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2 unusual facts about lift


Hall Ski-Lift

The last new Hall chairlifts were installed in 1982 at Ski Bittersweet and Timber Ridge Ski Area, both in Michigan.

Lift-off oversteer

Attorney and consumer protection activist Ralph Nader described this type of handling in his 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed


1965–66 West Ham United F.C. season

Bobby Moore managed to lift one trophy later that summer as fellow Hammers Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters secured England's World Cup triumph, with goals against West Germany.

2005–06 Irish League Cup

This season both clubs reached the final again but this time Linfield came out on top by defeating the Glens 3–0 to lift the cup for the eighth time, with Glenn Ferguson scoring a Hat-trick.

Alton Towers railway station

It was used by the Earl of Shrewsbury who had a luggage lift installed to hoist his baggage up to Alton Towers, his gothic revival residence which is situated at the top of nearby Bunbury Hill.

Australian Secret Intelligence Service

When the lift started returning to the ground floor, ASIS officers emerged wearing masks and openly brandishing 9mm Browning pistols and Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine guns, two of them with silencers.

Battle of Gergovia

His sieges of Vellaunodunum, Genabum and Noviodunum en route caused Vercingetorix to lift his siege and march to meet Caesar in open battle at Noviodunum, which Caesar won.

Boeing 377

:In the early 1960s the Israeli Air Force wanted to upgrade to the C-130 Hercules which could lift larger payloads, but it was expensive and sales were embargoed by the United States.

Brethren of the Free Spirit

:"It is I who am the light which is above them all. It is I who am the all. From me did the all come forth, and unto me did the all extend. Split the piece of wood, and I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there." (Gospel of Thomas)

Carlington

Part of it was formerly a ski hill with tow lift (known as Anne Heggtveit Hill), but now used as a City of Ottawa approved sledding hill.

Cherry Street Bridge

Cherry Street lift bridge, a bascule lift bridge on Cherry Street, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cyprus–United Kingdom relations

An agreement to lift the restrictions in developing properties within the British bases areas was signed in London between Foreign Minister of Cyprus Ioannis Kasoulides and Foreign Secretary William Hague at Carlton House in the presence of President Nicos Anastasiades.

Dmitry Lipkin

Hung involves high school baseball coach (played by Thomas Jane) who uses his large penis to his advantage, resorting to prostitution to lift himself out of debt.

East of the Mountains

Through a combination of hitchhiking, a long walk through the desert, a lift bought from a lorry driver, a Greyhound bus, and a rental car, he finally approaches his destination; but will the combined effect of the people he has met, the experiences he has undergone, the gains he has made, and the losses he has sustained during this journey be enough to make him reject his climactic plan?

Eugene Byrd

He has been in movies including Dead Man, Demon Island, Sleepers, 8 Mile, Lift and Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, and has the leading role in Confess, for which he won the Break-Out Performance Award at the 2006 Method Fest Independent Film Festival.

Frogger's Adventures: The Rescue

While the creatures of the Forgotten Island are typically enemies to Frogger, Apatosaurus uses his long neck to lift Frogger into the trees and Pterodactyl allows Frogger to ride on his back.

Gladys Carrion

After a period as a community development program officer at the Ford Foundation, Carrión was named executive director of Inwood House, one of the oldest programs in the city working to lift children and families out of poverty.

Gulfstream G200

The Galaxy was based on a new wider fuselage, attached to a strengthened Astra SPX wing with integrated winglets and modified high lift devices, powered by new 5,700 lb (25.3 kN) thrust Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306 turbofans, and with improved Pro Line 4 avionics and all-new interior.

Herbert A. Wagner

He is most famous for Wagner's function describing unsteady lift on wings and developing the Henschel Hs 293 glide bomb.

Hill-Rom

In October 2008, Hill-Rom acquired Sweden-based Liko, a manufacturer of mobile and stationary patient lift systems and associated accessories for $183M.

HM Prison Channings Wood

The prison provides educational courses to prisoners, include Barbering, Business Studies, Catering, Industrial Cleaning, Creative Media Studies, Customer Services, Driving Theory, Dry-Lining, Electrical Installation, ESOL, Food Hygiene, Fork Lift Driving, Horticulture, Information Technology, Painting and Decorating, Physical Education and Yoga.

If You Leave...

It features eight new songs and four interpretations including God only Knows, True Colors, and Lift the Wings from Riverdance.

Jamie McDonnell

The fight, in Cannes on 20 March 2010, resulted in a surprise victory for the man from Doncaster with a 10th round stoppage over Arnould to lift his third title in a row.

Jean III de Grailly, captal de Buch

While attempting to lift the siege of Soubise his force was surprised by a French force led by Owain Lawgoch, a Welsh soldier of fortune in the French service.

Jean Pierre Reguerraz

Movie critic Ty Burr of The Boston Globe said Family Law "gets a lift" from Reguerraz' portrayal.

Laadam

The plot is a lift from the highly rated comedy crime/thriller English Movie "Lucky Number Slevin".

Lift Engineering

Potential problems with Yan lifts began to surface as early as 1985, when the upper bullwheel on the Teller lift at Keystone Ski Resort in Colorado disconnected from the main gearbox shaft.

Lift jet

The Soviets did side-by-side testing of versions of combat aircraft using variable geometry wings and lift jets (the results became the Mikoyan MiG-23 and Sukhoi Su-24).

Motorcycle Emptiness

Some of the lyrics are taken from the poem "Neon Loneliness" (the first line of the chorus, "Under neon loneliness", is a direct lift) by Welsh poet Patrick Jones, the brother of Manics bass guitarist and lyricist Nicky Wire.

Musical Theatre Academy

The students (as part of their training) are regularly seen in the West End in professional shows/concerts, and to date its students have backed Shoshana Bean, Patina Miller performed with Katherine Jenkins at the London Palladium, and sung on the album Lift by Craig Adams and Ian Watson.

Oestrich-Winkel

Inside the crane are two treadmills in each of which two men used their body weight to work a winch, which could then lift loads onto or off ships.

Overnight Delivery

The film included landmarks such as Ground Zero nightclub, used as the “strip club”, Minneapolis convention center as the “airport”, the Stillwater Lift Bridge, and University of St. Thomas as The University of Memphis.

Rio Grande Valley Giants

The Texas League underwent a massive face lift in the late 1950s after three of its top franchises — Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston — moved up to the Triple-A American Association for the 1959 season.

RMS Lady of Mann

Requisitioned as a personnel ship at the outbreak of war, she had a good turn of speed, and was able to get in and out of the Dunkirk bombardments and lift 4,262 men back to the relative safety of Dover and Folkstone.

Roger Zare

Also in 2007, Zare was invited to the USC Thornton Wind Ensemble's performance of Lift-Off, a work that has been performed in various instrumental configurations, conducted by the legendary H. Robert Reynolds.

Rudolf Grimm

In 2006, his working group also managed to lift the veil on an old mystery of physics: they succeeded in the first experimental observation of Efimov States, mysterious quantum states that the Russian scientist Vitali Efimov had theoretically predicted in the early 1970s.

Shannon McGauley

He believes strongly in one's right to bear arms and calls for a permanent lift on assault weapons bans.

Sky Trek International Air Lines

Ad hoc charters provided short notification lift during the NCAA basketball tournament and subservice to other airlines.

Smithfield, Hong Kong

The British novelist Martin Booth wrote in his 2004 autobiographical Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood: "the bellow of a cow in the Kennedy Town abattoir might lift up to me - to be abruptly cut short".

Southern Ontario Tornado Outbreak of 2009

At the resort itself, Georgian Peaks, the tornado tore the roof from the Alpine Centre, pulled cables from chair lifts and ripped apart lift houses and ski ramps.

Spontaneous human combustion

In an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation entitled "Face Lift," Sara Sidle and Warrick Brown investigate the case of a woman who was incinerated in her easy chair, leading Sidle to suspect spontaneous human combustion.

Suleiman al-Halabi

The authorities offered to lift his imprisoned father's financial burden if he would assassinate French Army General Jean Baptiste Kléber.

Taisun

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

Tanigawadake Ropeway

The Tōbu Group company also operates another aerial lift line, Harunasan Ropeway.

Technology in Silesia

Zabrze a steam operated lift machine dating from 1915 is an object of interest in the mine

TripleOne Somerset

Situated between Somerset Road and Devonshire Road, Group 2 Architects designed the PUB Building based on the concept of H-shaped block with a central service core and a naturally-ventilated lift lobby.

UnKnown Aerospace Cygnet

Cygnet is a British cargo and logistics UAV system designed to provide lift and reconnaissance capability for military, humanitarian aid cargo capability, and to provide specialist payload transport.

Weightlifting at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's two hand lift

The men's two hand lift was one of two weightlifting events held as part of the Weightlifting at the 1896 Summer Olympics program.

Wenchang Satellite Launch Center

Furthermore, it will be capable of launching the new heavy lift Long March 5 booster currently under development.


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