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40 unusual facts about The Guardian


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.

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However, Gabriel subsequently reported in an interview in The Guardian that Radiohead had withdrawn from the project since hearing his version of their song "Street Spirit".

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.

Cyrus Frisch

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

De ludo scachorum

Chess theoreticians analyzed Pacioli's knowledge of the subject after one of the problems from the manuscript was published first by The Guardian and later elsewhere, including Raymond Keene's column in The Times and Susan Polgar's blog.

Dikili

The islet is offered for sale by its proprietors and The Guardian reported the Greek islanders of Lesbos raising money among themselves to buy the islet.

Drago Hedl

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

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.

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.

James Bone

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

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.

Jennifer Higdon

Among less favorable assessments, Andrew Clements in the Guardian gave a CD of Higdon's music a minimal one-star rating.

Jennifer M. Johnson

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

Les Musiciens du Louvre

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

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.

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.

Mervyn De Silva

During his career De Silva also worked for numerous foreign media including the BBC, Financial Times, The Economist, The Times of India, The Deccan Herald, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Newsweek, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Guardian, The Christian Science Monitor and Far Eastern Economic Review.

Mia Clarke

She is also a freelance writer and has written about music for publications including The Wire, The Guardian, and Pitchfork Media.

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.

One Australia policy

In a 2007 article in the British newspaper The Guardian, left wing journalist John Pilger claimed that the One Australia Policy was a forerunner to the One Nation political party.

Our World 2.0

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

Pietro Aglieri

The British journal The Guardian listed him as the emerging man of the year 1995 in Italy.

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.

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.

Progression: The Art of the Trio, Vol. 5

The Guardian's John Fordham observed "The way in which Mehldau develops improvisations thematically - eventually interweaving fragments of the original tune and spontaneous motifs until the pieces take on the character of 10-minute compositions rather than variations on much shorter originals - grows increasingly riveting".

Susan Blackmore

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".

Tony Harman

He became a published author late in life with an article in The Guardian.

Walter the Softy

In a 2013 interview with The Guardian, Beano editor Mike Stirling said that Walter was Dennis' nemesis because "he strangles the fun out of everything. He doesn't want to be a kid, he wants to be a grownup and is always snitching on kids who are having fun".

Wimdu

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


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.

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.

Bob Smithies

Smithies began his career from school at the Manchester Evening News as a darkroom assistant, progressing to the post of photographer there and later at the Manchester Guardian.

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.

Dave Podmore

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

Debbie Moore

Notable campaigns included Revlon, and a billboard in Times Square in New York plus Silvikrin shampoo, Rolo, Timex, 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.

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.

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.

Gideon Moi

In August 2007, The Guardian reported that the Kroll report, commissioned in 2004 by President Mwai Kibaki to trace assets of people who were suspected of looting the state, listed Gideon Moi.

Giovanni Aldini

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

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.

Hilary Wainwright

Hilary Wainwright's father was the Liberal MP Richard Wainwright, and her brother, Martin, is the Northern Editor of The Guardian, to which she occasionally contributes.

Intelligent Giving

October 2007 saw Intelligent Giving name and shame in The Guardian the rugby union charity Wooden Spoon Society for providing a very low return on its fundraising activities.

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".

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.

Madeline Miller

Miller told a reporter from The Guardian that she has been inspired by a lot of books, poetry and authors, including David Mitchell, Lorrie Moore, Anne Carson and Virgil.

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.

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".

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

Sheila Jeffreys

Roz Kaveney, a trans woman and critic of Jeffreys, wrote in The Guardian that Sheila Jeffreys and radical feminists who share her views are "acting like a cult."

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.

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 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.

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".

Yankee Air Museum

The campaign has attracted national and international attention from media outlets that include National Public Radio, The History Channel magazine, National Geographic TV, The Guardian (UK), and the (UK) Daily Mail.