Plank may refer to:
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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. Plan ...
, flat, elongated, and rectangular timber with parallel faces
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Plank (exercise)
The plank (also called a front hold, hover, or abdominal bridge) is an isometric core strength exercise that involves maintaining a position similar to a push-up for the maximum possible time .
Form
The most common plank is the forearm plank ...
, an isometric exercise for the abdominal muscles
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Martins Creek (Kentucky), the location of Plank post office
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''The Plank'' (1967 film), a British comedy film with no dialogue
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''The Plank'' (1979 film), a remake of the 1967 film
*Plank, a
character in ''Ed, Edd n Eddy''
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Plank (party platform)
A political party platform (US English), party program, or party manifesto (preferential term in British & often Commonwealth English) is a formal set of principle goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate, in order ...
, an item of a political party program
People
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Alex Plank
Alexander Plank (born June 27, 1986) is an American autism advocate, filmmaker, actor, and the creator of Wrong Planet. He is known for founding the online community Wrong Planet, working on FX's television series '' The Bridge'', and acting ...
(born 1986), American autism advocate
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Conny Plank
Konrad "Conny" Plank (3 May 1940 – 5 December 1987) was a German record producer and musician. He is known for his innovative work as a sound engineer and producer in Germany's krautrock and kosmische music scene in the 1970s. Plank was invo ...
(1940−1987), German record producer and musician
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Doug Plank
Douglas Walter Plank (born March 4, 1953) is a former American football safety and coach in the National Football League.
Early life
Plank attended Norwin High School in North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, where he played baseball, basketball, an ...
(born 1953), American football player
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Ed Plank
Edward Arthur Plank, born April 9, 1952, is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He pitched for the San Francisco Giants
The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball team based in San Francisco, California. The Giants c ...
(born 1952), American baseball pitcher in the late 1970s
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Eddie Plank
Edward Stewart Plank (August 31, 1875 – February 24, 1926), nicknamed "Gettysburg Eddie", was an American professional baseball player. A pitcher, Plank played in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics from 1901 through 1914, th ...
(1875−1926), early 20th-century American baseball player
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Elizabeth Plank (born 1987), Canadian blogger and online journalist
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Ewart G. Plank (1897−1982), American general
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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 Hochschul ...
(born 1945), German painter, draughtsman and graphic artist
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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 ...
(born 1972), American businessman; founder of sports clothing company Under Armour
*Peter "Plank" Clements, guitar technician for
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) ...
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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 ...
(1922−2018), American businessman
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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 no ...
, form of execution associated with pirates
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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 Col ...
, homes of indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest constructed from the cedar tree
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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' ...
discussed several types of plank houses
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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 ,\omeg ...
, a topological space that is used in mathematics as a counterexample to several plausible-sounding conjectures
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Planck (disambiguation)
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 s ...
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Planking (disambiguation)
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, ...
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Slats (disambiguation)
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Walk the Plank (disambiguation)
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