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2 unusual facts about paddle


Paddle to the Sea

Paddle to the Sea (French: Vogue-à-la-mer) is a 1966 National Film Board of Canada short live-action film directed, shot and edited by Bill Mason, based on the 1941 children's book Paddle-to-the-Sea by American author and illustrator Holling C. Holling.

Saint Louis River

Holling Clancy Holling, in his 1941 book Paddle-to-the-Sea, illustrated the polluted state of the Saint Louis River.


1838 in the United Kingdom

8–23 April — Isambard Kingdom Brunel's paddle steamer SS Great Western (completed on 31 March) makes the Transatlantic Crossing to New York from Avonmouth in fifteen days, inaugurating a regular steamship service.

Antonio Maura

Pablo Semprún (great-grandson) professional paddle tennis player.

Avcon

The AVCON conductive interface was the primary competitor to the Magne Charge inductive charging paddle used by the General Motors' Saturn EV1 and Chevy S10 EV, plus the 2002 Toyota RAV4 EV.

Battle for the Paddle

The Battle for the Paddle is the result of a game postponement.

Beavis

In "Canoe", he initiates a fight by smacking Butt-head across the head with a paddle (although Butt-head goaded him into doing it).

Bohuslav Karlík

A native of Prague, Karlík teamed up with fellow canoer Jan Brzák-Felix in 1955 to paddle the 118 miles (189.9 km) of the Vltava from České Budějovice to Prague in 20 hours.

Cedar Mountain, North Carolina

Cedar Mountain is home to Fritz Orr III, a four time national whitewater canoe championship title winner, and his canoe paddle making business.

Centrifugal extractor

Initial design of the annular centrifugal contactor was done at Argonne National Laboratory through modification of a Savannah River Site paddle mixed design.

Curlip

The Orbost and district community started a project in 2002 to construct a live steam powered replica, albeit somewhat larger than the original to meet safety regulations and carry additional passengers for commercial reasons, the Paddle Steamer Curlip II with the assistance of grants from the Federal and Victorian State Governments.

Eppie's Great Race

Also known as "The Great Race", "The World's Oldest Triathlon" and the "No-Swim Triathlon", it features a 5.82-mile run, 12.5-mile bike and 6.35-mile paddle held along the scenic American River Parkway in Rancho Cordova and Sacramento, California.

Ferrari 612 Scaglietti

The 612 comes with 6-speed manual or the 6-speed F1A semi-automatic paddle shift system, a much refined version of the F1 system in the 360.

Frances Eleanor Trollope

She was born aboard a paddle steamer in Delaware Bay, the eldest of three surviving daughters of the actors Thomas Lawless Ternan and Frances Eleanor Ternan (née Jarman); her younger sister Ellen Ternan achieved some notoriety as the mistress of Charles Dickens.

Freya Hoffmeister

She will return home for four months, resuming the trip in September 2012, paddling north past Peru and Ecuador, cross the equator and pass Colombia and paddle through the Panama Canal then south past Venezuela, ending the second 8,000 km leg in Georgetown, Guyana.

HMS Cockatrice

HMS Cockatrice was originally a composite paddle vessel called HMS Niger, launched in 1880, renamed Cockatrice in 1881 and renamed again to HMS Moorhen in 1896.

HMS Pigeon

HMS Pigeon (1854) was the mercantile wood paddle tender Brothers purchased at Constantinople in 1854 and sold there in 1856.

India ink

Hanetsuki (羽根突き, 羽子突き) is a Japanese traditional game, similar to badminton, played by girls at the New Year with a rectangular wooden paddle called a hagoita and a brightly colored shuttlecock.

Jan Brzák-Felix

In 1955, Brzák-Felix teamed up with 1936 C-1 1000 m silver medalist Bohuslav Karlík to paddle the 118 miles (189.9 km) of the Vltava from České Budějovice to Prague in 20 hours.

Jazzy and the Pussycats

Bart, bored and looking to go home early, plays a game of paddle ball.

Joe Jacobi

In 2010, Jacobi became the Chief Executive Officer for USA Canoe/Kayak, the national governing body for olympic level paddle sports in the United States.

Linoma Beach

The Showboat complex near Hastings was built in the likeness of a Mississippi River side-wheeler, complete with a paddle wheel dipping into the Nebraska sod.

Louis-Sébastien Lenormand

During his time at the excise office Lenormand started publishing in technology journals and filed patents for a paddle boat, a clock (successfully installed at the Paris Opera) and a public lighting system.

Mark Visser

Visser's past achievements include: 5th in the 2006/2007 APT tow-in tour event in Chile, 7th in the Nelscott Reef Big Wave Paddle In event USA, and runner up in the 2008/2009, 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 Oakley ASL Big Wave Awards.

Murray River Flag

The Murray River Flag is flown from paddle steamers and other vessels in the Australian States of Victoria and South Australia that ply the waters of the Murray-Darling river system.

MV Argyle

The first was a paddle steamer built only two years after the pioneer steamship PS Comet appeared on the river in 1812.

Paddle board yoga

In the short time it has been in existence, sup yoga has now grown to become an international community being taught at the Orange Bowl Paddle Championships and Wanderlust Festival.

Paddle boat

Paddle steamer or paddleboat, a boat propelled by a paddle wheel

Panel Histoire de Paris

They appear to be in the shape of an oar, but are actually with meant to recall a ship's paddle, in honour of the motto of the City of Paris "Fluctuat nec mergitur" ("batted by the waves, but never capsized").

Peahi, Hawaii

On 30–31 January 2012, Jeff Rowley and a number of international big wave surfers including Greg Long, Shaun Walsh and Albee Layer spent two days paddle-surfing Jaws, on the Hawaiian island of Maui, as part of their ongoing big-wave paddle-in program at the deep-water reef, further cementing the new frontier of paddle-in surfing at Jaws.

Phaistos

Phaistos was located by Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt, commander of the Spitfire, a paddle steamer, in the Mediterranean Survey of 1853, which surveyed the topography, settlements and monuments of Crete.

Pioneer City

Weiss bought a 19th Century-style (it was not actually made in the 19th Century) steam locomotive in Pennsylvania and two paddle-wheel boats built in Miami for the park, as well as refurbished antique fire engines and a Wells Fargo stagecoach.

PS America

PS America was a paddle wheel steamship of the White Star Line, built in 1891.

Quibbley

Quimbo - Quibbley's alter ego that dresses like Rambo carrying a ping pong paddle along with ping pong balls arranged in bandoleers.

Ray Hudspith

(S)he holds the World record for the fastest eskimo rolls with a paddle achieving 1000 rolls in 34 minutes 43 seconds at Elswick pool in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 20 March 1987.

Road transport

They were manually operated, and consisted of semaphores, flags or paddles, or in some cases colored electric lights, all modeled on railroad signals.

Screw sloop

In the 19th century, during the introduction of the steam engine, ships driven by propellers were differentiated from those driven by paddle-wheels by referring to the ship's screws (propellers).

Spotted paddle-tail newt

The spotted paddle-tail newt lives in streams and is characterized by its long, paddle-shaped tail used for propulsion.

Stand up paddle surfing

On August 8, 2007, on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe in Tahoe City, California, the first stand up paddle board race was held.

Swivel chair

Jefferson later had the swivel chair sent to his Virginia plantation, Monticello, where he later built a "writing paddle" onto its side in 1791.

Thomas Tassell Grant

According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Grant's other inventions included "a naval fuel (briquettes known as Grant's Patent Fuel), a steam kitchen, which was given its first trials in the warship HMS Illustrious. He also constructed a new type of lifebuoy, and a feathering paddle wheel."

Tonari no bangohan

Yonesuke, who always carries a large Shamoji paddle with him, on which is written the name of the show, usually steps right into the kitchen, another faux pas in Japanese homes, and begins asking lots of questions about what they're eating, cracking jokes the whole time.

Tour de Gudenå

Starting in Skanderborg, participants paddle to Silkeborg via the Skanderborg lake, Mossø lake, Julsø lake and several other, minor lakes along the Gudenå river on the first day of the competition.

Traffic paddle

A traffic paddle is a hand-held paddle-shaped signal used by police, traffic wardens, fire brigade, airport ground staff and others to direct traffic.

United States floating battery Demologos

During the Civil War, the United States Navy operated a number of iron clad steam-powered paddle-wheel gunboats as a part of the Mississippi River Squadron.

Valley Park, Missouri

Valley Park had a Saddle and Paddle Club on Marshall and now Highway 141.

Westfield, New Zealand

Portage Road is the location of one of the overland routes between the two harbours (and thus the Pacific ocean and the Tasman Sea), where the Maori would beach their waka (canoes) and drag them overland to the other coast, thus avoiding having to paddle around North Cape.

William Patterson Shipbuilders

These were wooden paddle vessels with low power engines and a full sail plan and built to a strong design on Lang’s improved principle diagonally fastened upon the plan of Sir Robert Seppings.


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