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13 Stitches

The title song is about bands that Fat Mike had seen and what he thought about them; the bands referenced in this song are (in particular order) Descendents, Alleycats, D.O.A., Millions Of Dead Cops, Ill Repute, and DRI.

Art of memory

Skoyles and Sagan indicate that "an ancient technique of memorization called Method of Loci, by which memories are referenced directly onto spatial maps" originated with the story of Simonides.

Bartolomeo Maranta

Among Maranta's most-referenced works is his treatise on antidotes to poisons, Della theriaca et del mithridato, in two volumes (1572).

Beattock Summit

The severity of the climb to the summit is referenced in W. H. Auden's poem Night Mail, written in 1936 for the G.P.O. Film Unit's celebrated production of the same name.

Bicycle commuting

March 2007 - Bicycle Commuters Benefits Act (H.R.807, S.2635), introduced by Senator Ron Wyden (Democrat-OR), and currently co-sponsored by Senators Olympia Snowe (Republican-ME), Maria Cantwell (Democrat-WA), Susan Collins (Republican-ME), Richard Durbin (Democrat-Ill), Robert Menendez (Democrat-NJ), Daniel Inouye (Democrat-HI), Norm Coleman (Republican-MN), and Mike Enzi (Republican-WY).

Cath Gabhra

Cath Gabhra exists in many versions, and is referenced often in other works, including poems about Cairbre Lifechair in the Book of Leinster and in the long narrative Acallam na Senórach.

Cee-lo

Many hip hop artists have referenced the dice game "Cee-Lo" in rap songs ever since the 1990s.

Claudius Lysias

The "barracks" referenced in the book of Acts (21.34, 37; 22.24; 23.10, 16, 32), in connection to Claudius Lysias and his cohort are references to the Tower of Antonia, which Herod the Great rebuilt from a previous structure and named it after Marc Antony.

Collioure

Collioure is also famous for its anchovies, which are referenced in Mark Kurlansky's book Salt as the best in the world.

Dar Sai

Dar Sai is a fictional planet referenced in author Jack Vance's fourth "Demon Princes" novel, The Face.

David Webber

He holds two US software patents on XML and EDI technologies that have been widely referenced by 37 other patent applications from leading implementing companies such as IBM, Oracle Corporation, AT&T, GE, SAP, NEC and Dell.

Eye Opener

# 23 March 1965: The Lonely Machine (Paddy Sampson producer; Jules Feiffer story; Sampson and Norm Symonds adaptation), based on the Feiffer cartoon, starring Rich Little

Frame 137

The short film which was produced by Tilyard and Liz Tomkins features an animated sequence of new original artwork from James O'Barr as well as a cover of 'Dog Food', the Iggy Pop song referenced in the original graphic novel, from Mondo Generator and featuring Nick Oliveri and Dave Grohl, the track was created for the short film.

Handkerchief

In the United Kingdom, the habit of wearing a handkerchief with tied corners on one's head at the beach has become a seaside postcard stereotype, referenced by the Gumby characters in Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Hardy space

For 0 < p ≤ q ≤ ∞, the class Hq is a subset of Hp, and the Hp-norm is increasing with p (it is a consequence of Hölder's inequality that the Lp-norm is increasing for probability measures, i.e. measures with total mass 1).

Harry O'Donovan

The character Biddy Mulligan is referenced in many Dublin music hall songs such as "Biddy Mulligan the Pride of the Coombe", "Daffy the Belle of the Coombe" and "The Charladies' Ball".

Hranislav

Hranislav is briefly referenced in national writer Ivan Vazov's 1907 novel Svetoslav Terter.

James Taranto

President Lyndon B. Johnson – Johnson is mentioned in a frequently referenced scene and quote from the film Forrest Gump, in which a Vietnam War protestor assaults a woman and then apologizes with the line "Things got a little out of hand. It's just this war and that lying son of a bitch Johnson!" The quote is used to lampoon Johnson himself, or more usually any individual that blames a public figure or crisis for a mistake or poor judgment.

John Stringfellow

Stringfellow's first powered flight achievement was referenced in the movie The Flight of the Phoenix (1965).

Le Tigre aime la chair fraiche

The film was an attempt to create a French franchise equal to James Bond, and the film From Russia with Love is referenced within the film that features the film's female lead Daniela Bianchi.

Lee Qualm

2010 When District 21 incumbent Republican Representatives Thomas Deadrick was term limited and retired and left a District 21 seat open, Qualm ran in the three-way June 8, 2010 Republican Primary but lost to incumbent Representative Kent Juhnke and James Schaefer, who went on to win the four-way November 2, 2010 General election against Democratic nominees David Reis (a perennial candidate who had sought legislative seats in 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2008) and Norm Cihak.

Lincoln Thornton Manuscript

Derek Brewer calculated that there must have been at least six now-lost manuscripts that provided the source material for the Thornton MS, which evidences a wide "spread of manuscripts now lost." Sir Percyvelle, for instance, was originally composed in the fourteenth century in a north-east Midland dialect, and one version would have traveled north to be copied by Thornton while another traveled south to be referenced by Geoffrey Chaucer in Sir Thopas.

Little Chicago, Wisconsin

Little Chicago received worldwide recognition in 2002 by being referenced as the title of Adam Rapp's novel "Little Chicago."

Louis Auguste Blanqui

Blanqui's political activism and his book L'Eternité par les astres were commented on by Walter Benjamin in his Arcades Project and are referenced in the novel The Secret Knowledge by Andrew Crumey.

Luigi Lucheni

He is also referenced in Polish writer Bruno Schulz's book The Street of Crocodiles in the chapter entitled Treatise On Tailors' Dummies: Continuation, and in Norman Mailer's novel The Castle in the Forest.

Mark Bluvshtein

A couple of months later, Bluvshtein raised his International rating above 2500, completing the requirements for the GM title, and he received it at age 16 at the Calvià Olympiad, where he made a further Grandmaster norm, for good measure!

Minos

In Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves, the story of Minos and the Minotaur is referenced several times, both accurately and inaccurately, when Zampanó discusses the thematic similarities between it and the house's labyrinth.

Nick Helm

His 2013 Edinburgh Fringe show, One Man Mega Myth, strongly referenced Evel Knievel and he was again nominated for Best Show in the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, losing out to Bridget Christie.

Night of the Grizzlies

An unrelated but similarly named movie had been released in April 1966 before the above-referenced attacks.

No Sleep till Brooklyn

Comedian Christopher Titus sarcastically referenced the song in his 2001 comedy special Norman Rockwell is Bleeding when describing an event from his youth in which he was on drugs and Licensed to Ill was playing "at a soothing billion-and-five decibels".

Norm Hitzges

Norman R. "Norm" Hitzges (born July 5, 1944) is an author and sports talk radio host at KTCK (1310 AM / 96.7 FM, "SportsRadio 1310 The Ticket") in Dallas, Texas.

Norman Tate

Norman ("Norm") W. Tate (born January 2, 1942 in Oswald, West Virginia) is a retired long jumper from the United States, who set the world's best year performance in 1971 by jumping 8.23 metres on 1971-05-22 at a meet in El Paso.

Palmer Cox

Richard F. Outcault referenced Cox and The Brownies in a February 9, 1895 cartoon of Hogan's Alley.

Pixie Jenkins

Born 'Paul Blake Jenkins' in Launceston, Tasmania in 1957, now referred to by his stage name 'Pixie', in an article in The Australian, Pixie was referenced alongside Jimmy Little, Chad Morgan and Slim Dusty as "...an icon of Australia's country music industry".

Preston Workshops

A distinctive workplace culture grew up around the workshops, evident in the oral traditions and characters of the workshops, such as Norm Cross, who may have been the inspiration for Malcolm in the film of the same name by Nadia Tass.

Prodrive F1

The same article also referenced Gary Paffett for a race drive citing his "one year" contract in DTM and with McLaren as a test driver.

Robin Deacon

His later performance piece Prototypes (2006 – 09) stylistically referenced the output of documentary films produced by the British Transport Commission.

Sailing on the Seven Seas

The song pays homage to two rock groups: firstly to The Velvet Underground, with the song "Sister Ray" being directly referenced (OMD had previously covered "I'm Waiting for the Man" as a B-side to 1980 single "Messages"); and secondly to The Who, with the line "people try to drag us down" being near-identical in melody and lyrical content to the opening line of "My Generation".

Sarfaroshi ki Tamanna

The poem is also referenced in abridged form in the 2009 movie, Gulaal by Anurag Kashyap.

Security Service Field

Known as the members of the Sky Sox Hall of Fame, they are Luis Medina (played 1988-1991), Sam Hairston (played 1950-1956), Charlie Manuel (managed 1990-1992), Alan Cockrell (played 1990, 1992, 1994-1996), Norm "Bulldog" Coleman (non-player who helped the Sky Sox succeed financially, inducted 1996), Ryan Hawblitzel (played 1993-1996), Trinidad Hubbard (played 1993-1996), and Brad Mills (managed 1993-1996).

Serbsky Center

As a result, the healthy are declared the severely mentally ill (for example, general P. Grigorenko or colonel Yu. Budanov), exceptional conditions (for example, major D. Evsyukov’s, actor F. Yalovega’s) are declared a norm, and the ill are declared the healthy (for example, diplomat Platon Obukhov).

Skycraft Scout

Using sources referenced from the library at Sydney Technical College and Hurstville local Library he built up a working knowledge of aerodynamics.

Tempestarii

Agobard of Lyons also referenced a related belief amongst his parishioners--a belief that tempestarii were in league with a mythical race of cloud-dwellers who came from a land named 'Magonia' ("Land of Magic", "Land of Thieves").

The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It

Slumdog Millionaire was originally going to be referenced in the title, but instead it just remained in parts of the movie.

The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius is also referenced in the 2002 film 24 Hour Party People, when Tony Wilson's character is recited an excerpt of "The Consolation of Philosophy" by a panhandler to whom he has just given pocket change.

The Conversation with the Man Called Al-Mu'tasim

The Conversation with the Man Called Al-Mu'tasim: A Game of Shifting Mirrors is a non-existent novel supposedly by an Indian writer named Mir Bahadur Ali, referenced in the story The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim by Jorge Luis Borges (title in Spanish: El acercamiento a Almotásim).

Thunderbird Motel

The hotel is referenced by former Minnesotans, The Hold Steady on their album, "Separation Sunday" in the song, "Stevie Nix." The song contains the lyrics, "...and the carpet at the Thunderbird has a burn for every cowboy that got fenced in."

WNRG-FM

On May 27, 2010, at Noon, WJZX flipped from Broadcast Architecture's syndicated satellite feed Smooth AC "Smooth Jazz Network" to a stunt format called "Tiger 106.9", which referenced Tiger Woods's scandals and featured cheating-themed music from all eras.

Zoltán Kodály

In the motion picture Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a visual learning aid distributed to members of a conference of UFOlogists was named "Zoltan Kodaly" and referenced musical notes as hand signals.


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School-based assessment

The Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA) has recently moved from norm-referenced to standards-referenced assessment, including the incorporation of a substantial school-based summative oral assessment component (SBA) into the compulsory English language subject in the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination (HKCEE), a high-stakes examination for all Form 4–5 students (Davison, 2007).