Each week of the racing season produces new excitement for the drivers and fans of NASCAR. Some weeks have produced the kind of heart-stopping moments that etch a race into the hearts and minds of fans. Those are the great races.
The races featured in this book are stops along a time line that has spanned five decades of an American tradition. From the formative days on the hard-packed dirt tracks to the modern era of the superspeedway, every race has unfolded with its own unique story.NASCAR polled drivers, members of the media, and fans to select the twenty-five greatest NASCAR races. The resulting NASCAR Greatest Races is a panorama of the NASCAR experience. There are fabulous finishes, amazing comebacks, classic duels, and transforming milestones.Events such as the Rayson Memorial of 1948, NASCAR's first race, and the 1979 Daytona 500, the first NASCAR race shown live wire-to-wire on network television, helped shape NASCAR's history. The spotlight has fallen on individual drivers such as Dale Earnhardt, Bill Elliott, and Jeff Gordon, rivalries like that between Richard Petty and David Pearson, or photo finishes like the one that confirmed Lee Petty's victory in the inaugural Daytona 500 of 1959.
NASCAR Greatest Races pairs more than one hundred full-color and black-and-white action-packed, historic shots with eyewitness accounts and personal reflections from the actors in this revved-up arena. The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing begins its second half-century as the fastest growing major spectator sport in the United States. Nearly six million people attended NASCAR Winston Cup Series races in 1998 and more than 150 million watched the action on television. NASCAR also sanctions twelve other touring series as well as races at more than 130 tracks throughout the nation.

NASCAR Greatest Races: The 25 Most Thrilling Races in NASCAR History

Literature & Fiction

Higgins, Tom

United States

HarperEntertainment

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

"I never would have believed that anything could make me want to go eat English food in Lyon, but Higgins's delightful book has done so." --Mimi Sheraton When Tom Higgins, a translator, and his wife, Sue, a physician, decided to set up an English restaurant in Lyon, France (the country's capital of fine dining), they had no idea what they were getting into. In this delightful memoir of their first eight years in business, Higgins recounts all--from the amused disbelief of their neighbors who regard English food as a joke, to the frustrating impenetrability of the French licensing bureaucracy, from the positive delight in choosing wines and creating menus, to, ultimately, the extraordinary feeling of running a good restaurant that pleases the most fussy diners in the world. Included in this charming tale are twelve typically English recipes that anyone can make! "After Peter Mayle comes Tom Higgins in Lyon. . . . Delightful reading." --BBC Good Food "Tom Higgins provides a wonderful insight into the French people and their way of life. . . . He is a natural raconteur." --En Route

Spotted Dick S'il Vous Plait: An English Restaurant in France

Travel

Food, Lodging & Transportation

Ballantine Books

North American Outlook: 1999-2000 (Conference Board Report, No. 1239-99-Rr,)

Fosler, Gail D.

Business & Money

Conference Board

THE History of Irish Tennis 3 Volumes

History

Europe

Institute of Technology, Sligo

Hello my name is Tom Higgins and I am fifty nine years old, and I am married with two daughters. We shall have been married for thirty years on 30th July this year!I had never written more than a postcard since I left school at the age of seventeen, but about three years ago I was watching a documentary about the shortage of water in certain parts of the planet which was the prompt which triggered my first attempt at recording my thoughts on the issue.I have been an avid reader of fiction and history throughout my life, and latterly I have increasingly discovered a growing interest in some of life's great mysteries which provides me with a method of ensuring that I am never bored as the ever expanding library of man's scientific discoveries is now easily accessed from anywhere on the planet where a laptop or any other device can connect to the internet.I do have a view of the world as a very contradictory place where great beauty can be found sometimes a stone's throw from wickedness and violence, and I try to reflect this in some of what I write. There are other great absurdities which I like to question, and some people find that they don't like anyone asking such questions, but that road leads to tyranny so I will keep on asking. I have posted some of my work on some poetry sites, and I have had good feedback in general except from the academically trained "poets", who seem to find fault with everything I write, because I know nothing of the vast array of different styles of word play that make up" poetry" in their very well educated world. The problem is I can understand very little of what these people write. I feel that they have created an exclusive club in which only those who have been given access to the codes can comprehend what it is they are saying. I write to tell short stories which people other than myself can understand. I do not write poetry to win prizes for technical brilliance. I write to express what I am thinking and feeling at a given moment and feelings are not taught in any educational establishment. I try use language that all those who have not had the privilege to be classically educated can read and understand with ease.So if you decide that this is of interest to you, and you partake of a copy of this, my first anthology then thank you I hope you enjoy reading my poems!Kindest Regards,Tom Higgins 14/04/2013

The Ramblings of a Cumbrian Heathen: A Collection of Poems

Poetry

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Tom's Comfort Food with an Attitude: Recipes collected from various cookbooks and Web sources

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Tom Higgins, a translator who was spending much of his time in Geneva and his wife, Sue, a doctor, the brave English couple in Spotted Dick, s'il vous plait: An English Restaurant in France, did just that. A foolhardy venture, perhaps, because not only did they possess little experience in the professional food trade, they had the audacity to serve English cuisine to discerning Lyonnais. It is a well known fact the Lyon is not only the gastronomic capital of France (some say the world) boasting many Michelin-starred establishments, but that the French have a notorious disdain for English cooking. Would they be able to overcome the national horror of English pudding? Tom Higgins' entertaining chronicle of the long, and rather bumpy road to fulfilling their dream is presented in an anecdotal style laced with a good dose of self-deprecating humor. His stories of French bank managers, petit bureaucrats and construction workers are an amusing glimpse into the French daily life. But the difficulties and financial risks of doing business in a foreign country - not to mention the language barrier and the exhausting hours - have been offset by the great compensation of living in Lyon and the beautiful countryside that surround it; planning the meals and shopping the terrific local markets for the freshest ingredients; visiting the nearby vineyards to stock cellar and kitchen; and finally, getting a good reputation and a steadily growing clientele. And, Tom has included a dozen of their favorite recipes, including one for that English pudding-of-all-puddings, Spotted Dick.

Spotted Dick, S'Il Vous Plait: An English Restaurant in France

Soho Pr Inc

Vegas, baby! The Complete Idiot?s Guide® to Las Vegas takes the guesswork out of planning the perfect vacation. Readers are given practical advice based on the kind of trip they?re looking for. ?A reader-friendly list of visual icons and symbols that make navigating the book easy ?Ultimate itineraries suited to different lengths of stay and special interests ?Everything readers need to know about gambling, shopping, entertainment, restaurants, activities, and hotels ?An eight-page color insert that captures the magic of the city

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Las Vegas

Hawks, John

Americas

Alpha

This is the story of how two people set themselves up as restaurateurs in Lyons, and overcame the French horror of English food by serving good simple, home cooking.

Plat Du Jour: An English Restaurant in Lyons

Biographies & Memoirs

Aurum Press

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