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The death of Dale Earnhardt on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500 changed Childress's plans, and Harvick began his first Sprint Cup race the following week in Rockingham at the Dura Lube 400.
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* Every three years since Earnhardt's death, someone associated with Earnhardt has won the Daytona 500 ( his son Dale Earnhardt, Jr. in 2004, Earnhardt's replacement Cup driver Kevin Harvick in 2007, and Earnhardt Ganassi's Jamie McMurray in 2010.
The 2001 Daytona 500 witnessed the death of Dale Earnhardt on the final lap of the event after he was in an accident.
In NASCAR, the 6-point harness became popular after the death of Dale Earnhardt, who was wearing a five-point harness when he suffered his fatal crash ; as it was first thought that his belt had broken, some teams ordered a six-point harness in response.
That effect has been variously interpreted ; Dale Brown points out an interpretation that, in inserting within the work a faded portrait of the king and queen hanging on the back wall, Velázquez has ingeniously prognosticated the fall of the Spanish empire that was to gain momentum following his death.
Dale Bynum was married to Hazel, who preceded him in death.
** Michael Waltrip won the Daytona 500, a race that also saw the death of seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Dale Earnhardt in an unspectacular crash during the final lap.
Dale owned the estate of Rosebank in Cambuslang, which he used as a summer retreat from his townhouse ( reputedly still standing ) in Charlotte Street Glasgow and to where he retired and lived until his death.
Racing harnesses restraining the driver have used nylon webbing for years, but since the death of Dale Earnhardt Polyester webbing is becoming more popular due to its increased strength, and lower rate of elongation under load.
He published lectures such as the Atonement ( which is still in print ), sermons, the ' Manual of Congregational Principles ' ( also still in print ), and, at his death, he left an unfinished history of Congregationalism, revised by his son, A. W. W. Dale.
Following the death of Lloyd Perryman in 1977, Dale Warren, who had joined the group in 1952 and continued on until his death on August 8, 2008, took over the leadership of the Sons of the Pioneers, guiding them into the 2000s.
Toward the end of the Third Age, the Kingdoms of Erebor and Dale were restored after the death of Smaug and the Battle of Five Armies, and, attacked by the White Council, Sauron withdrew from Mirkwood to Mordor.
It was not until after the death of Dale Earnhardt Sr., under similar circumstances, that NASCAR mandated head-and-neck restraints.
It came during a week in which the racing world remembered the fifth anniversary of the death of legend Dale Earnhardt, who died on the final lap of the 2001 Daytona 500.
* During the course of the 1980s Marvel animated series Defenders of the Earth, Dale ( who has become a computer expert after Dr. Zarkov's death ) is captured and killed by Ming, but her consciousness is left trapped inside a crystal Flash uses to power the Defenders base on Earth, Monitor.
In 1980, Clements commuted the death sentence of Randall Dale Adams to life in prison.
Following the death of Dale Earnhardt in 2001, IROC retired the use of # 3.
Dale Earnhardt Sr. won four, including the 2000 championship, before his death in February 2001.
But the death of Dale Earnhardt in the 2001 Daytona 500, plus various changes in NASCAR, prompted SPEED producers to tape a special reunion program.
In 2011, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the tragic death of NASCAR great Dale Earnhardt, Henican wrote another bestseller In the Blink of An Eye: Dale, Daytona, and the Day that Changed Everything ( Hyperion_Books ) with driver Michael Waltrip.
Mrs Dale became a councillor, a position she had to relinquish when she caused a man's death by careless driving.
" One More Day " first went into rotation in February 2001, shortly after the death of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt.
Bestwick is perhaps best remembered for calling the 2001 Pepsi 400, the first race at Daytona since Dale Earnhardt's death, by saying, " Here they come!
3: The Dale Earnhardt Story ( sometimes referred to as The Dale Earnhardt Movie ) is a 2004 television movie produced by ESPN documenting the life of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, his poor upbringing in Kannapolis, North Carolina, his rise to dominance in NASCAR, his relationship with his son, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., and his death in the 2001 Daytona 500.
death and Earnhardt
This accident, as well as a similar accident that led to the death of Russell Phillips at Charlote, led NASCAR to mandate the " Earnhardt Bar ", a metal brace located in the center of the windshield that reinforces the roof in case of a similar crash.
Following Earnhardt's death, a police investigation and a NASCAR-sanctioned investigation commenced ; nearly every detail was made public, from the finding of a torn seatbelt inside Earnhardt's car to graphic descriptions of the injuries Earnhardt had suffered at the moment of impact.
Some angry fans of Earnhardt wrote hate letters and death threats to Sterling Marlin, blaming him for causing the crash.
Fans began honoring Earnhardt by holding three fingers aloft on the third lap of every NASCAR Cup race, and the television coverage of NASCAR on Fox and NASCAR on NBC went silent for each third lap from Rockingham to the following year's race there in honor of Earnhardt For the first three weeks after Earnhardt's death, on-track incidents brought out the caution flag on lap three.
Three weeks after Earnhardt's death, Harvick scored his first career Cup win at Atlanta driving a car that had been prepared for Earnhardt.
* Earnhardt Jr. later went on to win the 2004 Daytona 500, three years after his father's death and six years to the day after his father won the 1998 Daytona 500.
Earnhardt drove the No. 3 car for most of his career, spanning the early 1980s until his death in 2001.
A similar controversy had befallen Earnhardt, Jr. himself after his father's death in the Daytona 500 a year earlier.
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He had seen a few nester wagons go through the country, the families almost starving to death, but he had never seen any of them on foot and as bad off as these two.
He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.
Matsuo had faked death and was pitched on a stack of corpses, both the burned and the unburned, the latter decomposing rapidly under the tropical sun.
And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.
Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??
The latter was so upset on learning of the death of Morris, that he wrote Morgan a letter, showing his own warmhearted generosity.
Besides, he can hardly avoid musing on the instability of death which, what with exhumations and rehabilitations, seems to match that of life.
-- Indonesia Military Supreme Court has confirmed the death sentence passed on Alan Lawrence Pope, an American pilot.
She had even steeled herself to keep Juanita upstairs in the nurse's room off the empty nursery, although the girl tried to insist on moving back to the quarters to spare Kate remembrance of the baby's death.
Don't go overboard on insurance that pays benefits only upon death.
the death of Emma Hardy in 1912, which had a profound emotional effect on Hardy for which he found release in poetry ; ;
W. E. Ford, for example, continued to supply data on the occurrence of minerals until his death in 1939.
The large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).
Mrs. Meeker had spent a small fortune on a search for him but had made no provision for him in her will if he should be found after her death, and had never mentioned his name to her lawyers.
This leads Irenaeus to the somewhat startling notion that Adam and Eve died on the same day that they disobeyed, namely, on a Friday, as a parallel to the death of Christ on Good Friday ; ;
Stalin's death, Churchill's farewell to public life, Hillary and Tensing on Everest, Quemoy and Matsu -- all subjects for a noble anger or an accolade.
He proposed throwing together a man in an occupation of high hazard and a woman balanced on a knife-edge between death from tuberculosis and recovery.
The ramblings on life, death, and the wonder of it all are distressing ; ;
That year, Sweden's Haqvin Malmros showed that the sinking death rate neatly coincided with increasingly severe restrictions on fatty foods.
All, of course, except the Donner party who were bent on starving to death.
Johnston was the highest-ranking casualty of the war on either side, and his death was a strong blow to the morale of the Confederacy.
The Björkborn manor house, Nobel's residence on the property of the Bofors iron works at the time of his death.
The obituary stated (" The merchant of death is dead ") and went on to say, " Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday.
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