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Byron Dragway is a ¼-mile (402-meter) dragstrip located in Byron, Illinois, United States, about 1.5 hours from Chicago (84 miles, 134 km straight-line distance). Although the track is ¼-mile, it has timing for both ¼-mile and ⅛-mile classes. The dragway was opened in the 1960s, and at first it ran cars four abreast.
Tom Holland, in his 1995 novel The Vampyre: Being the True Pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron, describes how Lord Byron became a vampire during his first visit to Greece — a fictional transformation that explains much of his subsequent behaviour towards family and friends, and finds support in quotes from Byron poems and the diaries of John Cam Hobhouse.
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The time between the initial ideas for the film and its release was merely three months. It was filmed in eighteen days. For the scene in which two cars are smashed, the director originally wanted the cars to be wrecked completely, with doors flying off and other parts being destroyed.
Lord Byron is a film by Zack Godshall and Ross Brupbacher. [1] It premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and is garnering praise from the industry as a technical achievement [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and from critics as an important work of Southern United States fiction .
The standout scene in the film, which was finally issued on DVD and Blu-ray by Shout! Factory in 2017, is Velvet’s snarling cabaret performance of “It Takes a Man Like Me to Be a Woman Like Me.”
Byron is a British television film based on the adult life of English poet Lord Byron. Written by Nick Dear and directed by Julian Farino , it features Jonny Lee Miller in the title role alongside Vanessa Redgrave who portrays Lady Melbourne .
Newly-crowned Daytona 500 champion William Byron has explained how a “really unique” background in online racing helped to lay the foundations for his success in motorsports.