Flat bottom " john boats " and canoes are used in areas of low water, as they have less draw, but are unsuitable for open water.

Flat Eric featured in the video for Mr. Oizo's " Flat Beat " in 1999 ; the puppet and instrumental UK number one were popularised through use in advert for Levi Strauss & Co. | Levi's Sta-Prest jeans.

A pair of masts about high were erected, at Lavernock Point and on Flat Holm.

The Flat Earth Society was one of the first organizations to accuse NASA of faking the landings, arguing that they were staged by Hollywood with Walt Disney sponsorship, based on a script by Arthur C. Clarke and directed by Stanley Kubrick.

After gold was discovered in 1862 on Whiskey Flat, it has been estimated that within ten days 1, 000 miners were camped along Canyon Creek.

The other incorporations — particularly Mills River and Flat Rock — were created for the purpose of preserving specific cultural / historic areas, and to prevent annexation by adjoining towns and cities.

The society also took the position that the Apollo Moon landings were a hoax, staged by Hollywood and based on a script by Arthur C. Clarke, a position also held by others not connected to the Flat Earth Society.

Areas very close to the current location of Bergman were known as Oregon Flat and Clabbie.

Two of the richest diggings were named Owlsburg and Owlburrow Flat.

Willow Creek's first non-indigenous settlers were Chinese laborers from the mining and lumber camps, which earned the town the name China Flat.

The first Euro-American settlers in Flat Rock were Michael Vreeland and his five grown sons between 1811 and 1820.

After the American Civil War settlement boomed in the Vernon area, by 1880 the town was applying for a post office under the name Eagle Flat, but the post office complained that too many Texas towns were using Eagle in the name, so the town settled on Vernon.

However, Jeffrey Burton Russell in his review of the formation of the Flat Earth myth, which was invented in the past 2 centuries, argues that there were sufficient lines of evidence and widespread acceptance among academics from the times of the early church from notable figures like Augustine of the spherical earth.

More recent productions such as Tremors and Joshua Tree, were filmed at " movie ranch " sites known as Movie Flats and Movie Flat Road.

Flat straw boaters were worn when boating.

Midnight Oil ’ s albums which peaked in the Australian Top Ten were 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Red Sails in the Sunset, Species Deceases, Diesel and Dust, Blue Sky Mining, Scream in Blue ( Live ), Earth and Sun and Moon, Breathe, 20, 000 Watt R. S. L., Redneck Wonderland, The Real Thing, Capricornia and Flat Chat.

Flat engines – like a V design flattened out – are common in small airplanes and motorcycles and were a hallmark of Volkswagen automobiles into the 1990s.

Yucca Flat, a valley roughly wide by long, and Paiute Mesa, a rugged-high area of at the northwest corner of the site, were the main underground test areas.

Flat surfaces were required, and a raised terrace from which to view the design, and so the parterre was reborn in a modifed style.

Flat roofs were favoured over pitched roofs as they prevented the obstruction of views, provided vantage points where one could experience a view of the landscape and allowed for a rooftop garden.

Many of these songs were re-released by their record labels as a tie-in with the ad campaigns, resulting in increased popularity and sales of the recordings and the creation of iconic visual associations with the music, such as the use of a topless male model wearing jeans underwater in the 1986 adverts featuring " Wonderful World " and " Mad about the Boy " and the puppet, Flat Eric, in the ads featuring music by Mr. Oizo.

Flat plate solar systems were perfected and used on a very large scale in Israel.

While larger rimfire calibers were made, such as the,. 30 rimfire,. 32 rimfire,. 38 rimfire. 41 Rimfire Short, the. 44 Henry Flat devised for the famous Winchester 1866 carbine, up to the. 58 Miller, the larger calibers were quickly replaced by centerfire versions, and today the. 22 caliber rimfires are all that survive of the early rimfires.

From 1805 to 1810 settlements developed along such streams as St. Francois River, Doe Run Creek, and Flat River which are familiar to locals today ; by such personages as Squire Eleazer Clay, John Robinson, Isaac and John Burnham, Lemuel Halsted, Samuel Rhoades, Solomon Jones and Mark Dent, many of whose descendants still reside in the county.

Another few miles along the Poker flat OHV trail is the former town of Poker Flat, where the 1886 Scott Home still stands as one of the few remaining structures.

Since the name Escanaba may be derived from " Flat Rock " and another city in Michigan exists with such a name, errors on maps of Michigan are still common.

Descendants of Michael Vreeland still live in the town and attend Flat Rock public schools, being the seventh generation to reside in the town their family founded.

Flat 6s are still used in many modern Porsches, as well as Subarus.

His orchestral piece Ringed by the Flat Horizon ( written for the Cambridge University Musical Society and premiered in Cambridge under the baton of Mark Elder on 5 March 1980 ) was performed at The Proms that August, while he was still a student, making him the youngest living composer ever to have had music performed at the Proms.

Reintroduced in 2009 with a 21-fret maple neck, graduated scalloped rosewood fingerboard, Bullet truss rod nut with 3-bolt neck plate and Micro-Tilt neck adjustment, flush-mounted Jim Dunlop locking strap buttons and two Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound Flat single-coil pickups ( the middle pickup is omitted, but the pickup hole for the middle pickup is still present ).

Flat file databases are still used internally by many computer applications to store configuration data.

Those still using Flat Files to transfer information are mainframes employing specific procedures which it is too expensive to modify.

Despite government funded rehabilitation programs in 1976, some toxic leachates still enter the river from the Captain's Flat mine site.

In the 1920s, the area was still known as ' Priest's Flat '.

The most common example is the Flat engine or Boxer engine, once used extensively by Porsche and still in use on BMWs.

There was opposition from gold mining interests that blocked the development of storage capacity on the Waipori River itself, because Waipori Flat was still being actively mined.

Detroit, Toledo and Ironton ’ s former hump classification yard in Flat Rock, which GTW acquired from its 1983 merger with DT & I still serves as an important freight hub for Canadian National.

Through the 1980s, areas such as Huron Township, Flat Rock, Rockwood, Woodhaven and Romulus were undeveloped, some of which still have operating farms.

A nearby field name is still called Battle Flat, and the legend also claims that the dead were buried at nearby Billabarrow hill.

" Flat Grove ," Bonham's home in Saluda, is the only known birthplace of an Alamo defender still in existence.

Hari compared the Stalin Society to the " Flat Earth Society, or Elvis fans who insist that the King is still alive.

Despite Federal and NSW government funded remediation programs of $ 2. 5m in 1976, toxic leachates still enter the river from the Captains Flat mine site.