Moreover the centralization of our economy during the 1920s, the dislocations of the Depression, the common ethos of Materialism everywhere, all contributed in various ways to the face-lifting that replaced Mike Fink and the Great Gatsby with the anonymous physiognomy of the Little People.

* Mike Fink ( c. 1770 / 1780 – c. 1823 ) called " king of the keelboaters ", was a semi-legendary brawler and river boatman who exemplified the tough and hard-drinking men who ran keelboats up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

The folktales about Mike Fink recall the keelboats used for commerce in the early days of European settlement.

* Mike Fink

Mike Fink was born at Fort Pitt in present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and served as an Indian scout in his teens.

Besides imagined feats making part of the legend of Mike Fink, it may have also been woven from two ( or more ) men with the same name.

Mike Fink signed up as one of Ashley's Hundred and formed a part of the band that built Fort Henry.

) No journal mentions Fink's advanced age, so it may have been a younger Mike Fink who joined Ashley's group.

John Fink, who said that Mike Fink was a relative.

In the management of his business Mike Fink was a rigid disciplinarian ; woe to the man who shirked his responsibilities or did not carry his own weight -- literally.

According to the Miami Valley Historical Society ( specifically, Miami Valley Vignettes by George C. Crout ), until 1815, when he moved west, Mike Fink did not operate keel boats on the Ohio but on the Great Miami River from the Ohio River to Fort Loramie, where portage was made to the Maumee River in order to continue going on up to Lake Erie.

The recorded exploits of Mike Fink featured mostly in American broadside ballads, dime novels, and other subliterary texts from before the Civil War era.

In the early 20th century, there was an attempt to revive his popularity, spearheaded by Colonel Henry Shoemaker, a Pennsylvania folklorist, who collected Mike Fink tales, and saw the character as a local equivalent to Crockett, but Shoemaker's attempt at reviving the character sputtered.

In 1955, Mike Fink ( as portrayed by character actor Jeff York ) appeared in two episodes of the Davy Crockett miniseries of ABC's Disneyland opposite the popular Davy Crockett ( portrayed by Fess Parker ).

Keel boats bearing Fink's name, Mike Fink Keel Boats, operated at Disneyland and Magic Kingdom's Liberty Square until they were quietly retired in the late 1990s, when one unexpectedly capsized and dumped guests and cast members into the river.

In 1958, Zachary Ball, known as an author who wrote adventure stories for boys, wrote a fictional account of the early life of Mike Fink entitled Young Mike Fink.

Mike Fink also appears in Eudora Welty's parodic fairy-tale The Robber Bridegroom.

In Orson Scott Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker, an alternate history version of Mike Fink appears in every novel after the first.

In 1998, children's author, Steven Kellogg wrote a book entitled Mike Fink: A Tall Tale.

Mike Fink is a prime character in the 2007 young-adult historical novel Mississippi Jack by Louis A. Meyer.

Collaborators on the SGA projects also included Mike Artin ( étale cohomology ) and Nick Katz ( monodromy theory and Lefschetz pencils ).

He also appeared as himself on The Ed Sullivan Show, Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, The Red Skelton Show, The Merv Griffin Show, The Mike Douglas Show, and guested on Ralph Edwards ' This Is Your Life on February 12, 1961 with honoree Peter Palmer.

Bulletins during BBC Breakfast are presented by Sally Nugent or Mike Bushell, with the latter also appearing on other sports bulletins on the channel.

A horizontal strip can also be used for a single panel with a single gag, as seen occasionally in Mike Peters ' Mother Goose and Grimm.

Leveritt also mistakenly presumed that the crime scene video was shot minutes after Detectives Mike Allen and Bryn Ridge recovered two of the bodies, when in fact the camera was not available for almost thirty minutes afterward.

They also signed Mike Lowell to a new four year contract.

Michael “ Dynamite Mike ” Kelly, commander of New York ’ s Third “ Shamrock ” Battalion, also joined the race.

Godwin's law ( also known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies or Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies ) is an argument made by Mike Godwin in 1990 that has become an Internet adage.

Gygax also collaborated on Tractics ( WWII to c. 1965, with Mike Reese & Leon Tucker ) and with Dave Arneson on the Napoleonic naval wargame Don't Give Up the Ship!

During the early 1980s the FujiGen guitar factory also produced most of the Roland guitar synthesizers, including the Stratocaster-style Roland G-505, the twin-humbucker Roland G-202 ( endorsed by Eric Clapton, Dean Brown, Jeff Baxter, Yannis Spathas, Steve Howe, Mike Rutherford, Andy Summers and Steve Hackett ) and the Ibanez X-ING IMG-2010.

Interestingly, in 1979, Jan also performed over 100 concerts of Jan and Dean songs with another front man from Hawaii, Randy Ruff, so Torrence toured briefly as " Mike & Dean ," with Mike Love of the Beach Boys.

" At the age of 8, he had been sexually molested by a camp counselor, who had also taken nude pictures of him .... Poor Mike had spent his whole life racked with guilt and in constant fear that these pictures would someday surface in a way that might embarrass him and, especially, his adoptive father.

His son Kenny Albert also began to work as a part-time play-by-play announcer for the Knicks since 2009, whenever the older Albert's successor Mike Breen ( whom he later followed on the NBA on NBC broadcasts and now works on ESPN and ABC aside from his role at MSG ) is unavailable.

Beginning with the 2008 – 09 season, Albert was also paired with his TNT broadcast colleague Mike Fratello on the YES Network.

With Hulme and multiple motorcycle world champion Mike Hailwood he also sealed McLaren's first constructors ' championship.

Forty years later, on April 17, 1976, Mike Schmidt became the third, also hitting his in Chicago, these coming at Wrigley Field.

The following inductees have also been elected to the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame: Richie Ashburn, Steve Carlton, Robin Roberts, Mike Schmidt, broadcaster Harry Kalas, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Del Ennis, Chuck Klein, Ed Delahanty, Larry Bowa, Tug McGraw, and Dick Allen.

Refactoring of digital HDLs, albeit manual refactoring, has also been investigated by Synopsys fellow Mike Keating.

He is also part owner of skateboard company Girl Skateboards with riders Rick Howard and Mike Carroll.

Stram also concluded that the Vikings ' aggressiveness on defense also made them susceptible to trap plays ; Mike Garrett's rushing touchdown would come on a trap play.

Washington also had a solid defense led by linebacker Chris Hanburger ( four interceptions, 98 return yards, one touchdown ), and cornerbacks Pat Fischer ( four interceptions, 61 return yards ) and Mike Bass ( three interceptions, 53 return yards )

Pittsburgh also had a solid offensive line, led by center Mike Webster.

Kick returner Mike Nelms also gained a combined total of 809 yards returning kickoffs and punts.