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36 unusual facts about The Guardian


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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jeff Cowen

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

Jennifer Higdon

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

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.

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.

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.

Mya Aye

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

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.

Pinwale

According to information obtained by The Guardian from Edward Snowden, Pinwale is part of a "multi-tiered system" to address the issue of NSA "collecting so much internet data that it can be stored only for short periods of time."

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.

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.

Susan Blackmore

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

Tom Gauld

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

Tony Harman

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

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.

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".

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.

Zak Waters

Zak Waters (born 1966) is an award-winning editorial photographer, whose newspaper clients include The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Times and Le Point.


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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Greenwashing

According to Fred Pearce's Greenwash column in The Guardian, "clean coal" is the "ultimate climate change oxymoron"—"pure and utter greenwash" he says.

Hahn/Cock

Adrian Searle of The Guardian commented that "the scale and modelling and degree of detail feel right", with a "lifelike and other-worldly" feel to the sculpture.

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.

Jennifer M. Johnson

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

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".

Katrina Karkazis

Media coverage of sport issues includes American Association for the Advancement of Science, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, New Scientist, New York Times and Time, often in collaboration with Rebecca Jordan-Young.

Les Musiciens du Louvre

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

Lucian Dan Teodorovici

He has contributed prose, drama, and articles to various cultural magazines in Romania and abroad, including Au sud de l’Est (Paris), Transcript (London), Lampa (Warsaw), Magyar Lettre Internationale (Budapest), The Guardian (London), Absinthe: New European Writing (U.S.A) etc.

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".

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.

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".

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.

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".

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".

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.

Sarah Tisdall

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

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."

Snow Prince

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

The Borderers

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

The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music

It is written by Ivan March, a music journalist, consultant and former professional musician; Edward Greenfield, former music critic of The Guardian newspaper and Robert Layton, music writer and lecturer.

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.

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".

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.

Zachary Philip Katznelson

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