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unusual facts about sprite


Dante Simpson

DSA Media’s client experience has included programs for Mercedes Benz, The Maloof Family (owners of Sacramento Kings/The Palms Las Vegas), Sprite, Anheuser-Busch, New York Islanders, Brothers Sewing Machines, Jiffy Lube, IHOP, Quiznos, GQ Magazine, and others.


AdeS

It is currently made by PT Coca-Cola Bottling Indonesia in Bekasi, East Java, where it also made Coca-Cola, Fanta and Sprite.

Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite

Speedwell developed a sleek, alloy-bodied Sprite coupe, the Speedwell GT, designed by aerodynamicist Frank Costin and built by Williams & Pritchard.

Sprite restorer Brian Archer embarked on the production of a faithful replica to enable this remarkably beautiful design to reach a wider audience.

Blazing Star

A typically hefty Neo Geo ROM at 346 Mb, the game makes extensive use of pseudo-3D prerendered sprites, brief anime and CGI cutscenes (mostly during the intro sequence), and frequent Engrish voice samples and captions.

Cosalt

It created the Piper brand, and after the failure of Sam Alper's Caravans International bought its brands, including: ACE, Abbey, Bessacarr, Sprite; and later the independent Cotswold brand.

DJ Boy

However, in the North American and PAL arcade versions, the Disk Jockey was Wolfman Jack, but the in-game sprite is still Demon Kogure.

Gauri Pradhan Tejwani

She has done commercials for many well known companies such as Sprite, Bru, Dabur, Ponds, Santoor, keo karpin, Colgate, Philips and Breeze.

Kurt Yaghjian

He has taken part in advertising campaigns for products such as Coca-Cola, Ford Motors, Domino's Pizza, Toyota, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Budweiser and Sprite.

Nicolas Mori

He left behind him a son, Francis Mori (1820-1873), the composer of a cantata, entitled 'Fridolin;' an operetta, with words by George Linley, entitled 'The River Sprite,' which was performed at Covent Garden on 9 Feb. 1865; many songs, and a series of vocal exercises.

Practavia Sprite

The prototype Sprite, named the Pilot Sprite, was designed by a team at Loughborough University and had little in common with Garrison's design, though both were all-metal side-by-side low-wing cantilever monoplanes with tricycle landing gear.

Schweizer SGS 1-36 Sprite

The Schweizer SGS 1-36 Sprite experimental prototype, registered N502NA, was acquired by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, California and used for research into controlled, deep-stall conditions at an angle of attack of more than 30 degrees.

Sinebrychoff

Sinebrychoff owns the license for manufacturing The Coca-Cola Company's Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, Bonaqua and Powerade brands in Finland, as well as the license for manufacturing Schweppes and Dr Pepper.

Sperris Quoit

The word "Sperris" is believed to have been derived from the identical Cornish word "sperris", which means hobgoblin, ghost, or sprite, whereas the word "Quoit" is believed to derive from the Old French word "coite", and means "a large flat stone atop a cromlech", or tomb.

Sprite Animation Toolkit

Sprite Animation Toolkit (SAT) is a computer game programming library created by Lysator for the Apple Macintosh platform which was popular during the late 1990s, in particular for shareware games.

Sprite comic

Sprite comics frequently use characters from well-known games such as Sonic, Super Mario Bros., Final Fantasy, Mortal Kombat, Metroid, The Legend of Zelda, Pokémon, Mega Man, and Dragon Ball.

Tax Avoiders

At the end of the quarter, the other phase has the player move around to manage his investments while another sprite oscillates between an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent, a certified public accountant (CPA), and an investment advisor.

The Enchantments

They used fairy names such as Gnome Tarn, Troll Sink, Naiad Lake (officially Temple Lake), Sprite and King Arthur legends in the Lower Enchantment Basin because "the lower basin was not as austere as the upper basin," according to Peg.

The Jump Off

A memorable (if controversial) lyric from the song was "I can make a Sprite can disappear in my mouth."

USS Ariel

Five ships of the United States Navy have been named Ariel, after the sprite Ariel in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

Video Chess

For example, Atari had to overcome sprite limitations; the Atari 2600 was only capable of displaying three sprites in a row, or six (such as in Space Invaders) with the right programming.

WinNuke

For a time, numerous flavors of this exploit appeared going by such names as fedup, gimp, killme, killwin, knewkem, liquidnuke, mnuke, netnuke, muerte, nuke, nukeattack, nuker102, pnewq, project1, pstlince, simportnuke, sprite, sprite32, vconnect, vzmnuker, wingenocide, winnukeit, winnuker02, winnukev95, wnuke3269, wnuke4, and wnuke95.


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