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Canyon Blaster (Great Escape)
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Canyon Blaster is a steel roller coaster located at Great Escape in Queensbury, New York. Canyon Blaster originally opened as Timber Topper at the now-defunct Opryland USA theme park in Nashville, manufactured by Arrow Dynamics, the ride opened with the park in 1972 and remained its only full-size coaster until Wabash Cannonball opened in 1975 as part of a major park expansion. It carried a mine train theme, though unlike many similar coasters at other parks. In the late 1970s, the coaster was renamed Rock n Roller Coaster, as part of the re-theming, its trains and buildings associated with the ride were repainted in bright pastel colors. After Opryland closed in 1997, the coaster was disassembled and sold to Premier Parks, after being stored at the Old Indiana Fun Park for several years, the ride was relocated to The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom in Queensbury, New York, and renamed Canyon Blaster. On May 30,2013, Great Escape announced that their Canyon Blaster roller coaster would be running backwards for the first time ever during 2013 season for a time during the summer. The Canyon Blaster is a gentle family-style coaster designed as a mine train featuring two lift hills and a double helix. The ride has a red track with beige supports and it has three trains, blue, brown, & red, but in the past few years only the brown train has been used. When the roller coaster was brought to the Great Escape, the system was modified to accommodate one train due to a change in design features to fit the Great Escape. The outer fence is painted with mine blast warnings and notices of when the last accident was, many of the decorative artifacts were once part of the defunct Ghost Town Railroad route that Canyon Blaster replaced. The broken steam train is one of the engines from the Ghost Town Railroad, Canyon Blaster at Great Escapes official website
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Fender Stratocaster
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The Fender Stratocaster is a model of electric guitar designed in 1954 by Leo Fender, Bill Carson, George Fullerton, and Freddie Tavares. The Fender Musical Instruments Corporation has continuously manufactured the Stratocaster from 1954 to the present and it is a double-cutaway guitar, with an extended top horn shape for balance. Along with the Gibson Les Paul, it is one of the most often emulated electric guitar shapes, Stratocaster and Strat are trademark terms belonging to Fender. The Fender Stratocaster was the first guitar to feature three pickups and a spring tension tremolo system, as well as being the first Fender with a contoured body, the Stratocasters sleek, contoured body shape differed from the flat, slab-like design of the Telecaster. The Stratocasters double cutaways allowed players access to higher positions on the neck. Starting in 1954, the Stratocaster was offered with a solid, deeply contoured ash body, a 21-fret one-piece maple neck with black dot inlays, the color was originally a two color sunburst pattern, although custom color guitars were produced. In 1956, Fender began using alder for sunburst and most custom color Stratocaster bodies, in 1960, the available custom colors were standardized, many of which were automobile lacquer colors from DuPont available at an additional 5% cost. A unique single-ply, 8-screw hole white pickguard held all electronic components except the recessed jack plate—facilitating easy assembly, in this floating position, players could move the bridge-mounted tremolo arm up or down to modulate the pitch of the notes being played. Hank Marvin, Jeff Beck and Ike Turner used the Strats floating tremolo extensively in their playing, as string gauges have changed, players have experimented with the number of tremolo springs, and modern Stratocasters ship with three springs. Some Strats have a bridge in place of the tremolo assembly. There is considerable debate about the effects on tone and sustain of the used in the tremolo systems inertia bar. The Stratocaster features three single coil pickups, with the originally selected by a 3-way switch. In 1977 Fender introduced a 5-way selector making such pickup combinations more stable, dick Dale is a prominent Stratocaster player who also collaborated with Leo Fender in developing the Fender Showman amplifier. In the early 1960s, the instrument was also championed by Hank Marvin, guitarist for the Shadows, in 1965, George Harrison and John Lennon acquired Stratocasters and used them for Help. Rubber Soul and later recording sessions, the double unison guitar solo on Nowhere Man is played by Harrison and Lennon on their new Stratocasters, after the introduction of the Fender Stratocaster Ultra series in 1989, ebony was officially selected as a fretboard material on some models. In December 1965 the Stratocaster was given a broader headstock with altered decals to match the size of the Jazzmaster, during the CBS era, particularly the 1970s, the perceived quality of Fender instruments fell. During this time, vintage instruments from the era became popular. Dan Smith, with the help of John Page, proceeded to work on a reissue of the most popular guitars of Leo Fenders era
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Disney's Hollywood Studios
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Disneys Hollywood Studios, originally Disney-MGM Studios, is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. It is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Parks, based on an idea by Marty Sklar, Randy Bright, and Michael Eisner, the park opened on May 1,1989, and was the third of four theme parks built at Walt Disney World. To increase public interest and the variety of representation within the park, Disney entered into a licensing agreement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The parks current name took effect in 2008, with the removal of the MGM-branding throughout the park, the parks icon was originally the Earffel Tower from the parks opening until 2001 when the Sorcerers Hat—a stylized version of the magical hat from Fantasia—was erected in the parks central hub. It then served as the icon until its removal in January 2015. The tower was removed in April 2016. Currently, the park remains without an official designated icon, although both the Great Movie Ride and the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror are represented as such in marketing materials. In 2015, the park hosted approximately 10.8 million guests, ranking it the fifth most-visited theme park in North America and we welcome you to a Hollywood that never was—and always will be. A team of Walt Disney Imagineers led by Marty Sklar and Randy Bright had been given an assignment to two new pavilions for Epcots Future World section. The brainstorming sessions led to Wonders of Life and Great Movie Ride pavilions, the latter was to look like a soundstage backdrop, with a movie theater-style entrance in the middle and would have sat between the Land and Journey Into Imagination pavilions. In 1988, MGM/UA responded by filing a lawsuit that claimed Disney violated the agreement by operating a working movie, when the park first opened, the only two attractions were the Studio Backlot Tour and The Great Movie Ride. Disney later filed a countersuit, claiming that MGM/UA and MGM Grand, on October 23,1992, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Curtis B. The 33-acre MGM Grand Adventures Theme Park opened in 1993 at the Las Vegas site, on August 9,2007, Walt Disney World President Meg Crofton announced that Disney-MGM Studios would be re-branded as Disneys Hollywood Studios, effective January 7,2008. On March 12,2015, during a shareholders meeting. Disneys Hollywood Studios is divided into six themed areas, the parks original layout featured a large Hidden Mickey, which was visible in aerial photographs of the park and on the parks early guide maps. Construction and other changes have eliminated much of this image. Hollywood Boulevard, inspired by the street in Los Angeles, serves as the main entrance and operates in the same vein as Main Street. It is lined with themed streetscape facades and venues selling Disney merchandise, guests enter through the main entrance gate, which resembles the Pan-Pacific Auditorium
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Geographical coordinates
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Walt Disney Studios Park
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Walt Disney Studios Park is the second of two theme parks built at Disneyland Paris in Marne-la-Vallee, France, opened on March 16,2002. It is dedicated to business, themed after movies, production. Its sister park is Disneys Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World in Florida, the park is represented by the Earffel Tower, a water tower similar to one that was installed at the Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank, California. To all who enter this studio of dreams. welcome, Walt Disney Studios is dedicated to our timeless fascination and affection for cinema and television. Here we celebrate the art and the artistry of storytellers from Europe, may this special place stir our own memories of the past, and our dreams of the future. After the resort began to make a profit, these plans were revived on a smaller scale. Walt Disney Studios Park opened on March 16,2002, in June 2007, a new studio lot opened in the Animation Courtyard area of the park, named Toon Studio. Similar attractions are found in Mermaid Lagoon at Tokyo DisneySea and a land in Disney California Adventure. On December 22,2007, The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror soft-opened with the new Hollywood Boulevard on Production Courtyard, imported from Hong Kong Disneyland, replaced the Disney Channel Studio Tour. In 2009, new attractions and entertainment opened at Walt Disney Studios to run alongside Mickeys Magical Party, Playhouse Disney Live On Stage. opened next to Stitch Live. and is presented in French, English and Spanish. Walt Disney Studios opened with a full size parade called Disneys Cinema Parade, in 2008 the parade was replaced with Disneys Stars n Cars, a smaller version of Disney Stars and Motor Cars Parade, which came from Disneys Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World in Florida. Walt Disney Studios Park is divided into four lots, representing various aspects of film production present at a Hollywood film studio. Front Lot serves as the main entrance and is home to most shops and services of the park. The entrance courtyard, La Place des Frères Lumière, is designed in Spanish Colonial Revival style and it is loosely based on the design of the original Disney Bros. The central feature of the courtyard is a large Fantasia fountain, the name of the courtyard is a tribute to the French inventors of cinema. Front Lot features Disney Studio 1, a walkway with shops. The exterior of Disney Studio 1 is loosely based on the first soundstage Walt Disney owned, restaurants, Restaurant en Coulisse Shops, Walt Disney Studios Store Les Légends dHollywood Studio Photo Toon Studio is inspired by classic Disney and Pixar animated characters. When the park opened in 2002, the land was known as Animation Courtyard but in 2007, as part of the park’s 5th Anniversary
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Steel roller coaster
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A steel roller coaster is a roller coaster that is defined by having a track made of steel. Steel coasters have earned immense popularity in the past 50 years throughout the world, arrow Dynamics first introduced the steel roller coaster to feature tubular track to the thrill industry with their creations of the Matterhorn Bobsleds in 1959 and the Runaway Mine Train in 1966. As of 2006, the oldest operating roller coaster in North America is Little Dipper at Memphis Kiddie Park in Brooklyn. The oldest operating steel rollercoaster in the world is Montaña Suiza at Parque de Atracciones Monte Igueldo and it has been operating since 1928. Steel coasters have a smoother ride than their wooden counterparts and due to their strength rides can have more complex and faster turns. Although some coaster enthusiasts prefer wooden coasters because the ride tosses you around more making the ride feel more dangerous, almost all world records for tallest, fastest, and longest coasters are currently held by steel roller coasters. The fact that fewer supports are needed means steel roller coasters have made a variety of features possible, such as loops, barrel rolls, corkscrews, zero-G rolls. There are different types of coasters, such as flying, inverted, floorless. Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure – worlds tallest and second fastest roller coaster Leviathan at Canadas Wonderland – the tallest and fastest coaster in Canada. Matterhorn Bobsleds at Disneyland – first tubular steel roller coaster Millennium Force at Cedar Point – first full circuit roller coaster to top 300 ft, the Smiler at Alton Towers - worlds first Infinity coaster and with 14 inversions has the world record for most track inversions. Opened in 2011 Taron at Phantasialand - fastest Launched roller coaster in Europe, wicked Twister at Cedar Point - worlds tallest and fastest inverted roller coaster
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Launched roller coaster
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The launched roller coaster is a modern form of roller coaster which has increased in use in the last decade. These are some of the fastest rides in the world, Launched coasters mainly feature improved speed, and capability to accommodate more thrilling layouts. These coasters, however, can be less reliable than traditional chain-lifted coasters, the first launched roller coaster was Montezumas Revenge at Knotts Berry Farm in Southern California. Electricity is transferred into a motor so that it controls the speed at which it will urge the car forward, LIMs are mainly used in Premier Rides roller coasters and Intamin impulse coasters. However, LIMs are also used for systems and the Tomorrowland Transit Authority in the Magic Kingdom for low acceleration. Hydraulic-launched roller coasters give the high acceleration, yet with improved smoothness, over the electromagnetic. The Swiss manufacturer Intamin pioneered this new style, the heart of the system is several powerful hydraulic pumps, each capable of producing around 500 horsepower. Hydraulic fluid is pumped into several different hydraulic accumulators containing two compartments separated by a piston, as the incompressible hydraulic fluid is pumped into one compartment a gas in the other compartment is compressed. The catch-car moves in a groove in the center of the track with the motor at one end. While the train inches forward, the pusher moves back from the motor towards the train, once the pusher connects, the anti-rollback braking system drops beneath the track, giving the train the green light to be launched. In the Kingda Ka roller coaster, the system as a whole can produce a power of up to 20,800 hp for each launch. These launches are considered capable of giving a far greater and smoother acceleration than the LIM/LSM styles, the first hydraulic launch coaster was Xcelerator reaching 82 mph in 2.3 seconds. The worlds current tallest and 2nd fastest coaster Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure, hydraulic launched rides usually have a tower after the launch, with differing layouts afterwards depending on the parks financial resources. Rita at Alton Towers does not have a tower, only airtime hills, stealth at Thorpe Park has a large tower that travels to the left over the top hat, and then slows on an airtime hill with magnetic brakes. Xcelerator at Knotts Berry Farm offers two overbanked turns after the tower, along with the height and speed, these coasters, named Rocket Coasters in the industry, are considered more comfortable because of a smoother launch than LIM-style launches. The cars imitate real motorcycles, and the sit in the same posture as real bikers. Hydraulic launch technology faces competition from S&S Power, a manufacturer in vertical amusement rides. Their coaster model, the Thrust Air 2000, was first built in Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, USA, the coaster has been clocked to launch from the rest at station to 80 mph in 1.8 seconds
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Vekoma
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Vekoma Rides Manufacturing is a Dutch amusement ride manufacturer. In 2008, Vekoma Rides Manufacturing acquired the Wheels of Excellence range of Ferris wheels from Ronald Bussink, to be handled by a new Vekoma division, the Dutch Wheels product range includes the R40, R50, and R60 models, each available in three different types. Other Vekoma coaster models include Swinging Turns, Enigma, Hurricane, Illusion, Family Boomerang, Tilt Coaster, there are also many different custom models. In 2013, Vekoma signed a deal with Idaho-based Rocky Mountain Construction, the agreement allows Vekoma to sell Rocky Mountain Constructions roller coasters outside the North American market. As of 2012, Vekoma has built over 270 roller coasters around the world, official website Vekoma at the Roller Coaster DataBase
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Walt Disney Imagineering
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Imagineering is responsible for designing and building Disney theme parks, resorts, cruise ships, and other entertainment venues at all levels of project development. Imagineering also manages various properties held by units within the Walt Disney Company including Disneys Burbank Studios, New Amsterdam Theater, when Disney was in the sports team ownership that included Edison Field and the Mighty Ducks Disney Ice practice rink in Anaheim. Disney filed for a copyright for the term in 1967, claiming first use of the term in 1962, Walt Disney Inc. was formed by Walt Disney in 1953 with the Disneyland designing engineering division. In light of objections from Roy as well as those of potential stockholders, in 1961, WED moved into the Grand Central Business Park, the site of the former Grand Central Air Terminal, in 1961. The unit was renamed as of January 1986 to Walt Disney Imagineering, in 1996, Disney Development Company, the Disney conglomerates real estate development subsidiary, merged into Imagineering. Imagineering created Disney Fair, a U. S. traveling attraction, with poor attendance, the fair was pulled after a few stops. Disney Entertainment Projects Inc. a new Disney Asian Pacific subsidiary, by 1997, Imagineers were in several buildings in Grand Central Business Park when Disney purchased the park. In September 1999, Disney Imagineering announced the Grand Central Creative Campus redesign of the park with a new office-studio complex anchored by Disney Imagineering. Some of the building were demolished to make way for new buildings, the additional space would be for sound stages, production facilities and offices. Imagineers are governed by a few key principles when developing new concepts, often, new concepts and improvements are created to fulfill specific needs. Many solutions to problems are designed in this way, such as the vehicle of the attraction Soarin Over California. An Imagineer found an Erector set in his attic, and was able to envision, Imagineers are also known for returning to ideas for attractions and shows that, for whatever reason, never came to fruition. These ideas are often reworked and appear in a different form – like the Museum of the Weird, finally, there is the principle of blue sky speculation, a process where Imagineers generate ideas with no limitations. The custom at Imagineering has been to start the process with what is referred to as eyewash--the boldest, wildest, best idea one can come up with. Many Imagineers consider this to be the beginning of the design process and operate under the notion that if it can be dreamt. Imagineers are always seeking to improve upon their work--what Walt Disney called plussing and he firmly believed that Disneyland will never be completed as long as theres imagination left in the world, meaning there is always room for innovation and improvement. During an Imagineering workshop in 1991, Marty Sklar presented ten commandments attributed to Mickey Steinberg, WDI is responsible for technological advances such as the Circle-Vision 360° film technique and the FastPass virtual queuing system. The idea sprang from Disney’s fascination with a bird he purchased in New Orleans
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Linear motor
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A linear motor is an electric motor that has had its stator and rotor unrolled so that instead of producing a torque it produces a linear force along its length. However, linear motors are not necessarily straight, characteristically, a linear motors active section has ends, whereas more conventional motors are arranged as a continuous loop. The most common mode of operation is as a Lorentz-type actuator, in which the force is linearly proportional to the current. Many designs have been put forward for linear motors, falling into two categories, low-acceleration and high-acceleration linear motors. Low-acceleration linear motors are suitable for trains and other ground-based transportation applications. High-acceleration linear motors are normally rather short, and are designed to accelerate an object to a high speed. High-acceleration linear motors are used in studies of hypervelocity collisions, as weapons. They are usually of the AC linear induction motor design with an active three-phase winding on one side of the air-gap, however, the direct current homopolar linear motor railgun is another high acceleration linear motor design. These magnets can be permanent magnets or energized magnets, the Shanghai Transrapid motor is an LSM. In this design the rate of movement of the field is controlled, usually electronically. For cost reasons synchronous linear motors rarely use commutators, so the rotor often contains permanent magnets, examples include coilguns and the motors used on some maglev systems, as well as many other linear motors. In this design, the force is produced by a moving magnetic field acting on conductors in the field. The two opposing fields will repel each other, thus creating motion as the magnetic field sweeps through the metal, in this design a large current is passed through a metal sabot across sliding contacts that are fed from two rails. The magnetic field this generates causes the metal to be projected along the rails, piezoelectric drive is often used to drive small linear motors. A feasible linear induction motor is described in the U. S, patent 782,312, for driving trains or lifts. The German engineer Hermann Kemper built a model in 1935. In the late 1940s, Dr. Eric Laithwaite of Manchester University, in a single sided version the magnetic repulsion forces the conductor away from the stator, levitating it, and carrying it along in the direction of the moving magnetic field. He called the later versions of it magnetic river, because of these properties, linear motors are often used in maglev propulsion, as in the Japanese Linimo magnetic levitation train line near Nagoya
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Roller coaster inversion
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A roller coaster inversion is a roller coaster element in which the track turns riders upside-down and then returns them to an upright position. Early forms of inversions, dating as far back as 1848 on the Centrifugal Railway in Paris, were vertical loops that were circular in nature, in 1975, designers from Arrow Development created the corkscrew, reviving interest in the inversion during the modern age of steel roller coasters. Since then, the element have evolved from simple corkscrews and vertical loops to more complex inversions such Immelmann loops, featuring fourteen inversions, The Smiler at Alton Towers holds the world record for the number of inversions on a roller coaster. The first inversion in roller coaster history was part of the Centrifugal Railway of Paris, France and it consisted of a 43-foot sloping track leading into a nearly circular vertical loop 13 feet in diameter. During the early 1900s, many rides including vertical loops appeared around the world and these early loops had a major design flaw, the circular structure produced intense g-forces. Loop the Loop, another looping coaster, was later in Coney Island as well. This time the loops were slightly oval-shaped rather than circular, though not clothoid in shape like modern loops, although the ride was safe, it had a low capacity, loading four people every five minutes, and was poorly received after the discomfort of the Flip Flap Railway. As their novelty wore off and their dangerous reputation spread, compounded with the developing Great Depression, the concept of inverting riders was not revisited until the 1970s. In 1968, Karl Bacon of Arrow Dynamics created a prototype steel roller coaster with a corkscrew, the prototype proved that a tubular steel track, first pioneered by Arrow to create Disneylands Matterhorn Bobsleds in 1959, could execute inversions both safely and reliably. The full model of the prototype, aptly named Corkscrew, was installed in Knotts Berry Farm in Buena Park, United States. Another roller coaster named Corkscrew, built in Cedar Point of Ohio in the same year, the next few years brought innovations that are still popular in modern coasters. The shuttle roller coaster was invented by Schwarzkopf in 1977 and realized at Kings Island with the Screamin Demon coaster and these early incarnations used the weight-drop mechanism to launch the trains. Built in 1978, the Loch Ness Monster in Busch Gardens Williamsburg became the first coaster with interlocking loops, the first Schwarzkopf shuttle loops with a flywheel launch also first appeared in 1978. Arrows Revolution, Europes first looping coaster, was built in 1979 at Blackpool Pleasure Beach of England, in 1980, Carolina Cyclone opened at Carowinds as the first roller coaster with four inversions. The Orient Express opened at Worlds of Fun of Kansas City, United States, in 1980, with the newly invented boomerang, in 1981, Vekoma invented the Boomerang coaster model, which became the most duplicated roller coaster ever. The first Boomerang was built at Reino Aventura of Mexico City, the Boomerang has had over 50 clones built worldwide from Doha, Qatar, to Tashkent, Uzbekistan. 1982 also brought the first five-inversion coaster, Arrows Viper at Darien Lake in Darien, the record for number of inversions was broken quickly in the following years. Arrows Vortex at Kings Island, built in 1987, was the first to have six, the next year, Shockwave at Six Flags Great America broke that record with seven inversions
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G-force
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The g-force is a measurement of the type of acceleration that causes a perception of weight. Despite the name, it is incorrect to consider g-force a fundamental force, since g-force accelerations indirectly produce weight, any g-force can be described as a weight per unit mass. The types of forces involved are transmitted through objects by interior mechanical stresses, the g-force acceleration is the cause of an objects acceleration in relation to free-fall. The g-force acceleration experienced by an object is due to the sum of all non-gravitational. In practice, as noted, these are surface-contact forces between objects, such forces cause stresses and strains on objects, since they must be transmitted from an object surface. Because of these strains, large g-forces may be destructive, gravitation acting alone does not produce a g-force, even though g-forces are expressed in multiples of the acceleration of a standard gravity. Thus, the gravitational acceleration at the Earths surface produces g-force only indirectly. These mechanical forces actually produce the g-force acceleration on a mass, for example, the 1 g force on an object sitting on the Earths surface is caused by mechanical force exerted in the upward direction by the ground, keeping the object from going into free-fall. The upward contact-force from the ground ensures that an object at rest on the Earths surface is accelerating relative to the free-fall condition, stress inside the object is ensured from the fact that the ground contact forces are transmitted only from the point of contact with the ground. Objects allowed to free-fall in an inertial trajectory under the influence of only, feel no g-force acceleration. This is demonstrated by the conditions inside a freely falling elevator falling toward the Earths center. These are examples of coordinate acceleration without a sensation of weight, the experience of no g-force, however it is produced, is synonymous with weightlessness. An example here is a rocket in space, in which simple changes in velocity are produced by the engines. The unit of measure of acceleration in the International System of Units is m/s2, however, to distinguish acceleration relative to free-fall from simple acceleration, the unit g is often used. One g is the due to gravity at the Earths surface and is the standard gravity, defined as 9.80665 metres per second squared. Note that the definition does not vary with location—the g-force when standing on the moon is about 0.181 g. The unit g is not one of the SI units, which uses g for gram, also g should not be confused with G, which is the standard symbol for the gravitational constant. For example, it is said an F-16 fighter jet is able to sustain up to 9 Gs for a limited time
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Hanes
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Hanes and Hanes Her Way are brands of clothing currently owned by the HanesBrands. In 1911, Shamrock Knitting Mills built a new plant at 3rd and Marshall Streets, it was sold in 1926, known as Shamrock Mills, the original building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Shamrock Knitting Mills was named Hanes Hosiery Mills Company in 1914, john Wesley Hanes brother Pleasant H. Hanes founded the P. H. The brothers previously operated a manufacturing business, that they sold to R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in 1900. Hanes Knitting Company merged with Hanes Hosiery in 1965, Hanes Knitting Company complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. During the 1970s and 1980s, their womens hosiery tagline was Gentlemen Prefer Hanes, in the early 1990s, the slogan was turned around as The lady prefers Hanes. From 1992 to 1999, the main slogan was Just waitll we get our Hanes on you. The slogan was revived in 2005, with celebrity endorsements including Michael Jordan, Damon Wayans, Matthew Perry and Marisa Tomei, as Look who weve got our Hanes on now. In the 2000s, an ad campaign began for their Hanes Go Tagless T-shirt, featuring various celebrities including Jordan, Phillip Brooke, Big Ben Kennedy, Jackie Chan, as of July 2008, Charlie Sheen joined Michael Jordan as the next Hanes celebrity spokesman. The commercials were created by writer Brett Baker and Art Director David McKay of The Martin Agency in Richmond, Hanesbrands has ended its advertising campaign featuring Charlie Sheen because of domestic violence charges filed against the actor in 2010. Official site Hanesbrands company site European Hanes website
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FastPass
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Disneys Fastpass, FastPass+, and MaxPass are virtual queuing systems created by the Walt Disney Company. Disneys Fastpass and FastPass+ services are available at no charge to all park guests. Each attraction inside a Disney theme park has a number of guests that attraction can handle in a given operating day. For example, a ride-through attraction like the Haunted Mansion may be able to carry 2,000 guests per operating hour, during a 12-hour operating day,24,000 guests can experience this attraction. Similarly, a theatrical show with a theatre capacity of 3,000 guests that has five shows during the day has a capacity of 15,000 guests. When Fastpass is installed on the attraction, a number of those seats are set aside. The remainder are available on a stand-by basis to other park guests. At the beginning of the day, the enabled attractions wait is pre-set at a given time. The number of Fastpasses available is divided into time intervals. As guests obtain Fastpasses for the attraction, time intervals are depleted, for an average attraction, the Fastpass wait will generally stay near this initial pre-set time. In the case of very popular attractions, such as Splash Mountain or other thrill rides, time intervals are depleted quickly. Sometimes, all the time intervals will be depleted early in the day, Disney currently operates a paper ticket Fastpass system at its parks in Anaheim, Paris, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. Walt Disney World in Florida has eliminated the paper ticket system to implement a FastPass+ system of reservations made in advance via computer, paper Fastpass tickets are dispensed by machines outside each attraction that uses them. The guest inserts their park ticket into a reader on the machine, the machine then returns the admission ticket and a Fastpass ticket will be printed. This ticket will show the window at which the guest may enter the special priority line at that attraction. The return time period given is one hour for rides. It will also show when another Fastpass can be obtained, in normal practice, only one Fastpass ticket can be held at a time. Another Fastpass ticket can be obtained either at the start of the current Fastpass tickets return time or after two hours, whichever is earlier
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Roller coaster
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A roller coaster is an amusement ride developed for amusement parks and modern theme parks. LaMarcus Adna Thompson obtained a patent regarding roller coasters on January 20,1885, which were out of wood. In essence a specialized railroad system, a roller coaster consists of a track that rises in designed patterns, the track does not necessarily have to be a complete circuit, as shuttle roller coasters demonstrate. Most roller coasters have multiple cars in which passengers sit and are restrained, two or more cars hooked together are called a train. Some roller coasters, notably wild mouse coasters, run with single cars. Built in the 17th century, the slides were built to a height of between 21 and 24 m, consisted of a 50-degree drop, and were reinforced by wooden supports. Some historians say the first roller coaster was built under the orders of Russias Catherine the Great in the Gardens of Oranienbaum in St. Petersburg in the year 1784, other historians believe that the first modern roller coaster was built by the French. The name Russian Mountains to designate a roller coaster is preserved in many Romance languages, however, the Russian term for roller coasters is американские горки, which means American mountains in Russian. In 1827, a company in Summit Hill, Pennsylvania constructed the Mauch Chunk gravity railroad. By the 1850s, the Gravity Road was providing rides to thrill-seekers for 50 cents a ride, Railway companies used similar tracks to provide amusement on days when ridership was low. Using this idea as a basis, LaMarcus Adna Thompson began work on a gravity Switchback Railway that opened at Coney Island in Brooklyn and this track design was soon replaced with an oval complete circuit. In 1885, Phillip Hinkle introduced the first full-circuit coaster with a hill, the Gravity Pleasure Road. Not to be outdone, in 1886 Thompson patented his design of roller coaster that included dark tunnels with painted scenery. Scenic Railways were to be found in amusement parks across the county, by 1919, the first underfriction roller coaster had been developed by John Miller. Soon, roller coasters spread to amusement parks all around the world, perhaps the best known historical roller coaster, Cyclone, was opened at Coney Island in 1927. The Great Depression marked the end of the first golden age of roller coasters and this lasted until 1972, when the Racer was built at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio. Designed by John Allen, the instant success of the Racer began a golden age. In 1959, Disneyland introduced a breakthrough with Matterhorn Bobsleds
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Walt Disney World
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The Walt Disney World Resort is an entertainment complex in Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, Florida, near Orlando and Kissimmee, Florida. The resort is the destination of Disneys worldwide corporate enterprise. Opened on October 1,1971, Walt Disney World is the most visited vacation resort in the world, the resort is owned and operated by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, a division of The Walt Disney Company. It was initially operated by Walt Disney World Company, Magic Kingdom was the first theme park to open in the complex, in 1971, followed by Epcot in 1982, Disneys Hollywood Studios in 1989, and the most recent, Disneys Animal Kingdom in 1998. Designed to supplement Disneyland in Anaheim, California, which had opened in 1955, the Florida Project, as it was known, was intended to present a distinct vision with its own diverse set of rides. Walt Disneys original plans called for the inclusion of an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Walt Disney died on December 15,1966, before construction began, without Disney spearheading the construction, the company created a resort similar to Disneyland, abandoning experimental concepts for a planned community. In 1959, Walt Disney Productions began looking for land to house a second resort to supplement Disneyland in Anaheim, California, which had opened in 1955. Market surveys at the revealed that only 5% of Disneylands visitors came from east of the Mississippi River. Additionally, Walt Disney disliked the businesses that had sprung up around Disneyland, Walt Disney flew over a potential site in Orlando, Florida – one of many – in November 1963. To avoid a burst of land speculation, Walt Disney World Company used various dummy corporations to acquire 30,500 acres of land, in May 1965, some of these major land transactions were recorded a few miles southwest of Orlando in Osceola County. In addition, two tracts totaling $1. Some are now memorialized on a window above Main Street, U. S. A. in Magic Kingdom, the smaller parcels of land acquired were called outs. They were 5-acre lots platted in 1912 by the Munger Land Company, most of the owners in the 1960s were happy to get rid of the land, which was mostly swamp at the time. Another issue was the rights to the land, which were owned by Tufts University. Without the transfer of rights, Tufts could come in at any time. Eventually, Disneys team negotiated a deal with Tufts to buy the rights for $15,000. Working strictly in secrecy, real estate agents unaware of their clients identity began making offers to landowners in April 1964 in parts of southwest Orange and northwest Osceola counties
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Disneyland Paris
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It is owned and operated by Euro Disney S. C. A. A publicly traded company in which The Walt Disney Company owns a controlling stake, Disneyland Park is the original theme park of the complex, opening with the resort on 12 April 1992. A second theme park, Walt Disney Studios Park, opened in 2002, the resort is the second Disney park to open outside of the United States following the opening of the Tokyo Disney Resort in 1983. Following the success of Walt Disney World in Florida, plans to build a theme park in Europe emerged in 1972. Under the leadership of E. Cardon Walker, Tokyo Disneyland opened in 1983 in Japan with instant success, in late 1984 the heads of Disneys theme park division, Dick Nunis and Jim Cora, presented a list of approximately 1,200 possible European locations for the park. By March 1985, the number of locations for the park had been reduced to four. Both nations saw the economic advantages of a Disney theme park. Both Spanish sites were located near the Mediterranean Sea and offered a climate similar to Disneys parks in California. Disney had also shown interest in a site near Toulon in southern France, the pleasing landscape of that region, as well as its climate, made the location a top competitor for what would be called Euro Disneyland. However, shallow bedrock was encountered beneath the site, which would have rendered construction too difficult, finally, a site in the rural town of Marne-la-Vallée was chosen because of its proximity to Paris and its central location in Western Europe. This location was estimated to be no more than a drive for 68 million people. The final contract was signed by the leaders of the Walt Disney Company, construction began in August 1988, and in December 1990, an information centre named Espace Euro Disney was opened to show the public what was being constructed.3 billion. In order to provide lodging to patrons, it was decided that 5,200 Disney-owned hotel rooms would be built within the complex. In March 1988, Disney and a council of architects decided on an exclusively American theme in each hotel would depict a region of the United States. At the time of the opening in April 1992, seven hotels collectively housing 5,800 rooms had been built, an entertainment, shopping and dining complex based on Walt Disney Worlds Downtown Disney was designed by Frank Gehry. With its towers of oxidised silver and bronze-coloured stainless steel under a canopy of lights, for a projected daily attendance of 55,000, Euro Disney planned to serve an estimated 14,000 people per hour inside the Euro Disneyland park. In order to accomplish this,29 restaurants were built inside the park, menus and prices were varied with an American flavour predominant and Disneys precedent of serving alcoholic beverages was continued in the park. 2,300 patio seats were installed to satisfy Europeans expected preference of eating outdoors in good weather, in test kitchens at Walt Disney World, recipes were adapted for European tastes
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Aerosmith
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Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as the Bad Boys from Boston and Americas Greatest Rock and Roll Band. Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues. They were formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970, in 1971, Tabano was replaced by Brad Whitford, and the band began developing a following in Boston. They were signed to Columbia Records in 1972, and released a string of gold and platinum albums, beginning with their 1973 eponymous debut album, followed by Get Your Wings in 1974. In 1975, the broke into the mainstream with the album Toys in the Attic. Two additional albums followed in 1977 and 1979 and their first five albums have since attained multi-platinum status. Throughout the 1970s, the band toured extensively and charted a dozen Hot 100 singles, by the end of the decade, they were among the most popular hard rock bands in the world and developed a loyal following of fans, often referred to as the Blue Army. The band did not fare well between 1980 and 1984, releasing the album Rock in a Hard Place, which was certified gold, Perry and Whitford returned to Aerosmith in 1984 and the band signed a new deal with Geffen Records. After a comeback tour, the band recorded Done with Mirrors, the band also became a pop culture phenomenon with popular music videos and notable appearances in television, film, and video games. Their comeback has been described as one of the most remarkable, additional albums followed in 2001,2004, and 2012. Since 2001, the band has toured every year, except 2008, Aerosmith is the best-selling American hard rock band of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide, including over 70 million records in the United States alone. The band has scored 21 Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, nine number-one Mainstream Rock hits, four Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards, and ten MTV Video Music Awards. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, in 2013, the bands principal songwriters, Tyler and Perry, were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 1964, Steven Tyler formed his own called the Strangeurs—later Chain Reaction—in New Hampshire. Meanwhile, Perry and Hamilton formed the Jam Band, which was based on free-form, Hamilton and Perry moved to Boston, Massachusetts in September 1969. There they met Joey Kramer, a drummer from Yonkers, New York, Kramer knew Tyler and had always hoped to play in a band with him. Kramer, a Berklee College of Music student, decided to school to join Jam Band. In 1970, Chain Reaction and Jam Band played at the same gig, Tyler immediately loved Jam Bands sound, and wanted to combine the two bands
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Steven Tyler
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He is known as the Demon of Screamin due to his high screams and his wide vocal range. He is also known for his on-stage acrobatics, during his high-energy performances, Tyler usually dresses in bright, colorful outfits with his trademark scarves hanging from his microphone stand. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Tyler had a drug and alcohol addiction. Tyler and bandmate Joe Perry became known as the Toxic Twins due to their drug abuse, in the wake of this success, Tyler emerged as one of the most enduring rock icons. Since the late 1980s, he has embarked on solo endeavors including guest appearances on other artists music, film and TV roles, authoring a bestselling book. Tyler is included among Rolling Stones 100 Greatest Singers and he was ranked third on Hit Paraders Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time. Steven Victor Tallarico was born on March 26,1948, at the Polyclinic Hospital in Manhattan, New York, the family moved to Yonkers when he was about nine years old. The son of Susan Ray, a secretary, and Victor A. Tallarico and his father was of Italian and German descent, while his mother was of Polish and English ancestry. His maternal grandfather, who was from what is present-day Poland and his paternal grandfather, Giovanni Tallarico, was from Cotronei, Calabria, Italy. Steven has one sister named Lynda. Steven attended Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, New York, in 1965, aged 17, Tyler spent time in Greenwich Village, New York, the highlight of which was seeing a Rolling Stones concert. Tyler states that his friends and he hung around for a while, a photo in the bands autobiography Walk This Way shows Tyler standing behind Mick Jagger outside a hotel. Before Aerosmith, Tyler wrote what would one of Aerosmiths signature songs. In 1969, Tyler attended a rock show in Sunapee, New Hampshire, where he first saw future bandmates Joe Perry and Tom Hamilton. Tyler later stated he was struck by their raw power and attitude, around 1970, Tyler, Perry, and Hamilton decided to form a band. Tyler, who had played drums in many of his previous bands, insisted that he be the frontman, Joey Kramer, an old acquaintance of Tylers from New York, was recruited to play drums. Tyler invited his friend, Ray Tabano, to play rhythm guitar. Shortly after relocating to Boston, Tylers dissatisfaction with Tabanos lack of passion and dedication prompted the band to replace Tabano with Brad Whitford
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Joe Perry (musician)
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Anthony Joseph Pereira, better known by his stage name Joe Perry, is the lead guitarist, backing and occasional lead vocalist, and contributing songwriter for the American rock band Aerosmith. He was ranked 84th in Rolling Stones list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, in October 2014, Simon & Schuster released Rocks, My Life In and Out of Aerosmith, written by Joe Perry with David Ritz. Anthony Joseph Pereira was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts and his father was an accountant and his mother a high school gym teacher. He said in 2014 that an early influence on his music was The Beatles, The night The Beatles first played The Ed Sullivan Show, boy. Seeing them on TV was akin to a national holiday, I never saw guys looking so cool. I had already some of their songs on the radio. I knew something was different in the world that night, during Perrys early years he formed a band with Tom Hamilton called The Jam Band. Steven Tyler, Joe, Tom, Brad Whitford and Joey Kramer eventually joined, while initially dismissed as The Rolling Stones knock-offs, the band came into its own during the mid-1970s with a string of hit records. Chief among these successes were Toys in the Attic and Rocks, thanks largely to the prevalence of free-form, album-oriented FM radio. The group also managed hit singles on the radio with songs like Dream On, Same Old Song and Dance, Sweet Emotion, Walk This Way, Back in the Saddle, and Last Child. During this time, Perry and vocalist Steven Tyler became known as the Toxic Twins for their notorious hard-partying, Aerosmiths crowd earned the nickname The Blue Army, so called by the band after the seemingly endless number of teenagers in the audience wearing blue denim jackets and blue jeans. The audience was abundantly male with long hair, following Rocks, the group began to stumble - drug use escalated and the creative process became hampered by strained relationships within the band. This was highlighted during the process for their next album. During their time there, Tyler and Perry would spend much of the time in their rooms, getting high, away from the rest of the band, Draw the Line, released in 1977, became a hit nonetheless, going double platinum. However, it was not as successful as their efforts, with the singles Draw the Line and Kings. On the album, Perry sang lead vocals on the track Bright Light Fright, the band toured throughout 1977 and 1978 in support of the album, but increasing violence at concerts as well as the bands heavy drug use began to mar the performances. In 1978, Aerosmith released the live collection Live, bootleg, released the stand-alone single Chip Away the Stone, and starred as The Future Villain Band in the film Sgt. For the film, the released a cover of The Beatles Come Together
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Tom Hamilton (musician)
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Thomas William Tom Hamilton is an American musician, best known as the bassist for the hard rock band Aerosmith. He has regularly co-written songs for Aerosmith, including two of the bands biggest hits, Sweet Emotion and Janies Got a Gun, Hamilton occasionally plays guitar and sings backing vocals. Hamilton first started playing guitar when his older brother Scott taught him his first chords at age 12, Tom switched to bass when he was 14 to join a local band because they had an open space at that position. Hamilton was in a few bands with soon-to-be Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, One of the bands was simply called The Jam Band. It was at a Jam Band gig in summer 1970 at a place called The Barn in Sunapee, New Hampshire, that the Jam Band met Steven Tyler, Scott left the group shortly thereafter, being replaced by Tyler on drums. The three became a trio with Hamilton on bass, Perry on guitar, and Tyler on drums. Then Ray Tabano joined and eventually Joey Kramer joined in replacing Tyler on drums so he could focus on vocals, Tabano was replaced by Brad Whitford and Aerosmith was born. Thomas William Hamilton was born to George and Betty Hamilton in Colorado Springs, George and Betty now live in Vero Beach, Florida. He has a brother named Scott, an older sister named Perry. His father was in the Air Force and his mother was a housewife and he first learned to play guitar from his brother, who got his first guitar when Tom was four years old. Hamilton is the tallest member of the band at 61 and he is also the funny one of Aerosmith, always looking for chances to make jokes in interviews and also being one of the bigger talkers at interviews. According to the official website, Hamiltons favorite song by the band is The Farm. He married Terry Cohen in 1975 and they have two children, Julian and Sage, in August 2006, he announced that he was diagnosed with throat and tongue cancer and completed a seven-week course of radiation and chemotherapy. He was forced to miss Aerosmiths Route of All Evil Tour, David Hull filled in for Hamilton. Hamilton had never missed an Aerosmith show. On December 20,2006, Hamilton reported on Aero Force One that he is cancer-free after a recent PET scan. Hamiltons cancer returned in 2011, and he has since been treated and is recovering well In April 2013 and he returned to the USA after contracting an infection in the chest region. David Hull, who has replaced Hamilton in other tours of Aerosmith, early in 2016, Hamilton was also announced as the new bassist for Thin Lizzy and will play with them on upcoming reunion shows
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Joey Kramer
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Joseph Michael Joey Kramer is the American drummer for the hard rock band Aerosmith. Joseph Michael Kramer was born in The Bronx, New York City and his memoir, Hit Hard, A Story of Hitting Rock Bottom at the Top, was released on June 30,2009. Kramer married his girlfriend Linda in 2009 and they currently reside in Georgetown, near Austin, Texas. Kramer is credited with originating the name Aerosmith, in his memoir, Kramer revealed that he idly conceived the name Aerosmith while listening to Harry Nilssons album Aerial Ballet in 1968, two years before the band was formed. Kramer insists that there is no connection between the name Aerosmith and Sinclair Lewis novel Arrowsmith, shortly before joining Aerosmith Kramer worked with Chubby & The Turnpikes alongside Bernie Worrell. In 2015, Kramer tweeted about how he had made into a Simpsons action figure. In June 2011, Kramer did a fan Q&A and revealed his open-mindedness to outside writers, in 2013 Kramer announced his new partnership with Comfort Foods, Inc. who now will roast, package and distribute his whole bean, organic coffee line, Rockin’ & Roastin’ Coffee. In 2015, he announced a partnership with Les Otten. The first restaurant is located in Newry, Maine at the foot of the Sunday River Ski Resort, lover Alot from Music From Another Dimension. Cant Stop Lovin You from Music From Another Dimension, closer from Music From Another Dimension. Kramer uses Zildjian cymbals and sticks, Ludwig drums and Remo heads, in 2014, he became an endorser of Pearl Drums.5 X14 Joey Kramer Signature Snare drum Current, Pearl Crystal Beat series drums Joeykramer. com Rockinandroastin. com Rockinandroastinrestaurant. com
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Brad Whitford
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Bradley Ernest Brad Whitford is an American musician who is best known for serving as the rhythm guitarist for the hard rock band Aerosmith. He has also worked as a songwriter for the group, co-composing well-received tracks such as 1976s Last Child, Whitford graduated from Reading Memorial High School in 1970. Aerosmith would go on to be one of the most successful bands of the 1970s. However, following a string of successful albums in the late 1970s, Whitford left the band in 1981 to work on his own project with singer Derek St. Holmes. The project was dissolved after a sole self-titled album was released in 1981, Whitford briefly toured with The Joe Perry Project, featuring former Aerosmith band mate Joe Perry, before both Perry and Whitford rejoined Aerosmith in 1984. In the mid-late 1980s, all members completed drug rehabilitation, including Whitford. Whitford remains sober to this day and continues to be a force in Aerosmith. Whitford also served as a producer for a well-known Boston band, The Neighborhoods, Whitford missed the start of Aerosmiths 2009 summer tour after requiring surgery as a result of a head injury sustained while getting out of his Ferrari, joining the tour after a month. Along with fellow Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, Whitford was included in the Guitar World book The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2007, in 2013 played with Buddy Guy, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry on Evil Twin. Holmes Reunited for a 10 show tour, while Joe Perry is Aerosmiths better known guitarist and the bands principal songwriter with Steven Tyler, Whitford has made significant contributions to the bands repertoire over the years. Concerning his lesser role in the songwriting process, Whitford has said. I can write music with people if theyre better songwriters than I am. I really cant create a song, thats why the people that can do it are very few and far between. Im certainly not that type of a guy, more of a guitar player, more of the kind of who comes up with enough riffs and ideas to write a song. But to write lyrics and come up with a melody for it, it wont happen, said Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler of the two guitarists, Joe is self-taught and his playing comes from raw emotion. Not that Brads doesnt, but his style is more schooled, street Jesus from Music from Another Dimension. Lover Alot from Music from Another Dimension, cant Stop Lovin You from Music from Another Dimension. Whitford continues to tour with vintage Fender Stratocasters and Gibson Led Paul for Aerosmith concerts as well as smaller gigs, meanwhile, Aerosmiths original heyday in the late 1970s saw both Whitford and co-guitarist Joe Perry arm themselves with aggressive-looking guitars from BC Rich
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Sunset Boulevard
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From Downtown Los Angeles, it heads northwest, to Hollywood, through which it travels due west for several miles before it bends southwest towards the ocean. It passes through or near Echo Park, Silver Lake, Los Feliz, Hollywood, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, in Bel-Air, Sunset Boulevard runs along the northern boundary of UCLAs Westwood campus. The boulevard continues through Brentwood to Pacific Palisades where it terminates at the Pacific Coast Highway intersection, the boulevard has curvaceous winding stretches, and can be treacherous for unaware drivers in some sections. It is at least four lanes wide along its entire route, Sunset is frequently congested with traffic loads beyond its design capacity. Sunset Boulevard historically extended farther east than it now does, starting at Alameda Street near Union Station and beside Olvera Street in the historic section of Downtown. In 1877, one of the real estate owners from back East Horace H. Wilcox, decided to subdivide his more than 20 acres of land along Sunset Boulevard, including what is today Hollywood. In 1890, Belgian diplomat Victor Ponet bought 240 acres of the former Rancho La Brea land grant and his son-in-law, Francis S. Montgomery, inherited this property and created Sunset Plaza. According to a 1901 article in the Los Angeles Herald, Sunset only extended from Hollywood in the west to Marion Avenue in the Echo Park district in the east. In late 1912 several properties along the route were condemned so that the boulevard could be changed in both its width and its alignment, with these changes completed, Sunset Boulevard now reached North Main Street and continued as Marchessault along the northern end of the Plaza. This section, variously marked and signed as Marchessault Street or East Sunset Boulevard, at that time Sunset was realigned one block north and Marchessault was closed to motor traffic. In 1921, an expansion of Sunset began, extending the road from the then-current terminus at Sullivan Canyon through Santa Monica to the coast. This land, a portion of the original 1838 holdings of Fransisco Marquez, stretched across a mesa, will Rogers, who had bought much of this land as an investment, later donated it to the State of California creating Will Rogers State Historic Park. Circa 1931, Sunset was a road from Horn Avenue to Havenhurst Avenue. The Sunset Strip portion of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood has been famous for its active nightlife at least since the 1950s, in the 1970s, the area between Gardner Street and Western Avenue was a center for street prostitution. Shortly after a well publicized June 1995 incident, police raids drove out the majority of prostitutes on the Boulevard, the portion of Sunset Boulevard that passes through Beverly Hills was once named Beverly Boulevard. The boulevard is commemorated in Billy Wilders 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical of the name. Jan and Deans 1960s hit song Dead Mans Curve refers to a section of the road near Bel Air estates just north of UCLAs Drake Stadium where Jan Berry almost died in an accident in 1966. The Buffalo Springfield song For What Its Worth was written about a riot at Pandoras Box, Metro Local lines 2,175 and 302 operate on Sunset Boulevard
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The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
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The Tokyo version, which features an original story line not related to The Twilight Zone, takes place in the fictional Hotel Hightower. A decade later, Disney began plans to add similar versions of the attraction to their newest parks at the Disneyland Resort in California, Tokyo Disney Resort in Japan, and Disneyland Resort Paris. In California and Paris, Disney sought to use the attraction to boost attendance at the respective resorts struggling new theme parks. The California and Tokyo versions of Tower of Terror opened in 2004 and 2006, respectively, the California version closed in January 2017. The Tower of Terror buildings are among the tallest structures found at their respective Disney resorts, at 199 feet, the Florida version is the second tallest attraction at the Walt Disney World Resort, with only Expedition Everest 199.5 feet being taller. At the Disneyland Resort, the 183-foot structure is the tallest building at the resort, at Disneyland Paris, it is the second tallest attraction. In the American and European versions of the attraction, guests make their way to the Hollywood Tower Hotel through the front gate, guests then walk along a cracked, curved pathway that leads to the hotel. The pathway goes past overgrown gardens, signs pointing to the stables, a green, tennis courts, swimming pools. In most parks, 1930s jazz music plays in the queue area, entering through the hotels front doors, guests encounter an interior designed to give the impression that the Hollywood Tower Hotel has been left untouched since the night of its closure. The lobby is covered in dust and draped with cobwebs, past the front desk, the main elevators are in a dilapidated state, and a sign reads Out of Order. Through the library window, guests can observe a severe thunderstorm raging outside, the television then turns off and the guests are directed through to the boiler room, where they await the maintenance service elevators arrival. In the late 1980s, a phase of development was being designed for Disneyland Paris. Included was a free-fall type ride in Frontierland that was to be named Geyser Mountain and it would have been part roller coaster, part free-fall ride that shot guests up a vertical shaft. The plan was scrapped, but was picked up by Disneys Hollywood Studios as part of an expansion to their U. S. park. Several attractions had already been proposed, including Dick Tracys Crimestoppers, still needing a major E-ticket attraction, the idea of a drop-shaft ride came up and was chosen. Walt Disney Imagineering eventually took inspiration from Rod Serlings anthology stories featured in The Twilight Zone, Imagineers mused that the attraction would be able to take guests into the Fifth Dimension that Serling always described as unlocking in every episode of the series. With the project in development, Disney licensed the rights to use The Twilight Zone intellectual property from CBS Inc. Otis Elevator Company created the vertical ride system, and Eaton-Kenway a ride vehicle that could drive itself horizontally, site-clearing and prep began early 1992
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Paris
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Paris is the capital and most populous city of France. It has an area of 105 square kilometres and a population of 2,229,621 in 2013 within its administrative limits, the agglomeration has grown well beyond the citys administrative limits. By the 17th century, Paris was one of Europes major centres of finance, commerce, fashion, science, and the arts, and it retains that position still today. The aire urbaine de Paris, a measure of area, spans most of the Île-de-France region and has a population of 12,405,426. It is therefore the second largest metropolitan area in the European Union after London, the Metropole of Grand Paris was created in 2016, combining the commune and its nearest suburbs into a single area for economic and environmental co-operation. Grand Paris covers 814 square kilometres and has a population of 7 million persons, the Paris Region had a GDP of €624 billion in 2012, accounting for 30.0 percent of the GDP of France and ranking it as one of the wealthiest regions in Europe. The city is also a rail, highway, and air-transport hub served by two international airports, Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Orly. Opened in 1900, the subway system, the Paris Métro. It is the second busiest metro system in Europe after Moscow Metro, notably, Paris Gare du Nord is the busiest railway station in the world outside of Japan, with 262 millions passengers in 2015. In 2015, Paris received 22.2 million visitors, making it one of the top tourist destinations. The association football club Paris Saint-Germain and the rugby union club Stade Français are based in Paris, the 80, 000-seat Stade de France, built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is located just north of Paris in the neighbouring commune of Saint-Denis. Paris hosts the annual French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament on the red clay of Roland Garros, Paris hosted the 1900 and 1924 Summer Olympics and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. The name Paris is derived from its inhabitants, the Celtic Parisii tribe. Thus, though written the same, the name is not related to the Paris of Greek mythology. In the 1860s, the boulevards and streets of Paris were illuminated by 56,000 gas lamps, since the late 19th century, Paris has also been known as Panam in French slang. Inhabitants are known in English as Parisians and in French as Parisiens and they are also pejoratively called Parigots. The Parisii, a sub-tribe of the Celtic Senones, inhabited the Paris area from around the middle of the 3rd century BC. One of the areas major north-south trade routes crossed the Seine on the île de la Cité, this place of land and water trade routes gradually became a town
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France
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France, officially the French Republic, is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The European, or metropolitan, area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, Overseas France include French Guiana on the South American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. France spans 643,801 square kilometres and had a population of almost 67 million people as of January 2017. It is a unitary republic with the capital in Paris. Other major urban centres include Marseille, Lyon, Lille, Nice, Toulouse, during the Iron Age, what is now metropolitan France was inhabited by the Gauls, a Celtic people. The area was annexed in 51 BC by Rome, which held Gaul until 486, France emerged as a major European power in the Late Middle Ages, with its victory in the Hundred Years War strengthening state-building and political centralisation. During the Renaissance, French culture flourished and a colonial empire was established. The 16th century was dominated by civil wars between Catholics and Protestants. France became Europes dominant cultural, political, and military power under Louis XIV, in the 19th century Napoleon took power and established the First French Empire, whose subsequent Napoleonic Wars shaped the course of continental Europe. Following the collapse of the Empire, France endured a succession of governments culminating with the establishment of the French Third Republic in 1870. Following liberation in 1944, a Fourth Republic was established and later dissolved in the course of the Algerian War, the Fifth Republic, led by Charles de Gaulle, was formed in 1958 and remains to this day. Algeria and nearly all the colonies became independent in the 1960s with minimal controversy and typically retained close economic. France has long been a centre of art, science. It hosts Europes fourth-largest number of cultural UNESCO World Heritage Sites and receives around 83 million foreign tourists annually, France is a developed country with the worlds sixth-largest economy by nominal GDP and ninth-largest by purchasing power parity. In terms of household wealth, it ranks fourth in the world. France performs well in international rankings of education, health care, life expectancy, France remains a great power in the world, being one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council with the power to veto and an official nuclear-weapon state. It is a member state of the European Union and the Eurozone. It is also a member of the Group of 7, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the World Trade Organization, originally applied to the whole Frankish Empire, the name France comes from the Latin Francia, or country of the Franks
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Astronaut
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An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. Although generally reserved for professional space travelers, the terms are applied to anyone who travels into space, including scientists, politicians, journalists. Starting in the 1950s up to 2002, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, with the suborbital flight of the privately funded SpaceShipOne in 2004, a new category of astronaut was created, the commercial astronaut. The criteria for what constitutes human spaceflight vary, the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale Sporting Code for astronautics recognizes only flights that exceed an altitude of 100 kilometers. In the United States, professional, military, and commercial astronauts who travel above an altitude of 50 miles are awarded astronaut wings. As of 17 November 2016, a total of 552 people from 36 countries have reached 100 km or more in altitude, of which 549 reached low Earth orbit or beyond. Of these,24 people have traveled beyond Low Earth orbit, to either lunar or trans-lunar orbit or to the surface of the moon, the three astronauts who have not reached low Earth orbit are spaceplane pilots Joe Walker, Mike Melvill, and Brian Binnie. As of 17 November 2016, under the U. S. definition 558 people qualify as having reached space, of eight X-15 pilots who exceeded 50 miles in altitude, only one exceeded 100 kilometers. Space travelers have spent over 41,790 man-days in space, as of 2016, the man with the longest cumulative time in space is Gennady Padalka, who has spent 879 days in space. Peggy A. Whitson holds the record for the most time in space by a woman,377 days, dryden preferred cosmonaut, on the grounds that flights would occur in the cosmos, while the astro prefix suggested flight to the stars. Most NASA Space Task Group members preferred astronaut, which survived by common usage as the preferred American term, when the Soviet Union launched the first man into space, Yuri Gagarin in 1961, they chose a term which anglicizes to cosmonaut. In English-speaking nations, a space traveler is called an astronaut. The term derives from the Greek words ástron, meaning star, the first known use of the term astronaut in the modern sense was by Neil R. Jones in his short story The Deaths Head Meteor in 1930. The word itself had been known earlier, for example, in Percy Gregs 1880 book Across the Zodiac, astronaut referred to a spacecraft. In Les Navigateurs de lInfini of J. -H, rosny aîné, the word astronautique was used. The word may have inspired by aeronaut, an older term for an air traveler first applied to balloonists. An early use in a publication is Eric Frank Russells poem The Astronaut in the November 1934 Bulletin of the British Interplanetary Society. NASA applies the term astronaut to any crew member aboard NASA spacecraft bound for Earth orbit or beyond, NASA also uses the term as a title for those selected to join its Astronaut Corps
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Space Shuttle
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The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U. S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System, taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development, the first of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights beginning in 1982. Five complete Shuttle systems were built and used on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011, the Shuttle fleets total mission time was 1322 days,19 hours,21 minutes and 23 seconds. Shuttle components included the Orbiter Vehicle, a pair of solid rocket boosters. The Shuttle was launched vertically, like a rocket, with the two SRBs operating in parallel with the OVs three main engines, which were fueled from the ET. The SRBs were jettisoned before the vehicle reached orbit, and the ET was jettisoned just before orbit insertion, at the conclusion of the mission, the orbiter fired its OMS to de-orbit and re-enter the atmosphere. The orbiter then glided as a spaceplane to a landing, usually at the Shuttle Landing Facility of KSC or Rogers Dry Lake in Edwards Air Force Base. After landing at Edwards, the orbiter was back to the KSC on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. The first orbiter, Enterprise, was built in 1976 for use in Approach, four fully operational orbiters were initially built, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, and Atlantis. Of these, two were lost in accidents, Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003, with a total of fourteen astronauts killed. A fifth operational orbiter, Endeavour, was built in 1991 to replace Challenger, the Space Shuttle was retired from service upon the conclusion of Atlantiss final flight on July 21,2011. Nixons post-Apollo NASA budgeting withdrew support of all components except the Shuttle. The vehicle consisted of a spaceplane for orbit and re-entry, fueled by liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen tanks. The first of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights beginning in 1982, all launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The system was retired from service in 2011 after 135 missions, the program ended after Atlantis landed at the Kennedy Space Center on July 21,2011. Major missions included launching numerous satellites and interplanetary probes, conducting space science experiments, the first orbiter vehicle, named Enterprise, was built for the initial Approach and Landing Tests phase and lacked engines, heat shielding, and other equipment necessary for orbital flight. A total of five operational orbiters were built, and of these and it was used for orbital space missions by NASA, the US Department of Defense, the European Space Agency, Japan, and Germany. The United States funded Shuttle development and operations except for the Spacelab modules used on D1, sL-J was partially funded by Japan
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Iron Man in other media
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The Marvel Comics character Iron Man has appeared in various other media since the characters debut in Tales of Suspense #39. Iron Man has been the focus of three animated series and an animated feature. In 1981, Iron Man guest starred in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends with William H. Marshall providing his voice and he made cameo appearances throughout the series, most prominently in The Origin of the Spider-Friends, in which Tony Stark is a central character. The Beetle stole a computer and the Power Booster invented by Tony Stark to increase his power. He was the first villain that the Spider-Friends faced together in that origin episode, in gratitude for the Spider-Friends aid against the Beetle, Stark provided them with the crime-detection technology used by the heroes throughout the series. Iron Man served as part of a team consisting of Century, War Machine, the Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, and Spider-Woman. This show was part of The Marvel Action Hour, which packaged several animated versions of Marvel series, including the 1994 Fantastic Four, Iron Mans origin was changed for this series, Instead of shrapnel near his heart, Stark has multiple slivers near his spine, threatening paralysis. Stark and Yinsen are held not by Wong Chu but by the Mandarin, who had been altered by his rings to have green skin. Iron Man made a cameo in some episodes of the 1994 Fantastic Four TV series. Iron Man appeared in the two part featuring Venom and Carnage episodes of the mid-1990s and episodes of Secret Wars chapter from the 1994 Spider-Man TV series. Robert Hays reprised Iron Man again in a guest appearance in the 1996 animated series The Incredible Hulk in episode 4, Helping Hand, in the 1999, 13-episode series The Avengers, United They Stand, Iron Man was voiced by Francis Diakowsky. He helps the Avengers thwart the Zodiacs plan to send a radioactive satellite crashing to Earth, like Captain America and Thor, Iron Man could not be used as a full-fledged member. In 2007, Iron Man appeared in the Fantastic Four, Worlds Greatest Heroes episode 22, Shell Games, in 2009, Iron Man starred in Iron Man, Armored Adventures with Adrian Petriw voicing the titular character. Beginning in 2009, Iron Man appeared in The Super Hero Squad Show voiced by Tom Kenny, beginning in 2010, Iron Man appears in the The Avengers, Earths Mightiest Heroes, voiced by Eric Loomis and Keiji Fujiwara in the Japanese dub. He serves as leader, and is seen in the opening credits monitoring the teams activities on various view screens. It concluded on Animax after running the full episodes on December 17,2010. He is voiced by Keiji Fujiwara in Japanese and Adrian Pasdar in English and he additionally appears in a non-speaking cameo in the final episode of Marvel Anime, X-Men. He appears in the Spider-Man animated TV series, Ultimate Spider-Man, in the episode Great Power, he is shown trying to master his suit
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Denny Dent
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Dennis E. Denny Dent was an American speed painter who was known for his frenetic performances as he painted large portraits of celebrities. Dent was born in Oakland, California to a family of artists and my grandfather was ambidextrous, he says, giving a nod to the gene pool for his two-fisted talents, a cabinetmaker and an artist. My mother was a painter and always told me I was an artist, thats the heritage of the family. Though no ones been able to verify it, Dents grandfather insisted they are descendants of Titian. He credited his mother and speed painter D. Westry with influencing his art and his style emerged after he painted a spontaneous portrait of John Lennon at a 1980 vigil. Over the course of just a few songs, he would complete a portrait. His subjects were most often musicians, but also included other entertainers, sports figures, one of his most famous performances was at the Woodstock 94 concert. Mr. Dent could also paint with his feet, but seldom did so in public, what he called his dance on canvas featured maniacal, mesmerizing movement, but he regarded the sermons he shouted over the music while he painted as his main mission. A painting that Dent did of Albert Einstein hangs in the Lecture Halls building at the St. Louis Community College–Meramec campus, Dent died in Denver of complications from a heart attack. On the History channel series Pawn Stars, Dents green painting of Jim Morrison is featured prominently on a wall of the shop. The shop also has on display Dents paintings of Stevie Wonder and Jimi Hendrix, and in one episode acquired a portrait of John Lennon painted by Dent
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Gibson Les Paul
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The Gibson Les Paul is a solid body electric guitar that was first sold by the Gibson Guitar Corporation in 1952. The Les Paul was designed by Gibson president Ted McCarty, factory manager John Huis and their team, the Les Paul was originally offered with a gold finish and two P-90 pickups. In 1957, humbucking pickups were added, along with sunburst finishes in 1958, the sunburst 1958–1960 Les Paul – today one of the best-known electric guitar types in the world – was considered a failure, with low production and sales. For 1961, the Les Paul was redesigned into what is now known as the Gibson SG and this design continued as a separate guitar when the traditional single cutaway, carved top bodystyle was re-introduced in 1963. The Les Paul has been produced in countless versions and editions since. Along with Fenders Telecaster and Stratocaster, it was one of the first mass-produced electric solid-body guitars, Les Pauls have been used in many genres, including rock, country, pop, soul, rhythm and blues, blues, jazz, reggae, punk, and heavy metal. In 1950, the ancestors of Fender Telecaster were introduced to the musical market, in reaction to market demand, Gibson Guitar president Ted McCarty brought guitarist Les Paul into the company as a consultant. Les Paul was an innovator who had been experimenting with guitar design for years. He hand-built a solid-body prototype called The Log, often suggested as the first solid-body Spanish guitar ever built, in 1951, Paul, McCarty, and his team at the Gibson Guitar Corporation began work on what would eventually become the Les Paul Model. Early prototypes are very similar to the final version, the new Les Paul guitar was to be an expensive, well-made instrument in accordance with Gibsons reputation at the time. Although recollections differ regarding who contributed what to the Les Paul design, however, this reversal would have caused the guitar to become too heavy, and Pauls request was refused. Paul states that the original Custom should have had the maple cap, Les Pauls contributions to the guitar line bearing his name were more than cosmetic, but certainly included them. For example, Paul specified that the guitar be offered in a finish, not only for flashiness. The later-issue Les Paul models included flame maple and quilted maple tops, the 1952 Les Pauls featured two P-90 single coil pickups, and a one-piece, trapeze-style bridge/tailpiece with strings fitted under a steel stop-bar. The guitar made its debut when Paul used it onstage in June,1952. On July 24,1952, at a special musicians clinic at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, it was previewed by prominent guitarists such as Tiger Haynes, George Barnes, Mundell Lowe, Tony Mottola, and Billy Mure. The clinic preceded the annual NAMM Show held at the New Yorker hotel starting July 27, a second Les Paul model was introduced in 1953. Called the Les Paul Custom, this guitar with gold-plated hardware was dubbed the Black Beauty
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D23 (Disney)
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D23 is the official fan club for The Walt Disney Company. Founded in 2009, the organization is mainly for its biennial exposition event. The name D23 refers to D for Disney and 23 for 1923—the year Walt Disney founded the company, membership includes Disney twenty-three, yearly gifts, events, exclusive merchandise offers, and discount and early access to the D23 Expo fan convention. D23 was introduced on March 10,2009 by Robert Iger during the annual meeting. D23 had a booth at San Diego Comic-Con in 2009 followed by the first D23 Expo on September 10–13,2009, in March 2010, D23 announced that the expo would be biannual instead of annual with a Destination D event in the off year. In February 2013, the Walt Disney Company Japan announced the first D23 Expo Japan on October 12–14,2013, events include, D23 Expo biennial Destination D a smaller biennial event alternating with the Expo. Events were held in the D23 Arena, Stage 23, Storytellers Theatre, the D23 Expo returned for its second time at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California on August 19–21,2011. The Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives has expanded by 12,000 square feet since the Inaugural D23 Expo, shopping opportunities include the D23 Expo Dream Store returning from the Inaugural Expo. Other stores include A Small World Village and a Disney Store in the Disney Living Pavilion. Events took place at the D23 Arena, Stage 23, Stage 28, the red carpet at the Talent Round-Up area, Storytellers Stage at the Disney Living pavilion, and at the Disney Channel/Radio Disney stage. The Disney Channel stage held performances from Coco Jones, China Anne McClain, a first look for Radio Disneys N. B. T. and a karate exhibition from Leo Howard. Guests also had the chance to meet and greet the cast of Good Luck Charlie, Jake, phineas and Ferb, Kickin It, Fish Hooks, A. N. T. Farm, Handy Manny, Special Agent Oso, Pair of Kings, nice, and the celebration for the 25th Anniversary of Pixar Animation Studios. The first rounds of the UDTT were held on August 18,2011 which narrowed from thousands to one hundred and it was hosted by Dan Roebuck who narrowed down the final round from 20 people to 3. After two full days of trivia questions, John Kurowski was declared the winner of the inaugural Ultimate Disney Fan Trivia Tournament and his name was engraved on a Ludwig Von Drake trophy which was preserved in the Walt Disney Archives. Kurowski also won a cruise on the Disney Cruise Lines Disney Fantasy ship which set sail to the public in 2012. The D23 Arena hosted many milestone events only at the D23 Expo and this is the second time that the Disney Legends Ceremony has taken place in front of guests at the D23 Expo. This tradition started in 1987 and since then,287 people have been awarded, at the expo, the company honored 12 people who contributed to the The Walt Disney Company
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Walk This Way
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Walk This Way is a song by the American hard rock band Aerosmith. Written by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, the song was released as the second single from the 1975 album Toys in the Attic. It peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1977, part of a string of successful hit singles for the band in the 1970s. In addition to being one of the songs that helped break Aerosmith into the mainstream in the 1970s, on their 1986 album Raising Hell. This cover was a touchstone for the new subgenre of rap rock, or the melding of rock. It became a hit and won both groups a Soul Train Music Award for Best Rap – Single in 1987. The song starts out with a two measure drum beat intro by Joey Kramer, followed by the well known guitar riff by Joe Perry, the song proceeds with the main riff made famous by Perry and Brad Whitford on guitar with Tom Hamilton on bass. The song continues with rapid fire lyrics by Steven Tyler, in December 1974, Aerosmith opened for The Guess Who in Honolulu. During the sound check, guitarist Joe Perry was fooling around with riffs and thinking about The Meters, loving their riffy New Orleans funk, especially Cissy Strut and People Say, he asked the drummer to lay down something flat with a groove on the drums. The guitar riff to what would become Walk This Way just came off hands, needing a bridge, he played another riff and went there. But I didnt want the song to have a typical, boring 1,4,5 chord progression, after playing the first riff in the key of C, I shifted to E before returning to C for the verse and chorus. By the end of the check, I had the basics of a song. When bandmate Steven Tyler heard Perry playing that riff he ran out and sat behind the drums, Tyler scatted nonsensical words initially to feel where the lyrics should go before adding them later. When the group was halfway through recording Toys in the Attic in early 1975 at Record Plant in New York City and they had written three or four songs for the album, having to write the rest in the studio. They decided to give the song Perry had come up with in Hawaii a try, deciding to take a break from recording, band members and producer Jack went down to Times Square to see Mel Brooks Young Frankenstein. Returning to the studio, they were laughing about Marty Feldman telling Gene Wilder to follow him in the film, saying walk this way, douglas suggested this as a title for their song. At the hotel that night Tyler wrote lyrics for the song and he says, I must have been stoned. All the blood drained out of my face, but no one believed me and they thought I never got around to writing them
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Ken Marino
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Kenneth Joseph Ken Marino is an American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. He was a cast member on MTVs The State and has starred in such as Party Down, Marry Me, Burning Love. Marino was born in West Islip, New York, to an Italian-American family and he studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute and Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in New York City. Marino had early success on television as a member of a comedy troupe on the MTV sketch comedy series The State in 1993, Marino co-starred with Rob Schneider in the second season of Men Behaving Badly. He starred in the short lived series First Years in 2001 and he had a recurring role as Prof. Wilder on the TV series Dawsons Creek and in You Wrote It, You Watch It. He made multiple appearances on Charmed and Rock Me Baby, and he was cast to star in a re-make of the TV series The Courtship of Eddies Father, but the pilot was not picked up. Instead, he was cast in the Starz original series Party Down and he also starred as a homosexual demon on the TV series Reaper. He played Dr. Glenn Richie in the television series Childrens Hospital. Marino also made guest appearances in Will & Grace, Angel, stella, Greys Anatomy, Monk, Private Practice, and Happy Endings. Marino starred in 2004s Love for Rent and he can also be seen in a non speaking role as the music producer/board operator in the pre-ride film that accompanies Rock n Roller Coaster at Disneys Hollywood Studios. He has appeared in Wet Hot American Summer, The Ten and Role Models and he also starred in the Hallmark Channel movie Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door in 2006. In 2009, he had a cameo in an episode of Californication, Marino wrote the screenplay for Diggers, a coming-of-age film set in mid-1970s Long Island, as well as co-writing/producing The Ten and Role Models with David Wain. Marino and Wain wrote the screenplay for the comedy film Wanderlust, which starred Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston, Marino starred as Mark Orlando in the Yahoo. Web series Burning Love, a spoof of the TV series The Bachelor, the series was created by his wife Erica Oyama, while Marino also directed all three seasons. Afterwards, Marino starred opposite Casey Wilson on the NBC sitcom Marry Me, Marino has also directed several episodes of the sitcoms The Goldbergs, Super Fun Night, and Trophy Wife. Marino is married to screenwriter Erica Oyama and they have a son, Riley Kenichi Marino and a daughter, Ruby. Ken Marino at the Internet Movie Database Ken Marino Interview @ Heavy In The Streets Childrens Hospital streaming episodes on theWB Burning Love
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Illeana Douglas
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Illeana Hesselberg, most commonly known as Illeana Douglas, is an American actress, director, screenwriter, and producer. Douglas has had a diverse career as a character actor with a specialty in comedy. She can currently be seen on Turner Classic Movies where she hosts specials focused on unheralded women directors from film history, Douglas was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, the daughter of Joan Douglas, a schoolteacher, and Gregory Douglas, a painter. Douglas father was the son of Hollywood actor Melvyn Douglas and his wife, during her childhood she spent time going back and forth between relatives during the summer. Douglas said that her parents were influenced by the 1970s hippie culture—her father especially by the movie Easy Rider. They had a loose parenting style and did not pressure her to go to college, comedy albums were really big in her family. The family would put on dramatic interpretations and performances, Douglas mothers side is Catholic, Italian and Romanian from Astoria, Queens. Her maternal grandmother worked in the restaurant at Gertz department store in Astoria, Douglas said that her maternal grandmother, a former Rockette, had really wanted to be an actor. She instilled in Douglas a love for the movies, which they attended together frequently when she was a child, Douglas said her summers with Melvyn Douglas were about experiencing with him his love of theater and elocution as well as reading, art, and history. Douglas has said that her grandfathers performance in Being There was influential on her own career, in the 1940s Douglas grandfather and Peter Sellers both served in the military during WWII and met in Burma. In the 1960s, the two men reconnected in London and talked about their time together in the war, during high school Douglas visited the set while they were shooting on location in Asheville, North Carolina and got to meet Sellers, whose work she admired greatly. It was the first time she was on a film set, Douglas notes the contrast between her working-class Italian roots and the glamorous Hollywood world of her paternal side of her family. Famous people like Myrna Loy, Gore Vidal, Gloria Steinem, politicians, writers, Douglas said it took her a long time to figure out the contrasting diversity, to put both halves together. She identifies more with the Italian side of her family, that she developed more of their rhythms, after graduating from high school, Douglas moved to New York City. Obsessed with the movies from her childhood, Douglas wanted to be in show business and she stayed with relatives in various temporary arrangements. Douglas attended American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she was a contemporary of Elias Koteas, Mustillo and Douglas were not asked back to school after their first year. When she was 18 years old, Douglas went to work for Steve Rubell at the Morgans Hotel, while there, Douglas decided to reinvent herself and began attending Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, where she studied with the acting teacher Richard Pinter. While she was working in a comedy group called Manhattan Punchline, one of the troupe members suggested she try stand-up comedy
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Roller coaster elements
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Roller coaster elements are the individual parts of roller coaster design and operation, such as a track, hill, loop, or turn. Variations in normal track movement that add thrill or excitement to the ride are often called thrill elements or thrill factor, a brake run on a roller coaster is any section of track meant to slow or stop a roller coaster train. Brake runs may be located anywhere or hidden along the circuit of a coaster, the vast majority of roller coasters do not have any form of braking on the train but rather forms of braking that exist on track sections. One notable exception is the scenic railway roller coaster, which relies on an operator to control the speed of the train. On most roller coasters, the brakes are controlled by a computer system and these are controlled by large levers operated by the ride operators. Single-position lap bars on wooden coasters are sometimes referred to as buzz bars. The term can be misleading as the sound only occurs on Philadelphia Toboggan Company trains when the solenoid that releases the bar is out of alignment. There are other types, such as NAD and even some PTC trains. Most parks have switched to individual ratcheting lap bars, similar to the lap bars found on steel coasters, ironically some of the earlier ratcheting lap bar conversions use a solenoid release and can also produce a buzzing sound. It can be argued that single-position buzz bars give more air time on roller coasters, the traditional pirate ship style thrill ride often utilizes this type of restraint, as does the Troika. A drive tire, or squeeze tire depending on its usage, is essentially a motorized tire used to propel a roller coaster train along a piece of track. Although they are most often used in areas and brake runs. However, they are used to propel the train at speeds between 5-8 mph. The Incredible Hulk Coaster at Universals Islands of Adventure is notable for using drive tires to launch the train up an incline, some roller coasters, most noticeably Vekoma Roller Skaters and Zierer Tivoli/Force also use drive tires instead of a chain on lift hills. Drive tires are used to power other types of amusement rides, such as ferris wheels, Pirate Ships. The Olympia Looping traveling roller coaster at Barth, Alpina Bahn, drive tires are often used in one of two ways on roller coasters. When oriented horizontally, drive tires are often put in pairs so as to squeeze a portion of the train as it crosses that section of track, in this case, it is usually the brake fin that is used to propel or slow the train with the tires. When oriented vertically, they contact the underside of the train as it crosses a section of track
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Love in an Elevator
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Love in an Elevator is a song performed by American hard rock band Aerosmith, written by Steven Tyler and guitarist/backing vocalist Joe Perry. It was released in August 1989 as the single from their third album with Geffen Records, Pump. It peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number 1 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Love in an Elevator, like the tracks on Pump, was recorded sometime in April to June 1989 at Little Mountain Sound Studios in Vancouver. During the writing process, lead singer Steven Tyler is said to have come upon the concept of the song while researching famous battleships, oh, good morning Mr. Tyler, going down. Steven Tyler enters the elevator and the song starts, the video flashes back and forth between the band performing live and scenes from the department store. At the end of the song, all the members gather around the microphone to sing Love in an Elevator. lovin it up when Im going down. And then it flashes back to a scene in which the doors close. The video was directed by Marty Callner, who produced many of the bands Geffen-era music videos in the late 1980s, the woman with the male little person in the video is Dee Booher, better known as Queen Kong in the Los Angeles area. She also wrestled on TV show G. L. O. W. as Matilda the Hun, the song has consistently been a staple in the bands setlist on almost every tour they have performed since the songs release. It is a fan favorite and is well-known among mainstream audiences, also, in concert, Tyler often changes the lyrics to more controversial and profanity-laden ones. A portion of the song plays within the sequence of Walt Disney Worlds Rock n Roller Coaster ride. The lyrics for the Disney World version were specially revised to say Love in a coaster at the end of the ride. The song received a Grammy award nomination in 1990 for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, Love In An Elevator at Discogs
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Pump (album)
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Pump is the tenth studio album by American rock band Aerosmith, released on September 12,1989. The album was remastered and reissued in 2001, the album has certified sales of seven million copies in the U. S. to date, and is tied with its successor Get a Grip as Aerosmiths second best-selling studio album in the U. S. It produced a variety of successes and firsts for the band including their first Grammy Award, love in an Elevator became the first Aerosmith song to hit #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Additionally, it is the only Aerosmith album to date to have three Top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and three #1 singles on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, the album was the fourth bestselling album of the year 1990. In the UK, it was the second Aerosmith album to be certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry, Pump was the second of three sequentially recorded Aerosmith albums to feature producer Bruce Fairbairn and engineers Mike Fraser and Ken Lomas at The Little Mountain Sound Studios. A video documentary on the recording, The Making of Pump, was released in 1994, producer Bruce Fairbairn focused on getting as many hooks on the songs as possible. Some songs proposed for the album, though never released, include Girls Got Somethin, Is Anybody Out There, Guilty Kilt, Rubber Bandit, Sniffin, and Sedona Sunrise. Many songs also had titles, for example, Voodoo Medicine Man was originally titled Buried Alive. The majority of songs can be seen in photos of the studios whiteboard. In January 1989, the band went to Vancouver to again record at Fairbairns Little Mountain Sound, I dont even listen to Bon Jovi, Steven Tyler protested, so we didnt say, Oh, shit, they had a great album, and go up there. The intention with the album was exploring a rawness that had been glossed over for a sound in Permanent Vacation. Joe Perry declared that When we went to do this album, we knew what we wanted and we didnt say We need a drug song or a child abuse song, but when they fit, we used them. Thats Aerosmith, we arent bound by any rules and this escape from the rules lead to the instrumental interludes between the songs. The interludes were done with the collaboration of musician Randy Raine-Reusch, many of the lyrics employ sexual themes, which Tyler attributed to having making up for the lost time he spent using drugs instead of having sex in the 1970s. On a 1989 MTV special entitled Aerosmith Sunday, Brad Whitford explained the title with Now that were off drugs, were all pumped up. To remedy this omission, the lyrics were included in the tour programme, Aerosmith found themselves in law school textbooks after a small rock band named Pump sued Aerosmiths management company for service mark infringement. As part of the settlement, Aerosmith agreed to add Holland–Dozier–Holland in the credits for The Other Side. Aerosmith is still the king of the hard-rock double entendre… wrote Rolling Stone
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F.I.N.E.*
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FINE is a song by hard rock band Aerosmith. It was written by lead singer Steven Tyler and lead guitarist Joe Perry, the song title is an acronym for Fucked Up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Emotional, as stated in the albums liner notes. The song, totaling four minutes, nine seconds, is the track on the bands 1989 album Pump. It was released as a single to rock radio in 1989. F. I. N. E. is a more upbeat hard rocking song, the songs lyrics are very raunchy and focus on youth angst and lasciviousness, and the verses feature the line Im ready after each line, suggesting sexual arousal, or being ready for sex. The only mentions of the term F. I. N. E. are in the line my brand new baby looks so F-I-N-E fine and in a bridge towards the end of the song, where Tyler sings everything about you is so F-I-N-E fine. Later on in the Pump album, in the song What It Takes, theres a line that goes girl, before I met you I was F-I-N-E fine. F. I. N. E. was one of the album titles brainstormed for the album which eventually became Pump. If one looks closely on the trucks on the front cover of the album, the song ends with a snippet of Steven Tyler doing a variation on a line from Hangmans Jury from the Permanent Vacation album. In the album notes, F. I. N. E. is said to stand for Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic. This may have an association to the programs such as A. A. and N. A. Many such programs use this phrase to describe the feeling of life being out of control. The acronym is also discussed in the movies The Italian Job and Scream 2, liv Tyler also references this as a nod to her father at the end of the movie Super starring Rainn Wilson. During her scene with the group session she is heard stating fucked up, insecure, neurotic. F. I. N. E. was also the name of a rock band from Portland. F. I. N. E. was also used as part of a quote in The Italian Job twice during the movie
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Back in the Saddle
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Back in the Saddle is a song by American hard rock band Aerosmith. It was written by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry and it is the first song on Aerosmiths pinnacle hard rock album Rocks released in 1976. The song was released as the single from the album in 1977. It peaked at #38 on the Billboard Hot 100, the songs main riff was written by Joe Perry on a Fender Bass VI, which gives the song its distinctive growl. Brad Whitford plays the guitar part. Back in the Saddle also features one of the heaviest and noticeable bass lines by Tom Hamilton, a real bullwhip was intended to be used for the whip effects and hours were spent trying to get it to crack. The band members ended up cut up and hurt without making any progress, eventually, the band decided the whip effects would be created by whirling a 30-foot cord from the studio, then by firing a cap gun to create the crack of the whip. When the song is performed in concert, Tyler often makes more noticeable lyrical and visible references to sex. Although the lyrics, by Tyler, were written with the idea of cowboys and sex. Today, the remains a staple on classic rock radio. It is arguably one of the heaviest songs of Aerosmiths Top 40 singles, the saddle Tyler refers to in the song is metaphorical to several sexual positions. Sebastian Bach covered the song on his 2007 solo album Angel Down as a duet with Guns N Roses frontman Axl Rose, Mark Slaughter, Albert Lee, Rudy Sarzo and Frankie Banali covered the song for the Aerosmith tribute album Not the Same Old Song and Dance. Additional guitars were by the producers, Bob Kulick and Bruce Bouillet. Provided theme music for the NFL season kick-off in 2003 and it can be heard in the film License to Drive starring Corey Haim and Corey Feldman while they attend a party. A remake of song, filmed in Las Vegas, served as ESPNs theme music for NASCAR in 2007. Was used as music for the late Canadian professional wrestler. It was also used as music for Prime Time Brian Lee during his reign as Smoky Mountain Wrestling Heavyweight Champion. Is used in the film Shanghai Noon as background music, the specific scene finds the movies protagonists escaping the hangmans gallows
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Dude (Looks Like a Lady)
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Dude is a song by American hard rock band Aerosmith. It was released as the second of four singles from the Permanent Vacation album in 1987 and it was re-released in early 1990 and peaked at #20. The song was written by lead singer Steven Tyler, lead guitarist Joe Perry, the song, which originally started out as Cruisin for a Lady, talks about a male with an effeminate appearance, who is mistaken for a female. Steven Tyler states in the book Walk This Way, The Autobiography of Aerosmith, One day we met Mötley Crüe, Dude this and Dude that, everything was Dude. Dude came out of that session and this, according to Neil, prompted Tyler to comment, Dude looks like a lady. Mötley Crües Nikki Sixx, in his book, The Heroin Diaries, Joe Perry came up with the chorus riff, and Tyler came up with the chorus refrain. This is a based on the fact that Kalodner always dresses in white. Joe Perrys wife Billie also appears in the video, pretending to play the saxophone on stage. There are also some provocative sexual performances, both led by singer Steven Tyler as well as a female who has her skirt torn off to reveal the Aerosmith wings tattoo on her buttocks. The video was directed by Marty Callner, Dude picked up two MTV Video Music Award nominations in 1988. It was nominated for Best Group Video and Best Stage Performance, the band made up for it eventually, winning over 10 moon-men and 4 Grammys in the 1990s. The song has long been a staple on both radio and in concert, as the band has regularly rotated it into their set lists over the years. The song has featured on a number of subsequent compilations by Aerosmith including Big Ones, O. Ultimate Aerosmith Hits, Devils Got a New Disguise and the live album A Little South of Sanity, Tyler has said Dude. and Angel are the two Aerosmith songs he is not very fond of performing on stage. Concurrent with its run, the song was played in the 1987 comedy film Like Father Like Son, starring Kirk Cameron. Professional wrestler Roddy Piper appeared as a guest VJ on MTV shortly after the songs release, during one segment, the songs video was played, followed by a Michael Jackson video. Piper appeared afterward, repeatedly chanting Dude looks like a lady, in the manic fashion of a wrestling interview, intended more as a jab at Jackson than any reference to Aerosmith or the song. In 1993, the song was featured in the film Mrs. Doubtfire
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Sweet Emotion
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Sweet Emotion is a song by the American rock band Aerosmith, released by Columbia Records in April 1975 on the album Toys in the Attic and was released as a single a month later on May 19. The song began a string of pop hits and large-scale mainstream success for the band that would continue for the remainder of the 1970s, the song was written by lead singer Steven Tyler and bassist Tom Hamilton, produced by Jack Douglas and recorded at the Record Plant. Sweet Emotion was released as a single on May 19,1975, the day it hit #36 on the U. S. chart, July 19,1975, Aerosmith was booked at a gig in New York Citys Central Park, called the Schaefer Music Festival. The re-released version went on to hit #6, the highest chart performance in the 1970s for the band, Sweet Emotion remains successful in the modern day, having sold over three million digital downloads. Many Aerosmith fans believe that Steven Tyler wrote all of the lyrics to the song about the tension, Tyler himself has said that only some of the lyrics were inspired by Perrys wife. The introduction builds with the use of a box by Perry. Eventually Tyler joins in, singing in unison with Perrys talk box, the actual talk box device used was called The Bag and was made by Kustom Electronics. The now discontinued device had used earlier by guitarists including Jeff Beck. The song kicks into a rocking rhythm with dueling guitars. The chorus of the consists of a repeating guitar riff followed by a mirror of the sweet emotion intro. On the 1980 compilation album Aerosmiths Greatest Hits, Sweet Emotion appears in edited form, the bass and talk box introduction is deleted, and the track begins with the chorus that precedes the first verse. The guitar solo at the end of the song was also excised, and the track concludes with the chorus and this same edit was used for the original single release of the song, which was quickly replaced in subsequent pressings with the album version from Toys in the Attic. Ultimate Aerosmith Hits, Devils Got a New Disguise, Live, bootleg, Classics Live I, A Little South of Sanity, Greatest Hits 1973–1988 and Rockin the Joint. It is often included on greatest song lists or greatest rock song lists, the song is featured as part of a medley in one of the limo trains on The Rock n Roller Coaster, Starrin Aerosmith at Disneys Hollywood Studios in Orlando Florida. The differences from the original are that the drums are mixed louder, with reverb. A new music video was filmed and released in support of the single, the re-released version reached #36 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and #74 in the United Kingdom. The remixed version was issued on the soundtrack to the 1998 film Armageddon. The video for the version is based on a phone sex conversation
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