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unusual facts about sickle



Arne Paasche Aasen

His poetic debut came in 1921 with the collection Sigd og hammer ("Sickle and Hammer"), where he hailed the revolution and Vladimir Lenin.

Boline

This crescent shape is reminiscent of the sickle described in the Key of Solomon, a medieval grimoire and one of the sources for modern Wicca.

Chad Van Sickle

Chad Van Sickle did run a Boxing gym in Columbus, Ohio, which is called Team VanSickle 12 Round Boxing, This gym opened up after he ran a gym at the Westland Mall (Columbus) with another professional boxer named Leo Martinez.

East African Breweries

Its ongoing projects include the construction of an optical center in Moshi, Tanzania, the support of the Sickle Cell Association of Uganda and the donation of an Ultra Sound Machine to Kirwara Hospital in Thika, Kenya.

Falce e Martello

Falce e Martello (English: Hammer and Sickle) was an Italian-language communist weekly newspaper published as the organ of the Communist Party of Switzerland in Ticino.

Hank Van Sickle

His father, Rodney Van Sickle is a classically trained double bassist who graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music and played in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Harvest Moon 64

The player starts with five basic tools to help restore the farm: a hammer, an axe, a sickle, a hoe, and a watering can.

Hemolysis

In vivo hemolysis can be caused by a large number of medical conditions, including many Gram-positive bacteria (e.g., Streptococcus, Enterococcus, and Staphylococcus), some parasites (e.g., Plasmodium), some autoimmune disorders (e.g., drug-induced hemolytic anemia), some genetic disorders (e.g., Sickle-cell disease or G6PD deficiency), or blood with too low a solute concentration (hypotonic to cells).

Hōten-ryū

A short list of the armament techniques include: Jo (short staff), Ken (sword), Kusari (chain- flexible weapons), Kusarifundo (weighted chain-flexible weapons), Jutte (truncheon), Tessen (iron fan), Sasumata (two-horned polearm), Nagehari (thrown weapons), Sōjutsu (spear), Kusarigama (sickle and chain), Tekken ("iron fist" similar to Western brass-knuckles) and Taijutsu (unarmed defense), among others.

Joseph E. Widener

In 1930, he imported the stallion Sickle from Lord Derby in England who came to visit the U.S. that year and was Widener's guest at the 1930 Kentucky Derby.

Kopai River

The local name of a sickle-shaped curve in the river inspired the title of the novel Hansuli Banker Upakatha (Story of the Sickle-shaped Curve) by Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, made into a film by Tapan Sinha.

KRI Clurit

KRI Clurit (641) (Sickle in English) is an Indonesian Navy ship named after a curved blade weapon native to the Madurese people of East Java.

Ruhn Hills

The ridge lies around 15 kilometres south-southeast of the town of Parchim and runs in a sickle-shape around the main village in the municipality of Marnitz and about 2 kilometres from it.

Sa Huỳnh culture

Sa Huynh sites were rich in locally-worked iron artefacts, typified by axes, swords, spearheads, knives and sickles.

Sickle cell trait

For example, in November 2010, Dr. Jeffery K. Taubenberger of the National Institutes of Health discovered the earliest proof of Sickle-cell disease while looking for the virus of the 1918 flu during the autopsy of an African-American soldier.

Yuzhmash

In the late 1980s, Yuzhmash was selected to be the main production facility of the RT-2UTTKh Topol-M ICBM (SS-27 "Sickle B").


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