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unusual facts about sweep


The Sound-Sweep

Trevor Horn has said that his lyrics of "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles were inspired by this story of a world without music.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team

Late in the third quarter, the Wolverines sustained a 57-yard scoring drive that ended with Wiese faking the run, handing off to Jack Wink, and Wink then lateraling the ball to Bob Nussbaumer who ran 31 yards on a sweep around the left end for a touchdown.

1980–81 NASL Indoor season

The Edmonton Drillers won the championship with a two game finals-sweep of the Chicago Sting.

2009–10 WWHL season

Minnesota Whitecaps sweep Edmonton Chimos: in the first game (Saturday January 30, 2010 in Edmonton) Whitecaps player Rachael Drazan giving the Whitecaps a 2-1 overtime win over Edmonton.

2011 FIA GT1 Algarve round

Westbrook and Luhr maintained their positions within a second of each other to the end of the race, while Jamie Campbell-Walter secured a Nissan sweep of the podium by holding third place fifteen seconds behind the leaders.

In the Qualifying Race Westbrook and Dumbreck won by less than a second over teammates Michael Krumm and Lucas Luhr, and Sumo Power's David Brabham and Jamie Campbell-Walter earned Nissan a podium sweep.

427th Special Operations Squadron

The 427th NFS intruder missions started on 22 February with a sweep of the road network south of Lashio, Burma.

Battle of Cape Esperance

A "fighter sweep" of 17 Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero fighters swept over Henderson Field just after mid-day but failed to engage any U.S. aircraft.

Battle of the Panaro

As heavy fighting continued in the center of the Austrian position, Murat ordered a column under General Colletta to sweep left and push on the Austrian fight flank.

Bill Deegan

He also umpired in the 1978 All Star Game and the 1976 World Series; he was the home plate umpire for Game Four of the Series, which the defending champion Cincinnati Reds won on the strength of Johnny Bench's two-home run, five-RBI performance to complete a sweep of the New York Yankees.

Chimney Safety Institute of America

In 1992, Dick Van Dyke, America’s most recognizable chimney sweep, donated his voice talent to the Chimney Safety Institute of America helping CSIA produce a public service announcement distributed to 404 stations across the country in time for National Chimney Sweep Week.

Cocoa Krispies

Later in the 1960s, Sweep (a dog hand puppet from the popular UK children's TV programme The Sooty Show became the mascot for "Coco Pops."

Coventry Bees

On 28 October 2007, the Bees lifted the Elite League Knockout Cup for the third time in their history, defeating the Swindon Robins in the final, completing a clean sweep of all three major trophies, having already annexed the Craven Shield by beating Swindon Robins and the Poole Pirates over the three leg final.

Dewey Defeats Truman

Instead of a Republican sweep of the White House and hold of both houses of Congress, the Democrats not only won the Presidency but also took over control of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Edward Abraham Byrne

The administration headed by Fiorello H. La Guardia assumed the Mayor's office on January 1, 1934, with a mandate for a "clean sweep", and the complete reorganization of the Triborough Bridge Authority was among the changes which followed.

Elfenesh Alemu

She formed part of an Ethiopian sweep of the 2011 Mumbai Marathon with Koren Yal and Merima Mohammed, placing third in a time of 2:29:04 hours.

Elisabeta Lipă

(Canada's Kathleen Heddle and Marnie McBean accomplished the same, sculling and sweep gold medals, in 1992 and 1996.)

Foot sweep

In addition, many closer sweeps like the Trap Sweep and Two-Leg Sweep can resemble Judo throws.

Gigapixel image

Only a few cameras are capable of creating a gigapixel image in a single sweep of a scene, such as the Pan-STARRS PS1 and the Gigapxl Camera.

Investigation Task Force Sweep

The primary matter for investigation by Task Force Sweep was with respect to monies appropriated through the Development Budget from 2009 to 2011, and in particular the PGK125 million intended for the Kokopo Community Projects and a PGK10 million sum that was disbursed to Kokopo businessman Eremas Wartoto.

Jack Bergen

An active Socialist Party of America member (secretary of the local branch), he was elected to the city school board and in 1934 was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives as part of the Socialist sweep of local elections under Mayor Jasper McLevy, while working as a Federal Emergency Relief Administration supervisor.

Jean-Jacques Blais

He served as Minister of Supply and Services from 1980 to 1983, and Minister of National Defence from 1983 until the 1984 election, when he lost his seat to Moe Mantha in the Progressive Conservative sweep of Brian Mulroney.

Kanō school

It is a National Treasure of Japan in the Tokyo National Museum, and described by Paine as "typical for hurried sweep of composition, for pure nature design, and for strength of individual brush stroke. ... Golden cloud-like areas representing mist are placed arbitrarily in the background, and emphasize the decorative magnitude of what is otherwise the powerful drawing of giant tree forms".

Kelvin Gregorio

Gregorio is one of the responsible players who led the UE Red Warriors to a 14-0 sweep before losing the 70th UAAP crown against De La Salle University in two games.

KroniK

Upon joining together as a tag team, Kronik (originally spelled Kronic) assisted Vince Russo in his vision of a clean sweep for his New Blood alliance at the 2000 Spring Stampede pay-per-view.

Les Merritt

Merritt was defeated by Democrat Beth Wood in the 2008 election as part of a Democratic sweep.

Meriem Wangari

In April 2008 she ran the half marathon at the Humarathon in Vitry-sur-Seine and was third in an all-Kenyan sweep of the podium.

Nikolay Lipkin

They edged out Christian Gille and Tomasz Wylenzek by just 0.024 secs, thereby preventing a clean sweep by the German duo.

Operation End Sweep

In the United States, the Chief of Naval Materiel, Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, Jr., organized a Mine Warfare Program Office charged with controlling scientific and technical support to End Sweep.

Operation I-Go

After detecting a build-up of aircraft, on 1 April 1943 a fighter sweep of 58 Mitsubishi A6M3 Zeros of the 204th, 251st and 582st Kokutai was met by Allied fighters over the Russell Islands intercepting the Japanese en route to Tulagi and Guadalcanal, that claimed 18 Zeros at the cost of six Allied aircraft.

Pavel Sukhoi

He also pioneered variable-sweep aircraft, such as the Su-17 and the Su-24.

Peter Cardy

From May 2007, he has been Chief Executive of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency where he has delivered almost a total clean sweep of the organisation's Executive Board, and steered the Agency through a period of worsening industrial relations including numerous short strikes by Coastguards, Marine Surveyors, and administrative Civil Servants.

Philip Andrewes

He lost the Lincoln constituency by 1,036 votes to Liberal Harry Pelissero by in the 1987 election, amid a Liberal sweep of the province.

Pleasantville Public Schools

Included in the sweep were the arrests of Assemblymen Mims Hackett and Alfred E. Steele, and Passaic Mayor Samuel Rivera.

Pleasantville, New Jersey

Included in the sweep were the arrests of Assemblymen Mims Hackett and Alfred E. Steele, and Passaic Mayor Samuel Rivera.

Reading Royals

The Cyclones continued on to sweep past other teams to win the cup, but the Royals were the only team to take them to seven games in the playoffs.

RowPerfect

Used by Olympic athletes in both sculling and sweep disciplines including Mahé Drysdale, Alan Campbell and crews from US Rowing and New Zealand.

Shakey's V-League 10th Season 1st Conference

At the end of the elimination round, the Lady Eagles of the Ateneo de Manila University and the Lady Bulldogs of the National University emerged on the top of standings in their respective group via complete sweep 4–0.

Supermarket Sweep Australia

Supermarket Sweep was an Australian version of the American game show of the same name.

Talaria projector

RGB color separation and processing is obtained using vertical wobbulation of the electron beam on the oil film to modulate the green channel and sawtooth modulation is added to the horizontal sweep to separate and modulate Red and Blue channels.

The Chimney Sweep

"Springman & the SS", also known as "The Chimney Sweep", a 1946 Czechoslovakian film directed by Jirí Brdecka and Jirí Trnka

The Pledge Drive

Elaine's boss Mr. Pitt eats a Snickers bar with a knife and fork, starting a trend that seems to sweep the city.

The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep

Frederik Magle's album The song is a Fairytale (1994), with songs based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairytales performed by Thomas Eje and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen amongst others, includes an adaption of The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep.

Then Jerico

The single "The Big Sweep" was recorded for London but they objected to the lyrical subject matter (an anti-Robert Maxwell/Rupert Murdoch statement).

Todd Birr

In 2009, Birr skipped the U.S. team to 3 game sweep over the Brazilian national team at the first ever Americas Challenge to determine the second American berth at the 2009 Ford World Men's Curling Championship.

Uchee Billy

Billy was mistakenly reported to have been killed during a major sweep by United States forces along the St. Johns River in 1836.

Yulia Kuzina

Kuzina offered another shot for the bronze medal by entering the repechage bouts, but she lost her first match, with three yuko and a harai makikomi (hip sweep wraparound), to Italy's Ylenia Scapin.


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