X-Nico

100 unusual facts about earth


Alan Boss

Boss was selected to join the NASA Science Working Group for the Kepler Mission and the NASA External Independent Readiness Board for the Exoplanet Exploration Program, both charged with the detection and characterization of nearby habitable Earth-like planets.

Alternative versions of Colossus

A few deviations from the Earth-616 version include the fact that Ultimate Colossus's height remains the same when he changes.

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Ultimate Colossus' powers are similar to those of his Earth-616 counterpart.

Alvarez hypothesis

The Alvarez hypothesis posits that the mass extinction of the dinosaurs and many other living things was caused by the impact of a large asteroid on the Earth sixty-five million years ago, called the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.

Animal loss

In Mormonism, all organisms (as well as the entire planet Earth) are believed to have a spirit, but that beings without the gift of free agency (the ability to know and choose between right and wrong) are innocent and unblemished spirits who go straight to Heaven when they die.

Baphumelele Children's Home

As more and more children were dropped at her doorstep, she took this as a sign from God that forming a Children's Home was to be her work on Earth.

Bedlam in Paradise

Uncle Mortimer intervenes, promising Shemp eternity in Heaven if he returns to Earth unseen and unheard and reforms Moe and Larry.

Beregond and Bergil

His younger brother Borlas is central to The New Shadow, the soon-abandoned draft for a The Lord of the Rings sequel published in The Peoples of Middle-earth.

Blue Wizards

An alternate set of names in Quenya for both wizards is given in the 1996 The Peoples of Middle-earth as Morinehtar ("Darkness-slayer") and Rómestámo ("East-helper").

Brataccas

With both the forces of law and lawlessness aligned against him, Kyne is forced to flee Earth.

Charlie Bird Explores

Charlie Bird Explores is the title of a series of documentary films shot by RTÉ News and Current Affairs chief news correspondent Charlie Bird, in which the reporter sets off to explore some of the most beautiful and remote places in the far corners of the planet Earth and moans about having to do so.

Codename Europa

The Mysterons threaten to destroy the Triumvirate of Europe, whose three members are the most powerful politicians on Earth after the World President.

Dark Beast

With the end of the Age of Apocalypse, the Dark Beast was able to escape into Earth-616 through the M'Kraan Crystal.

Defense Meteorological Satellite Program

DMSP satellites operated in a sun-synchronous orbit; passing over the north and south poles, the satellite would see different strips of the Earth at the same local time each day.

Direct insolation

While the solar constant varies with the Earth-Sun distance and solar cycles, the losses depend on the time of day (length of light's path through the atmosphere depending on the Solar elevation angle), cloud cover, moisture content, and other impurities.

Direct sum

denotes direct sum; it is also the astrological and astronomical symbol for Earth, and a symbol for the Exclusive disjunction.

Doom 2099

Doom is shown searching for a way to prevent the Timestream from collapsing after it is damaged by the efforts of the Earth-616 version of the Red Skull.

Dorking F.C.

Dorking are also one of the few football clubs in the world that were founded by beings from a planet other than Earth.

Down in the Dumps

The story of the game is about the Blubs, an extraterrestrial family (father and mother Blub, their son and daughter, the grandparents and the pet Stinkie), who crash with their spaceship on a landfill on Earth after being pursued by the villainous Khan and his criminal associates.

Earth-One

Green Lantern (vol. 2) #85 (1971): "Snowbirds Don't Fly" A story focusing on drug addiction, showing Green Arrow's ward Roy Harper addicted to heroin.

Earth's orbit

Mathematicians and astronomers (such as Laplace, Lagrange, Gauss, Poincaré, Kolmogorov, Vladimir Arnold, and Jürgen Moser) have searched for evidence for the stability of the planetary motions, and this quest led to many mathematical developments, and several successive 'proofs' of stability for the solar system.

Earth's shadow

When the Sun, the Earth and the Moon are aligned perfectly (or almost perfectly), with the Earth in between the Sun and the Moon, the Earth's shadow falls onto the surface of the Moon which is facing the night side of the Earth, such that observers see the shadow gradually turn the bright full Moon dark, and then light again, creating a lunar eclipse.

Ecoregion

WWF (World Wildlife Fund) ecologists currently divide the land surface of the Earth into 8 major ecozones containing 867 smaller terrestrial ecoregions (see list).

Emi Koussi

One of the most important morphological differences between volcanoes on Mars and Earth is the widespread furrowing of the surface due to flowing water on terrestrial volcanoes.

Ernst Barthel

From this geometry he derived a new cosmology with the theory of a Great Earth, which states that the Earth is a maximal sphere in a cyclical space and its surface therefore a total plane, the equator plane of the Cosmos.

Eunoia

In the science-fiction television series Earth: Final Conflict, Eunoia is the name of the native language of the Taelon race.

Fallen Dragon

This led to a series of colonisation efforts in a globe about 70 light years around Earth, but these ended as their costs proved prohibitive.

Fatal Inertia

The game is set in the mid-22nd century Earth, and a handful of immense corporations control virtually all business, politics, and entertainment.

Field artillery team

Corrections can be added for conditions such as a difference between target and howitzer altitudes, propellant temperature, atmospheric conditions, and even the curvature and rotation of the Earth.

Final Doom

Final Doom is a first-person shooter video game that uses the game engine, items and characters from Doom II: Hell on Earth and was released in 1996 and distributed as an official id Software product.

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After Hell's catastrophic invasion of Earth, the global governments decide to take measures against any possible future invasion, knowing that the powers of Hell still remained strong.

Gap creationism

Gap creationists believe that science has proven beyond reasonable doubt that the Earth is far older than can be accounted for by, for instance, adding up the ages of Biblical patriarchs and comparing it with secular historical data, as James Ussher famously attempted in the 17th century when he developed the Ussher chronology.

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Gap creationism (also known as ruin-restoration creationism, restoration creationism, or "The Gap Theory") is a form of old Earth creationism that posits that the six-day creation, as described in the Book of Genesis, involved literal 24-hour days, but that there was a gap of time between two distinct creations in the first and the second verses of Genesis, explaining many scientific observations, including the age of the Earth.

George Gao

His most notable work is on the soundtrack of the television series Earth: Final Conflict.

George Roubicek

In "The White Dwarf", an episode that aired 9 February 1963, he played Luke Richter, the son of a prominent astronomer who was murdered shortly after discovering a star was going to collide with and destroy the Earth.

Heavenly Daze

The catch is that Shemp cannot be seen nor heard by anyone on Earth, much to his delight.

Hicetas

Like his fellow Pythagorean Ecphantus and the Academic Heraclides Ponticus, he believed that the daily movement of permanent stars was caused by the rotation of the Earth around its axis.

Huascarán

The highest southern summit of Huascarán (Huascarán Sur) is the highest point in Peru, northern part of Andes (north of lake Ticicaca) and in all of the Earth's Tropics.

Iron Man 2020

An alternate version of Arno has since been introduced in the mainstream Earth-616 continuity as the previously unknown brother of Tony Stark.

Jenaro Gajardo Vera

One of its purposes was to "create a committee to welcome the first extraterrestrial visitors who arrive on the Earth".

Jing Fang

He was also an advocate of the theory that the light emanating from the spherical Moon (as seen from Earth) was merely a reflection of sunlight.

John DeChancie

Some of these dimensions are magical, while others have little or no magic; one of the latter is Earth.

Johnny Quick

Johnny Quick was a supervillain on the alternate Earth designated as Earth-Three, but rather than being a counterpart of the Earth-Two Johnny Quick, he was a version of The Flash.

Joseph Baxendell

His meteorological and terrestrial-magnetical researches were of conspicuous importance, and he was one of the main pioneers in detecting the close connection between those sciences and solar physics.

KEO

KEO is the name of a proposed space time capsule which was to have been launched in 2003 carrying messages from the citizens of present Earth to humanity 50,000 years from now, when it would re-enter Earth's atmosphere.

Kevin Sydney

Changeling is the character's codename in the contiguous Marvel Universe, Earth-616.

Koreshanity

The Koreshans even conducted several experiments, similar to those conducted by believers in a Flat Earth.

Lest We Forget Thee Earth

The Earthmen change their quest and decide to search for the even more mythical Earth instead.

Life of Constantine

This opening sets the tone for the rest of the work, a general glorification and deification for the Emperor and his works on Earth.

Looney Tunes Collector: Alert!

Players control Bugs (as well as other characters) in an attempt to prevent Marvin from destroying the Earth.

Madelyne Pryor

Madelyne mysteriously reappeared many years later as an amnesiac to Nate Grey (X-Man) — the "genetic son" of Scott Summers and Jean Grey from the alternate reality known as the Age of Apocalypse — when he came to Earth-616.

Magnetospirillum

Probably the most peculiar characteristic of Magnetospirillum is its capacity to orient itself according to Earth's magnetic field, an ability which has been named magnetotaxis.

Mahkizmo

Thundra had gone to the 20th century of Earth-616 to prevent the existence of Machus by altering the past, and Machus was sent to stop her.

Mars Astrobiology Explorer-Cacher

Samples necessary to achieve the scientific objectives of the proposed future sample return mission would be collected, documented, and packaged in a manner suitable for potential return to Earth.

Martin X-23 PRIME

Unlike ASSET, primarily used for structural and heating research, the X-23 PRIME was developed to study the effects of maneuvering during re-entry of Earth's atmosphere, including cross-range maneuvers up to 710 statute miles (1143 km) off of the ballistic track.

Marvel Apes

While Fiona tells the simian version of the Fantastic Four about Earth-616, she discovers that in the Marvel Apes reality the cosmic storm that gave the Fantastic Four their powers also gave a human appearance to Susan Storm.

Marvel Mangaverse

Regardless, he introduces himself as Dr. Stephen Strange, and it is hinted at that he is trained as an actual medical doctor like the Earth-616 Stephen Strange.

Marvel Zombies 3

Zombies invade Earth-616, the original Marvel Universe, by entering through the Nexus of Realities in Florida.

Mega Morphs

Marvel has yet to reveal if Mega Morphs takes place on Earth-616 (mainstream Marvel) or another Earth.

Mountain peaks of the Wicklow Mountains

Topographic elevation is defined as the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a precise mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.

Native state

Most usable metallic ores in the Earth's crust are oxides or sulfides, and as such do not manifest the properties of refined metals.

Noun

A proper noun or proper name is a noun representing unique entities (such as Earth, India, Jupiter, Harry, or BMW), as distinguished from common nouns which describe a class of entities (such as city, animal, planet, person or car).

November 2008 in science

The Phoenix Mars mission ends as the probe stops communicating with Earth.

Old Earth creationism

These views are based on the Vedas, which depict an extreme antiquity of the universe and history of the Earth.

Old Saxony

The Saxon pagan religion appears to have focussed on the worship of the Irminsul or "great pillar"; a divine tree that connected Heaven and Earth and is thought to have existed at a site close to modern Obermarsberg.

Paranormal

Many scientists are actively engaged in the search for unicellular life within the solar system, carrying out studies on the surface of Mars and examining meteors that have fallen to Earth.

Philolaus

By nature the middle is first, and around it dance ten divine bodies - the sky, the planets, then the sun, next the moon, next the earth, next the counterearth, and after all of them the fire of the hearth which holds position at the centre.

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According to Aristotle writing in Metaphysics, Philolaus added a tenth unseen body, he called Counter-Earth, as without it there would be only nine revolving bodies, and the Pythagorean number theory required a tenth.

Pizzazz

With this album Patrice drew on such influences as Earth, Wind & Fire, Minnie Riperton, Stevie Wonder, and the Emotions.

Poverty Point

Many have interpreted it as being in the shape of a bird and also as an "Earth island", representing the cosmological center of the site.

Prehistoric Planet

This episode details a list of animals from the first season that the developers thought were the most impressive creatures on Earth.

Princess Python

Unlike her Earth-616 version, this Princess Python has super-strength and was able to knock a piece of the Thing's body off him.

Rhye's and Fall of Civilization

Rhye's and Fall of Civilization is set on Earth and is designed to mirror a historical Earth as closely as possible.

Rikki Barnes

There are currently two versions of Rikki Barnes existing in the main Marvel Universe.

Sat-Yr-9

When he fled from her, traveling to Earth-616 where he knew he had an identical looking counterpart, Earth-616's Captain Britain, she sent armored troops to retrieve him.

Serious Sam

In ancient times, Earth was involved in a massive conflict between Mental, an evil extraterrestrial being who wants to rule the universe, and the Sirians, a technologically-advanced sentient alien race that left many of its artifacts to be discovered by humanity.

Skånland

The first element is the genitive case of an old name Skánøy (but the meaning of this is uncertain) and the last element is land which means "land" or "farm".

Solar eclipse of March 29, 2006

It was visible from a narrow corridor which traversed half the Earth.

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The partial phase of the eclipse was also visible from the International Space Station, while the astronauts on board took spectacular pictures of the shadow on the Earth's surface.

Somewhere Far Beyond

The cover artwork was created by Andreas Marschall, who drew the artwork for other Blind Guardian's releases (Tales from the Twilight World, Nightfall in Middle-Earth, etc.).

Spaceship Earth

The phrase was also popularized by Buckminster Fuller, who published a book in 1968 under the title of Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth.

Special Executive

Later, the Special Executive had recruited several members to its line-up, including Lady Burning Fish and Oxo, and went to Earth-616 in the late 20th century to recruit the Technet, now known as the N-men.

Spider-Man: Friend or Foe

Meanwhile, Spider-Man is rescued by Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D., who informs him that the meteor which brought the Venom symbiote to Earth had broken up in the Earth's atmosphere and five more pieces had landed in numerous locations across the globe.

Spider-Man: House of M

However, it is shown in the House of M series that the Peter Parker of the mainstream Marvel Universe remembers the life he had in this pocket universe.

SSETI Express Satellite

Other mission objectives include the acquisition of Earth images by a commercial off-the-shelf digital camera and the operation of a message transmission service using an amateur radio frequency.

Starlock

Released by astronaut Nick Thaler, Starlock takes over Thaler's body and returns to Earth.

Super-Sons

The Super-Sons (and their fathers) appear briefly during the Infinite Crisis limited series, during which time Alexander Luthor, Jr. of Earth-Three warps reality in an attempt to restore the multiverse.

The Last Halloween

Four aliens - Gleep (Paul Williams), Romtu (Don Messick), Scoota (Frank Welker), and Bing (Frank Welker) have been sent to Earth from the planet Mars in order to find a rare material known as "coobi" (which is later revealed to be candy).

The Past Through Tomorrow

A revolution overthrows the theocracy and establishes a free society which, nonetheless, does not save the pseudo-immortal Lazarus Long and his Howard Families from fleeing Earth for their lives.

The Road to Middle-earth

The book discusses the sources of Tolkien's inspiration in creating the world of Middle-earth and the writing of works including The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.

The Thanos Imperative

The story is the culmination of events starting with the "Annihilation" and more specifically the storyline "War of Kings", which climaxed with the opening of a hole between alternate universes, and "Realm of Kings", which involved different characters in conflict with the Many-angled ones and counterparts of the Earth-616 superheroes.

TVLM513-46546

Assuming a stellar luminosity of 0.042 percent that of Sun, the habitable zone where an Earth-like planet may retain liquid water at comfortable temperatures would be located within 0.02 Astronomical Units (roughly 10 times the distance of the Moon from Earth).

Ukiah Oregon

It is revealed that several centuries ago the invasion force of a hive mind species called the Ontongard arrived in the Solar System with the intention of converting all life on Earth into a copy of itself, via a form of viral infection.

Ungoliant

Her conflict with Morgoth over the Silmaril was the subject of Blind Guardian's song "Into the Storm", from their 1998 album Nightfall in Middle-Earth.

Vincente Cimetta

After his ignominious defeat, he never appeared in the Main Marvel Universe again.

Virtual globe

Google Earth, satellite & aerial photos dataset (including commercial DigitalGlobe images) with international road dataset, the first popular virtual globe along with NASA World Wind.

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The first widely publicized online virtual globes were NASA World Wind (released in mid-2004) and Google Earth (mid-2005).

Wizbit

Although it was stated in the show that Wizbit's year-and-a-day mission was to find out all about planet Earth, this clashed somewhat with the events witnessed on screen.

Works and Days

Works and Days contains the earliest recorded mention of the star Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens as seen from Earth.

Zenith Angle

In astronomy, the angle made between the normal of the Earth and a line between the observer and the observed (see also zenith)


171 Ophelia

A 1979 study of the Algol-like light curve produced by this asteroid concluded that it was possible to model the brightness variation by assuming a binary system with a circular orbit, a period of 13.146 hours, and an inclination of 15° to the line of sight from the Earth.

Agastya

These provide a seemingly down to earth account of a historical event,namely the mass migration to the South of the Velir who are identified as part of living tradition at the time of the cankam polity described in the earliest Tamil works.

André Ruellan

In the sequel, Ortog, and his friend Zoltan, embark on an Orpheus-like quest through the dimensions of Death to find Kalla’s soul and bring her back to Earth.

Ashes to Ashes

It is based on scriptural texts such as "Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return" (Genesis 3:19), and "I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee" (Ezekiel 28:18).

Carl Gustav Witt

He discovered two asteroids, most notably 433 Eros, the first known asteroid with an unusual orbit occasionally approaching the Earth's (today it is classified as an Amor asteroid).

Charles Reed Peers

Some of the works authorised by Peers would be very extensive: tons of fallen masonry, earth and "accretions" were removed at Byland Abbey and Rievaulx Abbey.

Command module

The Apollo Command Module, the crew cabin of the Apollo Command/Service Module, used in the Apollo program to send men to the Moon and low Earth orbit, designed specifically to return through the atmosphere to a water landing

Concord Township, Champaign County, Ohio

Concord Township was the site of the crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15 which fell to earth in a field following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron on March 9, 1967, triggering substantial changes in air traffic control procedures.

Cool Earth

Cool Earth was founded in 2007 by the businessman Johan Eliasch and MP Frank Field out of their common interest in protecting the rainforest.

Dammträsk

In 2005, the area was restored and some 276 tons of earth containing chlorinated hydrocarbons and 595 tons containing petroleum was removed.

Economy of New Caledonia

The Goro Nickel Plant is expected to be one of the largest nickel producing plants on Earth.

Ecospirituality

'Earth-based' spirituality is another term related to ecospirituality; it is associated with pagan religious traditions and the work of prominent ecofeminist, Starhawk.

Elk State Park

Construction of the rolled earth, impervious core dam was authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1944.

Ellsworthite

Bulletin of the National Research Council, Number 77, Physics of the Earth - I Volcanology, By the Subsidiary Committee on Volcanology, Published by the National Research Council of The National Academy of Sciences Washington, D.C., (1931)

Environmental issues in Brazil

The city of Cubatão, designated by the Brazilian government as an industrial zone due in part to its proximity to the Port of Santos, became known as the “Valley of Death” and “the most polluted place on Earth”.

Ghironda Festival

Over the years, the festival hosted famous artists as Billy Cobham, Angelique Kidjo, Incognito, Marlene Kuntz, Max Gazzè, Maurizio Nazzaro, Naïf, La Fame di Camilla, Sisters & Daughters of Praise, Earth, Wind & Fire, Pacifico, Lura, Rachelle Ferrell, Dobet Gnahorè, Oscar D'León.

Hearts Afire

The series' title is taken from a line in the Earth, Wind & Fire song "That's the Way of the World" (which originally served as the series' theme song).

Hollow Moon

That Hideous Strength (1945) by C. S. Lewis takes place on Earth, but a hollow Moon is an important part of the novel's background, and is known by its inhabitants as "Sulva."

House of the Tiger King

He put together an expedition and set out into Peru’s Madre de Dios jungle, the densest cloud forest on earth.

Iron-Crutch Li

They were admitted to eternal life as a reward for their acts on earth and bearing gifts to Shoulao, who is the god of long life.

Ismael Ortega

Like the main Marvel Universe, Chamayra was shot but this time Mr. M was not able to help her, since she was already dead.

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

Jack is left stranded in the giant world after the beanstalk dissolves, apparently cut down by someone back on Earth, and discovers that the giant Thunderdell (Bill Barretta) was an extremely benevolent person: kind, honest, and a loving friend and father who had also adopted Ondine and raised her as his own daughter.

Kaliyan

Chithira Buthira also noted that Mayon had taken a 4-span body in the previous yugas, as Narasimha, Rama, and Krishna, and so Kali, in this yuga, was born with the body of same size, and he pushed himself out of the earth.

Learning for a Cause

Down to Earth was endorsed by a number of celebrities including Martin Sheen, David Suzuki, Farley Mowat and Marc Garneau.

Love letter

Examples from Ancient Egypt range from the most formal - 'the royal widow...Ankhesenamun wrote a letter to the king of the Hittites, Egypt's old enemy, begging him to send one of his sons to Egypt to marry her' - to the down-to-earth: let me 'bathe in thy presence, that I may let thee see my beauty in my tunic of finest linen, when it is wet'.

Magic User's Club

An enormous cylindrical alien spaceship, which people call "the Bell" (釣り鐘 Tsurigane), descends upon Earth one day.

Mersad Berber

Kraków Grand Prix in 1997, an Ostend exhibition entitled "Between earth and heaven" and a recent one "Artist of the ideal" in Verona, selected by famous art critic Edward Lucie-Smith, confirmed Berber as one of the most significant contemporary artists.

Navarth

We first encounter him on Earth, old and forgotten, living in reduced circumstances on a canal-boat in the ancient (but fictitious) city of Rollingshaven: apparently a Vanceian conflation of Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg.

Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth

As documented in the film Dig!, the song is dedicated to the band The Brian Jonestown Massacre, friends/rivals of The Dandy Warhols at the time, who in turn dedicated their own track "Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth" to them; although frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor revealed in an interview that the song is also about his girlfriend at the time who, according to him, had become a heroin addict.

Númenor

According to the novel, Merlin of the Arthurian Legend was the last in a long line of wizards familiar with the magic of Middle-earth, brought to the shores of prehistoric Britain by refugees from the sunken continent.

Oh! You Pretty Things

Noone replaced Bowie's line "The Earth is a bitch" with "The Earth is a beast", in a performance that NME editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray opined to be "one of rock and roll's most outstanding examples of a singer failing to achieve any degree of empathy whatsoever with the mood and content of a lyric".

Roger Elkin

He has reviewed for Stand, Outposts and Envoi and his critical articles on Ted Hughes's poetry have appeared in collections of essays edited by Keith Sagar (1995) and Joanny Moulin (1999); and also on the "Earth-Moon, Ted Hughes" and the "Ted Hughes Society" websites.

Rosemary Gladstar

She organizes the International Herb Symposium and the United Plant Savers conference, and speaks widely at other herbal conferences including the Southwest Conference, Medicines from the Earth, the Green Nations Gathering and Breitenbush.

Shining Stars

Shining Stars: The Official Story Of Earth, Wind & Fire, a 2001 biographical film about the American band Earth, Wind & Fire.

Stabroek, Guyana

Brickdam, Stabroek's main street, was paved with bricks and made of burnt earth until 1921 when it was paved over for the arrival of the Prince of Wales (King Edward VII).

Star trail

American astronaut Don Pettit recorded star trails with a digital camera from the International Space Station in earth orbit between April and June, 2012.

Susan Foreman

Susan reappears in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Legacy of the Daleks by John Peel, which takes place after the events of The Dalek Invasion of Earth.

Teleri

In the early versions of Tolkien's mythology (see: The History of Middle-earth), they were known as Solosimpi ("Pipers of the Shores"), while the name Teleri was given to the clan of Elves known in the published version of The Silmarillion as Vanyar.

Thirds

" "White Man/Black Man" is another winner." John Mendelsohn in Rolling Stone was equivocal stating "By no exertion of the imagination are James Gang the greatest rock and roll band ever to walk the face of the earth or anything... but they are capable of some nice little treats every now and again."

To Mars and Providence

As a side effect, some Martians developed the capability to engage in astral projection, and made contact with the other two races of the system: Humans on Earth, and a "fungoid race" on a distant planet.

Tony DeSare

DeSare’s 2007 recording, Last First Kiss, includes a contemporary combination of originals and standards, from Prince’s "Kiss" and Carole King’s "I Feel the Earth Move" to classics like "You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To”" and Sammy Cahn/Jimmy Van Heusen’s "Come On Strong".

WEZZ-FM

Core artists of the station known as "70s Hit Radio, 97-3 WODL" included Chicago, the Doobie Brothers, Alice Cooper, Grand Funk Railroad, Barry Manilow, Earth, Wind and Fire and James Taylor.

WHEM

The Western Hemisphere, a geographical term for the half of the Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian.

X-ray astronomy satellites

The Global Geospace Science (GGS) Polar Satellite was a NASA science spacecraft launched at 06:23:59.997 EST on February 24, 1996 aboard a McDonnell Douglas Delta II 7925-10 rocket from launch pad 2W at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, California, to observe the Earth's polar magnetosphere.

Zoë Johnston

Similarly Johnston has written and recorded all vocal parts for Sleepthief, Delerium, and Above & Beyond on their singles "Good For Me", "Alchemy", "No One On Earth", "You Got To Go", and "Love Is Not Enough" on the record label Anjunabeats.