Cruise

Cruise or Cruises may pertain to:

Cruise, a trip or voyage by cruise ship

Booze cruise

Music cruise

River cruise

Places

Cruise, Kentucky, a community in the United States

Cruises Creek, a stream in Kentucky

People

Cruise (name), a surname of English origin (includes a list of people named Cruise)

Aeronautics and aircraft

Cruise (aeronautics), a distinct stage of an aircraft's flight

Aviasouz Cruise, a Russian ultralight trike design

Art, entertainment and media

Film

The Cruise (1970 film), the English title of the Polish film Rejs

The Cruise (1998 film), an American documentary

Cruise (film), an upcoming American drama film

Music

Groups

Cruise (band), a rock band from the former Soviet Union

Albums

Cruise (album), album by Whitehouse

Songs

"Cruise" (song), a 2012 song by Florida Georgia Line

"Cruise", a song by David Gilmour from About Face

Radio

Cruise 1323, a radio station in Adelaide, Australia

Television

The Cruise (TV series), a 1998 BBC fly-on-the-wall documentary series with Jane McDonald

Cruise ship

A cruise ship or cruise liner is a passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the ship's amenities are a part of the experience, as well as the different destinations along the way. Transportation is not the prime purpose, as cruise ships operate mostly on routes that return passengers to their originating port, so the ports of call are usually in a specified region of a continent. There are even "cruises to nowhere" or "nowhere voyages" where the ship makes 2–3 night round trips without any ports of call.

By contrast, dedicated transport oriented ocean liners do "line voyages" and typically transport passengers from one point to another, rather than on round trips. Traditionally, an ocean liner for the transoceanic trade will be built to a higher standard than a typical cruise ship, including high freeboard and stronger plating to withstand rough seas and adverse conditions encountered in the open ocean, such as the North Atlantic. Ocean liners also usually have larger capacities for fuel, victuals, and other stores for consumption on long voyages, compared to dedicated cruise ships.

Florida Georgia Line

Florida Georgia Line is an American country music duo comprising Brian Kelley (from Ormond Beach, Florida) and Tyler Hubbard (from Monroe, Georgia). Florida Georgia Line has achieved major success since their inception, and are one of the most successful country music acts of the 2010s. Their 2012 single Cruise is the best-selling digital country song of all time in the United States as of January 2014. Florida Georgia Line was formed in 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee. In December 2011, they signed a publishing/production/management deal with Craig Wiseman (Big Loud Shirt Publishing), Kevin "Chief" Zaruk (Chief Music Management), and Joey Moi's (Mountain View Records) partnership, Big Loud Mountain. Their second EP, It'z Just What We Do, charted on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. They played on the 2012 Country Throwdown Tour, along with acts such as Josh Thompson, Corey Smith, Gary Allan, Justin Moore and Rodney Atkins. They have also opened for Luke Bryan, Brantley Gilbert, Jake Owen, Jason Aldean, Colt Ford and Dierks Bentley. They are currently on their Anything Goes Tour with Thomas Rhett and Frankie Ballard.

Georgia Line

The Georgia Line was a formation within the Continental Army. The term "Georgia Line" referred to the quota of one infantry regiment which was assigned to Georgia at various times by the Continental Congress. The term also included the three infantry regiments in excess of Georgia's quota that were raised outside the state. These, together with similar contingents from the other twelve states, formed the Continental Line. The concept was particularly important in relation to the promotion of commissioned officers. Officers of the Continental Army below the rank of brigadier general were ordinarily ineligible for promotion except in the line of their own state.

On November 4, 1775, the Continental Congress created the "second establishment" of the Continental Army, which served in the campaign of 1776. On the same day, Congress also voted to maintain two infantry battalions in South Carolina and one infantry battalion in Georgia.

References

Wright, Robert K. The Continental Army. Washington, D.C.: United States Army Center of Military History, 1983. Available online.

Cruise control

Cruise control (sometimes known as speed control or autocruise, or tempomat in some countries) is a system that automatically controls the speed of a motor vehicle. The system is a servomechanism that takes over the throttle of the car to maintain a steady speed as set by the driver.

History

Speed control with a centrifugal governor was used in automobiles as early as 1900 in the Wilson-Pilcher and also in the 1910s by Peerless. Peerless advertised that their system would "maintain speed whether up hill or down". The technology was adopted by James Watt and Matthew Boulton in 1788 to control steam engines, but the use of governors dates at least back to the 17th century. On an engine the governor adjusts the throttle position as the speed of the engine changes with different loads, so as to maintain a near constant speed.

Modern cruise control (also known as a speedostat or tempomat) was invented in 1948 by the inventor and mechanical engineer Ralph Teetor. His idea was born out of the frustration of riding in a car driven by his lawyer, who kept speeding up and slowing down as he talked. The first car with Teetor's system was the 1958 Imperial (called "Auto-pilot") using a speed dial on the dashboard. This system calculated ground speed based on driveshaft rotations off the rotating speedometer-cable, and used a bi-directional screw-drive electric motor to vary throttle position as needed.

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'Cruise' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

The Eleventh Victim (2012)

Actors: Tina Fiorda (costume designer), Colin Cunningham (actor), John Fasano (writer), Karin Konoval (actress), David Lewis (actor), Michael Richard Plowman (composer), Howard Braunstein (producer), Jennie Garth (actress), Jason Schombing (actor), Andrew Wheeler (actor), Ted Bauman (producer), Ted Bauman (producer), Angela Moore (actress), Warren Dean Fulton (miscellaneous crew), Dean Redman (actor),

Genres: Thriller,