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unusual facts about Crane-Simplex


Peter Helck

Helck developed an early interest in automobiles, and as a boy caught rides with the race car driver who tested Simplex cars.


3 21 polytope

Thorold Gosset identified this series in 1900 as containing all regular polytope facets, containing all simplexes and orthoplexes.

5-simplex

The regular 5-simplex is one of 19 uniform polytera based on the 3,3,3,3 Coxeter group, all shown here in A5 Coxeter plane orthographic projections.

7-orthoplex

There are two Coxeter groups associated with the 7-orthoplex, one regular, dual of the hepteract with the C7 or 4,3,3,3,3,3 symmetry group, and a half symmetry with two copies of 6-simplex facets, alternating, with the D7 or 34,1,1 symmetry group.

Affective labor

One popular, albeit slightly less than perfect example, of this might be that, whereas Fred Flintstone, as an average American, drove a crane in a quarry, Homer Simpson sits at a desk and provides safety.

American Knees

A film adaptation, entitled Americanese (2006), was written and directed by Eric Byler, produced by Lisa Onodera, and stars Chris Tashima as Raymond Ding, Allison Sie as Aurora Crane and Joan Chen as Betty Nguyen.

Anne Moncure Crane

An ancestor, Thomas Stone, had signed the Declaration of Independence - an illustrious connection that would later be attached to one of Crane's literary characters.

Beau MacMillan

At 16 years old, MacMillan started working at Crane Brook Tea Room in Carver.

Blount Island

In November 1990, Gate sold the 20-year old Offshore Power Systems crane for $3 million to the China State Shipbuilding Corporation and their workers dismantled it for shipment overseas.

C. nigricauda

Cladura nigricauda, Alexander, 1954, a crane fly species in the genus Cladura

Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service

The two Line Rescue Units (LRUs) are based on a Mercedes-Benz 1124 4x4 chassis with a Hiab crane on the rear of the vehicle and a Mercedes Atego chassis.

David H. Burrell

There he invented a seamless cheese bandage, silos for the preservation of ensilage, the Burrell-Simplex Link Blade "Simplex" Separator, milk pasteurization systems, churns, butter workers, milk testers and coolers, gang presses, and a universally accepted, patented, BLK milking machine.

Demag

In 1908, they designed what was then the world's largest floating crane, built for Harland & Wolff in Belfast, which would be used for the building of the passenger liners RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic.

Dmitriy Abramenkov

He worked as a crane operator and locomotive technician, then as staff leader of the All-Union Komsomol of the Smolensk AES, chairman of the District Committee of People's Control, instructor of the City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and following election to the State Duma, Master of Production Training at the Roslavl Technical School for Rail Transport.

Eddie Chong

Bak Mei emphasizes the movements of the Tiger, but Bak Mei also uses the other four animal styles associated with the Henan Shaolin Temple as well such as the Tiger, the Crane, the Leopard, the Snake and the Dragon.

Empire Star

He has spent his entire life in a "simplex" society on Rhys, a satellite of a Jovian planet orbiting Tau Ceti.

Fenton, New York

Billy Martin, baseball legend, second baseman and New York Yankees manager; operated and lived on a farm in Port Crane after retiring.

Gregory Colbert

Elephants, whales, manatees, sacred ibis, cranes, eagles, gyrfalcons, Rhinoceros Hornbills, cheetahs, leopards, African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus), caracals, baboons, eland, meerkats, gibbons, orangutans, penguins, pandas, polar bears, lions, giant Pacific manta rays, and saltwater crocodiles are among the animals he has filmed and photographed.

Ichabod Crane Central School District

Washington Irving lived in the Village of Kinderhook in 1809 and wrote the Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow short stories which take place regionally and is the reason why the high school in Valatie is named "Ichabod Crane".

Josephine Porter Boardman

The Josephine B. Crane Foundation continues to support the Sierra Club, scientific research and various scholarships.

Kam Heskin

Heskin played Sheridan Crane on Passions while actress McKenzie Westmore was on a leave of absence on two separate occasions.

King–Crane Commission

The King-Crane commission was "the first-ever survey of Arab public opinion" and the fact its results went largely unheeded was bemoaned by pollster James Zogby.

Laya Raki

In it Laya Raki starred as Halima, a Moroccan dancer and bartender, who is the partner of the title character, the bar owner and smuggler Richard Crane, played by Patrick Allen.

Lecythioscopa

The species was originally placed as Canadia simplex by Charles Walcott in a 1931 publication based on a single specimen.

Louise Crane-Bowes

Louise Crane-Bowes is an Australian writer who was script producer of the TV series All Saints for a number of years and is currently script producer for Home and Away.

Malcolm X College

Malcolm X College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago, is a two-year college located on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois, USA, at 1900 W. Van Buren St. It was founded as Crane Junior College in 1911 and was the first of the City Colleges.

National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators

Its formation was largely in response to high-profile, deadly crane accidents in California (a crane accident killed five in San Francisco's Financial District in November 1989 and another crane accident killed one and caused a fire at Edwards Air Force Base in September 1990) and in Washington state (a July 1994 crane accident at the Kingdome in Seattle killed two and injured one).

Oestrich-Winkel

Inside the crane are two treadmills in each of which two men used their body weight to work a winch, which could then lift loads onto or off ships.

Olive Crane

On October 4, 2013 Olive Crane was kicked out of the PEI PC Caucus by interim leader, Steven Myers.

Othello, Washington

Since 1998, Othello has also been home to the Sandhill Crane Festival, celebrating the annual arrival of Sandhill Cranes to the nearby Columbia National Wildlife Refuge.

Phil Crane

However, when the full committee's chairman, Bill Archer of Texas, retired after the 2000 elections, Crane made a bid for the highly coveted post of Ways and Means chairman.

QuakeSim

Okada-based elastic fault modeling methods (Disloc, which is a forward model, and Simplex for inverting geodetic data).

Rectified 6-simplexes

These polytopes are a part of 35 uniform 6-polytopes based on the 3,3,3,3,3 Coxeter group, all shown here in A6 Coxeter plane orthographic projections.

Richard Raiswell

Shell Games: Studies in Frauds, Scams and Deceit in Early Modern Culture, 1300-1650 with Mark Crane and Margaret Reeves (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2004) and The Devil in Society in Premodern Europe (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012) with Peter Dendle (Penn State Mont Alto).

Robert D. Crane

From the time of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 until the beginning of Richard Nixon’s victorious campaign for the presidency in 1967, Dr. Crane was a foreign policy adviser, responsible for preparing a “reader's digest” of professional articles for him on the key foreign policy issues.

Robert Wiedmaier

Much of the interior, which was designed by Hapstak Demetriou+, uses reclaimed objects, such a construction crane, beer bottles, windowpanes, and cargo containers.

Runcinated 6-simplexes

The truncated 6-simplex is one of 35 uniform 6-polytopes based on the 3,3,3,3,3 Coxeter group, all shown here in A6 Coxeter plane orthographic projections.

Sanctaeritae

Tipula sanctaeritae, Alexander, 1946, a crane fly species in the genus Tipula

Simplex

Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe, Convex Optimization, (2004) Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, USA.

Sisu M-161

The first homologated four-axle lorry in Finland was Sisu M-168 of which second steering axle was the same as used in Sisu T-108 mobile crane.

Sociology of culture

Key figures in today's cultural sociology include: Julia Adams, Jeffrey Alexander, John Carroll, Henning Eichberg, Ron Eyerman, Andreas Glaeser, Wendy Griswold, Michele Lamont, Stjepan Mestrovic, Margaret Somers, Yasemin Soysal, Lynette Spillman, Ann Swidler, Diane Vaughan, Annette Lareau, Diana Crane, Karin Knorr-Cetina, Eva Illouz, Dan Sperber, and Sarah Gatson.

Sonny Turner

While performing in a local club in Cleveland as the opening act for Redd Foxx, Turner was approached by local DJ Bill Crane and asked if he would be interested in auditioning for The Platters, as their lead singer as Tony Williams was soon to be leaving the group.

Taisun

2009 Deck box lifting and installation of the Saipem Scarabeo 9, marking the world's heaviest topsides crane lift.

The Amazing Pizza Machine

The arcade has 140 video, token and prize-awarding games, including MarioKart, skee ball, Dance Dance Revolution and a giant crane.

The First Nudie Musical

Cindy Williams had started appearing in her hit series Laverne & Shirley when she was called back to film an added slapstick scene involving a camera crane.

The Hunters Club

Founder member Simon Crane now works in new media after working for several years as deputy editor of the Leicester Mercury.

Trad jazz

In Britain, where boogie-woogie, "stride" piano and jump blues were popular in the 1940s, the Humphrey Lyttelton band pioneered a trad revival just after the Second World War, and Ken Colyer's Crane River band added a strong thread of New Orleans purism.

Walter Crane

Flora's Feast, A Masque of Flowers had lithographic reproductions of Crane's line drawings washed in with watercolour; he also decorated in colour The Wonder Book of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Deland's Old Garden.

White Crane Institute

Other volumes in the White Crane series include Mark Thompson's Gay Spirit: Myth & Meaning, Toby Johnson's Gay Spirituality, James Broughton's posthumous collection of writings under the title All edited by poet and KPFA radio host Jack Foley, and a reissue of Take Off The Masks by Malcolm Boyd.


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