However, poor performances at the road course of Watkins Glen, where he wrecked coming out of the chicane, a wreck with Chad Little while leading the spring race at Bristol, and mid-pack runs at intermediate tracks like Charlotte and Dover in a season dominated by the Ford Taurus in those tracks of Roush, Yates, and Penske, coupled with the extremely consistent Joe Gibb's No. 18 team with Bobby Labonte, denied Earnhardt the coveted eighth championship title.

Jones ' study focuses on smuggling in Bristol in the mid-16th century, arguing that the illicit export of goods like grain and leather represented a significant part of the city's business, with many members of the civic elite engaging in it.

An entry in the Bristol Apprentice Books showing " Servants to Foreign Plantations " 9 February 1655, included " Henry Morgan of Abergavenny, Labourer, Bound to Timothy Tounsend of Bristol, Cutler, for three years, to serve in Barbados on the like Condiciouns.

Although McCloud sketches his layouts in pencil, the remainder of his work is done digitally, explaining in his 2006 book Making Comics that he had not used traditional materials like Bristol board, pens or brushes in years.

The Harrier was one of the radical concept aircraft which took shape in post-war Britain, which required the coming together of many important technology, such as vectored thrust engines like the Bristol Siddeley ( later Rolls-Royce ) Pegasus and technologies like the Reaction Control System.

In the same year, money from Robert Thorne ( a wealthy London merchant who, like Monoux, originated from Bristol and became Lord Mayor of the City of London ) was used to completely rebuild the south aisle and to add a chapel on its eastern end.

The village pub was demolished to make way for housing, and the village, like most villages around Bristol, is moving towards " commuter town " status, with many people using its rail and road links to work elsewhere.

Although he sketches his layouts in pencil, the remainder of his work is done digitally, explaining in his 2006 book Making Comics that he had not used traditional materials like Bristol board, pens or brushes in years.

However, there is one instance of a crinoline possibly saving a life, in the case of Sarah Ann Henley, who jumped off the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol, in 1885 after a lover's quarrel, but survived the fall of almost because her skirts supposedly acted like a parachute and slowed her descent.

In a March 2012 interview, bassist Paul Duffy reported that the new album is in progress at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in Bristol, stating that the sound was a lot heavier: " It ’ s very layered, it's like you have one thing and you just keep adding things on top, and it just sounds big cause we've gone in as a six piece.

The Thorne family were wealthy Bristol merchants, friends of men like John Cabot and known to royalty.

The majority of colleges at the universities of Cambridge, Durham and Oxford, as well as newer collegiate universities such as York and older universities like University of Bristol and St David's College, have members of staff called porters.

Presenters Bill Oddie, Kate Humble ( both in a suburban garden in Bristol, England ) and Simon King ( mostly on location nearby ) presented live action from a number of hidden cameras in or near nest boxes, badger setts and the like.

Against the advice of her lady-in-waiting Lady Margaret, Mary dresses up like a boy and follows Brandon to Bristol.

All looked very much like Scaglione's subsequent Arnolt Bristol, having sharply creased fender lines, and were open cars without hardtops.

From 1918, Bristol developed a series of heavy triplanes which, like the Caproni design, appeared in different variants aimed at different roles.

New disc jockeys were brought in, however the station still sounded like competitor Radio Bristol with its mix of music, news and talk ( as was the trend in British commercial radio at the time due to needletime restrictions ) and listening figures were not improving.

This was advantageous for merchants in Bristol, even if, like the Bristolian Edward Colston, they had already been involved in the compound.

Strangely, before the quarter final draw, Peterborough United fans were asked who they would least like to draw, to which they replied Bristol Rovers.

Holy Cross parish is in the Church of England Diocese of Salisbury, unlike the rest of the borough of Swindon, which is within the Diocese of Bristol, but like the rest of Wiltshire.

A proportion of the fleet had to be single-deck because of railway bridges ( like Darlington, Swindon was a town built on railways ) and prior to 1980 the single deckers were five Weymann-bodied AEC Reliances, three Leyland Leopard PSU4 with Pennine Coachcraft bodies and five late-model coach-seated Eastern Coach Works Bodied Bristol RESL6G.

He attended Memorial Boulevard Public School, Thomas Patterson School and Bristol Eastern High School and has stated that he felt like an " outsider " in these places.

Most temples of the Alpha et Omega and Stella Matutina closed or went into abeyance by the end of the 1930s, with the exceptions of two Stella Matutina temples: Hermes Temple in Bristol, which operated sporadically until 1970, and the Whare Ra in Havelock North, New Zealand, which operated regularly until its closure in 1978.

* 2003 – Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.

On 10 February 2008, a 6. 5 magnitude earthquake had its epicentre SSE of Bristol Island.

Gloucestershire acquired first-class status when its team played against Surrey at Durdham Down near Bristol on 2, 3 & 4 June 1870.

After a riot in Bristol in 1980, Powell asserted that the media were ignoring similar events in south London and Birmingham, and claimed: " Far less than the foreseeable New Commonwealth and Pakistan ethnic proportion would be sufficient to constitute a dominant political force in the United Kingdom able to extract from a government and the main parties terms calculated to render its influence still more impregnable.

Monmouth is now primarily a centre for service industries and tourism, and its good road communications have encouraged commuting to larger centres in the West Midlands, South Wales, and Bristol.

He perfected his Economics of Industry while at Bristol, and published it more widely in England as an economic curriculum ; its simple form stood upon sophisticated theoretical foundations.

Aircraft production operations were absorbed into Hawker Siddeley and its engine operations into Bristol Siddeley, as part of the rationalisation of British aircraft manufacturers, and the Blackburn name was dropped completely in 1963.

The following year, Silver City leased its first Bristol Freighter, moved its base to Blackbushe and participated in the airlift of Hindu and Muslim refugees between Pakistan and India.

In 1953, Silver City took delivery of its first Bristol Superfreighter.

Also in 1947, Silver City leased its first Bristol Freighter from the manufacturer to replace one of the four Dakotas that had originally been allocated to the repatriation airlift in the Indian subcontinent.

In 1953, Silver City also took delivery of its first stretched Mark 32 Bristol Superfreighter, the first of six.

Before the creation of Llandaff Cathedral it became established as a Christian place of worship in the 6th century AD, probably because of its location as the first firm ground north of the point where the river Taff met the Bristol Channel, and because of its pre-Christian location as a river crossing on an east west trade route.

The Bering Sea is world renowned for its enormously productive and profitable fisheries, such as King Crab, opilio and tanner crabs, Bristol Bay salmon, pollock and other groundfish.

In 1956 its major operations were split into Bristol Aircraft and Bristol Aero Engines.

Its products had always been referred to by the name ' Bristol ' and this was formalized in 1920, when British and Colonial was liquidated and its assets became the Bristol Aeroplane Company, Ltd. At this time the Company, acting under a certain amount of pressure from the Air Ministry, bought the aero-engine division of the bankrupt Cosmos Engineering Company, also of Bristol, to form the nucleus of its new aero-engine operations.

During this time Bristol was noted for its preference for steel airframes, using members built up from high-tensile steel strip rolled into flanged sections rather than the light alloys more generally used in aircraft construction.

He attended several of the earlier meetings of the British Association at York, Oxford, Dublin and Bristol.

The Great Western Steamship Company, which had opened its pioneer Bristol – New York service earlier that year, bid £ 45, 000 for a monthly Bristol – Halifax – New York service using three ships of 450 horsepower.

The University of Bath can trace its roots to a technical school established in Bristol 100 years earlier, the Bristol Trade School of 1856.

More successful was the Bristol Beaufighter, which reused major portions of the earlier Beaufort torpedo bomber.

By the time Wolves were crushed 6 – 0 by Rotherham United in the FA Cup first round on 16 November 1985, a third of the league season had already gone and Wolves had still yet to put together a run of good results, so a third successive relegation – a humiliation which only Bristol City four seasons earlier had so far suffered – was now looking a real possibility.

ET, switching with SportsCenter Monday Kickoff, all programs were moved to the Bristol studio, and the second version's hosts ( see below ) were also assigned to the earlier show.

This followed an earlier hit single with " Drink Up Thy Zider ", an unofficial West Country anthem, especially among supporters of Bristol City Football Club.

Having overcome Bath, Bristol, London Welsh and Coventry ( all away from home ) in earlier rounds, they beat Moseley in a Twickenham final that was marred by violence and the sending off of Moseley's Nigel Horton.

In earlier times the massive port and industrial centre of Bristol had been the northerly magnet, but in the intervening years other railways had interposed themselves.

During King William's War-the first of the four French and Indian Wars-French and Native raided Pemaquid, Maine ( present day Bristol, Maine ) earlier that year.

During King William's War French and Native raids on Maine, specifically on Pemaquid, Maine ( present day Bristol, Maine ) earlier that year.

Edward-Rhys Harry, erstwhile director of Bristol Chamber Choir ( formerly the Bristol Madrigal Society mentioned earlier ), was responsible for a landmark recording of Pearsall's setting of the Requiem Mass in 2009.

Bristol fashion: Some account of the earlier days of Bristol Aviation.

Re-using their earlier name, this design emerged as the Bristol Mercury, while a more powerful design at the same size as the original Jupiter became the Bristol Pegasus.