In October 2000, the Athlon " C " was introduced, raising the mainboard front side bus speed from 100 MHz to 133 MHz ( 266 MT / s ) and providing roughly 10 % extra performance per clock over the " B " model Thunderbird.

In 1953, Brando also starred in The Wild One riding his own Triumph Thunderbird 6T motorcycle, which caused consternation to Triumph's importers, as the subject matter was rowdy motorcycle gangs taking over a small town.

" Brando's powerful ' Wild One ' image was still as of 2011 being marketed by the makers of his Triumph Thunderbird motorcycle in a range of clothing inspired by his character from the film and licenced by Brando's estate

The Thunderbird saw the boy, and told him that the story was now his, and he had the right to wear the Thunderbird mask and wings at the potlatch.

Aiornis, the prehistoric giant bird on which the Thunderbird mythology seems to be partly based, was a carrion feeder known from fossils found near Los Angeles.

Different nationalities included Wolverine, Aurora, Northstar and Transonic as Canadians ; Colossus and Magik from Russia ; Banshee and Siryn from Ireland ; Gambit who is a Cajun, the original Thunderbird who was an Apache Native American ; Psylocke, Wolfsbane and Chamber from the U. K .; Armor, Surge and Zero from Japan ; Nightcrawler from Germany ; Legion from Israel ; Omega Sentinel, Neal Shaara, Kavita Rao and Indra from India ; Velocidad from Mexico ; Oya from Nigeria ; Primal from Ukraine ; etc.

* 1946 – The Thunderbird School of Global Management, then called the American Institute for Foreign Trade, was the first graduate management school focused exclusively on global business.

In 1946, Thunderbird School of Global Management was the first school to offer an MBA program focused on global management.

Some American Indian tribes associated thunderstorms with the Thunderbird, who they believed was a servant of the Great Spirit.

It was based on the 180 nm " Thunderbird " Athlon core.

AMD's Duron " Spitfire " CPU was only roughly 10 % slower than its big brother, Athlon " Thunderbird ".

Beginning in early 1967, a new area of the prison was opened for incoming American POWs ; it was dubbed " Little Vegas ", and its individual buildings and areas were named after Las Vegas Strip landmarks, such as " Golden Nugget ," " Thunderbird ," " Stardust ," " Riviera ," and the " Desert Inn.

The Sons of Daniel Boone was reestablished as a summer camp honor society in 2006 at Hohn Scout Reservation and Camp Thunderbird, following some of the original writings of Daniel Carter Beard.

After the sale of the camp to the Fiver Rivers Metroparks system in 1997, the Thunderbird trail stopped being maintained and now no longer exists except to those who remember exactly where it was, although the trail markers and Order of the Arrow ( OA ) fire-rings are still visible and accessible by those who remember where they are.

It was claimed that the decision to abandon the two-seat design was in part due to the low sales experienced with the 2-seat 1955 Thunderbird.

Rancho Mirage was incorporated in 1973 from a merger of Mirage Cove with five unincorporated areas known as the " Cove communities " ( Desert, Magnesia, Palmas, Tamarisk and Thunderbird ), but had 3, 000 permanent residents at the time.

The city's first resort was the Thunderbird Guest Ranch, opened in 1946 for entertainers and business clientele.

The city was home to the former Wixom Assembly Plant, which produced the Lincoln LS, the Ford Thunderbird, the Ford GT, and the Lincoln Town Car.

The western red cedar pole, long and in diameter, was carved by Hunt at Thunderbird Park, a centre for First Nation monuments.

This was affectionately parodied in the 2004 live-action feature film Thunderbirds, in which director Jonathan Frakes included a brief shot of a puppet hand, suspended by wires, operating the controls of Thunderbird 2.

Many of the directors for earlier Anderson series, such as Alan Pattillo, David Elliott and David Lane, had either left AP Films or were involved in the production of Thunderbird 6, the second Thunderbirds feature film, at the time that Captain Scarlet was being produced.

AMD's integration of the cache onto the Athlon processor itself would later result in the Athlon Thunderbird.

Since the release of AMD's Thunderbird CPU in 2002, Thermalright has been making high-performance heat sinks, not only for AMD processors, but Intel as well.

The Thunderbird is most famous as name of the popular car model of the Ford Motor Company.

The " all-new, all-different X-Men " were led by Cyclops from the original team and consisted of the newly created Colossus ( from the Soviet Union ), Nightcrawler ( from West Germany ), Storm ( from Kenya ), and Thunderbird ( a Native American from the Apache nation ), along with three previously introduced characters, Banshee ( from Ireland ), Sunfire ( from Japan ), and Wolverine ( from Canada ), who eventually became the breakout character on the team and, in terms of comic sales and appearances, the most popular X-Men character.

There were many new popular additions to the X-Men including Cable, Bishop, and Gambit — who became one of the most popular X-Men ( rivaling even Wolverine in size of fanbase ), but many of the later additions to the team came and went ( Joseph, Maggott, Marrow, Cecilia Reyes, and a new Thunderbird ).

The Air Corps conducted most of the training for the Chinese at Luke, Williams, and Thunderbird Fields in Arizona.

One of the most noticeable design elements of the fifth generation Thunderbird was the gaping, fighter jet-inspired grille opening that incorporated hidden headlights.

By 1974, the personal luxury market segment became highly competitive and the Ford Thunderbird was the heaviest and most expensive against a tested of competitors that included the Riviera, Toronado, Grand Prix, Cougar, Chevrolet Monte Carlo, AMC's Oleg Cassini Matador, and even Ford's own Torino Elite.

On qualifying day, Davey signalled that he was in Winston Cup to stay when he qualified an unmarked, but Texaco-Havoline painted # 28 Thunderbird second for the 1987 Daytona 500, becoming the first rookie ever to start on the front row for NASCAR's most prestigious event.

One of Ford's most classic vehicles, the Thunderbird featured suicide doors.

Those most closely related to the Fairmont included the 1980 – 1982 Ford Thunderbird, the 1981 – 1982 Ford Granada, the 1979 – 1993 Ford Mustang ( and 1979 – 1986 Mercury Capri ), and the 1982 – 1987 Lincoln Continental.

SFU holds a 17-15-1 series lead while also being the most recent champion having won the 2010 game at Thunderbird Stadium.

Central Mountain Air and Northern Thunderbird Air also have scheduled and charter services to most points in Northern and Central BC.

Its backend code base, most notably the Gecko layout engine, has become the foundation of a number of applications based on Mozilla, including the Mozilla Foundation's flagship product Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird.

In the late 1950s, GM began to feel the need for a personal luxury car to compete with the highly successful Ford Thunderbird — a uniquely styled, two-door, four-passenger car with an image of both comfort and performance.

By the time Bloodhound was ready for deployment, the solid-fueled Red Shoes, now known as the English Electric Thunderbird, was proving successful and the British Army dropped their orders for the Bloodhound in favor of the Thunderbird.

While the Thunderbird's transformation into a larger, four-seat personal luxury car, starting with the 1958 model year, proved to be successful in sales terms, dealers and buyers alike lamented the loss of the two-seat Thunderbird, which served as a halo car ( image leader ) for the company and a traffic-builder in showrooms, attracting buyers who would ultimately purchase more mundane automobiles.

Since Ford had surplus capital on hand from the success of the Ford Thunderbird, a plan was developed to move Lincoln upmarket, with the Continental broken out as a separate make at the top of Ford's product line, and to add another make to the intermediate slot vacated by Lincoln.

However, by the end of the first browser war, the Internet suite market dwindled to one or two competitors every few years ; in reaction, alternative routes of profit or funding were sought ( Opera Software, for example, moved away from offering the Opera Internet suite with embedded advertisements to a completely ad-free product ), and Mozilla ( spun out of Netscape ) began to separate the Mozilla Application Suite into separate projects: Firefox, Thunderbird, and Sunbird, but development of suite continued with Seamonkey internet suite and after several years it is very active and under Mozilla umbrella.

The MPL is the license for the Mozilla Application Suite, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, and other Mozilla software, but it has been used by others, such as Adobe to license their Flex product line.