Shelby's first victory came on their maiden race with the Ford program, with Ken Miles and Lloyd Ruby taking a Shelby American-entered GT40 to victory in the Daytona 2000 in February 1965.

His friend, military Captain Miles Standish came to love the maiden throughout the long voyage of 1620.

Carter came to fame via the second great Miles Davis quintet in the early 1960s, which also included Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Tony Williams.

Jazz stars in the 1950s who came into prominence in their genres called Bebop, Hard bop, Cool jazz and the Blues, at this time included Lester Young, Ben Webster, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Art Tatum, Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, Oscar Peterson, Gil Evans, Jerry Mulligan, Cannonball Adderley, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Art Blakey, Max Roach, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday.

According to biographer Kelley, the 1964 Time appearance came because " Barry Farrell, who wrote the cover story, wanted to write about a jazz musician and almost by default Monk was chosen, because they thought Ray Charles and Miles Davis were too controversial.

Charles Miles created the first permanent settlement in what came to be called the Marshall Township.

But it was during the recording of this album in New York that Miles Davis came into the studio while I was singing, stood behind me and started playing.

Louis B. Mayer came of age just as the popularity of the nickelodeon was beginning to rise ; he renovated the Gem Theater in Haverhill, Massachusetts, converting it into a nickelodeon that he opened in 1907 as the Orpheum Theater, announcing that it would be " the home of refined entertainment devoted to Miles Brothers moving pictures and illustrated songs ".

Parker came along too, and the Eckstine band over the next few years would host a startling cast of jazz talent: Miles Davis, Kenny Dorham, Art Blakey, Lucky Thompson, Gene Ammons, Dexter Gordon, among others.

Wayne Shorter came to the group with a reputation as a dominant role as an instrumentalist, drawn from both his solo work and his contributions to Miles Davis ’ " second great quintet " during the 1960s.

The nearest that the band ever came to reuniting was when Zawinul and Shorter both played live with Miles Davis on July 10 1991 in Paris ( the only time when Zawinul is known to have shared a live stage with Davis ).

The saxophonist Bob Berg, who originally came to prominence as a member of Miles Davis's bands, recorded a number of fusion albums with fellow Miles band member and guitarist Mike Stern.

Short's play came in for heavy criticism from BBC commentators Bill Hartston and Tony Miles.

In an example of the classical approach, Pirsig explains to the reader that one must pay continual attention: when the Narrator and his friends came into Miles City, Montana he notices that the " engine idle is loping a little ," a possible indication that the fuel / air mixture is too rich.

In July 1970, during an interview with Yallop, Craig accepted that the bullet that killed Miles came from his gun, but maintained that all of his shots were fired over the rear garden of a house adjacent to the warehouse, approximately 20 degrees to the right of Miles's location from where Craig had been firing.

He views “ Africadian ” literature as “ literal and liberal — I canonize songs and sonnets, histories and homilies .” Clarke has stated that he found further writing inspiration in the 1970s and his “ individualist poetic scored with implicit social commentary ” came from the ‘ Gang of Seven ’ intellectuals, “ poet-politicos: jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, troubadour-bard Bob Dylan, libertine lyricist Irving Layton, guerrilla leader and poet Mao Zedong, reactionary modernist Ezra Pound, Black Power orator Malcolm X and the Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau .” Though flawed, Clarke found “ as a whole, the group ’ s blunt talk, suave styles, acerbic independence, raunchy macho, feisty lyricism, singing heroic and a scarf-and-beret chivalry quite, well, liberating .”

Once, when Eckstine came across a disheveled Davis in the depths of his heroin excess, his remark " Looking sharp, Miles " served as a wake-up call for Davis, who promptly returned to his father's farm in the winter of 1953 and finally kicked the habit.

Everyone – the likes of Miles Davis, Paul McCartney – who came up for The Tube will have sat in that pub.

The original Money Money 2020 release came with a companion DVD with music videos directed and produced by Roy Miles of AntiDivision.

Miles Davis came to Montreux several times, also British hard rock band Deep Purple were invited as headliners five times.

Reardon's last formal appearance in an event came in the 2000 Senior's event where he lost his opening ' match ' ( actually a single frame ) 69 – 46 to Graham Miles.

Konitz's association with the Cool Jazz movement of the 1940s and 50s, includes participation in Miles Davis ' epochal Birth of the Cool sessions, and his work with Lennie Tristano came from the same period.

* Tim Miles, basketball coach, U of Nebraska.

Tim Miles was hired on March 24, 2012 as the next head men's basketball coach at Nebraska.

A National Shuffleboard Hall of Fame ( NSHF ) was established in the United States in 1995, with the goals of recognizing excellence among participants in shuffleboard and to preserve the history of the game .. Twelve people have been inducted: ( California ) PeeWee Ramos, Bob Miles, Billy Chiles ; ( Oklahoma ) Bill Melton, Glen Davidson ; ( New Jersey ) Mickey Mickens, Sol Lipkin ; ( Texas ) Earl Kelly ; ( Nebraska ) Denny Busch ; ( Pacific Northwest ) Jim Foran.

Fall of New Mexico, Bert M. Fernald of Maine, Joseph I. France of Maryland, Asle J. Gronna of North Dakota, Hiram W. Johnson of California, Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania, Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin, Medill McCormick of Illinois, George H. Moses of New Hampshire, George W. Norris of Nebraska, Miles Poindexter of Washington, James A. Reed of Missouri, Lawrence Sherman of Illinois, and Charles S. Thomas of Colorado.

Lawrence Delos Miles ( April 21, 1904 Harvard, Nebraska – August 1, 1985 ) was an American engineer, and the creator of Value engineering.

In November 1872 he moved to the newly organized Frontier County, Nebraska, in the company of Ena Raymonde, a southern belle from Georgia, whose brother W. H. “ Paddy ” Miles had recently established a trapper ’ s camp known as Wolf ’ s Rest on the Medicine Creek.

Ford stuck with the orchestrated photo finish but Miles, deeply bitter over this decision after his dedication to the program, issued his own protest by suddenly slowing just yards from the finish and letting McLaren across the line first.

Part of the Miles Glacier Bridge, with a " kludgy " temporary fix to make the bridge usable after 1964 Alaska earthquake | earthquake damage.

The peculiar policy of the government in employing so weak and vacillating a person as General Miles to look after the uneasy Indians, has resulted in a terrible loss of blood to our soldiers, and a battle which, at best, is a disgrace to the war department.

It was after the veteran TV globetrotter Alan Whicker and journalist Miles Kington turned down presenting the first of these, Around the World in 80 Days, that gave Palin the opportunity to present his first and subsequent travel shows.

The most important Prestige recordings of this period ( Dig, Blue Haze, Bags ' Groove, Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants, and Walkin ') originated mostly from recording sessions in 1951 and 1954, after Davis ' recovery from his addiction.

Despite a significant technological advantage, the Cetagandans are finally driven off at great cost after many years of occupation and guerrilla warfare, in large part due to the leadership of General Count Piotr Vorkosigan, Miles ' paternal grandfather.

Miles is shipped off to the Hegen Hub after being accused of treason at home, and finds himself having to rescue his friend and Emperor, Gregor Vorbarra.

* 1886 – American Indian Wars: after almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.

Shortly after his re-election to the mayoralty in 1949, O ' Dwyer was confronted with a police corruption scandal uncovered by the Kings County District Attorney, Miles McDonald.

* Miles Davis created his half-hour dirge " He Loved Him Madly " ( on Get Up with It ) as a tribute to Ellington one month after his death.

A reinterpretation of the ground plan and finds assemblage by Dr Miles Russell of Bournemouth University has suggested that, given the extremely close parallels with Domitian's imperial palace in Rome, its construction may more plausibly date to after AD 92.

Major-General Lachlan Macquarie was put in charge of the mission after Major-General Miles Nightingall fell ill before departure.

However this was 50 years after the Battle of Bosworth Field, and 52 years after the deed was allegedly done, leading to suspicion that this Miles Forrest was not the one referred to by More, as he would by then have been into his seventies or even eighties and well past retirement.

The cast included Jonathan Pryce ( after much persuasion ) as Fagin, Sally Dexter as Nancy, Miles Anderson as Bill Sikes, James Villiers as Mr. Brownlow, James Saxon as Mr. Bumble, Jenny Galloway as Widow Corney, David Delve as Mr. Sowerberry and Julia Deakin as Mrs. Sowerberry.

James M. " Miles " Williams, who built a dam, saw mill and later a grist mill in town, eventually platted the land in 1845 and named the town " Williamstown " after himself.

Jasper was the home to Debra Dene Barnes Miles the year after she finished her reign as Miss America ( from ' Miss Kansas ' title ) in 1968.

Miles Township as well as nearby Milesburg, was named after Colonel Samuel Miles, who co-owned the Centre Furnace, along with Colonel John Patton.

Milesburg, as well as nearby Miles Township was named after Colonel Samuel Miles, who co-owned the Centre Furnace Iron Works, along with Colonel John Patton and John Dunlop.

Patton Township was established in 1794 and named after Colonel John Patton, who co-owned the Centre Furnace, along with Colonel Samuel Miles.

The city was named after Johnathan Miles, who donated $ 5, 000 to a fund for an extension of a railroad track.

With the arrival of Miles Morales, the current Spider-Man of their universe, May faints after hearing the remorse from Peter for ever showing up.

In 1993, Graham Miles, originally from Sanderstead, London Borough of Croydon, suffered a stroke after which he could not move any part of his body except his eyes.