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Alec Wilkinson

Apology," (2003), "The Happiest Man in the World," (2007), the latter about Poppa Neutrino, the only man to cross the Atlantic in a raft made of trash, and "The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger," (2009). His most recent book is "The Ice Balloon," (2012), the account of the Swedish visionary aeronaut S.A. Andree's attempt, in 1897, to discover the North Pole by flying to it in a hydrogen balloon.

Alekseyev v. Russia

The Applicant then submitted a raft of other proposals, including one to the recently elected President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, stating his intention to hold a march in the Alexander Garden on 31 May 2008, to which he received no reply.

Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip

Tug Mosher pushed a fire raft against the flagship USS Hartford, and was rewarded for her daring by a broadside from the latter that sent her to the bottom.

Bertrand Newton

AdBack was one of a raft of non-profit companies that were formed to support the Democratic Party in the 2004 Presidential elections.

Bruce Kirkby

1999: Blue Nile Gorge; Forty five day descent of Ethiopia’s Blue Nile Gorge by raft as part of National Geographic Expedition; marked by gunfights, hostage taking and crocodile attacks.

Bubble rafts

The concept of bubble raft modelling was first presented in 1947 by Nobel Laureate Sir William Lawrence Bragg and John Nye of Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory in Proceedings of the Royal Society A.1

Chester Raft Race

Although the race is over at this point, the rafts then have to retrace their route back up the weir and return to the site assemble / parking area (The Meadows) with what's left of their raft and crew.

Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose

They do a lot of work at many sites like Sacred Heart Community Center, Resource Area For Teaching (RAFT), Second Harvest Food Bank, and many more.

Each Dawn I Die

Each Dawn I Die is a 1939 gangster film featuring James Cagney and George Raft in their only movie together as leads, although Raft had made an unbilled appearance in a 1932 Cagney vehicle called Taxi! in which he won a dance contest against Cagney, after which he and Cagney brawl.

Raft also very briefly "appeared" in Cagney's boxing drama Winner Take All (1932), in a flashback sequence culled from Raft's 1929 film debut Queen of the Night Clubs starring Texas Guinan.

Early history of Kedah

Early sea traders from the west, upon reaching the coast, engaged porters to transport goods by raft, elephant and man-carry along the rivers (Kelantan River, Pattani River, Pahang River, Muda River, Bernam River, Muar River, and others) to the opposite coast.

Eliecer Castillo

In 1994, Castillo escaped from Cuba on a raft with his brothers Eliseo (a fellow boxer) and Eliades and two other friends.

England expects that every man will do his duty

The phrase is said by a character on a raft in Jaws 2 pretending that he is a British naval commander just before the shark attacks.

Forceythe Willson

In 1846, his father loaded the family and their belongings on a raft and floated down the Allegany and Ohio Rivers to Maysville, Kentucky.

Frankenstein: Day of the Beast

Victor Frankenstein and his bride, Elizabeth, are set to be married by a priest who is rowed in on a small raft.

Hallie, Wisconsin


   The Falls of Chippewa River in This Township are a Succession of rapids over which the Lumbermen raft in safety Lumber Hewed timber and shingles The River falls about 25 feet in 3/4 of a mile, Making a excellent water power which is improved by James Allen and Company.

Harry Pidgeon

Before long, he traveled north to Alaska, where he took a raft down the Yukon River and spent some time sailing among the small islands of the southeastern Alaskan coast.

Henry Scaggs

He is credited with the rescue of the kidnapped pioneer Jenny Wiley from a Native American raiding party at Harman's Station, Kentucky in 1790 by piloting a crude raft made from logs and vines to transport her across the river to the safety of the blockhouse.

J. A. Folger

After a raft and hiking journey across the Isthmus, the brothers waited at Panama City for quite a while before catching the Pacific mail steamer Isthmus on April 10, 1850.

Jeffrey Tayler

His most recent book, River of No Reprieve, is about a challenging raft trip down Russia's Lena River.

Joan Root

The Roots introduced Dian Fossey to the gorillas she would later die trying to save, took Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis over Kenya in their balloon, and covered much of Africa in their famous single-engine Cessna, their amphibious car, and their balloon, at one time equipped with a raft for water landings.

Jon Abrahams

Abrahams great-uncles were Mack Gray, actor in over 40 films and long time confidant of George Raft, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra and Joe Gray actor, stuntman and fight coordinator in over 110 films and boon companion of writer Henry Miller.

Junk raft

Son of Town Hall, junk raft which crossed the Atlantic, made by Poppa Neutrino

Kon-Tiki Nunatak

It was first seen by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961–62) and named after the raft Kon-Tiki which was sailed across the Pacific Ocean from East to West in 1947 by the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl.

Lada Riva

The Riva was still selling well in the United Kingdom and many other western markets in the early 1990s, but the next few years saw a raft of new models come from budget competitors such as Daewoo, Hyundai, Kia and Proton, pushing Lada sales into terminal decline.

Las Balsas

The expedition was led by Spaniard Vital Alsar who, in 1970, led the La Balsa expedition, only on that occasion with one raft and three companions.

Madagascar: A Crate Adventure

The raft enters through the bushes where they find King Julien and the lemurs having a party and singing I Like to Move It.

Mellows Bridge

The collapse was described by George Semple as being an unlucky accident when a raft of timber was swiftly carried downstream in a flood where it got lodged across the middle arch.

Memphis Slim

It has become famous as "Every Day I Have the Blues." The tune was recorded in 1950 by Lowell Fulson, and subsequently by a raft of artists including B. B. King, Elmore James, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Natalie Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Jimi Hendrix, Mahalia Jackson, Sarah Vaughan, Carlos Santana, John Mayer and Lou Rawls.

Muisca raft

The raft was found by three farmers in early 1969 in a cave in the village of Lázaro Fonte in the municipality of Pasca (Cundinamarca), Colombia in a ceramic pot, adorned with a human figure whose face has sharp teeth.

Peter Orner

A film version of one of Orner’s stories, “The Raft” with a screenplay by Orner and director Rob Jones is currently in production and stars Edward Asner, star of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Fort Apache The Bronx, and Up.

Poppa Neutrino

In 1997-98 Poppa Neutrino sailed one of his homemade junk rafts, Son of Town Hall, from North America to Europe, becoming the second person to sail a raft across the Atlantic and the first to do so on a raft made from trash.

Raft Island

According to Edmond S. Meany, Raft Island was probably named from its appearance.

Resource Area for Teaching

In 2013, a joint venture with Scholastic began distribution of RAFT-designed kits through the retail sotres that carry Scholastic products.

Skeleton Crew

"The Raft" was adapted as a segment of the 1987 New World Pictures anthology film Creepshow 2, with a script by George A. Romero, and directed by Michael Gornic.

Sunday Herald

It also won a raft of awards for its journalism, design and photography, in the UK and internationally, and secured the former archbishop Richard Holloway and On the Waterfront scriptwriter Budd Schulberg as regular contributors.

The Beaver Mills Lumber Company

In 1895 a party of Bemidji lumberman moved a small sawmill overland to the headwaters of Rapid River, downstream from Rainy River, then down the Rainy River by raft until to a point where the Ontario and Rainy River Railway had plans to build a railway bridge.

Tiki 100

Due to a dispute with Thor Heyerdahl, famous for his Kon-Tiki raft used in his expedition in 1947, the name was later changed to Tiki 100.

Ty-d-bol

George Carlin said on one of his comedy albums that, "they're approving some pretty weird things, man. Like the guy in the toilet is pretty strange. Originally, it's a rowboat. Then he got a speedboat. Then he was on a raft with two calypso guy musicians and two bushels of lemons singing "We put the lemon in the Ty-D-Bol for you.

U.S. Geothermal Inc.

The company operates four power plants including the Raft River geothermal power project, located in the Raft River area of Southeastern Idaho, a geothermal project at Neal Hot Springs, Oregon, the San Emidio project located in Nevada as well as the Guatemala project located in the southwest of Guatemala City in the Republic of Guatemala.

Zaara

:Undertaken by Order of the French Government, Comprising an Account of the Shipwreck of the Medusa, the Sufferings of the Crew, and the Various Occurrences on Board the Raft, in the Desert of Zaara, at St. Louis, and at the Camp of Daccard.


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