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unusual facts about scenery



1642 in poetry

John Denham, Cooper's Hill, the first example in English of a poem devoted to local description, in this case the Thames scenery around the author's home at Egham in Surrey; the poem was rewritten many times and later received high praise from Samuel Johnson, although Denham's reputation later ebbed

1808 in the United Kingdom

20 September - The original Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London is destroyed by fire along with most of the scenery, costumes and scripts.

Amateur flight simulation

Microsoft, while rebutting such criticisms, delayed the release of the 2002 version of its hallmark simulator to delete the World Trade Center from its New York scenery and even supplied a patch to delete the towers retroactively from earlier versions of the sim.

Appleby-in-Westmorland

Appleby's main industry is tourism, due to its history, remote location, scenery and closeness to the Lake District, the North Pennines, Swaledale and Howgill Fells.

Armand Rassenfosse

Many of his paintings at this time were of women, mostly nudes in an intimate setting, but he also portrayed dancers in the rich scenery of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes or dancers in the style of Isadora Duncan.

Ashe County, North Carolina

In 1998 the river was designated an "American Heritage River" by President Bill Clinton, and it is famed for its beautiful rural scenery, clear water, fly fishing, and kayaking and canoeing.

Baldassarre Lanci

Long before the Restoration spectaculars of the 17th century Lanci was designing elaborate and complicated theatre sets, using pivoted scenery, with up to three different scenes painted on boards, thus allowing the mood of the production to be altered in an instant.

Cochrane Theatre

The theatre opened in 1963 and was named after its founder, Jeannetta Cochrane, who was a theatre practitioner specialising in costume and scenery design at the Central School of Art and Design, now part of the University of the Arts London.

Colla Swart

Colla and her Canadian photographer friend Freeman Patterson hosted, until recently, annual photographic workshops in Namaqualand, known for its beautiful floral scenery around August - September.

Corriganville Movie Ranch

Built on land purchased by Corrigan in 1937, the ranch provided scenery as well as man-made structures and sets, and was the backdrop for movies and television programs such as Fort Apache, Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory, The Robe, The Lone Ranger, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, Sky King, and Star Trek.

De Boma à Tshela

Ernest Genval explores the scenery along the railway line that links Boma to Tshela in the Mayumbe area.

Duhulu Malak

The fantastic scenery shown in the film is from an area called "Selesumthenne" at Nuwara Eliya with a background song "Bonda Meedum Kandu Relle-Surangana Rajadahane" (like living in a Fairy kingdom with surrounding misty mountains).

Dunquin

There is breath-taking cliff scenery, with a view of the Blasket Islands, where Peig Sayers lived.

Eisenerz

It passed through some beautiful scenery, and descends to Vordernberg, an important center of the iron trade situated on the south side of the Erzberg.

Frances Swiney

She studied under James Danby, son of Francis Danby, R.A., and specialised in pictures of Indian scenery and life, exhibiting at Simla, Madras, and Birmingham, England.

Geiranger

Geiranger is home to some of the most spectacular scenery in the world, and has been named the best travel destination in Scandinavia by Lonely Planet.

Geraldine, New Zealand

Follow the road beside the Rangitata River (a world-class white-water rafting and salmon fishing river, which also provides vital irrigation to surrounding districts) into the upper Rangitata River valley for some of the most spectacular alpine and high country scenery in New Zealand.

Günther Strupp

In 1940, he applied for work building stage sets at several theaters in Berlin and with the help of Wilhelm Fraenger, found work painting scenery at the Schiller Theater.

H. Reid

Taken from above and below, Reid's photographs often included scenery or surrounding features in the genre described in depth in author Leo Marx's 1964 book The Machine in the Garden.

Héctor Xavier

He also worked on scenery for plays and illustrated books for Efraín Huerta, Jaime Labastida and Oscar Oliva.

I Still Like Bologna

In the song, the narrator states that, although he owns many pieces of modern technology (such as a cell phone, plasma television and laptop computer), he still prefers the simplicity of a bologna sandwich on white bread, or the scenery of a rural lifestyle.

James Pattison Cockburn

They include A Voyage to Cadiz and Gibraltar, with 30 coloured plates, published in 1815; Swiss Scenery, with 62 plates, in 1820; The Route of the Simplon, in 1822; The Valley of Aosta, in 1823 and Pompeii Illustrated, in folio, in 1827.

John Frederick Tayler

Akin to these were his illustrative drawings of costume and scenery, many of them suggested by incidents in the ‘Waverley Novels.’

Julio de Diego

He produced scenery for his hometowns operas but went on stage as an extra next to the Vaslav Nijinsky in the Ballets Russes' Petrushka.

Kallithea F.C.

When the stadium was being built in the 1960s, Clint Eastwood's Spaghetti Westerns were very popular in Greece, and the stadium's nickname is a reference to Eastwood's 1965 film For a Few Dollars More (which had the Greek title Duel in El Paso), as the stadium's backdrop reminded people of the scenery in the movie.

Keith Shackleton

A retrospective exhibition of his "Polar Art", depicting creatures and scenery from both the Arctic and Antarctic was open at the Scott Polar Research Institute in May and June 2007.

Khinalug

Because of its location, scenery and relative isolation, the village is considered one of Azerbaijan's premiere destinations for hikers and adventure travellers in such travel guides as Lonely Planet.

Kjærlighetens kjøtere

Their conflict plays out in isolation amidst stunningly bleak arctic scenery, filmed in Svalbard.

La Tremenda Corte

The TV series, however, also sufffered from the limitations of the age, like the painted-cardboard scenery and the grainy picture afforded by the rudimentary black-and-white video equipment.

Loch Katrine

In 1844, William Henry Fox Talbot took an early photograph of the lake, entitled Scenery of Loch Katrine.

Loving You No More

The video opens with a still image of a woman in her bikini (Manuela Arbeláez) while various scenery backdrops are superimposed in the background.

Lysefjord

French writer Victor Hugo poetized in Toilers of the Sea admiring the scenery after a visit in 1866 that the Lysefjord was the most terrifying of the ocean reefs.

Oppy Music, Vol. I: Purple, Crayon

Mike Keneally Piano (Electric), Sound Effects, Vocals (Background), Voices, Noise, Producer, Wood Block, Scenery

Chris Opperman Piano, Chimes, Vocals, Vibraslap, Scenery, Piano (Grand), Photography, Voices, Programming, Trumpet

Rail transport in Canada

The Rocky Mountaineer and Royal Canadian Pacific provide luxury rail tours for viewing scenery in the Canadian Rockies as well as other mountainous areas of British Columbia and Alberta.

Screaming Masterpiece

The film itself shows mostly live performances and interviews by some of Iceland's biggest musicians, including Björk, Sigur Rós, Slowblow, múm, Ghostigital, Quarashi, Singapore Sling amongst others, over the backdrop of Icelandic scenery.

Shell House

They are highly regarded for their scenery, and also for the exposures of geological strata, which include Ordovician Tumblagooda sandstone, Triassic Wittecarra sandstone and Kockatea shale.

Spiti Valley

It was the location of the spectacular scenery and cinematography in the Indian films Paap and Milarepa, a biographical adventure tale about one of Buddhism's most famous Tibetan saints.

Superman Classic

The Metropolis scenery is heavily inspired by the architecture of Hugh Ferriss, while the film's music is taken from the 1948 Superman serial composed by Mischa Bakaleinikoff.

The City Without Jews

The drama reaches a peak as he is committed to a psychiatric institution represented in Expressionist scenery, where in a claustrophobic and asymmetrically painted cell he sees himself threatened by Stars of David.

The Gerry Ryan Show

These included the scenery, Guinness, potatoes, the seas and coastline, whiskey, Barry's and Lyon's tea, Kimberley and Mikado biscuits, the smell of turf, red hair, homemade brown bread, oysters, Baileys coffee, hurling, Irish comedians, Irish history, the River Shannon, Podge and Rodge, Irish literature, bacon and cabbage, Irish stew and the GAA.

The Monks of Malabar

For its Broadway production, the scenery was designed by Henry E. Hoyt, costumes were designed by Dazian (costumes worn by Miss Lessing furnished by B. Altman and Company), shoes furnished by Cammeyer.

Thích Ca Phật Đài

There is also a garden, with plants and flowers blooming all year round, with props and scenery to re-enact the first sermon at Deer Park in Sarnath, where the Buddha explained the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Noble Path to the first five sangha and arahants: Kaundinya, Assaji, Mahanama, Bhaddiya and Vappa.

Tiny Truckers

Set on a powered track in the base of Toy Town, the ride makes its way around the winding track, with green scenery, and Dragon's Fury overhead.

Turckheim

Turckheim, located in Alsace, is a village known for its Gewürztraminer wines, traditional Alsatian cuisine, and stunning surrounding scenery.

Victorian Dad

He once took his family to Amsterdam, hoping to take in some fine scenery and continental culture.

Wario

Wario's cameos include aiding protagonist Stafy in the video game Densetsu no Stafy 3 and being present in the scenery of Pilotwings 64.

Ynez Seabury

The scenery and lighting for the play showed an opening prologue in the Painted Desert of Arizona and the Hopi Indian reservation.

Yōichi Sai

In 1999 he shot The Pig's Retribution, a film set in the lavish natural scenery of Okinawa, inspired by the 1996 Akutagawa Prize-winning eponymous novel by Eiki Matayoshi.


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