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2 unusual facts about Black & Decker


Alonzo G. Decker, Jr.

(1908 - 2002) was an engineer who served as the Chairman of the Board of Black & Decker.

Aubrey Jones

After leaving the Prices and Incomes Board in October 1970, he became chair of Laporte Industries and a director of Thomas Tilling, Cornhill Insurance and Black & Decker.


Asadata Dafora

His drumming also appeared in a 1936 stage success, Orson Welles's all-black Macbeth performed in Harlem, on Broadway and on tour.

Ayesha Kapur

She is an award winning Indian film child actress who is best known for playing young Michelle McNally in the Bollywood movie Black.

Backseat Freestyle

The song is preceded by a short skit, at the end of the previous track "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe", in which Lamar's friend tells him "K-Dot get in the car nigga, we finna roll out. Nigga I got a pack of blacks and a beat CD, get your freestyles ready."

Baise horse

Its legs are strong and well-developed, with strong hooves The usual coat colors are black, chestnut, gray and bay.

Black Code

Black, a diplomatic cypher system used by the U.S. prior to its entry into the Second World War

Cameron Bridge

Now GNS for white spirits and ‘sweetened products’ such as Archers, Pimm's, Smirnoff, Tanqueray and Gordon's Gin are also produced alongside grain spirit used in the Johnnie Walker, J&B, Bell's, Black & White, Vat 69, Haig and White Horse blended whisky brands owned by Diageo.

DeWalt

After buying the company in 1949, American Machine & Foundry Co., Inc. sold it to Black & Decker in 1960.

Fiddlin' Arthur Smith

In various prewar lineups Smith recorded singles on Bluebird, Victor, Regal Zonophone (Australia), The Twin (India), and Montgomery Ward labels, and in the postwar years on Black & White, Capitol, and Urban.

Frank Tsamoutales

In the domestic arena, Tsamoutales consults and is registered to represent such firms as Harris Corporation, Honeywell International, Wal-Mart, Black & Veatch and Caesars Entertainment before federal, state, and local government as well as leading business development.

Gene Rodgers

Rodgers recorded sparingly as a leader; he did two sides for Vocalion in 1936, four in a session for Joe Davis in 1945, and albums as a trio leader for EmArcy (1958), Black & Blue Records (1972), and 88 Up Right (1980).

Geno Arce

Geno Arce, born in Portland, Oregon, started playing bass in the clubs at age 16 opening for bands like Black 'n Blue and Fire Eye.

Give Us a Wink

"Action" has been covered by several rock bands like Raven (on the album Rock Until You Drop), Black 'n Blue (on the album Black 'n Blue) and Def Leppard (as a UK Top 20 single and later on the album Retro Active).

Jaime St. James

Jaime St. James is the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the glam metal band Black 'N Blue. He also served a brief stint in the mid-2000s as the lead singer of Warrant, but he left upon the return of the band's original lead singer Jani Lane to the line-up in 2008. He sang (and co-wrote several tracks) on Warrant's 2006 album Born Again.

James B. Black

In 2005 and 2006, Black was linked to a series of scandals involving, among other things, the party-switching Rep. Michael P. Decker, and the North Carolina lottery, established the previous year.

James R. Lucas

Lucas' corporate career began in 1972 with VF Corporation, followed by stints at Hallmark Cards where he managed projects for the Crown Center Redevelopment Corporation, Black & Veatch Corporation where he managed construction of chemical processing and power plants, and Epic Manufacturing, a manufacturing firm founded by his father-in-law, James Petersen.

Larry R. Brown

He was first elected in 2004 after defeating Rep. Michael P. Decker in the Republican primary.

Manuel Saez

Manuel also worked at Timex Corporation as well as the consulting offices of Anderson Design and Product Ventures with clients including Intel, Gateway, Inc., Black & Decker, Shell, and Procter & Gamble.

Michael Decker

Michael H. Decker, current Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Oversight

Michael P. Decker, former member of the North Carolina General Assembly

Mnevis

Since the fertile soil of the Nile was so black that the word for black (Khem) became the Egyptian word for Egypt, and bulls in this region had a tendency to black colouring, the bull selected to be the Mnevis was traditionally completely black, thus being referred to as Kemwer, meaning great black (one).

Monty Sharma

He is popular for being the background music composer for Black (2005), Ram-Leela (2013) and music director for Saawariya (2007).

Motion Industries

Motion Industries provides parts for many companies including Black & Decker, Ford, and GM.

O. Milton Gossett

Over the span of his career at Compton, Gossett worked on advertising campaigns for such clients as Black & White, Chase & Sanborn Coffee, El Producto, Ivory, Kelly Tires, Knickerbocker Beer, Procter & Gamble, Socony Mobil Oil Company, and Tender Leaf Tea.

Rainy Milo

In April, 2013 Milo released the video for the lead single "Bankrobber", from her extended play Black & Blonde.

Ron Hickman

Ronald Price Hickman OBE (21 October 1932 – 17 February 2011) was a South African born, Jersey based car designer and inventor who designed the original Lotus Elan, the Lotus Elan +2 and the Lotus Europa, as well as the Black & Decker Workmate.

S.O.S Soap Pad

The product was indirectly featured in a widely circulated black & white photograph taken by William Safire of the Kitchen Debate.

Saleen Special Vehicles

The building housing this facility was previously a Stanley door-manufacturing facility prior to renovations performed by Saleen to manufacture the Ford GT (which occurred between 2003 and 2006).

Shiva Naipaul

He then decided to concentrate on journalism, and wrote two non-fiction works, North of South (1978) and Black & White (1980), before returning to the novel form in the 1980s with Love and Death in a Hot Country (1983), a departure from his two earlier comic novels set in Trinidad, as well as a collection of fiction and non-fiction, Beyond the Dragon's Mouth: Stories and Pieces (1984).

Slavery in the Spanish New World colonies

Most of the earliest black immigrants to the Americas were "Atlantic Creoles," as the charter generation is described by the American historian Ira Berlin.

Terrier

Included among these breeds are the English Toy Terrier and the Yorkshire Terrier.

Théodore Monod

Perhaps his most important find (together with Wladimir Besnard) was the Asselar man, a 6,000-year-old skeleton of the Adrar des Ifoghas that many scholars believe to be the first remains of a distinctly black person.

Tucker Viemeister

Their most successful products are the award-winning Oxo "Good Grips" universal kitchen tools, the advanced technology Serengeti sunglasses and their packages and catalogs, Black & Decker's best-selling Metropolitan toaster, the ergonomic/psychonomic Home Phones for Cicena, the breakthrough Tea Brewer for Cuisinart, and wacky Joe Boxer watches with Nicholas Graham for Timex.

Vesham

The film was Mammootty's third consecutive commercial success after Kaazhcha and Black.


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