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3 unusual facts about twilight


Twilight Time

Twilight, the time between dawn and sunrise or between sunset and dusk, during which sunlight scattering in the upper atmosphere illuminates the lower atmosphere, and the surface of the earth is neither completely lit nor completely dark.

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

Anna Deavere Smith was nominated for a 1994 Tony Award and recreated her role in the filmed production in 2000 directed by Marc Levin.

Twilight: The Graphic Novel

The plot describes Bella Swan's move from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington to live with her father, Charlie, while her mother, Renée, travels with her new husband, Phil Dwyer, a minor league baseball player.


Airnav.com

Additionally available on Airnav.com is METAR, terminal aerodrome forecast (TAF), distance calculator, times of morning and evening civil twilight and sunset/sunrise to aid the pilot for decision-making purposes and to be legally equipped for night flight, airport management remarks, Notice to Airmen (NOTAM), distances to popular landmarks and attractions, hotels, cities, and closest airports.

Allie Kingston

Also in the season 4 episode "Twilight Zone" Allie attempts to call her mother after talking to Matt Ryan about his father but the number that she called was disconnected.

BDH

Bryce Dallas Howard, actress in The Village, Spider-Man 3, Terminator Salvation, and Twilight Saga: Eclipse, et al.

Bismarck monument

In 1899 (i.e. one year after Bismarck's death), Wilhelm Kreis created a fundamental tower design, known as Götterdämmerung ("Twilight of the Gods") for a competition by the German Student Union in the shape of a massive pillar of fire.

Caldwell Jones

“I’m like a spare tire on the Cadillac,” he told USA Today in the twilight of his career.

Dragons of Autumn Twilight

Dragons of Autumn Twilight details the meeting of the Companions and the early days of The War of the Lance.

Forks High School

It has recently received international attention, as it is featured in the young adult novel series Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.

François Clemmons

Dr. Clemmons lives and works in Middlebury, Vermont, where he was an artist-in-residence and Twilight Scholar at Middlebury College.

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Szürkület (Twilight) (1990, by György Fehér) based on the Es geschah am hellichten Tag movie script

García II Sánchez of Gascony

In that year, he appeared in a charter issued by the grandees of Aquitaine assembled at Bourges to decide on a course of action in the twilight of the reign of Charles the Fat.

Giovanni Amighetti

In contemporary music also worked on some solo and Fondamenta projects, on Guido Ponzini´s cd "Twilight town" and with the Shan Qi ensemble featuring Chinese flute player Guo Yue.

Gloaming

Gloaming, or twilight, the time after sunset and before dark, celebrated in Harry Lauder's Roamin' In The Gloamin'

Great Meadow

Today, Great Meadow has become a valued member of the Virginia charitable and national equestrian sports communities, and is home to the annual Virginia Gold Cup steeplechase races the first Saturday in May, as well as the International Gold Cup Races, held every third Saturday in October, the Saturday night Twilight Polo series during the summer, and the Twilight Jumper series on select Friday evening during the summer.

J. Martin Holman

Holman has also published many translations of modern Japanese and Korean literature, including The Old Capital (1987), Palm-of-the-Hand Stories (1988), and The Dancing Girl of Izu (1998), by Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata; The Book of Masks (1989) and Shadows of Sound (1990), by Korean writer Hwang Sun-wŏn; and The House of Twilight by Korean author Yun Heung-gil.

Jacob Black

In the films Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn, Jacob is played by Taylor Lautner.

Joe's Apartment

It was based on a 1992 short film first made for MTV (which was used as filler in between commercial breaks), but was also inspired by the 1987 Japanese film Gokiburi-tachi No Tasogare (known as Twilight of the Cockroaches in the USA) and the 1987 American short film Those Damn Roaches.

Joey Bradford

Pete Loncarevich, Eric Carter, Bas de Bever, Corine Dorland and Dale Holmes started their MTB careers during the one or two twilight years of BMX racing.

Layla Anna-Lee

Layla is the face of OK! online, and has interviewed some of the cast of the Twilight movies, actor Harrison Ford, and fashion designer Vivienne Westwood.

Life Toward Twilight

In 2000 Ogun's Will disbanded and Daniel relocated to Detroit where Life Toward Twilight became his primary musical focus.

Louise Hearman

Clarice Beckett has been identified by Australian arts writer, critic and broadcaster Bruce James as a possible influence on Hearman, James writing in The Sydney Morning Herald in 2002 that "Hearman's interest in uncanny situations and mind states can surely trace its pedigree back to Beckett's twilight zone.".

M. Phil Senini

In 1977, Senini made his acting debut by playing the small role of a sharpshooter in the World War III threat film, Twilight's Last Gleaming.

NGC 891

The soundtrack of the 1974 film Dark Star by John Carpenter features an instrumental piece called When Twilight Falls On NGC 891.

Nightmare Cafe

Creator Wes Craven's original concept for the series involved standalone episodes akin to The Twilight Zone or Amazing Stories, but with regular characters bookending the tales ("like Twilight Zone meets Cheers", as Craven often said in interviews).

Poe no Ichizoku

The two main characters, Edgar Portsnell and Allan Twilight, as well as the family are named after Edgar Allan Poe.

Richard Russo

Russo co-wrote the 1998 film Twilight with director Robert Benton, who also adapted and directed Russo's Nobody's Fool into a 1994 film of the same title, starring Paul Newman.

Sad Kermit

In addition to the video, audio parodies of "Creep" by Radiohead, "Twilight" and "Needle in the Hay" by Elliott Smith, "The Rainbow Connection" (referred to as "The Rainbow Disconnection"), "Something I Can Never Have" by Nine Inch Nails and "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen as covered by Jeff Buckley are also available, together with the audio only version of "Hurt".

Sigurd

The illustrator Arthur Rackham drew 70 vibrant renderings of the story for the book Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods, translated by Margaret Armour (1910).

Skippy Roberge

After high school, Roberge joined a semi-pro baseball team in the Lowell Twilight League, and the Lowell YMCA basketball team, where he played until 1938 when he tried out for the Braves, then nicknamed the Boston Bees.

Suchtweetsorrow

She likes singing and making music on her guitar other than that she is a typical teen and enjoys Twilight and Robert Pattinson.

Terror Twilight

The original cover art for Terror Twilight lists the final track, "Carrot Rope," as "...And Carrot Rope." This alternate song title was revived for the 2010 Record Store Day version of Quarantine the Past, even though the song was the fifth track on side one.

The Burning City

The Burning City is a fantasy novel of social and political allegory by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle set in an analogue of Southern California in an imaginary past shortly after the sinking of Atlantis about 14,000 years ago in the twilight of a civilization then struggling and now vanished for lack of a crucial natural, and essentially non-renewable resource upon which almost all of its economy and technology depended.

The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon

This was the first Twilight Zone aired to be shot in Toronto.

The Edges of Twilight

The Edges of Twilight (1995) is the third album by The Tea Party.

The Last Knight

The Last Knight is a nonfiction book written by the medievalist Norman Cantor about the "twilight of the middle ages and the birth of the modern era".

The Principle of Doubt

# "Twilight Zone ('Lord Fouls Hort', Chapter 8 Taken from the 'Chronicle of Doubt')" (Marius Constant) - 3:29 (theme from The Twilight Zone)

The Servants of Twilight

The film starred Jarrett Lennon as Joey, Belinda Bauer as Chris, Bruce Greenwood as Charlie Harrison, and cult-favorite Grace Zabriskie as Grace Spivey, also called Mother Grace, the charismatic leader of a fanatical religious cult known as the Church of the Twilight and was directed by Jeffrey Obrow.

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner is a companion novella to the Twilight series by author Stephenie Meyer.

The Voice of the Moon

In his twilight years (three years before he died of a heart attack at the age of 73), Fellini mounts an energetic assault on media moguls like Silvio Berlusconi and the pandemonium of contemporary society by suggesting the escape into silence as a means to heal the psyche, the source of all true wisdom.

Time for a Tiger

Time for a Tiger is part one of Anthony Burgess's Malayan Trilogy The Long Day Wanes, "the first panel of a triptych" set in the twilight of British rule of the peninsula.

Tremble for My Beloved

Stephenie Meyer, who is the author of the Twilight books, is a big fan of Collective Soul and she handpicked every song on the entire first soundtrack.

W. B. Yeats bibliography

1893 – The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction

Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

On the "2112 / Moving Pictures" episode of the television series Classic Albums, Rush drummer/lyricist Neil Peart commented on the writing of the song "The Twilight Zone," featured on 2112.

Wilmer Herrison

This exhibition shows like in a travelogue, the deities (with Pachamama, Malku,...), the history of the Amerindian peoples (with Aymara, Tiwanaku,...), the encounter with different civilizations (with Gallia, Bandera, July 14, Ottoman Remembrance, Murano, Arica,...), strength of nature (with Volcano, Hurricane, Naturaleza viva, Twilight with color, Reflection,...) and project ourselves into the universe and its origins (with Exoplanet, Mars, Sedna,...).


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