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unusual facts about viper



Amram

And I looked again, and in his appearance, his visage like a viper....

Ancrod

Ancrod is prepared from the crude venom of the Malayan pit viper (Agkistrodon rhodostoma, also termed Calloselasma rhodostoma) and belongs to the group of proteolytic enzymes.

Angus Finlay Hutton

Working in the High Wavy range, he discovered a species of pit viper that is now named after him as Hutton's Pit Viper (Tropidolaemus huttoni).

Arthur Loveridge

Loveridge, Arthur, Preliminary Description of a New Tree Viper of the Genus Atheris from Tanganyika Territory in Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club, Vol XI, 1930.

Astola Island

The island is also an important area for endemic reptiles such as the Astola viper (Echis carinatus astolae).

At Vance

They were formed by vocalist Oliver Hartmann (ex-Centers) and guitarist Olaf Lenk (ex-Velvet Viper) in 1998.

Bolkar Mountains

Vipera bulgardaghica is a venomous viper species endemic originated from this mountain range.

Borg-Warner T-56 transmission

The transmission was originally designed and built by Borg-Warner for the Dodge Viper later being used by GM in 1992 for the generation II and later engines, but as of 1998, is built by Tremec, though nothing changed internally.

Botis

He is depicted as an ugly viper, but when he changes shape, he puts himself in human shape, with big teeth and two horns.

Carry On Screaming!

Valeria and Orlando plot to rid themselves of Bung and his friends, so Valeria persuades Bung and Albert to spend the night at the manor, and slips a viper into their bed as they sleep.

Colonial Blackbird

According to executive producer David Eick it is not a Viper, though some parts for the craft were derived from scrapped Vipers.

Colonial Raptor

It has a multitude of electronic countermeasure and monitoring tools including jamming transmissions, scrambling signals of guided weapons, and Viper Identification friend or foe operations.

Crimson Viper

Crimson Viper made her debut appearance in the 2008 Street Fighter IV as an American double agent posing as a S.I.N. worker but actually a CIA agent undercover.

Cylon Raider

Using highly effective hit-and-run, ambush and divide-and-conquer tactics, Scar repeatedly ambushed and destroyed Colonial viper patrols during mining operations in an asteroid field.

David Wolf: Secret Agent

The player is David Wolf, a secret agent who must stop a criminal organization called Viper from using a stealth fighter to deliver a nuclear bomb to Washington, D.C. Several action scenes allow the player to attempt to perform various feats for David Wolf, such as flying a hang glider while shooting down enemies, racing down a highway while dueling with helicopters, or landing on an enemy parachutist or landing on top of a moving truck.

Dead in Tombstone

The film begins with a narration on the West, or the "New Frontier", described by the narrator — Lucifer (Mickey Rourke), one of the seven Princes of Hell, — as a "heartless, lawless viper pit", contrary to popular belief that it is made up of "god-fearing" good folk.

Death adder

Agkistrodon contortrix, a.k.a. the copperhead, a venomous pit viper species found in North America

Diamonds and Toads

When Fanny arrived home, she told her story to her mother and disgusting toads and vipers fell from her mouth with each word.

Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights

These include Faustus' relationship to Mephisto, Faustus and Marguerite Ida and Helena Annabel, and the pairings of minor characters (Boy and Dog, Boy and Girl, Dog Mephisto and Viper, Country Woman Viper and MIHA, the Man from Overseas and Faustus, he and MIHA).

Ecarin clotting time

Ecarin, the primary reagent in this assay, is derived from the venom of the saw-scaled viper, Echis carinatus.

FGR-17 Viper

Following the anger caused by the letting of this second contract and because of the earlier GAO report on the Viper, massive cost overruns, and then the safety concerns revealed in the Army's evaluations, in December 1982 Senator Warren Rudman (R-NH) inserted an amendment into the Army's funding bill.

GWR Haigh Foundry locomotives

:Between 1846 and 1851 it carried a different name, Teign, while working on the South Devon Railway, after the River Teign; it reverted to Viper when it returned to the Great Western Railway.

Helmholtz resonance

Intake systems described as 'Helmholtz Systems' have been used in the Chrysler V10 engine built for both the Dodge Viper and the Ram pickup truck, and several of the Buell tube-frame series of motorcycles.

How High the Moon: Live at the Viper Room

How High the Moon: Live at the Viper Room is the first live album of the American rock band Masters of Reality, released in 1997.

Jalibah Southeast Air Base

After an exhausting night moving its entire fleet from Camp Coyote in Kuwait, the Army Reserve Unit spent its first day on Iraqi soil March 23 at Camp Viper, a base in American-controlled territory deep in southern Iraq.

Jararaca

Bothrops neuwiedi, known as jararaca pintada, a venomous pit viper found in South America

Joel Redman

Redman made his debut for Irish Whip Wrestling on 5 July 2008 in a four corners match for the IWW International Heavyweight Championship which Mandrake won, the match also involved Doug Basham and Vic Viper.

Jonathan Emile

His performance achieved broad critical acclaim from both English & French media for his performance of André De Shields original role and his notable interpretation of “The Viper's Drag”.

Lieutenant Sheba

Daughter of the legendary Commander Cain, Sheba first appeared as the leader of the Silver Spar Viper squadron from the Battlestar Pegasus in the two part episode "The Living Legend."

Lisinopril

Like other ACE inhibitors, it is a synthetic functional and structural analog of a peptide derived from the venom of the jararaca, a Brazilian pit viper (Bothrops jararaca).

Michael Morley

Michael Morley (author), international thriller writer, author of the novels Spider and Viper, see Waverton Good Read Award

Noble Sissle

His rendition of the song "Viper Mad" was included in the Woody Allen film Sweet and Lowdown.

Paxman Viper

The Paxman Viper is an Canadian homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Elbert Paxman and produced by Paxman's Northern Aircraft of Glenwood, Alberta, introduced in 1994.

Police lineup

Many UK police forces use VIPER, a digital system where witnesses view video recordings of suspects and unrelated volunteers.

Ramesses III

Some had put forth a hypothesis that a snakebite from a viper was the cause of the king's death.

Red rattler

Crotalus ruber, a venomous pit viper species found in the United States and Mexico

Reserva Provincial La Payunia

Reptiles include venomous snakes such as the Patagonian pit viper Bothrops ammodytoides and crossed pit viper Bothrops alternatus.

Ryohei Sasagawa

He later saves Takeshi Yamamoto, Chrome Dokuro, and Gokudera from Mammon's illusions.

Snake Temple

The vipers are believed to be rendered harmless by the sacred smoke, but as a safety precaution, the snakes have also been de-venomed but still have their fangs intact.

Susan Eisenberg

She continued her animation work in cartoons such as Jackie Chan Adventures (Viper) and video games Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Shaak-Ti), Jak II (Ashelin), Daxter (Taryn), Mass Effect 3 (Councilor Irissa) and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron

Viper (voiced by Frank Welker) - Dr. Elrod Purvis once worked at Megakat Biochemical Labs alongside his partner Dr. N. Zyme.

The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell

To them, Quincas is Joaquim Soares da Cunha, an "exemplary employee of the State Rent Board," who disgraced his family by walking out on them one day, calling Vanda and her mother, Dona Otacilia "vipers" and Vanda's husband Leonardo a "silly ass."

Uruma, Okinawa

Yabuchi Island is well known for its large population of habu, the poisonous pit viper of Okinawa, and its southern coast is dense with kasanori, and Okinawan species of Ulvophyceae, an edible algae.

Venetia Stanley

Digby reported that she had always been healthy, but had suffered occasional headaches through the previous eight years, for which she took "viper-wine" (which could have been one of several concoctions involving vipers or their venom in wine, and which in any case is not likely to have been toxic through ingestion).

Viper in the Fist

The story begins with the recollection of young Jean Rézeau catching a viper in his grandparents' courtyard and holding it in his fist.

Viper Island

This small island derives its name from the vessel `Viper in which Lt. Archibald Blair came to Andaman and Nicobar Islands in 1789.

Viper Island is near Port Blair in Andaman district in the Andaman Islands, the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a union territory of India and was the site of the jail where the British used to imprison convicts and political prisoners.

VIPER microprocessor

VIPER is a 32-bit microprocessor design created by Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in the 1980s, intended for use in safety-critical systems such as avionics.

Viper Recordings

Viper Recordings is a Liverpool drum and bass record label created by Futurebound and Jaquan in 2003.

Weitek

The P9001 moved to PCI and became fairly popular in 1994, known as the Viper in designs from Diamond and Orchid.


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