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unusual facts about outdoors


Leon Leonwood Bean

Leon Leonwood Bean (February 6, 1872 – February 5, 1967) was an American inventor, author, outdoor enthusiast, and founder of the company L.L.Bean.


1892 college football season

On September 28 the first-ever American football game played outdoors at night took place, between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.

19th-century French art

Impressionism would take the Barbizon school one further, rejecting once and for all a belabored style (and the use of mixed colors and black), for fragile transitive effects of light as captured outdoors in changing light (in part inspired by the paintings of J. M. W. Turner).

2003–04 Edmonton Oilers season

The first NHL game to be played outdoors was in 1991 when the Los Angeles Kings played the New York Rangers in an exhibition game outside Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Action in the Afternoon

Because the program was live and outdoors, music director Richard Lester made every effort to hide the sounds of the world beyond the back lot.

Antje Möldner-Schmidt

She improved further outdoors, recording 4:08.81 in Dessau, a time which made her the top ranked 1500 m German athlete that year.

Beijing Jazz Festival

The festival returned to Beijing from September 21 to 23, 2007, and has taken place outdoors in Haidian Park, in Beijing's northwestern Haidian District.

Bluesfest International Windsor

It takes place outdoors at the Riverfront Festival Plaza on the banks of the Detroit River, in front of Caesars Windsor and opposite Motown.

Brooks Thomas

These included Outward Bound, the educational organization that promotes self-discovery in the outdoors.

Bryson City, North Carolina

Horace Kephart, an author and outdoors enthusiast who operated out of Bryson City for several years, was a key early proponent for the creation of the park.

Cambridge Film Festival

Notably in 2006 the Festival held an outdoors screening of A Cock and Bull Story at Felbrigg Hall, one of that film’s shooting locations.

Cappello romano

A cappello romano (literally Roman hat in Italian) or saturno (because its appearance is reminiscent of the ringed planet Saturn) is a hat with a wide, circular brim and a rounded crown worn outdoors in some countries by Catholic clergy, when dressed in a cassock.

Carl Garner

During Carl Garner's over 57 years of public service working for the Corps of Engineers in Arkansas, he headed preparations for the dedication of Greers Ferry Dam by President John F. Kennedy and introduced innumerable families to the outdoors.

Carter's Grove

A conservation easement on the mansion and 400 of the 476 acres is co-held by the Virginia Outdoors Foundation and the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.

Doris Auer

Her personal best is 4.40 metres (outdoors), achieved in September 2000 in Runaway Bay.

Ernest C. Quigley

He also refereed the basketball finals between the United States and Canada at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, played outdoors in the rain, in the first Games at which basketball was a medal sport.

Eskimotive

Felix and a little black kitten are outdoors blowing bubbles.

Ian Frazier

In his nonfiction works such as Great Plains, Family, and On the Rez, Frazier combines first-person narrative with in-depth research on topics including American history, Native Americans, fishing, and the outdoors.

Ice hockey in India

Ice hockey is played mostly in places like Shimla, Ladakh and Kashmir in the north of India, where cold weather occurs and the game can be played outdoors.

Jeff Lageman

By 2001, "The Outdoors Show" had moved from an all-sports station (WBWL-AM) to a 50,000 watt news-talk station (WOKV) and soon after, Lageman joined the play-by-play man Brian Sexton in the booth of the Jaguars Radio Network as the color analyst.

KGNC

Regular programs include Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, Texas Fishing, Southwest Outdoors with Mel Phillips, Smart Money Radio with Mark and Marcy McKay, The Panhandle Greenhouse Garden Show, Dale Buckner's Financial Clinic, Rush Limbaugh Week in Review, The Laura Ingraham Show, and The Dave Ramsey Show.

Kimberlyn Duncan

She took her skills to Louisiana State University, where she became the first woman to win the NCAA Championships 200 metres back to back, both indoors and outdoors.

KPBN-LP

Daily programming includes This Week in Agriculture, Outdoors & More, Provost Adventures, LSU Athletics, Sports Talk and The Pressbox Show with Jimmy Ott.

Lambert Murphy

They resided in Keene and Munsonville, New Hampshire, enjoying the outdoors, in particular, hunting and fishing.

LED display

They are typically used outdoors in store signs and billboards, and in recent years have also become commonly used in destination signs on public transport vehicles or even as part of transparent glass area.

Limelight

The earliest known use of limelight at a public performance was outdoors, over Herne Bay Pier, Kent, on the night of 3 October 1836 to illuminate a juggling performance by magician Ching Lau Lauro.

Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre

Vytautas Klova's opera Pilėnai (1956), has since 2001 been performed outdoors during the summer at Trakai Island Castle.

Martian Child

Socially awkward, Dennis believes he is from Mars and only goes outdoors when under the cover of a large box to block out the sun's harmful rays.

My Name Is Mud

The video features Claypool playing the character of Abercrombie speaking directly to the camera, intercut with footage of the band performing outdoors, silhouetted by sunset, and scenes of Bob Cock visiting a health spa, at which he takes a mud bath and sits in a crowded sauna before accepting and drinking a glass of Pork Soda, referencing the album of the same name.

Olson Nature Preserve

Over the years they allowed their land to be used by scouts and other people who liked the outdoors.

Otter Falls, Yukon

Accessible via the Aishihik Road (see Yukon roads, miscellaneous ), the site of the falls has long been visited by lovers of the outdoors due to its picturesque nature, bird life (American Dipper and Harlequin Duck amongst others) and sport fishing opportunities.

Outdoors With Geoff

Rheem New Zealand are the current sponsors of the programme, hence the title Rheem Outdoors With Geoff.

Paestum

In the novel My Antonia by Willa Cather, the professor Gaston Cleric contracts a fever after spending the night outdoors admiring "the sea temples at Paestum."

Plenair

plein air (or pleinair), landscape paintings which are physically created "in the open air" rather than painted indoors based on sketches of the outdoors.

Polar Challenge

Paul “Seamus” Hogan, a sales manager from London, England, with no experience of the outdoors whatsoever, was asked to enter the Challenge for the program.

Robert Sopuck

He chaired the board of the Manitoba fisheries development group known as the Fish and Lake Improvement Program for the Parkland Region and is the hunting and outdoors columnist for the Winnipeg Free Press.

Stormy Sea in Étretat

The cliff that can be seen is that of Étretat (Seine Maritime), as Monet stayed in the city many times from the winter 1864-1865, and wrote: "I spend my time outdoors on the stone when it's big time ... and of course I work all the time."

TGO

TGO Magazine, the British hillwalking magazine formerly known as The Great Outdoors

The Bewitchin' Pool

Eventually, voice actress June Foray, best known as the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel in the Bullwinkle cartoons, dubbed Sport Sharewood's lines for all the scenes that take place outdoors (and sounding very much like Rocky).

The Great Outdoors Conservancy

The mission of The Great Outdoors Conservancy is to expand wild, natural, scenic and recreational areas through acquisition of land for the benefit of wildlife and its habitat, and the common sense use and enjoyment by all people, and to strengthening communities within the Big Woods of Pennsylvania, primarily within Potter County and the Kettle Creek Watershed.

The Great Outdoors Conservancy is a non-profit organization dedicated to conserving land for recreational enjoyment, located in Galeton, Pennsylvania.

The Snake King's Child

At the time of the film's release, war-ravaged Cambodia did not yet have any commercial cinemas suitable to premiere the film, so it was screened at the French Cultural Center and outdoors in the courtyard of a local television station in Phnom Penh.

The Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale

The Vancouver Straight Newspaper included Yue Minjun's 'A-maze-ing Laughter' in their 2010 contributors' picks: Outdoors & landmarks.

Thornton Burgess

The Museum of Science in Boston awarded him a special gold medal for "leading children down the path to the wide wonderful world of the outdoors".

Valter Di Salvo

Di Salvo bases much of his training sessions around the gym and technical exercises, rather than outdoors work, according to a ManUtd.com interview with Paul Scholes.

WCNF

Weekend programming includes talk shows hosted by Dennis Prager, Steve Gill, and Hugh Hewitt, plus Outdoors with Alan Warren and Viewpoint Alabama.


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