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Drift: The Sideways Craze

The film was aired for four years by Discovery HD and is included as bonus content in Fast and The Furious Blu-ray Box Set.


1942 WANFL season

Whilst the previous two seasons had been increasingly affected by the drift of players to the services, the 1941/1942 off-season saw the Imperial Japanese Navy and air force move into the north of Western Australia, bombing many northwestern settlements.

A2022 road

The A2022 becomes Fir Tree Road and heads west, passes within 50m of Banstead railway station in the Nork locality westwards; then it stops at the crossroads by the Drift Bridge, 500m short of Epsom Downs railway station, where it co-runs with the A240 and faces the B291 (also Fir Tree Road).

Beechey Island

In addition, Clive Cussler's 2008 novel, Arctic Drift, featured characters that would visit this island in the quest for Franklin's ships.

Booth's Theatre

:Booth was a dreamer; and in every part of his life as it was known to me during an intimacy extending over a period of about thirty years, I saw the operation of Hamlet's propensity to view all things as transitory and immaterial, and to let everything drift.

Chellian

The drift-beds of St Acheul (Amiens), of Menchecourt (Abbeville), of Hoxne (Suffolk), and the detrital laterite of Madras are considered by de Mortillet to be synchronous with the Chellian beds.

Chinatown, Brisbane

Now, many Chinese-Australian residents including people from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and China have started to drift away from Chinatown and settle around the favourable Feng shui Sunnybank area located south of the CBD.

Chris Forsberg

He teamed up with Corey Hosford for 2013 season of Formula Drift and they have been touring together since.

Corey Hosford

Corey Hosford is a Formula Drift driver for team KSport's V8 powered Nissan 350Z since 2012 after earning his Formula D licence in his first year of driving on XDC (Xtreme Drift Circuit) on team KSport's V8 powered Nissan 240SX.

Cornubia

A geologists' name for a former island which existed in the Mesozoic and during continental drift and orogeny became an area of land in or around Cornwall.

Dickson Mabon

He was the founder of The Manifesto Group of Labour MPs, an alliance of moderate MPs against the perceived leftward drift of the Labour Party in the 1970s.

Drift River Terminal Facility

It is located in Alaska along Cook Inlet, at the terminus of the Drift River, an historic floodplain of nearby volcanic Mount Redoubt.

Drift to the north

Drift to the north is a term used in New Zealand to refer to the internal migration of people from the South Island to the country's main metropolitan area, Auckland, in the northern North Island.

Elliot Reid

After Carla's marriage, the two begin to drift apart, but when they realize it ("My Lucky Charm"), they vow to work harder on maintaining their relationship.

Energy drift

Energy drift is often used as a measure of the quality of the simulation, and has been proposed as one quality metric to be routinely reported in a mass repository of molecular dynamics trajectory data analogous to the Protein Data Bank.

Evolusi KL Drift

Evolusi KL Drift (literal translation: KL Drift Evolution) is a Malaysian action film influenced by The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.

Ion drift meter

Ion drift meters have been used on several spacecraft including Dynamics Explorer and CHAMP, and will be on board the forthcoming Ionospheric Connection Explorer mission.

JDM Allstars

The championship was formed in 2008 by former pro drifter Niall Gunn and was previously known as JDM Allstars until the series was re-branded Drift Allstars and officially launched as a European series.

Jeremy Schonfeld

In 2005, Schonfeld and bookwriter Craig Pospisil premiered the musical Drift at the 2005 New York Musical Theater Festival.

John Dardis

The governmented then established an Independent Salmon Group to review policy, and the group's report in October 2006 recommended radical measures to halt "the catastrophic decline of Irish salmon stocks", including both a ban drift nets and on angling for salmon in major rivers including the Liffey, Boyne, Barrow, Nore and Suir.

Killay, Swansea

There were two drifts, one working the Penlan seam, the other the Penclawdd seam.

Maclear, Eastern Cape

The town was founded in 1876 as Nqanqaru Drift but was later in 1882 renamed after Thomas Maclear.

Marji Armstrong

In 1985, she purchased her Spanish Andalusian stallion, Dulcero, from the van der Drift family in Qld and was influential in the re-formation of the then defunct Western Australian Branch of the Andalusian Horse Association of Australasia.

Morainic drift

Morainic drift is the movement of rock debris (talus) (see also Moraine) left by glaciers.

NCC Class S1

During the harsh winter of 1947, No.41 famously became stuck in a snow drift between Capecastle and Armoy while working the afternoon up train to Ballymena on 12 March.

No Stranger to Shame

"Drift Away" features Dobie Gray, who previously had a major hit with the song, in a vocal duet.

Olene, Oregon

According to William Gladstone Steel, Olene is a Klamath word meaning "eddy place" or "place of drift." O. C. Applegate adopted the word for the site in 1884 when the post office was established.

Project Torque

A unique feature of the drift mode is the ability to use specialized drifting cars, one of which resembles the Falken Mustang driven by Vaughn Gittin.

Ripspeed

It started with a 1999 Vauxhall Corsa C SXI, which was followed in 1999 with a Ford Focus Ripspeed's current project is a 1991 Nissan 200SX turbo which is a drift car project and has been seen in action at Santa Pod raceway in 2007.

River Nidd

Lower down on the flood plain, the nature of the underlying ground is Magnesian limestone over alluvium and terrace drift deposits.

Sberna

Galo dialect drift Italico (Lombard language), mixture of French, Italian and German or maybe the (Romansh) spoken in the Canton of Grisons (Graubünden (Switzerland), Lombardy (Italy) and Canton of Ticino (Switzerland), whose etymology seems to be very old and date back to the time of Gaul, which was inhabited by Celtic tribes, between present-Switzerland, part of Belgium, part of Austria and northern Italy.

Scarman report

The debate in the House of Parliament to mark the publication of the Scarman report on the 26 November 1981 had as its theme "law and order" and the then leader of the Liberal Party, David Steel, argued that "urgent action" to prevent a drift into lawlessness was necessary.

Scion tC

For the 2009/10 Formula Drift seasons, Tanner Foust competed using a Rockstar, AEM and Toyo Tire sponsored Scion tC converted to RWD, built by Papadakis Racing.

Sea Drift

Sea-Drift, a section of Walt Whitman's poem Leaves of Grass

Shutdown of thermohaline circulation

In May 2005, Peter Wadhams reported in The Times of London about the results of investigations in a submarine under the Arctic ice sheet measuring the giant chimneys of cold dense water, in which the cold dense water normally sinks down to the sea bed and is replaced by warm water, forming one of the engines of the North Atlantic Drift.

Smoothbore

This does two things; first, it increases the accuracy of the projectile by eliminating the random drift due to the Magnus effect, and second, it allows a longer, heavier bullet to be fired from the same caliber barrel, increasing range and power (see external ballistics).

Space art

In 1998, Frank Pietronigro flew Research Project Number 33: Investigating The Creative Process in a Microgravity Environment where the artist drew, created 'drift paintings' and danced in microgravity space.

Steve Biagioni

He featured in Idris Elba's 'King Of Speed' show, teaching Idris how to drift in a Toyota GT86

Tokyo Xtreme Racer: Drift 2

The game is about touge racing, which rely on drift skills made popular in the western culture during the 2000s by Initial D, and is divided in daytime and nighttime.

Usui Pass

It is also the home course of the real life drift racer Keiichi Tsuchiya.

Van Zyl's golden mole

Van Zyl's golden mole was initially known only from Compagnies Drift, 16 km (10 mi) inland from Lambert's Bay, northwestern Cape Province, South Africa.

Victorian Military Society

Other notable members of the Society have included the military historians Ian Knight (one of the Society’s founder members) a noted expert on the Zulu War and Rorke’s Drift, Michael Barthorp author of books on the North West Frontier, the Boer War and the Sudan campaigns, and the late Kenneth Griffith, actor, documentary film maker, Boer war historian and author of a book on the siege and relief of Ladysmith.

Videocracy

In Italy, the election of Silvio Berlusconi as Prime Minister in 1994 was seen by many as a "media coup d'état and a drift towards 'videocracy'".


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