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Wrecker (other)
Wrecker, The Wrecker or Wrecking may refer to: * Tow truck, the most common form of recovery vehicle * Wrecking, a synonym for demolition * A person who participates in sabotage * Wrecking (Soviet Union), a crime of industrial or economic sabotage * Wrecking (shipwreck), hauling away valuables from a shipwreck Film and television * ''Wrecker'' (film), a 2015 film * ''The Wrecker'' (1929 film), based on Ridley's play * ''The Wrecker'' (1933 film) * "Wrecker", a clone trooper in the ''Star Wars'' series * ''Wreckers'' (film), a 2011 film * Wreckers (Transformers), a sub-team of Autobots in the fictional Transformers Universe * ''Thee Wreckers'', characters in Thee Wreckers Tetralogy by artist filmmaker '' Rosto'' Literature * Wrecker (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain * ''The Wrecker'' (Cussler novel), a 2009 novel by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott * ''The Wrecker'' (Stevenson novel), an 1892 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne * ''The Wrecker'' (play), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tow Truck
A tow truck (also called a wrecker, a breakdown truck, recovery vehicle or a breakdown lorry) is a truck used to move disabled, improperly parked, impounded, or otherwise indisposed motor vehicles. This may involve recovering a vehicle damaged in an accident, returning one to a drivable surface in a mishap or inclement weather, or towing or transporting one via flatbed to a repair shop or other location. A tow truck is distinct from a car carrier trailer, which is used to move multiple new or used vehicles simultaneously in routine transport operations. History Ferdinand Porsche of Austro-Daimler developed an artillery tractor for the Austro-Hungarian army in 1908, the M 08. One of the batch was constructed as a recovery vehicle for the others, with a large winch on the rear platform. The wrecker (with lifting jib) was invented in 1916 by Ernest Holmes Sr. of Chattanooga, Tennessee, a garage worker who was inspired after he needed blocks, ropes, and six men to pull a car ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wrecker (Cussler Novel)
Wrecker, The Wrecker or Wrecking may refer to: * Tow truck, the most common form of recovery vehicle * Wrecking, a synonym for demolition * A person who participates in sabotage * Wrecking (Soviet Union), a crime of industrial or economic sabotage * Wrecking (shipwreck), hauling away valuables from a shipwreck Film and television * ''Wrecker'' (film), a 2015 film * ''The Wrecker'' (1929 film), based on Ridley's play * ''The Wrecker'' (1933 film) * "Wrecker", a clone trooper in the ''Star Wars'' series * ''Wreckers'' (film), a 2011 film * Wreckers (Transformers), a sub-team of Autobots in the fictional Transformers Universe * ''Thee Wreckers'', characters in Thee Wreckers Tetralogy by artist filmmaker '' Rosto'' Literature * Wrecker (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain * ''The Wrecker'' (Cussler novel), a 2009 novel by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott * ''The Wrecker'' (Stevenson novel), an 1892 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne * ''The Wrecker'' (play), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Dunlap
Sarah Dunlap (born June 26, 1980) is an American bodybuilder. In 2007, she won the Jan Tana Classic in the lightweight and overall categories and was placed ninth at the Ms. Olympia competition. She works at a supplement store as a personal trainer. Contest history *2007 IFBB Ms. Olympia The IFBB Ms. Olympia is both the highest ranking professional female bodybuilding competition and the title of the winner of the competition. It was first organized in 1980, and was held as part of the Joe Weider's Olympia Fitness & Performance ... – 9th *2007 IFBB Jan Tana Classic – 1st *2006 IFBB Europa Super Show – 13th *2005 IFBB Charlotte Pro – 3rd *2005 IFBB New York Pro – 4th *2002 NPC Junior National Championships - 1st *2002 NPC National Championships - 1st *2002 Ms. Pittsburgh Heavyweight 1st Place and Overall winner *2001 NPC Pittsburgh Championships - (Middleweight) - 1st References 1980 births American female bodybuilders Living people Professional bodybu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clockwork Angels
''Clockwork Angels'' is the nineteenth and final studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released on June 12, 2012, on Roadrunner Records. During the band's year-and-a-half break following its Snakes & Arrows Tour, the group decided to write a new studio album. The album was recorded in April 2010 at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, and from October to December 2011 at Revolution Recording in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Two songs that would eventually appear on the album, " Caravan" and "BU2B," were released to radio stations and made available as a digital download on June 1, 2010. Following the release of the two songs, the band embarked on the Time Machine Tour, with "Caravan" and "BU2B" included in the set list. ''Clockwork Angels'' was completed following this tour. The album's second single, "Headlong Flight," was released April 19, 2012. The album's third single, "The Wreckers," was released July 25, 2012. On February 20, 2013, "The Anarchist" was released as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wreckers (opera)
''The Wreckers'' is an opera in three acts, composed by Dame Ethel Smyth to a libretto in French by Henry Brewster. After spending considerable energy in trying to get the work performed in French, the first performance took place in a German translation by John Bernhoff, under the title of ''Strandrecht'', at the Neues Theater, Leipzig on 11 November 1906. Smyth persisted in her attempts to see it staged elsewhere, but it was not until the conductor Thomas Beecham championed the work that a complete, staged performance was achieved in England in 1909 with funding support from her friend Mary Dodge. Describing the opera in the '' New Grove Dictionary'', Stephen Banfield notes "Its greatest strength is in its dramatic strategy, strikingly prophetic of (Britten's) ''Peter Grimes'' in details such as the offstage church service set against the foreground confrontation in Act 1." However, Amanda Holden makes the point that, musically, Smyth is "no Wagnerite, she makes use of his mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wreckers
The Wreckers were an American country music duo formed in 2005 by Michelle Branch and Jessica Harp, both of whom had solo recordings before the duo's foundation. In 2006, the duo released its debut album '' Stand Still, Look Pretty'', which produced a number one single on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs in its lead-off single "Leave the Pieces". The album accounted for a Top Ten hit on the same chart in " My, Oh My" as well. After its release, both Branch and Harp returned to being solo singers. Harp has since had Top 40 country success of her own with the single "Boy Like Me". Music career Career success: ''Stand Still, Look Pretty'' In 2005, Michelle Branch recruited her longtime friend and backing vocalist Jessica Harp on a new musical venture, incorporating elements from both Branch's pop-rock style and Harp's country style to form The Wreckers, a shortened form of "The Cass County Homewreckers," a band name idea from Branch's then husband, Teddy Landau. They were soon s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Th1rt3en (Megadeth Album)
''Thirteen'' (stylized as ''Th1rt3en'') is the thirteenth studio album by American thrash metal band Megadeth. It was first released in Japan on October 27, 2011, and worldwide on November 1, 2011. It is the first Megadeth studio album since ''The World Needs a Hero'' (2001) to feature bassist and founding member David Ellefson, who returned to the band in 2010. ''Thirteen'' debuted at number 11 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart, selling 42,000 copies in its first week. The album broke into the top 20 in several other markets as well. It has sold about 120,000 copies in the United States as of December 2012. The album has received positive reviews from critics. The album followed the successful ''Endgame'', released two years previously, and was recorded in late spring 2011. In addition to new material that was written for the album, the band decided to rework and release several older songs, some of which had previously seen release as demos or bonus tracks. Additionally, several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mono Men
The Mono Men were an American garage punk band, based in Bellingham, Washington. Their sound contained elements of grunge (distortion-heavy guitars, sneering vocals), but the Mono Men filtered these through a mimicry of 1960s Washington proto-punk, garage rock bands such as The Sonics. History The Mono Men rose up from the ashes of another Washington band, the Roofdogs. John Mortensen came from the Dehumanizers and Game for Vultures before joining the Mono Men. The band came together in late 1987. They played shows in Europe, Mexico, Japan, Canada, and the United States. They were featured in the Northwest Rock & Roll documentary ''Hype!''. Their albums all received generally positive reviews. The band split in 1998, though in 2006, the Mono Men reunited to play a series of concerts called the "Spanish Attack." The band reunited in 2013 to play shows in Bellingham and Seattle in the US, plus a tour in Latin America with shows in Mexico, Argentina and Brazil. Trivia * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wrecker (play)
''The Wrecker'' is a British play, written in 1924 by Arnold Ridley and Bernard Merivale, and filmed in 1928-29. The play is about an old engine driver who thinks his engine is malevolent and self-aware. The finale is a huge train wreck using elaborate stage special-effects as per '' The Ghost Train,'' an earlier play by Ridley. ''The Wrecker'' ran for 165 performances at St Martin's Theatre in London's West End. It later played at the Cort Theatre on Broadway in 1928, where it ran for 40 performances. The play was adapted as a film under the same title released in 1929. It featured a spectacular crash between a passenger train and a Foden steam lorry stuck on a level crossing. The scene was filmed at on the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway The Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway was opened in 1901, by the London and South Western Railway. It was the first English railway authorised under Light Railway legislation. It ran through unpromising, lightly populated terrain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wrecker (Stevenson Novel)
''The Wrecker'' (1892) is an ocean adventure novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne that was used sixty-five years later as the basis for an episode of the television series ''Maverick'' (1957) starring James Garner and Jack Kelly (see below). Plot The story is a "sprawling, episodic adventure story, a comedy of brash manners and something of a detective mystery", according to Roderick Watson. It revolves around the abandoned wreck of the ''Flying Scud'' at Midway Atoll. Clues in a stamp collection are used to track down the missing crew and solve the mystery. It is only in the last chapter that different story elements become linked. Stevenson described it as a "South Sea yarn" concerning "a very strange and defective plan that was accepted with open eyes for what seemed countervailing opportunities offered". The book sold well but reviews were mixed, with a ''New York Times'' reviewer concluding that: The loosely connect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Cussler
Clive Eric Cussler (July 15, 1931 – February 24, 2020) was an American adventure novelist and underwater explorer. His thriller novels, many featuring the character Dirk Pitt, have reached ''The New York Times'' fiction best-seller list more than 20 times. Cussler was the founder and chairman of the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), which has discovered more than 60 shipwreck sites and numerous other notable underwater wrecks. He was the sole author or lead author of more than 80 books. His novels have inspired various other works of fiction. Early life Clive Cussler was born in Aurora, Illinois, the son of Amy Adeline (née Hunnewell) and Eric Edward Cussler, and grew up in Alhambra, California. His mother's ancestors were from England and his father was from Germany. In his memoir '' The Sea Hunters: True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks'', Cussler revealed that his father fought in the Imperial German Army on the Western Front during World War I. Fur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrecker (comics)
The Wrecker (Dirk Garthwaite) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character made its live-action debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series '' She-Hulk: Attorney at Law'', portrayed by Nick Gomez. Publication history Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the Wrecker made his first appearance in '' The Mighty Thor'' #148 (January 1968). Fictional character biography Dirk Garthwaite, a.k.a. the Wrecker, first appeared in ''Thor'', and is depicted as a former manual laborer for a demolitions crew who is fired for his violent and anti-social tendencies. Garthwaite created a costume for himself and called himself the Wrecker, committing a series of robberies, demolishing looted locations and leaving a crowbar at the scene of the crime. The Wrecker entered a hotel room occupied by Asgardian god Loki, the adopted brother and archenemy of the Thunder God Thor. Upon knocking out the de-powered Loki, the Wrecker put on his hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
