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7 unusual facts about Nash


Chain drive

The Frazer Nash chain drive system, (designed for the GN Cyclecar Company by Archibald Frazer-Nash and Henry Ronald Godfrey) was very effective, allowing extremely fast gear selections.

D'Nash

Just before entering the competition, they announced a change of name from Nash to D'Nash, due to the existence of a rapper called NACH (this not entirely correct, the power pop band The Nash from Majorca was paid out because it had the name registered for ten years and had been releasing albums all this time).

Edward Brocklehurst Fielden

He died at Court of Hill, aged 84, in 1942, and was buried at the parish church of St John the Baptist at Nash.

Nash, Newport

The village skyline has recently been transformed with the installation of two 2.5-megawatt wind turbines, on the site of chemical company Solutia UK Ltd, which will supply up to one-third of the facility's electricity needs.

Nash, North Dakota

It was founded in 1890 as a station along the Great Northern Railroad and named for the Nash brothers, pioneer settlers in the area who operated a fruit store in Grafton and started what is now the Nash Finch Company, the third-largest food wholesaler in the United States.

Nash, South Shropshire

Politician Edward Brocklehurst Fielden (1857–1942), who lived at Court of Hill from 1926 to his death, is buried in the churchyard.

Sikorsky R-6

Initial production was by Sikorsky, but most examples were built by Nash-Kelvinator.


4-Cyano-4'-pentylbiphenyl

5CB was first synthesized by George William Gray, Ken Harrison, and J.A. Nash at the University of Hull in 1972 and at the time it was the first member of the cyanobiphenyls.

78 Saab

The album's title and chief inspiration was described by Nash as coming from the long drives between his Sydney home and his family farm near Orange, New South Wales.

Cadborosaurus willsi

In 2009, fisherman Kelly Nash purportedly filmed several minutes of footage featuring ten to fifteen (including young) creatures in Nushagak Bay.

Centenary Diamond

Gabi Tolkowsky was chosen to head the team responsible for cutting the Centenary Diamond, along with Geoff Woolett, Jim Nash and Dawie du Plessis, assisted by a specially picked group of engineers, electricians and security guards to facilitate in the work on Centenary Diamond.

Cumberland Market

Beside the Ophthalmic Hospital was Christ Church (now St. George's Cathedral), built by Nash's assistant, Sir James Pennethorne in 1837 to serve the largely working class district.

Danny Click

Click's live shows have drawn surprise guest appearances by a number of artists, including Carlos Santana, Elvin Bishop, James Nash of The Waybacks, and Angela Strehli, as well as drawing audience members such as Mort Sahl, Anna Halprin, and Robin Williams.

Decimus Burton

The task was complicated by the Office of Woods and Forests' initial desire to have its facade matching that of the United Services Club opposite, on which Nash was working.

Déjà Vu Live

All of Young's songs derive from the Living with War album, including three versions of the title track, while no Crosby, Stills, or Nash song dates later than 1971.

E. J. H. Nash

Bishop David Sheppard remarked that Nash could be "single-minded to the point of ruthlessness" and "courageous in challenging people about their actions or priorities," but that this could become "over-direction"; some even needed to make a complete break in order to be free of his influence.

Gary Barden

Barden was discovered by Schenker upon the guitarist's hearing a demo of Barden's previous band, Fraser Nash.

Goldcliff Priory

In 1334 the prior Phillip Gopillarius ("Philip de Gopylers") was charged—along with a monk, some clergy and fifty other persons from Newport, Nash, Goldcliff, Clevedon and Portishead—with stealing wine and other merchandise from a vessel wrecked at Goldcliff.

Graham Nash David Crosby

The commercial success of this album equaled, if not surpassed a bit, that of the pair's two solo albums of the previous year, although it would not be until after the second break-up of CSNY following their 1974 tour that Crosby and Nash would sign an album contract as a unit with ABC Records.

Immigration Man

Nash wrote "Immigration Man" about an unfortunate moment he had with a U.S. Customs official when he tried to enter the country.

Ira S. Nash

Nash currently serves as Commander in the Medical Corps of the United States Navy Reserve.

It Came from Beneath the Sea

The local sheriff, Bill Nash (Harry Lauter), takes them to the site of the attack along the beach, where they find a giant suction imprint in the sand and request that John join them.

Jamal Joseph

Joseph was nominated for a 2008 Academy Award in the Best Song category for his contributions to the song "Raise It Up", performed by IMPACT Repertory Theatre and Jamia Nash in the 2007 film August Rush.

Jared Banks

Natalie warns Sarah about Jared, but Sarah is undeterred; when the time comes for the reading of Asa's will in Paris, Texas, Sarah invites Jared to come with her — which annoys Natalie, Jessica and Nash.

Joe Thornton

Since then Nash and Thornton keep a close contact to Arno del Curto and HC Davos, Thornton returns every summer to train for up to a month with the club.

Jon Randall

In 1992, Randall won a Grammy award under the winner name 'Emmylou Harris & Nash Ramblers (Larry Altamanuik, Sam Bush, Roy Huskey, Jr., Al Perkins, Jon Randall Stewart), artists.' for Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal.

Kenneth Nash

Kenneth Nash is an American jazz percussionist who has worked extensively as a sideman for musicians including Bobby Hutcherson, Herbie Hancock, Pharoah Sanders and Norman Connors.

Lasse Marhaug

He currently participates in the projects Jazkamer/Jazzkammer, Nash Kontroll (with Mats Gustafsson and Dror Feiler), DEL, and Testicle Hazard.

Mitch Kupchak

He later, along with owner Jerry Buss and Vice President of Basketball Operations Jim Buss (Jerry's son), also fired defense-minded head coach Mike Brown and replaced him with Nash's former head coach, offense-minded Mike D'Antoni.

Nelson Nash

During more than 35 years experience as a Life Insurance Agent, Nash worked with The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U.S. and with The Guardian.

Nick Brooke

Brooke’s instrumental works have been performed by the Paul Dresher Ensemble, the Nash Ensemble of London, Orchestra 2001, Dan Druckman, Speculum Musicae, and New York’s Gamelan Son of Lion.

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

In the Pioglitazone versus Vitamin E versus Placebo for the Treatment of Nondiabetic Patients with Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (PIVENS) trial, for patients with NASH but without diabetes mellitus, the use of very high dosages of vitamin E (800 IU/day) for four years was associated with a significantly higher rate of improvement than placebo (43% vs. 19%) in the primary outcome.

Ohio University

The College Green features Galbreath Chapel, the spire of which, topped with a brass weather vane, is modeled after that of the portico of Nash's All Souls Church in London.

ORDVAC

J. P. Nash of the University of Illinois was a developer of both the ORDVAC and of the university's own identical copy, the ILLIAC, which was later renamed the ILLIAC I. Donald B. Gillies assisted in the checkout of ORDVAC at Aberdeen Proving Ground.

Party People

"Party People", 2012 remix of Edita Piekha's song "Nash Sosed" by DJs Gary Caos and Rico Bernasconi

Philleo Nash

On November 2, 1935, he married Edith Nash, who was the second director of the Georgetown Day School, the first racially integrated school in Washington, D.C. Edith Nash was also an accomplished poet, a childhood friend of Ernest Hemingway, publishing (among other titles) the Cross+Roads Press book, Practice: The Here and Now. He was also the founder of the Riverwood Roundtable literary society.

Rick Nash

In the off-season, in May 2008, Nash was named the cover athlete and spokesman for NHL 2K9.

Ron Bennington

The Ron & Ron Show regularly interviewed celebrity guests and Ron & Ron made national headlines after engaging in a screaming match with apparently inebriated actor Don Johnson (Miami Vice, Nash Bridges) which was highly chronicled in the press, on many TV entertainment news shows, and was featured in People Magazine and on Inside Edition amongst many others.

Stepan Pasicznyk

recording introductory music for Canadian British Columbia's longest running Ukrainian radio show, Nash Holos (Our Voice).

Stephen Nash's titi

Stephen Nash's titi (Callicebus stephennashi), also known as just Nash's titi or Stephen Nash's monkey, is a species of titi, a type of New World monkey, endemic to the eastern bank of the Purus River in Brazil.

Still I Rise

Still I Rise: A Cartoon History of African Americans, a 1997 book coauthored by Roland Owen Laird Jr. and Taneshia Nash Laird

The Day Emily Married

It starred Estelle Parsons (Lyd Davis "Belle"), Hallie Foote (Emily), Biff McGuire (Lee Davis), James Colby (Richard Murray), Terri Keane (Alma Nash), Delores Mitchell (Addie), and Pamela Payton-Wright (Maud Cleveland).

They Asked About You

"They Asked About You" is a song written by Freddy Weller, Bill Nash and Kim Nash, and recorded by American country music artist Reba McEntire.

Thomas J. Courtney

In the late 1930s, Courtney tried to ally himself with Governor Henry Horner in the latter's political feud with Chicago mayor Ed Kelly and Democratic boss Patrick A. Nash, going so far as to challenge Kelly in the 1939 mayoral primary.

Titanocene dichloride

With NaSH and with polysulfide salts, one obtains the sulfido derivatives Cp2Ti(SH)2 and Cp2TiS5.

Victoria Montesi

However, when pages from the Darkhold are distributed to unsuspecting mortals by a demonic Dwarf and Nash is rendered quadriplegic and comatose following an explosion intended to kill Victoria, she joins with occult expert Louise Hastings and Interpol agent Sam Buchanan to recover the pages as the Darkhold Redeemers.

Well of Moses

Nash, Susie, "The Lord’s Crucifix of Costly Workmanship: Colour, Collaboration and the Making of Meaning on the Well of Moses" in Circumlitio.

Workingman's Dead

The album was voted by readers of Rolling Stone as the best album of 1970, in front of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's Déjà Vu and Van Morrison's Moondance.

WRSU-FM

The first song ever played was Crosby, Stills, and Nash's "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" The seventies were also a time when live interviews with singers began and ranged from the local band Holmes to Wonder Woman Linda Carter promoting her first album.

Zac Drayson

His character, Will, left Summer Bay after marrying the mother of his child Lily, Gypsy Nash (Kimberley Cooper).


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