The Flat Earth Society of Canada was set up by Leo Ferrari ( 1927 – 2010 ), a philosophy professor at the St Thomas University in 1970, together with Raymond Fraser and Alden Nowlan and was active till about 1984.

* Flat rail – A rail set level with ground.

In 1897, following wireless transmissions from Lavernock Point in Wales and Flat Holm, Guglielmo Marconi moved his equipment to Brean Down and set a new distance record for wireless transmission.

* Mari Strachan's 2009 novel The Earth Hums in B Flat ( 2009 ) is set in Harlech in the 1950s.

The summary below is based on a comprehensive rule set developed by the Women's Flat Track Derby Association ( WFTDA ), which is used by the vast majority of leagues.

Those scenes set in " Flat Rock, Colorado " were filmed at and around the Ephrata airport in eastern Washington.

* Tortilla Flat ( 1935 ) by John Steinbeck: A retelling of the Arthurian legends, set in Monterey, CA during the interwar period.

" Flat planes were set in motion simultaneously to evoke space by shifting across one another, as if rotating and tilting on oblique axes.

* The Lambing Flat-a historical fiction novel by Nerida Newton set in and around Young at the time of the Lambing Flat riots

Tortilla Flat ( 1935 ) is an early John Steinbeck novel set in Monterey, California.

In 1897, following wireless transmissions from Lavernock Point in Wales and Flat Holm, Guglielmo Marconi moved his equipment to Brean Down and set a new distance record for wireless transmission over open sea.

Note 1: Flat noise power is expressed in dBrn ( f < sub > 1 </ sub >-f < sub > 2 </ sub >) or in dBm ( f < sub > 1 </ sub >-f < sub > 2 </ sub >).

The spaghetti western Four of the Apocalypse is based on " The Outcasts of Poker Flat " and " The Luck of Roaring Camp ".

* Operas based on " The Outcasts of Poker Flat " include those by Samuel Adler and by Stanford Beckler .< ref >

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.

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.

Modern swing dance bands active in the U. S. during the 1990s and 2000s include many contemporary jazz big bands, swing revival bands with a national presence such as Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers ( based in San Francisco ), and local / regional jazz bands that specialize in 1930s-1940s swing / Lindy dance music, such as The Swingout Big Band, White Heat Swing Orchestra, and Beantown Swing Orchestra ( Boston ), The Boilermaker Jazz Band ( Pittsburgh ), the Southside Aces ( Minneapolis ), Gordon Webster Septet ( New York ), Jonathan Stout and His Campus Five ( Los Angeles ) and The Jonathan Stout Orchestra featuring Hilary Alexander ( Los Angeles ), The Flat Cats ( Chicago ), The Gina Knight Orchestra ( Chicago and Joliet, IL ), the Solomon Douglas Swingtet and the Tom Cunningham Orchestra ( Washington, D. C .), Sonoran Swing ( Arizona ), and The Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra ( Los Angeles ).

Her many films include Boom Town ( 1940 ) with Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy, Comrade X with Gable, White Cargo ( 1942 ), and Tortilla Flat ( 1942 ) with Tracy and John Garfield, based on the novel by John Steinbeck.

In Beanhill's very early days there was also a street theatre based there called The Beanhill Flat Earth Society.

In 1936, he moved to RKO Pictures where he wrote and co-wrote screenplays for films such as The Outcasts of Poker Flat, based on a story by Bret Harte and Blind Alibi, starring Richard Dix.

Following overland tests at Salisbury Plain during March 1897, on 13 May 1897, the Italian born and recently British based inventor, best known for his development of a radiotelegraph system, Guglielmo Marconi, assisted by George Kemp ( who was a Cardiff based Post Office engineer ) transmitted and received the first wireless signals over open sea between Lavernock Point and Flat Holm island.

Tortilla Flat is a 1942 film with Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield, Frank Morgan, Akim Tamiroff, and Sheldon Leonard based on the novel by John Steinbeck.

The tunnels and chambers where designed based on plans of the Tawa Flat railway tunnels project.

This model is based on the Dodge Charger SRT-8 and its exterior consists of special " Detonator Yellow " paint, a " Flat Black " hood and fender " decals ".

In August 2009, Stir Crazy Restaurants LLC merged with Flat Top Grill, also based in the Chicago Metropolitan Area, to form Flat Out Crazy, LLC.

Flat profilers compute the average call times, from the calls, and do not break down the call times based on the callee or the context.

An American Flat bow, based on native American bows and twentieth-century research into bow design

Winona Independent School District is a school district based in Winona, Texas ( USA ) and covering all of the city of Winona as well as the communities of Red Springs, Sand Flat, Starrville, and East Texas Center ( Owentown ).

Flat glass for windows and similar applications is formed by the float glass process, developed between 1953 and 1957 by Sir Alastair Pilkington and Kenneth Bickerstaff of the UK's Pilkington Brothers, who created a continuous ribbon of glass using a molten tin bath on which the molten glass flows unhindered under the influence of gravity.

* 1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.

Flat knitting, on the other hand, is used, in its most basic form, to make flat, rectangular pieces of cloth.

* Flat Finish-This finish is generally used on ceilings or walls that are in bad shape.

Flat belt on a belt pulley

Post Office Engineers inspect Marconi Company | Marconi's equipment on Flat Holm, May 1897

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

* Flat wart ( Verruca plana ), a small, smooth flattened wart, flesh-coloured, which can occur in large numbers ; most common on the face, neck, hands, wrists and knees ;

* January 27 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a 1-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat, northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Competition on the goldfields, particularly resentment among white miners towards the successes of Chinese miners, led to tensions between groups and eventually a series of significant protests and riots, including the Buckland Riot in 1857 and the Lambing Flat Riots between 1860 and 1861.

The band released three more singles, " Dark Entries ", " Terror Couple Kill Colonel " and " Telegram Sam " — originally written by glam rock pioneers T. Rex — before the debut of their first album In the Flat Field in 1980 on 4AD.

Settlements of the Gold Rush era, such as Portuguese Flat on the Sacramento River, sprang into existence and then faded.

Two Vliet-penned numbers on the Bongo Fury album are Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top and Man With The Woman Head.

Flat races can be run under varying distances and on different terms.

It went on the South side of Cedar Mountain, across Buckhorn Flat, passed the Red Seeps to Huntington Creek, crossing about a mile below where the present bridge crosses ; thence to Cottonwood Creek.

The cliffs of the main plateau are split by Platteklip Gorge (" Flat Stone Gorge "), which provides an easy and direct ascent to the summit and was the route taken by António de Saldanha on the first recorded ascent of the mountain in 1503.

The highest point is believed to be Thorny Flat on Cheat Mountain in the northwestern part of the county.

April 1, 1866 marked the first cattle drive on the Chisholm Trail, which originated at Cardwell's Flat, near the present Cuero.

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.

There is a cleared area for camping at Maxwells Flat on the Causeway Road, and a long drop toilet.

; The Starlights Trail: Nattai Road Park Entrance to Emmetts Flat ( a good camp site on the river without facilities ) on the Nattai River.