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3 unusual facts about lever


Antony Burgmans

Burgmans joined Unilever in 1972, working as marketing assistant at Lever, the Netherlands on the dishwater detergent Sun.

Duke Nukem: Zero Hour

The Wild West has revolvers and lever-action rifles and features cowboy Pig Cops, and the Victorian Era has fictional, science-fiction weaponry such as the Voltaic Projector, and zombies.

Weight function

The terminology weight function arises from mechanics: if one has a collection of n objects on a lever, with weights \scriptstyle w 1, \dotsc, w n (where weight is now interpreted in the physical sense) and locations :\scriptstyle\boldsymbol{x} 1,\dotsc,\boldsymbol{x} n, then the lever will be in balance if the fulcrum of the lever is at the center of mass


All over the UK

"Paradise & Dreams" featuring Junior was released in October 1996 and peaked at No. 106 on the UK Singles Chart and a remixed version of "Heart of Gold" with additional production by pop record producer Eliot Kennedy and ex-Dead or Alive members Tim Lever and Mike Percy featuring vocals from Kelly Llorenna was released in July 1998 and peaked at No. 55 in the UK Singles Chart.

Barker lever

The Barker lever is a pneumatic system which multiplies the force of a finger on the key of a tracker pipe organ.

Bertrand Besigye

He made his debut in 1993 with the poetry collection Og du dør så langsomt at du tror du lever, for which he won the Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris.

Bill Bergson Lives Dangerously

Bill Bergson Lives Dangerously (original Swedish title: Mästerdetektiven Blomkvist lever farligt) is a 1951 Swedish novel written by Astrid Lindgren.

Billy Frankenstein

The film ends with the Franks, Thelma, Bloodstone and Frogg, raising the $25,000 by having tourist attractions in their castle, complete with photos with the Frankenstein monster and tours down to the lab, where a little girl pulls the lever and electrocutes herself, making her resemble the Bride of Frankenstein.

Brian Witlin

He co-founded a custom software development company called Lever Works with Keith Schacht and Zach Kaplan.

Bridgeman baronets

The Bridgeman Baronetcy, of Great Lever Park in the County of Lancaster, was created on 7 June 1660 for, Orlando Bridgeman, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.

Cookson repeater

The Cookson flintlock rifle, a lever-action breech-loading repeater, is one of many similar designs to make an appearance on the world stage beginning in the 17th century.

Cowboy Action Shooting

:*Wild Bunch – based on popular Western film "The Wild Bunch"; shooters use Colt 1911 pistol instead of revolvers, use lever action rifles, and use Winchester Model 1897 shotgun instead of double-barreled shotgun.

Crewe North Junction signal box

Crewe North Junction signal box is signal box with a Westinghouse All Electric Style 'L' lever frame which was commissioned, along with Crewe South Junction signal box (which also had a Westinghouse Style 'L' frame), on 29 March 1940 as part of a resignalling project at Crewe railway station.

Daphnis et Chloé

Trumpeter Harry James, in his 1942 arrangement of Eric Coates's By the Sleepy Lagoon, made use of the "Lever du jour" music from Daphnis et Chloé for its opening.

Daryl Kerrigan

Her vision was evident in the shows which were legendary in fashion lore: An empty swimming pool in the LES; the space now known as “Capitale” when it was a working bank; the roof of Gordon Bunshaft’s Lever House; on top of a flatbed truck, in the Gagosian Gallery on 21st Street when it was a parking garage – Joey Ramone attended this show to hear his music played.

Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel

Winkel was born in Lippstadt,1777, settled in Amsterdam shortly after 1800, and in 1814, while experimenting with pendulums, he discovered that a pendulum weighted on both sides of the pivot could beat steady time, even for the slow tempos often used in European classical music.

Door handle

For this reason, door handles in most American commercial and industrial buildings and in many households use a lever-operated handle, rather than a knob, as the lever does not require a tight grip.

Dräxlmaier Group

Interior: Complete interior (for example for the Mercedes-Benz SL and for the Maybach luxury limousine), side/roof/door trim panel (for example the FIS door module for the BMW 7 Series), center console, gearshift/transmission selector lever.

Eala Frya Fresena

According to 16th century sources, it was spoken at the Upstalsboom in Aurich where Frisian judges meet on Pentecost and it is traditionally answered with Lever dood as Slaav, or in English, rather dead than slaves.

Elcar

In 1930, the company began to use the complex Lever engine produced by Alvah Leigh Powell, although only four Elcar-Levers were completed.

Great Lever

Ralph Gubbins, a forward with Bolton Wanderers, Tranmere Rovers and Hull City, lived in Great Lever during his time with Wanderers.

Great Lever F.C.

Thurston Rostron played for Great Lever during the 1883–84 season, having previously made two England appearances when with Darwen.

Hayley Lever

Lever also painted in the French port villages of Douarnenez and Concarneau, Brittany, directly across the English Channel from St. Ives.

In 1911, Ernest Lawson, an Impressionist painter, persuaded Lever to move to America, saying he would have greater success there.

Hobby injection molding

Polyethylene (both LDPE and HDPE), polypropylene, and polystyrene (including HIPS) have all been used successfully with lever-actuated benchtop injectors.

Jit Samaroo

They were initially Parang players - Jit on guitar pan, Girlie on cowbell, Vidya on the drums, Baboolal on maracas, and brother Sonilal on scratcher - but by 14, already a self-confessed "slave to steelpan", Jit joined the Lever Brothers Canboulay Steelband.

Leverburgh

After his death in Hampstead on 7 May 1925, his executors and the board of Lever Brothers had no interest in the Leverburgh project, and so ended all work.

Leverhulme Trust

In the succeeding years, Lever Brothers became a cornerstone of Unilever, a major multinational company, created in 1930 by the merger of Lever Brothers with the Van den Bergh's margarine company of the Netherlands.

Liverpool Castle

In Lever Park, Rivington near Chorley, William Lever built a folly which is a scale replica of Liverpool Castle in ruins.

M75 hand grenade

In American English, the lever of the grenade is colloquially known as the "Spoon".

Pawn Stars UK

The series is filmed in Sealand, near Chester, United Kingdom, and chronicles the day-to-day activities of pawn shop Regal Pawn, collaboratively run by Mark Andrew Manning, Mark Lever Holland, Marco Peter Holland, Simon Penworth, and Vicki Manning.

Raid on Lorient

St Clair arrive à la conclusion que les circonstances imposent de lever le siège.

Shaving horse

These so-called "Black Forest" or German and Swiss shave horses (as pictured) give a longer lever-ratio, creating greater mechanical advantage and thus greater force to trap the wood very securely.

Smith–Lever Act of 1914

The Smith–Lever Act of 1914 is a United States federal law that established a system of cooperative extension services, connected to the land-grant universities, in order to inform people about current developments in agriculture, home economics, public policy/government, leadership, 4-H, economic development, coastal issues (National Sea Grant College Program), and many other related subjects.

Spencer repeating rifle

The design was completed by Christopher Spencer in 1860, and was for a magazine-fed, lever-operated rifle chambered for the .56-56 Spencer rimfire cartridge.

Strathfield railway station

The 1926-vintage power box, which had a Westinghouse miniature lever frame, still stands to the west end of platform 8.

White Triplex

An even more Rube Goldberg-like contrivance was tried, an entire separate rear axle was fitted, held above ground until dropped by a release lever and then driven by a separate driveshaft.

Will Settle

During his time at the club he signed players like Ted Vizard and Alf Bentley and his sale of Tom Barber ensured the club could pay for the roof of the Great Lever Stand at Burnden Park.

William Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme

William Hesketh Lever is interred with his parents at Christ Church, Port Sunlight.

Winchester Model 1887/1901

The Winchester Model 1887 and Winchester Model 1901 were lever-action shotguns originally designed by famed American gun designer John Browning and produced by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Designer John Browning suggested that a pump-action would be much more appropriate for a repeating shotgun, but Winchester management's position was that, at the time, the company was known as a "lever-action firearm company", and felt that their new shotgun must also be a lever-action for reasons of brand recognition.

Winchester Model 52

Johnson had more experience with bolt actions than most at Winchester (which was then primarily a maker of lever- and pump-action firearms), having superintended production of the P-14/M1917 Enfield, as well as having designed a series of prototype military rifles known as Models A through D.

Zach Kaplan

He co-founded a custom software development company called Lever Works with Keith Schacht and Brian Witlin.


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