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unusual facts about window



Adi Rocha

He transferred to Energie Cottbus from Austria Kärnten in the 2009 winter transfer window after scoring 10 goals in 17 games.

All Saints' Church, Misterton

The east window of the Holy Cross chapel was designed by John Piper and made by his glassmaker, Patrick Reyntiens.

Allegheny Observatory

The core of the building is a small rotunda, housing an opalescent glass window depicting the Greek muse of astronomy, Urania.

Amasi

Nelson Mandela mentions how he cautiously left a comrade's apartment—his hiding place in a white area when he was wanted by the Apartheid government—after he overheard two Zulu workers comment that it was strange to see milk on the window sill (left out to ferment) because whites seldom drank amasi.

Anglo-Saxon glass

Hundreds of window glass fragments have been found at Jarrow, Wearmouth, Brandon, Whithorn and Winchester.

Archibald Keightley Nicholson

The East window behind the altar in the church of St Peter and St Paul's in Ewhurst, Surrey was commissioned as a memorial window for Captain William Ralph Frecheville who was executed after capture 9 January 1920 aged 24, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, whilst serving as part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.

Canberra United FC

Hooker made a number of key signings in the first registration window, also securing Caitlin Munoz, Amy Chapman, Grace Gill-McGrath, Hayley Crawford, Rhian Davies, Thea Slatyer for the inaugural season.

Charles Comfort Tiffany

After her death, he commissioned a stained glass window in her memory showing the view from their Connecticut summer home, from the firm of his relative Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Collimator sight

The reticle is illuminated by an electronic light source (an incandescent light bulb or, more recently, a light-emitting diode) or by ambient light gathered behind the reticle via an opalescent window or fiber optic light pipe.

Cristiano dos Santos Rodrigues

During the 2010–11 summer transfer window he signed a two-year contract until 2011–12, with Maltese Premier League club Tarxien Rainbows.

Drive-through

Pennsylvania State Representative Kevin P. Murphy installed a drive-through window designed to speed constituent service.

Dutch door

The term is also applied to the modified rear doors on selected GMC Safaris and Chevrolet Astros that have a flip up rear window and two small half-size doors underneath, although the term barn doors is sometimes used for these doors as well.

Faouzi Chaouchi

whilst also confirming that he is still in contact with French club Le Mans since the previous transfer window.

Flema

There is a very persistent urban myth that says that he was drunk playing a Winning Eleven match with a PlayStation when he said to his friend Luichy "If I lose, I'm gonna jump through the window" - He lost and did it, but you will not find reliable sources with direct confirmation of this incident.

Gilliflower

Charles Ryder has them growing under his window when he is a student at Oxford in the novel Brideshead Revisited.

Gioconda's Smile

Without realising it, I'd come to a stop outside Rizzoli's Bookshop and in the display window, exactly facing me, was a book about da Vinci with the Gioconda on the cover.

Grade I listed churches in Shropshire

The east window contains stained glass dated 1893 by Kempe depicting the Crucifixion.

Joaquín Sorolla

Here, he presents his friend Simarro as a man of science who transmits his wisdom investigating and, in addition, it is the triumph of naturalism, as it recreates the indoor environment of the laboratory, catching the luminous atmosphere produced by the artificial reddish-yellow light of a gas burner that contrasts with the weak mauvish afternoon light that shines through the window.

Karim Adel Abdel Fatah

Since the transfer window closes on 31 January in Egypt, some Egyptian league's clubs, such as Olympic Alexandria, showed their dissatisfaction towards that transfer and considered it illegitimate.

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy

One day soon after Andy's homecoming, his mother Emily observes him looking at store window displays of wedding rings and baby clothing, and suspects that her son must be in love.

Manned Venus Flyby

As a "Plan B" in case the proposed Inspiration Mars fly-by of Mars missed its 2018 launch window, in November 2013 Dennis Tito proposed a different mission architecture whereby the mission craft would first fly-by Venus, using Venus in a gravitational slingshot to speed the craft's onward journey to Mars.

Manor Church Centre, Egremont

In the transept is a window of 1908 designed by William Aikman and made by Powell's depicting The Sower.

Marek Špilár

Špilár died in September 2013 at the age of 38 when he committed suicide by jumping out of a fifth-floor flat window in the city of Prešov.

Melophobia

"Come a Little Closer" was inspired by a morning in which Shultz woke up in a São Paulo hotel and opened his window to watch the sunrise over the villas.

MTD-f

Because MTD(f) only uses zero-window searches, while Alpha-Beta and NegaScout also use wide window searches, MTD(f) is more efficient.

Neferneferuaten Tasherit

She is shown standing in the building near the window of appearance as her parents, Akhenaten and Nefertiti, bestow honors upon the first servant of the Aten named Panehesy.

Reinaldo Elias da Costa

During the 2012 January transfer window, it was announced that Chinese Super League club Beijing Guoan had bought the striker from Saudi Club Al-Raed for a reported $2 million over two years.

Shatterstar

His strength is superhuman enough that he is capable of wielding a heavy barbell as easy as a bo-staff and slam the Thing of the Fantastic Four through a window of the Baxter Building.

Squeegee

According to Guinness World Records, the world's fastest window cleaner is Terry Burrows of South Ockendon, Essex, England, who cleaned three standard 45-inch × 45-inch office windows set in a frame in 9.24 seconds at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham in March 2005.

St Cuthbert's Church, Holme Lacy

In the north chapel is a window depicting Sir Galahad and Sir Bors to the memory of Sir Archibald Lucas-Tooth, 2nd Baronet who died in active service in the First World War in 1918.

St Cuthbert's Church, Lytham

St Cuthbert's stained glass includes a window designed in 1860 by Hardman & Co., an 1874 window depicting the Mount of Olives by Morris & Co. as well as work by Charles Eamer Kempe, Jean-Baptiste Capronnier and Clayton and Bell.

St Margaret's Church, Burnage

Also dating from 1950 is a window in the baptistery depicting Scouts, Guides, Cubs and Brownies.

St Mary's Church, Derwen

The stained glass in the south chancel window was designed by H. E. Wooldridge and made by James Powell and Sons; it is dated 1869 and depicts the Nativity, the Resurrection and the Ascension.

St Mary's Church, Ellesmere

The east window in the south chapel, dating from 1883, is by Burlison and Grylls, and depicts Christ and saints.

St Mary's Church, Mellor

The stained glass includes windows in the south aisle by Capronnier dating from the later part of the 19th century, and a window in the north aisle dated 1928 by Whitefriars.

St Paul's Church, Wordsworth Avenue

While the altar is screened to give it some privacy from the big end window by a hardwood panel made from African Teak .

St Wilfrid's Chapel, Church Norton

The 20th-century stained glass consists of a 1969 window by Carl Edwards, commemorating women and featuring an image of the now demolished All Saints Cathedral in Cairo, and a 1982 piece by Michael Farrar-Bell which portrays the nature reserve at Pagham Harbour and its animals and birds.

Steve Jehu

In 2004, Jehu survived a 33-foot fall from a hotel window in Ljubljana, Slovenia by completing a mid-air loop and gymnasts' landing to escape with only a broken ankle.

Sump'n Else

The program broadcast live from NorthPark Center shopping mall in a storefront studio that featured a soundproof window so shoppers and fans could see the daily action.

The Invisible Band

"Flowers in the Window" is featured in the 2004 film Saved!, second-season episode of Merseybeat (2002), and as background music during a scene of the 2002 Only Fools and Horses Christmas Special "Strangers on the Shore".

Thompson Memorial Library

The window comes from the studios of Messrs. John Hardman & Company of Birmingham, England, and of the Church Glass and Decorating Company of New York, their U.S. representatives.

Toledo Window Box

The name Toledo Window Box refers to a report George Carlin read stating that the chief of police of Toledo, Ohio had gone to see a viewing of Reefer Madness and a training session by the FBI.

Toni Pezo

This move came in the summer transfer window of 2006, he decided to play abroad in Bosnia-Herzegovina with Zrinjski Mostar.

Travelers of a Hundred Ages

This treatment is especially apparent when Keene writes of Matsuo Bashō's travel diaries, such as The Narrow Road to the North, or provides a window into an author's life, such as in the case of Fujiwara no Teika's Meigetsuki ("Chronicle of the Clear Moon").

Vincenzo Iaquinta

Under new coach Antonio Conte in 2011-12, Iaquinta, Amauri and Luca Toni did not play a single minute on the pitch, and all three ended up leaving the club during the January transfer window.

William Darrell of Littlecote

He died 1 October 1589, aged 50, and is commemorated by a memorial window in the church of St. Mary, Kintbury, Berkshire.

William Hamling

A stained-glass window depicting William Blake, dedicated to the memory of Hamling, may be found in St. Mary's Church, Battersea.

Window Connections

Anupam Roy roped in to compose the film score for Window Connections.


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