This version of croquet varies from six-wicket croquet in that there are nine wickets, two stakes, and players usually compete individually with a single ball, with up to six players competing.

Pulitzer, who had retained the copyright to Hogan's Alley, hired George Luks to continue drawing the original ( and now less popular ) version of the strip for the World and hence the Yellow Kid appeared simultaneously in two competing papers for about a year.

In the version told to Stephens in 1840, the pyramid was magically built overnight during a series of challenges issued to a dwarf by the gobernador ( ruler or king ) of Uxmal, as part of a competing trial of strength and magic against the king orchestrated by the dwarf's mother ( a bruja, or witch ).

The assault course was once again changed for the 2010 version, with all four contestants competing at the same time.

On the continent, the Taunus version was competing with more modern and practical designs like the Talbot Alpine, Volkswagen Passat and Opel Ascona, but the brand image of Ford's blue oval ensured the Cortina was a success in virtually every country where it was sold.

In competing for the post he played a new version of his father ’ s Prelude and Fugue in G Major, BWV 541.

The competing national song Hej, Slováci was a version of the international pan-Slavic movement's traditional anthem, Hey, Slavs.

Victor J. Bergeron had opened a competing version called Trader Vic's in the late 1930s in the San Francisco Bay Area and the two men were amicable rivals for many years.

Those militants who follow a version of sharia based on the classical fiqh (" jurisprudence ") as interpreted by local ulema (" jurists "), were the most prominent of several competing trends in modern Islamic philosophy in the 1970s and 1980s.

World Idol ( Germany: SuperStar Weltweit, Middle East: SuperStar El Alaam ) was the title of a one-off international version of the television show Pop Idol, featuring winners of the various national Idol shows around the world competing against each other.

By the mid 1990s its price / performance ratio had fallen behind competing chips of more recent design, and Intel never produced a reduced power-consumption version that could be used in battery-powered systems.

Pegasus Mail has minimal system requirements compared with competing products, for instance the installed program ( excluding mailboxes ) for version 4. 52 requires only around 13. 5 MB of hard drive space.

* " That Same Old Feeling "-1970-Number 62 ( Originally recorded by the Foundations ; competing with a version by Pickettywitch ).

The TV3 version was axed in early 1995 due to low ratings and not being able to compete with TV1 extending their news to an hour long making the top rating Holmes show a competing show.

M-Net also had a version of Temptation that started in 2006 airing out of Nigeria, where it follows a similar format, with contestants competing to win prizes of more than US $ 100, 000 ( about ₦ 13, 000, 000 ).

The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.

A competing theory is that the release of Openoffice caused Microsoft to become more aggressive about protecting their Microsoft Office franchise and focus on providing limited versions Microsoft Office that consumers would find logical to upgrade to a version of Microsoft Office with more programs included.

In 1916 President Wilson decided to make a change in the presidential flag, the Navy version of which used the Great Seal on a blue background ( there was a competing design from the Army, which was different but also used the Great Seal ).

This engine was used in the racing version of the Capri RS 3100, competing successfully in the European Touring Car Championship, as well as in Formula 5000 single-seaters.

Major competing brands including Nike, Adidas and Reebok soon followed in Plank's footsteps with their own version of Under Armour's moisture-wicking apparel.

The unit was a table-top version of the earlier models and much smaller than the competing M400 Mellotron model.

Ludlam left to form his own company The Ridiculous Theatrical Group, taking many of the other actors with him Vaccaro held the rights to Conquest of the Universe, and was able to perform it first, legally delaying the production of Ludlam's competing version ( When Queens Collide ) for several months.

Gameplay was similar to the 1970s version in the United States, with contestants competing in line games to determine which would move on to the big board round, a round similar to the championship and elimination rounds of the American version.

Section 7 is designed to arrest in its incipiency not only the substantial lessening of competition from the acquisition by one corporation of the whole or any part of the stock of a competing corporation, but also to arrest in their incipiency restraints or monopolies in a relevant market which, as a reasonable probability, appear at the time of suit likely to result from the acquisition by one corporation of all or any part of the stock of any other corporation.

The issue was acute because the exiled Polish Government in London, supported in the main by Britain, was still competing with the new Lublin Government formed behind the Red Army.

If laborers are merely commodities competing against each other in a market place like so many bags of wheat and corn ( unsupported, by the way, by any agricultural subsidy ), then they may be pardoned for reacting with complete antagonism to a system that imposes such status upon them.

TWX originally used the earlier five-bit Baudot code, which was also used by the competing Telex teleprinter system.

The Triumvirate was eventually torn apart under the competing ambitions of its members: Lepidus was driven into exile and stripped of his position, and Antony committed suicide following his defeat at the Battle of Actium by Augustus in 31 BC.

Probiotics consist of a live culture of bacteria, which may become established as competing symbionts, and inhibit or interfere with colonization by microbial pathogens.

While there are many competing claims for the earliest powered, heavier-than-air flight, the most widely-accepted date is December 17, 1903 by the Wright brothers.

( The Western Schism had begun in 1378 and there were two competing popes at the time, one in Avignon supported by France and Spain, and one in Rome supported by most of Italy, Germany and England.

These medications are among those most commonly prescribed by psychiatrists and other physicians, and their effectiveness and adverse effects are the subject of many studies and competing claims.

He posited the ideal in nature, and was the founder of the competing school to the more gritty view of nature as expressed by Caravaggio.

A number of companies wanted to license the COCONET GUI but Coconut Computing chose not to, and as a result, a competing approach called Remote Imaging Protocol ( RIP ) emerged and was promoted by Telegrafix in the early to mid 1990s but it never became widespread.

John T. Arundel and Company, a British firm using a competing claim to the island by the UK, made the island its headquarters for its guano-digging operations in the Pacific from 1886 to 1891.

It is played by four players in two competing partnerships, with partners sitting opposite each other around a table.

In its most basic form, bridge is a game played by two competing partnerships, i. e. four people.

On the other hand " Gülpembe ", composed by Kurtalan Ekspres bassist Ahmet Güvenç, a requiem for Manço's grandmother, caught older audiences and probably is the artist's most popular song, competing perhaps only with " Dağlar Dağlar ".

The phase between the Baroque and the rise of the Classical, with its broad mixture of competing ideas and attempts to unify the different demands of taste, economics and " worldview ", goes by many names.

According to the work De Administrando Imperio written by the 10th-century Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, the Croats had arrived in what is today Croatia in the early 7th century, however that claim is disputed and competing hypotheses date the event between the 6th and the 9th centuries.

This ushered in the warlord era, during which much of the country was ruled by shifting coalitions of competing provincial military leaders.

In one paper presented at an ABA conference on class actions in 2007, authors commented that " competing cases can also provide opportunities for collusive settlement discussions and reverse auctions by defendants anxious to resolve their new exposure at the most economic cost.

As prices declined over a period of years they became more popular, and by 1997 were competing with CRT monitors.

These opponents of central planning argue that the only way to determine what society actually wants is by allowing private enterprise to use their resources in competing to meet the needs of consumers, rather those taking resources away and allowing government to direct investment without responding to market signals.

The protocol capabilities built into the DECT networking protocol standards were particularly good at supporting fast roaming in the public space, between hotspots operated by competing but connected providers.