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8 unusual facts about gazelle


2004 Nalchik raid

According to the investigation, six to ten attackers, possibly helped by former or current FSKN staff, entered the building without any resistance, shot dead four officers (two guards, a driver and a member of a special unit, all of them ethnic Kabardins, who were first captured and then executed in the basement), looted armory of rapid-response unit, and then set the office ablaze before driving away in a GAZelle minibus loaded with the captured weapons.

Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert

The Arabian Gazelle which once lived on the peninsula is now extinct.

Black Terry

Mares made his professional wrestling debut in February, 1973 using the ring name Black Terry but later adopt a masked ring character called "La Gacela", Spanish for "The Gazelle".

Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden

In Phase IV, the zoo will add the largest part of the future attraction, a wide Savannah teeming with some of Africa's most spectacular hoofstock such as Zebras, Gazelles, and Giant eland, along with some of the world's largest birds like ostriches, Marabou storks and grey-crowned cranes.

GAZelle

The family of " GAZelle Business " engine mountings were introduced Anvis Group, radiator with aluminum core TRM, Bosch electrical components and Brisk.

Jack Parow

The first single from this album, Hosh Tokolosh featuring Gazelle and DJ INVIZABLE became the first Afrikaans-language single to ever reach number 1 on the 5FM radio station's Top 40 list in South Africa.

He has contributed and collaborated with many notable artists such as Die Antwoord in their songs Wat Pomp and Doos Dronk and worked with Gazelle and DJ INVIZABLE in Hosh Tokolosh and Francois van Coke in Hard Partytjie Hou, both from Parow's second full-length album, Eksie Ou.

Saluki

The Lances were both keen hunters, and rode with their pack of dogs, including both Salukis and terriers, to course jackal and Dorcas gazelle whilst stationed in the desert.


Armel Koulara

An agile and sprightly goalkeeper in addition to being a penalty specialist, Armel is Gazelle's first choice penalty taker, following in the footsteps of other goal-scoring 'keepers such as Brazilian Rogério Ceni, Vincent Enyeama of Hapoel Tel Aviv and Nigeria, Hans-Jörg Butt of FC Bayern Munich and José Luis Chilavert, formerly of Paraguay.

Caracal

The local Toubou name is ngam ouidenanga meaning gazelle cat.

Cold Dark Matter

300 Year old Tibetan Thigh Bone Trumpet; New Guinea Bamboo Bass Flute; African Tree Trunk Ceremonial Drum; Marcel Duchamp Ready-Made Bicycle Wheel; Burmese Temple Gong; Nepali Temple Bells; Tibetan Singing Bowl; John Cage Prepared Piano; African Gazelle Horn Pipe; Thai Military Bass Drum; Japanese Koto; one "found" and warped audio cassette of Christian Devotional Choir (actually original recordings made at Jonestown, Guyana prior to the mass suicides)

Jonesborough, County Armagh

On 17 February 1978, a British Army Gazelle helicopter, went down near Jonesborough after being fired at by a Provisional IRA unit from the South Armagh Brigade.

Josef Meier

Meier recorded myths and stories of the peoples of the Gazelle peninsula in the local Tolai language, and then translated them into German.

Mansell wheel

The Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway's 0-4-2WT locomotive "Gazelle" has trailing wheels of the Mansell type.

Mountain gazelle

It is less well adapted to hot, dry conditions than the Dorcas gazelle, which appears to have replaced the mountain gazelle through some of its range during the late Holocene in a period of climatic warming.

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc

He owned over 18,000 coins and medals, and was also an archaeologist, amateur artist, historian (he demonstrated that Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain set out not from Calais but from St Omer), Egyptologist, botanist, zoologist (studying chameleons, crocodiles, the elephant and the alzaron, a sort of Nubian gazelle with a bull-like head, now disappeared), physiologist, geographer (put on the project of linking Aix to Marseilles), and ecologist.

Port international de Port-au-Prince

On 13 June 1872, a German fleet composed of SMS Vineta and SMS Gazelle seized Haitian Navy ships Union and Mont Organisé which were anchored in the port, as a means of pressure to have the Haitian government pay a 20,000 thaler debt to a German businessman.

Przewalski's gazelle

Until the early 20th century, Przewalski's gazelle was widespread across the high plateaus of northwestern China and Inner Mongolia.

Rhim gazelle

The rhim or rheem gazelle is found in isolated pockets across the central Sahara Desert.

Ronan Magill

Magill was among the first intake of students at the Yehudi Menuhin School, where he was taught by Marcel Gazelle.

Royal Yacht Squadron

Gazelle RYS rescued the Empress Eugenie at the end of the Franco-Prussian War and the squadron yachts supplied British soldiers in the Crimean War.

Sahel

The larger species have been greatly reduced in number by over-hunting and competition with livestock, and several species are vulnerable (Dorcas gazelle and red-fronted gazelle), endangered (Dama gazelle, African wild dog, cheetah, lion), or extinct (the Scimitar-horned oryx is probably extinct in the wild, and both Pelorovis and the Bubal Hartebeest are now extinct.

Salem's Seven

The next Halloween, Wanda attempted to commune with Agatha Harkness's spirit, but was drawn through into the land of the dead, where she was confronted with spirits of the Seven (except Gazelle) who had aligned themselves with a being that called itself Samhain.

The Apthorp

Over-lifesize limestone sculptures representing the Four Seasons stand above the central barrel-vaulted entrance, where the elaborate wrought-iron gates in the manner of Samuel Yellin feature a pair of gazelle heads.

The Troubles in Jonesborough

17 February 1978 - Ian Corden-Lloyd (39), member of the British Army was killed when the Gazelle helicopter in which he was travelling crashed, shortly after having been hit by gunfire from a Provisional IRA unit, near Jonesborough, County Armagh.

Théophile Rudolphe Studer

Isopoden, gesammelt während der Reise S.M.S. Gazelle um die Erde 1874-76, 1884 - Isopoda collected by the S.M.S. Gazelle voyage of 1874-76.

Venrock

These include: Intel, Apple, AppNexus, StrataCom, Check Point Software, DoubleClick, 3Com Corporation, Mosaic, PGP, Itek, Digex, Media6Degrees, Smartling, Phoenix, Second Rotation (gazelle) and CTERA Networks.

Zoran Kesić

Zoran was also a voice actor in the Serbian animated film Technotise Edit & I by Aleksa Gajić, and in the Serbian synchronization of the 3D movie Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, as the Gazelle.


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