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Zapp (band) Members
Zapp may refer to: People *Jim Zapp (1924-2016), baseball player *Robert-Richard Zapp, a German U-boat commander during World War II *Walter Zapp, a Baltic German inventor, designer of miniature cameras *Zapp Brannigan, a fictional character from the television series ''Futurama'' Places *Willow Springs, Fayette County, Texas, a town previously known as Zapp Business *Zapp (TV channel), a Dutch children's TV channel *Zapp Mobile, a Romanian mobile telephony operator *Zapp (mobile payments), a UK mobile phone payment system Music *Zapp (band), a 1980s funk band based in Ohio, USA *Zapp (album), ''Zapp'' (album), the debut album by the funk band *Zapp, an Anglicisation of żaqq, a Maltese musical instrument Other * Flaps_(aircraft)#Zap_Flap, Zapp flaps, a mechanism used to reduce aircraft speed (actually Zap as they were developed by a Mr. Zaparka but often misspelled) * ZZZap!, British children's television comedy programme See also *Zap (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Zapp
James Stephen Zapp (April 18, 1924 – September 30, 2016), nicknamed "Zipper", was an American baseball outfielder who played baseball in the Negro leagues and minor leagues from 1945 to 1955. Spending the majority of his career with the Baltimore Elite Giants, Zapp is described as an above-average power and contact hitter. When Zapp began playing in integrated baseball with the Paris Lakers of the Mississippi-Ohio Valley League, he broke the league's RBI record total for a single-season, which still stands today. Early life and military service Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Zapp, as an adolescent, attended a Catholic school which did not provide a baseball program. Although he occasionally played softball as a teenager, his relationship with baseball began by an unusual approach—after he enlisted in the United States Navy in 1942, Zapp joined a segregated military team while stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Impressed with his performance on the field, coach Edgar "S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert-Richard Zapp
Robert-Richard Zapp (3 April 1904 – 17 July 1964) was a German naval officer in World War II. As commander of the German Type IX submarine, Type IXC U-boat , he sank sixteen ships on five patrols, for a total of 106,200 tons of Allied shipping. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany Career Robert-Richard Zapp joined the ''Reichsmarine'' in May 1923. Before joining the U-boat service in 1939, he served aboard a minesweeper and later on took command of ''251 Marineflak'' (Naval anti-aircraft artillery). After initial training, he served on board for a short while under ''Oberleutnant zur See'' Engelbert Endrass, with whom he participated in the battle against Convoy HX 79 in October 1940. Zapp was appointed commander of in January 1941. ''U-66'' was one of the boats that participated in the first wave of attacks in "Operation Drumbeat". On the first patrol of this operation, he sank five vessels, totalling 33,456 tons. On his second patrol off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Zapp
Walter Zapp ( lv, Valters Caps; – 17 July 2003) was a Baltic German inventor. His greatest creation was the Minox subminiature camera. Biography Zapp was born in Riga, Governorate of Livonia (now Latvia). In 1932, while living in Estonia, he began developing the then subminiature camera by first creating wooden models, which led to the first prototype in 1936. It was introduced to the market in 1938. Minox cameras were made by VEF (Valsts Elektrotehniskā Fabrika) in Latvia. VEF made 17,000 Minox cameras. During the Spring 1941 Resettlement of Baltic Germans, Walter Zapp moved to Germany. From 1941 to 1945, he worked on the development of electron microscopy at AEG in Berlin. After World War II, in 1945, he founded the Minox GmbH in Wetzlar, Germany. The company still exists. In 2001, when he went to Latvia for the last time, he said that he had gone to celebrate his 100th birthday in Latvia. He died aged 97, in Binningen near Basel, Switzerland. Patents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zapp Brannigan
This article lists the many characters of ''Futurama,'' an American Cartoon series, animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Fry (Futurama), Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryonics, cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the Retrofuturism, retro-futuristic 31st century. Along with the employees of Planet Express, ''Futurama'' includes a large array of characters, which include co-workers, media personalities, business owners, extended relatives, townspeople, aliens, and villains. Many of these characters were created for one-time gags, background scenes, or other functions, but later gained expanded roles. Other characters started out as background characters, and have been used to personify new roles lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willow Springs, Fayette County, Texas
Willow Springs is an unincorporated community in northeastern Fayette County, Texas, United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori .... It has been named Zapp, Rock House, and German Settlement. External links WILLOW SPRINGS, TX (Fayette County)'' Handbook of Texas Online''. Unincorporated communities in Fayette County, Texas Unincorporated communities in Texas {{FayetteCountyTX-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zapp (TV Channel)
NPO Zapp is the Dutch children's block from the Netherlands Public Broadcasting, NPO on NPO 3 that launched as Z@pp on 4 September 2005. Since September 2005, NPO Zappelin, Zappelin has been the name of a block for young children. The @ in the name of the channel was removed on 10 September 2012. On 12 March 2013, the NPO announced that Zapp and Zappelin would be renamed as NPO Zapp and NPO Zappelin. The reason for this change is to make the channels and its programmes more recognizable. The rebranding completed on 19 August 2014. Together with NPO Zappelin it forms a channel called NPO Zappelin Xtra, available online and part of bonus packages (cable, satellite and IPTV). Well-known programmes of NPO Zapp are Willem Wever (NCRV), Het Klokhuis (Omroep NTR, NTR), Jeugdjournaal (Nederlandse Omroep Stichting, NOS) and Villa Achterwerk (VPRO). NPO Zapp had a mascot called ''The Zappers''. Current programmes * Campus 12 * Checkpoint (Dutch TV show), Checkpoint * De Dokter Corrie S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zapp Mobile
Zapp Mobile was the first CDMA 450 MHz mobile phone operator in Romania, now part of Telekom Romania. In 2006 Zapp got a UMTS 2100 MHz license. Zapp Mobile was a company of Telemobil S.A. România, which was a spin-off of Telefónica Romania, the first Romanian mobile service provider (now defunct). Telefónica Romania acquired a NMT license on 22 March 1992 and the mobile operator called "Telemobil" went live in April 1993. On 30 June 2009 Zapp Mobile was acquired by OTE and it is in the process of integration in OTE's Romanian mobile unit Cosmote Romania. As of 24 March 2013 Zapp CDMA licence expired and the CDMA 450 network was closed down. Radio Frequency Summary The following is a list of known frequencies Zapp Mobile employed in Romania: See also * List of mobile network operators * Communications media in Romania The mass media in Romania refers to mass media outlets based in Romania. Television, magazines, and newspapers are all operated by both state-owned a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zapp (band)
Zapp (also known as the Zapp Band, Zapp & Roger) is an American funk band that emerged from Dayton, Ohio, United States, in 1977. Particularly influential in the electro subgenre of funk, Zapp were known for their trademark use of the talk-box effect. The original line-up consisted of four Troutman brothers—frontman Roger, Larry, Lester and Terry—and non-Troutman family members Bobby Glover, Gregory Jackson, Sherman Fleetwood, Jerome Derrickson, Eddie Barber and Shirley Murdock. Zapp also worked closely with George Clinton and Bootsy Collins of Parliament-Funkadelic during its early stages, their support being a factor in the group gaining a record deal with Warner Bros. Records in 1979. Zapp released its eponymous debut album in 1980, and achieved mainstream recognition from the single "More Bounce to the Ounce". The group's follow-up ''Zapp II'' was released in 1982, selling well and becoming certified gold. In the 1990s, Zapp would also be an influence on the regional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zapp (album)
''Zapp'' is the debut studio album by the American funk band Zapp, released on July 30, 1980 by Warner Bros. Records. The album's style and sound bears a striking resemblance to Parliament-Funkadelic, as the band was working with and being mentored by P-Funk members William Earl "Bootsy" Collins and George Clinton during the album's production. The album was produced by Zapp frontman Roger Troutman along with funk musician Bootsy Collins. The Troutman family of the Zapp band had close ties with the Collins family, both being Ohio natives. This friendship proved instrumental in Zapp gaining a record deal with Warner Bros. Records in 1979. ''Zapp'' was recorded between late 1979 and early 1980 at the United Sound Studios in Detroit, Michigan, of which Parliament-Funkadelic frequented. The album reached #1 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot R&B tracks chart for 2 weeks in fall 1980. The album has been cited as one of the definitive albums of early 1980s electro funk, bringing the ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
żaqq
The żaqq (; with definite article: '; plural: ') is the most common form of Maltese bagpipes. The instrument was once associated with Maltese folk-festivals. History The use of the żaqq in daily life came to an end in the 1970s, the instrument having been perhaps replaced by the accordion earlier in the century. In 1977 the Galpin Society The Galpin Society was formed in October 1946 to further research into the branch of musicology known as organology, i.e. the history, construction, development and use of musical instruments. Based in the United Kingdom, it is named after the emin ... noted only nine remaining traditional pipers in Malta; the last of these, Toni "l-Hammarun" Cachia, died in 2004.. ''Last of the Maltese Bagpipers of Old' There are ongoing attempts to revive the instrument by various folk music ensembles such as Etnika. Etymology and spelling It is sometimes erroneously referred to as the zapp due to a spelling error in a 1939 English-language publication. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flaps (aircraft)
A flap is a high-lift device used to reduce the stalling speed of an aircraft wing at a given weight. Flaps are usually mounted on the wing trailing edges of a fixed-wing aircraft. Flaps are used to reduce the take-off distance and the landing distance. Flaps also cause an increase in drag so they are retracted when not needed. The flaps installed on most aircraft are partial-span flaps; spanwise from near the wing root to the inboard end of the ailerons. When partial-span flaps are extended they alter the spanwise lift distribution on the wing by causing the inboard half of the wing to supply an increased proportion of the lift, and the outboard half to supply a reduced proportion of the lift. Reducing the proportion of the lift supplied by the outboard half of the wing is accompanied by a reduction in the angle of attack on the outboard half. This is beneficial because it increases the margin above the stall of the outboard half, maintaining aileron effectiveness and reduci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
