** Slab pull force, the tectonic plate force due to subduction

** Slab window, a gap that forms in a subducted oceanic plate

** Slab Boys-The Studio Theatre

** Nasogastric aspiration involves the placement of a tube via the nose down into the stomach, the stomach contents are then removed by suction.

** Trichotomy: If two sets are given, then either they have the same cardinality, or one has a smaller cardinality than the other.

** Zorn's lemma: Every non-empty partially ordered set in which every chain ( i. e. totally ordered subset ) has an upper bound contains at least one maximal element.

** This is, on the whole, an informed and good account of the life and accomplishments of one of the greatest influences on the development of thought both Eastern and Western.

** This German publication is both one of the most comprehensive general introductions to the life and works of the philosopher and physician Avicenna ( Ibn Sīnā, d. 1037 ) and an extensive and careful survey of his contribution to the history of science.

** Tiger kidnapping, taking a hostage to force a loved one or associate of the victim to do something

** Feast day of the Assumption of Mary, one of the Catholic holy days of obligation.

** The Artistic License ( the original Artistic License 1. 0, the one which is still used by Perl and CPAN )

** 8 System timers ( 2 reserved for LCD timing, one for UART )

** 1, 000, 000, 000 ( number ), one thousand million, 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >, in the short scale

** 1, 000, 000, 000, 000 ( number ), one million million, 10 < sup > 12 </ sup >, in the long scale

** Virtual console, a user interface for multiple computer consoles on one device

** Note: Marker was eventually credited as a writer for this one, apparently, he wrote the dialogue ( Film Comment ).

** Note: Marker narrated this one ( Film Comment ).

** A natural science – one that seeks to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world using empirical and scientific method.

** Shenzi, attributed to Shen Buhai ; all but one chapter is lost.

** GuineaA poster for the French colonial empire titled: " Three colours, one flag, one empire " ( 1941 )

** Storing the count of the " many " objects in a one-to-many relationship as an attribute of the " one " relation

** Stave-core-Consists of wooden slats stacked upon one another in a manner similar to a plank & batten door ( though the slats are usually thinner ) or the wooden-block hollow-core ( except that the space is entirely filled ).

** Stave-core-Consists of wooden slats stacked upon one another in a manner similar to a plank & batten door ( though the slats are usually thinner ) or the wooden-block hollow-core ( except that the space is entirely filled ).

** Series one: an introductory special on boxing day 1967, followed by 13 regular episodes of 30 minutes broadcast between 26 December 1967 to 28 March 1968, Thursdays at 17: 25.

** a linear equation has degree one,

** EDIF Questions and answers, volume one, November 1988

** That they all may be one

** a direct interaction occurs when one object is on a level exactly one higher or one lower than the other ( i. e., on a tree, the two objects have a line between them )

** Structural mapping: the locations of the major rock units and the faults and folds that led to their placement there.

** for his profound contributions to three major areas of operations research and management science: inventory theory, dynamic programming and lattice programming.

** for his profound contributions to two major areas of operations research and management science: stochastic networks and mathematical finance.

** International telephone system: landline connections to Latvia and Poland ; major international connections are to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway by submarine cable for further transmission by satellite

** Panzer General, SSI ( 1994 ), video game ; strategic simulation game: Sea Lion ' 40 and Sea Lion Plus ( the latter with prestige points used to take over Gibraltar allowing Italian naval assistance ) scenarios are available given major victories in early operations, or the Sea Lion ' 43 after initial delays and later major victories in North Africa or Russia.

** Engine configuration for a discussion of the layout of the major components of a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine.

** Some 400 – 1, 000 students march through Times Square, New York and another 700 in San Francisco, in the first major student demonstration against the Vietnam War.

** British battleship HMS Britannia is sunk by German submarine U-50 off Trafalgar with the loss of around fifty lives, the last major naval engagement of WWI.

** Russian General Brusilov begins a major offensive in Galicia, initially advancing towards Lemberg.

** Battle of the Kasserine Pass: German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia ; it is the United States ' first major battle defeat of the war.

** President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt's " Infamy " Address to a Joint Session of Congress at 12: 30 p. m. EST ( 17. 30 GMT ) and transmitted live over all four major national networks attracts the largest audience ever for an American radio broadcast, over 81 % of homes.

** Vernon Jordan is shot and critically injured in an assassination attempt in Fort Wayne, Indiana by Joseph Paul Franklin ( the first major news story for CNN ).

** At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs, when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain ( the only tie until 2002 in MLB All-Star Game history ).

** Conrail ( Consolidated Rails Corporation ) is formed by the U. S. government, to take control of 13 major Northeast Class-1 railroads that had filed for bankruptcy protection.

** Singer Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott.

** A major heat wave strikes North America ; high temperature records are set and thousands die.

** A major collapse of ground at the Emaswati Colliery in Swaziland traps 26 miners 65 m below the surface.

** The 1962 New York City newspaper strike begins, affecting all of the city's major newspapers ; It would last for 114 days.

** Rising prices cause major riots in Munich.

** Lubbock Tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Lubbock, Texas, the first to hit a downtown district of a major city since Topeka, Kansas in 1966 ; 28 are killed.

** Carl B. Stokes is elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major United States city.

** Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned major sweep operations to neutralize Viet Cong forces during the next year are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam will have to be increased from 120, 000 to 400, 000.

** A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.

** A major earthquake and tsunami kills 259 people in Colombia.