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420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
which resulted in a class action lawsuit involving 8,000 plaintiffs. Attendees received tickets and, in some cases, reimbursements for out of pocket expenses. The band performed in early November at an auto race in Abu Dhabi.
On November 9, 2009, the media reported that Tyler had no contact with the other... | 20,500 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
November 10, 2009, at the Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza and performed "Walk This Way". According to sources at the event, Tyler assured the crowd that despite rumors to the contrary, he is "not quitting Aerosmith."
On December 22, 2009, "Rolling Stone" reported that Tyler had checked into rehab for pa... | 20,501 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
clips of the film itself. The single was released on November 24, a week before the movie was released. A preview of the single can be heard in the movie's trailers. On September 22, 2010, Fox confirmed that Tyler would replace Simon Cowell as a judge for the tenth season of "American Idol" alongside Randy... | 20,502 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
May. On April 2, 2011, Tyler presented an award at the 2011 Kids' Choice Awards. The following day, he performed with Carrie Underwood at the Academy of Country Music Awards. Underwood and Tyler performed Underwood's song "Undo It" and completed their segment with an energetic version of the Aerosmith clas... | 20,503 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
Tyler worked on new material for Aerosmith's next studio album. Tyler performed the Aerosmith song "Dream On" on the season finale of "American Idol" on May 25.
Throughout the summer of 2011, Tyler worked with the other members of Aerosmith on the band's next studio album, scheduled for release in the spr... | 20,504 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
his face, including losing several teeth. Tyler was rushed to the hospital, and the scheduled show was postponed for the following night. When he did finally perform after the opening song, he proudly displayed his broken tooth which he had on a string around his neck. He then removed his sunglasses to rev... | 20,505 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
of "Happy Birthday" on "American Idol" in advance of Tyler's 64th birthday. On March 26, 2012, Aerosmith announced their "Global Warming Tour" with dates in many major North American cities from June 16 to August 8, preceded by a performance on May 30 for Walmart shareholders. In April, a Burger King telev... | 20,506 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
"After some long ... hard ... thoughts ... I've decided it's time for me to let go of my mistress 'American Idol' before she boils my rabbit. I strayed from my first love, AEROSMITH, and I'm back — but instead of begging on my hands and knees, I got two fists in the air and I'm kicking the door open with m... | 20,507 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
the first leg of their Global Warming Tour with a rescheduled performance in Bristow, Virginia, and on August 28, the band released two singles simultaneously, the rocker "Lover Alot" and the ballad "What Could Have Been Love", both of which were coproduced and cowritten by Tyler. On September 22, Aerosmit... | 20,508 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
fourth single from "Music from Another Dimension!". He briefly returned to "American Idol" in season 12, auditioning dressed up as a woman named "Pepper" in front of the judges (Randy Jackson, Nicki Minaj, Keith Urban, and Mariah Carey). He also visited the judges when they were auditioning contestants in ... | 20,509 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
would be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at a ceremony to be held on June 13.
In late April and early May 2013, Aerosmith extended their Global Warming Tour to Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, and Singapore. This marked the band's first performances in Australia in 23 years, and the ban... | 20,510 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
he ever did. Tyler also appeared in Moscow, Russia on November 9 for the Miss Universe 2013 pageant as one of the judges and performed "Dream On". On May 30, Aerosmith performed as part of the "Boston Strong" charity concert for victims of the Boston Marathon bombings. The band also performed at a handful ... | 20,511 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators as the opening act), which sent Aerosmith to 19 locations across North America from July 10 to September 12.
## "We're All Somebody from Somewhere" solo album, "Out on a Limb" solo tour, and continued touring with Aerosmith (2015–present).
On March 31, 2015, Tyler state... | 20,512 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
and the "American Idol" season-14 finale. To increase his exposure to the country audience, Tyler appeared as himself in an episode of the musical drama series "Nashville", performing a cover of "Crazy" with Juliette Barnes (portrayed by Hayden Pannettiere).
On June 13, Tyler rejoined his Aerosmith bandma... | 20,513 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
followed by the third single (the title track) in June 2016. From July through September 2016, Tyler will be performing with his backing band Loving Mary on the 19-date Out on a Limb Tour; this was preceded by a pair of performances in Niagara Falls in March 2016 and a benefit show for his charity Janie's ... | 20,514 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
potential of doing one last studio album.
From September through October 2016, Tyler rejoined Aerosmith for a nine-date tour of Latin America, called the Rock 'N' Roll Rumble Tour, preceded by a performance at the Kaaboo Festival in San Diego.
In April 2017, Tyler performed with Aerosmith in Phoenix, Ari... | 20,515 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
however, due to health issues. Tyler also performed a handful of solo shows in 2017 with The Loving Mary Band.
In January 2018, Tyler hosted an inaugural red carpet gala for his charity “Janie's Fund” during the 60th Grammy Awards. In February, he starred in a commercial for Kia Motors that aired during S... | 20,516 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
Las Vegas called “”, a reference to both Las Vegas casino gambling and their 1994 single of the same name. The band will play 35 shows during the months of April, June, July, and September thru December of 2019 at the Park Theater. In mid July, the band will perform at a festival in Minnesota, and in Augus... | 20,517 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
Tyler has been a long-time motorcycle fan and riding enthusiast,
Steven Tyler also participates in a variety of charity auctions involving motorcycles, including the Ride for Children charity.
# Politics.
In the early months of 2013, an act was forwarded into the Hawaii legislature entitled the Steven T... | 20,518 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
the Judiciary Committee on Friday, February 8, 2013. Tyler is registered as a Republican.
# Personal life.
## Julia Holcomb.
In 1975, Tyler persuaded the parents of 16-year-old groupie Julia Holcomb to sign over guardianship to him so that she could live with him in Boston. They dated and took drugs tog... | 20,519 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
an abortion when Tyler was worried that the fire's smoke, as well as drugs, might lead to birth defects.
Band member Ray Tabano wrote in "Walk This Way" that the abortion "really messed Steven up,” because the child was a boy. Tyler wrote, "It was a big crisis. It's a major thing when you're growing somet... | 20,520 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
some to her.
Julia Holcomb revealed her regret for having the abortion, joined the Silent No More organization of women who have regretted their abortions, and converted to Catholicism.
## Family and relationships.
Tyler had a brief relationship with fashion model Bebe Buell, during which he fathered ac... | 20,521 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
David Johansen, and fathered model Mia Tyler (born on December 22, 1978). He and Foxe divorced in 1987; in 1997, she published "Dream On: Livin' on the Edge With Steven Tyler and Aerosmith", a memoir of her life with Tyler. Foxe died from brain cancer in 2002.
On May 28, 1988, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tyler ma... | 20,522 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
engagement.
Tyler is the cousin of Tommy Tallarico, co-creator of the concert series Video Games Live.
## Throat surgery.
In 2006 immediately after a two-hour performance in Florida, Tyler got into an argument during which he yelled. He awoke the next morning to find that he had a hoarse voice. On March... | 20,523 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
the Joint Tour were subsequently canceled.
The cause was diagnosed as a ruptured blood vessel in his throat, which was successfully sealed off using a laser by Dr. Steven M. Zeitels, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation. In the words of Tyler... | 20,524 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
Miss a Thing" as part of the Boston Pops July 4 Fireworks Spectacular.
Tyler's throat surgery was featured in 2007 on an episode of the National Geographic Channel series, "Incredible Human Machine".
## Hepatitis C.
In a September 2006 interview with "Access Hollywood", Tyler revealed that he had been s... | 20,525 |
420438 | Steven Tyler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler
pread through blood-to-blood contact, or with sharing used needles.
# Philanthropy and Impact.
Tyler launched Janie's Fund – named after Aerosmith's 1989 track “Janie's Got a Gun” – in 2015 to providing protection and counseling for young female victims of abuse, and he has helped raise over $2.4 million... | 20,526 |
420539 | Yungchen Lhamo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yungchen%20Lhamo | Yungchen Lhamo
Yungchen Lhamo
Yungchen Lhamo (Tibetan: དབྱངས་ཅན་ལྷ་མོ) is a Tibetan singer-songwriter living in New York City. She won an Australian Record Industry Association award (ARIA) for best Folk/World/Traditional album, and was then signed by Peter Gabriel's Realworld Record label.
Yungchen has performed wit... | 20,527 |
420539 | Yungchen Lhamo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yungchen%20Lhamo | Yungchen Lhamo
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Yungchen Lhamo has toured extensively throughout the world, singing unaccompanied, a combination of songs of her own unique composition and traditional Buddhist chant and mantras. She has performed with artists including Annie Lennox, Peter Gabriel, Billy Corgan, Natalie Merc... | 20,528 |
420539 | Yungchen Lhamo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yungchen%20Lhamo | Yungchen Lhamo
in 1993, then to New York City in 2000.
Lhamo's Australian debut album, "Tibetan Prayer", produced by John Prior, won the ARIA Music Awards for best Folk/World/Traditional Music release in 1995. She is the first Tibetan singer to win a prestigious music industry award. The success of that record led to ... | 20,529 |
420539 | Yungchen Lhamo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yungchen%20Lhamo | Yungchen Lhamo
instruments, and the benefits of multi-track recording, enabling Lhamo's voice to be layered repeatedly.
On November 20, 22 and 24, 2007, at the Louvre Museum in Paris, Yungchen accompanied a site-specific dance work 'Walking The Line' by American choreographer Bill T. Jones. This performance, with solo... | 20,530 |
420539 | Yungchen Lhamo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yungchen%20Lhamo | Yungchen Lhamo
Slave" (c1513) by Michelangelo are exhibited.
Lhamo's album "Ama" (which means Mother in the Tibetan language) was released in April 2006 and was produced by Iranian-American musician Jamshied Sharifi. Featured artists include Annie Lennox and Joy Askew. Yungchen's music has earned her recognition by th... | 20,531 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
Frederick W. Lanchester
Frederick William Lanchester LLD, Hon FRAeS, FRS (23 October 1868 – 8 March 1946), was an English polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering and to aerodynamics, and co-invented the topic of operations research.
Lanchester became a ... | 20,532 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
eight children; his older brother Henry Vaughan Lanchester also became an architect; his younger sister Edith Lanchester was a socialist and suffragette; and his brothers George Herbert Lanchester and Frank joined him in forming the Lanchester Motor Company.
When he was a year old, his father r... | 20,533 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
which is now part of Imperial College. He supplemented his instruction in applied engineering by attending evening classes at Finsbury Technical School. Unfortunately, he ended his education without having obtained a formal qualification.
When he completed his education in 1888, he acquired a j... | 20,534 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
London, but in 1924 Lanchester built a house to his own design (Dyott End) in Oxford Road, Moseley, Birmingham. The couple remained there for the rest of their life together but did not have any children.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1922, and in 1926 the Royal Aeronautical S... | 20,535 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
He was diagnosed eventually with Parkinson's disease and was reportedly much grieved that this, along with cataracts in both eyes, prevented him from "doing any official job" during the Second World War.
He was awarded gold medals by the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1941 and the Institutio... | 20,536 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
was only through charitable help that he was able to remain in his home. He died at his home, Dyott End, on 8 March 1946.
# Work.
## Gas engines.
Near the end of 1888, Lanchester went to work for the Forward Gas Engine Company of Saltley, Birmingham as assistant works manager. His contract of... | 20,537 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
a Pendulum Accelerometer, for recording the acceleration and braking of road and rail vehicles.
After the death of the current works manager, Lanchester was promoted to his job. He then designed a new gas engine of greater size and power than any produced by the company before. The engine was a... | 20,538 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
this for experimental work of his own. In this workshop, he produced a small vertical single cylinder gas engine of , running at 600 rpm. This was coupled directly to a dynamo, which Lanchester used to light the Company's office and part of the factory.
## Petrol engines.
Lanchester began to f... | 20,539 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
His invention was known as a wick carburettor, because fuel was drawn into a series of wicks, from where it was vapourised. He patented this invention in 1905.
Lanchester installed his new petrol engine in a flat-bottomed launch, which the engine drove via a stern paddle wheel. Lanchester built... | 20,540 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
crankshafts rotating in opposite directions, for exemplary smoothness, and air cooling by way of vanes mounted on the flywheel. There was a revolutionary epicyclic gearbox (years before Henry Ford adopted it) giving two forward speeds plus reverse, and which drove the rear wheels "via" chains. W... | 20,541 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
being underpowered and having transmission problems. Lanchester designed a new 8 hp (6 kW) 2,895 cc (177 in) air-cooled engine with two horizontally opposed cylinders, still with two crankshafts. He also re-designed the epicyclic gearbox and combined it with the engine. A driveshaft connected th... | 20,542 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
suspension. This was completed in 1898 and won a Gold Medal for its design and performance at the Automobile Exhibition and Trials at Richmond. It became known as the Gold Medal Phaeton.
In 1898, Lanchester designed a water-cooled version of his engine, which was fitted to a boat, driving a pro... | 20,543 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
Sparkbrook, Birmingham, known as the Armourer Works. In his new factory, Lanchester designed a new ten horsepower twin cylinder engine. He decided to use a worm drive transmission and designed a machine to cut the worm gears. He patented this machine in 1905 and it continued for 25 years to prod... | 20,544 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
wheel. The transmission also included a system similar to modern disc brakes that clamped the clutch disc for braking, rather than using a separate system as in most cars.
The new 10hp car appeared in 1901 and remained in production until 1905, with only minor design modifications. He became a ... | 20,545 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
vibration damper as a solution to the problem of engine balance. His design, patented in 1907, used a secondary flywheel coupled to the end of the crankshaft with a viscous clutch. At around the same time Lanchester also patented a harmonic balancer to cancel out the unbalanced secondary forces ... | 20,546 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
turbochargers, added steering wheels in 1907 and invented the accelerator pedal to help control engine operation, which previously would not cease if the operator had problems. He invented (or was the first to use) detachable wire wheels, bearings that were pressure-fed with oil, stamped steel p... | 20,547 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
responsibility for the company.
## Daimler Company.
In 1909 Lanchester became a technical consultant for the Daimler Company where he became involved in a number of engineering projects including the Daimler-Knight engine, variants of which powered the petrol-electric KPL bus and the Daimler-R... | 20,548 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
Daimler-Knight engine a double sleeve-valve design developed from Knight's 1904 patents. Daimler had put all its resources into this "rather unsatisfactory engine" (according to Harry Ricardo), but although Lanchester continued to develop and work on the design, "he had realised that it was a fo... | 20,549 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
infringement action, and it was withdrawn in May 1911 after only 10 buses had been made.
- Daimler-Renard Road Train
Daimler began importing the Renard Road Train in February 1907. Daimler fitted a number of four-cylinder 'pre-Knight' engines in the Road Train; Lanchester's development work re... | 20,550 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
agricultural tractors ('Agritractors') made in conjunction with William Foster & Co. of Lincoln. According to Harry Ricardo, the duplication of the whole of the valve operating mechanism involved excessive mechanical complication and introduced grave difficulties in the way of mechanical synchro... | 20,551 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
I.
Lanchester's contract with Daimler was terminated after the Wall Street Crash of 1929; the Lanchester Motor Company's overdraft was also withdrawn, forcing immediate liquidation of its assets. BSA group, the owners of Daimler since 1910, completed the purchase of the Lanchester company in Ja... | 20,552 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
see how the centre of gravity compared with the centre of support. As a result of his deliberations, Lanchester, eventually formulated his circulation theory of flight. This is the basis of aerodynamics and the foundation of modern aerofoil theory. In 1894 he tested his theory on a number of mod... | 20,553 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
seriously.
Lanchester was discouraged by the attitude to his aeronautical theory, and concentrated on automobile development for the next ten years. In 1906 he published the first part of a two-volume work, "Aerial Flight", dealing with the problems of powered flight . In it, he developed a mod... | 20,554 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
his phugoid theory which contained a description of oscillations and stalls. During this work he outlined the basic layout used in most aircraft since then. Lanchester's contribution to aeronautical science was not recognised until the end of his life.
In 1909 H. H. Asquith's Advisory Committee... | 20,555 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
Forrest Lecture', on the subject of "The Flying Machine From An Engineering Standpoint".
## Lanchester’s Power Laws.
Lanchester was particularly interested in predicting the outcome of aerial battles. In 1914, before the start of World War I, he published his ideas on aerial warfare in a serie... | 20,556 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
the nature of combat—a force that was twice as large had been twice as powerful in the past, but now it was four times, the square of the quotient.
Lanchester's Laws were originally applied practically in the United States to study logistics, where they developed into operations research (OR) (... | 20,557 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
was also introduced on these cars for the first time. A 4440 cc straight eight engine was introduced at the 1928 Southport Rally, again with overhead cams: it proved to be the last "real" Lanchester, in 1931 the company was acquired by B.S.A., who had also owned the Daimler Company since 1909. F... | 20,558 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
who managed business affairs, Lanchester had no such assistance. During most of his career he lacked financial backing to be able to develop his ideas and perform research, as he would have liked. He nonetheless made many contributions in many different fields. He wrote more than sixty technical... | 20,559 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
University's Churchill Archives Centre and the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.
# Memorials.
In 1970, several colleges in Coventry merged to form Lanchester Polytechnic, so named in memory of Frederick Lanchester. It was renamed Coventry Polytechnic in 1987, and became Coventry Universit... | 20,560 |
420521 | Frederick W. Lanchester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester
nd exhaust stacks to draw air through the building, providing natural ventilation.
An open-air sculpture, the Lanchester Car Monument, in the Bloomsbury, Heartlands, area of Birmingham, designed by Tim Tolkien, is on the site where the Lanchester company built their first four-wheel, petrol car... | 20,561 |
420540 | Eddie Plank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eddie%20Plank | Eddie Plank
Eddie Plank
Edward Stewart Plank (August 31, 1875 – February 24, 1926), nicknamed "Gettysburg Eddie", was an American professional baseball player. A pitcher, Plank played in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics from 1901 through 1914, the St. Louis Terriers in 1915, and the St. Louis Brown... | 20,562 |
420540 | Eddie Plank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eddie%20Plank | Eddie Plank
injury. Plank had only a 1.32 earned run average (ERA) in his World Series career, but he was unlucky, with a 2–5 win–loss record in those games.
Plank died of a stroke in 1926. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946.
# Early life.
Plank grew up on a farm near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He wa... | 20,563 |
420540 | Eddie Plank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eddie%20Plank | Eddie Plank
a prep school affiliated with the college. However, he played for the college's team without ever being enrolled there.
# Career.
Plank signed with the Richmond Colts of the Virginia League, a minor league. The league folded before Plank could pitch for the Colts. Foreman recommended Plank to Connie Mack,... | 20,564 |
420540 | Eddie Plank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eddie%20Plank | Eddie Plank
He won 23 games in 1903 while leading the AL in games started. In 1905, Plank made his first trip to the World Series. He faced Christy Mathewson in the first game and Joe McGinnity in the fourth game. Though Plank gave up only three runs in 17 innings during the series, the Athletics lost to the New York G... | 20,565 |
420540 | Eddie Plank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eddie%20Plank | Eddie Plank
the Athletics won the series in six games. In 1913, the Athletics and Giants met again in the World Series, and Plank faced Mathewson in Games Two and Five. Mathewson hit a tenth-inning single off of Plank to set up a Giants victory in Game Two, but Plank and the Athletics bested Mathewson 3–1 in the fifth ... | 20,566 |
420540 | Eddie Plank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eddie%20Plank | Eddie Plank
played, Plank earned a 1.32 ERA but only a 2–5 win-loss record. He pitched complete games in all six of his World Series starts.
In November 1914, it was rumored that Plank would be sold to the New York Highlanders. In December, Plank signed a contract to play in the Federal League. Mack expressed no regre... | 20,567 |
420540 | Eddie Plank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eddie%20Plank | Eddie Plank
give Plank credit for only seven 20-win seasons and 305 total wins.
When the Federal League folded, Plank applied for free agency but was declared to belong to the St. Louis Browns for 1916. In September of that year, Plank predicted that he might be able to pitch ten more seasons, saying, "I don't know wh... | 20,568 |
420540 | Eddie Plank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eddie%20Plank | Eddie Plank
by the stress of baseball. His final game was a 1–0 11-inning complete game loss to Walter Johnson and the Washington Senators on August 6, 1917. Despite his announcement, the New York Yankees traded pitchers Urban Shocker and Nick Cullop, infielders Fritz Maisel and Joe Gedeon, catcher Les Nunamaker, and c... | 20,569 |
420540 | Eddie Plank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eddie%20Plank | Eddie Plank
surpassed by Walter Johnson. Plank was known as a finesse pitcher with a good sidearm sweeping curveball. He was also known for his long pauses on the mound, which some claimed lengthened the duration of the games in which he pitched.
Plank was also a good hitting pitcher in his career, compiling a .206 ba... | 20,570 |
420540 | Eddie Plank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eddie%20Plank | Eddie Plank
years.
# Later life.
After his 1917 retirement, Plank went into the garage business in Gettysburg. He pitched the 1918 season for the Steelton club of the Bethlehem Steel League, an industrial baseball league. Steelton was only 40 miles from his home and the arrangement allowed him to manage his business ... | 20,571 |
420540 | Eddie Plank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eddie%20Plank | Eddie Plank
up for the physical defects, if such they were, by his study of the game and his smartness when he was on the pitching peak", he said. Former teammate Jack Coombs said, "I have always been thankful that I was thrown into such intimate contact with so inspiring a man in the days when the majority of ballplay... | 20,572 |
420540 | Eddie Plank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eddie%20Plank | Eddie Plank
College began planning for the Eddie Plank Memorial Gymnasium at the college shortly after Plank's death. The gym was completed in 1927 and indoor sports such as basketball and wrestling were played there until 1962. A restaurant in downtown Gettysburg honors Plank's career. A portion of Plank's childhood f... | 20,573 |
420540 | Eddie Plank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eddie%20Plank | Eddie Plank
most valuable baseball card in existence, a T206 Honus Wagner card, is in the same collection.
The first full-length biography of Eddie Plank entitled "Gettysburg Eddie: The Story of Eddie Plank" by Lawrence Knorr was published in 2018 by Sunbury Press.
# See also.
- 300 win club
- List of Major League ... | 20,574 |
420540 | Eddie Plank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eddie%20Plank | Eddie Plank
s Wagner card, is in the same collection.
The first full-length biography of Eddie Plank entitled "Gettysburg Eddie: The Story of Eddie Plank" by Lawrence Knorr was published in 2018 by Sunbury Press.
# See also.
- 300 win club
- List of Major League Baseball career wins leaders
- List of Major League ... | 20,575 |
420554 | Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Agence%20de%20Coopération%20Culturelle%20et%20Technique | Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique
Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique
The Agence de coopération culturelle et technique (ACCT, French for "Agency of cultural and technical cooperation") was founded in 1970 and was the precursor to what is now the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie. Ca... | 20,576 |
420549 | J. Meade Falkner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20Meade%20Falkner | J. Meade Falkner
J. Meade Falkner
John Meade Falkner (8 May 1858 – 22 July 1932) was an English novelist and poet, best known for his 1898 novel, "Moonfleet". An extremely successful businessman as well, he became chairman of the arms manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth during World War I.
# Life and works.
Falkner was... | 20,577 |
420549 | J. Meade Falkner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20Meade%20Falkner | J. Meade Falkner
in the world. Falkner eventually followed him as chairman in 1915. In his business travels round the world, Falkner brought back antiquarian treasures of all kinds.
After his retirement as chairman in 1921 he became Honorary Reader in paleography at the University of Durham, as well as Honorary Librar... | 20,578 |
420549 | J. Meade Falkner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20Meade%20Falkner | J. Meade Falkner
the cathedral. He is buried at St John the Baptist Church in Burford, Oxfordshire.
In addition to his three novels and his poetry, he also wrote three topographical guides (Oxfordshire, Bath and Berkshire) and a "History of Oxfordshire".
# Bibliography.
## Fiction.
- "The Lost Stradivarius" (1895)
... | 20,579 |
420549 | J. Meade Falkner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20Meade%20Falkner | J. Meade Falkner
fordshire.
In addition to his three novels and his poetry, he also wrote three topographical guides (Oxfordshire, Bath and Berkshire) and a "History of Oxfordshire".
# Bibliography.
## Fiction.
- "The Lost Stradivarius" (1895)
- "Moonfleet" (1898)
- "The Nebuly Coat" (1903)
## Non-fiction.
- "H... | 20,580 |
420552 | Neil Bonnett | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neil%20Bonnett | Neil Bonnett
Neil Bonnett
Lawrence Neil Bonnett (July 30, 1946 – February 11, 1994) was a NASCAR driver who compiled 18 victories and 20 poles over his 18-year career. The Alabama native currently ranks 45th in all-time NASCAR Cup victories. He appeared in the 1983 film "Stroker Ace" and the 1990 film "Days of Thunder... | 20,581 |
420552 | Neil Bonnett | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neil%20Bonnett | Neil Bonnett
Bobby, Brother Donnie and, later, Son Davey. He began driving in NASCAR in 1974 and earned his first victory in 1977 at the Capital City 400 in Richmond, Virginia driving for Harry Hyde-Jim Stacy Racing. He had another victory in 1977 at the Los Angeles Times 500, which would be the last Dodge win in NASCA... | 20,582 |
420552 | Neil Bonnett | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neil%20Bonnett | Neil Bonnett
longest race, now the Coca-Cola 600) in 1982 and 1983 and back-to-back Busch Clash (now Bud Shootout) victories in 1983 and '84, including his first in which he did not win a single pole from the previous season, but was selected as a wild card entry.
In 1984, Bonnett joined Junior Johnson's team, becomin... | 20,583 |
420552 | Neil Bonnett | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neil%20Bonnett | Neil Bonnett
of North America when he won the 1988 Goodyear NASCAR 500 at the Calder Park Thunderdome in Melbourne, Australia (at the time the newly opened Thunderdome was also the first NASCAR style speedway to be built outside of North America). The race, run two weeks after the Daytona 500, was not a Winston Cup rac... | 20,584 |
420552 | Neil Bonnett | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neil%20Bonnett | Neil Bonnett
Allison (who had won the Daytona 500 two weeks previous), driving a Buick LeSabre, dominated the crash marred, 280 lap 500 km (310 mile) race finishing first and second ahead of Dave Marcis on a day when cabin temperatures were reported to reach over 57° Celsius (135° Fahrenheit) as the race was held durin... | 20,585 |
420552 | Neil Bonnett | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neil%20Bonnett | Neil Bonnett
and hosting the TV show "Winners" for TNN.
However, Bonnett still desired to continue racing. In 1992, he began testing cars for good friends Dale Earnhardt and car owner Richard Childress. Cleared to race again in 1993 and upon Earnhardt's suggestion, Childress gave Bonnett a ride for the 1993 DieHard 50... | 20,586 |
420552 | Neil Bonnett | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neil%20Bonnett | Neil Bonnett
but he dropped out after just three laps. The reason the team gave for removing the car from the race was a blown engine; however, he was teamed with points leader Earnhardt, and the car was retired to assist Earnhardt in winning the season's championship. Earnhardt needed to maximize his finishing positio... | 20,587 |
420552 | Neil Bonnett | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neil%20Bonnett | Neil Bonnett
11, 1994, during the first practice session for the 1994 Daytona 500, a shock mount broke causing him to lose control of his Chevrolet on the track's high-banked fourth turn. The car swerved onto the track apron, and then up the steep bank before crashing into the wall nearly head on. Bonnett did not survi... | 20,588 |
420552 | Neil Bonnett | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neil%20Bonnett | Neil Bonnett
Gardens. A road called "Allison-Bonnett Memorial Drive" in his hometown honors him, along with fellow native Davey Allison, who died seven months earlier.
When Earnhardt, Bonnett's colleague, won the 1998 Daytona 500, he dedicated the victory to Bonnett among others.
Three years later Earnhardt himself d... | 20,589 |
420552 | Neil Bonnett | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neil%20Bonnett | Neil Bonnett
nother driver who died a few days later, Rodney Orr, to the public, which led to a lawsuit.
When Brad Keselowski scored Phoenix Racing's first Sprint Cup win 15 years later in the 2009 Aaron's 499 at Talladega Superspeedway, Finch dedicated the win to Bonnett. During the 2013 season, Finch designed the No... | 20,590 |
420555 | Combinatorial optimization | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Combinatorial%20optimization | Combinatorial optimization
Combinatorial optimization
In Operations Research, applied mathematics and theoretical computer science, combinatorial optimization is a topic that consists of finding an optimal object from a finite set of objects. In many such problems, exhaustive search is not tractable. It operates on th... | 20,591 |
420555 | Combinatorial optimization | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Combinatorial%20optimization | Combinatorial optimization
that is related to operations research, algorithm theory, and computational complexity theory. It has important applications in several fields, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, auction theory, and software engineering.
Some research literature considers discrete optimizat... | 20,592 |
420555 | Combinatorial optimization | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Combinatorial%20optimization | Combinatorial optimization
optimization include, but are not limited to:
- Developing the best airline network of spokes and destinations
- Deciding which taxis in a fleet to route to pick up fares
- Determining the optimal way to deliver packages
- Working out the best allocation of jobs to people
- Determining t... | 20,593 |
420555 | Combinatorial optimization | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Combinatorial%20optimization | Combinatorial optimization
paths and shortest path trees, flows and circulations, spanning trees, matching, and matroid problems.
For NP-complete discrete optimization problems, current research literature includes the following topics:
- polynomial-time exactly solvable special cases of the problem at hand (e.g. see... | 20,594 |
420555 | Combinatorial optimization | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Combinatorial%20optimization | Combinatorial optimization
optimization problems can be viewed as searching for the best element of some set of discrete items; therefore, in principle, any sort of search algorithm or metaheuristic can be used to solve them. However, generic search algorithms are not guaranteed to find an optimal solution, nor are the... | 20,595 |
420555 | Combinatorial optimization | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Combinatorial%20optimization | Combinatorial optimization
an instance formula_6 and a feasible solution formula_7 of formula_6, formula_9 denotes the measure of formula_7, which is usually a positive real.
- formula_11 is the goal function, and is either formula_12 or formula_13.
The goal is then to find for some instance formula_6 an "optimal sol... | 20,596 |
420555 | Combinatorial optimization | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Combinatorial%20optimization | Combinatorial optimization
the fewest edges". This problem might have an answer of, say, 4. A corresponding decision problem would be "is there a path from formula_19 to formula_20 that uses 10 or fewer edges?" This problem can be answered with a simple 'yes' or 'no'.
In the field of approximation algorithms, algorith... | 20,597 |
420555 | Combinatorial optimization | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Combinatorial%20optimization | Combinatorial optimization
problem with the following additional conditions. Note that the below referred polynomials are functions of the size of the respective functions' inputs, not the size of some implicit set of input instances.
- the size of every feasible solution formula_25 is polynomially bounded in the size... | 20,598 |
420555 | Combinatorial optimization | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Combinatorial%20optimization | Combinatorial optimization
if there exists an algorithm which finds optimal solutions in polynomial time. Often, when dealing with the class NPO, one is interested in optimization problems for which the decision versions are NP-complete. Note that hardness relations are always with respect to some reduction. Due to the... | 20,599 |
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