Hard disk drive manufacturers used " megabytes " or " MB ", meaning 10 < sup > 6 </ sup > bytes, to characterize their products as early as 1974.

Other chart hits during this period included Parton's chart-topping cover of the 1969 First Edition hit " But You Know I Love You " and " The House of the Rising Sun " ( both 1981 ), " Single Women ", " Heartbreak Express " and " Hard Candy Christmas " ( 1982 ) and 1983's " Potential New Boyfriend ", which was accompanied by one of Parton's first music videos, and which also reached the U. S. dance charts.

Firstly there was a cover of David Bowie's 1972 glam-rock classic " Suffragette City ", slightly renamed to " SufferRAGEette City " to fit in with the " Rage Hard " promotion.

In his book " Easy the Hard Way ", Joe Pasternak, head of one of the other musical units within MGM, singled out Kelly for his patience and willingness to spend as much time as necessary to enable the ailing Garland to complete her part.

As the only country performer to participate, some worried that Brooks would turn his cover of the song originally sung by drummer Peter Criss, " Hard Luck Woman ", into a country song.

Harris ' songs " Boulder to Birmingham ", from her 1975 album Pieces of the Sky, and " The Road ", from her 2011 album Hard Bargain, are tributes to Parsons.

The creative use of music videos within their 1964 debut film A Hard Day's Night, particularly the performance of " Can't Buy Me Love ", led MTV decades later to honor the film's director, Richard Lester, with an award for " basically inventing " the music video.

Although four songs were released as singles to promote the album ( lead single " Everything I Need ", " Man With Two Hearts ", " Maria ", and " Hard Luck Story "), only the first song charted in the US, and that only at No. 47.

* Colin Hay has made three guest appearances on Scrubs as ' Troubadour ' on " My Overkill ", season 2 episode 1, singing " Overkill "," My Hard Labor ", season 7 episode 2, singing " Down Under " and season 8 " My Finale "

Hard science fiction, or " hard SF ", is characterized by rigorous attention to accurate detail in quantitative sciences, especially physics, astrophysics, and chemistry, or on accurately depicting worlds that more advanced technology may make possible.

" The joke was sometimes combined with another running gag in which, rather than having a sign language interpreter visually presenting the news to aid the deaf, the show would provide assistance from Garrett Morris, " head of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing ", whose " aid " involved cupping his hands around his mouth and shouting the news as Chase read it.

* Howard Zinn, " The Founding Convention of the IWW " and " Self-help in Hard Times ", from A People's History of the United States.

Hawn also performed a cover version of the Beatles ' song, " A Hard Day's Night ", on George Martin's 1998 album, In My Life.

1960 ); Blok, Alexander: " The Puppet Show ", " The Light Wandered about in the Window ", " The Puppet Booth ", " In the Hour when the Narcissus Flowers Drink Hard ", " He Appeared at a Smart Ball ", " Double " ( 1902 – 1905 ; series related to Blok's play The Puppet Show under # Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues | Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues above ); Guro, Elena: " Boredom " and " Lunar ", from The Hurdy-Gurdy ( 1909 ); Kuzmin, Mikhail Alekseevich: " Where will I find words " ( 1906 ), " In sad and pale make-up " ( 1912 ).

There are also strong Hong Kong influences, mainly of the " heroic bloodshed " mold which includes films such as The Killer or Hard Boiled.

The film would start a genre of its own called mockumentary and become hugely influential on later similar films, such as This is Spinal Tap and Hard Core Logo.

Different from the Rolling Stone list, which listed guitarists in descending order, Guitar World divided guitarists by music genre — such as " Lords of Hard Rock " for hard rock artists or " Jazzmen " for jazz players.

Recognition of the band's importance built over the years, and they are now regularly represented in many assessments of all-time great rock music, such as the Rolling Stone lists of the 50 Greatest Artists of All Time and 25 Greatest Live Albums of All Time, VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock, and Mojo's 100 Greatest Albums.

Traditional karate kata bear a strong resemblance to the forms found in Fujian martial arts such as Fujian White Crane, Five Ancestors, and Gangrou-quan ( Hard Soft Fist ; pronounced " Gōjūken " in Japanese ).

Face special referees will often fight back against hostile heel wrestlers, particularly if the special referee is either a wrestler himself or a famous martial artist ( such as Tito Ortiz at the main event at TNA Hard Justice 2005 ).

Hit singles such as " Jam-Master Jay " and " Hard Times " proved that the group were more than a one-hit wonder, and the landmark single " Rock Box " was a groundbreaking fusion of raw hip-hop and hard rock that would become a cornerstone of the group's sound and paved the way for the rap rock movement of the late 1990s.

The academy holds a membership roster of the most respected names in 20th century science, including Stephen Hawking and many nobel laureates such as Charles Hard Townes.

STI was at one time an elite organization within Sega of America that developed games such as Kid Chameleon, Comix Zone, The Ooze and Die Hard Arcade ( this one being the result of a collaboration between STI and successful arcade game developers AM1 ).

Hard, dry materials such as wood, bone, feathers, dried insects, or shells can be examined with little further treatment, but living cells and tissues and whole, soft-bodied organisms usually require chemical fixation to preserve and stabilize their structure.

Hard rock, heavy metal, and glam metal became some of the most dominant music genres of the decade, peaking with the arrival of such bands as Guns N ' Roses, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Poison, Europe, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Mötley Crüe, and virtuoso guitarists such as Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen.

They are also one of the major elements in movies such as The V. I. P. s, Airplane !, Airport, Die Hard 2, Soul Plane, Jackie Brown, Get Shorty, Home Alone, Liar Liar, Passenger 57, Final Destination, Unaccompanied Minors, Catch Me If You Can, Rendition and The Langoliers.

Hard vulcanized rubber is sometimes sold under the brand names ebonite or vulcanite, and is used to make hard articles such as bowling balls and saxophone mouth pieces.

This sub-genre began with the film Die Hard and has become popular in Hollywood because of its crowd appeal and the relative simplicity of building sets for such a constrained piece.

European action actors such as Belgian-born Jean-Claude Van Damme ( Bloodsport, Hard Target, Timecop ), Moroccan-born Jean Reno ( Ronin ), Swedish-born Dolph Lundgren ( Showdown in Little Tokyo, Universal Soldier, The Expendables ) and English-born Jason Statham ( The Transporter, The Expendables, Crank ), appeared in a number of 1990s and 2000s-era action films.

Some of the influential and popular directors from the 1980s to 2000s include James Cameron ( the first two Terminator films, Aliens, True Lies ); Andrew Davis ( Code of Silence, Above the Law, Under Siege ); John Woo ( Hong Kong action films such as Hard Boiled and US-made English-language films such as Hard Target, Broken Arrow and Face / Off ); John McTiernan ( the first and third Die Hard films, Predator, The Last Action Hero ); Ridley Scott ( Black Rain, Black Hawk Down ); The Wachowski Brothers ( The Matrix trilogy ), Andrzej Bartkowiak ( Romeo Must Die, Exit Wounds, Cradle 2 the Grave, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li ), Robert Rodriguez ( Mexico trilogy, From Dusk till Dawn, Machete ) and Michael Bay ( the first two Bad Boys films, The Rock, Transformers trilogy ); Louis Leterrier ( the first two Transporter films, Unleashed ).

* Hard sound effects are common sounds that appear on screen, such as door slams, weapons firing, and cars driving by.

* Hard copy replacement: PACS replaces hard-copy based means of managing medical images, such as film archives.

* The Hard Man ( 1957 ) — Rice Martin

Writers Shane Black and Steven E. de Souza have spoken of the film's influence on their characters of Martin Riggs and John McClane from the Lethal Weapon and Die Hard franchises.

She also appeared on Broadway in 1973 in a supporting role in No Hard Feelings at the Martin Beck Theatre

At Hard Justice 2007, Martin, Abyss, and Sting defeated A. J.

Besser has appeared in films such as Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Martin & Orloff ( written by UCB cohorts Roberts and Walsh ), Year One, Undead or Alive, Drillbit Taylor, and Junebug, in addition to a number of sitcoms.

* All songs written by Martin Gore, except for " Work Hard " written by Martin Gore and Alan Wilder.

Dean Martin (" Live At The Sands-An Evening of Music, Laughter and Hard Liquor ") Frank Sinatra ( Sinatra at the Sands ), Sammy Davis, Jr. ( The Sounds of ' 66, That's All!

The song " Hard Lovin ' Man " from the Deep Purple album Deep Purple in Rock is dedicated to him: " For Martin Birch-catalyst ".

Hard Rain opened on Martin Luther King long weekend in 1998 earning fifth place with $ 7, 076, 110 from Friday to Sunday and $ 8, 009, 024 including the holiday Monday.

An instrumental version of " This Boy ", orchestrated by George Martin, is used as the incidental music during Ringo Starr's towpath scene in the film A Hard Day's Night.

It was also included on Martin ’ s Parlophone album Off the Beatle Track and the EP Music From A Hard Day ’ s Night by the George Martin Orchestra, released 19 February 1965.

* On the American soundtrack album release of A Hard Day's Night, George Martin and his orchestra covered the song in a slower-tempo, easy listening-styled instrumental version lasting over a minute longer than the Beatles ' vocal version on the same album.

" Any Time at All " reprises a George Martin trick from " A Hard Day's Night " by using a piano solo echoed lightly note-for-note on guitar by George Harrison.

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