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unusual facts about leech


Bushman repellent

It is applied directly to the skin and uses DEET (N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide) as its active ingredient to repel insects, particularly Sandflies, Mosquitoes, Ticks, Leeches and Marchflies.


Asymmetric cell division

Helobdella robusta: The leech Helobdella robusta exhibits a similar asymmetry in the first embryonic division as C. elegans and tubifex, but relies on a modified mechanism.

Attack of the Giant Leeches

It was one of a spate of monster movies produced during the 1950s in response to cold war fears; in the film, a character speculates that the leeches have been mutated to giant size by atomic radiation from nearby Cape Canaveral.

Battle of Sugar Point

The Battle of Sugar Point, or the Battle of Leech Lake, was fought on October 5, 1898 between the 3rd U.S. Infantry and members of the Pillager Band of Chippewa Indians in a failed attempt to apprehend Pillager Ojibwe Bugonaygeshig ("Old Bug" or "Hole-In-The-Day"), as the result of a dispute with Indian Service officials on the Leech Lake Reservation in Cass County, Minnesota.

Bradford Girls' Choir

It has 35 members of girls aged between 10 and 18 from Keighley and Bradford schools under the direction of Thomas Leech.

Bushrod W. Lott

As one of the early pioneers of Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1848, Bushrod W. Lott, accompanied Gen. Samuel Leech, who had been appointed Receiver of United States Land Office, St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, where Bushrod W. Lott served as Clerk.

Carl Michael von Hausswolff

Recent audio works include "800 000 Seconds In Harar" (Touch), "Matter Transfer" (iDeal), "The Wonderful World of Male Intuition" (Oral), "There Are No Crows Flying around the Hancock Building" (Lampo), "Rats", "Maggots" and "Bugs" (all three on Laton), "Three Overpopulated Cities ..." (Sub Rosa), "A Lecture on Disturbances in Architecture" (Firework Editions) and "Ström" and "Leech" (both on Raster-Noton).

Clifford Leech

While teaching at the University of Durham, Leech became Censor then, in 1948, the first Principal of St Cuthbert's Society, one of Durham's collegiate bodies.

Filippo Scòzzari

Known in his first comic at Mondadori's Il Mago under the pseudonym "Winslow Leech", he has worked for Re Nudo and Il Mago, Radio Alice of Bologna, Cannibale, Il Male, Frigidaire, Blue, Panorama, TV Sorrisi e Canzoni and Glamour International.

Film Bug II

Film Bug II is the third music video by The Gazette, featuring music video from 2006 to 2009 like "Regret", "Filth in the Beauty", "Hyena", "Chizuru" (Original Version) (千鶴; A Thousand Cranes), "Burial Applicant", "Guren", "Leech", "Distress and Coma", "The Invisible Wall" and "Before I Decay".

George R. Wicker

The Battle of Sugar Point, or the Battle of Leech Lake, was fought on October 5, 1898 between the 3rd Infantry and members of the Pillager Band of Chippewa Indians in a failed attempt to apprehend Pillager Ojibwe Bugonaygeshig ("Old Bug" or "Hole-In-The-Day"), as the result of a dispute with Indian Service officials on the Leech Lake Reservation in Cass County, Minnesota.

James Russell Leech

Leech was elected as a Republican to the Seventieth, Seventy-first, and Seventy-second Congresses and served until his resignation on January 29, 1932, having been appointed a member of the United States Board of Tax Appeals (now the United States Tax Court) to fill a vacancy.

Joseph Leech

The son of Isaac Leech and Sarah, Leech was christened on 7 May 1865 in Cleator, Cumberland.

Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe

The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, also known as the Leech Lake Band of Chippewa Indians or the Leech Lake Band of Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, and as Gaa-zagaskwaajimekaag Ojibweg in the Ojibwe language, is an Ojibwe band located in Minnesota and one of six making up the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.

Like the Red Lake and White Earth Bands, the Leech Lake Band is known for its tradition of singing hymns in the Ojibwe language.

LeechModem

Leech ZMODEM was suggested by Sam Brown but written by a long lost friend in Atlanta, GA.

Leech ZMODEM was a LeechModem variant that was compatible with the faster ZMODEM streaming file-transfer protocol.

Liveline

Transport minister Martin Cullen and his former PR adviser, Monica Leech, sought compensation in 2005 for damage to their reputation after a caller to Liveline made lewd suggestions about them live on air.

Merryweather

George Merryweather (1794–1870), English inventor of the tempest prognosticator, a leech-based weather predicting gadget

Michael Tweedie

Many of Tweedie's collections were of species that proved to be new to science (such as the leech, Phytobdella catenifera).

Phytobdella catenifera

Phytobdella catenifera is a large (5-cm long) terrestrial leech found in Peninsular Malaysia.

Play Dirty

So Douglas departs on what first seems like a fantasy adventure when he is taken to a Senussi cafe, which is a front for Masters HQ, there Douglas bumps into Cyril Leech.

Premier Leech

Premier Leech: A Story of Greed, Sleaze and Corruption is a book written by Neil Humphreys, the author of Match Fixer and Be My Baby, published in December 2010.

Pythagorean tuning

Gothic Voices – Music for the Lion-Hearted King (Hyperion, CDA66336, 1989), directed by Christopher Page (Leech-Wilkinson)

Resolution and Independence

The poem is based on Wordsworth’s actual encounter with a leech-gatherer on 3 October 1800, near his home at Dove Cottage in Grasmere.

Royal River

The river is mentioned in several of Maine-native Stephen King's novels, including The Body, when the boys cross the Royal River, only to be attacked by leeches, as well as 'Salem's Lot.

Sail twist

Three sail shape controls which control the leech tension, and therefore sail twist, are the mainsheet, the boom vang and the traveler.

San Diego Opera

Notable artists who have performed with San Diego Opera include Ferruccio Furlanetto, Luciano Pavarotti, Denyce Graves, Beverly Sills, Joan Sutherland, Richard Bonynge, Richard Leech, Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming, Jane Eaglen, Richard Margison, Jerry Hadley, Vivica Genaux, Isabel Bayrakdarian, James Westman and Carol Vaness .

Siletzia

Similarly, certain schists on Baranof Island are believed to have been contiguous with the Leech River Schists on Vancouver Island around 50 Ma, and subsequently transported northward with other elements of the Chugach-Prince William terrane.

Stella Park

Giuseppe Garibaldi visited the family who lived at the manor house that existed before the housing estate in the 19th century.The Estate was finally purchased by William Leech Builders,the largest housebuiders in England, and demolished all except the Lodge.

Sun Carriage

Relocating to Camden and joined by fellow Plymouth exile Chris Leech on second guitar they recorded the "Sun Carriage/Determined" (written by Ron Price) demo 7" (very rare, only about ten were pressed) for the fledgling Head Records run by Jeff Barrett (later the founder of Heavenly).

Tony Leech

In 1999, Leech acted in 3 feature films, Pit of Vipers, Holy Hollywood (along with Mickey Rooney and Camille Keaton) and Chillicothe where he also served as first assistant director.

Leech acted, wrote, directed, and edited for the Fire By Nite Christian variety show that was based at Willie George Ministries in Tulsa.

UNLOCK, The National Association of Reformed Offenders

This group included Stephen Fry, Bob Turney and founding Chief Executive Mark Leech, who left the organization in May 2002 to pursue commercial interests.

William John Leech

Leech would travel throughout Europe and eventually settled in England in 1919, with frequent visits to the South of France, to Marseilles, Grasse and Cagnes-sur-Mer.


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