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unusual facts about ping-pong



2014 World Championship of Ping Pong

The "2014 World Championship of Ping Pong" was a table tennis tournament that was held from 4 January 2014 to 5 January 2014 at the Great Hall in Alexandra Palace.

Antony de Ávila

With the club playing on AstroTurf for parts of the season, El Pitufo was surprisingly adept at what was called "ping-pong soccer".

Beas River

The Pong Dam served initially to primarily provide irrigation below Talwara but was soon developed as well for power generation; its power station has a 360 MW installed capacity.

Carlo Tresca

In early 1938 Tresca publicly accused the Soviets of kidnapping Juliet Stuart Poyntz to prevent her defection from the Communist Party USA underground apparatus.

Chen Ping

Chin Peng (born 1924), or Chen Ping, a Malaysian politician

China Stamp Society

China Stamp Society chapters in the United States are located at: San Francisco Bay, California (Chiu Chin Shan Chapter); Los Angeles, California (Chia Nan Chapter); Chicago, Illinois (Ping Yuan Zhi Zhu Chapter); Dallas - Ft. Worth Area (North Texas Chapter); and, Seattle, Washington (Chang Qing Long Chapter).

Chitinimonas taiwanensis

Chitinimonas taiwanensis is a gram-negative, chitinolytic, catalase and oxidase-positiv motile bacterium with a single flagellum from the genus of Chitinimonas and the family of Burkholderiaceae which was isolated from the surface water from a freshwater pond for shrimps (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) in Ping-Tung in Southern Taiwan.

Doctor Pong

Originally designed to be model of Snoopy's dog house with Pong built into the side of it, when Charles Schulz declined Atari the use of Snoopy the model was changed to a generic doghouse with a puppy looking over the top.

Former British Consulate at Takao

In 1860 the Treaty of Peking forced the Qing government of Taiwan (then Formosa) to open up the ports of Takao (now known as Kaohsiung), An-Ping (Anping, Tainan), Tamsui (Tamsui, New Taipei) and Keelung to foreign trade.

Ganbare Neo Poke-Kun

He would begin simply, creating his own versions of Pong and Breakout, and would gradually move up to historical sims (a'la Nobunaga's Ambition), shoot 'em ups, and fighting games. The game used the Neo Geo Pocket Color's internal clock to control the speed at which Neo Poke-Kun created games, when he slept, when he went to work, etc.

Giovanni Falcone

The Mafia was present in the area but quiescent; Tommaso Spadaro, a boy with whom he played ping-pong in the neighborhood Catholic Action recreation center, would later become a notorious Mafia smuggler and killer, but mafiosi were not a major presence in his childhood.

Groove Squad

Endowed with their superpowers like X-ray vision, Super Strength and the ability to Fly; cheerleaders Chrissy, Ping and Mackenzie soon finds themselves with a responsibility greater than winning the cheerleading competition—thwarting the evil Dr. Nightingale's plans for total world domination.

Henry Lee Junior

Lee is the son of Henry Lee Hok-Ping who was a motorcycle racer and worked for Sime Darby.

Ho Kwon Ping

Kwon Ping grew up and studied in Thailand He went on to Tunghai University in Taiwan where the exposure to Chinese culture left a deep impact on him.

Hong Liangji

In modern times, he is best remembered for his essay Zhi Ping Pian (治平篇, On Governance and Well-beings of the Empire) on population growth and its sociopolitical consequence, in which he raised many of the same issues that were raised by Malthus writing during the same period in England.

ITunes Ping

For the most part, these suspicious links are being posted in the comments sections of popular artists on Ping, such as Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and U2, all of whom are among the recommended accounts listed on the Ping homepage.

Jack Chertok

During the early 1960s Chertok ran a summer camp in Barton Flats, California, named Camp Purple Sage, which featured horseback riding, arts and crafts, ping-pong, etc.

Jang Bahadur Rana

1873-1877: His Highness Commanding-General Sir Jung Bahadur Kunwar Rana, T'ung-ling-ping-ma-Kuo-Kang-wang, Maharaja of Lamjung and Kaski, GCB, GCSI

Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health

On January 14, 2004 the Board of Regents established the first School of Public Health in the University System of Georgia and named it the Jiann-Ping Hsu School of Public Health.

Kaiping

In 1973, various people originated from Kaiping (Hoi Ping) started Hoi Ping Chamber of Commerce Secondary School in Hong Kong.

Koe Yeet

She studied at Catholic High School in Form 5 and represents Selangor in tennis and ping pong.

Kung Fu Chefs

As Wong Ping Yee was forced out of the village, he encountered Shum Ching (Cherrie Ying) and her sister (Ai Kago) by chance, and is determined to help them during the troubled times at their restaurant "Four Seas".

Liang Tsai-Ping

While at Yale University in 1945-46, he introduced a performance on the "China Program" with the American writer Emily Hahn, on DuMont Television.

Among Liang's students was the American composer Lou Harrison (1917-2003), who became the first American to become a proficient guzheng performer, and also a composer of idiomatic music for the instrument.

Invited by the overseas Chinese Teachers Federation, Liang performed in Singapore and in four cities of Malaysia, Bangkok, and Hong Kong in 1973.

Lin Ben Yuan Family

The family were descended from Lin Ying-yin (林應寅), who immigrated, with his son Lin Ping-hou (林平侯), from Zhangzhou of Fujian to Xinzhuang of Taiwan in 1784.

Lindsay Barrett George

The American Booksellers Association selected Fishing at Long Pong for their Pick of the Lists.

Ng Joo Pong

Joe Ng Joo Pong (born June 19, 1946 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) is a Malaysian cyclist who represented Malaysia at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1966 Asian Games.

Pai Ping-ping

At this time she had a relationship with Japanese comics writer Ikki Kajiwara and they later married.

In 1997 Pai Hsiao-yen, then 16 years old, was kidnapped, tortured and murdered.

Parliamentary ping-pong

"Lutte a la corde" (French, meaning tug of war, lit. "struggle of the rope") is an older term for Parliamentary ping-pong.

The rule is that before a Bill can receive the Royal Assent and become law, it must be passed in its final form by both the Commons and the Lords without changes.

Ping An Insurance

Richard McGregor, author of The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, said that "the true ownership of large chunks of its shares remains unclear" and that the ownership of Ping An is a "murky structure".

Ping Chau

Magic Cop, a 1990 Hong Kong film partially set in Ping Chau

Pingback

Some weblog software, such as Movable Type, Serendipity, WordPress, and Telligent Community, support automatic pingbacks where all the links in a published article can be pinged when the article is published.

Pong Toss! Frat Party Games

The Attorney General of Connecticut Richard Blumenthal sent a letter which criticized the ESRB for its Teen rating of Pong Toss.

Prasat Kuh Nokor

Prasat Kuh Nokor is a Buddhist temple in the village of Trodoc Poung, Pong Ror commune, in Baray District, in Kampong Thom Province, Cambodia.

Second Family

The music video for the first single off the album "Douchebag", takes the viewer through the hypothetical "Douche Awards", where the band mates win awards such as "Beer Pong Team of the Year" and "Best Sunglasses at Night." The video was produced by Jaret Reddick of Bowling For Soup's production company Built By Ninjas and directed by Heath Balderston.

ServersCheck

It can perform traditional network related checks (TCP, PING, traceroute) but can also be used to monitor a wide variety of other checks such as internet related checks (url, email chain, database checks, Windows checks (diskspace, CPU, memory, process, services).

Tai Ping Shan

Victoria Peak, on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong which is often known by its Chinese name Tai Ping Shan

The Story about Ping

Soupy Sales and Howdy Doody both featured Ping on numerous occasions, and Shari Lewis's sock puppet Lamb Chop once played the role of Ping in an adaptation for sock puppets and ventriloquists.

TV Scoreboard

The TV Scoreboard is a Pong-like game console manufactured from 1976 through the early '80s and made by Tandy. Distribution was handled exclusively by Radio Shack. The machines were constructed in Hong Kong. The TV Scoreboard consisted of a left and right player, with dials or paddles on the hand held piece, and had multiple Pong era games.

UWink

Games included "challenge games" such as "Zillionaire" (a trivia game similar to "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?") as well as multi-player games such as Pong-style games that groups could play away from their tables while they were awaiting their orders.

Video game remake

After Atari's demise, Hasbro continued the tradition, with 3D remakes of Pong, Centipede, and Asteroids.

Wat Aranyawiwake

Wat Aranyawiwake (Thai script: วัดอรัญญวิเวก, RTGS: Wat Aranyawiwek), also known as Wat Ban Pong (Thai script: วัดบ้านปง) is a monastery ("Wat") in the Thai Forest Tradition of the Theravada lineage of Buddhism located in Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai Province, northern Thailand.

Wong Tai Sin

According to the text Self-Description of Chisongzi (赤松子自述; "Master Red Pine") kept at the Wong Tai Sin Temple in Hong Kong, Wong Tai Sin was born Wong Cho Ping (Huang Chuping in Mandarin pinyin) in 338 in Lanxi, Jinhua, Zhejiang province.

Yung-Ping High School

Yung-Ping High School located in the west part of Yonghe District, New Taipei City.

Yung-Ping High School (aka YungPing and YongPing), officially named "New Taipei City Yung-Ping High School" (新北市立永平高級中學), originally founded in 1971 as a junior high school (grade 7–9), named "Yung-Ping Junior High School".


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Curse of the Swamp Creature

And despite what many sources say, said webbed-fingered, hospital gown-clad creature was created using primitive prosthetic make-up and greyish green body paint and not the infamous cheap and phony-looking scalloped-scaled rubber wetsuit and fiercely-fanged fish head mask with painted ping pong ball eyes Buchanan later used in Creature of Destruction and 'It's Alive!'.

Dimie Cat

The song Ping Pong is used for the T.V. commercial of the brand Aperol, in Germany and Austria.

Edelson

It is known for its Wii gaming center and ping pong table that converts into its board table in its main conference.

Girl Walks into a Bar

There is June (Rosario Dawson), a hatcheck girl for an exclusive nude ping pong club.

Håvard Stubø

After a few years at the University of Oslo and the University of Bergen studying English language and Philosophy, he went to study music with the jazz program at the Trondheim Conservatory of Music (2000–2004), where he participated in jazz the groups Marita Røstad & Velvet Lounge Orchestra, Ping Pong and a trio with Tore Johansen and Roger Arntzen.

Mr. Moose

In the Family Guy episode, "Hell Comes to Quahog", after Joe sends a ping-pong ball out a window, Peter persuades Mr. Moose to say "Knock, knock", then answers "Ping Pong balls!", and ping pongs balls fall on top of Peter.

Ping Pong over the Abyss

The title comes from Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl," section 3: "I'm with you in Rockland / where you scream in a straight jacket that you're losing the game of the actual ping pong of the abyss."

Quibbley

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

Robert Khoo

He is occasionally referenced in the news posts as being very good at math, ping-pong, Soul Calibur II, Puzzle Quest and Lumines.

Safety Scissors

Ping Pong was part of Carpark Records' sports-FAN series, so named because each release was pressed on a Fan CD.