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"The Final Countdown" became a success on the charts worldwide following its release during 1986 and 1987, reaching number one in 25 countries (including the UK, where it spent two weeks at the top and is Europe's only Top 10 hit to date), [16] and is widely regarded as the band's most popular and recognizable song.
In 1980, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz departs Naval Station Pearl Harbor for naval exercises in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The ship takes on a civilian observer, Warren Lasky (Martin Sheen) — a systems analyst for Tideman Industries working as an efficiency expert for the U.S. Department of Defense — on the orders of his reclusive employer, Mr. Tideman, whose secretive major defense ...
Time for Timer is a series of seven short public service announcements broadcast on Saturday mornings on the ABC television network starting in 1975. The animated spots feature Timer, a tiny cartoon character who is an anthropomorphic circadian rhythm , the self-proclaimed "keeper of body time."
Final Countdown is an side-scrolling action-adventure game developed and published by Demonware Softwarehaus for the Amiga, and released in 1990.The game is set in the 25th century, and sees players taking on the role of a female space station commander who boards an asteroid-like space ship to investigate it after it is found to be on a collision course for Earth, navigating around and ...
A typical kitchen timer. A timer or countdown timer is a type of clock that starts from a specified time duration and stops upon reaching 00:00. An example of a simple timer is an hourglass. Commonly, a timer triggers an alarm when it ends. A timer can be implemented through hardware or software.
Depending on the type of vehicle used, countdowns can start from 72 to 96 hours before launch time. There are two countdowns proceeding simultaneously: The T-minus clock, a schedule of planned activities prior to launch (T−0), and; The L-minus clock, a mechanical countdown to the time of launch (L−0).
Each verse consists of two lines, of which the first line is anything from humorous to poignant, and the second line is a minute-by-minute countdown. Well they're buildin' the gallows outside my cell. I got 25 minutes to go. And the whole town's waitin' just to hear me yell. I got 24 minutes to go. And so on.
The 20 (formerly known as the VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown) is a weekly music video countdown television show that aired on the VH1 cable television network in the United States. The long-running show was first introduced in 1994 as VH1 Top 10 Countdown, part of VH1's "Music First" re-branding effort. [1]