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3 unusual facts about Spark


E-Spark

E-Spark was to be a joint venture between GM and RECC (Reva Electric Car Corp.) with GM providing the Chevy Spark platform and RECC providing the electric motor-battery kit.Unveiled in Auto Expro 2010, New Delhi, this car was supposed to hit the Indian consumers in October.

Karl Gajdusek

The Spark (2013) (Television series in development at HBO)

Spark-gap transmitter

A synchronous gap was driven by a synchronous AC motor so that it ran at a fixed speed, and the gap fired in direct relation to the waveform of the A.C. supply that recharged the tank capacitor.


Air-gap flash

William Henry Fox Talbot is said to have created the first spark-based flash photo, using a Leyden jar, the original form of the capacitor.

Alex Chola

In August 1985, Dynamos lost a BP Challenge Cup first round match to Division I side City of Lusaka 3-0 which upset Mwila who suggested a “change of coaches may bring some spark into the team because he may have been telling them the same old techniques.”

Alfred County Railway

The engineers incorporated developments proposed by L.D. Porta, including GPCS, Lempor exhaust, an improved spark arrestor, lightweight multi-ring articulated piston valves, improved valve events and improved mechanical lubrication.

ArcAttack

The main attraction of their performance is the use of two custom built singing Tesla coils, which have been modified to play musical notes by modulating their spark output.

Blue Microphones

However, unlike the latter, the Spark Digital offers a USB interface and could also connect directly to an Apple iPad via Apple’s 30-pin connector.

Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland

William III treated the matter as a trifle, wondering why everyone teased him about "that little spark Clancarty", and gave the couple permission to settle in Altona, Hamburg.

Con Conrad

Over the next several years, he would also be responsible for such standards as "Ma, He’s Making Eyes at Me", "You’ve Got to See Your Mama Every Night", "Memory Lane", "Lonesome and Sorry", "Palesteena" and "Come on Spark Plug".

Contention of the bards

The spark came in 1616, after the final annexation of the modern County Clare (containing part of the ancient kingdom of Thomond) to the Eberian province of Munster (whereupon the Earl of Thomond was appointed president of the province) and the death in exile of the last great Eremonian, Hugh O'Neill.

Corpus Coranicum

In 2007 journalist-publisher Frank Schirrmacher wrote an article for the Frankfurt Book Fair suggesting that the Academy's preparation of a historically critical Qur'an edition had been motivated by Pope Benedict XVI's ill-received Regensburg lecture of 2006 and predicting that the Corpus Coranicum would spark similar outrage among Muslims, comparing it to the punishment of Prometheus for bringing fire to mankind.

Coso artifact

Chad Windham, President of the Spark Plug Collectors of America, identified the Coso artifact as a 1920s-era Champion spark plug, which was widely used in the Ford Model T and Model A engines.

Court of Owls

Selina and Spark eventually decide not to steal the Talon daggers that Penguin originally had in his possession and head off to deposit the Talon's body, which they leave at the Bat-Signal, with the Night of the Owls having come to a close.

Dan Falk

He has written for the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, The Walrus, Cottage Life, SkyNews, Astronomy and New Scientist, and has contributed to the CBC radio programs Ideas, Quirks and Quarks, Tapestry and Spark.

Duffy Power

At around the same time, an album of tracks recorded in 1969 was issued on the Spark label.

Entec Engine Corporation

This concept covered by U.S. Patent # 6,279,550 and many others, include the concept of admitting cold, or chilled, compressed air into the cylinder and combustion chamber of a compression or spark ignited engine during its compression stroke.

Ford EEC

Like the General Motors H.E.I. module that preceded it, it was created with Surface-mount technology parts, allowing it to be much smaller than the previous Dura-Spark ignition module.

Foreign policy of the Hugo Chávez government

On 21 February 2008 Hugo Chávez said that Venezuela will not recognize an independent Kosovo, warning that the southeastern European nation's separation from Serbia could spark war in the Balkans and that it could end in a disaster.

GenArts, Inc.

Karl Sims founded GenArts, Inc. as Genetic Arts in 1996 in Cambridge, MA as a developer of Discreet Spark Plugins.

High tension leads

Radio suppressor type spark plug wires use compressed carbon powder as a conductor, rather than solid metal wire, to reduce radio frequency interference (RFI) produced by the wires, which may cause malfunction of sensitive electronic systems in modern vehicles.

History of the Serbs

The southern Serbs were liberated in the First Balkan War of 1912, while the question of Austrian Serbs' independence was the spark that lit the First World War two years later.

Jean Ouimet

His ambition was said to be motivated by his desire to spark a debate in the leadership race, which would not happen otherwise, as out of the three possible leadership contenders, François Legault and Pauline Marois withdrew, leaving Bernard Landry unopposed.

Joseph Arch

The first spark of resistance came from a brave band of agricultural workers at Weston under Wetherley, who wrote a letter to the local newspaper, setting forth their small earnings and suggesting that farm labourers' pay be raised to at least two shillings and sixpence a day.

Kelvin water dropper

If there is a steady stream of water through the rings, and if the streams are not perfectly centered in the rings, one can observe the deflection of the streams prior to each spark due to the electrostatic attraction via Coulomb's law of opposite charges.

Ken Daneyko

He also was scratched in the first six games of the 2003 finals, but looking for a spark coach Pat Burns inserted Daneyko into the lineup for Game 7.

LandFighter

LandFighter makes use of branded components such as 50 hp Subaru Fuji Heavy Industries engine and a 42.2 hp SYM engine, NGK spark plug and Maxxis tires.

Martha Watson

When President Jimmy Carter announced the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott, that "killed the spark." By that point in time she had already found employment dealing Blackjack at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

NGK

The company produces spark plugs in Irvine, California, and produces both spark plugs and oxygen sensors in Sissonville, West Virginia.

Paul Scheuring

The series is about a group of Midwestern youths who spark a second American Revolution.

Paulo Paim

Paim would later spark controversy, in 2001, after he ripped a copy of the Constitution as a protest to a bill seeking to change the Consolidation of Labor Laws.

Putney Vale

Founded by Kenelm Lee Guinness, part of the famous brewing dynasty, he was a noted early motor racer before developing highly reliable auto and aero spark plugs.

Sahara Sunday Spain

Spain was featured in a variety of international news media including: The Early Show with Bryant Gumble, The PBS affiliate KQED's Spark, To Tell the Truth, and the French station TF1, Drôle de petits champions.

Shanti Wintergate

"This Moment" was a spark of an album with catchy 3-4 chord pop/rock tunes that caught the attention of famed Warped Tour promoter Kevin Lyman and let to performances on 2006/2008 Vans Warped Tours.

Simon Lynch

He formed a deadly partnership with Reinaldo and Ante Milicic in the opening nine rounds until he suffered a hamstring injury which kept him on the sidelines for a long period of the season and this huge blow saw the Roar lack in attack, spark and goals which slowly brought them down and out of the top four.

SSTC

Solid state Tesla coil, a Tesla coil that uses semiconductors in place of the traditional spark gap

Sutherland Brothers

The Sutherland Brothers began their career in 1968 as A New Generation, having some success with the single "Smokie Blues Away" (which used a melody based on the main theme of Dvořák's, New World Symphony), backed with "She's A Soldier Boy" on Spark.

The Big Red Spark

The Big Red Spark is the second full-length album by the English progressive rock band Tinyfish.

The Big Red Spark was awarded nine out of ten by Geoff Barton in the October edition of Classic Rock.

The Hungry Earth

The Doctor and Rory capture one Silurian, Alaya (Neve McIntosh), and the Doctor instructs Rory and a local family to not harm Alaya, as it could spark a war.

The Hybrid Front

In recent years, they developed Mars (with PETO trying spark a series of civil wars on that planet) and maintain a corporate hegemony over the Earth.

U.M.M.

A good comparison may be as well made with modern EBM or anhalt bands like Spetsnaz, Sturm Café, EkoBrottsMyndigheten, A.D.A.C.8286, Tech Nomader or Spark!

United States Marine Hospital of Louisville

In 2003, the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) placed the building on its America's Most Endangered Places list, which helped spark public interest in restoring it.

Vladimir Bazarov

This organization dedicated itself to helping heal the split between the Union of Russian Social-Democrats Abroad, publishers of Rabochee Delo (The Workers' Cause), and the Emancipation of Labor Group, publishers of Iskra (The Spark).

Wayne Perkins

1974 Court and Spark Joni Mitchell; Hobos Heroes & Street Corner Clowns Don Nix; Monkey Grip Bill Wyman

Wireless Hill

The equipment used was German-made Telefunken 1.5 kW spark transmitters, with power for radio transmission coming from a De Dion-Bouton engine.

Yoshihide Sasaki

He released his first mini-album titled Spark in November after announcing his artist debut during the Summer Live tour with his good friend Yūta Furukawa (Sasaki and Furukawa also met during Tenimyu).

YouTube Next Lab and Audience Development Group

A web television company based in New York City, New York, Next New was launched in March 2007 by founders Fred Seibert & Emil Rensing, with Herb Scannell, Timothy Shey and Jed Simmons with $8 million in funding from investors including Spark Capital.


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