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unusual facts about half-pipe



¿Qué dice la gente?

In 2008, the show was reduced to a half hour in order to pair up with the Spanish-language version of the short-lived 1982-83 American game show Child's Play under the name Dame la Pista or (Give Me a Clue) hosted by Alessandra Rosaldo as it was cancelled along with ¿Qué dice la gente? for "unknown" reasons.

2003 Purdue Boilermakers football team

Despite being dominated, Purdue had a chance to seize momentum late in the first half when the Boilers recovered a fumble from a Shaun Phillips sack of Michigan QB John Navarre.

Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr

However, relations sooned soured; the IPC cut its own production at the Kirkuk Field by half.

Alcatraz Island Light

The tower and also the keepers one-and-a-half-storied house ("Cape Cod style") were completed in 1853.

Bob Relf

Best known as half of the soul music duo Bob & Earl whose song, Harlem Shuffle was released in the US in 1963 and in the UK in 1964.

Ceres, Fife

The name has led to contact with Ceres, Italy (visited by the local pipe band in the 1970s) and Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa (with which gifts were exchanged in the 1990s).

Chase Price

By his father's first marriage to Anne Barnsley of Knighton, only daughter and heiress of John Barnsley, he was the half-brother of John Price (died 1780), Barrister from The Lodge, Clerk of Chancery at Leominster, unmarried, and of Henry Price (1722–1795), married in 1770 to Elizabeth Foley, daughter of Captain Thomas Foley, and had female issue.

David Montgomery

David C. Montgomery (died 1917), American comedic actor, straight man half of the pair Montgomery & Stone, with Fred Stone

Dominic Thompson

He mysteriously got on well with rival Chris' (Michael Galvin) mother - Margot Warner (Dinah Priestley) and when she died, Dom revealed himself as Chris' illegitimate half brother.

Don Greenlees

Born in Bridgeton, Glasgow, Greenlees started his professional career with nearby St. Mirren where he gained a reputation as "one of the best half-backs in Scotland".

Dulce et Decorum est

It was drafted at Craiglockhart in the first half of October 1917 and later revised, probably at Scarborough but possibly Ripon, between January and March 1918.

Eddy Groves

After leaving school, he enrolled at university in a business degree, but left half way through, eager to engage in business rather than learn about it, and got his first job as a clerk with the ANZ bank.

Faculty of Science, University of Peradeniya

Faculty of Science is situated about half a kilometre from the Galaha Junction, Peradeniya.

Giles Mompesson

Another daughter of John St. John (and thus Mompesson's sister-in-law) married Edward Villiers, the half-brother of George Villiers, and Mompesson's connection to George Villiers was the key to his later despotism.

Guy von Dardel

His half-brother from his mother's previous marriage, was Raoul Wallenberg.

Hannah Cullwick

Louisa Harriet Cotes was the daughter of Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool, and half brother of Robert Banks Jenkinson, the 2nd Earl of Liverpool, who was Prime Minister from 1812 to 1827.

Hassan Sunny

On July 28, 2008, Hassan played the first half as part of a Singapore Selection side in a friendly match against the Brazil Olympics Team and made outstanding saves against Diego and Alexandre Pato's shots, letting in only two goals.

Henry Christy

An account of the explorations appeared in a half-finished book left by Christy, entitled Reliquiae Aquilanicae, being contributions to the Archaeology and Paleontology of Perigord and the adjacent provinces of Southern France; this was completed by Christy's executors, first by Lartet and, after his death in 1870, by Rupert Jones.

Jack Robert Nuzum

Judge Jack R. Nuzum was married for nearly a half century to Eldora Marie Bolyard Nuzum (1926–2004), the first female editor of a daily newspaper in West Virginia and interviewer of U.S. Presidents.

John H. Leims

After high school, he attended Northwestern University for two and a half years, and worked part-time at the Commonwealth Edison Company.

Juan de Castellanos

Juan de Castellanos (born in Spain in the first half of the sixteenth century; date of death unknown) was a Criollo poet, soldier and Catholic priest.

Kurt Schork

After Schork died, as per his personal wishes, upon cremation half of his ashes was buried next to his mother in Washington, D.C., and half at "Groblje LAV" (The Lion Cemetery) in Sarajevo, next to the grave of Boško and Admira, the central figures in Schork's acclaimed story.

Leominster

John Abel (1578/9-1675), an English carpenter and mason, granted the title of 'King's Carpenter', who was responsible for several notable structures in the ornamented half-timbered construction, notably the market house known as Grange Court (1633) in Leominster, which originally stood in Broad Street, but was rebuilt in 1855 near to the Priory Church.

Lloyd Noble Center

Amy Grant recorded half of her live albums, In Concert and In Concert Volume Two, here.

Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter

The first half of the novel takes place on what was then the outermost known satellite, Jupiter IX, discovered by Seth Barnes Nicholson in 1914.

Lul

Lul is a Shilluk village located on the western bank of the Nile river, approximately one and a half hours by boat north from the city of Malakal, in Upper Nile province in South Sudan.

Mendocino Indian Reservation

In the summer of 1857, First Lieutenant Horatio G. Gibson, then serving at the Presidio of San Francisco, was ordered to take Company M, 3rd Regiment of Artillery to establish a military post one and one-half miles north of the Noyo River on the Mendocino Indian Reservation.

Muhlenberg Greene Architects

Frequently confused with the Muhlenberg Brothers, an architecture/engineering firm also operating in Reading, Pennsylvania during the first half of the 20th century, Muhlenberg Greene Architects was never affiliated with Muhlenberg Brothers’ firm, although Frederick Muhlenberg does have familial ties with the Brothers.

Nagi Noda

Among her works are the short film Mariko Takahashi's Fitness Video for Being Appraised as an "Ex-fat Girl", the half-panda-half-something-else Hanpanda life-sized figures, and the video for Japanese singer Yuki's song "Sentimental Journey".

Otis Junction, Oregon

Otis Junction is an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Oregon, United States, at the junction of the former route of U.S. Route 101 and Oregon Route 18, a half mile south of Otis.

Paul Arriola

Arriola was a second-half substitute and assisted on Darío Benedetto's goal only four minutes after entering the match.

Penn State–Pittsburgh football rivalry

Pitt's coach Johnny Majors moved Tony Dorsett to fullback for the second half, and the Panthers went on to defeat Penn State, 24–7, finishing the regular season 11–0, on their way to a Sugar Bowl victory over Georgia and their first National Championship in 39 years.

Pig Business

Controversy also surrounds the half-owned Smithfield Foods pig sheds near the village of La Gloria, Mexico, where as many as 1,800 villagers living near the plant had already complained of respiratory problems and 400 had been treated before the 2009 swine flu outbreak.

Ramón Quiroga

Quiroga is perhaps best remembered for his appearance at the 1978 FIFA World Cup in a match against Poland, when he ran all the way to the opposition half and fouled Grzegorz Lato, receiving a yellow card in the process.

Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo

In addition, there were also the pipes and drums of the Scots Guards, Irish Guards, Royal Gurkha Rifles, Scottish Officers Training Corps, South African Irish Regiment, the Rats of Tobruk and the City of Wellington pipe band.

Sarah Rhodes

On 1 December 1807 in Leeds, Sarah married a banker, Stephen Nicholson (1779 Chapel Allerton -23 Feb 1858 Roundhay), son of William Nicholson and Grace Whitaker, who inherited Roundhay Park and Chapel Allerton estates on 8 February 1833 after the death of his older half-brother Thomas' widow.

Shimazu Tadatsune

Like his father and uncle, he was known for bravery on the battlefield, and during the latter half of Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea, fighting beside his father, he helped drive off the Ming army of over 100,000 men with only 8000 men.

Star Stuff

StarStuff is a weekly half hour space and science program that airs on Australia's Government operated ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Stokes mortar

The Stokes mortar was a British trench mortar invented by Sir Wilfred Stokes KBE that was issued to the British, Commonwealth and U.S. armies, as well as the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps (CEP), during the latter half of the First World War.

Sussex County Cricket Club in 2005

Murray Goodwin, Chris Adams and Matthew Prior all made quick half-centuries, to propel Sussex to 365, while the Gloucestershire spinners shared seven wickets - Malinga Bandara taking four for 64 and Ian Fisher three for 93.

Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon

Arche, whose age of 223 years is possible only because she is a half-Elf, now lives in a pink heart-adorned tower which Mel and Dio must climb.

Talking cure

Diane Keaton attributes her recovery from bulimia to the talking cure: "All those disjointed words and half-sentences, all those complaining, awkward phrases...made the difference. It was the talking cure; the talking cure that gave me a way out of addiction; the damn talking cure".

The Better Half

The Better Half is the title of an American comic strip created by Bob Barnes.

The Tale of the Tape

Although no songs from the album reached the charts, the song "The Big Beat" has been notably sampled by hip hop artists, including Run-D.M.C.'s "Here We Go", Big Daddy Kane's "Ain't No Half Steppin'", Jay-Z's "99 Problems", Dizzee Rascal's "Fix Up, Look Sharp", U.T.F.O's "Roxanne, Roxanne" and Alicia Keys' "Girl on Fire".

The Young in Heart

Having seen Sahib's half-hearted newspaper advertisement for a job, Duncan secures one for him as a car salesman for the Flying Wombat (actually Rust Heinz's futuristic car, the Phantom Corsair).

Theatre of France

Inspired by the theatrical experiments in the early half of the century and by the horrors of the war, the avant-garde Parisian theatre, "New theatre" or, as the critic Martin Esslin termed it, "Theatre of the Absurd," around the writers Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Arthur Adamov, Fernando Arrabal, refused simple explanations and abandoned traditional characters, plots and staging.

Tyrell McCrea

In the first game of his senior year against historic Odessa Permian High School, McCrea had an 80 yard touchdown run during the first half to begin his season.

Victor Anichebe

In the UEFA Cup Anichebe scored four times, against Metalist Kharkiv, Larissa, FC Nuremberg and SK Brann of Norway after coming on as a late second half substitute in many of the games.

Vipava Valley

Historically, the upper eastern part of the valley, including the town of Vipava and half of the town of Ajdovščina, used to belong to the Duchy of Carniola (specifically, to Inner Carniola), while the lower western part was incorporated in the County of Gorizia and Gradisca and thus to the Austrian Littoral.

World Business

World Business was a weekly half hour features programme on CNBC presented by Raya Abirached.


see also

Hash Pipe

When the band performed this song on Top of the Pops, the title and lyric had to be changed to "Half Pipe", which caused confusion as OPM had released their single "Heaven Is a Half Pipe" at the same time (OPM had performed their song on the same showing, before Weezer took to the stage).

Luca Giammarco

In 1989, he earned 3rd place in the Slalom event at the World Championships of Skateboarding (the first year that Tony Hawk made the podium in this competition, placing 1st place in the Pro Half-pipe.) Giammarco was the # 1 slalom skateboarder in world in 2003, dropped to 3rd in 2004, and regained his #1 overall position in 2005.

Michael Michalchuk

Michalchuk gained 2002 Winter Olympic qualification after a strong performance in Alpe d'Huez, France in early 2002 but after making his second Olympics he performed poorly failing to qualify for the finals in the half-pipe event and eventually finished a disappointing twenty-seventh.

Montgenèvre

Snowboard facilities include a half pipe and a snow park in Claviere.