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2 unusual facts about Crank


Alfred Sorensen

It was while staying with the Nehru family that one of their friends offered Sorensen a piece of land where he could live on Crank's Ridge, near Almora.

The Get Set

The Get Set signed an exclusive recording contract with top independent record label Crank! A Record Company, whose roster also includes The Gloria Record, Mineral, The Icarus Line, and Neva Dinova.


Achsah Barlow Brewster

In 1935 they moved to Crank's Ridge in Almora, Uttar Pradesh, India, where they lived from 1935 until they died, Achsah in 1945 and Earl in 1957.

Beam propagation method

Upon discretization into a grid, (using various centralized difference, Crank–Nicolson method, FFT-BPM etc.) and field values rearranged in a causal fashion, the field evolution is computed through iteratio, along the propagation direction.

Better Looking Records

Founded in 1999, Paul Fischer, who DJ'd at KXLU college radio station in Los Angeles and worked at crank! Records, partnered with Dave Brown who ran Holiday Matinee Publicity and Muddle fanzine.

Centrifugal pendulum absorber

This resulted in the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine that used pendulum weights attached to the crank shaft.

Charlotte Dundas

The boat was built by Alexander Hart at Grangemouth to Symington's design with a vertical cylinder engine and crosshead transmitting power to a crank driving the paddlewheels.

Cole Konrad

Konrad made his professional mixed martial arts debut on January 23, 2010, defeating Gary "Chief" Hamen on the Martial Arts Xtreme promotion's Max Fights 8 with a neck crank, which is a modified rear naked choke from half guard that his training partner, Brock Lesnar, nicknamed the "Polar Bear Choke".

Crossplane

The 2009 Yamaha YZF-R1 motorcycle uses the crossplane crankshaft and, in the absence of the 90° bank angle of the V8, must use a separate balance shaft geared off the crankshaft to eliminate the inherent rocking vibration (primary rocking couples) found in this type of crank.

Culver Crest, Culver City, California

Culver Crest immortalized a part of developer Lewis Crank's life, with streets named for his boat the Esterina, which had been named for his first wife Esther (Anthony Cornero's sister); Linda Way for his eldest daughter; Cranks Road, and Ranch Road as the property had been an avocado ranch among other things during Prohibition.

Delia Bacon

Had she limited her argument to these points instead of conjoining it to an argument about how Shakespeare couldn't have written them, there is little doubt that, instead of being dismissed as a crank and a madwoman, she would be hailed today as the precursor of the New Historicists, and the first to argue that the plays anticipated the political upheavals England experienced in the mid-seventeenth century.

Dodge Neon SRT-4

The SRT4 engine had many improvements, including: stronger crank case webbing, a thicker deck with 11 mm head bolts (vs 10 mm), an oil drain back for the turbo, a cast aluminum structural oil pan, a higher capacity oil pump, a crankshaft of higher hardness steel, improved machining of bearing journals, oil squirters (to cool underside of pistons), eutectic aluminum alloy pistons made specially by Mahle, and forged connecting rods with cracked caps and 9 mm bolts.

Efren Ramirez

Ramirez has starred in a number of films, including Napoleon Dynamite as Pedro Sánchez, Employee of the Month with Dane Cook, Jessica Simpson, and Dax Shepard, Crank and Crank: High Voltage with Jason Statham, Searching for Mickey Fish with Daniel Baldwin, All You've Got with Ciara, and HBO's Walkout and made cameos in Nacho Libre and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

Engine balance

In a V-twin with a shared crank pin (e.g. Ducati 'L-twin'), the strong vibration of the 360°-crank parallel twin is divided into two different directions and phase separated by the same amount of degrees as in the V angle, with 13. unevenly spaced firing as well as the imbalances 4., 6., 14. and 16.

Errortype: Eleven

'Amplified to Rock', the band's last release on Some Records, was produced by John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, Screaming Trees), who was impressed by the band after working with them on the interim EP the band recorded for Crank! Records in July 1999.

Flywheel

In the Industrial Revolution, James Watt contributed to the development of the flywheel in the steam engine, and his contemporary James Pickard used a flywheel combined with a crank to transform reciprocating into rotary motion.

Fokker-Leimberger

Initially they developed a simple adaptation of the Maxim action (itself widely used in Germany in the MG 08), driven by a crank from the engine.

Frank Sandford

Considered by former members and many neighbors to be a crank and an autocrat who insisted on unquestioning loyalty, Sandford—who had identified himself with the biblical Elijah and David—was convicted of manslaughter in 1911 and served seven years in a federal penitentiary.

Marion H. Crank

Crank died in 1994 at the age of seventy-nine at a hospital in Texarkana,

Neveldine/Taylor

In 2009, Neveldine and Taylor wrote and directed Crank: High Voltage, a sequel to Crank, and Gamer, a science fiction action thriller starring Gerard Butler.

Ramanujan's congruences

This was proved by his Ph.D. student Karl Mahlburg in his 2005 paper Partition Congruences and the Andrews–Garvan–Dyson Crank, linked below.

Sebastian Rupley

From March 2006 until May 2010, Rupley had served as co-host (introduced as "co-crank"), alongside PC Magazine columnist John C. Dvorak, on Mevio's popular weekly IPTV show Cranky Geeks.

The Alien Encounters

Described by leading science fiction author David Wingrove in his Science Fiction Source Book as a "Deathly dull B-movie UFO story with dire effects and no real encounters at all...Endless desert scenes and interminable talk-overs disguise crank concerns of writer/director James T. Flocker", the film received generally poor reviews.

The Richardson Gang

The electric shocks were inflicted by an old Army field telephone which included a hand-crank-powered generator, much like the notorious Tucker Telephone; the terminals were attached to the victims' nipples and genitalia and they were then placed in a bath of cold water to enhance the electrical charge.

Yank Me, Crank Me

"Yank Me, Crank Me" is the title of a song written and recorded by American rock artist Ted Nugent from his live album "Double Live Gonzo!".


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