More recently Twitter, a popular social network service, began driving abbreviation use with 140 character message limits.

Omnipoint soon offered the first texting between the U. S. and the rest of the world shortly thereafter, setting in motion the 140 character micro-blog trend led by Twitter.

Created by writer Bill Finger and artist Dick Sprang, the character first appeared in Detective Comics # 140 ( 1948 ).

# texting ( 2004 ) Sending 140 character text messages over cell phones

As Alan Mowbray, he made his motion picture debut in 1931, going on to a career primarily as a character actor in more than 140 films including the sterling butler role in the comedy Merrily We Live, and playing the title role in the TV series The Adventures of Colonel Flack.

People posting on Twitter make extensive use of shortened URLs to keep their tweets within the service-imposed 140 character limit.

Having directed more than 140 films, he continued to work in small character roles.

* 1994 – China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.

* 1974 – The second Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins ; 140, 000 to 200, 000 Greek Cypriots become refugees.

* 1991 – Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.

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" Teaching Philosophy, pp. 127 – 140.

The WHO estimates that 100 – 140 million women and girls around the world have experienced the procedure, including 92 million in Africa.

According to the WHO, 100 – 140 million women and girls are living with FGM, including 92 million girls over the age of 10 in Africa.

The tradition that this was the disciple Matthew begins with the early Christian bishop Papias of Hierapolis ( about 100 – 140 AD ), who, in a passage with several ambiguous phrases, wrote: " Matthew collected the oracles ( logia — sayings of or about Jesus ) in the Hebrew language ( Hebraïdi dialektōi — perhaps alternatively " Hebrew style ") and each one interpreted ( hērmēneusen — or " translated ") them as best he could.

Oxford: Oxbow ( see pp. 64 – 140 ).

From 5 – 7 November 1945, more than 140 Jews ( including 36 children ) were killed and hundreds injured in a pogrom in Tripoli.

1175-1280 ( c. 250 BC ); Bibliotheca 1. 9. 19, 2. 7. 7 ( 140 BC ); Sextus Propertius, Elegies, i. 20. 17ff ( 50 – 15 BC ); Ovid, Ibis, 488 ( AD 8 – 18 ); Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, I. 110, III. 535, 560, IV. 1-57 ( 1st century ); Hyginus, Fables, 14.

The history of Kazakhstan describes the human past in the Eurasia's largest segment of the steppe belt that was the home and crossroads for numerous human groups starting with extinct Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus 1 mln – 800, 000 in the Karatau Mountains, Caspian and Balkhash areas ; Neanderthals 140 – 40 thousand years ago in the Karatau Mountains and Central Kazakhstan, and the arrival of the modern Homo Sapiens 40 – 12 thousand years ago in the Southern, Central, and Eastern Kazakhstan.

* 152mm – 140: 60 2S3 Akatsiya ; 80 M-77 Dana ;

* 2011 – In the 2011 Charsadda bombing in the Charsadda District of Pakistan, two bombs explode, resulting in 98 deaths 140 wounded.

" The New Yorker, February 13 & 20, 2006, p. 140 – 49.

" Domestic Origins of Germany's Colonial Expansion under Bismarck ," Past & Present No. 42 ( Feb., 1969 ), pp. 140 – 59 in JSTOR

* 1870 – Marshal François Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at Metz along with 140, 000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War.

* Warsaw – Puławy – Lublin ( 120, 140 km / h )

* 1874 – 1, 664 runs and 140 wickets

Estimates place Korean and Chinese casualties at 1, 000, 000 – 1, 400, 000 dead or wounded, and 140, 000 MIA or POW.

mtDNA is replicated by the DNA polymerase gamma complex which is composed of a 140 kDa catalytic DNA polymerase encoded by the POLG gene and a 55 kDa accessory subunit encoded by the POLG2 gene.

Then each pair of pixels was encoded with information for the HAM-E unit, which converted the information into one 140 ns pixel ( generating an image 320 pixels wide, or 360 with overscan, at a color depth of eight bitplanes ).

Grime is typified by complex 2-step, 4X4, breakbeats, generally around 140 beats per minute, or sometimes structured around a halftime rhythm, and constructed from different synth, string and electronic sounds.

Most recently imprisoned for running up a 140, 000 kronor ( US $ 20, 500 ) bill in one of Sweden's top restaurants and then refusing to pay, Cronin is infamous for a string of sex offences against women, most notably against " Judy X ", a Tory Party worker, in May 1992.

Jadassohn composed more than 140 works in virtually every genre, including four symphonies, four Serenades for Orchestra and one for Flute and Orchestra, two piano concertos, lieder, sonatas, opera and a considerable amount of chamber music, including a string quartet, four piano trios, three piano quartets, three piano quintets and a serenade for flute and string quintet.

The crew were subjected to an acceleration of 14 to 17 g ( 140 to 170 m / s² ) for five seconds.

On January 5, 1967, the biggest gas attack came against the village of Kitaf, causing 270 casualties, including 140 fatalities.

The Bulgarians launched their attack along the defensive line with 176, 351 men and 462 artillery pieces against the Ottomans ' 140, 571 men and 316 artillery pieces, but despite Bulgarian superiority, the Ottomans succeeded in repulsing them.

Thirty civilians were killed in the attack and 140 were injured.

It was decided that a raid by 140 men would land on the island of Guernsey and attack the airfield with the purpose of destroying aircraft and buildings, as well as capturing or killing members of the garrison.

He distinguished himself in the one-dayers, though, by savaging an attack comprising Michael Holding, Joel Garner, Malcolm Marshall, Winston Davis and Viv Richards for 127 not out off 140 balls at the SCG.

Russian news agencies reported that 25 were killed in the attack, and roughly 140 were wounded.

As the Texians made plans for an attack, Castañeda learned from a Coushatta Indian that about 140 men were gathered in Gonzales, with more expected.

* June 11 – 12 ( overnught ) – 783 British bombers attack Düsseldorf, killing 1, 326 people, injuring 2, 600, and leaving 13 missing and 140, 000 homeless.

** 140 British bombers successfully attack the railway yards at Amiens, France, losing three aircraft.

Despite Lee ’ s barrage attack of 140 cannons and a final infantry attack on the third day of the battle, the Union army won a strategic victory.

On 30 March, he wrote a letter to Berthier explaining his intention to mass around 140, 000 troops in the vicinity of Regensburg, far to the north of where the Austrians were planning to make their attack.

By 20: 00 on 5 February, the 16th Battalion relieved Murray's company, which had only 48 survivors from the 140 who had begun the attack.

After an attack on miners with depositions given in Salt Lake City by the survivors, Connor marched his regiment 140 miles over the frozen winter landscape to ' deal ' with the Indians.

The British traders rebuilt the castle after each attack, gradually altering its architecture during the roughly 140 years it was used as a slave trade entrepôt.

The Second Battle of Boonville was fought on September 13, 1861, when Colonel William Brown of the Missouri State Guard led 800 men in an attack on 140 pro-Union Boonville Home Guardsmen while the Union soldiers were eating breakfast.

Despite Lee ’ s barrage attack of 140 cannons and a final infantry attack on the third day of the battle, the Union army won a highly significant victory.

About 140, 000 Moslem troops had opened a vigorous rear attack on the Hindus and captured several artillery positions.