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unusual facts about foil


Foil, Missouri

It formerly had a post office with ZIP code 65661, but mail is now served by the post office in Squires.


Alaaeldin Abouelkassem

Later that year he earned gold medals at the 2011 Pan Arab Games in the individual and team foil events before progressing to the 2012 Summer Games, where he won Africa's first ever Olympic fencing medal.

Barbara Havers

The character of Detective Sergeant Havers serves as a sidekick and foil to the lead character, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard.

Blanche Payson

At 6 foot 2 inches, she towered over both men and women co-stars in the many slapstick comedies she appeared, as a foil for such comedians as The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy and similar popular acts of the time.

Brenda Leigh Johnson

One of her favorite sweets are the old fashioned tin foil wrapped Ding Dongs by Hostess.

Capacitor

Leyden jars or more powerful devices employing flat glass plates alternating with foil conductors were used exclusively up until about 1900, when the invention of wireless (radio) created a demand for standard capacitors, and the steady move to higher frequencies required capacitors with lower inductance.

Capri Sun

Capri Sun is a brand of juice concentrate drink owned by the German Company WILD (Chairman Dr. Hans-Peter Wild) and sold in laminated foil pouches.

Corinne Maîtrejean

Corinne Maîtrejean (born on November 8, 1979 in Tassin-la-Demi-Lune, Rhône) is a French foil fencer who won a bronze medal in the foil team event of the 2005 World Fencing Championships in Leipzig with her teammates Adeline Wuillème, Céline Seigneur and Astrid Guyart.

Diego de Almagro

Diego de Almagro II (1520–1542), known as El Mozo (The Lad), son of Diego de Almagro I, whose mother was an Indian girl of Panama, became the foil of the conspirators who had put Pizarro to the sword.

Electret microphone

Electret materials have been known since the 1920s and were proposed as condenser microphone elements several times, but they were considered impractical until the foil electret type was invented at Bell Laboratories in 1962 by Gerhard Sessler and James West, using a thin metallized Teflon foil.

Enver Hoxha

In the 2006 film, Inside Man, bank robbers foil police attempts to eavesdrop by playing an Enver Hoxha speech near surveillance devices.

Fencing at the Summer Olympics

Women's foil made its Olympic debut in Paris, during the 1924 Olympic Games.

Focal-plane shutter

For example, the Nikon F2 (Japan) 35 mm single-lens reflex (SLR) camera of 1971 had a horizontal FP shutter with stronger titanium foil curtains to safely traverse the film gate in 10 ms (at 3.6 m/s and allowing 1/80 sec. X-sync) with a 1.8 mm slit giving a 1/2000 sec. top speed.

Gaara

Kishimoto designed Gaara as a foil to the series' titular character, Naruto Uzumaki, as the two were born through similar circumstances, but develop vastly different personalities as they deal with their troubled upbringing.

Gas Electron Multiplier

Typical GEMs are constructed of 50-70 micrometre thick Kapton foil clad in copper on both sides.

Harry Potter Trading Card Game

The first three expansions, which each consist of 80 cards plus 30 Foil or Hologram Portrait Premium rares, include Quidditch Cup (November 2001), Diagon Alley (March 2002), and Adventures at Hogwarts (June 2002).

Heidi Schmid

Adelheid "Heidi" Schmid (after marriage: Adelheid Grundmann-Schmid) (born 5 December 1938 in Klagenfurt) is a former German fencer, world champion and Olympic champion in foil competition.

Homicide: Division B

Homicide: Division B is a 2008 short film, written and directed by Abner Pastoll and starring Edward Peel and Tim Downie, about a group of defective detectives who attempt to foil a bomb plot.

Leyden jar

In the 1700s American statesman and scientist Benjamin Franklin performed extensive investigations of both water-filled and foil Leyden jars, which led him to conclude that the charge was stored in the glass, not in the water.

Magnetic proton recoil neutron spectrometer

The neutron beam is directed onto a thin plastic film (Polyethylene) where the neutrons scatter elastically on the protons of the foil.

Men's foil at the 2010 World Fencing Championships

The Men's foil event took place on November 7, 2010 at Grand Palais.

Merv Pumpkinhead

In this publication, Merv goes on a James Bond-esque adventure in which he attempts to foil the schemes of a would-be world conqueror, and along the way meets beautiful women and evil villains.

Mr. Poodlepants

His most prominent appearance was in the Eagle's Nest sketch in Episode 103: Billy Crystal, in which an exasperated Sam the Eagle served as his comic foil.

Norman Eshley

He is possibly best known for his role in the sitcom George and Mildred (1976–79) as the snobbish, right-wing real estate agent Jeffrey Fourmile, the foil to George.

Permacel

Headquartered in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, USA, the company produces 350 kinds of tape used in a broad range of industries, including paper masking tape, reinforced strapping tape, paper packaging tape, PTFE tape, film tape, double coated tape, transfer tape, repulpable tape, thread seal, foil tape, surface protective films and vinyl tape.

Peru at the Olympics

However, prior to the creation of the Comité Olímpico Peruano in 1924, the Peruvian Carlos de Candamo competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics in two fencing events of foil and épée.

Pip the Troll

Pip the Troll was introduced by Jim Starlin in Strange Tales vol 2 #179 (Feb 1975) to be a comic foil to the story's main protagonist, Adam Warlock.

Praveen Togadia

Praveen Togadia was arrested in August 2013 from Ayodhya along with other VHP leaders by the Uttar Pradesh Police to foil the defiant saffron outfit's controversial 'Chaurasi Kosi Parikrama Yatra' that was banned over fears of communal flareup.

Prepared guitar

Martín Irigoyen of Vernian Process and Erik Sanko, both of whom use electronic devices, hand ventilators, walkie-talkies, paper clips, aluminum foil, credit cards and tweezers.

R. J. Reynolds

In 1919, his nephew, Richard S. Reynolds, Sr., founded the U.S. Foil Company in Louisville, Kentucky, supplying tin-lead wrappers to cigarette and candy companies.

Race Imboden

Imboden won the 2011 Men's Foil National championship in Portland, Oregon and won the gold medal in individual and team foil at the 2011 and 2012 Pan American Fencing Championships.

Robert C. Hilliard

By 1888, Hilliard was set up as a foil by the press to Evander Berry Wall as to who should be called "King of the Dudes".

Sadjad Pourghanad

He has also sung the role of Mongol Commander as well as the Executioner in Rumi Opera directed by Behrouz Gharibpour and composed by Behzad Abdi and served as the foil to Shams (sang by Homayoun Shajarian) and Molana (sang by Mohammad Motamedi).

Samuel Underhill

In May 1942, when Rear Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher's Task Force 17 steamed in the Coral Sea seeking to foil Japan's attempt to extend her influence southward, Underhill was with VS-5 on board carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5).

Sidney Fields

Fields was part of an ensemble cast that included Hillary Brooke as a neighbor and love interest of Lou Costello's, Gordon Jones as Mike the Cop, who was a dimwitted comedic foil for the boys, Joe Besser as Stinky Davis, a 40-year-old man dressed in a Little Lord Fauntleroy suit, and Joe Kirk as Mr. Bacciagalupe, an Italian immigrant caricature who ran a bakery store.

Slapper detonator

Over the other side of the disk, there is a layer of an insulating film, for example, Kapton or PET film, with a thin strip of metal (typically aluminum or gold) foil deposited on its outer side.

Strain gauge

Invented by Edward E. Simmons and Arthur C. Ruge in 1938, the most common type of strain gauge consists of an insulating flexible backing which supports a metallic foil pattern.

Svea 123

For example, when using a wind screen or shield other than the built-in wind screen (such as the flexible aluminum foil windscreens used with stoves made by Mountain Safety Research), care should taken not to wrap the windscreen too tightly around the stove because this may cause the stove to overheat and the fuel tank to over-pressurize.

The Beach Nut

The Beach Nut marked the debut of Woody Woodpecker's first steady foil, Wally Walrus.

The Nightlines Sessions

Another song, "The Junction Foil Ball", was rerecorded for the later Night of the Shooting Stars.

The Shak at Home

Karl Stimpson (Drew Jarvis) is the owner of Stinson Robotic, Curio worked for the company however he quit after being treated badly by Mr. Stinson, He tried to take over the world but the shaksters managed to foil his plans.

The Tee Bird

He had replaced Buzz Buzzard as Woody's main foil a few years back, and would eventually be replaced himself by Gabby Gator.

Urquía

The first: In a foil cross Gules (red), a band of gold (symbol of knighthood and cross from the right shoulder) pompous in dredger (2 dragons) Vert (green, is a symbol of strength) and accompanied on top of a silver arm with a silver dagger and a gold lining.

Wally Walrus

For many years, Wally was the primary foil for Woody Woodpecker, bearing roughly the same relationship to that character as Elmer Fudd had to Bugs Bunny in Warner Brothers' animated shorts from the same era.

Warlands

Pat Lee biography, 14-page cover gallery (from #7-12), limited-edition foil cover (Issue 1).

Pat Lee biography, 17-page cover gallery (from #1-6), limited-edition foil cover (Issue 1).

Pat Lee biography, 16-page cover gallery (from #1-9), limited-edition foil cover (Issue 1).

Winker Watson

Stories throughout 2003 and 2004 were reworkings of 1970s scripts concerning Winker's schemes to foil the plans of Robin Boodle, a consistently annoying rich boy, and who had been renamed Darby Doshman (in the late 1980s, there was a similar reworking in which the rich boy became Jonathan Dosh).

Women's foil at the 2010 World Fencing Championships

The Women's foil event took place on November 7, 2010 at Grand Palais.


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