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4 unusual facts about suit


Desert Research and Technology Studies

Space suits tested during Desert RATS include ILC Dover's Mark III and I-Suit.

Earl Wood

The solution the team arrived at is the G-suit, which has air bladders situated at the calves, thighs, and abdomen of the wearer.

I-Suit

The suit began as an EVA mobility demonstrator, developed to meet a contract awarded by NASA to ILC in 1997 for an all-soft suit.

William Kilpatrick Stewart

During the war years Stewart was to conduct original research into the physiological effects of acceleration and deceleration, extreme heat and cold and decompression, and was engaged in the design of the ejector seat, G suits and oxygen systems.


1970 NFL season

Replacing the old Eastern and Western conferences (although divisions from those conferences still existed but were renamed to suit the realignment), the new conferences, AFC and NFC, function similar to Major League Baseball's American and National leagues, and each of those two were divided into three divisions: East, Central, and West.

A Portuguesa

Inspired by the outrage felt by the Portuguese people, the lyricist, Henrique Lopes de Mendonça, accepted Keil's request to create words to suit his melody.

Abtan v. Blackwater

The suit was filed on behalf of a number of Iraqi citizens by the Center for Constitutional Rights and a number of other lawyers alleging that Blackwater had violated US and international law, as well as participating in war crimes and disobeying the Alien Tort Statute.

Aquashift

The TYR Aquashift suit is worn by all of TYR's sponsored athletes, including Ukrainian Yana Klochkova, Americans Erik Vendt, Peter Verhoef, and Bryce Hunt, and Slovakian Martina Moravcova.

Audio Home Recording Act

The RIAA filed suit to enjoin the manufacture and distribution of the Rio PMP300, one of the first portable MP3 players, because it did not include the SCMS copy protection required by the act, and Diamond did not intend to pay royalties.

Barbara Brandriff Crabb

On April 15, 2010, Crabb ruled in a suit that the Freedom From Religion Foundation filed in 2008 against the Bush administration that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional.

Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.

Petitioners, owners of the Jackson Park motion picture theatre in Chicago, alleged that respondents, some of whom, like RKO Pictures, were distributors of films, and some of whom owned or controlled theatres in Chicago, entered into a conspiracy which continued from some time before November 1936 to the date the suit was brought, July 28, 1942.

Brinkman v. Miami University

David Langdon, a conservative activist who wrote language for the Marriage Amendment, has stated that this is the first suit against a university's domestic partnership policy since the amendment took effect.

Christian Peter

This inaction led Redmond to file a Title IX suit against Nebraska in 1995; the suit was settled two years later with Nebraska paying $50,000 and the other two agreeing to pay an undisclosed sum of money.

Cinergy

The Ontario government, across the border in Canada, followed suit at the request of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

Dana Claxton

Daddy's Gotta New Ride shows an Indigenous man in a black suit with face paint and braided hair, standing next to a red Ford Mustang.

DRC, Inc.

DRC, Inc. is currently a defendant in a suit by the US Justice Department for which alleges fraud against the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) during a contract in support of Hurricane Mitch in Honduras.

Edinburgh International Television Festival

One of the best remembered speeches was given in 1993 by an ill Dennis Potter, who attacked the chairman and director general of the BBC of the day by saying: "you cannot make a pair of croak-voiced Daleks appear benevolent even if you dress one of them in an Armani suit and call the other Marmaduke."

Edward Bates

Lucy Berry, 14-year-old slave freed in suit brought by her mother Polly Berry and argued by Bates

First Aid for Dora

Later, having won some money on the Derby, Corcoran promises his friends a night out, but returning home to dress, he finds Bowles has let Ukridge borrow his evening suit.

Florence MacCarthy

The Queen's principal secretary, Lord Burghley, backed him, and he obtained protection against his creditors and permission to recover an old fine of £500 due to the Crown from Lord Barry, a neighbour and rival of his in Munster, whom he blamed for his arrest; Barry was later to accuse him of disloyalty as this suit was prosecuted.

Frank Celebrezze

In 1986, Celebrezze brought a successful libel suit against The Plain Dealer of Cleveland, based on an article that alleged that Celebrezze's campaign had accepted contributions from groups with organized crime connections.

Gareth Cheeseman

The character is probably best remembered for his blue Ford Probe company car, which ends up being crushed at the end of the programme, and his Hugo Boss suit, which he cannot help but keep mentioning.

Henrietta Leaver

Years later, discussion of Leaver’s controversial nude statue would return to prominence when Vanessa Williams lost her Miss America title, by comparing Leaver not being invited back to crown her successor as she had “posed for a nude statue” – despite wearing a bathing suit while posing, with her grandmother present and with no knowledge that the artwork would display her naked.

Jane Elizabeth Hodgson

In 1981, Hodgson lent her name to a suit (Hodgson v. Minnesota) brought by Planned Parenthood against Minnesota, challenging that state's law requiring that both parents be notified at least 48 hours before a minor has an abortion.

Japanese armour

The Shredder, villain of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies, wears a full suit of samurai armor with razor-sharp spikes.

Jeremiah Stamler

After the suit was rejected by U. S. District Court judge Julius Hoffman, Dr. Stamler filed an appeal; when the committee hearing began and his turn to testify came up, he cited the pending appeal of his suit and, refusing to testify until the suit had been finally adjudicated, walked out of the hearing.

Kent County, Delaware

The suits, dubbed the "A7L," was first flown on the Apollo 7 mission in October 1967, and was the suit worn by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Apollo 11 mission.

Konrad Seusenhofer

In 1514 Maximilian I presented Henry VIII with a suit of armour which included the most unusual ‘Horned helmet’ or armet, later chosen as the symbol of the Royal Armouries in Leeds.

Kwanzaa

Dashiki – A shirt or suit worn during Kwanzaa celebrations

Laffer

Larry Laffer, a fictional character from the Leisure Suit Larry game series

Medieval antisemitism

The Kingdom of Portugal followed suit and in December 1496, it was decreed that any Jew who did not convert to Christianity would be expelled from the country.

Medway Maritime Hospital

The hospital was where the Piano Man was taken after being found wandering in a soaking wet suit and tie.

MS-06 Zaku II

First appear as part of Mobile Suit Variations, design by Kunio Okawara.

Negreet, Louisiana

In January of 2014, the ACLU filed suit against the Sabine Parish School Board, Superintendent Sara Erarb, Principal Gene Wright and teacher Rita Roark of Negreet High School, alleging officials at one of its schools harassed a sixth-grader because of his Buddhist faith and that the district routinely pushes Christian beliefs upon their students.

Paris Hilton's Dubai BFF

No official outcome for the suit was announced, however the series failed to air on Dubai TV, the announced original network for this version.

Personal flotation device

The Mark 10 Submarine Escape Immersion Equipment (SEIE) suit is intended to allow submariners to escape from much deeper depths than currently possible with the Steinke hood.

Phyllis Rankin

A previous suit, in which she filed for separation from McKee, was being considered by the New York Supreme Court.

Powell v. McCormack

While the suit was making its way through the court system, Powell was re-elected in the 1968 election, and was ultimately re-seated in the 91st Congress.

Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Her eldest son, Gottfried, 8th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, was named in an unsavory manner as part of the custody suit over Gloria Vanderbilt ("Little Gloria") between her mother Gloria Laura Mercedes Morgan (1904–1965) and the child's aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.

Reed Construction Data

The suit was filed in Minnesota U.S. District Court, with BidClerk alleging that a series of “denial of services” attacks were directed against its online system, flooding it with “millions of page views.”

ReplayTV

SONICblue was fighting a copyright infringement suit over the ReplayTV's ability to skip commercials when it filed for bankruptcy.

Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons

The album cover features a photo of Parsons' ornate tailored suit jacket designed by Nudie Cohn, which was worn for the cover of the Burritos' album, The Gilded Palace of Sin.

Saleh v. Bush

The suit is being brought to court by Comar Law, against former president George W. Bush, former vice president Dick Cheney, former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, former national security adviser and secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, former secretary of state Colin Powell, and former deputy secretary of defense and president of the World Bank Paul Wolfowitz.

Santa's Slay

Pastor Timmons is found dead in a Santa suit and is presumed to be the killer, while in fact the real Santa Claus is boarding a flight from Winnipeg to the North Pole.

Sokol space suit

The current version of the suit is the Sokol-KV2, manufactured by NPP Zvezda (НПП Звезда).

Stuart Draper

He was well received for his role in the play Hot Mikado by the Bexley Times which wrote, "In a good cast, Stuart Draper shone brightest as the Lord High Executioner Ko-Ko, a blustering, avaricious coward in a pink suit who would have given Rik Mayall or Alexi Sayle a run for their money in the comedy stakes.".

Sully v. Drennan

The suit was brought originally in the district court of the state by James N. Drennan and others, taxpayers of Prairie Township, in the County of Mahaska.

The Art of Cross-Examination

The cross-examination of Ada and Phoebe Brush by George W. Whiteside - in their suit against two prominent Huntington, Long Island physicians, to recover damages for their ten-year incarceration in Kings Park State Hospital as insane patients.

The Diary of Malcolm X

An unnamed source familiar with the suit said the plaintiffs were "probably Ilyasah’s sisters Attallah, Quibilah, and Gamela Shabazz", adding that of the remaining sisters, Malaak supported Ilyasah and Malikah was not involved.

The Sea Lady

The inspiration for the novel was Wells's glimpse of May Nisbet, the daughter of the Times drama critic, in a bathing suit, when she came to visit at Sandgate, Wells having agreed to pay her school fees after her father's death.

Türst

While Türst is said to be a ghost in Horw, he is known to be the leader of the wild hunt, who appears in a green hunting suit in Rickenbach.

Unintended

The song was featured on Trigger Happy TV during a skit in which a man, dressed in a snail suit, lay down on his stomach and inched across a street and also in another skit inside a cinema where many men dressed in tall wigs walk into the front row thus blocking the views of the audience behind them.

WVexplorer

Later that year, Sibray, as publisher, was named in a trademark suit filed by the Fayette County New River Gorge Bridge Day Commission over use of the name "Bridge Day," 3 which had been employed since 2002 by the publisher of "wvbridgeday.com."


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