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unusual facts about Rack, Shack and Benny



Bagagedrager

"Bagagedrager" (English: "Luggage Carrier" or "Rack") is a song recorded by Dutch rappers Gers Pardoel and Sef (Yousef Gnaoui) for Pardoel's debut studio album, Deze Wereld Is Van Jou.

Barbarian Queen

A follow-on film, Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back was billed as a sequel, when in actuality neither the plot nor the characters had anything to do with the original Barbarian Queen film, other than casting Lana Clarkson in the title role, and having a scene where her character is stretched out naked on a rack and slowly tortured to death.

Bavarian PtzL 3/4

The Bavarian Class PtzL 3/4 engines with the Royal Bavarian State Railways (Königlich Bayerische Staats-Eisenbahnen) were rack railway locomotives whose cogwheel drive was designed for working on tracks with a Strub rack.

The locomotives remained on their regular route between Erlau and Wegscheid until the closure of this rack railway in 1963.

Blade server

The popularity of blade servers, and their own appetite for power, has led to an increase in the number of rack-mountable uninterruptible power supply (or UPS) units, including units targeted specifically towards blade servers (such as the BladeUPS).

Blockdot

Chicktionary: a variation on the game of anagrams, it features an egg rack, replete with three to seven-letter sequences of eggs.

Bomb Rack

Although serious articles occasionally appeared within, Bomb Rack's tone was often light-hearted and humorous with numerous photos and pin-ups, as well as a full page of locally drawn cartoons.

Christopher Dresser

Some of Dresser’s metalwork designs are still in production, such as his oil and vinegar sets and toast rack designs, now manufactured by Alessi and Alberto Alessi goes so far as to say Dresser 'knew the techniques of metal production better than any designer who has come to Alessi'.

Cisco 2500 series

The Cisco 2500 series routers are a series of 19" rack mount access routers typically used to connect Ethernet or token ring networks via ISDN or leased serial connections (i.e. Frame Relay, T1 etc.).

Class 97

DRG Class 97, a class of German rack railway steam locomotive operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn

CMX 600

The first rack contained the interface electronics for the system, monitoring equipment, and a Digital PDP-11 minicomputer with 32 kilobytes of RAM, which controlled the system.

CrossFit

;Press: Barbell is moved from the "rack position" to the overhead position.

ČSD Class EMU 29.0

The rack railway was opened in 1896, closed in 1932, and reopened in 1970 in time for that year's FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, which were held in the area.

Culdee Fell Railway

According to "research" by the Rev. W Awdry, the railway was the brainchild of the tourist-minded Mid Sodor Railway, who had hopes to extend their line beyond Peel Godred to Kirk Machan at the foot of Culdee Fell, where passengers could board a rack railway to the summit.

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

Kersey knocks out Detective Reiner (who was awaiting inside Kersey's apartment), then pulls a M16 rifle, with an incorporated M203 grenade launcher, from a gun rack hidden behind his freezer.

Duke of Exeter's daughter

But when in the reign of Charles I, upon the assassination of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, by John Felton, it was proposed in the privy council to put the assassin to the rack, in order to discover his accomplices, the judges being consulted, declared unanimously that no such proceeding was allowable by the laws of England.

Edgeplay

They would be considered more RACK (Risk-Aware Consensual Kink).

Greg Voelker Rack System

The Greg Voelker Rack System is a unique drum rack used by former Megadeth drummer Nick Menza, David Beal drummer for Joe Cocker, Julian Lennon, Honeymoon Suite, Rod Morgenstein drummer for Dixie Dregs and Winger and was voted by Modern Drummer Magazine's "Most Popular Progressive Rock Drummer", Michael Foster, drummer for FireHouse, and Whitesnake drummer Tommy Aldridge.

Here Comes the Indian

Avey Tare played his guitar through an Ibanez delay rack and Boss pitch shifter/delay pedal to create a doubled, fuller sound, since he was the only one playing guitar at the time.

IBM zEnterprise System

This add-on infrastructure supports redundant top-of-Rack switches, redundant power supplies, extra blowers, and IBM BladeCenter chassis.

Ice La Fox

In 2012, Ice appeared in another multi-AVN award-nominated crossover adult movie, called Rack City: The XXX Movie, which was produced, co-directed by and co-starred (in a non-sex role) with rapper Tyga and based on a twice turned platinum song by the rapper.

International Standard Payload Rack

The ISPRs will be outfitted with a thin center post to accommodate sub-rack-sized payloads, such as the 483 mm (19-inch rack) Spacelab Standard Interface Rack (SIR) Drawer or the Space Shuttle Middeck Locker.

Joey Ayala

Some of the Filipino ethnic instruments Ayala is known to use include the two-stringed Hegalong of the T'Boli people of Mindanao, the Kubing, the bamboo jaw harp found in various forms throughout the Philippines, and the 8-piece gong set, Kulintang, the melodical gong-rack of the indigenous peoples of the southern part of the country.

Lotus 23

The front suspension was a typical double wishbone arms with outboard coil/damper unit using the Triumph upright made by Alford & Alder, Triumph Herald rack and pinion steering, and outboard Girling non-ventilated disc brake.

Mary Ruefle

Ruefle's debut collection of prose, The Most Of It, appeared in 2008 and her collected lectures, Madness, Rack, and Honey, was published in August 2012 - both from Wave Books.

Mitt Romney dog incident

In August 2012, the band Devo released a single called "Don't Roof Rack Me, Bro (Seamus Unleashed)", to keep the incident in the news as the presidential campaign moved to a conclusion.

MTR Professional Audio

Apart from manufacturing 'problem-solver' audio products such as the RaxX expandable 19" rack-mounting system, MTR distributes the Dutch stageClix digital wireless system for guitars, basses, microphones etc., Mcgregor UK-made mixer-amplifiers, power amplifiers, speakers, karaoke systems, the Californian A-Designs boutique audio products including the REDDI valve DI box, Pacifica microphone preamplifier, Hammer valve EQ.

ODECO

ODECO rigs continued to rack up “firsts” in the industry in the 1970s, with Ocean Viking discovering the giant Ekofisk Field for Phillips Petroleum in the North Sea, and Ocean Victory discovering the Piper and Claymore fields, also in the North Sea, for Occidental Petroleum.

Oscillating turret

To give an additional anti-tank capability to the AMX-13, it was later fitted with four SS.11 missiles on a turret-front rack.

Passau–Hauzenberg railway

These were Class PtzL 3/4 locomotives, passenger tank engines with a rack railway system, three of the four axles being driven, with the works numbers 4101–4003, 8033.

Punsch

A testament to the widespread popularity of punsch or rack (arrack) is the songs of Swedish eighteenth century poet and composer Carl Michael Bellman.

Rane Vaskivuori

Rane Vaskivuori (born 1967) in a Finnish designer whose best-known works include the Glowblow lamp (together with Vesa Hinkola and Markus Nevalainen), which MoMA New York has included in its permanent collection, and the Y umbrella and coat rack.

Road Scholars

Julio Fernandez played a Washburn MG122ES electric guitar and a Ronaldo custom electric guitar through a Fender Prososonic Amp using the following effects: Rocktron Voodoo Valve Preamp/Multi effects rack, Vox Wahwah pedal, Boss Overdrive, Digital Delay & EQ Pedals, TC Electronics Chorus Pedal and ADA MIDI Control Pedal using a Whirlwind Custom Switching Box.

Sansabelt

On the Good Eats episode "Ear Apparent", when making creamed corn, chef Alton Brown remarks "back before the days when I started seriously eyeing the Sansabelt pants rack, I used to put lots of cream in here. Sometimes a quart for one batch."

São Paulo Railway

An electrified Rack-and-adhesion railway built on the right of way of the abandoned Serra Velha opened in 1974, called Systema Cremalheira-Aderência, transl.: System Rack-and-adhesion

Seagram Museum

Designed by architect Barton Myers, it was built at a cost of $4.75 million and its entrance was a renovated late-19th century rack warehouse from the Seagram plant.

Teleflora

Teleflora ran an advertisement during the 2011 Super Bowl featuring Faith Hill; in it, a man sends flowers to his girlfriend with the message "Dear Kim, your rack is unreal".

The Johner Brothers

They continued to rack up hits on the Canadian country singles chart, including the top 25 "Maybe She'll Change Her Mind", and their duet with Suzanne Gitzi, "I Don't Wanna Know."

The Woman on the Rack

The Woman on the Rack (German: Die Frau auf der Folter) is a 1928 German silent drama film directed by Robert Wiene and starring Lili Damita, Vladimir Gajdarov and Johannes Riemann.

Tie Rack

Tie Rack is a British-based tie retailer that sells scarves, cufflinks, and many other items of clothing.

Tie Rack is managing in some countries Tumi stores as a franchisee of Tumi Inc. or its daughters.

Timeline of steam power

1812: Blenkinsop develops rack railway system in collaboration with Matthew Murray of Leeds Round Foundry - single-flue boiler; vertical cylinders sunk into boiler.

Tomato Sawyer and Huckleberry Larry's Big River Rescue

Grandpa George appears as narrator "Clark Wayne" in a similar role as his previous two appearances (in Rack, Shack and Benny and The Toy That Saved Christmas).

United Western Recorders

In 1970, Jack Herschorn purchased the Universal Audio mixing console and a number of other pieces of equipment from that studio including UA LA-76A and LA-76B limiting amplifiers, UA vacuum tube power amplifiers (which were actually Dynakit Stereo 70 and 50-watt mono amplifier kits assembled into rack-mount chassis), Fairchild Conax sibilance controllers, Langevin graphic equalizers and Cinema Engineering filters, all originally installed in United Studio A in 1957.

Weather Star XL

The Weather Star XL is a rack-mounted rendering computer, manufactured by Silicon Graphics, Inc., containing a modified SGI O2 computer.

Württemberg Hz

They were employed on the 1-in-10 Honau-Lichtenstein rack railway, 2.2 km long, which employed a Riggenbach-Klose rack system.


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