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6 unusual facts about luck


Chuck-a-luck

In Fritz Lang's 1952 film, Rancho Notorious, chuck-a-luck is the name of the ranch run by Altar Keane (played by Marlene Dietrich) where outlaws hide from the law.

Luck

Numerology, as it relates to luck, is closer to an art than to a science, yet numerologists, astrologists or psychics may disagree.

Lucks

Luck's, Inc., a food production company based in North Carolina, now an Arizona Canning Company brand.

Pot O'Luck

In February 1947, five-year-old Pot O'Luck won the Cocoanuts Purse at Hialeah Park Race Track and in April earned his second win of the Ben Ali Stakes at Keenland Race Course.

Rancho Notorious

Whitey's dying words, "Chuck-a-luck", are the only clue to the second man's identity.

Rupert Marshall-Luck

After reading Music at Cambridge University, he was awarded a postgraduate scholarship to continue his studies with the eminent pedagogue Simon Fischer and thereafter won a Distinction for his degree of Master of Music.


1974–75 Buffalo Sabres season

The Flyers came into the series with their own good luck pre- game singer in the form of Kate Smith who sang "God Bless America" before home games at The Spectrum.

2010 Hungaroring GP2 Series round

Luck was on Maldonado's side though, as he had the lapped car of Vladimir Arabadzhiev between he and Vietoris, and an awful restart from the Bulgarian allowed Maldonado to pull out more than 3.0s on the first lap back under greens.

A Run for Your Money

Meanwhile, Twm recognizes a familiar face: Huw Price (Hugh Griffith), a down-on-his-luck harpist and traditional Chief Singer with whom he had once won the grand prize at an important Welsh music festival.

Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī

In spite of that al-Tawhidi tried hard to improve his status when he contacted some of the high-ranking statesmen, such as the viziers: Al-Muhallabi, Ibn al-'Amid, Sahib ibn 'Abbad and others, but it was disappointing every time, probably because of lack of luck.

Alexandra Milton

Alexandra Milton is married to the writer and historian, Giles Milton, who wrote the text for Call Me Gorgeous and Good Luck Baby Owls.

Aubie

Aubie's appearances on game programs proved to be somewhat of a good luck charm for head football coach Ralph "Shug" Jordan's teams.

Bill Radke

He also contributed humorous news and commentary segments to KUOW-FM's long-running show Sandy Bradley's Pot Luck, created and hosted the satire show Rewind, distributed by National Public Radio, and co-hosted the radio show "Weekend America", produced by American Public Media.

Break a leg

In the autobiography of Manfred von Richthofen, during the First World War pilots of the German Air Force are recorded as using the phrase "Hals- und Beinbruch" (neck and leg fracture) to wish each other luck before a flight.

Cisco Pike

It stars Kris Kristofferson as a musician fallen on hard luck who turns to dealing marijuana as a means of income.

Claudia Shear

In Restoration, Shear plays "Giulia, a down-on-her-luck art restorer from Brooklyn who receives what could possibly be a career-reviving job of 'refreshing' Michelangelo’s David in time for its quincentennial celebration in Florence."

Deiphobus

One modern account, The Luck of Troy by Roger Lancelyn Green, depicts him as a particularly unpleasant character.

Edward Luck

Before joining the faculty at Columbia as Professor of Practice in International and Public Affairs, Dr. Luck founded and was executive director of the Center for the Study of International Organization, a research institute jointly established by the New York University School of Law and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University.

English Music Festival

The Violin Sonatas by Arthur Bliss and Henry Walford Davies have languished in manuscript form for over one hundred years, and were performed at the 2010 English Music Festival by regular EMF artists Rupert Marshall-Luck and Matthew Rickard.

Everything Is Shifting

"Good Luck with that American Dream" has been licensed for an international Coca-Cola ad.

Evippus

On the wedding day of Adrastus' daughters, his shield fell off the highest summit of the temple of Athena, which was a sign of bad luck in the future.

Franck Rolling

After his release from Bournemouth, Rolling was briefly on the books of Gillingham F.C. and Wycombe Wanderers F.C., before leaving England to try his luck with SK Vorwärts Steyr of Austria (who went into bankruptcy during the season) and Veria F.C. of Greece.

Hallwil

The final custom, the Bärzeli occurs on Berchtoldstag (2 January) when 15 Bärzeli (specifically costumed figures) march though the village streets granting luck to all they meet.

Hour of Coming

Although Pakistan had the upper hand, as luck would have it Misbah-ul-Haq got out scooping the third ball, resulting in sort of a Sudden Death for Pakistan.

I Got a Man

The spoken intro of the song is sampled from the 1990 film Die Hard 2 in which John McClane (played by Bruce Willis) complains about his bad luck.

Isaac Tomlinson

In the summer of 1906, Tomlinson moved down The Solent to join Portsmouth but managed only five first-team games before trying his luck in Scotland with Heart of Midlothian.

Ivan Vukomanović

The adventure with Troeggi Team brings good luck to Ivan that on June 17, signing with Standard Liege as an assistant to new coach Guy Luzon.

Jade Ribbon Campaign

Considered to be the essence of heaven and earth, Jade is believed in many Asian cultures to bring good luck and longevity while deflecting negativity.

James H. Hawley

Through luck or an acute weather sense, they chose to leave the area for Walla Walla, Washington before the depth of winter set in.

Karen Martin

:Not to be confused with another woman named Karen Martin who was a notable contestant on the game show Press Your Luck, For her, See Press Your Luck (Section: Notable Contestants).

Lady Justice

Her modern iconography frequently adorns courthouses and courtrooms, and conflates the attributes of several goddesses who embodied Right Rule for Greeks and Romans, blending Roman blindfolded Fortuna (fate) with Hellenistic Greek Tyche (luck), and sword-carrying Nemesis (vengeance).

Lawrence Shehan

In a stroke of cruel luck, he was never able to participate in a papal conclave—he was the last cardinal to turn eighty prior to the August 1978 conclave, at which, by Pope Paul's decree, cardinals over eighty were excluded.

Le Signe du Lion

Much of the film's plot is concerned with notions of luck and fate.

Lennie Lower

Cyril Pearl, a noted Sydney journalist and Lower's editor, described Here's Luck in the following terms: "It remains pre-eminently Australia's funniest book, as ageless as Pickwick or Tom Sawyer, a work of 'weird genius', as one reviewer put it, written by a 'Chaplin of words'".

Lily Bouwmeester

In 1935, when the sound film had just been introduced in the Netherlands, she auditioned for the lead role in The Cross-Patch (1935), but had no luck.

Luck Be a Lady

On December 14, 2011, Cîroc began airing a "Luck Be a Lady" advertising campaign for Ultra Premium Vodka, directed by Anthony Mandler.

Marcelo Caetano

According to the film April Captains (Capitães de Abril), Caetano, prior to boarding the plane that would take him to exile, thanked his captors for treating him well and wished them the best of luck with the country.

Marlin

In the Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway's 1952 novel The Old Man and the Sea, the central character of the work is an aged Cuban fisherman who, after 84 days without success on the water, heads out to sea to break his run of bad luck.

MCC tour of Australia in 1958–59

While in luck was in he visited the Gloucester Park Trotting Meeting that evening and was not disappointed with his wagers.

Mitchell Prentice

An AIS graduate, he played with Northern Spirit and Marconi Stallions in the NSL before trying his luck overseas where he had short stints with Scottish club Stirling Albion and Malaysian Super League side Pahang FA.

Norbert Schultze

After several projects as production manager at Telefunken, Schultze decided in 1936 to try his luck as a freelance composer for stage and film.

Patriot Reign

Patriot Reign is a best-selling book by Boston Globe/New York Times sports writer Michael Holley resulting from two years he was given unprecedented access to the inner sanctums of the world champion New England Patriots football operations, as they worked to turn a season of good luck into a legitimate contender of a team.

Pigs in Heaven

The trio are temporarily joined by Barbie, a waitress obsessed with the dolls of the same name, who appears to be down on her luck but later proves to be a thief and counterfeiter.

Rebecca Tobey

In 1994, the work was placed at Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado, where students created a custom of kissing the bear for good luck during exams.

Shit Out of Luck

Shit Out Of Luck is an album released in 1996 by the punk rock band The Lillingtons

Starfleet Orion

Jerry Pournelle praised the Orion games' realism: "Classical principles of fleet warfare work, and strategy and tactics are more important than luck".

Strange Luck

Strange Luck is an American television series that aired on FOX, created by Karl Schaefer and starring D. B. Sweeney in the role of Chance Harper, a freelance photographer afflicted with a bizarre tendency to always be in the wrong place at the right time.

The Luck of Roaring Camp

Monogram Pictures' 1937 The Luck of Roaring Camp is an adaptation by Harvey Gates that stars Byron Foulger and Ferris Taylor.

The Million Dollar Goal

She has a great desire for Elvis Presley, and still has a Velvet Elvis (Mrs. Rosenberg calls it "khalooscious") on the wall as a good luck charm, and throws a fit when it is taken down.

Todmobile

Solo projects once again ensued, Þorvaldur being the main success after co-writing the Icelandic ESC 1999 entry "All Out Of Luck" for Selma Björnsdóttir, which placed second.

Tommy Bahama

The Tommy Bahama brand has been placed in: Luck, Couples Retreat, Meet the Parents (and Fockers sequels) and 50 First Dates; as well as TV's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Scrubs, Dexter, Psych and continually on character Sam Axe from USA Network's Burn Notice, The Simpsons Movie, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Variations on Swing

# "All We Need Is A Little Energon, And A Lot Of Luck" – 3:44 (The Transformers: The Movie)

Warcraft: Legends

I Got What Yule Need: From acclaimed writer Christie Golden comes the tale of a down-on-his-luck goblin named Krizz looking for a way to make some easy coin... even if that means playing Greatfather Winter.

With a Little Luck

Written in Scotland, "With a Little Luck" would become Wings' follow-up single to the then best-selling UK Single of all time, "Mull of Kintyre" and was one of the first synthpop records to appear on radio and in the charts and the beginning of McCartney's period of involvement and experimentation with synthesisers.


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