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A spoke is one of some number of rods radiating from the center of a wheel (the hub where the axle connects), connecting the hub with the round traction surface.
The term originally referred to portions of a log which had been split lengthwise into four or six sections. The radial members of a wagon wheel were made by carving a spoke (from a log) into their finished shape. A spokeshave is a tool originally developed for this purpose. Eventually, the term spoke was more commonly applied to the finished product of the wheelwright's work, than to the materials he used.
The spoked wheel was invented to allow the construction of lighter and swifter vehicles. The earliest known examples are in the context of the Andronovo culture, dating to ca. 2000 BCE. Soon after this, horse cultures of the Caucasus region used horse-drawn spoked-wheel war chariots for the greater part of three centuries. They moved deep into the Greek peninsula where they joined with the existing Mediterranean peoples to give rise, eventually, to classical Greece after the breaking of Minoan dominance and consolidations led by pre-classical Sparta and Athens. Celtic chariots introduced an iron rim around the wheel in the 1st millennium BCE. The spoked wheel was in continued use without major modification until the 1870s, when wire wheels and rubber tires were invented.
Laura Beatrice Marling (born 1 February 1990) is an English folk musician from Eversley, Hampshire.
Initially prominent within the London folk scene, she has also toured with a number of well-known indie artists in the UK. Her debut album Alas, I Cannot Swim and her second album I Speak Because I Can were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2008 and 2010 respectively. She won Best Female Solo Artist at the 2011 Brit Awards.
Marling was born in Hampshire, England, the youngest of three daughters of a music teacher, and learned guitar at an early age. Her father, who ran a recording studio, introduced her to folk music and shaped her musical taste. This was "a bit of a blessing and a bit of a curse. I couldn’t slot myself into the age-appropriate genre", she later remembered. Marling was educated at Leighton Park School, a private Quaker school in Reading, Berkshire. She has said that during this time she felt uneasy around other people and had a fear of death.
At the age of 16 Marling moved to London, where she soon became part of a cluster of intertwined bands drawn to acoustic instruments and tradition-tinged melodies which formed a movement labelled "nu-folk" by the British press. She became part of the original line-up of indie folk band Noah and the Whale and was romantically linked with singer/guitarist Charlie Fink. She is featured as a background vocalist on their début album Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down; however, she left the group before the album's 2008 release and split up with Fink that same year. She also appeared on The Rakes track "Suspicious Eyes", from the band's 2007 album Ten New Messages, credited as 'Laura Marlin'. Marling would later collaborate with Mystery Jets, contributing guest vocals to the single "Young Love", released 10 March 2008. Previously, Marling was in a relationship with Marcus Mumford; they broke up around Christmas 2010, but are reportedly still friends.
Actors: Tim J Francis (editor), Tim J Francis (producer), Tim J Francis (writer), Tim J Francis (director), Daniel Francis (composer), Mairi-Claire Kennedy (actor), Andrew Smillie (actor), Robert Smith (actor),
Genres: Action, Comedy, Short,Actors: Aurélien Recoing (actor), Bernard Vander Donckt (miscellaneous crew), Marin Karmitz (producer), Asia Argento (actress), Olivier Marchal (writer), Marc Leroyer (miscellaneous crew), Olivier Marchal (actor), Aïssa Maïga (actress), Patrick Quinet (actor), Gérard Depardieu (actor), Charles Gillibert (producer), Patrick Quinet (producer), Claude Waringo (producer), Gilles Béhat (writer), Anne Coesens (actress),
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller,Actors: David Wicht (producer), Angus Macfadyen (actor), Peter Weller (actor), Bryan Brown (actor), Julia Verdin (producer), Anthony Fridjohn (actor), Andre Jacobs (actor), Liz Webber (editor), Joanne Goldstone (miscellaneous crew), Jon Kramer (producer), Steve Beswick (miscellaneous crew), Terry Norton (actress), Alex Wright (director), David Bixler (producer), Anthony Bishop (actor),
Plot: After establishing himself as one of the world's best safe-crackers, Nelson decides to retire from his life of crime and walk the straight and narrow. However, when his brother is targeted after going into debt with an organized crime ring, Nelson finds himself pulled back into the life he left behind for one last big job. Luckily, he has a little help in the form of fellow top-notch crook Art.
Keywords: ambiguous-ending, ambulance, bank-robbery, bare-breasts, bare-chested-male, beating, black-dress, brother-brother-relationship, burned-alive, c4-explosivesLight shines through darker days
Eyes close and lose their way
Slip away the night
While the whole town's asleep
Caught between the space
Where you wanted to be
Death acts and life reacts
Spent time turning looking back
Clues along the track
Leave the following kind
The ground that seems to be new
Winding up the same every time