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Shower

As surgeon-general at Bonne Nouvelle prison in Rouen, Delabost had previously replaced individual baths with mandatory communal showers for use by prisoners, arguing that they were more economic and hygienic.


Andromedids

In Burma the 1885 shower was perceived as a fateful omen as augering and was indeed followed swiftly by the collapse of the Konbaung Dynasty and the conquest by Britain.

Bathroom singing

Bathroom singing, also known as singing in the bathroom, singing in the bath, or singing in the shower is a widespread phenomenon.

Betelgeuse in fiction

He is later confronted by Communications officer Lieutenant Thomas Keefer (Fred MacMurray) in the shower: "Sure we pick up the skeds from the Betelgeuse. They guard for all destroyers in port. It's standard procedure," shouts Keefer.

Billy Mundi

According to Frank Zappa, Holzman "offered Billy Mundi a huge amount of money, a place to live, the whole package — we'll make you a star, you'll work with these top-grade musicians instead of those comedy guys... But I don't blame Billy for taking the job, because at that time we were so poor he was living in the Albert Hotel and he couldn't get enough to eat — he used to come in and tell us how he'd quell his appetite by drinking the hot water in the shower...".

Brownleeite

It was discovered by researchers of the Johnson Space Center in Houston while analyzing the Pi Puppid particle shower of the comet 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup.

Bruce Munro

In an article in the Financial Times, the curator, Turner prize judge and broadcaster Richard Cork called Bruce Munro's Light Shower 'spectacular'.

Munro is also known for 'Light Shower', an installation made for the spire cross within Salisbury Cathedral.

Expand Your Head

#"The Crab Louse" (Super Scratcher with a Golden Shower Rainbow Mix, remixer: Luc Van Acker)

Experiment IV

The song is also notable for featuring Nigel Kennedy on violin, who at one point replicates the screeching violins from Bernard Herrmann's famous scoring of the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho.

Family/Affair

After two hours of "Afternoon Delight" (as Christina tells Betty, who thought she meant the song, and later referenced by Dwayne after his romp with Wilhelmina), they make their escape with the book as Wil headed to the shower...only to have Wil return and find Betty's earring!

Feminist pornography

Other films that Royalle directed were, “The Gift”, starring McCullough and Mark Davis, “Bridal Shower”, which featured Nina Hartley, “One Size Fits All: A Sex Comedy In Five Acts”, starring Nina Hartley, Missy, Shanna McCullough and Mark Davis and Tom Byron in “Eyes of Desire”, parts one and two.

Fuckland

After this, the camera shows Stratas, unfazed by Camila's anger, taking a shower while singing the Charly García cover of the Argentine National Anthem.

Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver

He heads back inside, and when he tries to get one of the employees, Ingrid Harshman (Muffy Bolding) to suck his through a glory hole, spoofing shower room scene, with Beulah Balbricker, from the 1981Canadian film, Porky's, she rips it off and eats it.

Gulikan Theyyam

The 'Kanhiram' tree with the supposed weapons of Guligan and Padinhare Chamundeswari, in the premises of Benkanakavu, is believed to shower blessings on thousands of devotees in and around Kasaragod district.

Horace Thompson Carpenter

The Society of Independent Artists lists four of his paintings exhibited at Independence Hall, A Summer Shower and The Bird Bath in 1917, and Horta, the Azores and Building Castles in 1919.

Jennifer Nettles

On Sunday, January 18, 2009, Nettles performed at the We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial, singing James Taylor's "Shower the People" with James Taylor and John Legend.

John K. Beatty

"Mr. Beatty’s headlong execution on his superb set of pipes was as much of a surprise to Tarlach Mac Suibhne, the “Donegal Piper,” as was his lilting. After watching his acrobatic performance on the huge instrument for a time, McSweeney remarked quizzically: “Begor, Mr. Beatty, you have a great shower of fingers.”

Kittenz and Thee Glitz

The album's first single, "Silver Screen Shower Scene" contains a sample of the Ben Liebrand remax of The Flirts single "Passion", and "Harlot" contains an unaccredited sample of the drum pattern from The Human League track, "The Sound of the Crowd".

Ladislaus Weinek

He set up observing stations in Prague and Jena (to observe the Andromedids shower of that year, which turned out to be very intense), and caught a 7mm-long trail on a plate in Prague.

Legionella gresilensis

Legionella gresilensis is a gram-negative, aerobic, catalase-positive, non-spore-forming bacterium with a polar flagellum from the genus of Legionella which was isolated from a shower from thermal spa water in France from the city Gréoux-les-Bains.

Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong

The Forbes Five-Star spa, one of only three in Hong Kong, draws on the established Asian healing philosophies of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda, offering a Vichy Shower, Traditional Chinese Medicine consultations, and Hong Kong’s first authentic Ayurvedic sanctuary.

Mudaliar

Maanadukanda Mudali, a Vellala king of Thondai Nadu had shed over kamban a shower of gold for his work of Erezhupatu, a literary work praising agriculture.

Mufti Syed Ziauddin Naqshbandi

In 2011, he was granted authorization to accept and guide disciples in the Naqshbandi and Qadri orders of Islamic mysticism by Hadhrat Abul Fida Maulana Abdul Sattar Khan Naqshbandi Qadri, who was the disciple and caliph of Muhaddith-e-Deccan Abul Hasanaat Hadhrat Syed Abdullah Shah Naqshbandi Mujaddidi Qadri (May Allah shower His Mercy on them both).

My Lovely Horse

The song includes lines that refer to less-considered aspects of horse ownership such as "I want to shower you with sugar lumps ... and send you to the horse dentist", as well as inaccurate references to "fetlocks blowing in the wind" and the horse being a "pony no more".

No soap radio

Over the years the joke has become widely known and entered popular culture in other forms, including a shower radio labeled "No Soap-Radio!" on a The Simpsons episode ("Homer the Heretic"), a popular podcast named after the joke, and a band with the name appearing at the Crazy Horse on a The Sopranos episode ("Pie-O-My").

Oh, You Beautiful Doll

The song also appears on the television show "Hey Arnold!" where Grandpa Phil sings the song while taking a shower.

Ordovician meteor event

The Ordovician meteor event is a proposed shower of L chondrite meteors that occurred during the Middle Ordovician period, roughly 470 million years ago.

Peter La Farge

However, Howard Sounes revealed during 2001 that Liam Clancy had informed him that La Farge had committed suicide by slitting his wrists in the shower stall of his apartment, which was next door to where Clancy was living.

Polyurethane laminate

This laminated fabric is useful as a wind and/or water barrier in the construction of fluid-splash protecting garments, shower curtains, outerwear clothing, however it is primarily used for making cloth nappies / diapers and cloth menstrual pads.

Richard Farnham

Farnham added in an appendix an explicit denial that he claimed to be Christ or Elias, or that he had prophesied a shower of blood, but insisted that he foresaw a long drought, pestilence, and war.

Shirley Mitchell

She became engaged to Dr. Julian Frieden by early October 1946, holding her engagement shower at the San Fernando Valley home of singer Dinah Shore.

Soap Girl

While obviously new to the world of "shower and massage" - which is about sex rather than physical therapy - Maya soon becomes one of the most popular women working the parlor, and she soon bonds with her co-workers, including the thick-skinned Asia (Gina Hiraizumi), vulnerable Yuko (Mari Tanaka), practical Jenna (Hiromi Nishiyama), and self-centered Sammy (Kate Holliday).

Space debris

In 1946, during the Giacobinid meteor shower, Helmut Landsberg collected several small magnetic particles that apparently are unintentionally associated with the shower.

Spirits Burning

Robert Calvert's Centigrade 232 tape recitation was first used with music on the second Spirits Burning album Reflections In A Radio Shower, released in 2001.

Stephanie Reaves

Reaves also appears as "Norma Bates" in the infamous shower scene, of Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock's thriller, Psycho.

The Murder

The score was composed for the famous "shower scene", the murder of Janet Leigh's character.

Tony Clifton

After a disastrous first show, where Clifton took the stage with Tony Bennett's famous "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" and was summarily booed, he reappeared on the second night in riot gear amid a shower of rotten vegetables and other detritus.

Ultraviolins

Dedbol is a series of disjointed dagli about random people—a serial killer, some kidnappers, a four-piece band, and girls on a shower party—converging for a split second in the Divine Intersection before splitting up again to conclude their narratives, borrowing Guillermo Arriaga’s narrative conceit from the seminal McOndo movie Amores perros only lacking the social and political implications of the original.

Vision Quest Records

The company works with File records (Sony Music), HMV, Tower Records, Virgin Music, Cisco, Quintrix, Acoustic (Sound Company) Egg House (Lights) M.M.Delight (VJ’s) Inter FM (Radio) Space Shower TV (Television) and advertises regularly in trade magazines like Floor, Loud and Club Juice.

Windy Hill Fitness Centre

The health club was renovated in 2007 as part of a redevelopment by the Football Club with the Shower Grand Stand demolished, and the new gym built next to where the Essendon Bowls Club once had a third green.

Your Favorite Weapon

A line in "The Shower Scene" (which itself is a reference to Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho) which reads "It's time for you to choose / The bullet or the chapstick" is an allusion to a speech by Malcolm X entitled "The Ballot or the Bullet".

Zhu Xu

He is well known for his roles in Zhang Yang's Shower and Wu Tianming's The King of Masks, the latter film helping him garner a Best Actor prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival.


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