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Topper (dinghy) Class World Champions
Topper or Toppers may refer to: Brand names *Harley-Davidson Topper, a motor scooter manufactured from 1960 to 1965 * Topper Corp., an American toy manufacturer during 1960s and early 1970s *Topper (sports), a sportswear brand in Argentina and Brazil founded in 1975 * Topper (dinghy), a sailing dinghy patented in 1977 by British designer Ian Proctor * Topper's Pizza (Canadian restaurant), a chain founded in 1982 as Mr. Topper's Pizza * Toppers Pizza (American restaurant), a company-owned and franchise chain founded in 1991 *Another name for a top hat *Another name for a pencil sharpener in Ireland *Camper shell camper shell Comics * Topper (comic strip), a general term for a small comic strip published above or below another strip * ''The Topper'' (comics), a 1953–1990 British comics periodical *Topper, a minor character in the 1989 American comic strip '' Dilbert'' Film and TV * ''Topper'' (film), a 1937 American film based on Thorne Smith's 1926 novel * ''Topper'' (TV series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harley-Davidson Topper
The Harley-Davidson Topper was the only motor scooter that the Harley-Davidson Motor Company ever produced. Design and specifications The Topper had a single-cylinder two-stroke engine mounted horizontally between the floorboards. The engine required a premixed gasoline/oil mixture. The starter was of the rope-recoil type similar to lawn mowers or the Lambretta E model. Unlike most scooters with enclosed engines, the Topper's engine did not have a cooling fan. It was expected that the low, horizontally mounted engine would be cooled by air passing under the scooter, but some Toppers developed overheating problems. The engine used a reed valve in its induction system. The engine powered a continuously variable transmission called "Scootaway Drive" that included a safety device that did not allow the scooter to move from rest at engine speeds higher than 1800 rpm. Final drive was by an exposed roller chain. The Topper had 5 inch internal expanding drum brakes on bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hopalong Cassidy
Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author Clarence E. Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking. He was shot in the leg during a gun fight which caused him to walk with a little "hop", hence the nickname. From the 1930s to the 1950s, the character became indelibly associated with actor William Boyd, who portrayed Cassidy first in a series of sixty-six films from 1935 to 1948, then in children-oriented radio and TV series, both of which lasted until 1952. Boyd's portrayal of Cassidy had little in common with the literary character, being instead a clean-cut, sarsaparilla-drinking hero who never shot first. The plots of the film, radio and TV series were generally not taken from Mulford's writings. At the peak of the character's popularity in the early 1950s, he spawned enormous amounts of merchandise, as well as a comic strip, additional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Mountain College
Blue Mountain College (BMC) is a private Baptist college in Blue Mountain, Mississippi. Founded as a women's college in 1873, the college's board of trustees voted unanimously for the college to go fully coeducational in 2005. History By 1873, the college was founded as a woman's college by Confederate Brigadier-General Mark Perrin Lowrey, a pastor who was known as "a preacher general" during the war. Blue Mountain Female Institute, as it was called at first, started with 50 students with Lowrey and his two daughters serving as the faculty. In 1877, the college was officially chartered by the State of Mississippi. Lowrey, his sons W. T. and B. G., and grandson Lawrence Lowrey all served as the first four presidents. By 1910, the institution was using the name Blue Mountain Female College. After the sudden death of President Lowrey in 1960, a longtime professor at the school, Dr. Wilfred Tyler, became the first non-Lowrey family president followed by Dr. E. Harold Fisher in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topper Site
Topper is an archaeological site located along the Savannah River in Allendale County, South Carolina, United States. It is noted as a location of artifacts which some archaeologists believe to indicate human habitation of the New World earlier than the Clovis culture. The latter were previously believed to be the first people in North America. Artifacts at this site may predate Clovis by 3,000 years or more, but these conclusions are disputed. The primary excavation has gone down to a level that dates to at least 50,000 B.C.E., searching for evidence of cultural artifacts. Until increasing challenges in the first decade of the 21st century to the Clovis theory based on this site and others, it was unusual for archaeologists to dig deeper than the layer of the Clovis culture, as they then believed that no human artifacts would be found older than Clovis. Among the objects from the "pre-Clovis" stratum, dated to 16,000-20,000 years BP, is a large piece of rock nicknamed the " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toppers, Oklahoma
Toppers is an unincorporated community in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, United States, situated on Fort Gibson Lake The Fort Gibson Dam is a gravity dam on the Grand (Neosho) River in Oklahoma, north of the town of Fort Gibson. The dam forms Fort Gibson Lake. The primary purposes of the dam and lake are flood control and hydroelectric power production, altho .... Demographics References Unincorporated communities in Oklahoma Unincorporated communities in Wagoner County, Oklahoma Populated places within the Cherokee Nation reservation {{Oklahoma-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toppertown, Missouri
Toppertown is an unincorporated community in Stoddard County, in the U.S. state of Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee .... A variant name was "Topper". The community has the name of one Mr. Topper, proprietor of a local sawmill. References Unincorporated communities in Stoddard County, Missouri Unincorporated communities in Missouri {{StoddardCountyMO-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topper (surname)
Topper is an occupational surname, originally denoting "''a person connected with spinning of flax or wool''". Notable persons and characters with this name include: People *Burt Topper (1928–2007), American film director and screenwriter best known for cult films aimed at teenagers * Curt Topper, Pennsylvania Secretary of General Services from 2015 *Hertha Töpper (1924–2020), Austrian operatic contralto and voice teacher *Jesse Topper (born 1981), American politician * Steve Topper (born 1961), Australian former professional rugby league footballer, brother of Stuart Topper * Stuart Topper (born 1971), Australian former professional rugby league footballer, brother of Steve Topper *Uwe Topper Uwe Topper (born 1940) is a German amateur researcher and author of books about historic, ethnographic, and anthropological subjects. In 1977, Topper published ''Das Erbe der Giganten'' (''The Legacy of the Giants''), a book about the prehistor ... (born 1940), German non-fiction aut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topper (nickname)
Topper is a nickname. Notable people with the nickname include: *Topper Clemons (born 1963), American football player *Topper Headon (born 1955), English rock drummer for The Clash *Topper Rigney (1897–1972), American baseball player *Jerry Toppazzini (1931–2012), Canadian hockey player {{nickname Nicknames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorne Smith
James Thorne Smith, Jr. (March 27, 1892 – June 20, 1934) was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith. He is best known today for the two ''Topper'' novels, comic fantasy fiction involving sex, much drinking and ghosts. With racy illustrations, these sold millions of copies in the 1930s and were equally popular in paperbacks of the 1950s. Smith was born in Annapolis, Maryland, the son of a Navy commodore, and attended Dartmouth College. Following hungry years in Greenwich Village, working part-time as an advertising agent, Smith achieved meteoric success with the publication of ''Topper'' in 1926. He was an early resident of Free Acres, a social experimental community developed by Bolton Hall according to the economic principles of Henry George, in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. He died of a heart attack in 1934 while vacationing in Florida. Works * ''Biltmore Oswald: The Diary of a Hapless Recruit'' (1918). A series of co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Christmas Carol
''A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas'', commonly known as ''A Christmas Carol'', is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. ''A Christmas Carol'' recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man. Dickens wrote ''A Christmas Carol'' during a period when the British were exploring and re-evaluating past Christmas traditions, including carols, and newer customs such as Christmas cards and Christmas trees. He was influenced by the experiences of his own youth and by the Christmas stories of other authors, including Washington Irving and Douglas Jerrold. Dickens had written three Christmas stories prior to the novella, and was inspired following a visit to the Field Lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Toppers
De Toppers (), also known internationally as the Toppers, is a Dutch supergroup, consisting of René Froger, Gerard Joling, Jeroen van der Boom and Jan Smit. Gordon Heuckeroth, one of the founding members, left the group in 2011. The group has performed a series of concerts every year since 2005 in the Johan Cruyff Arena. Their repertoire consists mainly of a mix of covers and original material. ''Toppers in Concert'', with more than 40 sold-out shows, is the longest running concert series in the Benelux. In 2008, the Toppers were selected to represent the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 held in Moscow, Russia, with the song " Shine". They failed to qualify for the final. History Gerard Joling and Gordon Heuckeroth formed as a guest band in a Rene Froger concert, which turned into a successful concert series. In 2005, the first two concerts were held at the Johan Cruyff Arena. In 2008, Joling left the Toppers and was replaced by Jeroen van der Boom. In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outer Banks (TV Series)
''Outer Banks'' is an American action-adventure mystery teen drama streaming television series created by Josh Pate, Jonas Pate, and Shannon Burke that premiered on Netflix on April 15, 2020. In December 2021, the series was renewed for a third season which is set to premiere in 2023. The series is set in a community in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and follows conflict between two groups of teenagers in the community. Premise ''Outer Banks'' is set in a coastal town along the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where there is a stark social divide between wealthy seasonal residents and working-class locals (who have the nicknames " Kooks" and "Pogues", respectively). The show follows a group of Pogue teenagers who live at The Cut, and are determined to find out what happened to the missing father of the group's ringleader, John B. Along the way, they discover a legendary treasure that is tied to John B's father. Chased by the law and a wealthy group of Kooks from Figure Eight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
