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Black Maria
Black Maria may refer to: Art and literature *Black Mariah (comics), a character in the Luke Cage comics series *List of One Piece characters#Animal Kingdom Pirates, Black Maria, a character in the manga series ''One Piece'' *Black Maria (novel), ''Black Maria'' (novel), a 1991 novel by Diana Wynne Jones bibliography, Diana Wynne Jones *''Black Maria'', a 1960 anthology of drawings by Charles Addams *''Black Maria'', a book of poetry by Kevin Young (poet), Kevin Young *''The Black Maria'', a 2016 book of poetry by Aracelis Girmay Music *The Black Maria, a Canadian rock band *"Black Maria", a song by Todd Rundgren from the 1972 album ''Something/Anything?'' * "Big Black Mariah", a song by Tom Waits from the 1985 album ''Rain Dogs'' Transportation *Black Maria (horse), an American racehorse *Black Maria (IFF), a fighter aircraft IFF (identification friend or foe) interrogator *ALCO DL-202-2 and DL-203-2, experimental diesel-electric locomotives known informally as the Black ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Mariah (comics)
Black Mariah (real name Mariah Dillard) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as an enemy of Luke Cage. She was created by Billy Graham, George Tuska, and Steve Englehart, and first appeared in ''Luke Cage, Hero for Hire'' Vol. 1, #5 (January 1973). Alfre Woodard portrayed Mariah Dillard in the series ''Luke Cage'', set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.UPDATE: Is a Netflix LUKE CAGE Character In CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR? , Newsarama.com Retrieved April 7, 2016 Publication history Black Mariah first appeared in '': ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Maria (horse)
Black Maria (1923–1932) was an American Thoroughbred racing filly who earned national Champion honors three times. Background Bred in Kentucky by William R. Coe, she was sired by Black Toney, the great foundation stallion of Idle Hour Stock Farm. Her dam was Bird Loose, a daughter of the French stallion Sardanapale, a two-time Leading sire in France who won the 1914 Prix du Jockey Club and, at the time France's most important race, the Grand Prix de Paris. Racing career Black Maria raced as a two-year-old and won but did not claim victory in any of the top races for her age group. A filly who regularly raced against male horses, after winning the Kentucky Oaks for fillies, she defeated males in the Saratoga Sales Stakes and the Aqueduct Handicap. Her performances at age three earned her American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly honors. Black Maria was voted the 1927 and 1928 American Champion Older Female Horse, highlighted by her defeat of males in the preeminent race on the U. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edison's Black Maria
The Black Maria ( ) was Thomas Edison's film production studio in West Orange, New Jersey. It was the world's first film studio. History In 1893, the world's first film production studio, the Black Maria, or the cinematographic Theater, was completed on the grounds of Edison's laboratories at West Orange, New Jersey, for the purpose of making film strips for the Kinetoscope. Construction of the building, which included a tar-paper-covered dark studio room with a retractable roof, began in December 1892 and was completed the following year at a cost of $637.67 ($ in dollars). In early May 1893 at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Edison conducted the world's first public demonstration of films shot using the Kinetograph in the Black Maria, with a Kinetoscope viewer. The exhibited film showed three people pretending to be blacksmiths. The first motion pictures made in the Black Maria were deposited for copyright by W. K. Dickson at the Library of Congress in Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Lady
Black Lady is an American card game of the Hearts group for three to six players and the most popular of the group. It emerged in the early 20th century as an elaboration of Hearts and was initially also called Discard Hearts. It is named after its highest penalty card, the Queen of Spades or "Black Lady". It is a trick-avoidance game in which the aim is to avoid taking tricks containing hearts or the Black Lady. American author and leading bridge exponent, Ely Culbertson, describes it as "essentially Hearts with the addition of the queen of spades as a minus card, counting thirteen" and goes on to say that "Black Lady and its elaborations have completely overshadowed the original Hearts in popularity." The game is often called Hearts in America, although that is the proper name for the basic game in which only the cards of the heart suit incur penalty points. It is known by a variety of other names including American Hearts, Black Lady Hearts, Black Widow and Slippery Anne. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Maria (card Game)
Black Maria is a popular British card game of the Hearts group for three to six players. It is an elaboration of Black Lady, itself a development of the original American game of Hearts (card game), Hearts, the progenitor of the group. Black Maria is regarded as one of the best games for three players. The name of the game is derived from the nickname given to the Queen of spades, Queen of Spades which plays a key role. The name Black Maria is sometimes used, confusingly, for the related American game of Black Lady; likewise this game is occasionally referred to as Black Lady. While many of the games of the Hearts family may be considered as variants of 'basic' Hearts, Black Maria is "sufficiently different and popular" to justify being described as a separate game. History and naming In the ''Penguin Hoyle'' of 1958, English economist, journalist and bridge player, Hubert Phillips claims to have invented Black Maria during the First World War.Pennycook (1982), p. 197. Its rule ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Police Van
A police van (also known as a paddy wagon, meat wagon, divisional van, patrol van, patrol wagon, police wagon, Black Mariah/Maria, police carrier, or in old-fashioned usage, pie wagon) is a type of police vehicle, vehicle operated by Police, police forces. Police vans are usually employed for the Prisoner transport, transport of prisoners inside a specially adapted cell in the vehicle, or for the rapid transport of a number of Police officer, officers to an incident. History Early police vans were in the form of horse-drawn carriages, with the carriage being in the form of a secure holding cell. Frank Fowler Loomis designed and built the world's first motorized police patrol wagon ("paddy wagon"). These panel trucks became known as "pie wagons", due to their fancied resemblance to delivery vans used by bakeries. That usage had faded by the 1970s.[New York ''Daily News'', November 3, 1971, p. 357] In the modern age, motorised police vans replaced the older Black Maria and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parking Meter
A parking meter is a device used to collect money in exchange for the right to park a vehicle in a particular place for a limited amount of time. Parking meters can be used by municipalities as a tool for enforcing their integrated on-street parking policy, usually related to their traffic and mobility management policies, but are also used for revenue. History An early patent for a parking meter, U.S. patent, was filed by Roger W. Babson, on August 30, 1928. The meter was intended to operate on power from the battery of the parking vehicle and required a connection from the vehicle to the meter. Holger George Thuesen and Gerald A. Hale designed the first working parking meter, the Black Maria, in 1935. The History Channel's... ''History's Lost and Found'' documents their success in developing the first working parking meter. Thuesen and Hale were engineering professors at Oklahoma State University and began working on the parking meter in 1933 at the request of Oklahoma Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Collishaw
Raymond Collishaw, (22 November 1893 – 28 September 1976) was a distinguished Canadian fighter pilot, squadron leader, and commanding officer who served in the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and later the Royal Air Force. He was the highest scoring RNAS flying ace and the second highest scoring Canadian pilot of the First World War. He was noted as a great leader in the air, leading many of his own formations into battle. After the Great War, he became a permanent commissioned officer in the Royal Air Force (RAF), seeing action against the Bolsheviks in 1919-20, and subsequently commanding various Air Service detachments. During the Second World War, he commanded No. 204 Group (which later became the Desert Air Force) in North Africa, achieving great success against the numerically and technologically superior Italian Air Force. He was retired in 1943. Early life Raymond Collishaw was born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, on 22 November 1893. His father was John Edward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ALCO DL-202
The ALCO DL-202-2 and DL-203-2 diesel-electric locomotive (known informally as the Black Maria) was an experimental freight locomotive produced by ALCO of Schenectady, New York. The primary diesel builders Alco, Baldwin and EMD pushed the War Production Board (WPB) for more opportunities to build more diesels. The Transportation Equipment Division of the WPB announced a production schedule on December 10, 1943, that allowed Alco to build one 4500 horsepower experimental diesel locomotive. This experimental diesel locomotive was to be built in the fourth quarter of 1944. The two A units were built in January 1945 and the B unit at a later date in 1945. The two A units were put on test at Building No. 37 at Schenectady to work out problems with the connecting rods and turbocharger in the Alco 241 engine, developed by both McIntosh and Seymour and ALCo. The total production run included 2 cab DL202-2 A units, and a single DL203-2 B (cabless booster) unit. The locomotives were powere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Maria (IFF)
Black Maria was the rainbow code name for an identification friend or foe (IFF) interrogator carried by interceptor aircraft in the Royal Air Force and US Navy. When initially developed, beginning in 1951, it was based on the World War II-era IFF Mark III IFF system because the newer IFF Mark X IFF Mark X was the NATO standard military identification friend or foe transponder system from the early 1950s until it was slowly replaced by the IFF Mark XII in the 1970s. It was also adopted by ICAO, with some modifications, as the civilian ai ... units were not available from US at the time. Marconi received interim Mark X equipment in mid-1953 and quickly added support, but it was not until mid-1955 that the first production units became available. During development in the UK, it was also referred to as the Fighter Identity System, or FIS. In the US it was known as TN-103/APX. References Citations Bibliography * * * {{cite encyclopedia , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cG ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rain Dogs
''Rain Dogs'' is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released in September 1985 on Island Records. A loose concept album about "the urban dispossessed" of New York City, ''Rain Dogs'' is generally considered the middle album of a trilogy that includes ''Swordfishtrombones'' and ''Franks Wild Years''. The album, which includes appearances by guitarists Keith Richards and Marc Ribot, is noted for its broad spectrum of musical styles and genres, described by Arion Berger in a 2002 review in ''Rolling Stone'' as merging "outsider influences – socialist decadence by way of Kurt Weill, pre-rock integrity from old dirty blues, the elegiac melancholy of New Orleans funeral – into a singularly idiosyncratic American style." The album peaked at number 29 on the UK charts and number 188 on the US ''Billboard'' Top 200. In 1989, it was ranked number 21 on the ''Rolling Stone'' list of the "100 greatest albums of the 1980s." In 2012, the album was ranked numbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Cage
Lucas "Luke" Cage, born Carl Lucas and also known as Power Man, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in ''Luke Cage, Hero for Hire'' #1 (June 1972) and was created by Archie Goodwin, George Tuska, Roy Thomas, and John Romita Sr. He is one of the earliest black superheroes to be featured as the protagonist and title character of a Marvel comic book. Created during the height of the blaxploitation genre, Luke Cage had been imprisoned for a crime he did not commit and gained the powers of superhuman strength and unbreakable skin after being subjected voluntarily to an experimental procedure. Once freed, he becomes a " hero for hire" and has forty-nine issues of solo adventures (comic title renamed to ''Luke Cage, Power Man'' with issue #17). In issue #50, Cage teams up with fellow superhero Iron Fist as part of a crime-fighting duo in the renamed title, ''Power Man and Iron Fist''. He later marries the super-powe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
