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12 unusual facts about strike


2005 CPL World Tour

The CPL's "strategic partners", organizations designated to operate regional World Tour stops, also chose to hold smaller tournaments for other popular competitive games, such as Counter-Strike.

Counter-Strike

It was initially developed and released as a Half-Life modification by Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess "Cliffe" Cliffe in 1999, before Le and Cliffe were hired and the game's intellectual property acquired.

As of June 18, 2009, a regional federal court order lifting the prohibition on the sale of Counter-Strike was published.

Counter-Strike: Condition Zero

The weapons are colored a bit differently from their Counter-Strike counterparts, such as the Arctic Warfare Magnum which is now brown instead of green, the Steyr AUG and the Colt M4 carbine are now two-tone police black instead of the usual colors.

At the ending credits, a Delta Force soldier rides a Scud missile, alluding to Dr. Strangelove.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

To match players of similar skill levels for an enjoyable experience, the game uses an Elo rating system.

MLS lockout

The 2010 Major League Soccer lockout/strike, which began on January 31, 2010 and the agreement was reached on March 20, 2010 to preserve the 2010 season.

Modding

In the case of Half-Life, a mod called Counter-Strike drove sales of the original software for years.

Nikos Gounaris

His song; Pame Sta Bouzoukia is featured in a custom map on the MMOFPS Counter-Strike titled de plaka.

Ognian Gueorguiev

Gueorguiev began competing in Counter-Strike (CS) from around the age of 15 when he would attend Local Area Network (LAN) parties in his home province of Quebec.

OGPlanet

On February 16, 2012, OGPlanet announced that it will be publishing Tactical Intervention, a new first-person shooter from the co-creator of Counter-Strike, Minh Le.

Thomas A. Benes

Awards he received include the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star Medal, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal three award stars, the Air Medal with valor device and four strike/flight numerals, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, and the Navy Achievement Medal.


1977 National League Championship Series

In the bottom of the second, with two outs and Richie Hebner on second and Bob Boone on first, Dodger starter Burt Hooton began to dispute ball/strike calls issued by home plate umpire Bob Engel.

1982 Chicago Bears season

The club posted a 3–6 record under first year head coach Mike Ditka in a strike shortened season.

2007–08 Berlitz Japan strike

Professor Gerald McAlinn of Keio Law School also said it was very unusual for a company to choose to sue workers on the grounds that the strike was illegal.

2010 South Carolina Gamecocks baseball team

Trailing 2-1 and down to their last strike in the 12th inning, Jackie Bradley, Jr. singled home the tying run and following a walk to pinch-hitter Jeffery Jones, Brady Thomas lined the first pitch he saw up the middle for a walk-off RBI single.

35th Fighter Wing

The RAAF No. 2 Squadron provided day and night bombing, photo strike assessment, and close air support primarily for 1st Australian Task Force in Phuoc Tuy Province.

Aliyah Bet

The British had blockaded the Dov Hos after it had arrived in La Spezia, but the passengers responded with a hunger strike and a threat to blow her up, compelling the British to give them entry permits.

Alok Dixit

With his reservations on the Intermediary Guidelines of the Information Technology Act, 2011 of India, Alok Dixit along with his colleague Aseem Trivedi started a hunger strike at Jantar Mantar to support the annulment motion in Rajya Sabha.

Avi Dichter

In Matar v. Dichter, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a federal class action lawsuit against Dichter on behalf of the Palestinians killed or injured in a 2002 "targeted killing" air strike in Gaza.

Canton Merchant Volunteers Corps Uprising

Two days later, Nanhai, Panyu, Shunde, Taishan, Dongwan, Zengcheng, Xinhui, Qingyuan, Gaoyao, Qujiang, Yangjiang, Luoding and other 20 counties decided to join the strike in support of the Canton Merchant Corps.

Cape Breton coal strike of 1981

During a steelworkers' strike in the summer of 1923, mounted provincial police attacked a crowd of women and children on July 1, 1923 in what became known as Bloody Sunday.

Central Única dos Trabalhadores

Alongside the Workers' Party (PT) and the Landless Workers' Movement (MST), CUT was one of the key organizations to challenge the military rule of 1964–1985 during its final stages, organizing strikes in automobile factories located in the ABC Region.

Chicago XI

While recording Chicago XI, longtime producer James William Guercio's smothering artistic control had reached its breaking point, with the band deciding to take their career into their own hands and strike out on their own after finishing the album with him.

Coalition of Labor Union Women

For example, when day care workers went on strike in 1989 in West Berlin, the strike consisted of day care workers.

Doom novels

Multiple armed forces are sent to Salt Lake City to detain or fight the resistance, including the United States Army, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Internal Revenue Service 'revenue collection' strike force.

Ewing Kauffman

A construction strike delayed the opening of the stadium so Kauffman added money to make sure it would open in time for the 1973 baseball season and the 1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

Foni Tissen

In September 1942, after taking part in the strike against the German occupation, he was deported together with seven other teachers to the Hinzert concentration camp where the inhuman conditions were to exert a profound influence on his work, calling for an ironic level of introspection.

Geography of Bankura district

Strong massive runs of hornblendic varieties stretch across the region in tolerably continuous lines, the general strike being nearly east and west.

Golpe

Golpe (guitar technique) is a Flamenco guitar technique where one uses the fingers to tap on the soundboard of the guitar, from the Spanish "golpe", meaning to strike.

Great Depression in Canada

Some notable ones include a coal miners strike that resulted in the Estevan Riot in Estevan, Saskatchewan that left three strikers dead by RCMP bullets in 1931, a waterfront strike in Vancouver that culminated with the "Battle of Ballantyne Pier" in 1935, and numerous unemployed demonstrations up to and including the On-to-Ottawa Trek that left one Regina police constable and one protester dead in the "Regina Riot."

Hiyō-class aircraft carrier

They discovered the retiring Japanese fleet during the afternoon of the following day and Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher ordered an air strike launched.

Hooks Wiltse

Umpire Cy Rigler later admitted that he should have called the previous pitch strike three, which would have ended the inning.

Indirectly struck idiophones

112.13 Vessel rattles - Rattling objects enclosed in a vessel strike against each other or against the walls of the vessel, or usually against both.

John Froggatt

He transferred to Third Division Colchester United in August 1974 for a £6,000 fee, joining former Boston strike partner Bobby Svarc and former Boston manager Jim Smith at Layer Road.

Karl Bendetsen

Major Bendetson was given this assignment after having written the orders for seizure and strike-breaking at a North American Aviation plant, but the army had taken charge of the Air Associates plant in October, prior to his arrival.

Labour brokering

COSATU called for a national one day general strike against labour brokering and the proposed Gauteng e-toll system for 7 March 2012.

Letlapa Mphahlele

Ignored by the PAC and forced to rely upon African National Congress members for food and supplies, he embarked on a hunger strike and was visited by then PAC-president Zephania Mothopeng.

Little Steel Strike

With both local police forces and the National Guard in the pockets of Little Steel things went down hill fast for the Little Steel Strike after the events of the Memorial Day Massacre.

Melatonin Magik

On the track "Air Strike (Pop Killer)", both Canibus and DZK diss Eminem and D12, the track is considered as bait to reel Eminem into giving a response, and the track samples an interview from 2002 that Eminem had with Tim Westwood.

Niles West High School

In 1996, the Niles Township Federation of Teachers went on a strike for two weeks over negotiations with administrators.

Philippine Greens

Among the more high profile actions led by the Philippine Greens include demonstrations against mining, a picket against Bill Gates, whom they called a "cyberlord", and a 30-day hunger strike against genetically engineered Bt corn.

Planet Half-Life

In addition to the news, Planet Half-Life hosts extensive, in-depth collections of information regarding Half-Life, Half-Life 2 (along with Portal), Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and Day of Defeat.

Rockland the Opera

It is based on a long-forgotten miners' strike at the town of Rockland in Upper Peninsula of Michigan's Ontonagon County.

Saifuding

Saifuding, one of several aliases associated with Abdul Haq (1971-2010), an ethnic Uyghur from China, who was alleged to be a leader of the East Turkistan Islamic Party and reportedly killed in a drone missile strike in Pakistan in February, 2010.

Samuel Ornitz

In 1931, Ornitz collaborated with Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos and other left-leaning writers on the report of the Dreiser Committee, an investigation of the Harlan County War strike in Harlan County, Kentucky.

Scott Braun

Scott Braun is an MLB Network studio host and reporter, appearing across MLB Network's studio programming, including MLB Network Strike Zone, Quick Pitch and MLB Tonight.

Sepp Straffner

He was one of the three national presidents who on 4 March 1933 resigned his office during a debate on a railway strike, precipitating a constitutional crisis, the dissolution of parliament and the seizure of power by the Chancellor, Engelbert Dollfuss as dictator.

Short Admiralty Type 81

When Engadine took part in the Cuxhaven Raid on Christmas Day 1914, two of her Folders took off as part of the strike force, of which one returned to Engadine, and the other ditched near the Royal Navy submarine E11 which recovered its crew.

Sino-Mauritian

Like members of other communities on the island, some of the earliest Chinese in Mauritius arrived involuntarily, having been "shanghaied" from Sumatra in the 1740s to work in Mauritius in a scheme hatched by the French admiral Charles Hector, comte d'Estaing; however, they soon went on strike to protest their kidnapping.

South Indian Film Artistes' Association

;Sri Lankan civil-war hunger strike: In September 2008, Sarathkumar organized a one-day hunger strike, protesting the deaths of several Tamils in Sri Lanka and the ongoing Sri Lankan Civil War.

Spanair

A report in The Times on the day of the Madrid crash suggests that staff were threatening strike action due to concerns about the company's viability.

Street Fighter III

Yang was voiced by Wataru Takagi in New Generation and 2nd Impact, and by Masakazu Suzuki in 3rd Strike.

Streetcar strikes in the United States

Scenes of streetcar strikes, and the friction between owners and workers, appear in contemporary fiction such as Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie of 1900 (based on Dreiser's own experience in a Toledo, Ohio strike), and William Dean Howells' A Hazard of New Fortunes of 1890.

Tarapacá Campaign

After checking the terrain and weeks of preparations the high command decided to strike at Pisagua, a small port with a suitable bay for unloading the army contingent and supplies.

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X

In response, Artemis takes up a profitable contract with Las Trinidad and launches a surprise attack on the United States Navy carrier strike group in the Strait of Magellan.

TSR2

the BAC TSR-2, British Aircraft Corporation Tactical Strike/Reconnaissance 2

Twelve Colonies

Trade unions appear to play an important role in the lives of the working class in the refugee fleet and the settlers of New Caprica, and a strike was organized on the fleet's only tylium ship by the trade union.

Uig Tower

In 1884 Fraser attempted to evict a family at Garafad in Staffin during a rent strike.

Velvet Acid Christ Vs Funker Vogt: The Remix Assault

"The Remix Assault" (aka "The Remix Wars Vol. 4" and "The Remix Wars: Strike 4 - Velvet Acid Christ vs. Funker Vogt") is an aggrotech maxi by Funker Vogt and Velvet Acid Christ, released in 1999.

Yangju highway incident

Father Mun Jeong Hyeon, a Roman Catholic priest active in the anti-USFK movement, began a hunger strike outside the U.S. Embassy in Seoul.