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7 unusual facts about ground


Cape Waite

Waite was investigating the high number of aircraft crashes in Antarctica when he discovered that certain radar frequencies were not reflected from the surface of the ice, they penetrated through to the land surface below giving false altimeter readings.

Ground loop

Ground-coupled heat exchanger, an underground heat exchanger loop that can capture or dissipate heat to or from the ground

Ground-directed bombing

A 21st century variant of ground-directed bombing is the radio command guidance for armed unmanned aerial vehicles to effect ground-directed release of ordnance (e.g., precision-guided munitions for bombing such as the AGM-114 Hellfire).

Ground-penetrating radar

In 1992 GPR was used to recover £150,000 in cash that kidnapper Michael Sams received as a ransom for an estate agent he had kidnapped after Sams buried the money in a field.

Ground-to-Air Transmitter Facility

For the advanced Bomarc (IM-99B), a Time Division Data Link was planned for GAT Facilities to provide an electronic counter-countermeasures capability using a "directional hlgh-gain data link antenna…composed of' 16 stationary segments in a circular pattern 60 feet high".

Lindis Percy

She rallied support for the hunger strike of Czech activist Jan Tamas who, along with Jan Bednar, were protesting the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense facility at Brdy.

Solar and heat pump systems – IEA SHC Task 44 / HPP Annex 38

These collections include models for solar thermal collectors (flat plate, vacuum tube and uncovered), heat pumps (air-source, ground source / brine source), ground heat exchange (vertical boreholes as well as horizontal collectors) and heat storage (sensible and latent).


1897–98 Thames Ironworks F.C. season

On 11 September 1897, in their first game of the new season of the London League and also at their new ground, Thames beat Brentford F.C. 1–0.

Aberdyfi Castle

A motte was constructed at the end of a low ridge running across marshy ground, surrounded on two sides by the confluence of the Dyfi and Einion rivers.

Adler Seeds

After a fire at its seed facility, Adler Seeds sold its facility and farm ground to Beck's Hybrids, based in Atlanta, Indiana, in 2009.

African Medical and Research Foundation

In the early 1960s, ground-based mobile medical services were added, along with ‘flight clinics’ for the under-served and remote areas in Kajiado and Narok districts of Kenya.

Ammochostos Stadium

The original home ground of Nea Salamis FC was GSE in Famagusta, but due to the Turkish occupation of the town since 1974 they cannot use it.

Archaeological Museum of Florina

Also on the ground floor are grave stelae of the Roman period from Vevi (2nd–3rd century AD), Petres (2nd century BC), Sitaria (3rd century AD), Vythkouki, Kastoria regional unit (320 BC); statues from Vevi (a male torso of the Roman period) and Lakia (a statue of Artemis of the Roman period); and an exceptional mosaic floor from a house of the Roman period at Kato Kleines.

Æthelthryth

Another version of the legend related that she halted on the journey at 'Stow' and sheltered under a miraculously growing ash tree which came from her staff planted in the ground.

Bootham Crescent

The ground is located just over a mile away from York railway station, which lies on the East Coast Main Line between London's King's Cross station and Edinburgh's Waverley Station.

Brockhall

Brockhall Village, Lancashire, England, home to the training ground of Blackburn Rovers FC

Campus Esquilinus

The Campus Esquilinus was the area of flat ground outside the Servian Walls and the double rampart of the Agger, between the Querquetulan Gate and the Colline gate.

Danny Romero

Albuquerque police announced previous to the fight, that they were prepared for any gang related violence to take place on the streets of Albuquerque during fight night, but the only incident happened 33,000 feet over the ground, as two individuals of the conflicting sides coincided in a Southwest Airlines flight to Las Vegas, where the fight was held at.

Deportivo Rayo Cantabria

Founded in 1993 it currently plays in Tercera División – Group 3, holding home games at the Campo Municipal Mies de Cozada sports ground, which they share with a Segunda Regional football side (Juventud Atlético San Román) and a División de Honor rugby club (Independiente Rugby Club).

Dunscore Old Kirk

Dunscore old Kirk burial ground is associated with Robert Burns through the presence of the tomb of Robert Riddell of Glenriddell.

East New Market, Maryland

Thus the continued use of the older burial ground of their former location at "Union Chapel" was no longer needed; it coincides with a more general trend known the rise of the cemetery movement (for a general discussion of the topic of the cemetery movement see the book Lincoln at Gettysburg by historian Garry Wills)

Eric Gordon England

In 1908, he left the railways for his first job in aviation, working as an assistant for Noel Pemberton Billing who was trying to establish a flying ground at South Fambridge in Essex.

Folding-Fin Aerial Rocket

Also various ground launchers using discarded aircraft pods were used for fire base defence.

Gilmerton

Below ground level in the centre of Gilmerton are a series of shallow linked caves known collectively as Gilmerton Cove.

Hambledon Club

The current Hambledon Cricket Club ground is nearer Hambledon village at Ridge Meadow, just off the road to Broadhalfpenny Down, about half a mile from the village.

Inocybe saliceticola

Mushrooms are encountered on the ground, growing from detritus or amongst moss, such as the heart-leaved spear-moss (Calliergon cordifolium), the spiky-bog moss (Sphagnum squarrosum) and species of Mnium.

Jawalakhel

Jawalakhel is famous for the annual chariot festival of Rato Machhendranath which ends with the Bhoto Jatra ceremony that takes place on the large open ground at the town center.

Ken Reitz

He was nicknamed the "Zamboni" for his skill at scooping up ground balls on the artificial turf of Busch Memorial Stadium.

Khost

During the assault on the Zhawar Kili Cave complex, the Soviets used the Khost Airfield as an initial staging ground to insert troops into the combat zone, using Mil Mi-8 armed helicopter transport ships.

Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel

Seeing him at a bus stop while vacationing in Savannah, Georgia, Cox was "attracted to him, but not in some kind of like, just physical way." Seeing "his melancholy, his sitting alone, staring at the ground", he "fell in love" with him.

Link 1

Link 1 is a point-to-point, duplex, non-encrypted, digital NATO Tactical Data Link (TDL) Standard for the automatic exchange of Track and Strobe data, combined with link and data management messages between ground based ASACS-elements / e.g. CRC and CAOC), specific units (TACCS / MC) and data link buffers (SSSB, CSI).

Luftstreitkräfte

The duties of such aircraft were initially intended to be reconnaissance and artillery spotting in support of armies on the ground, just as balloons had been used during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871 and even as far back as the Napoleonic Wars.

Mundesley Lifeboat Station

Also on the ground floor is the drying room which holds all of the crew's personal protection equipment such as drysuits, helmets and lifejackets.

My Girl 2

In a 2003 interview Dan Aykroyd had United Kingdom talk show with host Michael Parkinson, he stated that Columbia had an interest in getting this off the ground and strong interest in Anna Chlumsky returning to her role as Vada.

Neil L. Andersen

On February 14, 2009, he broke ground for the construction of The Gila Valley Arizona Temple, located in the town of Central, Arizona.

New England Conservatory

The conservatory has served as a training ground for orchestral players to fill the ranks of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, much like the Curtis Institute serves as a training ground for the Philadelphia Orchestra, although composers, pianists, and singers are offered courses of study as well.

Operation Echo

During the campaign the Canadian air contingent consisted of 18 CF-18 Hornet aircraft from 441 and 425 Tactical Fighter Squadrons, with 69 aircrew and 250 ground crew.

Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium

Aravinda de Silva, on 3 November 1984, against New Zealand scored 50* runs, took 2 catches and with this effort he made this ground important to Sri Lanka.

Pechora–Kama Canal

It saw actual on-the-ground work done, of the most unusual kind: on March 23, 1971, three 15-kiloton underground nuclear charges were exploded near the village of Vasyukovo in Cherdynsky District of Perm Oblast, some 100 km north of the town of Krasnovishersk.

Pitman, New Jersey

The land had an auditorium located on a central meeting ground, and twelve roads originated from the central area as spokes on a wheel, each representing one of the disciples of Jesus.

Pond Inlet

Barren-ground Caribou, Ringed Seal, Narwhals and Polar Bears are just some of the wildlife that can be encountered while traveling out on the land.

Portage Canal

In the summer of 2006, US Representative Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, helped to break ground on the current renewal attempts.

Raphinae

In 1842, Johannes Theodor Reinhardt proposed they were ground doves, based on studies of a Dodo skull he had rediscovered in the royal Danish collection of Copenhagen.

Riccarton, Ayrshire

A pre-reformation Riccarton parish church stood in the centre of the old burial ground; first noted, as a chapel, in 1229, sub-ordinate to the church of Dundonald.

Schaeffler Group

1883: Friedrich Fischer of Schweinfurt designs a machine to allow steel balls to be ground to an absolutely round state for the first time – and in large volumes.

Skanska

Other continuing major projects include the restoration of the World Trade Center ground zero site including the removal of debris, the reconstruction of the PATH and New York City Subway and the creation of a World Trade Center Transportation Hub, due to be completed in 2014, including the Oculus station entrance, designed by Santiago Calatrava.

Sukhoi Su-7

The Su-7 saw combat with Egypt in the 1967 Six Day War, the subsequent War of Attrition, and saw use in the Yom Kippur War by the Egyptians to attack Israeli ground forces.

Swami Keshwanand

By one account: "There was no vegetation left on the ground. There was no drop of water. All the animals died for want of fodder. People survived on grasses and the bark of "Khejri" trees. Even that also became scarce. There was nothing like governance. The ruling Samants were least bothered for the poor people....".

The New Lawn

In August 2012, a Manchester United XI played a pre-season friendly at the ground in aid of the Sustainability in Sport foundation which was created by Forest Green chairman Dale Vince and Gary Neville.

The Settlement, British Virgin Islands

There is also the "Iguana Headstart Facility", a breeding farm for iguanas, mainly the Anegada Ground Iguana (or Anegada rock iguana, "Cyclura pinguis").

Tom Sidwell

However while travelling to the ground – The Oval in Surrey – for the next day's play, he became lost on the London Underground and was given out while mid-transit.

Tommy Bridges

Born in Gordonsville, Tennessee, Bridges attended the University of Tennessee, and after having a 20-strikeout game for the minor league Wheeling Stogies in 1929, he joined the Tigers in 1930, inducing Babe Ruth to ground out on his first major league pitch.

Tony Strudwick

In April 2008, Strudwick was involved in an altercation between some of Manchester United's players, including Patrice Evra and Gary Neville, and the ground staff at Chelsea.

Tsholotsho District

Tsholotsho is a well known “battle ground” of Zimbabwean politics with the latest event being the so-called Tsholotsho Declaration of 2005 involving leading ZANU-PF members and current Tsholotsho Member of parliament Jonathan Moyo in which they were accused of mooting a boardroom removal of President Mugabe.

Victoria Park, Cardiff

The park was created as a municipal recreation ground by Cardiff City Council through a city charter between 1897 and 1898 to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee marking her record sixty years on the throne.

Victory day of Bangladesh

The ritual of the celebration gradually obtained a distinctive character with a number of similar elements: Military Parade by Bangladesh Armed Forces at the National Parade Ground, ceremonial meetings, speeches, lectures, receptions and fireworks.

Walter L. Griffin

Through the early 1920s, Griffin ground out low-budget Westerns starring Bob Custer, Franklyn Farnum and Al Hoxie.


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