Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Loyd Jowers" ¶ 1
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Loyd and Jowers
Loyd Jowers.
nl: Loyd Jowers
pt: Loyd Jowers
fi: Loyd Jowers
Following Ray's death, Pepper represented the King family in a wrongful death lawsuit, " King family vs. Loyd Jowers and other unknown co-conspirators ".

Loyd and November
In The Chess Monthly, November 1860, American puzzle inventor Sam Loyd published the first helpmate with Black to move as is now standard, one intended main line, and an attractive but false solution ( a try ) to mislead solvers.
On November 4, 2008, Abdul Salam poured gasoline on civilian contractor Paula Loyd and set her on fire.
* Arthur Loyd 22 March 1935 – 8 November 1944

Loyd and 20
Loyd first claimed in 1891 that he invented the puzzle, and he continued until his death a 20 year campaign to falsely take credit for the puzzle.

Loyd and was
Samuel Loyd ( January 30, 1841 – April 10, 1911 ), born in Philadelphia and raised in New York, was an American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician.
At his peak, Loyd was one of the best chess players in the U. S., and was ranked 15th in the world, according to chessmetrics. com.
Loyd was inducted into the U. S. Chess Hall of Fame.
This is false — Loyd had nothing to do with the invention or popularity of the puzzle, and in any case the craze was in 1880, not the early 1870s:
An enthusiast of Tangram puzzles, Loyd published a book of seven hundred unique Tangram designs and a fanciful history of the origin of the Tangram, which was, however, presented as true, and has been described as " Sam Loyd's Most Successful Hoax ".
Loyd bet a friend that he could not pick a piece that didn't give mate in the main line, and when it was published in 1861 it was with the stipulation that white mates with " the least likely piece or pawn ".
MTX's Loyd Ivey helped underwrite the project and the driver was then called the MTX " Thunder 1000000 " ( one million ).
The Red Army, with its purchase of the British Vickers Carden Loyd tankette, Vickers E-Light and Cruiser Mk II Medium tanks, and of the American Christie suspension for production use in its own vehicles, was clearly one of the leading exponents of this practice.
The British Carden Loyd tankette was considered the classic and most successful design, with many other tankettes modelled after it.
While the design was influential, few Carden Loyd tankettes saw combat, some of them on the Bolivian side during the Chaco War.
However, the Universal Carrier was a related vehicle with an extensive operational history which had as its origins the Carden Loyd tankette.
The TK ( also known as the TK-3 ) tankette was a Polish design produced from 1931 that was based upon an improved chassis of the British Carden Loyd tankette.
The first Mark E was built in 1928 by a design team that included the famed tank designers John Valentine Carden and Vivian Loyd.
Loyd C. Sigmon ( May 6, 1909-June 2, 2004 ) was born in Stigler, Oklahoma to a cattle-ranching family.
It was run by members of the newly reformed LOD under the leadership of Chris Goggans (" Erik Bloodaxe ") and Loyd Blankenship (" The Mentor ").
However, Loyd had nothing to do with the invention or initial popularity of the puzzle, and in any case the craze was in 1880, not the early 1870s.
Some later interest was fuelled by Loyd offering a $ 1, 000 prize for anyone who could provide a solution for achieving a particular combination specified by Loyd, namely reversing the 14 and 15.
" Much of this earlier work was a collaboration with American puzzlist Sam Loyd ; in 1890, they published a series of articles in the English penny weekly Tit-Bits.
From the early 1920s, the Imperial Japanese Army tested a variety of European light tanks, including six Carden-Loyd Mark VIbs machine gun carriers and several Renault FT-17, and a decision was reached in 1929 to proceed with the domestic development of a new vehicle based largely on the Carden Loyd design to address the deficiencies of wheeled armored cars.

Loyd and near
Loyd married Lady Sophia Hamilton, daughter of the 5th Duke of Abercorn in 2002 at Baronscourt, the Duke's 5, 500 acre ( 22 km² ) ancestral estate, near Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

Loyd and where
By far the most notable use of the Loyd was in the TT ( Tracked Towing ) configuration where it pulled the 6 Pdr anti-tank gun from the Normandy landings of 1944 through to the end of the War.

Loyd and .
* 1871 – Alexander Loyd, American politician, Mayor of Chicago ( b. 1805 )
Loyd Blankenship, the managing editor of Steve Jackson Games ' former Illuminati BBS acknowledged that Steffan received his wish, and kept the original conversion article online.
* Batten, Bruce Loyd.
* 1909 – Loyd Sigmon, American radio broadcaster ( d. 2004 )
* Sam Loyd ( 1959.
in Martin Gardner: The Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd.
However, he is also known for lies and self-promotion, and criticized on these grounds — Martin Gardner's assessment continues " but also obviously a hustler ", Canadian puzzler Mel Stover called Loyd " an old reprobate ", and Matthew Costello calls him both " puzzledom's greatest celebrity ... popularizer, genius ," but also " huckster ... and fast-talking snake oil salesman.
Loyd claimed from 1891 until his death in 1911 that he invented the fifteen puzzle, for example writing in the Cyclopedia of Puzzles ( published 1914 ), p. 235:
: Sam Loyd did not invent the 15 puzzle and had nothing to do with promoting or popularizing it.
One of his best known chess problems is the following, called " Excelsior " by Loyd after the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
One of the most famous chess problems by Loyd.
* Sam Loyd and his Chess Problems by Alain C. White
File: The Magic Dice Cup tangram paradox. svg | The Magic Dice Cup tangram paradox-from Sam Loyd ’ s book Eighth Book of Tan ( 1903 ).
File: squares. GIF | Clipped square tangram paradox-from Sam Loyd ’ s book Eighth Book of Tan ( 1903 ).
* Loyd, Sam.
Loyd H. Roland Memorial Park ( also known as Akron Park ), http :// www. akron-pa. com / parks. html, is a 70 plus acre park located on Main Street on the East side of Akron.

0.160 seconds.