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Twister was submitted for patent by Charles F. Foley and Neil Rabens in 1966, and became a success when Eva Gabor played it with Johnny Carson on television's The Tonight Show on May 3, 1966.
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In the movie Twister, the heroes can be seen using an SGI laptop computer, however the unit shown was not an actual working computer, but rather a fake laptop shell built around an SGI Corona LCD flat screen display.
In 1995, Nicks was reunited with Lindsey Buckingham and contributed the duet " Twisted " to the Twister movie soundtrack, while in 1996 the Sheryl Crow penned " Somebody Stand By Me " featured on the Boys on the Side soundtrack, and Nicks also remade Tom Petty's " Free Fallin '" for Fox's TV hit Party of Five.
However, in its success, Twister was also controversial.
That accusation was probably because Twister was the first popular American game to use human bodies as playing pieces.
Although Twister was patented by Charles F. Foley and Neil Rabens, sources also mention a man by the name of Reyn Guyer.
Twister, much like its counterpart the hula hoop, was one of the many toy fad phenomena that came about in the second half of the 20th century.
Being one of the earliest toy fads and a " national craze for a short time ," Twister was a game that was able to bring all age groups together, whether children or adults.
The World's Largest Twister Mat was put together on June 18, 2010 in Belchertown, MA on the Belchertown High School football field.
The purpose of the record breaking Twister Mat was to kick off a fundraising drive for Jessica's Boundless Playground.
The record for the largest number of contestants in a game of Twister was once bestowed in 1987 with 4, 160 contestants tangling themselves at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
Later, Spears was the face of " Twister Dance " in 2012.
It was featured in the 1996 blockbuster film Twister starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton in which Wakita was destroyed by an F4 tornado that was part of a storm system later spawning an F5 tornado.
This is why Wakita was used in the Hollywood blockbuster Twister, because of the paradox created between the spell and the movie setting.
Newkirk was also the name of the town in the movie Twister where the drive in movie scene took place.
* In the film Twister ( 1996 film ) the team headed by Helen Hunt's character Jo Harding was based out of the fictional Muskogee State College
The song was used for the movie soundtrack Twister and plays during the end credits of the movie.
That same year Twister was released, featuring a team of storm chasers studying a massive outbreak of tornadoes in the American Midwest.
Coincidentally, that drive-in was scheduled to show the movie Twister that evening.
However, Ultra Twister was removed at the end of 1989 and sent to Six Flags Astroworld for the 1991 season keeping the park's coaster count at five.
Twister was the second-highest-grossing film of 1996 domestically, with an estimated 55 million tickets sold in the US.
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The native Mersenne Twister is not considered suitable for use in all cryptographic applications.
The Mersenne Twister has been optimized for use with Monte Carlo simulations in a number of fields, including simulating complex biochemical pathways, photon migration, genome coalescence, cellular biology, and computational finance.
MTGP is a variant of Mersenne Twister optimised for GPUs published by Mutsuo Saito and Makoto Matsumoto.
He claimed to come up with the idea for Twister while working on a Johnson ’ s Shoe Polish promotion at his father ’ s design company.
Since its release, many active participants have tried and succeeded in setting records for the most contestants in a game, and the largest combined amount of Twister game mats.
It consisted of 1008 Twister mats donated by Hasbro and measured 244. 7 feet X 99. 10 feet for.
Twister tournaments are used as a source of philanthropic events put on by college fraternities and sororities to raise money for a charitable cause.
* Patent for Twister
* Twister Supersonic Separator, hydrocarbon processing system for the dehydration and dewpointing of natural gas
* Ronja Twister, an electronics module for free space optic
In the late 1990s, he often appeared in various television ads including ones for Tropicana Twister, 1-800-Collect and Little Caesars.
During the recording of songs for the film Twister, escalating tension between Hagar and the Van Halen brothers boiled over and Hagar departed on Father's Day, 1996.
* The movie Twister ( 1996 ) with Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt used the town for some scenes.
Along with their live shows, Rusted Root began working on contributions to the movies Matilda, Twister and Home for the Holidays.
* Maurice " Twister " Rodriguez ( Ulises Cuadra ): Otto's best friend, a " daredevil " on wheels, aspiring " videographer ," and known for exhibiting a notable lack of intelligence, " Twister " does not like being called by his real name.
Most of the other Country Fair rides, including the Swingamajig, The Tennessee Twister, The Convoy, and The Barnstormer, are removed at the end of the season to free up space for newer rides.
Twister is notable for being both the first Hollywood feature film to be released on DVD format and one of the last to be released on HD DVD.
Twister and patent
According to the United States patent office, there is no link between Twister and the name Guyer.
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Twister is a game of physical skill produced by the Milton Bradley Company.
Twister being both globally spread and highly popular is unlike other games of its stature, in the sense that it is accepted by all social classes.
" From an economic standpoint, Twister does not exclude any socioeconomic demographic, and has very little cultural resistance, seeing as it can be easily understood globally by all cultures.
The previous record, as cited by the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest game of Twister included of mats that were combined together.
* Twister, a CITV gameshow hosted by Nigel Mitchell
* Twister ( ice cream ), an ice cream made by Unilever's Heartbrand
The protagonists of the 1991 science-fiction comedy Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey return to life by defeating Death ( played by William Sadler ) at Battleship, Clue, electric football and Twister.
Examples of brass cymbals include: Harpy B, Meinl Marathon M38, Meinl Meteor, Meinl HCS, Orion Twister, Paiste 101, Paiste 302 and some Exotic Percussion, Pearl, Royal, Twister Series by Orion, Solar and Sbr by Sabian, Planet Z by Zildjian, nearly all zils of all makes.
Twister featured both a traditional orchestral film score ( by Mark Mancina ) and several rock music songs, including an instrumental theme song composed and performed for the film by Van Halen.
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