Paul Wild was a knowledgeable classical music lover, enjoying Beethoven in particular ; an expert at < i > The Times </ i > crossword puzzles, chess and bridge ; a railway enthusiast ; a social cricketer and a " walking encyclopaedia of cricket knowledge ".

After Diamonds are Forever was published in 1956 Fleming received a letter from Bond enthusiast and gun expert Geoffrey Boothroyd, criticising his choice of firearm for Bond.

Borda was an enthusiast for the metric system and constructed tables of these logarithms starting in 1792 but their publication was delayed until after his death and only published in the Year 9 ( 1801 ) as Tables of Logarithms of sines, secants, and tangents, co-secants, co-sines, and co-tangents for the Quarter of the Circle divided into 100 degrees, the degree into 100 minutes, and the minute into 100 seconds to ten decimals, and including his tables of logarithms to 7 decimals from 10, 000 to 100, 000 with tables for obtaining results to 10 decimals.

Hudson Luce purchased the rights to Factsheet Five and published a single issue, Issue # 45, with the help of BBS enthusiast Bill Paulouskas, cartoonist Ben Gordon, writer Jim Knipfel, and artist Mark Bloch, who had authored a mail art-related column called " Net Works " during the Gunderloy years.

After Diamonds are Forever had been published, Fleming received a letter from a thirty-one-year-old Bond enthusiast and gun expert, Geoffrey Boothroyd, criticising the author's choice of firearm for Bond: his suggestions came too late to be included in From Russia, with Love, but one of Boothroyd's guns – a. 38 Smith & Wesson snub-nosed revolver modified with one third of the trigger guard removed – was used as the model for Chopping's image.

The Railway Magazine is a monthly British railway magazine, aimed at the railway enthusiast market, that has been published in London since July 1897. it has been, for three years running, the railway magazine with the largest circulation in the U. K., having a monthly average sale during 2009 of 34, 715 ( the figure for 2007 being 34, 661 ).

In his book Stalking the Faraway Places, wild foods enthusiast Euell Gibbons recommended stuffed rose hips made by slicing a large hip in half, removing the seeds and inserting a wild raspberry.

It is often said that Miles learned the line from offbeat openings enthusiast Michael Basman, but in his book Play the St. George, Basman asserts there is no truth to this.

Some episodes featured Plucky, a comic book enthusiast, parodying various heroic characters, much like Daffy's roles of Duck Dodgers and The Scarlet Pumpernickel.

The strongest criticism came from Joseph Brennan, a New York subway enthusiast who declared that, " Every fact in this book that I can verify independently is wrong.

In 1993, the car was discovered by British car enthusiast Andy Saunders of Poole, Dorset, in a sketch in a book about dream cars ; " It was so ugly it was unreal.

He is a Vespa enthusiast and his 2005 book Vroom with a View and 2007 book Vroom by the Sea feature trips through Italy taken on vintage Italian motorscooters.

There are several interesting features including a sloping ramp, pronounced by flying saucer enthusiast Erich von Däniken in his book " Chariots of the Gods " to be a launch platform for spaceships.

Carlo Mollino loved the mountains and was a ski enthusiast ; he wrote the book " Trattato sul Discesismo " where he explained his personal skiing technique with many illustrations.

He is a noted music enthusiast, having worked as a DJ and selected all the soundtrack music for seven series of his TV show " Ideal ", as well as curating an ‘ Ideal ’ soundtrack album and helping to release albums by the left field bands Celebricide and Cyclobe.

From 2002 to 2004, sustainability enthusiast Rob Hopkins initiated the building of a cob house for his family, the first new one in Ireland in about one hundred years.

The competing designs have either been discontinued or, like the Amiga, have been relegated to niche, enthusiast markets.

Fred was a great amateur radio enthusiast with his call sign G2BCX, and his innovative designs for the Slim Jim and ZL Special aerial antennas are still in use today.

" He was also a history enthusiast, and in 1559 suggested to the tailor John Stow to become a chronicler ( as Stow recalled in 1604 ).

Shane Kimbler, a Bell Gardens history enthusiast, wrote that early colonist Francisco Salvador Lugo and son Antonio María Lugo began construction in 1795 on what is now known as Casa de Rancho San Antonio or the Henry Gage Mansion.

A lifelong aviation enthusiast, Davies dedicated his work to different aspects of the airline industry, including traffic forecasting, and specializing in its history.

The memorial plaques are the result of four years of effort by history enthusiast Andrew Kavchak, who first came across Gouzenko's case while at university, and decided that " the first major international event of the Cold War " deserved a memorial.

According to a November 2006 article featuring test card enthusiast Keith Hamer, Hersee is in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest television appearance in history — an estimated total of 70, 000 hours, equivalent to nearly eight continuous years.

Scotti is also an avid space enthusiast and is interested in the history of space exploration and particularly of the Apollo Program.

* An enthusiast site on Ghia history

In 2007 a group of cultural and history enthusiast formed a volunteer group of museum tour guides to accommodate the growing number of foreign visitors to the museum.

The small white-fox working terriers we know today were first bred by the Reverend John Russell, a parson and hunting enthusiast born in 1795, and they can trace their origin to the now extinct English White terrier.

On July 14, 2005, Tom Biscardi, a long-time Bigfoot enthusiast and CEO of Searching for Bigfoot Inc., appeared on the Coast to Coast AM paranormal radio show and announced that he was " 98 % sure that his group will be able to capture a Bigfoot which they have been tracking in the Happy Camp, California area.

Edward was an Arthurian enthusiast who attended at least five Round Tables and hosted one himself in 1299, which may have been the occasion for the creation of the Winchester Round Table.

* One Source-Formerly CLIÉ Source, One Source is a CLIÉ enthusiast site which changed its name when Sony ended the CLIÉ line.

An early motoring enthusiast, he joined the Self-Propelled Traffic Association which campaigned against the restrictions imposed on motor vehicles by the Locomotive Act, and became a founder member of the Automobile Club of Great Britain with which it merged 1897.

Therefore, if a computer enthusiast somehow has 20 computers at home which he uses himself for software development ( and aren't acting as part of a business, for example, a server farm ), one subscription allows all 20 of those computers to be running their own separate copy of Windows, Office, and any other Microsoft product.

Other notable guest stars included: Cesar Romero as Chico's absentee father ; Tony Orlando as Chico's look-alike, the ex-fiance of a hostile woman he wants to date ; José Feliciano, who wrote the theme song, as Chico's womanizing famous-singer cousin Pepe Fernando ; Sammy Davis Jr. as himself ; Herbie Faye appeared as Bernie in the 1975 episode " Louie's Retirement "; Shelley Winters ( reuniting with Albertson, with whom she'd costarred in The Poseidon Adventure ) as the owner of the local bakery, Shirley Schrift ( her real name ); Jim Backus as Ed's friend who uses him as a " beard "— pretending to be playing cards with him when cheating on his wife ( Audra Lindley ); silent-film actress Carmel Myers as a former star who has fallen on hard times, brings in her car for repairs, and stays in the garage while looking for work ; George Takei as Ed's supposed long-lost son from his time in Japan during World War II ; Cesare Danova as Aunt Connie's Spanish aristocrat boyfriend, the Count de Catalan, in the second episode in which she appeared ; comedian Joey Bishop as an inept robber ; Bernie Kopell as a plastic surgeon ; Rose Marie as a CB radio enthusiast with whom a lonely Ed connects on New Year's Eve ; Penny Marshall, as a waitress ; football star Rosey Grier as himself, Della's date for a charity benefit dance ; Larry Hovis as a customer in the second episode of the first season ; and Jim Jordan ( of radio's Fibber McGee and Molly ) as a mechanic who used to be a big businessman, until he was victimized by his own company's retirement-age mandate ).

The team is based on the 1962 Phi Kappa Psi Little 500 champions, which featured legendary rider and Italian enthusiast Dave Blase, who provided screenwriter and fellow Phi Kappa Psi team member Steve Tesich the inspiration for the main character in the movie.

Insurance concerns prevented McQueen from performing the film's widely noted motorcycle leap, which was instead done by his friend and fellow cycle enthusiast Bud Ekins, who resembled McQueen from a distance.

An enthusiast for the German Middle Ages, Ludwig ordered the re-erection of several monasteries in Bavaria which had been closed during the German Mediatisation.

Woods has shared an endorsement for the online poker website Hollywood Poker which is run in conjunction with Ongame Network, and " co hosted " with poker enthusiast Vince Van Patten.

As boombox enthusiast Lyle Owerko puts it, “ Towards the end of any culture, you have the second or third generation that steps into the culture, which is so far from the origination, it's the impression of what's real, but it's not the full definition of what's real.

Several companies build centrifugal superchargers and also offer them as complete systems which can be easily installed by a mechanic or the auto enthusiast at home.

More precisely, William Rowan Hamilton put forth the quaternions and biquaternions ; James Cockle presented tessarines and coquaternions ; and William Kingdon Clifford was an enthusiast of split-biquaternions, which he called algebraic motors.

Lucius Beebe, noted American author, journalist, gourmand, and railroad enthusiast is generally credited with creating the term " café society ," which he chronicled in his weekly column, This New York, for the New York Herald Tribune during the 1920s and 1930s.

Examples include bit-tech's Mod of the Month and Mod of the Year competitions, while some of these contests are sponsored by computer enthusiast magazines, such as CPU magazine or Custom PC Magazine, both of which have monthly modding contests.

A Toynbee-tile enthusiast website reported a tile found in Pittsburgh that included deployment instructions, which the reader transcribed as " linoleum, asphalt glue (?

However, revhead ( which derives from " revolutions per minute ") may refer to any motor enthusiast, while hoon is always pejorative.

Green signed and sold this guitar, which had been customised to sound similar to his " Green Burst Les Paul ", which is now owned by a UK guitar enthusiast.

As well the park offers a multitude of lakes which are amenable to the canoe enthusiast.

There has been much speculation about which of Childers's friends was the model for " Carruthers " in the novel and it seems that he is based not on Henry Childers but on yachting enthusiast Walter Runciman ; " Davies ", of course, is Childers himself.

It was, however, the publicly owned RAVAG – Radio-Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft, " Radio Communication Company Ltd " – which, in February 1924, was awarded the concession to begin broadcasting, with the radio pioneer and enthusiast Oskar Czeja as its Director-General.

A car and racing enthusiast, Brian Johnson currently enjoys racing his vintage race cars: a Royale RP-4 and a Pilbeam MP84, which he races in vintage and historic races throughout the United States.