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Chrysler A platform, a Chrysler automobile platform used in the 1960s

Volkswagen Group A platform, an automobile platform shared by the compact cars of the Volkswagen Group



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Afrinolly

The competition aimed at showcasing African talent online, and providing a platform to foster the creation of new online content produced by Africans was supported by MTN Nigeria, Blackberry, iRep, and Goethe-Institut.

Albert Brisbane

He achieved a platform to espouse Fourier's communitarian theories with the help of New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley, who was impressed by Brisbane's ideas and allowed him to write a weekly article.

Arizona Green Party

Prominent Green candidates in Arizona have included Vance Hansen, who ran for the US Senate in 2000 and received 108,926 votes, Claudia Ellquist who ran for Pima County Attorney in 2004 on a platform largely focused on declaring a moratorium on the death penalty, and Dave Croteau who ran for mayor of Tucson in 2007 on a platform of relocalization and received over 28% of the vote.

Balmoral, New South Wales

Intended as a platform for lectures by the expected "World Teacher", believed by the Theosophists to be Jiddu Krishnamurti, it was demolished in 1951, and its foundations used for an apartment building that still stands on the site.

Baybeats

Presented by Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, Baybeats was launched in 2002 primarily to create a platform to showcase indie-rock musicians in Asia, especially local musicians, and to expose Singapore audiences to quality acts in the genre as well as to develop the industry.

Biological Innovation for Open Society

As described by Richard Anthony Jefferson, CEO of Cambia, the BiOS Initiative worked with small companies, university offices of technology transfer, attorneys, and multinational corporations to create a platform to share productive and sustainable technology.

Brennan Heart

On this he plays new EDM hits and provides a platform for new talent as does Headhunterz

Cameron Thompson

Thompson became a senior adviser to state National leader Lawrence Springborg and temporarily vacated that position to contest the state Liberal presidency against Mal Brough and sitting Liberal Party president Gary Spence on a platform of merging the Liberal and National parties.

Canadian federal election, 1963

The Liberal Party of Lester Pearson ran on a platform promising that, if elected, they would begin their term with "60 Days of Decision" on questions such as introducing a new Canadian flag, reforming health care, and a public pension plan, along with other legislative reforms.

Cicred

It serves as a platform for interaction between research centres and international organizations, such as United Nations Population Division, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

D. J. Grothe

Grothe has also spoken out against celebrity psychics Theresa Caputo (the Long Island Medium) and John Edward, criticizing them for taking advantage of the grieving by using a collection of psychological manipulations commonly referred to as cold reading, and has also criticized companies like Priceline.com and national media figures such as Dr. Phil for giving a platform to such psychic performers.

Dale Petroskey

In April 2003, one month after the start of the Iraq War, Hall of Fame President Dale Petroskey caused a furor when he canceled an event meant to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the well-known 1988 baseball movie Bull Durham because of the anti-war stance of two of its stars, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, fearing that they would use the event as a platform for their political views.

David Raleigh

The success of the album gave Raleigh a platform to tour with contemporary Christian icons such as Amy Grant and The Archers.

Democrats for Life of America

Members of the Board of Directors and rank and file members attended the convention, which was held inside the Fleet Center, and witnessed the delegates adopt a platform that took a much harder line on the issue of abortion.

Genève-Cornavin railway station

The station entrance and a platform was seen in The Adventures of Tintin comic The Calculus Affair.

Hardware Platform Interface

Because a wide variety of alarm display hardware, such as LEDs, audible alerts, text display panels, etc. are used on different hardware platforms, it is difficult for an application program to be written to display alarm information in a platform-independent way.

International Workingmen's Association in America

The Social Party adopted a platform which incorporated elements both of the program of the International as well as that of the fledgling National Labor Union (NLU) established less than two years earlier by William H. Sylvis.

Jack McKee

At an anti-Good Friday Agreement protest in Antrim on April 1998 McKee shared a platform with then fellow DUP member Sammy Wilson and Kenneth Peeples, a described leader of the Orange Volunteers and Protestant fundamentalist, who burned a copy of the agreement.

Jun Choi

Running on a platform to make government work better and reforming the Democratic Party, Choi won the June 2005 primary by a 56-44% margin, defeating longtime incumbent Mayor George A. Spadoro.

Kharkhorin Rock

Kharkhorin Rock, also Kharkarin Rock or Phallic Rock, is a large statue of a penis raised on a platform on the steppe, located near Erdene Zuu Monastery (part of the World Heritage Site entitled Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape) in Kharkhorin, Övörkhangai Province of Mongolia.

Legal status of Bitcoin

The first raid in India was undertaken a couple of days later in Ahmedabad by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on the office of the website, buysellbit.co.in, that provided a platform to trade in this virtual currency.

Liberal Vannin Party

The Liberal Vannin Party put forward several candidates at the 2006 general election, and campaigns on a platform of greater accountability and openness in government.

Maria Mourani

She declared her candidacy in the Bloc Québécois leadership election that was held to choose a successor to Gilles Duceppe and ran on a platform of making the Bloc more independent from the Parti Québécois.

Mongolian legislative election, 2012

The MPRP campaigned on a platform of "resource nationalism." Reuters suggested its participation in government could impact the mining sector, including the Tavan Tolgoi coal project, which the MPRP wants controlled by Mongolians.

Mvelaphanda Group

In January 2012, Mvelaphanda Holdings, OZ Management (a subsidiary of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group) and Palladino Holdings announced the creation of a joint venture called Africa Management Limited, which will also see the creation of African Global Capital, a platform through which to invest in public and private markets across Africa.

New Orleans mayoral election, 1946

The Independent Citizens Committee, a group of Uptown reformers, began their own search for a candidate who could challenge Maestri and his Old Regulars on a platform of good government and economic development.

Pam Byrnes

She served as the Executive Director of the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, a program that provides University of Michigan students and faculty a platform to engage in engineering education and research in an international setting, often collaborating with Michigan businesses, such as General Motors and TRW Automotive.

Pete Johnson

At a nightclub in Niagara Falls, the piano was on a platform above the bar, and Johnson had to climb a ladder to get there.

Phineas and Ferb: Quest for Cool Stuff

Phineas and Ferb: Quest for Cool Stuff is a platform video game based on the animated television series, Phineas and Ferb.

Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung

It has been accused by the journalist Anton Maegerle of providing a platform for extreme right-wing authors.

Religious Tract Society

From the 1860s, the Society began publishing novels aimed at women and children, providing a platform for a new generation of women writers, including Rosa Nouchette Carey.

Rich Batsford

Batsford is also a co-creator of creative network Project X Presents and Musituality, a platform for musicians of various faiths to perform together.

Rocktaves

Held every year in BITS, Pilani during its annual cultural fest Oasis, it has served as a platform for upcoming Indian bands, launching many bands to fame.

Salagama

Soon after their return to the island they established a udakhupkhepa sima (a flotilla of boats moved together to form a platform on the water) on the Maduganga river, Balapitiya and, under the most senior Burmese monk who accompanied them, held an upasampada ceremony on Vesak Full Moon Day.

Schofields railway station

The former station was originally opened as a siding stop with a platform made from railway sleepers in the early 1870s on the western side of the track, which was later rebuilt in brick in 1888 along with a goods loop after the Richmond line was upgraded by John Whitton the then Engineer-in-Chief.

Sheila Chipperfield

This was created in April 2006 by Grammy nominated record producer, Andy Chatterley and multimedia artist Anna Mercedes and is a platform for live new acts to be seen online.

St Ann's Church, Manchester

The tower of the church marks the centre of the city; surveyors used it as a platform to measure distances to other locations.

Staurosporine

Researchers in UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center develop a platform technology of high drug-loading efficiency by manipulating the pH environment of the cells.

Stockport by-election, 1920

A leading Irish trade unionist and secretary of the Irish Labour Party, William X. O'Brien, was interned by Britain for his role in the conflict, and he decided to stand in the by-election as a platform for his cause, and in an attempt to embarrass the British Labour Party into action.

Syed Hussein Alatas

Gerakan was successful in the 1969 general election, where it campaigned on a platform of social justice and the reduction or elimination of Bumiputra privileges outlined by Article 153 of the Constitution.

System software

System software (or systems software) is computer software designed to operate and control the computer hardware and to provide a platform for running application software.

The Phenix City Story

The film depicts the real-life 1954 assassination of Albert Patterson, who had just been elected Alabama Attorney General on a platform of cleaning up Phenix City, Alabama, a city controlled by organized crime.

Thomas M. Leighton

Leighton defeated former city leader Tom McGroarty in the Democratic Party primary election in 2003, partly on a platform to revitalize Wilkes-Barre's downtown sector.

Tishani Doshi

Countries of the Body was launched in 2006 at the Hay-on-Wye festival on a platform with Seamus Heaney, Margaret Atwood, and others.

Tom Mulroy

He attained this feet on top of a platform at the top of the Empire State Building.

Tom Sellers

By 1954, the evidence collected in Sellers articles led a Phenix City lawyer, Albert Patterson, to run for Alabama attorney general on a platform of cleaning up Phenix City.

Webfmt

Webfmt, is a platform-independent web-based Ajax File Manager for website, released as open source software under the GPL, LGPL, MPL by Fbis source.

West Norfolk Junction Railway

The Dereham side was unusual in that there was a platform on either side of the train, allowing the passengers the choice of which side to alight from, much the same as Ventor and Ulverston stations.

Yari Film Group

YFG's first major financial success as a distributor was with The Illusionist, starring Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti and Jessica Biel, which pulled in roughly $40 million at the U.S box office, gaining the upstart notoriety for successfully launching the film through a platform release rollout.