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Plank Roads
Plank may refer to: * Plank (wood), flat, elongated, and rectangular timber with parallel faces * Plank (exercise), an isometric exercise for the abdominal muscles *Martins Creek (Kentucky), the location of Plank post office * ''The Plank'' (1967 film), a British comedy film with no dialogue * ''The Plank'' (1979 film), a remake of the 1967 film *Plank, a character in ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' * Plank (party platform), an item of a political party program People * Alex Plank (born 1986), American autism advocate * Conny Plank (1940−1987), German record producer and musician * Doug Plank (born 1953), American football player *Ed Plank (born 1952), American baseball pitcher in the late 1970s * Eddie Plank (1875−1926), early 20th-century American baseball player *Elizabeth Plank (born 1987), Canadian blogger and online journalist *Ewart G. Plank (1897−1982), American general * Heinz Plank (born 1945), German painter, draughtsman and graphic artist *Kevin Plank (born 1972), American bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plank (wood)
A plank is timber that is flat, elongated, and rectangular with parallel faces that are higher and longer than wide. Used primarily in carpentry, planks are critical in the construction of ships, houses, bridges, and many other structures. Planks also serve as supports to form shelves and tables. Usually made from sawed timber, planks are usually more than thick, and are generally wider than . In the United States, planks can be any length and are generally a minimum of deep by wide, but planks that are by and by are more commonly stocked by lumber retailers. Planks are often used as a work surface on elevated scaffolding, and need to be wide enough to provide strength without breaking when walked on. The wood is categorized as a board if its width is less than , and its thickness is less than . A plank used in a building as a horizontal supporting member that runs between foundations, walls, or beams to support a ceiling or floor is called a joist. The plank was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Ewart is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Ewart Adamson (1882–1945), Scottish screenwriter * Ewart Astill (1888–1948), English Test cricketer * Ewart Brown (born 1946), Premier of Bermuda * Ewart Grogan (1874–1967), British explorer, politician, and entrepreneur * Ewart John Arlington Harnum (1910–1996), Canadian businessman and Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador * Ewart Horsfall (1892–1974), British rower * Ewart Milne (1903–1987), Irish poet * Ewart Oakeshott (1916–2002), British illustrator, collector, and amateur historian Surname * Alfred James Ewart (1872–1937), English-Australian botanist * Charles Ewart (1769–1846), Scottish soldier * David Ewart (20th century), Canadian architect * Douglas Ewart (born 1946), multi-instrumentalist and instrument builder * Ewa Ewart, Polish documentary film maker * Frank Ewart (1876–1947) Oneness Pentecostal Preacher and author * Gavin Ewart (1916–1995), B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Planking (other)
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Planking may refer to: * Planking (fad), an activity consisting of lying face down—sometimes in an unusual or incongruous location * Plank (exercise), an isometric core strength exercise * Planking, a form of indirect grilling * Shad Planking, an annual political event in Virginia * Types of boat construction, see boat building See also * Plank (other) Plank may refer to: *Plank (wood), flat, elongated, and rectangular timber with parallel faces *Plank (exercise), an isometric exercise for the abdominal muscles * Martins Creek (Kentucky), the location of Plank post office * ''The Plank'' (1967 fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Planck (other)
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Planck usually refers to Max Planck (1858–1947), a German physicist considered to be the founder of quantum theory. Planck may also refer to: Science Astronomy * Planck (crater) * Planck (spacecraft) Cosmology * Planck units People with the surname * Amalia Planck (1834–1908), Swedish entrepreneur * Erwin Planck (1893–1945), German politician and resistance fighter * Gottlieb Jakob Planck (1751–1833), German theologian and historian and grandfather of Max Planck * Karl Christian Planck (1819–1880), German philosopher * Nina Planck (born 1971), American food writer See also * Max Planck Society, for the Advancement of Science * Plank (other) Plank may refer to: *Plank (wood), flat, elongated, and rectangular timber with parallel faces *Plank (exercise), an isometric exercise for the abdominal muscles * Martins Creek (Kentucky), the location of Plank post office * ''The Plank'' (1967 fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tychonoff Plank
In topology, the Tychonoff plank is a topological space defined using ordinal spaces that is a counterexample to several plausible-sounding conjectures. It is defined as the topological product of the two ordinal spaces ,\omega_1/math> and ,\omega/math>, where \omega is the first infinite ordinal and \omega_1 the first uncountable ordinal. The deleted Tychonoff plank is obtained by deleting the point \infty = (\omega_1,\omega). Properties The Tychonoff plank is a compact Hausdorff space and is therefore a normal space. However, the deleted Tychonoff plank is non-normal. Therefore the Tychonoff plank is not completely normal. This shows that a subspace of a normal space need not be normal. The Tychonoff plank is not perfectly normal because it is not a Gδ space: the singleton \ is closed but not a Gδ set. The Stone–Čech compactification of the deleted Tychonoff plank is the Tychonoff plank. Notes See also * List of topologies The following is a list of named top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Historic Carpentry
American historic carpentry is the historic methods with which wooden buildings were built in what is now the United States since European settlement. A number of methods were used to form the wooden walls and the types of ''structural carpentry'' are often defined by the wall, floor, and roof construction such as log, timber framed, balloon framed, or stacked plank. Some types of historic houses are called plank houses but ''plank house'' has several meanings which are discussed below. Roofs were almost always framed with wood, sometimes with timber roof trusses. Stone and brick buildings also have some wood framing for floors, interior walls and roofs. Background Historically building methods were passed down from a master carpenter to an apprentice verbally, through demonstration, and through work experience.Noble, Allen George. ''Traditional buildings a global survey of structural forms and cultural functions''. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007. 7. Print. Designs, engineering details ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plank House
A plank house is a type of house constructed by indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest, typically using cedar planks. History The oldest plank house village found is located in Kitselas Canyon at the Paul Mason Site in western British Columbia, Canada. This village is estimated to be 3000 years old. At the Maurer site in British Columbia the remains of a rectangular building have been excavated, providing artifacts which date the site to between 1920 and 2830 BCE. Material Due to the nature of this building material, the anthropological documentation for these people is not widespread. The manner of wood harvest and continued use of that harvest was purposeful and sustainable. Native people of the Pacific Northwest maintained a distinct respect for cedar and the value it had held for many generations."Cedar: Tree of Life to the Northwest Coast Indians," by Hilary Stewart describes and illustrates the harvesting of individual planks from living trees. Cedar logs compo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walking The Plank
Walking the plank was a method of execution practiced on special occasion by pirates, mutineers, and other rogue seafarers. For the amusement of the perpetrators and the psychological torture of the victims, captives were bound so they could not swim or tread water and forced to walk off a wooden plank or beam extended over the side of a ship. Although forcing captives to walk the plank has been a motif of pirates in popular culture since the 19th century, few instances are documented. Earliest documented record of the phrase The phrase is recorded in the second edition of English lexicographer Francis Grose's ''Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue'', which was published in 1788. Grose wrote: Walking the plank. A mode of destroying devoted persons or officers in a mutiny on ship-board, by blind-folding them, and obliging them to walk on a plank laid over the ship's side; by this means, as the mutineers suppose, avoiding the penalty of murder. Historical instances of plank walking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Plank
Raymond Plank (May 29, 1922 – November 8, 2018) was the founder and chairman of Apache Corporation. He led Apache from a small oil and gas concern to a conglomerate with interests in energy, commercial real estate, agriculture, manufacturing and telecommunications, then divested its non-energy assets to concentrate exclusively on oil and gas exploration and production. Under Plank’s leadership Apache expanded its oil and gas operations internationally and built the company from its original $250,000 capitalization to a market capitalization of over $30 billion. Plank invented the Master Limited Partnership and made it a personal and company mission to expose corruption at Enron and within the energy merchant trading sector. Early life and education Raymond Plank, the youngest of four siblings, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to farmer and coal miner Raby Plank and Maude Ruth Howe Plank. His parents’ schooling was limited but they instilled in their children the val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radiohead
Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards); brothers Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboards, other instruments) and Colin Greenwood (bass); Ed O'Brien (guitar, backing vocals); and Philip Selway (drums, percussion). They have worked with the producer Nigel Godrich and the cover artist Stanley Donwood since 1994. Radiohead's experimental approach is credited with advancing the sound of alternative rock. Radiohead signed to EMI in 1991 and released their debut album, ''Pablo Honey,'' in 1993; their debut single, " Creep", became a worldwide hit. Radiohead's popularity and critical standing rose with the release of '' The Bends'' in 1995. Radiohead's third album, '' OK Computer'' (1997), brought them international fame; noted for its complex production and themes of modern alienation, it is acclaimed as a landmark record and one of the best albums in popular music. Radiohea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Plank
Kevin Audette Plank (born August 13, 1972) is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. Plank is the founder and executive chairman of Under Armour, a manufacturer of sportswear, footwear and accessories, based in Baltimore, Maryland. As of October 2021, his net worth was estimated at US$1.8 billion. Early life Plank, a Roman Catholic, grew up in Kensington, Maryland, a suburb of Washington D.C., the youngest of five brothers born to William and Jayne (née Harper) Plank. His father was a prominent Maryland land developer. His mother is a former mayor of Kensington, who went on to direct the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs at the United States Department of State under President Ronald Reagan. Plank grew up playing youth football with the Maplewood Sports Association; a Maplewood team has appeared in Under Armour commercials. He left the prestigious Georgetown Preparatory School, a Catholic school, due to poor academic performance and behaviora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinz Plank
Heinz Plank, born 13 October 1945 in Bad Elster, Vogtlandkreis, Saxony, is a German painter, draughtsman and graphic artist. He studied under Wolfgang Mattheuer and Werner Tübke at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig The Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) or Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig is one of the oldest art schools in Germany, dating back to 1764. The school has four colleges specializing in fine arts, graphic design, photography and new media a ... from 1967 to 1972. He is associated with the middle generation of the Leipzig School. His paintings use a mixture of traditional elements and modern abstraction. They have a recurring sense of bitterness and apocalypse. References External links * * Website of the artistheinz-plank.de/en/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Plank, Heinz 1945 births Living people People from Bad Elster 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists 21st-century German painters 21st-century German male artists German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
