Those of a more traditional bent may prefer the Guinness record for slinging a stone:, using a long sling and a ovoid stone, set by Larry Bray in Loa, Utah, USA on 21 August 1981.

In the final lap of the 2001 Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 500, Harvick beat Jeff Gordon by. 006 seconds, the same margin that Earnhardt had won over Bobby Labonte at the same race a year prior, and the images of Earnhardt's longtime gas man, Danny " Chocolate " Myers, crying after the victory, Harvick's tire-smoking burnout on the frontstretch with three fingers held aloft outside the driver's window, and the Fox television call by Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds, and Darrell Waltrip, concluding with " Gordon got loose, but he ( Harvick ) is gonna get him though, it's Harvick!

Flynt created his privately held company Larry Flynt Publications ( LFP ) in 1976.

What he actually found in India and what he finally concluded are held back from the reader for a considerable time until, in a scene late in the book, Maugham discusses India and spirituality with Larry in a café long into the evening.

Larry Norman, often described as the " father of Christian rock music ", and in his later years " the Grandfather of Christian rock ", who, in 1969 recorded and released Upon This Rock, " the first commercially released Jesus rock album ", challenged a view held by some conservative Christians ( predominantly fundamentalists ) that rock music was anti-Christian.

One of the first in the USA was the six day Explo ' 72 held in Dallas, Texas in June 1972 that was attended by around 80, 000 people with around 100, 000-150, 000 at the final concert and which featured acts such as Larry Norman, The Archers, Love Song, Randy Matthews, Children of the Day, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson.

At the " Rock of Ages Folk Festival " held on February 26, 1970 in Northridge, California, Norman appeared as part of the Larry Norman Experience.

After a public memorial service held March 1, 2008, at The Church on the Hill, Turner, Oregon, Norman was buried in Salem's City View Cemetery, and his tombstone reads: " Larry Norman Evangelist Without Portfolio 1947 – 2008 Bloodstained Israelite ".

The suspect, who is being held without bail, is eligible to face the death penalty on capital felony first degree murder, first-degree burglary, and assault with a deadly weapon, according to Muskogee County, Oklahoma District Attorney Larry Moore.

Although the LDS church held considerable real estate, estimated at approximately $ 60, 000 in equity by historian Larry T. Wimmer, it also needed liquidity to repay outstanding loans.

Numerous wrestling matches were held at Metropolitan Stadium, including contests featuring Hard Boiled Haggerty, Bob Geigel, Wilbur Snyder, Kay Noble, Lord Littlebrook, Verne Gagne, Gene Kiniski, Rene Goulet, Larry Hennig, Hans Schmidt, Mad Dog Vachon and Dick the Bruiser.

After removing Doby from the manager's role and reassigning him to batting coach, the position Doby held before being named manager, Veeck said, " Larry will always have a role on this team in some capacity.

After Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down in 1983, with U. S. Representative Larry McDonald aboard, a special election was held to fill his seat in Congress.

The first Mr. Olympia was held on September 18, 1965 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City, with Larry Scott winning his first of two straight titles.

In September 2000, in New York, Larry Gagosian held the Hirst show, Damien Hirst: Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results and Findings.

The office of the International President is currently held by Larry Hanley, who took office in October 2010.

A deactivating ceremony was held in South Korea, which was attended by several members of the cast of the M * A * S * H television series, including Larry Linville ( who played Frank Burns ), and David Ogden Stiers ( who played Charles Winchester ).

In a class taught by attorney Larry Leventhal, the members had learned their band held by treaty an unresolved claim to off-reservation hunting and fishing rights in the northern part of the state.

During the playoffs, Niedermayer tied a record held by both Larry Murphy and Paul Coffey for most shorthanded goals scored by a defenceman in the playoffs with two.

The werewolf who bites David is revealed to be related to Hackett, and has escaped from an asylum where he is held under the name " Larry Talbot ", the name of the title character in The Wolf Man.

He held a long-time collaboration with jazz guitarist Larry Carlton that produced a Grammy-winning live album, and he was a member of the jazz fusion band Los Lobotomys, a collaboration of notable session musicians.

She and Larry were engaged and held the wedding ceremony but still did not marry to " stay under the radar ".

On December 8, 2011, Steen announced he would not run for re-election to the NC House, but would instead run for the Republican nomination for North Carolina's 8th congressional district currently held by Democrat Larry Kissell.

Increased competition in the top 40 format — first from WMEX ( 1510 AM, now WWZN ), which had programmed a top 40 format since 1957, then from WRKO, which adopted the format in 1967 — led WBZ to shift its music programming to adult contemporary in 1969, playing several songs an hour between 6 and 9 a. m. ( though it was not unheard of for Carl DeSuze to play only one, if any, song an hour during his show ), 10 to 12 songs an hour between 9 a. m. and 4 p. m., and 4 to 6 songs an hour between 4 and 7 p. m .. At night, WBZ programmed talk shows, with such hosts as Guy Mainella, a pioneer in sports talk ; Jerry Williams in the evenings ; and Larry Glick's overnight show ( the latter two held the same popular shifts at WMEX years earlier ).

He held the seat that was previously held by his father, Doug Anthony, and his grandfather, Larry Anthony, senior.

Prior to the 1995 season, the Rockies acquired free-agent outfielder Larry Walker, previously of the Montreal Expos, who replaced Kingery as the 4th member of the " Blake Street Bombers "— named after the street on which the new ballpark ( Coors Field ) was located — along with Galarraga, Bichette, and third baseman Vinny Castilla, who had played sparingly with the major-league club during the previous season.

** The U. S. Navy's Commander Leroy Heath ( the pilot ) and Lieutenant Larry Monroe ( the bombardier / navigator ) establish a world flight-altitude record of 91, 450 feet ( 27, 874 m ), with payload, in an A-5 Vigilante twinjet bomber carrying a 1, 000 kilogram payload, and they better the previous world record by over four miles ( 6 km ).

* Leisure Suit Larry: Collection Series ( 1997 ): This two-CD collection included everything the previous collection contained, plus the SVGA talkie version of Larry 6, a Larry 7 preview, and Larry's Big Score: Pinball.

In the 1997 – 98 NBA season Larry Bird coached the team, under whom they posted a new franchise record, finishing 58 – 24, a 19-game improvement from the previous season.

Fallen Angel: The Outlaw Larry Norman: A Bible Story is a controversial 2008 documentary on Norman's life by film producer David Di Sabatino, maker of a previous documentary on Lonnie Frisbee.

Produced by Larry Dunn and Verdine White ( of Earth, Wind & Fire ), this album began a new era for the band, being less experimental and jazzy than previous releases.

The influences of some of the previous generation of electric bass players, such as Larry Graham, Stanley Clarke, and Jaco Pastorius, are audible in Miller's playing.

Artist Larry Carroll designed the cover artwork for South of Heaven, having designed the artwork for Slayer's previous album Reign in Blood.

* Larry Clark's previous exhibition at the International Center of Photography

The formula was much the same as the previous games: the " twist " was that Larry was a passenger on a cruise ship populated by parodies of famous people.

Designed by Larry Shinoda with major inspiration from a previous concept design called the " Q Corvette " by Peter Brock and Chuck Pohlmann under the styling direction of Bill Mitchell.

New England also signed an unusually large number of American players including Massachusetts natives and former US Olympic hockey team members Larry Pleau ( who had been a regular with the Montreal Canadiens the previous season ), Kevin Ahearn, John Cunniff and Paul Hurley.

An Op / Ed article by Larry Kramer published in the New York Times the previous day described some of the issues ACT UP was concerned with.

Towards the end of the 70s the race again became a home to returning European based antipodeans like Alan Jones and Larry Perkins with Warwick Brown winning the 1977 race, while the previous year touring car racer John Goss completed a remarkable double, becoming the only driver to win the Grand Prix and the Bathurst 1000.

Programming changes have also taken place, with the introduction of News To Me, a program featuring only user-generated content, in May, a daily broadcast of the previous evening's Larry King Live, in June, and a shift towards the channel's rolling news coverage being handled by a single anchor, deviating from the channel's traditional dual anchor format since 2003.

The Larry King Live re-air has been replaced by a re-air of Showbiz Tonight from the previous evening ( that in turn was dropped for an extension of " Morning Express ").

This battle apparently undid some of Superboy-Prime's timeline changes, and resulted in a timeline incorporating all previous incarnations of the Doom Patrol, but with Rita Farr and Larry Trainor still alive.

Hope then spent most of the summer of 1984 trapped in a loveless marriage to Larry, but was successfully able to keep the marriage from being consummated by claiming that she was pregnant with Bo's child ( Hope was in fact still a virgin at this point as her and Bo's previous attempts to make love had been interrupted ), while meeting Bo in secret and reaffirming that her love was for him.

The departures of Olajuwon and Young after the 1984 NCAA Final, in addition to the loss of Drexler and Larry Micheaux the previous year, brought the Phi Slama Jama era at UH to a close.

The events and characters of the previous show were not mentioned, except in a late season episode in which Larry Dallas appeared.

His appearance was a redesign of the protagonist Steve from MacFarlane's previous animated short films, The Life of Larry & Steve.

Unlike the two previous releases, the album relies heavily on drum programming by Kirk Johnson and features input from Larry Graham and Doug E. Fresh.