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28th century

Janelle Monáe's Metropolis concept album series (I, II and III) is written from the perspective of an android from the year 2719.

Helen Modern

As well as her featured roles in Respectable and Bad Girls, Helen has also had a recurring role in BBC One daytime soap opera, Doctors (2005) as Diane Bishop and various roles in No Angels, Wire in the Blood, The Chase and Messiah - The Harrowing with Ken Stott and Maxine Peake.

Nina Koshetz

After her retirement from the operatic and concert stage, she appeared in bit parts in Algiers (1938), The Chase (1946), Captain Pirate (1952), and Hot Blood (1956).

Rachel Davies

She has played leading roles in the following series: Boon, The Cuckoo Waltz, Making Out, Band of Gold, Emmerdale, Nice Guy Eddie, Linda Green and The Chase.

The Grudge Match

The show began, ended, and led into every commercial break with either Nick or Lisa yelling, "Don't get mad...", and the audience yelling, "GET EVEN!" These words are also the chorus lyrics of the show's theme tune, composed by prolific UK TV composer Paul Farrer, whose other game show music compositions include The Chase and Weakest Link.


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2013 Federated Auto Parts 400

NASCAR CEO Brian France announced that Gordon would be added to the Chase field, expanding the field to 13 drivers.

2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series

At the same time, Chairman Brian France announced that Gordon was added to the Chase as part of an "unprecedented" step of expanding the Chase to 13 cars.

Bill Hickman

The chase itself leans heavily on the Bullitt chase, with the two cars bouncing down the gradients of uptown New York (à la San Francisco's steep hills) with Hickman's 1973 Pontiac Grand Ville pursued at wheel-breaking speed by Scheider's Pontiac Ventura.

Bob Osborne

The 2010 season wasn't much different than 2009 although the team managed to win the final two races of the year at Phoenix and Homestead-Miami finishing the season with huge momentum and finishing 4th in the chase standings.

Capture and rescue of Jemima Boone

The incident is notable for inspiring the chase scene in James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans(1826), in which Lieutenant-Colonel George Munro, the book's protagonist Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo), his adopted Mohican older brother Chingachgook, Chingachgook's son Uncas, and David Gamut follow and overtake the Huron party of Magua who had taken as captives the sisters Cora and Alice Munro.

Carcharoth

Tom Shippey, in The Road to Middle-earth (pp. 193–194) says that the hunting of the great wolf recalls the chase of the boar Twrch Trwyth in the Welsh Mabinogion, while the motif of 'the hand in the wolf's mouth' is one of the most famous parts of the Prose Edda, told of Fenris Wolf and the god Týr; while Huan recalls several faithful hounds of legend, Garm, Gelert, Cafall.

Cranborne Chase

The Chase was owned by the Earl of Gloucester until it passed to King John by his marriage to Gloucester's daughter, Avisa.

Desperate Poaching Affray

The film, along with Frank Mottershaw's film A Daring Daylight Burglary, is considered to have helped launch the chase sub-genre and influenced Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery.

Down Beat Bear

The chase resumes briefly until Jerry jumps on a piano and starts playing The Blue Danube.

Edward Leigh Chase

Graduating from the Art Students League, the Chase brothers headed upstate to the Catskill Mountains to join in an experimental Bohemian commune of a style, organized by Ralph Whitehead in Woodstock, New York.

Enfield Chase

For hundreds of years the chase was owned at first by the Mandeville and then the de Bohun families while local inhabitants of Edmonton and Enfield manors claimed common rights.

Ezra Jack Keats

Goggles tells the story of boys finding a pair of goggles, and the chase that follows when a gang of bullies wants them, too.

Fox Photo

In the chase scene(s) in Back to the Future, the Libyan terrorists crash their van into a Fox Photo booth at the Twin Pines/Lone Pine Mall.

GE B36-7

One notable exception among Conrail's units was CR 5045, which wwas destroyed in the infamous wreck of the Colonial at Chase, Maryland, on January 4, 1987.

Graham Barrett

He finally had to admit defeat in the 2010 season, playing his last game in July 2010, meaning he could not play a part in the chase for the League of Ireland title.

Mark Labbett

Since August 2013, Labbett has appeared as the only 'Chaser' on the U.S. version of The Chase, airing on the Game Show Network and presented by Brooke Burns.

Nobody Lives for Ever

Future Bond author Raymond Benson said "This is far and away John Gardner's best James Bond novel, and it is precisely because it is such a personal plot for the leading character. It's a plot reminiscent of From Russia, With Love, and it moves along excitingly! The chase idea was splendid indeed, and the reader is chased along with Bond throughout the book."

Paul Genge

Ironically, in that episode he and his comrade, in attempting to hijack goods from a truck driven by Paul Drake, are killed when their car loses control and rolls down the cliff, somewhat similar to the chase scene in Bullitt.

Robert Hegyes

He also appeared in the award-winning Volkswagen Passat commercial "The Chase" for director Kinka Usher.

Sofia Black D'Elia

She is featured in Hoodie Allen's music video for "The Chase is On" and plays Allen's love interest in the video.

St. Louis Wrestling Club

Matysik and KPLR director Ted Koplar would both ink deals with Vince McMahon in 1983, giving the WWF a foothold in the St. Louis area and the traditional "Wrestling At The Chase" timeslot.

Zimbabwean cricket team in West Indies in 2006

For the University of West Indies' XI, Ryan Hinds and Xavier Marshall, who had both played internationals for West Indies before, made scores of 117 not out and 54 respectively, and C. Walton anchored the chase with 67 as the hosts won with 23 balls to spare.