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6 unusual facts about Spaced


Bowes Park

The shops in Myddleton Road featured in the first episode of the 1999 Channel 4 sitcom Spaced.

Spaced

Neither Wright, Pegg, nor Stevenson were at any point approached regarding the proposed American remake, which Wright had dubbed "McSpaced", due to the involvement of film director McG.

Edgar Wright initially was "torn" about making more Spaced, saying "we have genuinely talked about it and have some neat ideas that could work in a Before Sunset/Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? kind of way".

Spaced: Soundtrack to the TV Series

It was released in tandem with the first series on DVD and VHS.

Teo Usuelli

He is probably best known for the main theme of the giallo film Amuck!, "Piacere Sequence", that was later used in The Big Lebowski, in an episode of the TV-series Spaced and in the documentary film How to Draw a Bunny.

The Pavement Studios ltd

The Pavement has been responsible for many UK produced programmes brought to life on disc including: The League of Gentleman, Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World, U2360 Tour.


Aircraft warning lights

United Kingdom's Belmont mast has nine clusters of red lamps spaced equally along the full height of the mast.

Apelles

Apelles allowed the superiority of some of his contemporaries in particular matters: according to Pliny he admired the dispositio of Melanthius, i.e. the way in which he spaced his figures, and the mensurae of Asclepiodorus, who must have been a great master of symmetry and proportion.

Araeosystyle

Araeosystyle (Gr. αραιος, "widely spaced", and συστυλος, "with columns set close together"), an architectural term applied to a colonnade, in which the intercolumniation is alternately wide and narrow, as in the case of the western porch of St Paul's Cathedral and the east front of the Louvre by Perrault.

Autoregressive conditional duration

In financial econometrics, an autoregressive conditional duration (ACD, Engle and Russell (1998)) model considers irregularly spaced and autocorrelated intertrade durations.

Clenshaw–Curtis quadrature

Unlike computation of arbitrary integrals, however, Fourier-series integrations for periodic functions (like f(\cos\theta), by construction), up to the Nyquist frequency k=N, are accurately computed by the N+1 equally spaced and equally weighted points \theta n = n \pi / N for n = 0,\ldots,N (except the endpoints are weighted by 1/2, to avoid double-counting, equivalent to the trapezoidal rule or the Euler–Maclaurin formula).

Cole Williams

This opportunity catapulted him to roles in Harry + Max, Race You to the Bottom, North Country, Lovers, Liars & Lunatics, Spaced Out and Freeway Killer.

Daventry transmitting station

A T-aerial was suspended between two masts, each 500 ft high and spaced by 800 ft.

Divje Babe Flute

The Divje Babe Flute is a cave bear femur pierced by spaced holes that was found in 1995 at the Divje Babe archeological park located near Cerkno in northwestern Slovenia.

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.

First Whig Junto

Having slowly risen to government ascendancy in the person of Lord Danby (1st Earl) who had held office through three shortly-spaced changes of Sovereign (dating to the Royal-dominated ministries of Charles II), the Whig elite established dominance in 1694 with the appointment of Sir Charles Montagu as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Franck–Condon principle

Vibronic transitions are drawn in figure 2 as narrow, equally spaced Lorentzian lineshapes.

Glenwood Park

The neighborhood is an example of New Urbanism, promoting a sense of community with walkable streets and closely spaced residential units that are mixed in with office, retail, and green space.

Ireviken event

It comprises eight extinction "datum points"—the first four being regularly spaced, every 30,797 years, and linked to the Milankovic obliquity cycle.

Katy Carmichael

She has been on stage many times in Liverpool, but is most notably recognised for her role of Lucy Richards/Barlow in the ITV soap Coronation Street, Twist Morgan in the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced and Melissa Ryan in Waterloo Road.

Klemperer rosette

In Larry Niven's novel Ringworld, the Puppeteers' "Fleet of Worlds" is arranged in such a configuration (5 planets spaced at the points of a pentagon) which Niven calls a "Kemplerer rosette"; this (possibly intentional) misspelling (and misuse) is one possible source of this confusion.

Leonard Nimoy discography

Full title Spaced Out - The Very Best of Leonard Nimoy & William Shatner

Longitudinal framing

Longitudinal framing (also called the Isherwood system after British naval architect Sir Joseph Isherwood, who patented it in 1906) is a method of ship construction in which large, widely spaced transverse frames are used in conjunction with light, closely spaced longitudinal members.

Norr Mälarstrand

Stepped gables then present were removed and replaced by the evenly spaced functionalist silhouettes — the nine floors of which resulted in comparisons with cities in America and the epithet "Manhattan of Stockholm".

Pleuropogon hooverianus

The inflorescence bears widely spaced narrowly cylindrical spikelets which hang sideways off the stem, resembling semaphore signals.

Pleuropogon refractus

The inflorescence bears widely spaced cylindrical spikelets which hang sideways off the stem, resembling semaphore signals.

Refractory period

Psychological refractory period, the delay in response to the second of two closely spaced psychological stimuli.

Scharnhorst

Scharnhorst effect, a hypothetical phenomenon in which light signals travel faster between two closely spaced conducting plates than in a normal vacuum

Spaced armour

The Whipple shield uses the principle of spaced armour to protect spacecraft from the impacts of very fast micrometeoroids.

Spaced Out Bunny

Spaced Out Bunny is one of four Bugs Bunny cartoons produced during 1979-1980, the first new shorts since 1964's False Hare.

Surround channels

JBL states that surround speakers should be spaced evenly along the side and back walls, starting at no closer than 1/3 of the room length from the screen (so the surrounds do not interfere with the front channels) and should be located at about 10–12 feet high and angled down to face the opposite wall-floor boundary.

Tor Zawar

Tor Zawar is a group of closely spaced fissure vents on a non-volcanic mountain in a tectonically active region between the Bibai and Gogai thrust faults (Global Volcanism Program) which is in the Ziarat reigon near the village of Wham.

Triple-decker

This style of housing differed greatly from the well-spaced boardinghouses of the early 19th century built in Lowell and Lawrence, Massachusetts or the cottages of Rhode Island.

Triplet lens

Or a triplet may be designed with three spaced glasses, e.g. the Cooke triplet.

Who's Singin' Over There?

With his Elmer Fudd-like appearance and tipsy walking style, the hunter is a spaced-out goofball used mostly for comic relief.

WPPZ-FM

The station has always been short-spaced due to adjacent channel interference from WMGM in Atlantic City, WXCY in Havre de Grace, Maryland, and WNNJ in Newton, New Jersey (all located on 103.7 FM), WAEB-FM in Allentown and WNNK in Harrisburg (both located on 104.1 FM), as well as WRFF (104.5 FM), and co-channel interference from WRCN on Long Island and WFAS-FM in Bronxville, New York.


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