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Frank and Duryea
Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
* September 21 – Brothers Charles and Frank Duryea drive the first gasoline-powered motorcar in America on public roads in Springfield, Massachusetts.
The opening night cast also included Carl Benton Reid as Oscar, Charles Dingle as Benjamin, Frank Conroy as Horace, Patricia Collinge as Birdie, Dan Duryea as Leo, and Florence Williams as Alexandra.
* Duryea brothers, Charles Duryea ( 1861 – 1938 ) and Frank Duryea ( 1869 – 1967 ), were the first to build an automobile in the United States
The American was an American automobile designed by Frank Duryea and manufactured by the American Automobile Company of New York City in 1899.
** J. Frank Duryea, American automotive pioneer
Founded by Charles Duryea and his brother Frank, they built the Duryea Motor Wagon, a one-cylinder " Ladies Phaeton ", first demonstrated on September 21, 1893 in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Taylor Street in Metro Center.
In 1895, a second Duryea ( built in 1894 ), driven by Frank, won the Chicago Times Herald race in Chicago on a snowy Thanksgiving day.
Frank helped produce the Stevens-Duryea ( at gun maker Stevens ) until 1927, while Charles produced Duryea vehicles as late as 1917.
Although Charles did discuss with Frank Duryea the building of the first commercially successful American automobile, Frank was the actual builder during their collaboration.
Charles Duryea and his brother Frank ( 1869 – 1967 ) were initially bicycle makers in Washington, D. C., but later became world-renowned as the first American gasoline-powered car manufacturers, headquartered in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Frank Duryea test drove it again on November 10 — this time in a prominent location: past their garage at 47 Taylor Street in Springfield.
After Frank won, demand grew for the Duryea Motor Wagon.
Charles Duryea sought out investors and buyers while his brother, Frank Duryea, primarily handled the mechanical side of the business.
Many of leading names in stage and film appeared in the series, most in the roles they made famous on the screen, including Abbott and Costello, Jean Arthur, Lauren Bacall, Lucille Ball, Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Charles Boyer, James Cagney, Claudette Colbert, Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper, Joseph Cotten, Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Dan Duryea, Frances Farmer, Errol Flynn, Ava Gardner, Judy Garland, Greer Garson, Janet Gaynor, Cary Grant, Lillian Gish, Charlton Heston, Bob Hope, Vivien Leigh, Ida Lupino, Fredric March, Agnes Moorehead, Paul Muni, Vincent Price, Donna Reed, Ginger Rogers, Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, Ann Sothern, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Shirley Temple, Gene Tierney, Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, John Wayne, Jane Wyman, Orson Welles, Loretta Young and Robert Young.
* Frank Duryea
The company was founded after a falling-out between J. Frank Duryea and his brother Charles in 1898.
It was this year Frank Duryea sold out ; production stopped in 1915 because of financial problems and the plant was sold to Westinghouse.

Frank and won
In 1995, the year Ajax won the Champions League, the Dutch national team was almost entirely composed of Ajax players, with Edwin van der Sar in goal ; players such as Michael Reiziger, Frank de Boer, and Danny Blind in defense ; Ronald de Boer, Edgar Davids, and Clarence Seedorf in midfield ; and Patrick Kluivert and Marc Overmars in attack.
In the national elections held in early months of 2008 the DPP won less than 25 % of the seats ( 38. 2 % vote share ) in the new Legislative Yuan while its presidential candidate, former Kaohsiung mayor Frank Hsieh, lost to KMT candidate Ma Ying-jeou by a wide margin ( 41. 55 % vs. 58. 45 %).
Siegbert Tarrasch won the Championship section, over Carl Schlechter, Dawid Janowski, Frank Marshall, Amos Burn, and Mikhail Chigorin.
In 1973, she won silver in the women's competition and another silver for Best pas de Deux ( with Frank Augustyn ) at the second International Ballet Competition in Moscow.
The teams agreed to finish the match and England won by 128 runs after Frank Tyson took 7 for 27 in the final innings.
His role as Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman won him the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1992 after receiving seven previous Oscar nominations, one of them being in the same year.
The film won eight Academy Awards out of 13 nominations, including for Picture, Best Director ( Fred Zinnemann ), Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actor ( Frank Sinatra ) and Supporting Actress ( Donna Reed ).
When director Frank Capra and writer Robert Riskin adapted it for the screen in 1938, the film won the Best Picture Oscar and Capra won for Best Director.
" Capra, certain he was the winner, ran to the podium to collect his Oscar, only to discover Rogers had meant Frank Lloyd, who won for Cavalcade, instead.
The second year, the directing award followed the others in listing all of a director's work during the qualifying period, resulting in Frank Lloyd being nominated for three of his films — but, even more confusingly, only one of them was listed on the final award as the film for which he won.
John Ford has won the most Best Director Oscars-four awards, followed by Frank Capra and William Wyler, with three apiece.
He is tied with Frank Capra and behind John Ford, who won four Oscars in this category.
Lenox products also became well known in the US thanks to Frank Graham Holmes, chief designer from 1905 to 1954, who won several artistic awards such as the 1927 Craftsmanship Medal of the American Institute of Architects and the 1943 silver medal of the American Designers Institute.
In 1981, after a successful tour of Australia and New Zealand, Wells won the European Cup 100 metres, beating East German Frank Emmelmann.
It was awarded and nominated for numerous awards, including six American Library Association awards, a nomination for an Eisner Award, won Winick his first GLAAD award, has been praised by creators such as Frank Miller, Neil Gaiman, and Armistead Maupin, and has been incorporated into school curricula across the country.
Unalakleet basketball teams have won 6 State titles ( 3 by Covenant High and 3 by Frank A. Degnan High ).
In the May 2012 elections, challengers Mike Bagnell ( with 1, 213 votes ) and Frank Sarno ( 1, 175 ) won seats on the commission, while incumbent Theresa Kelly won the third seat with 1, 164 votes, putting her two votes ahead of Albert Battaglia after provisional ballots were counted.
In the November 2011 general election, Max Arnowitz was re-elected to a four-year term of office, while Douglas E. Frank and newcomer Rod Capawana won three-year terms on the Borough Council, all with terms that will take effect in January 2012.
In 1904, the Rider Hotel in Cambridge Springs was the site of a famous chess tournament won by Frank Marshall ahead of World Champion Emanuel Lasker and fourteen other players.
In late 1979, Mentzer won the heavyweight class of the Mr. Olympia, again with a perfect 300 score, but he lost in the overall to Frank Zane who was awarded the title for a third time that year.
In 2000, he made the NHL All-Star First Team and won the Frank J. Selke Trophy.
The nomination was eventually won by Frank Dobson, who lost the election to Ken Livingstone, the independent candidate.

Frank and race
* 1964 – Frank Biela, German race car driver
* Frank Herbert's novel The Dosadi Experiment focuses on the creation of a super race through the control of another race, that forces them to live in an arcological situation.
The race was wide open, and soon the convention deadlocked between Major General Leonard Wood and Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois.
* Frank Cioppettini ( born 1950 ), professional race car driver.
Democrat Frank Lautenberg led Republican Dick Zimmer 51. 4 % to 48. 6 % ( 1, 741 votes to 1, 643 ) in Wood-Ridge in the race for the United States Senate, while Democrat Steven Rothman was ahead of Republican Vincent Micco 57. 0 % ( 1, 880 votes ) to 43. 0 % ( 1, 417 ) for the seat in the United States House of Representatives.
The hockey media would closely follow a tight " Vezina Trophy race ," such as in when Frank Brimsek, Turk Broda, and Johnny Mowers were separated by only three goals entering the final weekend of the season.
In 1942, Frank Zeidler was the Socialist nominee for Governor of Wisconsin, receiving 1. 41 % of the vote in a six-way race.
Former Honolulu Mayor Frank Fasi has been inducted in the Honolulu Marathon Hall of Fame after documents proved that he was the true founder of the race 37 years ago.
Elroy, Teddy-2, and their neighbor Fergie Furbelow ( Russi Taylor ) sneak into the plant, and meet Squeep ( Frank Welker ), a member of an adorable-looking alien race known as Grungees.
* The 2nd Le Mans 24 hours race is won by John Duff ( Canada ) and Frank Clement ( Great Britain ) driving a Bentley 3 Litre Sport over 120 laps and 2077. 341 km.
Frank found a tension in the gloss of American culture and wealth over race and class differences, which gave Frank's photographs a clear contrast to those of most contemporary American photojournalists, as did his use of unusual focus, low lighting and cropping that deviated from accepted photographic techniques.
Frank presents photographs made in scattered places around the country, returning again and again to such themes as the flag, the automobile, race, restaurants — eventually turning those artifacts, by the weight of the associations in which he embeds them, into profound and meaningful symbols of American culture.
Frank and his lawyers resorted to stereotypes too, accusing another suspect — Jim Conley, a Black factory worker who testified against Frank — of being especially disposed to lying and murdering because of his race.
Continuing to elude police, the couple slips into a cross-border sports car race, which Frank plans to take advantage of in order to escape into Mexico.
George argued for biological race realism, and saved special venom for Frank Boas and his disciples.
Liberal Party candidates played the role of spoiler by being the possible cause of the defeat of Democrat Frank D. O ' Connor in the race for governor in 1966 by naming Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. as its candidate in the race against incumbent Nelson Rockefeller ; and again in 1980 when it endorsed Javits ( who had lost in the Republican primary for United States senator to Al D ' Amato ).
Frank Kurtis built the first roadster to race the 1952 Indianapolis 500.
In 1891, wealthy Sheikh Riyadh ( Omar Sharif ) sends his attaché Aziz ( Adam Alexi-Malle ) to invite American Frank Hopkins ( Viggo Mortensen ), and his mustang, Hidalgo, to enter the " Ocean of Fire ," an annual 3, 000-mile survival race across the Najd desert region, a race traditionally restricted to pure-bred Arabian horses.
Smallwood won the leadership race and Crosbie crossed the floor to join the opposition Progressive Conservative Party, led by Frank Moores.
A vacant race seat became available at the Williams team, following the departure of Alex Zanardi, and team boss Frank Williams arranged a ' shoot-out ' test between Button and Formula 3000 racer Bruno Junqueira, with Button securing the drive.

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