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Friday Night Lights (film soundtrack) Friday Night Lights is the soundtrack for the 2004 film "Friday Night Lights", mostly written by post-rock band Explosions in the Sky in June and August 2004. It also features music by Daniel Lanois, Bad Company, and David Torn.
Tim Riggins Timothy "Tim" Riggins is a character in sports drama "Friday Night Lights", portrayed by actor Taylor Kitsch. Tim Riggins is the fullback/running back of the Dillon Panthers in the television series. His character is similar to Don Billingsley from the original novel and 2004 film "Friday Night Lights".
Liz Heldens Elizabeth Heldens is a television producer and writer. She is the creator of "Deception", a drama on NBC which premiered on January 7, 2013. She has worked on the NBC drama series "Friday Night Lights". She was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best New Series at the February 2007 ceremony ...
Matt Saracen Matthew "Matt" Saracen is a fictional character in the NBC/DirecTV (The 101 Network) television drama series "Friday Night Lights" portrayed by the actor, Zach Gilford. He is the former back-up quarterback of the Dillon High School Panthers before being thrust into the starting spotlight after Jason Street...
Friday Night Lights (mixtape) Friday Night Lights is the third official mixtape from Fayetteville, North Carolina rapper J. Cole. It was released on November 12, 2010. The mixtape was to originally be called Villematic and contain J. Cole's previous leaks and freestyles, however, Cole later stated it would have origina...
Smash Williams Brian "Smash" Williams is a fictional character in the NBC/DirecTV(The 101 Network) drama television series "Friday Night Lights" portrayed by actor Gaius Charles. He is the starting running back of the Dillon High School Panthers. Considered the most talented player on the roster after quarterback Jason...
Friday Night Lights (television soundtrack) Friday Night Lights is the soundtrack for the television series "Friday Night Lights", a program inspired by the film of the same name.
Jason Gavin (writer) Jason Gavin is a television writer. He has worked on the NBC drama series "Friday Night Lights" as a writer. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2009 ceremony for his work on the third season of "Friday Night Lights". He was nominated...
3 Days to Kill 3 Days to Kill is a 2014 French-American crime-thriller film directed by McG and written by Luc Besson and Adi Hasak. The film stars Kevin Costner, Amber Heard, Hailee Steinfeld, Connie Nielsen, Richard Sammel, and Eriq Ebouaney. The film was released on 21 February 2014.
John Zinman John Zinman is a film and television writer and producer. He has worked on the NBC drama series "Friday Night Lights". He often works with writing partner Patrick Massett. He has been nominated for four Writers Guild of America (WGA) Awards for his work on "Friday Night Lights".
Bill Strannigan William "Bill" Matthew Strannigan (December 1, 1918 – September 7, 1997) was a college men's basketball coach . He was the head coach of Colorado State from 1950 to 1954, Iowa State from 1954 to 1959, and Wyoming from 1959 to 1973. He coached his teams to a 308-289 record, winning one Mountain States Co...
Kermit Blosser Ohio Athletics Hall of Fame The Kermit Blosser Ohio Athletics Hall of Fame is the shrine which all Ohio University Bobcats greats aspire to enter. Since 1965, inductees to the Blosser Ohio Athletics Hall of Fame are inducted during banquet ceremonies the evening prior to a designated home football game. ...
Richard Williams (basketball coach) Richard Williams was the college basketball head coach at Mississippi State from 1986 to 1998. He is the 2nd most successful coach in school history with 191 victories (191–163 .540) bested only by his former assistant, Rick Stansbury. His 1991 squad won the Southeastern Conference c...
David Rankin (American football) David William Rankin (February 2, 1919 – December 8, 2006) was an American football player and track athlete and coach. He was a consensus first-team All-American at the end position at Purdue University in 1940. He also set a U.S. indoor record in the 60-yard low hurdles in 1940. Durin...
Harry Gallatin Harry Junior "The Horse" Gallatin (April 26, 1927 – October 7, 2015) was an American professional basketball player and coach. Gallatin played nine seasons for the New York Knicks in the NBA from 1948 to 1957, as well as one season with the Detroit Pistons in the 1957–58 season. Gallatin led the NBA in r...
Speedy Speer James Harrel "Speedy" Speer (March 5, 1895 – September 2, 1976) was a college football player for the Furman Paladins of Furman University and a high school football coach. He was elected to the South Carolina Athletics Hall of Fame in 1974, and the Furman Athletics Hall of Fame in 1981.
Osborne Cowles Osborne Bryan Cowles (August 25, 1899 – August 29, 1997) was an American basketball player and coach. He was the head men's basketball coach at Carleton College (1924–1930), River Falls State Teachers College (now University of Wisconsin–River Falls) (1932–1936), Dartmouth College (1936–1946), University...
Rogers Lehew Rogers Lehew (born July 30, 1928) is a former American and Canadian football executive. He attended the University of Tulsa, where he played football and baseball, lettering a total of seven times. he captained the 1949 football team, and also served as assistant football coach and head baseball coach. Leh...
Lester Lautenschlaeger Lester Joseph Lautenschlaeger (May 27, 1904 – August 5, 1986) was an American football player and coach and politician. He played at the quarterback position at Tulane University from 1922 to 1925, served as an assistant football coach at Tulane from 1929 to 1935, and served in the Louisiana Hous...
Ken Hayes Ken Hayes (born 1931) was the head men's basketball coach at Tulsa (1968–75), New Mexico State (1975–79), Oral Roberts (1979–82) and Northeastern State (1983–97). Hayes was inducted into the Tulsa University Athletics Hall of Fame (2008), the Northeastern State Athletics Hall of Fame (1999), and the Bacone Co...
Vaughn Bodē Vaughn Bodē ( ; July 22, 1941 – July 18, 1975) was an underground cartoonist and illustrator known for his character Cheech Wizard and his artwork depicting voluptuous women. A contemporary of Ralph Bakshi, Bodē has been credited as an influence on Bakshi's animated films "Wizards" and "The Lord of the Ring...
Heavy Traffic Heavy Traffic is a 1973 American adult animated comedy-drama film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi. The film, which begins, ends, and occasionally combines with live-action, explores the often surreal fantasies of a young New York cartoonist named Michael Corleone, using pinball imagery as a metaphor ...
Modern Girls (1937 film) Modern Girls or Today's Girls (Hungarian: Mai lányok) is a 1937 Hungarian comedy film directed by Béla Gaál and starring Lia Szepes, Jëno Pataky and Steven Geray. The film may be best remembered for Magda Gabor's appearance in a supporting role.
Béla Gaál Béla Gaál (2 January 1893 – 18 February 1945) was a Hungarian film director. His 1930 film "Csak egy kislány van a világon" was the first sound film to be made in Hungary.
Cool and the Crazy Cool and the Crazy is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi and starring Jared Leto and Alicia Silverstone. The story revolves around an unhappily married couple in the late 1950s who both lead separate affairs. The film was Bakshi's first feature-length live-action film, be...
The Dream Car The Dream Car (Hungarian: Meseautó ) is a 1934 Hungarian romantic comedy film directed by Béla Gaál and starring Zita Perczel, Ella Gombaszögi and Klári Tolnay. A tycoon falls in love with a poor woman and secretly buys her a car. The 1935 British film "Car of Dreams" was based on this film.
Fritz the Cat (film) Fritz the Cat is a 1972 American adult animated comedy film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi. It was Bakshi's feature film debut and is loosely based on the Fritz the Cat comic strips by Robert Crumb. It was the first animated feature film to receive an X rating in the United States.
Tales of Budapest Tales Of Budapest (Hungarian: "Pesti mese" ) is a 1937 Hungarian comedy film directed by Béla Gaál.
Fire and Ice (1983 film) Fire and Ice is a 1983 American adult animated epic high fantasy adventure film directed by Ralph Bakshi. The film, a collaboration between Bakshi and Frank Frazetta, was distributed by 20th Century Fox, which also distributed Bakshi's 1977 release, "Wizards". The animated feature, based on cha...
The New Relative The New Relative (Hungarian: Az új rokon ) is a 1934 Hungarian comedy film directed by Béla Gaál.
My Chemical Romance My Chemical Romance (often abbreviated as MCR) was an American rock band from Newark, New Jersey, active from 2001 to 2013. The band's best-known lineup consisted of lead vocalist Gerard Way, guitarists Ray Toro and Frank Iero, bassist Mikey Way and drummer Bob Bryar. Founded by Gerard, Mikey, Toro,...
One Man Army (band) One Man Army is an American punk rock band that was formed in San Francisco, California, in 1996 and separated in 2005 and reunited in 2011. The band was discovered by Billie Joe Armstrong while playing in an East Bay club, and their debut album "Dead End Stories" was the first release on Adeline Re...
Drive North Drive North is the third studio album by the American rock band SWMRS, released on February 16, 2016, through their own label, Uncool Records. It was re-released through Fueled By Ramen on October 14, 2016 when they added the songs "Palm Trees" and "Lose It" to the record. It is the band's first studio albu...
Frank Iero Frank Anthony Iero, Jr. (born October 31, 1981) is an American musician who was the rhythm guitarist and backup vocalist of the rock band My Chemical Romance and post-hardcore band Leathermouth. He has a solo punk rock project titled Frank Iero and the Patience. He released an album under the previous name o...
She (Green Day song) "She" is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day. It is the eighth track on their third album, "Dookie" and was released as the fifth and final single. The song was written by frontman Billie Joe Armstrong about a former girlfriend who showed him a feminist poem with an identical title. In ...
Jakob Danger Jakob Danger Armstrong (born September 12, 1998) is a guitarist and singer/songwriter, currently for the band "Mt Eddy" (Formerly named "Danger!") . He released his first solo material online in 2015 under the name "Jakob Danger". He is also the youngest child of Billie Joe Armstrong and Adrienne Armstrong...
Frank Iero and the Patience Frank Iero and the Patience is an American rock band from Belleville, New Jersey. Their debut album, "Stomachaches", was released on August 25, 2014. Their second album "Parachutes" was released on October 27, 2016 with the promotional singles "I'm A Mess", "Remedy", and "Oceans". Their curr...
Swim (Emily's Army EP) Swim is the fourth EP by American rock band Emily's Army, released on July 22, 2014, through Burger Records and Rise Records. The album is the band's first release on Burger Records and last on Rise Records. The album was produced by drummer Joey Armstrong's father, Billie Joe Armstrong. It is th...
Lost at Seventeen Lost at Seventeen is the second studio album by American rock band Emily's Army, released on June 11, 2013, through Rise Records and Adeline Records. The album was produced by drummer Joey Armstrong's father, Billie Joe Armstrong. It is the bands last studio under their former name "Emily's Army" afte...
Don't Be a Dick Don't Be a Dick is the debut studio album by American rock band Emily's Army, released on June 14, 2011, through Rise Records and Adeline Records. The album was produced by drummer Joey Armstrong's father, Billie Joe Armstrong, and long time Green Day engineer Chris Dugan.
Heaven Hill Heaven Hill Distilleries, Inc. is an American, private family-owned and operated distillery company headquartered in Bardstown, Kentucky that produces and markets the Heaven Hill brand of Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey and a variety of other distilled spirits. Its current distillery facility, called the ...
Viking Range Viking Range Corporation is an appliance company that manufactures kitchen appliances for residential and commercial use. Viking originated the "professional" segment of kitchen appliances with its introduction of the first professional-grade range for home use in 1987. Today the company offers three compl...
GE Appliances GE Appliances, formerly known as GE Appliances & Lighting and GE Consumer & Industrial, along with GE Appliances, when owned by General Electric (GE), is an appliance company headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky and owned by Haier Group. It is one of the largest appliance brands in the United States. The...
Freedom Hall Freedom Hall is a multipurpose arena in Louisville, Kentucky, on the grounds of the Kentucky Exposition Center, which is owned by the Commonwealth of Kentucky. It is best known for its use as a basketball arena, serving as the home of the University of Louisville Cardinals men's team from 1956 to 2010, the...
Hotpoint The Hotpoint Electric Heating Company (generally known simply as Hotpoint) is an American and European brand of domestic appliances. Ownership of the brand is split between the American company Whirlpool, which has European rights, and Chinese company Haier, which has North American rights since its purchase o...
Danby (appliances) Danby is the name of a line of appliances marketed by Danby Products Ltd., led by Guelph’s Wood family. The company claimed the largest market share in the compact appliance category in North America (in 2012). It is a privately held Canadian company headquartered on the outskirts of Guelph, Ontario....
Parker Hannifin Parker Hannifin Corporation, originally Parker Appliance Company, usually referred to as just Parker, is an American corporation specializing in motion and control technologies. Its corporate headquarters are in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, in Greater Cleveland (with a Cleveland mailing address). The company...
Maytag (disambiguation) Maytag was an American home and commercial appliance company.
Fantom Technologies Fantom Technologies, Inc. was a Canadian household appliance company founded in Welland, Ontario in 1986 as IONA Appliances, with offices in Buffalo, New York, USA. A manufacturer of dual-cyclonic type vacuum cleaners, they were inspired from the Dyson vacuums (which would not appear in North Americ...
Arthur L. Parker Arthur "Art" LaRue Parker (November 16, 1885 – January 1, 1945) was an American businessman and inventor, known for founding Parker Hannifin Corporation (then known as Parker Appliance Company).
Guidance Software Guidance Software, Inc. was a public company (NASDAQ: GUID) founded in 1997. Headquartered in Pasadena, Calif., the company developed and provided software solutions for digital investigations primarily in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia/Pacific Rim. Guidance Software ...
Hi Tech Expressions Hi Tech Expressions was an American video game publisher and developer headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The company was established in 1988. During the course of its existence, the company published primarily juvenile-oriented games. While it published a few adolescent-oriented games...
Maritime Broadband Maritime Broadband INC is a US engineering company providing VSAT communication systems for maritime use. Founded in 2009, the company is headquartered in Long Island City and manufactures its proprietary C-Bird in the U.S. The company has developed advanced maritime communication solutions for merch...
OncoMed OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a public American pharmaceutical development company headquartered in Redwood City, California. The company was founded in August 2004 by two University of Michigan investigators, Michael Clarke and Max S. Wicha. s of 2013 , the company had 83 employees. OncoMed's drug discovery...
Ashland Inc. Ashland Global Specialty Chemicals Inc. is an American chemical company which operates in more than 100 countries. Headquartered in Covington, Kentucky, the company traces its roots back to the city of Ashland, Kentucky, where it was headquartered from 1924 to 1999. The company currently has five wholly ow...
Tyler Media Group Tyler Media Group, also known as Tyler Broadcasting Corporation or simply Tyler Media, headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a media company which owns five television stations (consisting of two Univision network affiliates, one Estrella TV affiliate and two Telemundo affiliate) and thirteen r...
Proginet Proginet Corporation, which was acquired by Tibco Software in 2010, was a systems management software company. It is best known for having developed a breakthrough product in the late 1980s called XCOM, which allowed companies to manage the process of moving bulk data between 26 different computer operating sy...
Mad Catz Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. was an American company that provided interactive entertainment products marketed under Mad Catz, GameShark (gaming products) and TRITTON (audio products). Mad Catz developed flight simulation software through its internal ThunderHawk Studios, developed flight simulation and chess ha...
Bug Labs Bug Labs is a technology company headquartered in New York City that began by developing and selling open-source hardware peripherals for rapid prototyping of electronic devices. The company, founded in April 2006, developed a Lego-like hardware platform that technology enthusiasts, hobbyists and engineers use...
Economy of Atlanta The Atlanta economy is the 10th largest in the country and 18th in the world with an estimated 2014 GDP of over $324 Billion. Atlanta is one of ten U.S. cities classified as an "alpha-world city" by a 2010 study at Loughborough University, and ranks fourth in the number of Fortune 500 companies headq...
Hibiscus tiliaceus Hibiscus tiliaceus is a species of flowering tree in the mallow family, Malvaceae, that is native to the Old World tropics. Common names include sea hibiscus, beach hibiscus, coastal (or coast) hibiscus, coastal (or coast) cottonwood, green cottonwood, native hibiscus, native rosella, cottonwood hibi...
Hibiscus acetosella Hibiscus acetosella (cranberry hibiscus or African rosemallow) is an angiosperm of the genus "Hibiscus" or rosemallow. The word "acetosella" is of Latin origin and is derived from an old name for sorrel (Oxalis) which comes from the sour taste experienced when eating the young leaves of the plant. "...
Hibiscus calyphyllus The lemonyellow rosemallow ("Hibiscus calyphyllus", syn. "Hibiscus calycinus, Hibiscus chrysantha, Hibiscus chrysanthus, Hibiscus rockii") is a shrub from tropical Africa belonging to the Hibiscus genus. In 1883 this Hibiscus was offered for sale in England under the name "Hibiscus chrysanthus" wit...
Cyrtandra (plant) Cyrtandra is a genus of flowering plants containing about 600 species, with more being discovered often, and is thus the largest genus in the family Gesneriaceae. These plants are native to Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands, with the centre of diversity in Southeast Asia and the Males...
Reseda alba Reseda alba is a species of flowering plant in the reseda family known by the common names white mignonette or white upright mignonette. It is native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and it can be found in parts of the Americas and Australia as an introduced species. It is also cultivated as an ornamental...
Hibiscus insularis The Philip Island Hibiscus (Hibiscus insularis) is a species of hibiscus that is endemic to Phillip Island, a small island to the south of Norfolk Island. The entire natural extent of this species is just two small clumps, and each clump apparently consists of multiple separate stems of a single geno...
Hibiscus lasiocarpos Hibiscus lasiocarpos (also, "H. lasiocarpus" "orth. var.") is a species of hibiscus known by the common name hairy-fruited hibiscus. It is also one of several hibiscus called rosemallow. It is native to much of the southeastern United States, as well as parts of California and northern Mexico. It i...
Hawaiian hibiscus Hawaiian hibiscus are seven species of hibiscus regarded as native to Hawaii. The yellow hibiscus is Hawaii's state flower. Although tourists regularly associate the hibiscus flower within experiences visiting the US state of Hawaii, and the plant family Malvaceae includes a relatively large number of...
Hibiscus waimeae Hibiscus waimeae (white Kauai rosemallow, Hawaiian: "" , or ) is a species of flowering plant in the okra family, Malvaceae, that is endemic to the island of Kauaʻ i in Hawaii. It is a small gray-barked tree, reaching a height of 6 - and a trunk diameter of 0.3 m . The flowers last for a single day, st...
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, known colloquially as Chinese hibiscus, China rose, Hawaiian hibiscus, and shoeblackplant, is a species of tropical hibiscus, a flowering plant in the Hibisceae tribe of the family Malvaceae, native to East Asia.
Marcy Playground (album) Marcy Playground is the self-titled album by Marcy Playground, released on February 25, 1997 with EMI. It was reissued later that year on October 7 on Capitol Records with a large amount of promotion for the single "Sex and Candy," which became the band's breakthrough single, spending a then-re...
John Wozniak John Keith Wozniak (born January 19, 1971) is an American musician, best known as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of the band Marcy Playground. He is the son of Robert Wozniak, a developmental psychologist dad, and Nora Wozniak, a free spirited Bohemian mother.
It's Saturday "It's Saturday" is the name of the fourth single by alternative rock band Marcy Playground. It was originally titled "Teenage Hypochondriac" but was changed before the release date of the album. Although nowhere near as successful as the band's earlier smash hit "Sex and Candy," "It's Saturday" managed to...
Indaba Remixes from Wonderland Indaba remixes from Wonderland is the fifth release of the alternative rock band Marcy Playground. It was released on September 28, 2010. Fans and musicians from all around the world had submitted some 337 individual remixes to "Indaba Music" in support of the album. "Marcy Playground" we...
Sherry Fraser "Sherry Fraser" is the name of the third single by alternative rock/post-grunge band Marcy Playground. Although nowhere near as successful as the band's earlier smash hit "Sex and Candy," nor the minor hit "St. Joe on the Schoolbus," the song did receive moderate radio and MTV2 airplay in 1998. The track ...
Marcy Playground Marcy Playground is an American alternative rock band consisting of three members: John Wozniak (lead vocals, guitar), Dylan Keefe (bass), and Shlomi Lavie (drums). The band is best known for their 1997 hit "Sex and Candy".
Into Your Arms "Into Your Arms" is a song by alternative rock band The Lemonheads. The song is included on the 1993 album "Come on Feel the Lemonheads". It reached number one on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart in November 1993. It remained at number one for nine weeks, a record at the time that they shared with U2...
Zog BogBean – From the Marcy Playground Zog BogBean – From the Marcy Playground, was an album, self-produced and recorded by John Wozniak in his bedroom studio with some help from his then-girlfriend Sherry Fraser and her brother, Scott. A small run of CDs were self-released by Wozniak, and they remain extremely diffic...
Dylan Keefe Dylan Keefe (born April 11, 1970 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is the bassist and one of the founding members of the multi-platinum selling alternative rock band Marcy Playground.
Saint Joe on the School Bus "Saint Joe on the School Bus" is the name of the second single by alternative rock/post-grunge band Marcy Playground. Although far from being as successful as the band's earlier smash hit "Sex and Candy," "St. Joe on the Schoolbus" managed to hit number 8 on the US Modern Rock Charts and num...
Israel Potter Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile is the eighth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in serial form in "Putnam's Monthly" magazine between July 1854 and March 1855, and in book form by G. P. Putnam & Co. in March 1855. A pirated edition was also published in London by George Rout...
Hershel Parker Hershel Parker is an American professor of English and literature, noted for his research into the works of Herman Melville. Parker is the H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus at the University of Delaware. He is co-editor with Harrison Hayford of the Norton Critical Edition of Herman Melville's "Moby-Di...
Typee Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life is the first book by American writer Herman Melville, published first in London, then New York, in 1846. Considered a classic in travel and adventure literature, the narrative is partly based on the author's actual experiences on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas...
Moby-Dick Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by American writer Herman Melville, published in 1851 during the period of the American Renaissance. Sailor Ishmael tells the story of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler "Pequod", for revenge on Moby Dick, the white whale that on the previous whaling voyage ...
The Confidence-Man The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1857. The book was published on April 1, the exact day of the novel's setting. "The Confidence-Man" portrays a "Canterbury Tales"–style group of steamboat passengers...
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is a novel, the seventh book, by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852. The plot, which uses many conventions of Gothic fiction, develops the psychological, sexual, and family tensions between Pierre Glendinning; his widowed mother; ...
Redburn Redburn: His First Voyage is the fourth book by the American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. The book is semi-autobiographical and recounts the adventures of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. Melville wrote "Redburn" in less than ten w...
Billy Budd Billy Budd, Sailor is the final novel by American writer Herman Melville, first published posthumously in London in 1924 as edited by Raymond M. Weaver, a professor at Columbia University. Other versions were later published. Melville had begun writing the original work in November 1888, but left it unfinish...
Clarel Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) is an epic poem by American writer Herman Melville, originally published in two volumes. "Clarel" is the longest poem in American literature, stretching to almost 18,000 lines (longer even than European classics such as the "Iliad", "Aeneid" and "Paradise Los...
Marvel Classics Comics Marvel Classics Comics was an American comics magazine which ran from 1976 until 1978. It specialized in adaptations of literary classics such as "Moby-Dick", "The Three Musketeers", and "The Iliad". It was Marvel Comics' attempt to pick up the mantle of "Classics Illustrated", which stopped publ...
Land speed record The land speed record (or absolute land speed record) is the highest speed achieved by a person using a vehicle on land. There is no single body for validation and regulation; in practice the Category C ("Special Vehicles") flying start regulations are used, officiated by regional or national organiza...
Budweiser Rocket The Budweiser Rocket was an American 3-wheeled land vehicle, generally resembling the 1970-era "Blue Flame" land speed record holding vehicle in appearance, powered by a hybrid liquid and solid-fuel rocket engine with an extra booster from a Sidewinder missile, that has been claimed as being the first ...
Ernest Eldridge Ernest Arthur Douglas Eldridge (18 July 1897 – 27 October 1937) was a British racing car driver who broke the world land speed record in 1924. His was the last land speed record set on an open road.
Bluebird Mach 1.1 Bluebird Mach 1.1 (CMN-8) was a design for a rocket-powered supersonic land speed record car, planned by Donald Campbell but thwarted by his subsequent death during a water speed record attempt in "Bluebird K7" in early 1967.
Henry Segrave Sir Henry O'Neil de Hane Segrave (22 September 1896 – 13 June 1930) was an early British pioneer in land speed and water speed records. Seagrave, who set three land and one water record, was the first person to hold both titles simultaneously and the first person to travel at over 200 mph in a land vehicl...
Bloodhound SSC Bloodhound SSC is a British supersonic land vehicle currently in development. Its goal is to match or exceed 1000 mph achieving a new world land speed record. The pencil-shaped car, powered by a jet engine and a rocket engine is designed to reach 1050 mph . It is being developed and built with the intent...
Stan Barrett Stan Barrett (born June 26, 1943) is a Hollywood stuntman, stunt coordinator and actor. His biggest act was however outside the movie world. On December 17, 1979, he attempted to break the Land Speed Record, and the sound barrier in the Budweiser Rocket rocket-powered three-wheel vehicle. His calculated sp...
Bluebird-Proteus CN7 The Bluebird-Proteus CN7 is a gas turbine-powered vehicle that was driven by Donald Campbell and achieved the world land speed record on Lake Eyre in Australia on 17 July 1964. The vehicle set the FIA world record for the flying mile at 403.10 mph .
Art Arfons Arthur Eugene "Art" Arfons (February 3, 1926 – December 3, 2007) was the world land speed record holder three times from 1964 to 1965 with his "Green Monster" series of jet-powered cars, after a series of "Green Monster" piston-engine and jet-engined dragsters. He subsequently went on to field a succession o...
Golden Arrow (car) Golden Arrow was a land speed record racer built in Britain to regain the world land speed record from USA. Henry Segrave drove the car at Daytona Beach and exceeded the previous record by 24 mph or 39 km/h.