Packard offered a 12-cylinder engine — the " Twin Six "— as well as a low-compression straight eight, but never a 16-cylinder engine.

The racecourse is shaped not unlike a pear, and boasts a six-furlong ( 1, 200 m ) straight known as ' the Straight Six.

Six straight wins took the Pars to the top of the league with John Watson, Grant Jenkins and Norrie McCathie scoring well.

Six pages of this story are actually straight from Think Like a Mountain # 4, and appear both in the original issue and the collected editions.

They endured a torrid Six Nations in 2000, losing their first four straight games.

In Chinese these are called " 4-5-6 straight kill " ( 四五六通杀 ), " leopards " ( 豹子 baozi ), and " Big Six " ( 大六 ).

The second hurricane that season, Storm Six, also known as the San Nicolas Hurricane, formed a couple hundred miles east of the Leeward Islands on September 8 and took a nearly straight course for most of its lifetime.

Six were taken straight to Los Angeles ' Central City Jail.

In Six Days of War, by Michael Oren, " The Big Lie " is used in a similar context to describe the widespread accusation ( primarily by Syria and Egypt ), that the Arab defeats during the Six Day War were a consequence of direct United States and United Kingdom military intervention.

Bangladesh did not qualify for the Super Six round due to defeats in three of its five matches.

Ireland's final 2012 Six Nations game was away to England, which the hosts won 30-9, meaning Ireland finished third overall with two wins, one draw and two defeats.

* 19 March-The Welsh national team defeats Ireland to win the Six Nations rugby tournament and secure its first " grand slam " since the 1978.

The Six Days Campaign was fought from 10 February to 14 February during which time he inflicted four major defeats on Blücher's army in the Battle of Champaubert, the Battle of Montmirail, the Battle of Château-Thierry, and the Battle of Vauchamps.

When Havok had a disagreement with Magneto and decided to leave the X-Men, Ice-Man was one of those who followed him, being a founding member of the Six.

The story was reprinted a decade later in Groff Conklin's anthology, Six Great Short Science Fiction Novels ( Dell, 1960 ), followed by MacLean's collection, The Diploids ( Avon, 1962 ).

Warners then produced a series of popular private detective shows beginning with 77 Sunset Strip ( 1958 – 64 ) followed by Hawaiian Eye ( 1959 – 1963 ), Bourbon Street Beat ( 1960 ) and Surfside Six ( 1960 – 1962 ).

In April 1967 Israel conducted air raids into Syria to halt this work, and two months later the Six Day War followed.

Six more silent versions followed with one made by Thomas Edison in 1910.

Six years later, in 1979, the collection Bimë e zë ( Plant and voice ) followed.

New York followed Pasadena in 1963 when the Guggenheim Museum exhibited Six Painters and the Object, curated by Lawrence Alloway.

During the 1920s, Poulenc's most immediate influences were Chabrier, Debussy, Satie, and Stravinsky, and he generally followed the irreverent, flippant aesthetic stance of Les Six with melodies influenced by Parisian music halls.

Six more wins followed, including one against Hector Patri, and then on May 16 of 1987, he and Roman met again.

Six months in hospital followed and during this time Smith made some new friends.

The policy was Cromwell's, but Henry VIII had already in 1538 refused to adopt Lutheran theology, and the statute of Six Articles ( 1539 ), followed by the king's disgust with Anne of Cleves ( 1540 ), brought the agents of that policy to ruin.

His first leading film role was in The Pallbearer ( 1996 ), which was followed by roles in Kissing a Fool ( 1998 ), Six Days Seven Nights ( 1998 ), Apt Pupil, and Picking Up the Pieces ( 2000 ).

After its founding in 1964 and the radicalization among Palestinians, which followed the Six Day War, the PLO became a powerful force, then centred in Jordan.

From the 1920s to the 1930s, the South Bend company had originated many style and engineering milestones, including the Light Four, Light Six, Special Six, Big Six models, the record-breaking Commander and President, followed by the 1939 Champion.

Six further commemorative issues followed between 1989 and 1996.

Foremen are best understood as Project Managers who have come to that position after experience as a construction worker, as opposed to an individual who has followed a professional project management development program ( for example a Lean Six Sigma Certificate ).

This was quickly followed with roles on The Six Million Dollar Man and The Hardy Boys.

Six successful years in Turin followed, with Davids helping the side to the Serie A title in 1998, 2002 and 2003.

From the late 1930s Howells turned increasingly to choral and organ music, composing a second series of Psalm Preludes followed by a set of Six Pieces ( begun 1939 ), of which the third, Master Tallis's Testament, a particular favorite of the composer's, recalled his formative experience of Vaughan Williams ' Tallis Fantasia.

The Japanese Buddhist sculpture art of this period is believed to have followed the style of the Six Dynasties of China.

Six more second-generation satellites were launched in July 2011 followed by another six satellites in December 2011.

Six of Ashley ’ s brothers followed him to Poultney during the next two years, and several members of the Richards family were also early settlers.

A second album from the pair, Sixty Six Steps, followed in 2005.

Six days after the surrender of Confederate commanding general Robert E. Lee, however, Lincoln was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.

Six years later, however, Marvel decided to revive the original Jean Grey ; so as to absolve her from Dark Phoenix's atrocities, the story was retconned to make Jean Grey and Dark Phoenix two separate beings and reveal that the original Jean Grey had been lying unconscious in a cocoon while Dark Phoenix's nefarious deeds were committed, in no way responsible for them ; thus cleared of the moral stain, Jean Grey could go on to a further long and varied career.

The Psalter ( Book of Psalms ) is normally read through once a week during the course of the Daily Office ; however, during Great Lent, the number of Psalms is increased so that the entire Psalter is read through twice during each of the Six Weeks ( during Holy Week it is read through once ).

In 1939, Stalin approved the publication of one volume of poetry, From Six Books, however the collection was withdrawn and pulped after only a few months.

Ocean County is part of the New York metropolitan area, however, it is actually in the southern part of New Jersey and is home to many tourist attractions frequently visited by Delaware Valley residents, especially the beachfront communities of Seaside Heights and Long Beach Island, as well as Six Flags Great Adventure, which is the home of the world's tallest and formerly fastest roller coaster, Kingda Ka.

Recognising, however, that the re-unification of the national territory can provide the only permanent solution for the problem, it is our intention to request the British Government to enter into early negotiations with the Irish Government to review the present constitutional position of the Six Counties of Northern Ireland.

This did not save them, however ; in 1842 the " nettle " of the Six Clerks Office was grasped by Thomas Pemberton, who attacked them in the House of Commons for doing effectively sinecure work for high fees that massively increased the expense involved in cases.

A replica of the ride was built at California's Great America in Santa Clara, CA ; in 2005, however, a concrete island was added to the middle of the floor to promote one-way traffic, reducing the floor area and restoring Rue Le Dodge at Six Flags Great America's largest floor title.

Six films later, however, Michael Rennie also had his first film lead.

Six days after leaving school, however, as he was walking home after a three hour swim in a mill pond, Ben Tillman was attacked by violent pains in his left eye.

Six American diplomats did however avoid capture and found refuge at the nearby Canadian and Swiss embassies in Tehran for three months ( Canadian caper ).

Late that year, however, the park was purchased by Six Flags.

He refused, however, to negotiate on the Six Points, saying that they were now public property and no longer negotiable.

Six gases, however, resisted every attempt at liquefaction and were known at the time as " permanent gases ".

They did however come second in the 2009 Six Nations ahead of 2008 Champions Wales and scored the most points and tries in the tournament.

The film's revenue narrowly exceeded its $ 70 million budget in the United States having generated $ 74, 329, 966, however thanks to strong international sales totaling $ 90, 509, 328, Six Days Seven Nights ended its theatrical run with a worldwide total of $ 164, 839, 294.

Six chiefs, however, were allowed to keep their villages along the Apalachicola River.

Six days later, however, he was again stripped of the title.

Only a month into Darien Lake's season, however, Six Flags began pulling back the Justice League from Darien Lake, and announced that Darien Lake, along with eight other parks, was being considered for sale.

** Six U. S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberators take off from Attu to fly the 1, 300 miles ( 2, 093 km ) round-trip to attack the Japanese base at Paramushiro, in what would have been the first Allied air raid against the Kurile Islands ; however, they are diverted en route to join B-25 Mitchells in attacking a convoy of Japanese transports, suffering one aircraft damaged before returning to Attu.

In September 2009, most CBC stations began to carry a 90 minute block of local news from 5pm to 6: 30pm on weeknights ; however, CBET has opted to keep its CBC News: Windsor at Six program from 6-7pm.

Basic idea of this novel ( searching treasure inside of many similar items ) is based on The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, however there's no other similarities between this novel and short story by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Doctor Octopus easily defeated the other members of the six with them, then zapped Sandman with a weapon that transformed his living sand body into solid glass ( Doctor Octopus, however, was apparently not responsible for the bombing of Sandman's foster family, which was apparently done by the other members of the Six in order to coerce Sandman into joining their revenge scheme ; in addition, Octopus had not only anticipated the Six's plan to reassemble and take revenge upon him, but had deliberately facilitated it, even secretly paying Electro to help ensure the Six reassembled so that he could coerce the other members into aiding his scheme ).