burn My Eye which contains the lyric "Eskimo Pies comin' to you, Yeah burning to you straight from hell".

Eskimo words for snow

The claim that Eskimo languages have an unusually large number of words for snow is a widespread idea first voiced by Franz Boas and often used as a cliché when writing about how language may keep us more or less alert to the differences of the natural world.

Frigid Hare

On the syndicated Merrie Melodies Show, Bugs calling the Inuit hunter an "Eskimo pie-head" was muted out.

Havre-Saint-Pierre, Quebec

In 1857, a group of Acadian families from the Magdalen Islands, who had previously been deported from Savannah (Georgia, USA), settled on Eskimo Point (Pointe aux Esquimaux).

James Burnett, Lord Monboddo

Monboddo studied languages of peoples colonised by Europeans, including those of the Carib, Eskimo, Huron, Algonquian, Peruvian (Quechua?) and Tahitian peoples.

John Feeney

Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak found new life again in 1992, when filmmakers Colin Low and Tony Ianzelo combined archival and contemporary footage of Kenojuak in Momentum, Canada’s IMAX HD film for Expo '92.

Kenn Harper

His book Give Me My Father's Body: The Story of Minik, the New York Eskimo tells the story of Minik Wallace, a member of the Inughuit or "Polar Eskimo" tribe who was among a group taken by Robert Peary from his home in northwest Greenland to New York.

Kristian Leontiou

Shortly after its completion, One Eskimo's ‘Hometime’ was used on a Toyota Prius advert in the USA.

Laminar armour

Armour of Chukchi and Eskimo had very similar construction, the difference was that Chukchi armour usually had only one enormous pauldron extending to the waist, used as a shield, and looking rather like a wing than (prominent for its big size) Japanese o-sode (shoulder armour), while Eskimo armour typically had both "wings".

Mafia!

During the ceremony, with the help of Vincenzo's mother (Dukakis), several henchmen, and an Eskimo, he settles the family's accounts in an orgy of slaughter (filmed similarly to the end of The Godfather), even arranging the harpooning of Barney the purple dinosaur as a bonus.

Maura Hanrahan

Domino: The Eskimo Coast Disaster, a work of creative non-fiction titled, tells the story of a devastating hurricane in Labrador in 1885.

Michael Joseph Kaniecki

He died suddenly on August 6, 2000 of a massive heart attack before celebrating a Mass in the Eskimo village of Emmonak, Alaska.

Peter Freuchen

He was also employed by the film industry as a consultant and scriptwriter, specializing in Arctic-related scripts, most notably MGM's Oscar winning Eskimo/Mala The Magnificent starring Ray Mala, and featuring Freuchen as Ship Captain.

Ray Hudspith

(S)he holds the World record for the fastest eskimo rolls with a paddle achieving 1000 rolls in 34 minutes 43 seconds at Elswick pool in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 20 March 1987.

Snow knife

Among the Esquimaux in and around King William's Land I found snow-knives made of copper stripped from Sir John Franklin's ships, the imprints of the queen's broad arrow still showing on many, the blades double-edged or dagger-shape, and the handles of musk-ox and reindeer horn rudely attached by sinew lashings.

SynSUN

In SynSUN’s discography can be found remixes and tracks written in collaboration with such renowned projects as Infected Mushroom, Astral Projection, Skazi, Yahel, Talamasca, Eskimo, Ticon, Vibe Tribe, Bliss, Wizzy Noise, etc.

The Ballad of Eskimo Nell

The True Story of Eskimo Nell is a 1975 film by Australian director Richard Franklin, in which two men, Deadeye Dick and Mexico Pete, go forth in search of the famed prostitute Eskimo Nell in the Australian Outback.

Eskimo Nell is also the name of another 1975 movie from the UK directed by Martin Campbell in which three men are enlisted by a producer to make an erotic film inspired by The Ballad of Eskimo Nell.

The Delicious One

"Blubber": TDO is sick of just having blubber with eskimos and suggests they have something spicy and hot.

The White Dawn

It is based on the 1971 novel, The White Dawn: An Eskimo Saga, by James Archibald Houston, who co-wrote the screenplay.

Voodoo People

The song has been covered by Refused and British funk band 6ix Toys as well remixed by Pendulum (see Voodoo People (Pendulum Remix)) and other known and less known artists such as Eskimo, Alvaro and Shayning.

WEO

World Eskimo Indian Olympics, formerly known as the World Eskimo Olympics


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