Several short Maakies Flash animations were shown on Saturday Night Live in the late 1990s.

* The House At Maakies Corner ( 2002 )

A pair of Maakies strips are purportedly drawn by Drinky Crow and Uncle Gabby ( who passed out in the middle of drawing his ).

Tony Millionaire's weekly comic strip Maakies is perhaps the only contemporary syndicated strip to run a topper ( which appears at the bottom of the main strip and lacks a consistent title ).

Open toll collection is used on some bridges and tunnels and short stretches of tolled highway, where drivers immediately pay the toll upon arriving.

To fill in the gaps, many modern dulcimer builders include extra short bridges at the top and bottom of the soundboard, where extra strings are tuned to some or all of the missing pitches.

The foundation of the " Prince's Law " lay in a network of fortified towns called grody, but the ruler also commissioned the building of churches, monasteries, roads, bridges etc., in short the development of an infrastructure.

The short portion of US 1 in New Hampshire follows the historic Lafayette Road, staying close to I-95, before leaving the city of Portsmouth on the former Memorial Bridge over the Piscataqua River, which has been demolished and being replaced, leaving a temporary gap in US 1, with two other nearby bridges carrying U. S. Route 1 Bypass and Interstate 95.

McMellen, who built many of Lancaster's covered bridges using the Burr arch truss, chose to build this short bridge using a simpler design with multiple kingpost trusses and, instead of Burr arches, pyramidal-shaped trusses to add additional support.

Among the hundreds of standardization agreements ( current total is just short of 1300 ) are those for calibres of small arms ammunition, map markings, communications procedures, and classification of bridges.

Many box girder bridges are built segmentally, or in short pieces.

For a short period both bridges were open, each operating in one direction only.

A number of mid-to small-sized forms are believed to have previously dispersed to the Antilles islands either by making short swims or using land bridges that are now submerged.

Mechanized combat engineer units also have armored vehicles capable of laying short bridges for limited gap-crossing.

Like Chinese gazetteers, there were national, provincial, and local prefecture Korean gazetteers which featured geographic information, demographic data, locations of bridges, schools, temples, tombs, fortresses, pavilions, and other landmarks, cultural customs, local products, resident clan names, and short biographies on well-known people.

Like most bridges of its time, The Pont Neuf is constructed as a series of many short arch bridges, following Roman precedents.

However, the repatriation project encountered a series of obstacles: the runway at Axum Airport was considered too short for a cargo plane carrying even one of the thirds into which the stele had been cut ; the roads and bridges between Addis Ababa and Axum were thought to be not up to the task of road transport ; and access through the nearby Eritrean port of Massawa – which was how the stele originally left Africa – was impossible due to the strained state of relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia.

The Prees Arm of the canal was originally intended to reach Prees, it was only constructed as far as Quina Brook, and today is only open for a short distance, with two lift bridges, to a marina at the end.

On many roads, the shoulder disappears for short periods, particularly near exits and sometimes when going across or under bridges where the cost savings outweigh the disadvantages of not having the shoulder.

Several airlines have removed jet bridges at regional jet gates at airports such as Atlanta which are short on gates.

Auslink, the government body which provides a planning framework and funding for the Australian Government's investment in land transport infrastructure, in its 2006 report Sydney Dubbo Corridor Strategy, determined that one of its short term priorities would be to " Address inefficiencies in sections of railway track including sections with poor condition bridges,

Three 0-6-0 diesels were obtained in 1971, to replace the last steam engines, but were too short to operate the signalling system, and too heavy for some of the bridges.

Movement outside of the depots was severely restricted when the civil engineering department decided that the short wheelbase and 16-ton axle loading might cause overloading problems on a number of bridges.

After the line goes through a short cutting and underneath two road bridges which carry the A30 roundabout outside the station, the line follows the western side of the estuary past.

This destruction had taken place in an astonishingly short time ; whereas, in previous non-precision interdiction campaigns, it often took hundreds of sorties to destroy a bridge, in the Gulf War precision weapons destroyed 41 of 54 key Iraqi bridges, as well as 31 pontoon bridges hastily constructed by the Iraqis in response to the anti-bridge strikes, in approximately four weeks.

Plate girder bridges are suitable for short to medium spans and may support railroads, highways or other traffic.

The man took two short steps backward then sat down heavily on the pavement.

The lower portion permits comparison of maturity levels of short and round bones predominantly, since only two long bones are included in Hand and Wrist as a region.

Suspecting an ambush, the two deputies decided to ride up a side canyon taking a short cut into Catskill.

At this moment, Loveless and Means arrived, crashing through the undergrowth with their horses, and distracted her, and she ran off a short distance and jumped into a crevice between two rocks.

They have three pairs of external red feathery gills, a blunt head with two rudimentary eyes, a lateral line system and a short tail with fins.

One Nepōhualtzintzin ( 91 ) represented the number of days that a season of the year lasts, two Nepōhualtzitzin ( 182 ) is the number of days of the corn's cycle, from its sowing to its harvest, three Nepōhualtzintzin ( 273 ) is the number of days of a baby's gestation, and four Nepōhualtzintzin ( 364 ) completed a cycle and approximate a year ( 1 days short ).

Within a short while, he grasps what is at stake and warns the authorities that unless steps are taken immediately, the epidemic could kill off half the town's population of two hundred thousand within a couple of months .</ br > During the epidemic, Rieux heads an auxiliary hospital and works long hours treating the victims.

Spofforth went on to devastate the English batting, taking his final four wickets for only two runs to leave England just eight runs short of victory in one of the closest and most nail-biting finishes in the history of cricket.

* They preferred quite short, metrically simple stanzas or ' strophes ' which they re-used in many poems-hence the ' Alcaic ' and ' Sapphic ' stanzas, named after the two poets who perfected them or possibly invented them.

During the short reigns of the older two of his three elder brothers, Æthelbald of Wessex and Æthelberht of Wessex, Alfred is not mentioned.

His two successors were Ibrahim ibn Tashfin and Ishaq ibn Ali, but their reigns were short.

This short work also highlighted the typical backstage antics of two high flown sopranos.

Approximately 55 cars were built for sale in two configurations, long chassis and short chassis.

The first two acts were successfully premièred in Zürich in 1937, but for personal reasons Helene Berg subsequently imposed a ban on any attempt to " complete " the final act, which Berg had in fact completed in particell ( short score ) format.

While the two herbicides that make up Agent Orange, 2, 4-D and 2, 4, 5-T, remain toxic over a short period — a scale of days or weeks — they quickly degrade.

In the agony of the Umayyad dynasty in the Al-Andalus ( Moorish Iberia ), two princes of the house were proclaimed Caliph of Cordoba for a very short time, Abd-ar-Rahman IV Mortada ( 1017 ), and Abd-ar-Rahman V Mostadir ( 1023 – 1024 ).

Emerson-family carts come in two different lengths of black plastic cases ; the short style is similar to Atari 2600 carts in overall size.

After two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One ( 1973 ) and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought ( 1975 ), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker ; his first film, The Famous Comedians School, was a satiric short that appeared on PBS and was an early example of the mockumentary sub-genre.

Under extreme climatic conditions, a biennial plant may complete its life cycle in a very short period of time ( e. g. three or four months instead of two years ).

The majority of bombing was still done by one-engined biplanes with one or two crew-members flying short distances to attack the enemy lines and immediate hinterland.

They have six stamens, four of which are longer ( as long as the petals, so relatively short in fact ) and are arranged in a cross like the petals and the other two are shorter ( tetradynamous flower ).

The pistil is made up of two fused carpels and the style is very short, with two lobes.

Sörla þáttr is a short story in the later and extended version of the Saga of Olaf Tryggvason in the manuscript of the Flateyjarbók, which was written and compiled by two Christian priests, Jon Thordson and Magnus Thorhalson, in the late 14th century.

" It is a short book, consisting of only two chapters.