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He was top scorer in the 1986 World Cup and received the Golden Boot, the only time an Englishman has achieved this feat.
After winning the Golden Boot at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, Lineker was signed by Barcelona for £ 2, 800, 000.
He played five games in the 1986 World Cup, and was top scorer of the tournament with six goals, winning the Golden Boot, making him the first and to this day only English player to have done so.
The ' resonant ' cavity magnetron variant of the earlier magnetron tube was invented by John Randall and Harry Boot in 1940 at the University of Birmingham, England.
In 1969, he was selected to participate in the Army's " Boot Strap Degree Completion Program ," and subsequently attended the University of Texas at Arlington, where he finished his bachelor's degree in 1971.
He was nominated for two Academy Awards for the 1981 World War II submarine warfare film Das Boot.
His first film productions were for German television, and it was during his work on the popular German Tatort ( Crime Scene ) TV series that he first met and worked with the actor Jürgen Prochnow — who would later appear as the U-boat captain in Petersen's famous Das Boot.
His next feature was the World War II epic Das Boot, released in early 1982.
By 1998, Petersen was an established Hollywood director, with the power to both re-release his classic Das Boot in a new director's cut and to helm star-studded action-thrillers.
The Spanish Boot, or " leg-screw ", used mostly in Germany and Scotland, was a steel boot that was placed over the leg of the accused and was tightened.
John Boot offered his close friend and business associate John Harston the opportunity of going into business with him, but Harston declined, feeling the venture was not worth investing in.
Boot was a great benefactor to the City of Nottingham.
Boot was knighted in 1909, created a baronet in 1917, and in the New Year's Honours of 1929 was elevated to the peerage as Baron Trent, of Nottingham in the County of Nottingham.
The Sir Jesse Boot Chair in Chemistry at the University of Nottingham was named in his honour.
In 1934 a Primary school was built in Bakersfield in Sir Jesse Boot's memory named " Jesse Boot Primary School ".
In 1992, Jurado was honored with the Golden Boot Award for her notable contribution to the western movies.
This was his third ' Golden Boot ' in four seasons.
He is best known for his novel Das Boot ( 1973 ), which became an international bestseller and was adapted in 1981 as an Oscar-nominated film.
Das Boot was a fictionalised autobiographical account, narrated by a " Leutnant Werner ".
Das Boot was turned into a film in 1981, featuring Jürgen Prochnow as the captain and the debut of Herbert Grönemeyer as " Leutnant Werner ".
Les Moore was buried in Boot Hill, and his famous tombstone epitaph remains an attraction in the cemetery:
In addition, the Fox Broadcasting Company reality TV show " Boot Camp " was filmed near Starke, as were portions of the BBC mini-series The State Within.

Boot and originally
In October 2006, she began filming Boot Camp ( originally titled Straight Edge ).
From its inception in the 1967 – 68 season the award, originally called Soulier d ' Or, which translates from French as Golden Shoe or Boot, was given by L ' Équipe magazine to the top goalscorer in all European leagues that season.
* The Wellington Boot was a cavalry boot devised by the Duke of Wellington, originally made from leather, but now normally rubber.
The project's first hit " Das Boot " ( 1991 ) is a techno adaptation of the film's title melody, which had been originally composed by Klaus Doldinger.

Boot and drawn
The packaging features various cartoon characters ( drawn by Gary Dunn ): Klondike Pete ( a gold prospector who mines Golden Nuggets ), his mule Pardner, his enemies ; two claim-jumpers named Plum Loco Louie and Boot Hill Bob ( jointly " The Breakfast Bandits "), and a Golden Nuggets Bee ..

Boot and with
In February 1997, with the legal right to the Coldcut name back, they released a double pack single " Atomic Moog 2000 " / " Boot the System ", the first Coldcut release on Ninja Tune.
As ragga matured, an increasing number of dancehall artists began to appropriate stylistic elements of hip hop music, while ragga music, in turn, influenced more and more hip hop artists, most notably KRS-One, the Boot Camp Clik, Das EFX, Busta Rhymes, as well as some artists with ragga-influenced styles, like early Common, Main Source, Ill Al Scratch, Fu-Schnickens, and Redman.
The first stage of boot loaders located on fixed disks and removable drives must fit into the first 446 bytes of the Master Boot Record in order to leave room for the default 64-byte partition table with four partition entries and the two-byte boot signature, which the BIOS requires for a proper boot loader — or even less, when additional features like more than four partition entries ( up to 16 with 16 bytes each ), a disk signature ( 6 bytes ), a disk timestamp ( 6 bytes ), an Advanced Active Partition ( 18 bytes ) or special multi-boot loaders If an active partition is found, the MBR code loads the boot sector code from that partition, known as Volume Boot Record ( VBR ), and executes it.
Klaus Doldingers soundtrack for the 1981 movie Das Boot includes a title score with a sonar sound to reflect the U-boat setting.
* Jesse Boot of Boots the Chemist: A study in Business History by Stanley Chapman ( Detail from a copy of the book with black and white plates of Jesse Boot and published by Hodder and Stoughton UK as a special edition for The Boots Company Nottingham in 1973 with an ISBN 0-340-17704-7.
In 1935, millionaire Methodist and flour magnate J. Arthur Rank created a partnership with Boot and together transformed the estate into a film studio.
The Boy with the Boot Fountain with the Erie County Courthouse ( Ohio ) | Erie County Courthouse in the background.
The " Soldier's Boot Camp " follows the actors as they take preparation for their roles to an extreme ( 30 minutes )), " One Hour Over Tokyo " and " The Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor ", two History Channel documentaries along with " Super-8 Montage ", a collection of unseen Super-8 footage shot for potential use in the movie by Michael Bay's assistant, Mark Palansky ; " Deconstructing Destruction ", an in-depth conversation with Michael Bay and Eric Brevig ( of Industrial Light and Magic ) about the special effects in the movie and " Nurse Ruth Erickson interview " complete the extra features component.
" Boot Hill " refers to the number of men who died with their boots on.
Ellenville has three copies of the statue known as " The Boy with the Leaking Boot ".
* Bartram's Covered Bridge ( 1860 )- the last remaining covered bridge in Delaware County ( spanning Crum Creek-connecting with Chester County ), located at Goshen and Boot roads.
The old building at Dalegarth Station near Boot, with Ravenglass-built diesel loco Lady Wakefield

Boot and short
Oliphant's group at Birmingham included Sir John Randall and Harry Boot who developed the resonant-cavity magnetron in 1940, achieving the short wavelengths needed for good airborne radars.
Currently two distinct layouts-The " Boot " layout ( long course ) and the " 1971 Six Hours " layout ( short course ) are utilized.
Despite the Dutch falling short, Kluivert will be remembered for rising to the occasion in front of partisan home crowds, scoring five goals in as many games, jointly claiming the Golden Boot with Savo Milošević.
Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Jerry is a brown anthropomorphic mouse, who first appeared in the 1940 MGM animated short Puss Gets the Boot.
She also wrote short satirical profiles of eligible London bachelors under the pen-name Rosie Boot.
In 2005, he was selected as one the NFL ’ s first athletes into their Broadcast Boot Camp, held at NFL Films in Mount Laurel, N. J., and designed to give 20 players a short and rigorous look into the skills needed to embark on a
Puss Gets the Boot is a one-reel animated cartoon and the first Tom and Jerry short, although not billed as such in the cartoon.
As such, Puss Gets the Boot gave the animated duo their first Oscar nomination, though the short lost out to another Rudolf Ising MGM cartoon, The Milky Way.
At over nine minutes in length, Puss Gets the Boot is the longest theatrical Tom and Jerry short ever released.
NASCAR has since utilized this " short course ," and has never utilized the " Boot " as the Indy Racing League has.

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