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unusual facts about torch


Visions Of...

Visions of... is an Torch studio EP, released independently on November 23, 2003 through Hardstar Records.


1952 Winter Olympics torch relay

On arrival at the Marathon Gate of the Stadium he passed the torch to the final torch-bearer, Eigil Nansen, grandson of explorer, winter event champion and Nobel Peace Prize-winning diplomat Fridtjof Nansen.

1986 Central American Games

Long distance runner Mateo Flores was honoured to light the torch in the stadium bearing his name.

1987 All-Africa Games

A torch was relayed from Nairobi to the Kenyan coast, the Kenyan highlands and back to Nairobi where World Champion John Ngugi carried it into the stadium in front of an enthusiastic crowd of 80,000.

1994 South American Games

Torch lighter at the Polideportivo Misael Delgado was local swimmer Ramón Volcán.

2007 Canada Games

Each torch is unique, with a carved handle fashioned from caribou antler by artist Shane Wilson.

2007 Island Fire

According to Associated Press, the blaze was started by contractors cutting steel wire with a torch for day-time only AM radio station, KBRT.

2010 Micronesian Games

Torch lighter was wrestler Elgin Loren Elwais, who participated for Palau at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Alexander Philadelpheus

He also received the Medal of the City of Athens and the German Olympic Decoration for his proposal of lighting the Olympic torch directly from the sun using a refractive medium, thus referring to the symbolic enlightenment of the torch directly from the ancient Greek gods.

Ali Slaight

Her rendition of Seal’s "Kiss from a Rose" was nominated for best AC single at the 2006 Canadian Radio Music Awards, while her version of Etta James’ "At Last" was featured in the Real Divas — Torch Light Volume 2 compilation.

Becky Jago

While she was a Newsround presenter, she appeared on a celebrity version of The Weakest Link but was the first to be eliminated after incorrectly answering the 50/50 question, "What is the safest way to read a firework instruction manual - A torch or a match?"

Bnei Bathyra

A hundred year before the Destruction of the Second Temple, the family's sages have passed the torch of the Jewish leadership to Hillel the Elder, that made Aliya to the Land of Israel from Babylon and had studied at Sh'maya and Abtalion.

Carl W. Condit

As a teenager, he attended summer camps at Torch Lake, Michigan, and Boothbay, Maine, where he enjoyed swimming, tennis, and baseball.

Cautes and Cautopates

Cautes and Cautopates are torch-bearers depicted attending the god Mithras in the icons of ancient Roman cult of Mithraism, known as Tauroctony.

Clive Beddoe

On Tuesday, July 24, 2007, Beddoe announced that effective September 4, 2007, he would relinquish his duties as chief executive officer, passing the torch to then-president Sean Durfy.

College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka

College logo shows goddess Hygiea holding the internationally accepted symbol of snake and staff in one hand and in other the torch bearing the flame of knowledge in the foreground of the replica of Sri Lanka.

Discovery Museum and Planetarium

To the right of the museum entrance is a cast bronze statue Los Portadores de la Antorcha ("The Torch Bearers") by Anna Hyatt Huntington.

Fantastic Four: The End

Susan's brother Johnny Storm (the Human Torch) is a strike-force leader for the Avengers, while Ben Grimm (the Thing) lives with his wife Alicia Masters and their three children on Mars.

Hand on the Torch

Hand on the Torch was the debut album for the jazz-rap group Us3.

I'm Waiting Here

Stereogum writer Tom Breihan said the song "isn't exactly 'low-down blues,' but you could see how it's Lynch’s version of the stuff. It's a smothered torch song with a narcotized vocal from his guest" and drew comparisons between it and Lynch's "beautiful, faraway" material produced with Julee Cruise for the television series Twin Peaks.

Indian poetry in English

A significant and torch-bearer poet is Nissim Ezekiel and the significant poets of the post-Derozio and pre-Ezekiel times are Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo.

Iranian American Medical Association

IAMA-Javaan is a section of Iranian American Medical Association which aims to mobilize young Iranian-American medical professionals and carry the torch for the next generation of Iranian-American healthcare professionals through organizing fundraisers, meetings and networking events.

Janet Evans

She was given the honor of carrying the Olympic torch in the opening ceremonies, and she handed the torch to the American boxing legend Muhammad Ali to light the cauldron.

Jeff McGee

Jeff "Torch" McGee is a former professional Australian Football player for the then South Melbourne Football club and member of the Coodabeen Champions.

John Torchetti

Due to his many coaching stints in the city, "Torch" has kept close ties to San Antonio.

Joseph Pennell

It showed the entrance to the New York City harbor under aerial and naval bombardment, with New York in flames and the Statue of Liberty partly destroyed, her head and her torch blown off.

Katharine Houghton

The acting torch was further passed along in the family to actress Schuyler Grant, Houghton's niece.

Keren Leibovitch

She was given the honor of lighting the torch at the 2001 Maccabiah Games at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem.

Lanai High and Elementary School

The campus boasts the wood sculpture Lanai Ohana by Ken Shutt, the ceramic sculpture The Pool Committee by Kay Mura-Davidson, and the mixed media sculpture Torch to Lana'i's Youth by Bruce Paul Fink.

London 2012 Olympic Torch

The London 2012 Paralympic Torch is the same design, albeit with a mirror-finish.

Metal Hero Series

The October 2012 film Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie saw Retsu Ichijouji (Kenji Ohba) pass the torch to a new generation of Space Sheriffs led by Geki Jumonji (Yuma Ishigaki), who makes a few cameos in that year's Super Sentai series installment Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters.

Monsignor Edward Pace High School

Pace's first graduating class created the first newspaper, called the Kerygma ("The Proclamation") as well as the first Torch yearbook, which acquired its name from president John F. Kennedy's inauguration speech, in which he referred to passing the "torch" to the next generation.

Morgedal

The Olympic Flames for the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo and the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, and the flame used in the national torch relay for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer (which was later used as the flame for the 1994 Winter Paralympics), were all lit at the birthplace of Sondre Norheim, Øvrebø in Morgedal.

Nauru at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Weightlifter and future President Marcus Stephen bore the Olympic torch during its stopover in Nauru.

Nava Telangana Praja Party

The Telangana region map on the flag also contains plough, spade, book, and torch in the centre to symbolize youth, farmers, workers, and students.

Operation Anglo

Using a torch to signal to the waiting submarine, The signal "swimming-come in" was seen by Commander Michael St John of the HMS Traveller.

Orion Records

An exception was one of the label's rare non-classical issues, a collection of torch songs recorded by Anita Ellis; with a few thousand copies sold, it was the label's most successful release.

Peaceful Snow/Lounge Corps

Unlike the more neofolk sounds of their most recent releases this album is completely piano led, under the moniker of 'Totenkopf Torch Songs'.

Rebecca Pantaney

She was chosen to be one of the torchbearers for the 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay, carrying the torch across the Clifton Suspension Bridge into Bristol.

Ronnie Baker Brooks

The Boston Herald described it as "Ferocious and unrelenting, The Torch may be

Santa Clara del Cobre

Metcalf was commissioned to create the Olympic torch for the 1968 Olympic Games and Pellicer designed the jewelry that adorned the Statue of Liberty on its 100th anniversary.

Schoolcraft Township, Houghton County, Michigan

Gregoryville, a ghost town on the east side of the north end of Torch Lake.

Siegfried Eifrig

He saw China's 2008 plan to carry the torch across the summit of Mount Everest as a "pointless gesture that makes a nonsense of the relay as an athletic challenge."

The torch which Eifrig bore in the 1936 Summer Olympics was buried with other mementoes of his athletic youth in a suitcase under a bowling lane.

Tandy Center Subway

In April 1982 the first PCC streetcar to run the line in 1963, "Leonard's Number 1", was saved from the cutting torch by a Tandy computer programmer and stored on a farm south of Fort Worth where it remained for over 25 years.

Torch Bay

Torch Bay is a freshwater bay connecting Torch Lake with Portage Lake in Houghton County on the Keweenaw Peninsula, which juts into Lake Superior from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Tyne Bridge

This was in preparation for Newcastle hosting the Olympic football tournament, and the Olympic torch relay, in which Bear Grylls zipwired from the top of the arch, to Gateshead quayside.

Vladimir Balynetc

In November 2013, he served as one of the torch bearers in Yakutsk for the 2014 Winter Olympics torch relay.

Winthrop Sargent Gilman

Gilman, who in 1900 narrowly escaped burning to death from a gasoline torch in front of the Charles Scribner mansion at 12 East Thirty-eighth Street.


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