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unusual facts about deck



A. E. Waite

Golden Dawn member Pamela Colman Smith illustrated the cards for Waite, and the deck was first published in 1909.

Anderston Centre

The new Anderston would have its population and slums cleared, and then trisected by these roads into three zones, a Residential Zone on the western side of the motorway, consisting of high-rise deck access public housing blocks, an Industrial Zone on the westernmost extreme bordering with Stobcross and Finnieston, and a Commercial Zone on the eastern side bordering the city centre with Blythswood Hill.

Avidyne Entegra

Cirrus became the first customer of the Entegra system and began offering it on the SR20 and SR22 aircraft in 2003 as the first integrated flight deck for light general aviation (GA).

Badgerline

Badger Vectis operated in Bournemouth and Poole as a joint venture with Southern Vectis uisng 7 Iveco minibuses and 16 single deck buses, mostly Bristol REs.

Bømla Bridge

The deck sections were produced by HBG in Cimolais, Italy, and transported first by truck from the plant to the port, and then by barge to Stord.

Charlier

Charlier Cut, a method of cutting a deck of cards with one hand

D*Face

He credits this to Henry Chalfant's coverage of subway graffiti in New York City in Spraycan Art and Subway Art, later as a teenager skateboarding and in particular Thrasher magazine's coverage of skateboard deck graphics led his interest in stickers and the DIY mentality associated with skate and punk fanzines.

David Chaloner

His later more ambitious work was published by leading independent presses in England and America, including Andrew Crozier's Ferry Press and Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop's Burning Deck.

Double-decker tram

Double-deck trams were once popular in some European cities, like Berlin and London, throughout the British Empire countries in the early half of the 20th century including Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington in New Zealand; Hobart, Tasmania in Australia and in parts of Asia.

East Washington Avenue Bridge

The East Washington Avenue Bridge was a movable Strauss underneath-counter weight deck-girder bascule bridge in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Fort Washington State Park

From September 1 to October 31, an organized "Hawk Watch" takes place in which viewers can observe all 16 species of raptors that migrate on the East Coast from the park's observation deck.

Harbour Centre

The Vancouver Lookout tourist attraction, located atop the Harbour Centre business building, was officially opened on August 13, 1977 by Neil Armstrong, whose footprint was imprinted onto cement and was on display on the viewing/observation deck until it was lost (or stolen) during renovations.

Hornblower Hybrid

The Hornblower Hybrid uses power generated by two ten-foot-tall twisted-Savonius wind turbines and a photovoltaic solar array covering the awning on the top deck.

I Will Be Here

Exiting through a parking deck, he eventually makes his way through Shibuya, Tokyo, and does one final dance in the middle of the famous intersection in front of the Hachiko exit at Shibuya Station, before going to the top of a building, where he "powers down" as the music ends.

James George Deck

But in 1875 the news of the division that had occurred in England became known in New Zealand and with visits to New Zealand by George Wigram and John Nelson Darby the division was enforced with the cost on Deck being that he ceased writing hymns, for which he is internationally respected.

Jamestown Bridge

The roadway deck through the cantilevered span was an open steel-grid deck, similar to that of the Castleton Bridge just south of Albany, NY or the now demolished Sikorsky Bridge on the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut.

José Romero y Fernández de Landa

He designed several two and three deck ships of the line in the late 18th and early 19th centuries which fought at the Battle of Cape St Vincent and the Battle of Trafalgar.

Kerrie Engel

She continued to train at Northlodge during the same era as Greg Fasala who was trained by Jim O'Doherty ('Boss') so the pool deck often held cheering kids watching both overseas athletes do time trials.

Kingsferry Bridge

It was designed by Mott, Hay and Anderson, and built by John Howard, with Dorman Long and Sir William Arrol & Co. It comprises a reinforced concrete and structural steel deck, supported from portal-shaped reinforced concrete towers.

Landing Craft Utility

Its welded steel hull provides high durability with deck loads of 800 pounds per square foot.

London Buses route 108

Since takeover by Harris, the 108 has been diverted via North Greenwich, but reverted to a more direct route across Blackheath via Prince of Wales Road; the frequency has been further enhanced to every 10 minutes, utilising four earlier Excels made redundant by the loss of car park services at Lakeside Shopping Centre, but this is still not as good as the 5 minute double deck service provided in 1933.

Maddie on Deck

"Maddie on Deck" is the 13th episode of the The Suite Life of Zack & Cody spin-off The Suite Life on Deck.

Mars Analogue Research Station Program

Also on the lower deck of the FMARS and MDRS are the airlocks and the Extra-vehicular Activity preparation room (EVA prep room).

Modalohr

The deck between the bogies (trucks) pivots (swings) 30°, allowing the trailers to be loaded from the sides.

Mughalsarai

The Malviya Bridge (Lord Duffrin Bridge Double Deck Rail cum Road, built in 1888), in Kashi (Varanasi) is situated between Mughalsarai and Varanasi on the river Ganges.

MV European Causeway

Differences include minor revisions to the passenger deck layout, additional passenger lifts and the use of larger lifeboats rather than Marine evacuation systems

Natchez Trace Parkway Bridge

The bridge was designed by Florida-based Figg Engineering Group and built by PCL Civil Constructors Inc., a subsidiary of PCL Constructors Inc. The arches and deck were constructed using a balanced cantilever method.

Nathan Jendrick

In 2006, Jendrick founded the online swimming-related radio show Deck Pass which was later acquired by Wasserman Media Group along with TimedFinals.com, which Jendrick ran with co-host and business partner Scott Goldblatt, a US Olympic gold medalist.

Nauticus

Vice Admiral David Architzel joined Mayor Paul Fraim, other city and military leaders, and former crew members on deck to conduct the ceremony.

OH Cards

Two years later American artist David Ellis produced a deck of 99 cards with abstract paintings called ecco.

Peakhurst Bus Company

In the 1980s Saints moved into coach operation with some Austral Tourmasters and a Volgren twin-deck Volvo B10M.

PS Washington Irving

Wylma Wood Hoag, (wife of Lynne Arthur Hoag and mother to Arthur Allen Hoag), their three-year-old daughter Mary, and B. Woods, a steward, who was trapped in a cabin far below deck.

Queenscliffe Maritime Museum

Its grounds hold a fishermen's waiting shed with ship paintings by Henry Zanoni, the deck house from the iron sailing ship Shandon, and the buried hull of the Victorian torpedo boat HMVS Lonsdale.

Richard McWilliam

On the day in 1998 that Upper Deck cut its last check to DeWayne Buice, there was a party at company headquarters.

Roadliner

Daimler Roadliner - a single deck bus or coach chassis built by Daimler between 1962 and 1972

Rock 'n' Roll San Diego Marathon

The marathon originally commenced at 6th Avenue at Palm and concluded at Parade Deck in Marine Corps Recruit Depot.

Saltburn Pier

Purchased by the council in 1938, the pier like others was sectioned during World War II, by having part of the deck removed by the Royal Engineers to guard against Nazi invasion.

Scania N112

These included nine single-deck versions with Wadham Stringer Vanguard bodywork; the double-deckers were bodied by Marshall of Cambridge.

Schooner Hindu

Log books indicate the navy men painted her gray, lined her with depth charges, mounted a machine gun on her deck and engaged a German U-boat on more than one occasion.

Scott Goldblatt

Goldblatt was founder of TimedFinals.com and co-host of the Deck Pass radio show with creator Nathan Jendrick.

Shipping container architecture

in 2010 German Architect and Production Designer, Stefan Beese, utilized six 40’ long shipping containers to create a large viewing deck and a VIP lounge area for to substitute the typical grand stand scaffold structure at the Voodoo Music Experience, New Orleans.

Stanserhorn

Unusually, it has a double decker arrangement, and is claimed to be the first in the world with an open-air upper deck, which has standing room for 30 persons.

Taisun

2009 Deck box lifting and installation of the Saipem Scarabeo 9, marking the world's heaviest topsides crane lift.

Tempest 23

Tempest 23 came standard with eight foot (8') Self-bailing cockpit, self-draining seats with storage, molded insulated ice box,Philippine mahogany trim, deck stepped mast, main roller reefing, full width mainsheet traveler, wirehalyards, two jib winches, separate galley and head enclosures, two (2) 6'6" berths with storage, and a 2 year warranty.

The Cruise of the Breadwinner

Whilst he is below deck, another Luftwaffe plane flies at the boat, shooting and charging at the deck.

Thor Alex Kappfjell

Previously, he had jumped from the 86th floor of the observation deck of the Empire State Building and the 61st floor of the Chrysler Building (on October 24 and 27, 1998 respectively).

Those Were the Days – The Best Of Leningrad Cowboys

Those Were the Days – The Best Of Leningrad Cowboys is a two-disc greatest hits album packaged in a DVD style case in a box set with a deck of playing cards.

Timur Apakidze

From the late 1980s to the early 1990s he was considered the best Soviet then Russian fighter pilot, being the first one who would land a Su-27K (Su-33) on deck of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov on September 26, 1991.

Trick deck

An inverse handling of the Brainwave deck is the X Deck, originally invented by Jay Sankey and identical to the Invisible Deck, but with the odd cards having an X on them.

VS-41

The squadron history or lineages should not be confused with the VS-41 "Tophatters" that flew the SBD-3 Dauntless torpedo bombers during World War II from the deck of USS Ranger.


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