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41 unusual facts about The Guardian


2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot

Prominent publications such as the The Atlantic, The Guardian, The New York Times and USA Today ran editorials critical of the riots and those who participated in them, as well as the city, marking the stark contrast between the Stanley Cup playoffs and the 2010 Winter Olympics.

2013 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final

British newspaper The Guardian in its editorial section, hailed the 'ancient Irish' game of hurling as a beacon of sporting courage and commitment, Hopefully the Gaelic Athletic Association will do all sports fans everywhere a massive favour and produce DVD copies of this memorable game, where Clare emerged victorious.

Alvin Greene

In an editorial published in The Guardian as "The Alvin Greene manifesto for a fairer America", Greene explained his political views in more detail and attacked the political establishment.

And I'll Scratch Yours

However, Gabriel subsequently reported in an interview in The Guardian that Radiohead had withdrawn from the project since hearing his version of their song "Street Spirit".

Bernardo Kucinski

Thereafter, he worked as editor of Gazeta Mercantil and was a correspondent for the The Guardian, Euromoney and Latin America Political Report.

Catiline His Conspiracy

The Guardian states that: "Although booed off stage at its 1611 premiere, it became a great favourite in its day, but has not been staged since the 17th century".

Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator

The Guardian and The New York Times have reported that the National Security Agency (NSA) inserted a CSPRNG into NIST SP 800-90A that had a backdoor which allows the NSA to readily decrypt material that was encrypted with the aid of Dual EC DRBG.

Drago Hedl

His articles were published by many newspapers and magazines, among them The Guardian, The Times and Die Wochenzeitung (Zurich).

George Lewith

A 2006 BBC documentary series, Alternative Medicine, was criticised by several people, including Lewith, in the Guardian over a controversial sequence in which acupuncture appeared to be used as a replacement for general anaesthesia during open heart surgery.

German federal election, 2013

Merkel-Raute: Described by The Guardian as "probably one of the most recognisable hand gestures in the world", Angela Merkel's trademark has become a political symbol used by both her supporters and opponents.

Giovanni Aldini

Article from The Guardian about Aldini's experiments on an executed criminal.

Goran Žugić

Due to the tense political circumstances during which the murder occurred, some English-language Western media outlets like The Guardian and the Los Angeles Times were quick to indirectly point out a possible connection to similar events in Serbia at the time (Serbia was going through its own wave of assassinations in the first part of 2000).

Haliclystus auricula

In 2010, Natural England, The Guardian and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History ran a competition asking members of the public to provide a common name for this species.

Iris Apfel

In 2013, she was listed as one of the fifty best-dressed over 50s by The Guardian.

James Bone

James Bone (journalist) (1872-1962), British journalist and London editor of The Guardian

James Shikwati

He has written widely on a variety of subjects in Kenyan and international newspapers, magazines, such as The Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Business News, The Daily Nation, The East African Standard and The African Executive.

Jeff Cowen

At age 23, Cowen's images of the Romanian Revolution appeared in: The Guardian, Tel Aviv Post, Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun.

Jerry Pattengale

His mentoring of Olympian Kris Akabusi, a Nigerian sprinter from England, was highlighted in The Guardian.

José Policarpo

On 11 April 2005, British newspaper The Guardian considered him to be "a dark-horse candidate for pope, capable of bridging the divide between the Europeans and the Latin American Roman Catholic cardinals".

Justin Lewis

He has written articles for The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe, and is a regular commentator on media, politics and cultural issues for regional and national US and UK media, including BBC Radio 5 Live, the Today programme, BBC TV News, The Independent, The Washington Post, the NBC Today Show, and National Public Radio.

Killing Them Softly

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film 5 stars saying the film is a "compelling comment on economic bloodletting in the real world".

Les Musiciens du Louvre

The Guardian considers it one of the best orchestras in the world.

Man v. Food

Jonathan Bernstein of British newspaper The Guardian described "mixed feelings" about the series saying he likes "the concept" and "the guy" but that the challenges make him "a little uneasy".

Melanie Friend

As a freelance photojournalist in the 1980s, she reported for broadcast and print media such as the World Service, BBC Radio 4, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Economist, and the Financial Times.

Mitiga International Airport

During the 2011 Libyan civil war, the The Times and The Guardian reported claims that the airport had been taken over by protestors opposed to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Mya Aye

Natural gas prices have risen 500% and petrol and diesel prices have almost doubled, according to The Guardian.

Nelson Nash

During more than 35 years experience as a Life Insurance Agent, Nash worked with The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U.S. and with The Guardian.

Octavo Día

"Some think pop stars are made to entertain. Period. I don't see it that way," said Shakira during her concert in Britain, which was reported by Siobhan Grogan from The Guardian.

Our World 2.0

In August 2009, Our World 2.0 became part of The Guardian's Environment Network.

Penny Broadhurst

"LJaded" - described by The Guardian as "a tribute to the Myspace and blogging generation" and another demo track, "London".

Portrait of Ann

On 1 November 1957 he appeared on the front page of the Manchester Guardian with his proposal for the Academy's Spring Exhibition the following year.

Red Lipstick

Michael Cragg of The Guardian wrote that "Red Lipstick" was reminiscent of songs featured on Rihanna's fourth studio album Rated R (2009), with specific comparisons to "G4L" and "Wait Your Turn".

Robotropolis

The Guardian gave it a negative review saying "Humans in the middle of robo-armageddon should be a recipe for fun. But this does not compute".

Sarah Tisdall

Sarah Tisdall anonymously sent The Guardian photocopied documents detailing when American cruise missile nuclear weapons would be arriving in the United Kingdom.

Susan Blackmore

On 15 September 2010, Blackmore, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in The Guardian, stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK.

She has authored or contributed to over 40 books and 60 scholarly articles and is a contributor to The Guardian newspaper.

The Borderers

The series was described by The Guardian in 2007 as "brave and original...a kind of north-eastern western".

The Dusty Foot Philosopher

The album was also included in The Guardian's November 2007 list of 1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die.

Tim Krabbé

He is known to Dutch readers for his novel De Renner (The Rider), first published in 1978 and translated into English in 2002, of which The Guardian's Matt Seaton wrote: "Nothing better is ever likely to be written on the subjective experience of cycle-racing".

Urban Prep Academies

Print media on the school has included pieces in the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Chicago Tribune, Ebony Magazine and The Guardian.

Wimdu

Wimdu has been recognised by many prestigious media outlets such as The Telegraph, The Guardian and The New York Times.


Beauty

In June 2013 the comedian Angela Barnes became noted for an article in The Guardian, in it she spoke about how she felt society treated people deemed ugly and her feelings as someone who self-identified as such.

Brass Crosby

No further attempts had ever been made to prevent the publication of Parliamentary debates, facilitating the emergence of Hansard, until May 2009 when Carter Ruck (a controversial law firm) attempted to stop The Guardian newspaper from reporting a question asked in the House by Paul Farrelly MP, or to report that it had received such an injunction.

Brownsea Open Air Theatre

B.O.A.T receive excellent national and regional coverage, and have been featured in The Guardian as one of the UK's Top 10 Open Air Theatre Venues, listed second to the Minack Theatre in Porthcurno, Cornwall.

Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw

The Guardian called it "strikingly good" and said that it was "one of chess's finest novels, sitting comfortably alongside Nabokov's The Luzhin Defense and Paolo Maurensig's The Lüneburg Variation".

Citroën DS5

The Guardian's Martin Love reviewed the DS5 giving the car a positive review towards the design.

Cyrus Frisch

The Guardian writes that Frisch is a celebrity in the Netherlands, known for tackling difficult subjects (4 February2007).

Dave Podmore

Co-written by the English actor and writer Christopher Douglas, Andrew Nickolds and Nick Newman, his column appears in The Guardian.

Fort Perch Rock

The nights were called "Nautical" and were featured in the Guardian newspaper and named NME club of the week for the 1 September 2006 show, which featured British Sea Power and the Tiny Dancers.

Gerard Ryle

"To analyze the documents, ICIJ collaborated with reporters from The Guardian and the BBC in the U.K., Le Monde in France, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Germany, The Washington Post, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and 31 other media partners around the world.

Hemel Hempstead Evening Post-Echo

They included Melanie Phillips (Daily Mail), Stephen Pile (Sunday Telegraph), David Francis (Mail on Sunday), Cliff Barr (The Sun, Daily Express), Lee Harrison and John Cathcart (National Enquirer), Anthony Holden (Sunday Times and The Observer), Maurice Chittenden (Sunday Times), Jean Ritchie (The Sun), Mark Milner (The Guardian), and David Felton (The Independent).

Jennifer M. Johnson

She became an executive story editor for the third and final season The Guardian in 2003.

John Gay

Pope had urged him to undertake this task in order to ridicule the Arcadian pastorals of Ambrose Philips, who had been praised by a short-lived contemporary publication The Guardian, to the neglect of Pope's claims as the first pastoral writer of the age and the true English Theocritus.

Leigh Hennessy

In 2006, Leigh starred in the opening scenes of The Guardian, a film with Kevin Costner, in which she played the role of the drowning wife.

Lucy Beale

In July 2007, Gareth McLean of The Guardian lamented the lack of strong female characters in EastEnders, noting that Lucy "is yet to come into her own".

Mal Michael

In April 2009, The Guardian described him as one of Papua New Guinea's "living national icons", along with politician Michael Somare and philosopher Bernard Narokobi.

Molly Haskell

Haskell has written for many publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, Esquire, The Nation, Town and Country Magazine, The New York Observer and The New York Review of Books.

Mona Weissmark

The meetings received extensive national and international media attention, with articles in the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, Psychology Today, Ms., The Jerusalem Report, She magazine, The Guardian and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, among other publications.

Mr Bingo

He also does editorial illustrations and other work for both The Financial Times and The Guardian newspapers, and has had work featured in magazines as diverse as Bearded, Dazed and Confused, WIRED, Esquire and GQ, while his art has also been featured in Creative Review and Icon magazines.

Muntean and Rosenblum

The Guardian critic Jonathan Jones described the effect as "Andy Warhol meets Jacques-Louis David".

Muriel Foster

Muriel Foster performed in Edward Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius under Julius Buths in Düsseldorf in May 1902, of which the Manchester Guardian wrote: "The part of the Angel was given by Miss Muriel Foster with the wonderfully beautiful and genuine voice ..." She had previously sung in Elgar's Sea Pictures.

Ntrepid

In March 2011, The Guardian reported that Ntrepid had won a $2.76 million contract for "online persona management" (commonly known as "sockpuppetry") operations from the U.S. military.

Only God Forgives

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave it five out of five stars, calling it gripping and praising the "pure formal brilliance" of every scene and frame, though he notes that it will "have people running for the exits, and running for the hills" with its extreme violence.

Orville Lloyd Douglas

He has contributed to several Canadian and international publications, including TheRoot.com, The Guardian, ColorLines, Word Magazine, The New Zealand Herald, Georgia Straight, The Toronto Star, Xtra!, NOW, Library Journal, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Paul Foot Award

:Nick Davies (Guardian) on phone-hacking conducted by the News of the World when Andy Coulson, later the government's director of communications, was editor.

Paul Kingsnorth

In recent years, he has written for or contributed to the Guardian, Independent, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, Le Monde, New Statesman, Ecologist, New Internationalist, Big Issue, Adbusters, BBC Wildlife, openDemocracy, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 2, BBC Four, ITV and Resonance FM.

Pink Elephants on Parade

The Guardian columnist Henry Barnes wrote that the role of alcohol in unlocking Dumbo's gift was "a terrible, adult message".

Prince Paul of Württemberg

Joseph Edmund "Jo" Johnson (born 1971), Conservative MP for Orpington and Head of Lex at the Financial Times, married to Amelia Gentleman, a journalist for The Guardian and the daughter of artist and designer David Gentleman, and has two children, Rose and William;

Scott Klace

He then went on to perform other small roles in television shows and direct to video films, including American Tragedy (2002), Signs of Life (2001), The Guardian (2002), Charmed (2003), 24 (2003), ER (2004), NYPD Blue (2004), and Malcolm in the Middle (2006).

Tim Footman

His work has appeared in The Guardian, Mojo, Time Out, Prospect, the Bangkok Post, The National (Abu Dhabi), the Sunday Post, the Yorkshire Post, BBC Online, CNNGo, Drowned In Sound, Careless Talk Costs Lives, Aeon, Zembla, Twill and the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies.

Tom Gauld

He has produced a number of cartoons for The Guardian newspaper, and now contributes to its Saturday Review section.

Vale of Glamorgan Festival

The 2013 event, held at the St Donats Arts Centre and Cardiff's Hoddinott Hall, was favourably reviewed by The Guardian, highlighting composer Sebastian Currier as the outstanding performance.

Watts Up With That?

Because of WUWT's high traffic count, according to Fred Pearce of the Guardian, this was the catalyst which broke the story to the media.

Yuri Modin

UK The Guardian journalist Richard Norton-Taylor rang Modin to check on this and found him angry that the false claims, changes and fraud on the British (and later US) buying public, had been made without him being consulted.

Zachary Philip Katznelson

On 6 September 2009, Katznelson made what The Guardian characterized as "extraordinary claims" on behalf of his client Shaker Aamer.