* The first Monster Truck Bigfoot was created by Bob Chandler

Her first novel was a rejected story about meeting Bigfoot, but her next proposal became the novel Wish on a Unicorn.

Among the unusual situations in which Jack finds employment during the show's first season are mortuary worker ; rodent wrangler on the set of a James Bond-like movie produced entirely with rodents ; tree-planter in Bigfoot country ; waiter in a chi-chi restaurant where something is definitely not right in the kitchen ; security guard in a high-tech firm ; Eighties-style business executive in a take-over firm ; and Christian theme-park employee.

A former construction worker from the St. Louis, Missouri area, Chandler began building the first Bigfoot in 1975, using the Chandler family's 1974 Ford F-250 four-wheel-drive pickup.

TNT began the first recognized series in 1988, and was dominated by Bigfoot for much of the season.

It officially made its debut at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis, Indiana at the Four Wheel and Off Road Jamboree in a special 5, 000th show for Bigfoot ( where every Bigfoot vehicle gathered in one place for the first time ).

Team Bigfoot ended up winning 24 events that season and took the 1990 TNT points championship over Greg Holbrook in Gary Cook's Equalizer and Gary Porter's Carolina Crusher, the first racing championship for the Bigfoot team.

The most notable of Team Bigfoot's recent series championship victories came in 2007, when Bigfoot No. 16 and driver Dan Runte won the first championship series held by the Major League of Monster Trucks.

* In 2003, Nigel Morris partnered with Bob Chandler to build Bigfoot 17, the first Bigfoot to compete exclusively outside of the United States.

In April 1981, Bob Chandler drove over cars in Bigfoot in what is often believed to be the first monster truck to crush cars.

After a year layoff he was back, now aged 38, and scored six knockouts, including a notable 8 round knockout of the cement-skulled journeyman Everett ( Bigfoot ) Martin ( who had just taken George Foreman the distance ), and a first round knockout of equally hard hitting ex-contender Jeff Sims.

It was that event, during which Bigfoot drove over a pair of cars in its first stadium car crush, that launched the phenomenon of monster trucks.

The first series of Bigfoot drives produced was the Quantum Bigfoot CY series.

*" Bigfoot ", the first " monster truck " was created by Bob Chandler, who had envisioned a vehicle with tires so large that it could crush anything in its path.

On this date, Chandler gave the first test run of " Bigfoot " at a field near St. Louis, Missouri, and rolled it over abandoned cars.

Out of this background of hunting and fishing, it was only natural that Roy first painted subjects he knew best: hunters in the field, fishermen in the stream, ducks and geese on the wing -- almost always against a vast backdrop of weather landscape.

The first German tank destroyers were the Panzerjäger (" tank hunters ") which took an existing anti-tank gun and mounted it on a convenient chassis to give mobility, usually with just a three-sided gun shield for protection.

Possibly the first hunters, H. erectus mastered the art of making fire and was the first hominid to leave Africa, colonizing most of the Old World and perhaps later giving rise to Homo floresiensis.

The kayak was first made and used by the native Ainu, Aleut and Eskimo hunters in sub-Arctic regions of northeastern Asia, North America and Greenland.

The first inhabitants of what is now Mozambique were the San hunters and gatherers, ancestors of the Khoisani peoples.

In 1855, the first Transcontinental railway of the New World, the Panama Railway, was built across the isthmus from Colón to Panama City to transport fortune hunters who wanted quick passage to the gold fields of California.

Although the first arrivals were hunters and gatherers, early evidence shows that people managed the forest environment to provide food.

The first known written record of the red panda occurs in a 13th-century Chinese scroll depicting a hunting scene between hunters and the red panda.

The first ones to settle were the Bushmen, great hunters, similar to Pygmies in stature.

As hunters they had learned to fire from cover, from a prone position and to make the first shot count, knowing that if they missed, the game would either be long gone or could charge and potentially kill them.

The consequent destruction of wildlife habitat has prompted the creation of conservation groups in other countries, some founded by local hunters who have witnessed declining wildlife populations first hand.

The archives feature in the first National Treasure film, in which treasure hunters attempt to steal the Declaration of Independence.

The area of the Holy Cross Mountains was almost unpopulated until the 11th century when the first hunters established permanent settlements at the outskirts of the mountains.

The first white child in Motley County, Nora Cooper, was born in 1882 near what is the now ghost town of Tee Pee City, a camp operated by buffalo hunters and later the headquarters of the Texas Rangers under Captain G. W.

* 1879 Confederate veteran Paris Cox first visits the Caprock Escarpment of the Llano Estacado with a group of buffalo hunters.

In fact, the first whites to encounter the area were fur traders, then long hunters, who came to a large salt lick, known as French Lick, in present-day Nashville to trade with Native Americans and to hunt the abundant game.

The first white men to enter the area were the long hunters in the 1770s.

The French hunters, trappers, and traders appeared first and operated along the Ouachita River valley until the Natchez Massacre of 1729, which frightened away any developers for a while.

During the 1820s, early Euro-American trappers and hunters first passed through the area, following the path of the Siskiyou Trail.

During the first three-quarters of the 19th century, Chokoloskee Island may have been occasionally visited by Seminoles, white hunters, " Spanish Indian " fishermen from Cuba and various " refugees from justice.

In 1796 French hunters and fur trappers were the first inhabitants of that portion of Macomb County that later became New Baltimore.

While various 18th century European and early American hunters and fur trappers probably traversed or camped in the flats where Gatlinburg is now situated, it was Edgefield, South Carolina native William Ogle ( 1751 – 1803 ) who first decided to permanently settle in the area.

A trading post for hunters and trappers for nearby Fort Elliot ( aka " Cantonment Sweetwater "), the settlement was first a buffalo hunter's camp unofficially called " Hidetown.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was the first time any of us had laughed since the morning began.

The writer began this special class by explaining his background thinking for creating such a section in the first place.

Preparation began slightly more than a year after independence with the first steps to organize rural communes.

On this giddy and oscillating platform over fifty feet from the floor, after a first dusting, we began to wash.

It was there, in the course of trying to prepare new men for the `` culture shock '' they might encounter in remote overseas posts, that he first began to develop a system of charting the `` norms of human communication ''.

To win her favors, her husband first took an additional job, then desperately began to embezzle from his employer.

Some date it from woman suffrage, others from when women first began to challenge men in the marketplace, still others from the era of the emancipated flapper and bathtub gin.

As she had done with Means, she gained rapidly at first, but then Baldy began to draw away.

In the field of entertainment there is no spur to financial daring so effective as audience boredom, and the first decade of the new device was not over before audiences began staying away in large numbers from the simple-minded, one-minute shows.

Player began with a birdie on the first hole, added five straight pars and then another birdie at the 9th.

-- those were His very first creative words -- He began the world with light -- this God still gives light to a world which man has plunged into darkness.

That March he began his political career with his first campaign for the Illinois General Assembly.

After leading in the first six rounds of voting in the Illinois assembly, his support began to dwindle, and Lincoln instructed his backers to vote for Lyman Trumbull, who defeated opponent Joel Aldrich Matteson.

Work on the ASCII standard began on October 6, 1960, with the first meeting of the American Standards Association's ( ASA ) X3. 2 subcommittee.

During the Achaemenid Persian Empire, around 600 BC the Persians first began to use the abacus.

Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.

The first Hercule Poirot began with tram passengers and Belgian refugees.

Racing began soon after the construction of the first successful gasoline-fueled automobiles.

A broad public discussion of environmental problems began in the mid-1980s, when the first " green " groups formed in opposition to Yerevan's intense industrial air pollution and to nuclear power generation in the wake of the 1986 reactor explosion at Chernobyl '.

The AMD / USD exchange rate depreciated by 6. 1 percent in the first three quarters of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009, before it began to show the expected end-of-the-year appreciation.

The first known smelting of iron began in Anatolia, around 1800 BC.

In 1740, Benjamin Huntsman began melting blister steel in a crucible to even out the carbon content, creating the first process for the mass production of tool steel.

Cuarón began working in television in Mexico, first as a technician and then as a director.

They were concept albums, and typically began with an instrumental introduction which faded into the first song, often had an instrumental piece in the middle of the second LP side, and concluded with a quiet, melancholic, or powerful song.