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"Iron horse" is an iconic literary term (currently transitioning into an archaic reference) for a steam locomotive, originating in the early Victorian culture (1825–35) when horses still powered most machinery, excepting windmills and stationary steam engines. The term was common and popular in both British and North American literary articles.
Iron Horse was used admiringly when comparing early road and railroad traction engines performance to slower, less powerful horse powered tramways. The Iron Horse term became widely popularized and found frequent use in the century and a half following the competition won by Stephenson's Rocket, in innumerable newspaper articles as well as in various novels. The term's place as a cultural icon is shown by the sheer number of things named after it, and its use in films, other media, and as a term of endearment.
It began to decline in use, at least in North American colloquial expression, or as a reference term of art in the information industries with the decline in rail passenger service in the age of the U.S. Interstate Highway System.
Scunthorpe United Football Club is an English association football club based in the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire. It currently plays in Football League One, the third tier of the English football league system.
The team is nicknamed The Iron, and has played in a home strip of claret and blue for most of its history. It plays its home games at Glanford Park, having moved from the Old Show Ground in 1988.Grimsby Town, Hull City, Doncaster Rovers, Lincoln City and York City are its main rivals, although Doncaster are the only one of these clubs that currently plays in Scunthorpe's division. It is currently the only league club located in Lincolnshire.
The club was formed in 1899, turned professional in 1912 and joined the Football League in 1950. It achieved promotion to Division Two in 1958, where it stayed until 1964, but has spent most of its time as a Football League club in the basement tier. The club has had more success recently, however: it was promoted from Football League Two in 2005, and has spent three of the last five seasons in the Football League Championship. The Iron were relegated to Football League One in 2011, having finished bottom of the Championship.
John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was an American film director. He is renowned both for Westerns such as Stagecoach (1939), The Searchers (1956), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), as well as adaptations of classic 20th-century American novels such as the film The Grapes of Wrath (1940). His four Academy Awards for Best Director (in 1935, 1940, 1941, and 1952) remain a record. One of the films for which he won the award, How Green Was My Valley, also won Best Picture.
In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Ford directed more than 140 films (although most of his silent films are now lost) and he is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential film-makers of his generation. Ford's work was held in high regard by his colleagues, with Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman among those who have named him one of the greatest directors of all time.
Ford made frequent use of location shooting and long shots, in which his characters were framed against a vast, harsh and rugged natural terrain.
The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. It is an odd-toed ungulate mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, Hyracotherium, into the large, single-toed animal of today. Humans began to domesticate horses around 4000 BC, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BC. Horses in the subspecies caballus are domesticated, although some domesticated populations live in the wild as feral horses. These feral populations are not true wild horses, as this term is used to describe horses that have never been domesticated, such as the endangered Przewalski's horse, a separate subspecies, and the only remaining true wild horse. There is an extensive, specialized vocabulary used to describe equine-related concepts, covering everything from anatomy to life stages, size, colors, markings, breeds, locomotion, and behavior.
Horses' anatomy enables them to make use of speed to escape predators and they have a well-developed sense of balance and a strong fight-or-flight response. Related to this need to flee from predators in the wild is an unusual trait: horses are able to sleep both standing up and lying down. Female horses, called mares, carry their young for approximately 11 months, and a young horse, called a foal, can stand and run shortly following birth. Most domesticated horses begin training under saddle or in harness between the ages of two and four. They reach full adult development by age five, and have an average lifespan of between 25 and 30 years.
Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from Latin: ferrum) and atomic number 26. It is a metal in the first transition series. It is by mass the most common element on Earth, forming much of Earth's outer and inner core. It is the fourth most common element in the Earth's crust. Its abundance in rocky planets like Earth is due to its abundant production by fusion in high-mass stars, where the production of nickel-56 (which decays to the most common isotope of iron) is the last nuclear fusion reaction that is exothermic. Consequently, radioactive nickel is the last element to be produced before the violent collapse of a supernova scatters precursor radionuclide of iron into space.
Like other group 8 elements, iron exists in a wide range of oxidation states, −2 to +6, although +2 and +3 are the most common. Elemental iron occurs in meteoroids and other low oxygen environments, but is reactive to oxygen and water. Fresh iron surfaces appear lustrous silvery-gray, but oxidize in normal air to give hydrated iron oxides, commonly known as rust. Unlike many other metals which form passivating oxide layers, iron oxides occupy more volume than the metal and thus flake off, exposing fresh surfaces for corrosion.
No copyright infringement is intended. Tracks: [00:00:00] 01. Theme From The Iron Horse [00:04:32] 02. Angels [00:09:35] 03. Johnny Law [00:12:01] 04. Poppin' Wheelies [00:14:01] 05. War [00:18:27] 06. Oh My [00:19:51] 07. You're Mine [00:21:25] 08. Take Out [00:26:10] 09. Dreaming About Dreams [00:27:25] 10. Da Da Da [00:29:16] 11. The Fuzz [00:33:12] 12. Jean Jacket John [00:34:24] 13. Ain't Right [00:37:52] 14. Plan B [00:39:44] 15. Peace
Para mais informações e filmes acesse o portal Cinema Livre http://cinemalivre.net Quando o presidente Lincoln autoriza a construção da estrada de ferro Transcontinental, a Union Pacific, construtor (Will Walling) e agrimensor (George O´Brien), começam a traçar o mapa para a melhor rota. Embora eles encontrem uma nova passagem, além da previamente esperada, a ambição dos homens que trabalham no projeto complica a construção. O Cavalo de Ferro foi um dos grandes sucessos do cinema mudo e empregou mais de 6.000 pessoas em sua realização, foram construídas duas cidades para acomodar a todos. John Ford tinha 31 anos de idade quando apresentou o projeto do filme a Willian Fox. Ele já era um veterano de uns 50 filmes, muitos deles de faroeste. O projeto da Fox foi a resposta ao filme The Cove...
Album: The Iron Horse http://sounddefects.com/the-sound-defects-the-iron-horse/ "We make beats. Beats for your car or your headphones. Beats for your movie or TV show. Beats for you to sing along with or rap over. Beats to make your little sister dance. This is what we do. And weve been doing it a while, so were pretty good at it. So sit back, enjoy the sounds, and let us do what we do best. "
I'm posting this opening sequence from the 1966-1968 TV western series "The Iron Horse" in tribute to star Dale Robertson, who passed away yesterday -- February 26, 2013 -- at age 89.
Metallica's Enter Sandman changed to the Bluegrass Genre. To purchase this CD, visit http://ironhorsebluegrass.com/products-page/ For more info on Iron Horse music and booking, visit www.ironhorsebluegrass.com. Video by 1504 Pictures.
After being gone for three months Im back making vidoes again. But now I wont be making just music videos. This channel will be getting new such facts, vlogs, and so on. Yes music videos will still be made like this one. This is music video set to the song 'Iron Horse' by Christie. I used way too many footage so its best to say all footage belong to their rightful owners.
Air and reels played by West of Scotland band "The Iron Horse". From around 1996.
My tribute to one of the greatest.
352 Hooligans Doing Hoodrat Shit at Iron Horse
Say your prayers little one
Don't forget, my son
To include everyone
Tuck you in, warm within
Keep you free from sin
Till the sandman he comes
Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Off to never never land
Something's wrong, shut the light
Heavy thoughts tonight
And they aren't of snow white
Dreams of war, dreams of liars
Dreams of dragon's fire
And of things that will bite
Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Off to never never land
Now I lay me down to sleep
Pray the lord my soul to keep
If I die before I wake
Pray the lord my soul to take
Hush little baby, don't say a word
And never mind that noise you heard
It's just the beast under your bed,
In your closet, in your head
Exit light
Enter night
Grain of sand
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
We're off to never never land