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2010 Gatorade Duels

Bill Elliott, Joe Nemechek, Scott Speed, and Bobby Labonte were the four fastest non-top 35 drivers, thus locked in.

24 Sussex Drive

Security at 24 Sussex was overhauled following a November 1995 attempted assassination by André Dallaire, who wandered around the house and grounds for nearly an hour before being confronted outside Jean Chrétien's bedroom by the Prime Minister's wife, Aline; she locked the door to the bedroom while Chrétien guarded it with an Inuit stone carving.

30th century

The Helium Centennial Time Columns Monument in Amarillo, Texas, contains four separate time capsules, the last of which is intended to be opened 1000 years after the Time Columns Monument was locked in 1968.

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon

Bishop keeps Markov locked in a duel, eventually ending up at the White House; Markov manages to fire the missile before being shot down and killed, but Bishop manages to intercept it and destroy it harmlessly onto the Tidal Basin.

Aerial ramming

The two falling aircraft were locked together, and it was some time before Reschke was able to free himself and bale out near Malacky, Slovakia.

Air21

David Miller secured the conference room at the local Holiday Inn at the airport, they locked themselves into the room for 16/hour days (Miller, VanderLugt, Morro) and with the help of a FAX machine and a Securities lawyer, by mid May 1995 they had a 100-page prospectus for an IPO for AIR 21 AIRLINES.

Andrés Quintana Roo

She was caught in 1813 and locked in the Colegio de Belén, but managed to escape in disguise, fleeing to Tlalpujahua where she married Quintana Roo.

Bob Thiele

According to Thiele's memoir, the recording session for this now-famous song was the scene of a major clash with ABC Records president Larry Newton, who had to be locked out of the studio after getting into a heated argument with Thiele over the song.

Brain stem stroke syndrome

Jean-Dominique was instrumental in forming the Association du Locked-In Syndrome (ALIS) in France.

Cannula transfer

Luer fittings are preferred, as needles are locked in even under higher pressure, e.g. when transferring viscous liquids.

Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life

Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life, a book by Howard Sounes, published in 1998 by Grove Press, is a biography of American writer Charles Bukowski.

Château de Rochechouart

In 1205, his wife Alix, accused of adultery by the intendant of the castle, was locked up in the lion's cage in the east tower.

Communal garden

One of the scenes in the 1999 film Notting Hill involves the two main characters, Anna (Julia Roberts) and William (Hugh Grant), breaking into private and locked communal gardens by climbing over the wall at night after a dinner party.

Dan Henk

Heavily immersing himself in the local hardcore scene, he produced artwork for the bands Shai Hulud, Indecision, Coalesce, Locked in a Vacancy, Beyond Reason, Zombie Apocalypse and various local record labels and venues.

Daniel Renoult

He was taken to the Baillet camp, then transferred to the Ile d'Yeu in April 1940, Camp Gurs, Camp Nexon, citadel of Sisteron, locked in the camp of Saint-Sulpice, then moved to the prison at Castres, again to Nexon camp and back to Castres, then again to Saint-Sulpice in prison Eysses, to Camp Carrière and finally in 1944 moved to the citadel of Sisteron again.

Doc Prothro

In his three full seasons (1939-40-41) at the helm of the Phils, the club remained locked in the National League "cellar" — losers of 106, 103 and 111 games in successive seasons.

Elene Church

Also, the Papal Conclave is held in the strictest secrecy, with the cardinals locked in the Sistine Chapel until a decision has been reached, whereas the election of the Archprelate takes place in view of other Church officials (Primate Annias, the Church Knights) and the monarchs of the various Eosian nations.

Feeling This

Some students get locked in cells and a policeman is seen pushing a boy (played by Alexander Cappelli) down in a seat next to a glass window whereupon the boy sees a girl and they begin to kiss while being on opposite sides of the window.

Flagpole Jitters

The Stooges make a reference to Sing Sing Correctional Facility, in which Shemp believes he has hypnotized Moe into thinking he is locked up in the infamous prison.

Hair fetishism

In the story of Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm published in 1812, there is an analogy to the beauty of Sif's hair with the story of a young woman with blond hair who is locked in a tower room, the only way to reach her being to climb the tower using her long hair.

Hermann Nitsch

Later in 2011, the documentation of this 130th performance was exhibited in the 54th Venice Biennale's official collateral event, Personal Structure: Time Space Existence in Palazzo Bembo, together with the works from Marina Abramović's video installation, where she was locked in a staring battle with a donkey, and Xing Xin's live performance, 2011, I Exhibit Myself In A Western Exhibition.

Huddersfield Broad Canal

The Huddersfield Broad Canal (also known by its original name, Sir John Ramsden's Canal) is a wide-locked navigable canal in Yorkshire in northern England.

The Huddersfield Narrow Canal provided a heavily-locked Western connection to wool-weaving towns of the upper Colne valley (Golcar, Linthwaite, Slaithwaite, and Marsden) and across the Pennines to Saddleworth, Stalybridge and Manchester via Standedge Tunnel.

Ice Spiders

When she turns to leave, the last spider remaining at the lab, a mutated Black Widow, attacks her and forces her into a locked office.

Irish Citizen Army

It began when William Martin Murphy, an industrialist, locked out some trade unionists on 19 August 1913.

Jing Xiang

In 917, Zhu Zhen, who had moved the capital from Luoyang to Daliang, prepared for a grand ceremony to offer sacrifices to heaven and earth south of Luoyang at Zhao's suggestion, against Jing's advice that given Later Liang was locked in a war with its major rival Jin, the resources should be better conserved.

John Dies at the End

They spend the chapter collecting ammo from kills, breaking crates for items, numbered keys to locked rooms, and specifically for John's benefit, what appears to be a 1up mushroom that saved him from the gunshot Dave delivered to his head, reversing the titular death.

Kitty Hart-Moxon

From there, the two were eventually sent to Bergen-Belsen, at which point they were abandoned in a locked train car and left to die.

Kryptonite lock

In an early test of the Kryptonite lock, a bicycle was locked to a signpost in Greenwich Village in New York City for thirty days.

Lockdown

On 19 April 2013, the entire city of Boston was locked down and all public transportation stopped during the manhunt for Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the suspects of the 2013 Boston bombings, while the town of Watertown was under heavy-armed police and SWAT surveillance, as well as systematic house-to-house searches.

Login Geiden

Upon his return to the Netherlands he was captured and locked up in the ill-reputed Gevangenpoort prison in The Hague.

Monosurround

Early in 2008, the bottled mineral water brand Perrier used the track “Cocked, Locked, and Ready to Rock” in a TV advertising campaign in Germany.

My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud

After nine years of being locked up, Antonin Artaud (Sami Frey) is released from the asylum at Rodez, and returns to Paris with his friends.

Nikita Mikhalkov

Without Witnesses (1983) tracks a long night's conversation between a woman (Irina Kupchenko) and her ex-husband (Mikhail Ulyanov) when they are accidentally locked in a room.

Orient Fair

Among the visitors at fairs since 1924, sometimes even opened and locked them were high commissioners Herbert Samuel, Herbert Plumer, John Chancellor, and Arthur Wauchope and Arab mayors of Jaffa and Jerusalem.

PL/I

It comprised the data types EVENT and TASK, the TASK-option on the CALL-statement (Fork), the WAIT-statement (Join), the DELAY(delay-time), EVENT-options on the record I/O statements and the UNLOCK statement to unlock locked records on EXCLUSIVE files.

Portal Runner

It all started when General Plastro, the general of the Tan army, loosely based on general Douglas MacArthur was captured by the Green Army and locked away.

Puff, Puff, Pass

After the two are locked out of their apartment by their landlord Lance (Jonathan Banks) for being late on rent, the two are stuck for a way to get cable television so they can watch The Shawshank Redemption during a 24-hour marathon on TNT.

Regional lockout

The Game Boy and Nintendo DS product lines do not use regional lockouts for physically distributed games; however, software specific to the Nintendo DSi are region-locked, and cartridges released by iQue in China can only be played on DS models produced by iQue (although they remain compatible with other DS cartridges).

Ron Guthrie

Later joining near rivals Blyth Spartans Ron was part of the famous 'giant killing' team that reached the 5th round of the FA Cup in 1978 losing to Wrexham in a replay at St James Park watched by over 42,000 with thousands locked outside, but not after drawing a potential home tie against Arsenal in the Quarter Finals.

Stitch! The Movie

Having locked Hämsterviel in handcuffs, Lilo, Stitch and Sparky short-circuit Gantu's ship causing it to crash near a waterfall on Kauai.

The Match King

One of his agents discovers an eccentric recluse named Christian Hobe (an uncredited Harry Beresford) has invented an everlasting match, so Kroll has him locked away as a madman.

The Victoria Cross: For Valour

It was locked away in a safe in a military storage depot in Donnington, Telford.

Thousand Buddha Mountain

According to a legend related in the Youyang Zazu (Youyang Miscellanies) by the Tang Dynasty writer Duan Chengshi (800-863), the Thousand Buddha Mountain was originally located by the sea and the sea god had locked it in place there by a large lock in order to prevent the god in charge of the mountains from moving it around.

Toro Peak

It comes to a locked gate around 8,200 ft and from there it is a 500 foot hike to the summit up a rough maintenance road that passes the former MCI (now owned by Verizon Communications) primary power generator that provides electricity to the summit.

Unan1mous

Nine strangers are locked in a bunker and told they cannot leave until they unanimously choose to award one of them the grand prize money.

United Voice

Famous campaigns during the 1950s and 60s included organising workers paid to be Santa Clauses at Christmas and a group of dance instructors who were locked out for four months before winning their jobs back.

Whatever the Case May Be

On Day 21, October 12, 2004, while swimming near a waterfall, Kate Austen and James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway) find a locked halliburton suitcase among some sunken wreckage.

Yang Shou

In 865, with Tang locked into frequent military confrontations with Dali in the southwest, but with the military supplies often having difficulty reaching the southwest border, Yang suggested that a strong military presence and a supply base be set up at Jiangxi Circuit (江西, headquartered in modern Nanchang, Jiangxi), and that it be transformed from a circuit governed by a governor to one governed by a military governor (to be renamed Zhennan Circuit (鎮南)).

Year of tha Boomerang

"It's dark now in Dachau and I'm screamin' from within/'Cause I'm still locked in tha doctrines of tha right/Enslaved by Dogma, ya talk about my birthright/Yet at every turn I'm runnin' into Hells gates/So I grip the cannon like Fanon and pass tha shells to my classmates"


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