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3 unusual facts about sealed


Lula Mae Hardaway

Hardaway co-wrote many of her son's songs during his teenage years, including the hit singles "I Was Made to Love Her" and "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours".

Neutron reflector

To obtain a 30 year life span, the SSTAR nuclear reactor design calls for a moveable neutron reflector to be placed over the column of fuel.

Tamper resistance

For example, the proposed SSTAR will feature a combination of anti-tamper techniques that will make it difficult to get at the nuclear material, ensure that where the reactors are transported to is closely tracked, and have alarms in place that sound if attempts at entry are detected (which can then be responded to by the military).


1993 Florida State Seminoles football team

That game was sealed when FSU safety Devin Bush picked off a Frank Costa pass and ran it back 40 yards for a Florida State touchdown, making the score 28–10 with 4:59 to play.

360 Gamer

Since its launch, the magazine eschewed the “mags in bags” trend, popularised by rival publishers Future Publishing and Imagine Publishing (wherein a magazine is packaged in a sealed bag along with a cheaply produced DVD and/or tips book), focusing instead on fierce editorial as its USP.

Abraham Kovoor

The challenge listed 23 miracles or feats that godmen (and Western mystics and performers such as Uri Geller and Jeane Dixon) were claimed to perform, such as reading the serial numbers from currency in sealed envelopes, materializing objects, predicting future events, converting liquids from one kind to another, and walking on water.

Al-Buraq mosque

It is in the passage that once led to Barclay's Gate, which is at the south end of the Western Wall and has been sealed for many centuries.

Algester, Queensland

In the early 70's, Algester Road and Dalmeny Street were connected as non sealed roads and the only thoroughfare into the suburb, which was then still virgin bushland.

Ángel Abrea

The Abreas and their three daughters were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple on September 26, 1966.

Bank of England Act 1696

So much of this Act as related to forging or counterfeiting the Common Seal of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or any sealed bank bill, or any bank note, or altering or raising any indorsement on any bank bill or note was repealed as to England on 21 July 1830 by section 31 of the Forgery Act 1830.

Battle of Pichincha

By that time, the tide of the wars of independence in South America had turned decisively against Spain: Simón Bolívar's victory at the Battle of Boyacá (August 7, 1819) had sealed the independence of the former Viceroyalty of Nueva Granada, while to the south, José de San Martín, having landed with his army on the Peruvian coast on September, 1820, was preparing the campaign for the independence of the Viceroyalty of Perú.

Carl Kidd

In what would be his final game, Kidd teamed with Javier Glatt to cause a critical fumble that sealed the Grey Cup title for the Lions.

Carter Hargrave

His interest grew more as Bruce Lee made his debut in feature films, and was sealed by a gift from a family friend of a set of real nunchukas like Lee had used in Enter The Dragon.

Cockneys vs Zombies

In a building site in the East End of London, two construction workers discover a 17th-century graveyard ordered sealed by Charles II and are bitten by zombies, setting off a zombie outbreak in the area.

Crispus

In 307, Constantine allied to the Italian Augusti, and this alliance was sealed with the marriage of Constantine to Fausta, daughter of Maximian and sister of Maxentius.

Death of a Ghost

John Lafcadio, who modestly described himself as "probably the greatest painter since Rembrandt", has left a bizarre legacy – a collection of twelve sealed paintings, to be unveiled one at a time at an annual event commencing ten years after his death.

Destination Tokyo

At sea, Cassidy opens his sealed orders, which direct him to proceed first to the Aleutian Islands to pick up meteorologist Raymond (John Ridgely), then to Tokyo Bay to obtain vital weather intelligence for the upcoming Doolittle Raid.

Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23

However, on her very first day, the company is shut down when the owner is arrested for stealing millions of dollars in a Ponzi scheme and the apartment building is sealed, forcing June to find a new place to live; she ends up moving in with Chloe.

Donald Frankos

It has been asserted that he sealed the body in an oil drum and buried it underneath Giants Stadium, however no evidence has ever been found to substantiate this claim.

Ghulam Mansoor

Qazi Ghulam Mohiuddin like his father Qazi Abdul Baqi got the Firman (decree) sealed by ‘Sadr Sadoor Rizvi Khan’, he was awarded Sanad of Qadaa.

Greenough Family Massacre

According to the television series Crime Investigation Australia, a judge ruled that the exact way in which Daniel, Amara and Katrina were killed was to be sealed.

Herr Kleiser

In the second film, Kleiser under orders of the Chitauri hierarchy, invades Wakanda to reclaim their Vibranium shipment shot down in the '40s. Kleiser was then buried in a field of the mineral by Captain America and the Black Panther, the latter whose father, King T'Chalka, was murdered by Kleiser. In the final conflict, Panther, and Cap sealed Kleiser in Wakanda's vibranium deposits.

In re: Sealed Case No. 02-001

In re: Sealed Case No. 02-001, 310 F.3d 717 (2002), is a per curiam decision by the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review in which it reviewed restrictions that were placed upon a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) application by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) on May 17, 2002.

Kalamay

It is uniquely packed into halved pitogo (Sago Palm of the genus Cycas) shells and sealed with red crepe paper in a similar manner to the Bohol Kalamay.

Kevin Na

He would eventually fight back on the back nine and a vital birdie on the par-five 17th sealed a top-three finish, behind eventual winner Baddeley and the Fijian Vijay Singh.

Koichi Aoyagi

They were married in Japan in 1970 and their marriage was sealed in the Salt Lake Temple a week later.

La Chureca

It is now covered and sealed, its a modern waste dispose system which is located on the south shore of Lake Managua and it is near Acahualinca, home to the famous ancient footprints of Acahualinca.

Magic: The Gathering formats

For example, a Magic 2010 sealed deck event consists of six Magic 2010 boosters, but a sanctioned Shards of Alara block sealed deck event consists of two Shards of Alara, two Conflux, and two Alara Reborn booster packs.

Mark Came

Came kept a clean sheet as Chester won 1-0 and he struck up a solid central defensive pairing with Colin Greenall as City sealed the runners-up spot.

Metallic hydrogen

The researchers used a 1960s-era light gas gun, originally employed in guided missile studies, to shoot an impactor plate into a sealed container containing a half-millimeter thick sample of liquid hydrogen.

Miss Belvedere

Miss Belvedere is the nickname given to a new 1957 Plymouth Belvedere sport coupe sealed in a 50-year time capsule and finally unearthed on June 14, 2007.

München Isartor station

Because the S-Bahn trunk line passes under the Isar between the stations of Isartor and Rosenheimerplatz just to the east of the station, both tubes are fitted with flood gates so that the tunnel can be sealed watertight, so that in the event of flooding of the Isar the stations lying to the west are not also flooded.

Octaviano Tenorio

In Mexico City he met Rosa Elva Valenzuela González, a native of Nuevo Casas Grandes, who he married in December 1973 in Colonia Dublán; they were sealed in the Mesa Arizona Temple in January 1974, about one week after their marriage.

Ouasim Bouy

On 30 January 2012 Bouy traveled to Turin to have a medical in the Clinica Fornaca di Sessant and at the Istituto di Medicina dello Sport in order to formalize the potential transfer to Juventus, that was sealed just hour later.

Port of Melbourne

Its fate was permanently sealed by the construction of the Bolte Bridge, part of CityLink, across its entrance in 1999.

Pyramidology

Alford takes as his starting point the golden rule that the pharaoh had to be buried in the earth, i.e. at ground level or below, and this leads him to conclude that Khufu was interred in an ingeniously concealed cave whose entrance is today sealed up in the so-called Well Shaft adjacent to a known cave called the Grotto.

Quanzhou ship

For example, seams between planks were sealed with a tree-derived resin known as chu-nam, which was commonly available e.g. in the port of Satingpra, near today's Songkhla in southern Thailand.

Russian Post

The agreement, which was signed along with their technology supplier Selex, was sealed at a trade summit in Trieste during an official visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin, following up earlier agreements between the three companies.

Shaba National Reserve

In 2001, two thirds of the park was sealed off for four months while a CBS crew shot episodes of Survivor: Africa, the third season of the American reality television competition series Survivor.

Shuanggudui

These fragments are longer and have been more extensively studied than other incomplete versions of the Shijing found in ancient tombs like those of Guodian (tomb sealed around 300 BCE) and Mawangdui (168 BCE).

Sodium bicarbonate rocket

In the experiment, a film canister is filled with water, an effervescent tablet (commonly Alka-Seltzer) is added and the canister tightly sealed.

Sokratis Boudouris

In the end of the season several teams as Diagoras F.C. and Kerkyra were interested in signing Boudouris but he finally sealed a new contract with Anagennisi Karditsa proving his devotion to the club and rejecting higher offers.

Stephen Donohoe

He sealed the prestigious award with victory on a 14/1 shot, Show Trial, at Musselburgh Racecourse in Scotland.

Syretsko-Pecherska Line

Telychka is another unopened station, on the right bank of the Dnieper River, that is sealed off completely, with no illumination at most times, and has remained such since the tunnels were built back in 1990.

The Sealed Angel

The Sealed Angel (Запеча′тленный а′нгел) is a story by Nikolai Leskov, written in 1872 and first published in the #1, January 1873 issue of The Russian Messenger.

Tibetan diaspora

However, in 1961, following growing tensions between China and India, India sealed its northern border with Bhutan, prompting Bhutan to arrange an emergency meeting with the Government of India (GOI) and the CTA to deal with the Tibetans stuck in the country.

TIMWE

In 2013 TIMwe and Opera Software sealed an agreement for a mobile payments

Tony Tashnick

Teaming with Howard Scarborough, JC Smith and Richard Boka; Tashnick and company sealed victory for Mackenzie by defeating Denby High in the final event.

Traxxas

Differences include larger fan cooled (the water cooling accessory is still available) "Titan" 21 turn 550 sized brushed motors, a new water-cooled 14.4 volt EVX Marine (instead of the land EVX's air cooling) ESC, Traxxas' "TQ" pistol grip transmitter, and a new sealed, watertight electronics box.

Xi Zhang

"Xi Zhang -- a traveler to the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design,all the way from Kaifeng, China  •• brought with  him  an almost  uncanny.  fully  formed spirit of contemporary Chinese painting.  This small,tight,color-splashed show at Plus Gallery sealed the deal, reminding us  that  we  had  a  skilled genius in our midst."Susan Froyd  Twelve  Denver  arts flashbacks from 2012, Westword,Dec.

Yau Tong Station

Although the train platforms are constructed above ground level, they are sealed from the outside with concrete walls to prevent the noise of trains from disturbing the nearby residents of Yau Tong Estate.


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