He was the co-host and co-creator of the television program The Man Show ( 1999 – 2004 ), and the co-creator and a regular performer on the television show Crank Yankers ( 2002 – 2007 ).

* Crank ( mechanism ), in mechanical engineering, a bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it

* John Crank ( 1916 – 2006 ), British mathematical physicist

* Crank ( film ), a 2006 film starring Jason Statham

* Crank ( Hoodoo Gurus album ), 1994

* " Crank " ( song ), a song by the alternative rock band Catherine Wheel

* Crank ( person ), a pejorative term used for a person who unshakably holds a belief that most of his or her contemporaries consider to be false.

European action actors such as Belgian-born Jean-Claude Van Damme ( Bloodsport, Hard Target, Timecop ), Moroccan-born Jean Reno ( Ronin ), Swedish-born Dolph Lundgren ( Showdown in Little Tokyo, Universal Soldier, The Expendables ) and English-born Jason Statham ( The Transporter, The Expendables, Crank ), appeared in a number of 1990s and 2000s-era action films.

* Lucifer's Crank cassette EP ( self issued, 1988, reissued on 7 " by Rough Trade No. 6 ( Karbon ), 1991, KAR 13 / 7 )

Rockefeller won re-election in November 1968, having defeated Marion H. Crank ( 1915 – 1994 ), a state legislator who had won the Democratic nomination in a heated fight with Virginia Morris Johnson, wife of Jim Johnson and the first woman ever to seek the office of governor of Arkansas.

" Sí señor " was featured in the Alejandro González Iñárritu film Amores perros, and Control Machete's music was heard in the 2005 film Land of the Dead ( En El Camino ), as well as the 2006 film Crank ( Bandera ) starring Jason Statham.

* Special Ed ( Jim Florentine ), a character on the TV show Crank Yankers

Massey has also performed on TV in Greg the Bunny, Angel, Malcolm in the Middle, Muppets Tonight, Cousin Skeeter, Lost on Earth, and Crank Yankers ; and in TV advertisements for Foster Farms ( as the driver chicken ), Sony ( the blue guy ) and Levi's ( as Flat Eric ).

Best man was Lieutenant Commander Leigh C. Palmer, USN ( White House naval aide ), and other groom's men were Lieutenant Commanders R. K. Crank, L. M. Overstreet, and Lieutenant H. W. Osterhaus.

Contributors to the magazine have included Julie Burchill, David Furnish, Mark Simpson ( the magazine's leading columnist in its early years ), Tim Teeman, Simon Fanshawe, Will Self, Augusten Burroughs, Andrew M. Potts, Anthony Crank, Jackie Collins, Matt Lucas, Boy George, Russell T Davies, Graham Norton, Preston from The Ordinary Boys, Bruce LaBruce and photographer Wolfgang Tillmans.

For diffusion equations ( and many other equations ), it can be shown the Crank – Nicolson method is unconditionally stable .< ref >.

Because a number of other phenomena can be modeled with the heat equation ( often called the diffusion equation in financial mathematics ), the Crank – Nicolson method has been applied to those areas as well.

Note however, that for non-smooth final conditions ( which happen for most financial instruments ), the Crank – Nicolson method is not satisfactory as numerical oscillations are not damped.

* Crank ( person ), a pejorative term

* Dopamine releasing agents ( DRAs ) such as amphetamine ( Adderall, Dexedrine ; " Speed "), lisdexamfetamine ( Vyvanse ), methamphetamine ( Desoxyn ; " Meth ", " Crank ", " Crystal ", etc.

* Anthony Crank ( 2004 – 2005 )

*# The Counterfeit Crank ( 2004 )

* Crank conjecture, a term coined by Freeman Dyson to explain congruence patterns in integer partitions

* Marion H. Crank, a former state representative who was the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in 1968, having been narrowly defeated by incumbent Republican Winthrop Rockefeller.

A movement called " Don't Yank The Crank " was organized by David Perham and Brad Hooper in a valiant but futile effort to keep their beloved crank phones.

The Blood Guts & Pussy LP was followed up by EP Lucifer's Crank released by No. 6 Records, as well as another Sub Pop LP, the metal-punk Thank Heaven For Little Girls, both in 1991.

Crank magnetism is a term popularized by physiologist and blogger Mark Hoofnagle to describe the propensity of cranks to hold multiple irrational, unsupported or ludicrous beliefs that are often unrelated to one another.

Crank Yankers is an American television show produced by Adam Carolla, Jimmy Kimmel and Daniel Kellison that featured actual crank calls made by show regulars and celebrity guests, and re-enacted onscreen by puppets for a visual aid to show the viewer what is happening in the call.

* Crank by Ellen Hopkins

In 1967 – 1968 a series Wireless World Digital Computer by Brian Crank was published.

According to Deadline Hollywood, Sony Pictures is bringing Twisted Metal to the big screen by hiring Crank, Crank: High Voltage, Gamer, and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance co-writer and co-director Brian Taylor to the film.

She owns a long stick with bells on it ( called ' The Crank ') and threatens students into behaving by shaking it in an aggressive manner, inevitably to hit them.

She lost the nomination by a wide margin in a runoff with State Representative Marion H. Crank ( 1915 – 1994 ) of Foreman in Little River County, who was in turn narrowly defeated by Rockefeller in the general election.

The 152 is operated by Cumfy Bus and runs along Higher Lane to St. Helens via Crank hourly.

The AbioCor heart is featured in the 2009 film Crank: High Voltage, when it is transplanted into the main character Chev Chelios's ( Jason Statham ) chest after he had been abducted by Chinese mobsters in the very beginning of the movie.

* " Quo Vadis ", 1994 song by the Australian band Hoodoo Gurus, on the Crank album

* Crank Dot Net, a list of websites, roughly organized by subject area and sub-categorised by crankiness, including anti-crank sites.

* Aliens ( 1902 novel ), by Mary Tappan Wright

* The Atlas ( novel ), by American author William T. Vollmann

The novel begins with the droogs sitting in their favorite hangout ( the Korova Milkbar ), drinking milk-drug cocktails, called " milk-plus ", to hype themselves for the night's mayhem.

In 1950 it was combined with " War of Nerves " ( 1950 ), " Discord in Scarlet " ( 1939 ) and " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ) to form the novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle ( 1950 ).

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

In chapter four of the second Inspector Hanaud novel, The House of the Arrow ( 1924 ), Hanaud declares sanctimoniously to the heroine, " You are wise, Mademoiselle … For, after all, I am Hanaud.

In terms of a rudimentary chronology, Poirot speaks of retiring to grow marrows in Chapter 18 of The Big Four ( 1927 ), which places that novel out of published order before Roger Ackroyd.

Beginning with Three Act Tragedy ( 1934 ), Christie had perfected during the inter-war years a sub-genre of Poirot novel in which the detective himself spent much of the first third of the novel on the periphery of events.

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!

In 1980, Angela Lansbury played Miss Marple in The Mirror Crack'd ( EMI, directed by Guy Hamilton ), based on Christie's 1962 novel.

He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

* Abduction ( novel ), a 2000 novel by novelist Robin Cook

* The Abduction ( novel ), 1987, also called Bortførelsen, written in Norwegian by Mette Newth, translated into English by Steven T. Murray and Tiina Nunnally

The novel covers the entire reign of Alexander III ( 1249 – 1286 ), " almost entirely from Alexander's viewpoint ".

Living in worsening poverty, neglecting his health, and drinking excessively, Jarry went on to write what is often cited as the first cyborg sex novel, Le Surmâle ( The Supermale ), which is partly a satire on the Symbolist ideal of self-transcendence.

*" Antwerp " ( novel ), by Roberto Bolaño