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unusual facts about pulp



1st Man in Space

It features vocals by Philip Oakey of The Human League on what is essentially an update of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" and Elton John's "Rocket Man" The song was written by another Sheffield musician Jarvis Cocker of Pulp.

Aamras

Aamras or Amras is the pulp of the tropical fruit Mango eaten in India.

Anthony Chabot

He was involved in several other businesses during this time, including a paper mill in Stockton, the Judson Manufacturing Company in Oakland, the Pioneer Pulp Mill Company near Alta (Placer County), the Puget Sound Iron Company, and a large tract of land in Washington state for the cultivation of cranberries.

Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur

He is known primarily for his scholarly work on Beowulf and his translation of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda for The American-Scandinavian Foundation, but also as a writer of pulp fiction and for his left-wing politics.

Bad Cover Version

The child on the cover is in fact Pulp's guitarist Mark Webber.

Bar Italia

Bar Italia inspired the song of the same name by the band Pulp, which features as the last track of their 1995 album Different Class.

Beet pulp

Another concern expressed by horse owners is that dry beet pulp will absorb water and swell in a horse's stomach, causing digestive problems such as impaction or colic.

Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood

Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood is a 1942 American crime film, fourth of the fourteen Boston Blackie films of the 1940s Columbia's series of B pictures based on Jack Boyle's pulp-fiction character.

Chillicothe, Illinois

Johnston McCulley, pulp author: created the Zorro stories upon which all later Zorro movies and books were based

Chisholm, Maine

It is an industrial village named for Hugh J. Chisholm, who built the Otis Falls Pulp & Paper Company here in 1888 to use Androscoggin River water power.

Clayton Manness

Manness has also formed an organization called "Prairie Pulp and Paper Co." with actor Woody Harrelson, promoting the development of an environmentally friendly, non-wood-based pulp program in the province.

David A. Sonnenfeld

In 1993-94, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the Australian National University, from where he based his field research on the adoption of environmental technologies in the pulp and paper industries of Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.

Don't Let Him Waste Your Time

Richard Hawley plays electric guitar on the track, while Cocker's Pulp bandmate Steve Mackey plays bass.

Earle K. Bergey

During the 1940s, Bergey continued to paint covers for romance, sports, and detective pulp magazines, and he began working on a number of science fiction magazines, including Standard Publications' Strange Stories and Captain Future, and later for Fantastic Story Magazine.

Everybody's Problem

He was set to break up the band and go to university himself before a practice with Russell Senior (violin, guitar, vocals) and Magnus Doyle (drums) led to the establishment of a new, more experimental, artier and noisier direction for Pulp.

Exploits Valley

The river becomes navigable below Bishop's Falls and the pulp and paper mill constructed a seaport on the lower reaches of the river at Botwood, which was connected to Grand Falls by an industrial railway.

Fraser Papers

Fraser's 3,700 employees worked in several pulp and paper mills in North America, including in Madawaska, Maine and in New Hampshire in the US, and Thurso, Quebec, and Edmundston, New Brunswick in Canada.

Gaylord Container Corporation

The mill and adjacent converting complex was opened in 1956 by Crown Zellerbach to use pulp from British Columbia to make tissue, toweling, multiwall bags, and linerboard for the northern California market.

Gubb

Philo Gubb, a character created by prolific pulp fiction writer Ellis Parker Butler

Humanist Party of Ontario

In 1996, he participated in a press conference with David Suzuki to draw attention to a boycott of the pulp and paper multinational firm Daishowa, and Daishowa's subsequent lawsuit against those behind the boycott.

International Paper

Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills Rajahmundry, which is now an International Paper company, is one of the biggest integrated paper and pulp manufacturing centers in India.

Jason Cosmo

The non-trilogy is a comedy, parodying the pulp fantasy genre with a style similar to Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett.

Jirel of Joiry

Jirel of Joiry is a fictional character created by American writer C. L. Moore, who appeared in a series of sword and sorcery stories published first in the pulp horror/fantasy magazine Weird Tales.

John Charles Kaine

He represented the Lake Champlain Transportation Co., and Burleigh and Weeks, a wood-pulp import company in Whitehall, New York.

Kreuger family

Together with his brother Erik Lorentz Kreuger, he also founded a pulp and paper company close to Emån and in 1871 they bought Fredriksdahl Match Manufacturing Co.

Marc Iliffe

As well as televised strongman competitions, Marc appeared in a television advertisement for rock group Pulp’s Hits album before Christmas 2002 and had been cast in a film called Transfer by GMV Entertainment along with the boxer Richie Woodhall, in which he was due to play a gangster.

Matthew H. Gore

He is best known for his book The History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Kentucky to 1988 (2000), but has published on a variety of topics as diverse as The Origin of Marvelman (a British superhero of the 1950s and 1960s), the relative scarcity of East German philatelics, and the biography of British pulp artist, Denis McLoughlin.

Mette Bach

Bach's essays have appeared in the following anthologies: First Person Queer (published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2007, edited by Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel), Second Person Queer (2009), Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear & Queer Desire (published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2009 and edited by Amber Dawn), and Visible: A Femmethology (Homofactus Press).

Murupara Branch

The Murupara Branch (incorporating the Kawerau Branch) was a branch railway line from the East Coast Main Trunk at Hawkens Junction near Edgecombe via Kawerau to Murupara; built to serve a new pulp and paper mill havesting the radiata pine trees of the Kaingaroa Forest on the Kaingaroa Plateau in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.

My Lighthouse

It was performed live as part of Pulp's 2012 appearance at the Royal Albert Hall for the Teenage Cancer Trust.

Nackawic

The Tembec-Aditya Birla Group agreement is very similar to the operation of a pulp mill in Atholville, New Brunswick which had been mothballed between 1988–1994 in circumstances very similar to Nackawic's, causing significant damage to the economy of nearby Campbellton, New Brunswick.

New Zealand Forest Products

Following the construction of the Kinleith Mill at Tokoroa in 1953, NZFP became a substantial manufacturer of pulp and paper products.

Nick Carter, Master Detective

Walter B. Gibson, co-creator/writer of The Shadow pulp novels, was fired when he asked for a raise in 1946, and then became head writer for the Nick Carter radio series.

No Stilettos

The programme was recorded in the Cottier Theatre, a converted church in Glasgow's west-end, and artists who featured included 'local' Scottish bands such as Teenage Fanclub and the BMX Bandits, to those from further afield such as Evan Dando of the Lemonheads and Pulp.

Peter and Donna Thomas

In 2001, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History featured their work in a show titled "Art Undercover," and in 2010 in a show titled "It’s in the Pulp: The Art of Papermaking in Santa Cruz".

Pulp fiction

Pulp magazines, short stories presented in a magazine format, printed on cheaply made wood-pulp paper

Rayonier

The mill used Tsuga heterophylla (western hemlock) trees to create a premium bleached paper pulp.

Renewable energy in Finland

The pulp and paper company UPM is in the process of starting biodiesel production from tall oil.

Ron Fortier

Ron Fortier (born November 5, 1946) is an American author, primarily known for his Green Hornet and The Terminator comic books and his revival of the pulp hero, Captain Hazzard.

Segezhsky

Segezha Pulp and Paper Mill (Segezhsky), a pulp and paper company in the Republic of Karelia, Russia

Simon Hinkler

He joined the 1982 lineup of Pulp and produced the band's first LP, It, playing bass, piano, guitar and mandolin, as well as co-writing the bands' debut single "My Lighthouse".

Someone to Drive You Home

Influences of Pulp, Elastica, Morrissey and Blondie have been frequently quoted when the album is discussed in the media.

Tales From the Bully Pulpit

The comic makes many references to other comics and film—including most notably Back to the Future, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Maus, and Watchmen—and parodies many tropes of science fiction and pulp story-telling.

The Waterfront, Norwich

The Waterfront, Norwich has hosted bands including Pulp, Radiohead, Marina and the Diamonds, Nirvana, The Verve, Arctic Monkeys, The Prodigy, Amy Winehouse, Stereophonics, Paul Weller, Buzzcocks, Plan B, MGMT, Babyshambles, Travis, Moby, Ellie Goulding, Foals, Inspiral Carpets, The Horrors, The Cribs, The Undertones and Feeder.

Thrilling Publications

Captain Future (a separate comic book character, unrelated to the pulp character, also existed)

Tzeporah Berman

In 1993, the Clayoquot Sound Land Use Decision had granted pulp-and-paper giant MacMillan Bloedel rights to clear cut two thirds of a 650,000 acre lowland coastal temperate rainforest—the largest of its kind in the world.

Vancouver Special

A home design store on Main Street bears the name "Vancouver Special" and Arsenal Pulp Press of Vancouver published "Vancouver Special," a book of essays about the city by Charles Demers, in November 2009, showing that the reputation of the homes may have now gained a certain vintage glamour.


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