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unusual facts about spit



Below the Waste

The album saw the group experimenting with world music, collaborating with South African Zulu group Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens, who provide a heavy layer of mostly non-English-language vocals on three tracks (Yebo, Chain Gang and Spit).

Distilled water

It has been suggested that this superheated (distilled) water in an iron will flash boil when disturbed (as with moving an iron), and cause the iron to spit, leak, and possibly scald the user.

Drużno

Eastern Pomerania was the Duchy of Pomerelia, which spit into others including Kashubian-speaking areas west of Gdańsk.

Ediz Hook

Currently, the end of the spit serves as home for the Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles.

Émile Deplanche

Subsequently, he returned to New Caledonia with Vieillard, where in Noumea, the pair spit company, with Deplanche journeying to Lifou in the Loyalty Islands.

False Cape State Park

As part of The Outer Banks of Virginia, it lies on the Currituck Banks Peninsula, which is a mile-wide barrier spit between the Back Bay of the Currituck Sound and the Atlantic Ocean.

Francis MacDonald

He runs Shoeshine Records / Spit & Polish in Glasgow and manages the bands Camera Obscura and Attic Lights.

Gold Coast Broadwater

western Spit foreshores (including Sea World, Fishing fleet, Versace Hotel, Marina Mirage, Fishermans Wharf, Water Police, Sea Scouts and the Southport Yacht Club)

I Hate Music

At Rolling Stone, Will Hermes noted how "The title is bullshit – the kind people spit when dodging pain."

I Spit on Your Rave

I Spit on Your Rave was the title for a planned 2010 film production by Film4 and Warp Films, who in 2009 released a trailer to promote their mockumentary zombie comedy horror film starring Noel Fielding.

Ikoyi

It is shielded from the Atlantic Ocean by Victoria Island and the broad sand spit running east down the coast.

Kittie

Their debut album and supporting tour earned Kittie coverage in Metal Edge, whose readers voted Morgan Lander for "Female Performer of the Year" and Spit in Your Eye for "Home Video of the Year" in the magazine's 2000 Readers' Choice Awards.

Leslie Street Spit

Owing to the Leslie Street Spit's importance to so many bird species, it has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by Nature Canada and Bird Studies Canada which are the Canadian partners of BirdLife International.

Lie with Me

The Bee Hives version of Lover’s Spit asserts itself, representing Virgo’s telos: sinuousness, elegiac, inaccessible.

Mudeford

The Beach huts, located on Mudeford Spit, can be reached on foot or land train from the Hengistbury Head side of the harbour, or by the Ferry from Mudeford Quay.

Pinetop Smith

In 1975 the Bob Thiele Orchestra recorded a modern jazz album called I Saw Pinetop Spit Blood that included a treatment of "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" as well as the title song.

Przebrno

The village has sandy beaches on the shores of the Bay of Gdańsk on the northern side of the spit, and the Vistula Lagoon on the southern side.

RAF Navy Point

Set on a peninsula on which Canopus Hill, Stanley Airport and Gypsy Cove lie, together with a narrow spit of land known as Navy Point, effectively divides Port William from Stanley Harbour.

Ringhals

Rinkhals, a venomous species of snake with the ability to spit venom.

Royal Voluntary Service

The WVS base at the railway station in Headcorn, Kent was an especially busy place for feeding returning soldiers before they dispersed—a spit was installed so that meat could be roasted there and then.

Rybalskyi Peninsula

Although named as an island it is in fact a peninsula and a former spit serving as a left-bank of a former Pochaina River that with time transformed into several oxbow lakes located in Obolon (see Opechen lakes).

Selous, Zimbabwe

In 1985, novelist Tom Robbins wrote a column for Esquire detailing his tumultuous travels to reach the village entitled "The Day The Earth Spit Warthogs."

Shirley Jean Rickert

Rickert's most notable appearances were in the films Love Business and Bargain Day, in which her spit-curls were the centerpiece of her precocious performance.

Sini Anderson

Anderson was the co-founder and co-artistic director of the Sister Spit a weekly open mic series in San Francisco from 1994–1997 and Sister Spits Ramblin Road Show a spoken word tour from 1997-2000 she performs on I Spit on Your Country (1997), Sister Spit’s Ramblin Road Show (1999), Greatest Spits!

Sister Spit: The Next Generation

In April 2007, Michelle Tea decided to revive Sister Spit as Sister Spit: The Next Generation pulling together old favourites such as Lynne Breedlove, Eileen Myles and Ali Liebegott and also introducing a whole new selection of queer/feminist/alternative literary folks such as Cristy Road, Rhiannon Argo and Nicole J Georges and hauling them across the USA.

Spit on a Stranger

"Spit on a Stranger" is a single by the indie-rock band Pavement, coming from their final record Terror Twilight.

Spit Your Game

On the airing of MTV's Making the Video episode for "Spit Your Game", it was announced that this will be the last video ever to be in dedication of The Notorious B.I.G. Yung Joc, Jody Breeze, Big Gee, Layzie Bone, Wish Bone, Swizz Beatz & Sleepy Brown made an appearance on the video

St Helens Fort

Access is from this point, but also along the spit from Bembridge.

Stanley Harbour

The peninsula on which Canopus Hill, Port Stanley Airport and Gypsy Cove lie, together with a narrow spit of land known as Navy Point, effectively divides Port William from Stanley Harbour.

Strawberry Spit

Strawberry Spit (also Sanctuary Island) is a small artificial island in the San Francisco Bay's Richardson's Bay embayment of Strawberry Lagoon.

Terror Twilight

The progressive bluegrass band Nickel Creek covered Terror Twilight's first single, "Spit on a Stranger" on their 2002 album, This Side.

The Chicken Song

On the Spit in Your Ear album, the "Celebrity Mega Mix" version of "The Chicken Song" was included, which features celebrities like Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and Tina Turner singing the lyrics.

The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs

In the Mahabharata a story is recounted of wild birds that spit gold, and were discovered by a man who soon strangled them "out of greed".

Vistula Spit

During World War II, it became the last holdout of the remaining German soldiers in East Prussia, although the Soviets simply bypassed the spit after the East Prussian Offensive was decisively concluded, training their sights on the more important goal of capturing Berlin.

Volgograd Bridge

Currently, a single span (a second is still under construction) connects Mamayev Kurgan on the right (western) bank of the Volga with the road to Krasnoslobodsk on a spit between the Volga and the Akhtuba.

Willoughby Spit

The area of water now located between Sewell's Point and Willoughby Spit is known as Willoughby Bay.


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