The 600 m is also used as an early season stepping stone by 800 m runners before they have reached full race fitness.

In a speech delivered in 1905 to the Boston Historical and Literary Association and later published as an essay, titled " Race Prejudice ; Its Causes and Its Cure ," Chesnutt imagined a " stone by stone " dismantling of race antagonism as the black middle class grew and prospered.

Halfway through the first event, race leader Louis Chevrolet was temporarily blinded when a stone smashed his goggles.

Until recently, when the new road was made to Templeogue, the old mill race could still be traced through the grounds of Ashfield where its dry bed was still spanned by several stone bridges.

Examples of circular motion include: an artificial satellite orbiting the Earth at constant height, a stone which is tied to a rope and is being swung in circles, a car turning through a curve in a race track, an electron moving perpendicular to a uniform magnetic field, and a gear turning inside a mechanism.

Originally utilizing street posters, LED signs became her most visible medium, though her diverse practice incorporates a wide array of media including bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches and footstools, stickers, T-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, sound, video, light projection, the Internet, and a Le Mans race car.

Due to cutting the corners, a stone thrown from Emerson Fittipaldi's Lotus hit Helmut Marko in the eye during the race, ending his F1 career.

On the next lap, a stone sliced through Senna's wheelrim, spinning him into a sandtrap and out of the race.

Between the milestone and the river there is a field and a little bridge over stone channels where the mill race once was ; Carlbury Bridge is now a Grade II listed building.

* In an early Ibis the Invincible story the Moon has members of a humanoid race composed of stone that competed with humanity over the Earth and were exiled to the Moon thousands of years ago where they are frozen.

Jones led early in the race and ran among the leaders until being hit in the fact with a stone, bloodying his face, blurring his vision and slowing him to a 12th-place finish.

Fighting for survival, Adran decided to send off Aio on a mission to find a worthy medium for the magical " white stone " to be given to someone with a pure heart to transform into Darna, the savior and the symbol of the Adranika race.

A stone which marks that Auld Rhymer's race lies in this place was transferred to the new kirk in 1736, and again to the most recent ( 1892 ) Victorian version in red sandstone, where it is somewhat dominated by carved memorials to the owners of the local Park Farm.

Children from Skewen were said to race to the stone on Easter morning.

* The Azarians-A race of primitive man-eating giants.

A cyclops (; ; plural cyclopes ; ), in Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, was a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the middle of his forehead.

Stone giants ( also called mountain giants ) were another race that inhabited the outside of the mountain.

A valley descending southwest from Jerusalem to the Valley of Elah below, it is an ancient route from the coastal plain to the Judean Hills, probably named after the legendary race of giants.

* There were three generations of giants before the race as a whole was destroyed by the deluge of Ymir's blood, after which time his grandson Bergelmir became the progenitor of a new line.

In Irish mythology, Balor of the Evil Eye ( sometimes spelled Balar or Bolar ) was a king of the Fomorians, a race of giants.

In the AD & D Universe, the firbolgs are a race of giants.

They escaped the sanguinary flood by climbing onto an object and subsequently became the progenitors of a new race of frost giants.

These three beings gave rise to the race of hrímþursar ( rime thurs, frost giants ), who populated Niflheim.

The Red Horn Cycle depicts his adventures with Turtle, the thunderbird Storms-as-He-Walks ( Mą ’ e-manįga ) and others who contest a race of giants, the Wąge-rucge or " Man-Eaters ", who have been killing human beings whom Red Horn has pledged to help.

However, Ymir is a hermaphrodite and engenders the race of giants.

They were a race of giants who fought against the Devas because they were jealous of their Deva half-brothers.

During the launch ceremony, a space war fleet from an alien race of humanoid giants arrives into the solar system and identifies the Macross as a former battleship used by their enemies, the Supervision Army.

The Book of Jubilees narrates the genesis of angels on the first day of Creation and the story of how a group of fallen angels mated with mortal females, giving rise to a race of giants known as the Nephilim.

The band's name refers to a Biblical race of giants or angel-human hybrids, known as the Nephilim.

Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name Cyclops, for the Cyclopes of Greek mythology, a race of giants with only one eye.

Here they coupled with demons and gave birth to a race of giants, whose descendants included Gog and Magog.

* Giants ( Marvel Comics ), a fictional race of people based on the giants of actual Norse legends

Lao stories and legends told there was once a race of giants who inhabited the area.

One common version has Olentzero being one of the jentillak, a mythological race of Basque giants living in the Pyrenees.

The are a fictional, militastic race of alien, humanoid giants and often the main antagonist in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross anime series and its Robotech adaptation.

The Jotun are a race of frost giants, adept at the magics of blood, nature, and water.

Races, as well as units not belonging to any specific race, such as dragons and giants, have a certain alignment, which can be good, neutral, or evil.

To our everlasting shame, we led the world in this nuclear arms race sixteen years ago when we dropped the first bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

As a matter of fact, Fogg and his plane didn't get beyond Pennsylvania in the race -- an engine oil leak forced him down -- but the flying service and school he started subsequently were first steps in paying off his wry-faced backers.

The largest hurdle the Republicans would have to face is a state law which says that before making a first race, one of two alternative courses must be taken: 1

Let us therefore put first things first, and make sure of preserving the human race at whatever the temporary price may be ''.

The first organized race was on April 28, 1887 by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède, Monsieur Fossier.

The Paris – Bordeaux – Paris race of June 1895 has sometimes been erroneously described as the " first motor race ", despite the 1894 event being decided by speed and finishing order of the eligible racers.

The first American automobile race is generally held to be the Thanksgiving Day Chicago Times-Herald race of November 28, 1895.

" To fill out the schedule, most types of racing events were invented here, including the first hill climb ( Nice – La Turbie ) and a sprint that was, in spirit, the first drag race.

The race is also the first American intercollegiate athletic event

* In Bananagrams, players place tiles from a pool into crossword-style word arrangements in a race to see who can finish the pool of tiles first.

* 1910 – Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.

Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race ; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea ; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in Odyssey book 10 as Keeper of the Winds who gives Odysseus a tightly closed bag full of the captured winds so he could sail easily home to Ithaca on the gentle West Wind.

The Donkey brae run is held on the first Sunday of the festival and is popular nationwide, with a 7-mile race, 2-mile run and a 1-mile run for children.

In 1964, the Birds, piloted by Hank Bauer in his first year of managing the ballclub, were involved in a tight pennant race against the Yankees and White Sox.

Those against the Wild Card see it as diminishing the importance of the pennant race and the regular season, with the true race often being for second rather than first place, while those in favor of it view it as an opportunity for teams to have a shot at the playoffs even when they have no chance of a first-place finish in their division, thus maintaining fan interest later in the season.

I am above race ..." The first English translation of Doctor Zhivago was hastily produced by Max Hayward and Manya Harari in order to coincide with overwhelming public demand.

The idea of organizing a ' marathon race ' came from Michel Bréal, who wanted the event to feature in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens.

At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham became the first man to win a Formula One world championship race in a car bearing his own name.

When they first race against each other, Liddell beats Abrahams.