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Packard-Bentley

The car debuted at the Cholmondeley Pageant of Power in July 2010, and is planned to become a regular appearance at VSCC events alongside Williams' other Bentley special, the Napier Bentley.


1928 24 Hours of Le Mans

Bernard Rubin, co-driver of the winning Bentley 4½ Litre (nicknamed "Old Mother Gun") alongside Bentley director Woolf Barnato, was the first Australian born driver to win Le Mans, and the first driver born in the Southern Hemisphere to win the race.

ASK Group

Lower-priced minicomputers from Hewlett-Packard and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), the product's two hardware platforms, made this possible.

Attensity

Corporations that use or have used Attensity software include Airbus, Charles Schwab, Citigroup, HP, JetBlue, Lloyds Banking Group, Safeway, Siemens, StubHub, TiVo, Travelocity, Unilever, Walgreens, Wells Fargo and Whirlpool.

Bentley Arnage

During the takeover battle in 1998 between BMW and Volkswagen Group for ownership of Rolls Royce and Bentley Motors, BMW had threatened to stop supply of their engines if Volkswagen Group won.

Bentley Crewe

It was also the last Bentley fitted with a six-cylinder engine, as its successor, the S2 used the Crewe designed and developed all-aluminium Rolls Royce 6.25-litre V8, which has remained in production in various forms ever since.

Bentley Mitchum

Bentley also became the first American actor to play lead in an Indian Kollywood film, Little John opposite Jyothika.

Bentley with Arksey

The civil parish was formed in 1866 by the grouping of the two townships of Arksey and Bentley.

Bentley, South Yorkshire

A former mining village it lies on the River Don, Bentley and the nearby hamlet of Toll Bar were badly affected by floods in June 2007.

Beny Alagem

In the mid-1990s, Packard Bell lost market share as Compaq started to undercut its prices.

Binary translation

HP ARIES (Automatic Re-translation and Integrated Environment Simulation) is a dynamic binary translation system that combines fast code interpretation with two phase dynamic translation to transparently and accurately execute HP 9000 HP-UX applications on HP-UX 11i for HP Integrity servers.

The ARIES emulation engine also implements Environment Emulation which emulates an HP 9000 HP-UX application's system calls, signal delivery, exception management, threads management, emulation of HP GDB for debugging, and core file creation for the application.

Black Adder 6

Its design was derived from such vintage Bentleys as "Old Number 1" and the "Napier-Railton Special." The cars of Bentley's 1920–1930s racing era, when the marque competed in such races as Le Mans and Brooklands, were further inspiration for its Brooklands boat-tail aluminum body.

Brian S. Bentley

Bentley has defended officers accused of corruption in the Rampart Scandal, claiming they were unfairly targeted by investigator Russell Poole.

British Power Boat Company

In 1939, due to the difficulties in obtaining British engines, Scott-Paine took PT-9 to the US to enable Elco to mass-produce PT boats using Packard motors.

Byron Randall

Randall’s activism also led him and Packard to the Soviet Union, in 1964, where they had a show of 48 prints in Moscow’s Pushkin Museum, which was featured on Soviet television.

Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery

He translated Plutarch's life of Lysander, and published an edition of the epistles of Phalaris, which engaged him in the famous controversy with Bentley.

Charles E. Bentley

Reverend Charles Eugene Bentley (1841–1905) was a third party candidate for president of the United States in 1896.

David Packard

Prompted by his daughters Nancy Packard Burnett and Julie Packard, in 1978 Dave and Lucile Packard created the Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation.

Upon entering office in 1969, President Richard M. Nixon appointed Packard U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense under Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird.

Deric Ruttan

In 2003, just as his first single When You Come Around was released, he celebrated his first No. 1 as a songwriter when friend and collaborator Dierks Bentley took the Ruttan/Bentley/Brett Beavers co-write "What Was I Thinkin'" to the top of the charts in the US.

Dick Damron

Dick Damron (born Joseph Glenn, March 22, 1934 in Bentley, Alberta) is a Canadian country music singer, songwriter.

Dominique Senequier

She holds a postgraduate degree in Banking and Monetary Economics from the University of Sorbonne, and is a former director of Hewlett-Packard, having resigned in March 2012.

DZRJ-FM

On October 15, 2010, HP Philippines, a unit of United States-based information technology firm Hewlett-Packard Company, have entered an agreement with RJ 100.3 FM as part of radio commercials.

Elcocks Brook

It lies South-west to Bentley and it lies South-east to the Redditch district of Webheath.

Favourite Things

The single follows the same basic tune of the original song, and focuses on typically expensive and glamorous objects that the women of the group are wanting, such as diamonds, rubies, expensive cars such as Bentleys and designer clothes such as Gucci.

Frog Design Inc.

More recently, frog has worked for clients such as GE, Microsoft, Siemens, Intel, Lufthansa, HP, and UNICEF.

Govenlock, Saskatchewan

Americans would come to the pioneer town in their Fords, Studebakers, Packards, and Hudsons.

Harry C. Bentley

He sold the school and enrolled at New York University as part of the initial class at NYU's School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance, but Bentley was not given his degree in 1903 because he did not have a high school diploma.

Host adapter

Major SAS/SATA adapter manufacturers are Promise Technologies, Adaptec, HP, QLogic, Areca, LSI and ATTO Technology.

IBM Series/1

The IBM Series/1 computer is a 16-bit minicomputer, introduced in 1976, that in many respects competed with other minicomputers of the time, such as the PDP-11 from Digital Equipment Corporation and similar offerings from Data General and HP.

Jeremy Gunawardena

After leading Hewlett-Packard's research team in Europe, he joined the faculty of systems biology at the Harvard Medical School.

John Francis Bentley

After deciding on a Byzantine Revival design, Bentley travelled to Italy to study some of the great early Byzantine-influenced cathedrals, such as St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

John Irving Bentley

Joe Nickell, in his book Secrets of the Supernatural, gives an account of this event he got from Larry E. Arnold's article "The Flaming Fate of Dr. John Irving Bentley," printed in the Pursuit of Fall 1976.

Jon Bentley

He and Thomas Ottmann invented the Bentley–Ottmann algorithm, an efficient algorithm for finding all intersecting pairs among a collection of line segments.

Lauren Kessler

She is also author of Washington Post best-seller Clever Girl: Elizabeth Bentley, the Spy Who Ushered in the McCarthy Era, a biography of Elizabeth Bentley, and the Los Angeles Times best-seller and Oregon Book Award finalist The Happy Bottom Riding Club, a biography of aviator Florence Pancho Barnes.

Mary Moore-Bentley

In 1943 she was committed to the Mental Hospital at Stockton in Newcastle, where she died in 1953.

Merlien Institute Market Research Conferences

These conferences feature speakers from multinational companies such as Walmart, Hewlett-Packard, Citigroup, Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, Pepsico, Google, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Nestle, Huawei, international think tanks and research agencies.

Packard Stadium

Mr. Packard served Shepard's Citations for 51 years rising to President and chairman of the board.

Bobby Winkles Field sits in Packard Stadium at Brock Ballpark, in honor of William Guthrie Packard and the Sun Devils' Hall of Fame coaches Jim Brock and Bobby Winkles.

Ralph Tollemache

The Tollemache family's names are parodied in Book 1, Episode 4 of James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake, as Helmingham Erchenwyne Rutter Egbert (HERE) Crumwall Odin Maximus Esme Saxon (COMES) Esa Vercingetorix Ethelwulf Rupprecht Ydwalla Bentley Osmund Dysart Yggdrasselmann (EVERYBODY).

Robinsons Summit Center

At the 8th and 9th floors is a branch of Fitness First health club, the 37th floor is the Philippine operations of Hewlett-Packard Philippines Corporation, which offers a wide variety of cardio-vascular equipment and weight based machines, free weights, or air-resistance machines.

Rolls-Royce – Bentley L Series V8 engine

It was used on most Rolls-Royce and Bentley motor cars in the four decades after its introduction and today it is used in Bentley Mulsanne.

Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment

The project was contracted by FVAP to Accenture, who in turn subcontracted Avenade, Hart InterCivic, Hewlett-Packard, VeriSign, election.com, and others.

Sidney Rigdon

He moved in May to Trumbull County, Ohio, where he jointly preached with Adamson Bentley from July 1819.

Simple public-key infrastructure

The most prominent general deployments of SPKI/SDSI are E-speak, a middleware product from HP that used SPKI/SDSI for access control of web methods, and UPnP Security, that uses an XML dialect of SPKI/SDSI for access control of web methods, delegation of rights among network participants, etc.

Stanford Center for Design Research

The Center for Design Research was founded in 1984 by a collection of faculty from Stanford's famed Design Division, with money from companies including Apple Computer, BMW, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and Toshiba Corporation.

Superquick

A number of Superquick models are destroyed in a scene in the film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, where Sellers stamps on them in retribution for his son having "fixed" a paint blemish on Sellers's Bentley by painting a "go faster stripe" on the side.

The Little Old Lady from Pasadena

Part of this lore was that many an elderly man who died in Pasadena would leave his widow with a powerful car that she rarely, if ever drove, such as an old Buick Roadmaster, or a vintage 1950s Cadillac, Ford, Packard, Studebaker, DeSoto, or La Salle.

The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death

While snarking out, they meet the usual assortment of oddballs, such as Ms. Bentley Saunders Harrison Matthews, a.k.a. Rat, and places, from Blueberry Park to Lower North Aufzoo Street to Beanbender's Beer Garden.

World Bowl IX

BER – Ahmad Merritt 17 yd TD pass from Jonathan Quinn (Bentley kick) 5:13 4th (17-17)


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