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unusual facts about junk


Soul-Junk

Early Soul-Junk albums (such as 1950) almost exclusively feature low-fi, Indie rock style tracks of Glen singing Bible verses interlaced with instrumental noise tracks, with a similarity to his previous band but with overtly Christian lyrics.


A Bronx Morning

The film was funded with the proceeds of a sale of a wooden figurine of Henry Ward Beecher, which Leyda had originally found in a junk shop, to a representative of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller.

Atomic Ed and the Black Hole

Ed Grothus (“Atomic Ed”) is a machinist-turned-atomic junk collector who more than 30 years ago quit his job of making atomic bombs and began collecting non-radioactive high-tech nuclear waste discarded from the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Audi 100

The lawsuits surrounding the reported sudden acceleration episodes were subject of Peter W. Huber's 1993 book, Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science In The Courtroom.

Battle of Kowloon

Elliot sent interpreter Karl Gützlaff in a small boat with two men to the centre junk which Elliot thought was the commanding vessel.

Cale Case

I don't like being exposed to Kenny G's music, cigarette smoke or patchouli oil, but I will defend the right of other folks to have all that junk, the right of business owners to allow it, and my right not to have to be around it.

Campeau Corporation

Through massive junk bond LBOs which were at their most popular in the mid 1980s, Campeau gained control of Allied Stores and Federated Department Stores, owner of Bloomingdale's.

Chris Kibble

Chris has also gigged with the following bands on the London music scene: Robin Jones Latin Jazz Sextet, Ricardo de Santos, Charlie Palmieri, Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers, Gordon Smith, Fuzz Against Junk, Terry Callier, Don Rendell, and King Salsa.

Dan Christensen

He is survived by his wife Elaine Grove Christensen (sculptor & actress), and his three sons: Moses, James (of the Hip Hop group Junk Science, currently signed to Definitive Jux records) and William, his brother Don and his two sisters Marilyn and Kay.

Dennis L. Montgomery

Dennis Montgomery originally worked for Warren Trepp, a former top junk bond trader for Michael Milken, at eTreppid Technologies and later partnered with Yellowstone Club founders Edra and Tim Blixseth under the banner Blxware to solicit government contracts for his spy software.

Duarte Fernandes

In 1511, soon after the Portuguese conquest of Malacca, knowing of Siamese ambitions over Malay, Afonso de Albuquerque immediately sent him in a diplomatic mission to the court of the King of Siam Ramathibodi II, traveling in a Chinese junk returning home.

Eu Phoria

Their songs were used as the theme songs of various Japanese television dramas and variety shows such as Tokumei Kakarichō Tadano Hitoshi, Itadakimuscle, Junk Sports, and DOWN TOWN DX.

Ferdinand Bordewijk

It is comparable to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, which appeared one year later and which Bordewijk deemed to be junk ("een enorme prul").

Gevalia

Kraft was accused of sending multiple waves of junk advertisement to the ISP's customers, the action brought under the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 act.

God Don't Make No Junk

God Don't Make No Junk (1994) is the name of the first album recorded by the American group The Halo Benders.

In Berlin

It was recorded live at the Rock Against Junk concert in Berlin, Germany on 13 December 1980, and released the following year, through record label Armageddon.

It's a Square World

Using scale models, Bentine sunk the Woolwich Ferry, sent a Chinese junk to attack the House of Commons (a sketch that was temporarily banned by the BBC as it was considered too political coming up to election time), and planted a forty-foot whale trying to enter the Natural History Museum.

John Retallack

John was formerly director of Oldham Coliseum Theatre (1985–88) and Oxford Stage Company (1989–99) where his adaptation of Melvin Burgess’s Junk won the TMA Young People’s Award in 1998.

Judith Martin

  Martin is known among Star Wars fans for her less-than-adulatory review of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, which she referred to as a “good junk movie” with “no plot structure, no character ... development, no ... original vision of the future”.

Junk Food for Your Mind

Junk Food for Your Mind is a series of stories by American author Michael Keenan.

Junk raft

Son of Town Hall, junk raft which crossed the Atlantic, made by Poppa Neutrino

Junk shop

Junkshop glam (less commonly referred to as junk shop glam) is a nuanced music genre term coined in the early 2000s by former Buzzcocks bassist, Tony Barber, and former Lush bassist, Phil King.

Junk Yard Band

The Junk Yard Band is a go-go band, founded in the early 1980s by children playing on improvised instruments.

Kaoru Adachi

V&R Planning, under the Mad Video label, distributed the Japanese versions of the first three videos in the US Faces of Death series as Janku or Junk.

Kerry Kayes

In 2000 Kayes wrote weight loss diets for Ricky Hatton and other Billy Graham boxers, then in 2002 at the request of Billy Graham (Ricky Hatton's boxing coach) Kayes became the strength and nutrition coach for light welterweight boxing champion Ricky Hatton, his main responsibilities being to make Hatton stronger and helping him to make weight, no small task given Hatton's love of junk food between fights.

Marshmallow creme

According to a 2006 Boston Globe article, Massachusetts State Senator Jarrett Barrios proposed a restriction on the number of weekly servings of Marshmallow Fluff (Fluffernutter) sandwiches in the form of an amendment to a bill that will limit junk food in schools.

Moonshine by country

Other names are ponu (an abbreviation of pontikka), ponantsa (a joke of Bonanza), kotipolttoinen (home burnt), tuliliemi (fire sauce), korpiroju (wildwood junk) or korpikuusen kyyneleet (tears of wildwood spruce) as stills often are located in remote locations.

Mortimer, Ohio

Mortimer has an Eagles club, a carry-out restaurant, an auto junk yard, a grain elevator, a trailer park, and a campground.

Quest for Glory III: Wages of War

Each Quest For Glory title usually had a cameo by a comedian or a comedy team: the designers put Sanford and Son in this game, as merchants (i.e. junk dealers) in the Tarna marketplace.

Sealy Corporation

First Boston made a bridge loan to the buy-out firm just as Drexel Burnham Lambert was running into trouble and the junk bond market was drying up, and was stuck with the loan.

Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator

Those living on Shell 2 are called "the Junkers", people which make a living out of collecting junk - especially electronic - originating from the upper shell.

Simcoe Composite School

To the north, there is a Wendy's and Subway in addition to other fast food restaurants that are no longer served in the cafeteria due to province-wide ban on junk food in public schools.

Sjáumst með Silvíu Nótt

Silvia also received a lot of attention from media when she, on the premiere day of her own TV show, protested against it on the streets of Reykjavík saying that "the show is total junk".

Slash 'n' Burn

"Motown Junk" and "Sorrow 16" were previously available on the "Motown Junk" single, released by the band's previous label.

Slave to Love

It was featured in the episode "Junk Love" of Miami Vice (1985), in Fire with Fire (1986), Bitter Moon (1992), Malice (1993), and perhaps the most memorable inclusion in the erotic drama 9½ Weeks (1986), starring Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke.

So B. It

Zander: Heidi's overweight best friend who lives in her apartment building and gives her Devil Dogs (product of Drake's) and other junk food.

Steptoe and Son in Murder at Oil Drum Lane

Harold is absolutely mad at Albert until he discovers that in all the junk he has a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, worth £3 million.

The Emerson Theater

The album Live: No Time for Tuning by Indianapolis junk rock band Sloppy Seconds was recorded at the Emerson Theatre on April 15, 1995.

The Honourable Schoolboy

Smiley knows that he will escape China (as Drake did in 1951) on a fishing junk, heading to the southernmost island of Po Toi.

The Sky Is Falling and I Want My Mommy

The project came about after Nomeansno and Biafra had collaborated (on the song "Falling Space Junk (Hold the Anchovies)") for the soundtrack to the underground film Terminal City Ricochet.

The Young Unicorns

Canon Tallis, newly arrived at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine after the events of The Arm of the Starfish, meets the Austin children and their friends just as they encounter an anachronistic Genie in a junk shop.

Tom Wappel

Toronto journalist Michael Valpy dismissed it as "legal gibberish" and "a piece of junk".

Unearthed Films

Unearthed has imported, amongst others, Rubber's Lover, Pinocchio 964, Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre, Aftermath, City of Rott, ICHI-1, Bone Sickness, Frankenhooker, Philosophy of a Knife and its sequel, Dead Fury, Flexing with Monty, Junk and the Guinea Pig series.


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