Ignored by western media, but very much a part of Bougainville's present are the independent " Twin Kingdoms of Bougainville " under first King Francis ( Ona ) and then King David Peii II ( Noah Musingku ) created out of the areas of the island never recaptured by PNG forces.

Also in the Twin Cities area, the local chapter of the Alliance Française has hosted an annual event for years at varying locations with a competition for the " Best Baguette of the Twin Cities.

He also has occasionally appeared with the " Original Comets " at the Bubba Mac Shack in Somers Point, New Jersey from 2004-2011, and at the Twin Bar re-dedication ceremony in Gloucester City, New Jersey, in 2007.

Next, Lynch created his own television series with Mark Frost, the highly popular murder mystery Twin Peaks ( 1990 – 1991 ); he also created a cinematic prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ( 1992 ), a road movie, Wild at Heart ( 1990 ), and a family film, The Straight Story ( 1999 ) in the same period.

The only ( non-points ) win came during Speedweeks at Daytona in the Twin 125-mile qualifying race, his record 8th straight win in the event.

Immortal Love by Keisuke Kinoshita and Twin Sisters of Kyoto and Portrait of Chieko, both by Noboru Nakamura, also received nominations for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards.

Notable amongst these projects were the construction of the Petronas Twin Towers ( at the time the tallest building in the world, and, as of 2010, still the tallest twin building ), KL International Airport ( KLIA ), the North-South Expressway, the Sepang International Circuit, the Multimedia Super Corridor ( MSC ), the Bakun hydroelectric dam and Putrajaya, the new federal administrative capital.

Harmony lives on in name at Twin Oaks Community, a contemporary intentional community of 100 people in Virginia.

Impressionism has also influenced at least some of the music of Manuel de Falla, Paul Dukas, Jean Sibelius, George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, John Ireland, Cyril Scott, Zoltán Kodály, Ottorino Respighi, Jacques Ibert, Bohuslav Martinu, Olivier Messiaen, Alan Hovhaness, Ned Rorem, György Ligeti, Selim Palmgren, and Toru Takemitsu, among others, as well as jazz musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Claude Thornhill, Bud Powell, Dave Brubeck, Gil Evans, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Frank Kimbrough, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Shirley Horn and Esperanza Spalding, progressive rock musicians such as King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, and Yes, the entire genre of post-rock, and electronic artists like Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh, as well as Aphex Twin and Autechre.

Twin sparks provide two flame fronts within the cylinder, these two flame fronts decreasing the time needed for the fuel charge to burn, thereby burning more of the fuel at a lower temperature and pressure.

For example, in the Twin paradox one twin brother goes on a trip near the speed of light and comes home younger than his twin, who stayed at home.

Twin Peaks was a primetime soap opera that poked fun at the genre.

Barker was a Professor of Urdu and South Asian Studies at the University of Minnesota during the period when David Arneson, Gary Gygax and a handful of others were developing the first role-playing games in the Twin Cities and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

Although not important at the time, Twin / Tone could not afford to release the album until August 1981.

the Replacements had a friendly rivalry with the band, which started when Twin / Tone chose the Replacements over Hüsker Dü, and Hüsker Dü landed an opening slot at a Johnny Thunders gig that the Replacements wanted.

* The Roger B. Chaffee Lodge at Gerber Scout Camp in Twin Lake, Michigan.

Lewiston State Normal School, now Lewis-Clark State College, was established in 1893, as was another normal school or teacher education college, now defunct, in the south at Twin Falls.

* Top-20 Twin Primes at Chris Caldwell's Prime Pages.

Oneida Community is given tribute at Twin Oaks, a contemporary intentional community of 100 members in Virginia.

For instance, the Internet Gopher protocol was created at the Twin Cities campus.

Pigments and paint grinding equipment believed to be between 350, 000 and 400, 000 years old have been reported in a cave at Twin Rivers, near Lusaka, Zambia.

A poll commissioned by Twin Cities station Fox 9 put him at 24 percent, behind Democratic candidate Al Franken at 32 percent and Norm Coleman at 39 percent in a hypothetical three-way race.

In his Twin Earth thought experiment, Hilary Putnam asks us to imagine a scenario in which there is a substance with all of the observable properties of water ( e. g., taste, color, boiling point ), but which is chemically different from water.

In 1983, Earnhardt rebounded and won his first of 12 Twin 125 Daytona 500 qualifying races.

The search for the first head coach had the team court then-Northwestern University head coach Ara Parseghian, who according to Minneapolis Star writer Jim Klobuchar — the Vikings ' first beat reporter for that newspaper — visited team management in the Twin Cities under the condition that his visit was to be kept secret from his current employer.

The first such gravitational lens to be discovered was the double-imaged quasar Q0957 + 561 ( or Twin Quasar ) in 1979 A grouping of two or more quasars can result from a chance alignment, physical proximity, actual close physical interaction, or effects of gravity bending the light of a single quasar into two or more images.

Episodes in the first season of ' Twin Peaks ' also included a soap within a soap, a fictional program entitled Invitation to Love.

Twin Peaks pilot episode was first broadcast on April 8, 1990 on ABC, which led to another seven episodes being produced and a second season, which aired until June 10, 1991.

Twin Ridges Elementary in Nevada County, California held the first Green Party majority school board in the United States.

* Udhana and Sachin, Gujarat, Gujarat, are one of the first Twin Cities in India

Packard's 1916 " Twin Six " is widely regarded as the first production V12 engine.

Shortly after, Ford of Britain first hired Lotus to create a high-performance version of their Cortina family car, then in 1968 launched the Escort Twin Cam, one of the most successful rally cars of its era.

Twin Peaks, the first gay bar in the city, and possibly the United States, with plate glass windows to fully visibly expose patrons to the public is located at the intersection of Market and Castro.

NBA basketball returned to the Twin Cities in 1989 for the first time since the Minneapolis Lakers departed for Los Angeles in 1960.

Such was the case with the second season of Twin Peaks, which ended in a cliffhanger similar to the first season with a high degree of uncertainty about the fate of the protagonist, but the cliffhanger could not save the show from being canceled, resulting in the unresolved ending.

Artists that appeared in the first discussions on the list included Autechre, Atom Heart, LFO, and Rephlex Records artists such as Aphex Twin, µ-ziq, and Luke Vibert ; plus artists such as The Orb, Richard H. Kirk, and Future Sound of London, and even artists like System 7, William Orbit, Sabres of Paradise, Tycho, Orbital, Plastikman and Björk. Autechre, notable electronic music act associated with IDM.

* In 1990, the fictional soap opera Invitation to Love appeared in every episode of the first season of Twin Peaks, often offering commentary on the events of the outer series ( particularly foreshadowing the appearance of Laura Palmer's identical cousin Maddy Ferguson ).

The Twin Oaks Community is one of the country's oldest secular communes, established by its first eight members in 1967.

The first passenger train from the Twin Cities, by way of Sauk Rapids, came November 1, 1877.

The first people of European ancestry to visit the Twin Falls area are believed to be members of a group led by Wilson Price Hunt, which attempted to blaze an all-water trail westward from St. Louis, Missouri, to Astoria, Oregon, in 1811 and 1812.

Twin Falls had the first live call-in radio show in the United States.

" Twin Lakes township was named for its two small lakes in section 36, on the first road laid out from St. Paul, through Chisago and Pine counties, to the head of Lake Superior.

It is a first ring southern suburb of the Twin Cities.

The first explorers in the area were likely the Dakota tribes who had moved into the present-day Twin Cities area.

Twin Rivers was the first Planned Unit Development in New Jersey.

The first sections to be completed were the Radio Road terminus, while the Twin Lakes Boulevard section was constructed well into the 1970s.