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unusual facts about scrambling


Scrambling

By contrast, the traverse of the Cuillin Ridge on Skye demands use of a rope at one point at least, and is not for the inexperienced scrambler.


Alpena Thunder

Findlay Grrrowl and expansion team Danville Express, leaving the Thunder scrambling to find a league.

Barham Salih

His term was marked by a turbulence time with the rise of an opposition(Movement for Change) to challenge the government while his own party was scrambling to stay together after losing the stronghold city of Sulaymaniyah.

Battle of Dujaila

With the Poona Division under siege, the high commands in London and Simla began scrambling to put together a relief force.

Cockspur thorn

Maclura cochinchinensis, a species of vine or scrambling shrub in the Moraceae family, native to eastern Asia and Australia.

Colonial Raptor

It has a multitude of electronic countermeasure and monitoring tools including jamming transmissions, scrambling signals of guided weapons, and Viper Identification friend or foe operations.

Dene Davies

Born in Hindmarsh, Adelaide, Davies competed in sidecar racing with his brother in Australia, and then in scrambling, in which became a close friend of John Boulger, who later encouraged him to travel to England to try to establish himself as a speedway rider.

Hanslope Park

The mathematician and cryptologist Alan Turing worked there in the latter part of the War on secure speech "scrambling".

Kebnekaise

Most of this route to the top is pure hiking, but there is a short exposed part that could possibly count as scrambling (YDS grade 2).

Knicks–Nets rivalry

The Knicks of the older NBA forced the Armory to back out three months before opening day, forcing the Nets to be left scrambling for a venue with opening day approaching, and it finally settled on the Teaneck Armory in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Nathan Phelps

Even as the ashes and ruin of this horrific act of blind faith settled over New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, I watched people across the country scrambling to that same irrational altar for their answers.

Rubia

Rubia is a genus of the madder family Rubiaceae, which contains about 80 species of perennial scrambling or climbing herbs and sub-shrubs native to the Old World, Africa, temperate Asia and America.

Steel Bay

The bay is remote and is best viewed from Dunnose which can be accessed by scrambling over The Landslip which is close to the Isle of Wight Coastal Path in the woods to the east of Upper Bonchurch.

The Ghost of Frankenstein

The footage of the Monster scrambling to escape the fire was later reused at the end of House of Dracula even though Glenn Strange plays the Monster in that film.

U.S. military response during the September 11 attacks

An erroneous FAA report of a hijacked plane heading towards Washington ("phantom Flight 11") prompted the scrambling of three more fighters from the 1st Fighter Wing at Langley Air Force Base, which due to "poor communications", ended up flying eastward, out to sea, instead of heading toward Washington, significantly delaying their arrival on the scene.


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