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43 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.

88 Films

88 Films was one of the labels praised for "providing a valuable service in preserving the more obscure titles and keeping them alive, while proving themselves bigger lovers of film than the uninterested majors" in the UK's The Guardian newspaper's annual article on the year's best DVD/ Blu Ray companies.

All the Ghosts

John Fordham in The Guardian said: "This fine album... is the truest to her distinctive muse, with its debts to Janis Ian, Joni Mitchell and Tom Waits, as much as to Billie Holiday or Nina Simone....Herbert's earlier jazz following perhaps won't find many familiar landmarks... but as an idiosyncratic singer-songwriter album, All the Ghosts will be on the year-end hitlists whatever its genre".

Alvin Greene

At times, his jokes were not well understood by the media, such as when he told British newspaper The Guardian that one way to create jobs is to employ people to make "toys of me", or Alvin Greene toys.

Asda FM

According to The Guardian, it has a captive listenership of over eighteen million people each week.

Bernardo Kucinski

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

Carolyn Wood

According to an article published in The Guardian on June 23, 2004, six months after her withdrawal from Abu Ghraib Wood was taking an advanced interrogation course at Fort Huachuca, the Army's primary intelligence training centre.

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".

Citroën DS5

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

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).

Eli Eban

While at Marlboro, he was invited by legendary Hungarian violinist Sandor Vegh to perform at the Prussia Cove festival in England, where he drew critical acclaim from The Guardian for his "high-powered, electrifying performances".

Euston Manifesto

The manifesto was published in the New Statesman and in The Guardian's "Comment is Free" section, then was launched formally on 25 May 2006 at the Union Chapel in Islington.

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.

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).

GridPoint

GridPoint has received various honors including designation as a 2008 Technology Pioneer by The World Economic Forum, inclusion in the 2009 Global Cleantech 100 by The Guardian and Cleantech Group, the 2013 Customer Value Leadership Award for Building Energy Management Solutions from Frost & Sullivan and selection as a 2013 Top 10 Enterprise Smart Grid Leader by Groom Energy.

Guinea-Bissau presidential election, 2012

The Guardian reported witnesses as saying that soldiers had fired at him and then taken his body away, possibly to a hospital.

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

Jennifer M. Johnson

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

John Masouri

John has also written articles on reggae for Mojo, Music Week, The Guardian, The Observer and NME, as well as magazines in the US (The Beat), Japan (RM) and Germany (Riddim).

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".

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".

Michael Irwin

On 15 September 2010, Irwin, 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.

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.

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.

Mya Aye

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

Operation Kalmyk

On 20 February 2012, The Guardian reported that Philip Campbell Smith was understood to be under investigation by Operation Kalmyk.

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".

Pleasant View Christian School

With 2006, a switch from the classic "Voice of the Warrior" design to a new design based on The Guardian newspaper came about.

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".

Santarém, Pará

Because of the crystalline waters of the Tapajós River, Santarém has more than 100 km (62 mi) of natural beaches, like the village of Alter do Chão, known as the "Caribbean in Brazil" and chosen by The Guardian as one of the most beautiful Brazilian beaches and the most beautiful fresh water beach.

Sharzy

He has been described by The Guardian as one of the Solomon Islands' "living national icons".

Shifang protest

Ma Jun, director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, told The Guardian that the government "only released the short version of the plant's environmental report, which did not have information about the solid waste and waste water."

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".

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".

Wimdu

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


Anita Anand

Anand has also written articles for India Today and The Asian Age newspaper, and used to write a regular column in The Guardian.

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.

Bernard Narokobi

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

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.

Cageprisoners

By November 2010, The Guardian reported that US embassy cables in the Wikileaks showed then-U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg, Cynthia Stroum, praising Begg for his campaign to persuade European nations to take in Guantanamo detainees for resettlement.

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".

Claude Grunitzky

It was there that he embarked on his career in journalism, writing for Dazed & Confused, The Big Issue and The Guardian.

Dirk Schulze-Makuch

It has been the subject of TV programs on the BBC, the National Geographic and the Discovery Channel, and of numerous articles in magazines such as New Scientist, The Guardian and Der Spiegel.

Donor Unknown

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called it a 'amusing and sweet-natured documentary' although he felt that there might be a deeper, more complex story to tell about the siblings' relations with each other and Harrison's own life.

Elspeth Thompson

She also presented a popular four-part series on trees for BBC Radio 4, and wrote on gardening and interiors for The Sunday Telegraph, the Observer and the Guardian.

Emily Winter

The Guardian described her performance in Flora the Red Menace as: "stunning: barely off the stage, she drives the production forward with unaffected energy, her acting matching the range of her singing, from the vigorous paean to individualism I Am Me to the heart-break of It's a Quiet Thing." and gave the production their highest rating.

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.

Giovanni Aldini

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

James Monroe Trotter

His son William Monroe Trotter became a rights activist and was founder and editor of The Guardian, an abolitionist newspaper.

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.

Les Musiciens du Louvre

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

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".

Maggie O'Kane

In its first three years, her company made 30 films – mostly for television – including the Baghdad Blogger reports, featuring Baghdad resident 'Salam Pax' – whose blog Where is Raed? was printed in The Guardian and New York Times during the occupation of his city.

Memorial Grounds

The Guardian newspaper reported that the Memorial Grounds was the first football ground to stage a boxing match, on 31 July 1909 when Johnny Summers beat Jimmy Britt (now in the Ring Magazine hall of fame) in the ninth round of a 20-round contest.

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.

Muntean and Rosenblum

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

Nabila Ramdani

In a piece published in The Guardian in July 2012, she argued that Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the French minister for women's rights, "has let down Muslim voters" by not introducing measures such as "women-only swimming sessions in public pools".

New wave of new wave

The movement was short lived and several of the bands involved were later linked with the more commercially successful Britpop, which it immediately preceded, and the NWONW was described by John Harris of The Guardian as "Britpop without the good bits".

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.

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.

Pete and the Pirates

The band had become known for their straight-up accented vocal delivery, as noted by Johnny Dee for The Guardian, "you can practically smell the Thames on every word".

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;

Racism in the Arab world

The Guardian's journalist Brian Whitaker wrote on the race taboo, an excerpt: Racism is a worldwide phenomenon.

Rawalpindi experiments

Since the publication of the story by Rob Evans of the Guardian on 1 September 2007, the experiments are referred to as the Rawalpindi experiments or Rawalpindi mustard gas experiments in the media and elsewhere.

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".

Sarah Tisdall

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

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).

Snow Prince

The Guardian rated it third on its list of "The top 10 films of 2009 you probably won't have seen".

The Sleeping Years

Upon their release the EPs garnered critical acclaim, featuring on BBC Radio 1’s Introducing, the Guardian’s writer’s play list and on the cover mount of Rolling Stone and Word Magazine.

The Tall Guy

In a 2003 mid-career retrospective about Richard Curtis, The Guardian described the film as being "patronised in one sense by critics while not patronised in the other by audiences.".

The Wrens

The band have gained a reputation for their intense live shows - following a gig at the University of London Union in London in March 2006, The Guardian declared that "on this form the Wrens are surely one of the best live bands in the world".

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.

Zachary Philip Katznelson

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