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4 unusual facts about plate


Driving licence in the Republic of Ireland

No learner permit holders are allowed to drive on motorways and all must display red L-plates at all times, either on their vehicle or on a tabard if a motorcyclist.

L-plate

In British Columbia, following the instructional phase and after passing a road test, new drivers are required to show a green N (for novice) plate until they have passed an additional road test, usually after 24 months.

Power-Plate

Stevie Nicks has said that the Power Plate machine is a central part of her exercise regimen.

Wyatt Roy

The LNP claimed the attack was provoked and brought about by the Labor campaign worker holding a giant L-plate sign next to a poster of Roy.


110 Plaza

The 18 story building has a bronze plate glass exterior and can be identified by the Commonwealth Financial Network sign located on the top of the north and west facing sides.

1971 Solomon Islands earthquakes

The July 14 earthquake and the July 26 earthquake was caused by the subduction of the Solomon Sea Plate beneath the Pacific Plate and the Bismark Sea Plate, respectively.

1977 National League Championship Series

In the bottom of the second, with two outs and Richie Hebner on second and Bob Boone on first, Dodger starter Burt Hooton began to dispute ball/strike calls issued by home plate umpire Bob Engel.

A Sufi and a Killer

Allmusic's Jason Lymangrover gave the album four stars out of five, describing it as "weird, ‘60s-rooted, psychedelic hip-hop", sounding "like if J. Dilla produced George Clinton after visiting with the Dalai Lama, or if Dan the Automator recorded Cody Chesnutt after the two shared a plate of magic mushrooms", and calling it "truly visionary".

Andrew Van Buren

Van Buren appeared as the plate spinner, illusionist and guest on many television programmes, shows and specials, including the opening scene of the music video of Charlotte Church's song "Call My Name".

Beagle 2

The mission's call-sign was composed by the band Blur, and the 'test card' (Calibration Target Plate) intended for calibrating Beagle 2s cameras and spectrometers after landing was painted by Damien Hirst.

Bill Deegan

He also umpired in the 1978 All Star Game and the 1976 World Series; he was the home plate umpire for Game Four of the Series, which the defending champion Cincinnati Reds won on the strength of Johnny Bench's two-home run, five-RBI performance to complete a sweep of the New York Yankees.

Bill Kinnamon

During the 1961 season, Kinnamon became a part of history as the home plate umpire during Roger Maris' record-breaking single-season 61st home run, which was hit on October 1st to break Babe Ruth's single-season record.

British Rail Class 76

While in the Netherlands it gained the name Tommy after the nickname given to British soldiers and ran for the rest of its working life with a name plate which included an explanation of the origin - "So named by drivers of the Netherlands State Railway to whom this locomotive was loaned 1947-1952".

Budhagupta

The Damodarpur copper-plate inscription informs us that Pundravardhana bhukti (the present-day North Bengal) was ruled by his two viceroys (Uparika Mahararaja) Brahmadatta and Jayadatta.

Catadioptric system

The idea of replacing the complicated Schmidt corrector plate with an easy to manufacture full aperture spherical meniscus lens (a meniscus corrector shell) to create a wide field telescope occurred to at least 4 optical designers in early 1940s war-torn Europe, including Albert Bouwers (1940), Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov (1941), K. Penning, and Dennis Gabor (1941).

Dale Ford

He was well known for being behind the plate for Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, known for Bill Buckner's error; for tossing Baltimore Orioles Manager Earl Weaver out of a game during the National Anthem; and for ejecting Reggie Jackson from a game only to have Jackson begin throwing all the contents of the dugout onto the playing field.

Dan Uggla

With 80 hits in 443 plate appearances, Uggla tied Rob Deer for the lowest season batting average for a player qualifying for the batting title.

Diamond T 980

With a single dry-plate clutch, It had a four-speed manual constant-mesh transmission plus a similar three-speed auxiliary gearbox, for a total of twelve forward and three reverse speeds, driving through Timken double-reduction differentials.

Ernest Rides Again

After discovering an antique metal plate near a construction site, Ernest shows it to the professor who believes that it came from a giant Revolutionary War cannon called "Goliath", (named after the legendary biblical giant).

Floor plate

Slit: Slit is a secreted ligand expressed in the floor plate and functions to inhibit axonal crossing of the neural tube.

Fred Van Buren

The performance mantle has, however been passed on to their son Andrew Van Buren, a multi-talented performer who is recognised as the top expert in Variety specialising in the family trade of magic & illusions, also mixing in circus skills of juggling, unicycling, escapology & plate spinning, he keeps the Van Buren flag flying high over entertainment venues all over the world with his illusion spectaculars & is one of the worlds top platespinner experts.

Gonzalo Gil

For the 2010–11 season, Gil was loaned along fellow River Plate companion Matías Díaz to Chilean Primera División side Ñublense.

Gordon J. F. MacDonald

MacDonald's early skepticism regarding plate tectonics stemmed from his detailed study, with Walter Munk, of the rotation of the Earth.

Gundestrup cauldron

Both Olmsted and Taylor agree that the female of plate f might be Rhiannon of the Mabinogion.

Havells

Later in 80's they Acquired a manufacturing plant at Alwar, Rajasthan for Power Cables & Wires.In that same year they Entered into a Joint Venture with Electrium, UK for manufacturing Dorman Smith MCCBs and Crabtree Modular Plate Switches.

Jerome Bech

From October 2006 to June 2007 Bech was one of the artists involved in the "Taste of art" project where diners at the t Jagershuis restaurant in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel dined off a plate he had designed and took the plate home.

Jim Lemon

A free-swinger who three times led the American League in striking out, Lemon and his teammates benefitted from new Washington owner Calvin Griffith's decision to move the left field fences closer to home plate in the Senators' cavernous ballpark, Griffith Stadium.

John Keyse Sherwin

Sherwin was sent to study in London, first under John Astley, and then for three years under Francesco Bartolozzi – for whom he is believed to have executed a large portion of the plate of Clytie, after Annibale Carracci, published as the work of his master.

Kamarupa – Late to end period

There is two copper-plate inscriptions of Ratna Pala, known as the Bargaon and the Sualkuchi grants.

Ken Burkhart

With one out in the sixth inning and two Cincinnati Reds runners on base – Tommy Helms at first and Bernie Carbo at third – pinch-hitter Ty Cline batted a pitch off Jim Palmer in front of the plate.

Kingia

The plant featured in the drawing View of the south side of King George's Sound by expedition artist William Westall, which was later published as a plate in Matthew Flinders' 1810 A Voyage to Terra Australis; this is the first known image of the plant.

Listed buildings in Brereton, Cheshire

It is in cast iron and consists of a cylindrical post with a curved plate inscribed with the distances in miles to Church Lawton, Newcastle, Holmes Chapel, Knutsford, Warrington, and Liverpool.

Marty Foster

Foster was the home plate umpire for 300th career win of Tom Glavine, on August 5, 2007 at Wrigley Field.

Metallic hydrogen

The researchers used a 1960s-era light gas gun, originally employed in guided missile studies, to shoot an impactor plate into a sealed container containing a half-millimeter thick sample of liquid hydrogen.

Microtiter plate

The standards govern various characteristics of a microplate including well dimensions (e.g. diameter, spacing and depth) as well as plate properties (e.g. dimensions and rigidity) (typical dimension ~5"x3.33"), which allows interoperability between microplates, instrumentation and equipment from different suppliers, and is particularly important in laboratory automation.

Milton Latham

In 1874, Latham commissioned Carleton Watkins to photograph the huge estate and produce two presentation albums of mammoth plate prints.

Nissan Prince Royal

When the Emperor is riding inside, the Imperial Standard, known as the Imperial Seal of Japan is displayed at both the front and rear of the car in place of a license plate, and on the exterior of both rear passenger doors, displaying a 16 petal chrysanthemum, in golden colour, in reference to the Chrysanthemum Throne of Japan.

Olmedo Sáenz

Sáenz became well known as being a dead fastball hitter, a skill upon which Vin Scully remarked at virtually every one of Saenz's plate appearances.

Porsche 912

In 1967 the 912 contributed to Porsche factory rally history when independent Polish driver Sobiesław Zasada drove a factory-loaned 912, bearing Polish plate 6177 KR, to capture the European Rally Championship for Group 1 series touring cars.

Richard Porta

On 13 September Porta re-debuted for River Plate, scoring on 30 minutes in a 1–1 draw to Rampla Juniors.

Ron Galotti

While at Vogue, he and his editor in chief, Anna Wintour, once retaliated against an anti-fur protest by PETA outside the Condé Nast offices during the company's annual Christmas party by sending down a plate of roast beef.

SNCF BB 1280

Tin plate version of the locomotive were manufactured by Maerklin in Gauge I, and by Bing, LR, and Jouet de Paris (Jep) in Gauge 0.

Sociedade Esportiva River Plate

Sociedade Esportiva River Plate, commonly known as River Plate, is a Brazilian football club based in Carmópolis, Sergipe state.

The Hamsters

Otis Elevator's came about after seeing a manufacturer's name plate at the base of an escalator in a local shopping mall.

Vehicle registration plates of Europe

On the right one are the two digits of the year when the plate was issued (e.g. "99", "05", "08") and below that there may be an optional two-letter code for the province, such as "MO" for the Province of Modena.

Wakeboard boat

Mastercraft boats use an "attitude adjustment plate" which is a large trim tab that allows the boat to be trimmed- enhancing the wake.

West Shore Railroad

However, William Henry Vanderbilt of the NYC had bought the Nickel Plate in 1882, killing that plan.

Western Oregon Wolves

On April 26, 2008, Sara Tucholsky, a reserve outfielder on the Wolves softball team (2005–08), hit the first home run of her college career in a victory over Central Washington University, but injured her knee rounding first base; Central Washington's Mallory Holtman and Liz Wallace carried Tucholsky around the rest of the bases to home plate.

Wilton Guerrero

Plate umpire Steve Ripley noticed cork in one of the shattered pieces, and showed it to crew chief and third-base umpire Bruce Froemming, who immediately ejected Guerrero.

Yoandy Garlobo

Garlobo was the designated hitter for Cuba at the tournament, where he had a .480 batting average—second only to Ken Griffey, Jr. among players with at least 20 plate appearances—and was named to the all-tournament team.


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