It had just suffered a calamity, the final crisis in a long series of calamities.

between the north shore of Deer Island and the Salisbury side there was an arch of 113 feet and a series of piers with a draw forty feet long.

General Jones was fresh from a long series of bridge burnings, including the long bridge at Fairmont, and, after seeing a great drove of horses and cattle he had collected safely across the bridge, he sent his men to work piling combustibles in and around it.

Within an easy walk from Capitol Hill where Pennsylvania Avenue comes together with Constitution Avenue, begins a series of great federal buildings, some a block long and all about seven-stories high.

NBC plans a new series of three long programs exploring America's scientific plans titled `` Threshold '', to start in the fall.

This music is characterized by a large technical research and focuses mainly on twelve long Noubate " series ", its main instruments are the mandolin, violin, lute, guitar, zither, flute and piano.

In the 1990s, given Australia's long dominance of the Ashes and the popular acceptance of the Darnley urn as ‘ The Ashes ’, the idea was mooted that the victorious team should be awarded the urn as a trophy and allowed to retain it until the next series.

A long series of cultural development culminated in the expansion of the Inca civilization and Inca Empire in the central Andes during the 15th century.

The former, also known as Iulus ( or Julius ), founded Alba Longa and was the first in a long series of kings.

Yet in the case of Pericles, it is wrong to see his power as coming from his long series of annual generalships ( each year along with nine others ).

This battle ended a long series of ineffectual operations.

In all the Stargate television series, characters are able to communicate instantaneously over long distances by transferring their consciousness into another person or being anywhere in the universe using " Ancient communication stones ".

After this, the senior priest ( or bishop ) pours pure olive oil and a small amount of wine into the shrine lamp, and says the " Prayer of the Oil ", which calls upon God to "... sanctify this Oil, that it may be effectual for those who shall be anointed therewith, unto healing, and unto relief from every passion, every malady of the flesh and of the spirit, and every ill ..." Then follow seven series of epistles, gospels, long prayers, Ektenias ( litanies ) and anointings.

Here he produced a long series of operas, remarkable chiefly for their fluency and expressiveness, as well as other music for state occasions.

Adoptionism was one position in a long series of Christian disagreements about the precise nature of Christ ( see Christology ) in the developing dogma of the Trinity, an attempt to explain the relationship between Jesus of Nazareth, both as man and God, and God the Father while confidently claiming to be uncompromisingly monotheistic.

Milward argued the German Reich could not fight a long war, so it deliberately refrained from arming in depth, to arming in breadth, to enable it to win a series of quick victories.

The game became very popular and led to a long series of sequels and spin-offs.

Although he initially declined the part of Dr. David Banner in The Incredible Hulk because of its comic book origins, on reading Kenneth Johnson's script for the pilot episode, he was persuaded to change his mind ( and agreed to remain involved with the series for as long as Johnson was to be involved ).

Morse code was introduced in the 1840s and is used to encode each letter of the Latin alphabet, each Arabic numeral, and some other characters via a series of long and short presses of a telegraph key.

As NVA / VC activity grew, the United States and South Vietnam became concerned, and in 1969, the United States began a 14 month long series of bombing raids targeted at NVA / VC elements, contributing to destabilization.

In the latter, only taxa associated with a rank can be named, yet there are not enough ranks to name a long series of nested clades ; ranks determine the form of names, so names must in many cases change when a name is inserted into such a series ; and taxon names cannot be defined in a way that guarantees them to refer to clades.

These calls may be a long rising and falling note ( a howl ) or a series of short notes ( yips ).

The Winter Olympics, the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and the FIS World Cup events ( including the Holmenkollen and the Tour de Ski, a grueling 9 race series completed in eleven days ) have long been a showcase for the world's fastest cross country skiers.

Although published long before Babbitt in 1899, Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class, which critiqued consumer culture and social competition at the turn of the 19th to 20th century, is an oft-cited point of comparison.

Leisure boats have long been used on the river and rowing boats can still be hired at The Linney Park, Ludlow.

This was followed by a long series of popular treatises in rapid succession, amongst the more important of which are Light Science for Leisure Hours and The Sun ( 1871 ); The Orbs around Us and Essays on Astronomy ( 1872 ); The Expanse of Heaven, The Moon and The Borderland of Science ( 1873 ); The Universe and the Coming Transits and Transits of Venus ( 1874 ); Our Place among Infinities ( 1875 ); Myths and Marvels of Astronomy ( 1877 ); The Universe of Stars ( 1878 ); Flowers of the Sky ( 1879 ); The Poetry of Astronomy ( 1880 ); Easy Star Lessons and Familiar Science Studies ( 1882 ); Mysteries of Time and Space and The Great Pyramid ( 1883 ); The Universe of Suns ( 1884 ); The Seasons ( 1885 ); Other Suns than Ours and Half-Hours with the Stars ( 1887 ).

Frames, a bowling alley ( long known as Leisure Time Bowliing ) occupies a large space on the 2nd floor.

At the Western boundary of Swanley was the ' Bull Hotel ' which had a long history at the site serving the passing trade, during the 1980s to 2000 this changed to Hickorys Nightclub ( 1st Leisure Group ) and then was renamed ' Deja Vu Nightclub ' after a refurbishment in the middle 1990's, and in 2011 was rebuilt to create a hotel and restaurant operated by Premier Inns.

However in March 2010 the club moved into the Sunnydale Leisure Centre in Shildon with the intention of making this their long term home.

After a long hiatus, the character of Chuck Mangione returned in a later episode titled " Lucky's Wedding Suit ", in May 2007.

In addition, there are a couple special items such as jet packs ( which give a player on foot a hovering ability similar to Landmaster's hover ), and the " Stealth Suit ", which can make the player invisible for a long period of time.

The remaining Mouseketeers, consisting of the White or Blue Teams, were Don Agrati ( later known as Don Grady when starring as " Robbie " on the long running sitcom My Three Sons ), Sherry Alberoni, Billie Jean Beanblossom, Johnny Crawford, Jonathan A. Kahn ( a. k. a. Tio Juan ), Eileen Diamond, Dickie Dodd ( not related to Jimmie Dodd ), Mary Espinosa, Bonnie Lynn Fields, Judy Harriet, Linda Hughes, Dallas Johann, John Lee Johann, Bonni Lou Kern, Charlie Laney, Larry Larsen, Paul Petersen, Lynn Ready, Mickey Rooney Jr., Tim Rooney, Mary Lynn Sartori, Bronson Scott, Michael Smith, Margene Storey, Ronnie Steiner, Mark Sutherland and Don Underhill.

Those of a more traditional bent may prefer the Guinness record for slinging a stone:, using a long sling and a ovoid stone, set by Larry Bray in Loa, Utah, USA on 21 August 1981.

Merivale proved to be a stabilizing influence for Leigh ; but, despite her apparent contentment, she was quoted by Radie Harris as confiding that she " would rather have lived a short life with Larry than face a long one without him ".

What he actually found in India and what he finally concluded are held back from the reader for a considerable time until, in a scene late in the book, Maugham discusses India and spirituality with Larry in a café long into the evening.

Brendel has long adored Larry Norman for his unique and unblemished style.

It takes a long time-a whole book in fact, but Larry eventually does complete his quest.

Columbia maintained a long list of contractees well into the 1950s: Glenn Ford, Penny Singleton, William Holden, Judy Holliday, The Three Stooges, Ann Miller, Evelyn Keyes, Ann Doran, Jack Lemmon, Cleo Moore, Barbara Hale, Adele Jergens, Larry Parks, Arthur Lake, Lucille Ball, Kerwin Mathews, and Kim Novak.

James adds that Speaker was a staunch supporter of Larry Doby when he broke the American League color barrier, working long hours with him in the outfield, teaching Doby, who mainly played second base before arriving in Cleveland, the center field position ; and Doby mentioned Speaker favorably during his Hall of Fame induction speech.

Mr. Burns ' long lost son Larry returns and although they at first get along well, Mr. Burns begins to see that his son has turned out to be an oaf.

The zoo originated from Larry Seibel's long experience in breeding exotic animals.

* Larry Myricks, 1988 Olympic bronze-medalist in the long jump.

* To mark 50 years in broadcasting, Larry King Live had a week long celebration that included a two hour CNN presents special and an hour of celebrity toast.

By the late 1980s, he had established himself as a seasoned veteran of Canadian theatre — a long way from Lucky Larry, his first role.

Keith Hennessey, then a Deputy of NEC Director Larry Lindsey, stated that Suskind made up a paragraph long direct quote from him during a White House meeting that he never actually said.

Earlham's biology and chemistry departments have a long history of producing distinguished graduates, such as Warder Clyde Allee, Wendell Stanley, Jim Fowler, and Larry E. Overman.

He has played and recorded with a long list of jazz greats including Jackie McLean, Art Blakey, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard and The New Jazz Composers Octet, Benny Golson's New Jazztet, One for All ( Eric Alexander, Jim Rotondi, David Hazeltine, John Webber, Joe Farnsworth ), Hank Jones, Cecil Payne, Horace Silver, Cedar Walton, Harold Mabern, Larry Willis, Eddie Henderson, The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band ( featuring Slide Hampton, James Moody, Jimmy Heath, Roy Hargrove ), Avishai Cohen, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and Michael Weiss, among many others.

When Billie thought he was checking up on her mission he told her that the person that gave her the mission was long dead and later Billie confessed to having involment in Hope's kidnapping and helped Shane worked with the others to free Hope from Larry Welch.

The seat came open after 18-year Republican incumbent Larry Combest announced his retirement not long after having been reelected to a 10th term in 2002.

Soon thereafter, long time educator Larry Rosenstock was asked to present to this group about different possible governance structures for the school.

In 2008 Sly Dunbar collaborated with Larry McDonald, the Jamaican percussionist, on his long awaited debut album " Drumquestra " for Executive Producer Malik Al Nasir and his " MCPR Music " label in Dubai.

In November 1984 he fought the long reigning Larry Holmes for the IBF heavyweight championship.

Both TWA and NWF featured Larry Winters and DC Drake, who engaged in a long blood feud.

Larry has long unkempt hair and a beard, with Alan stating he has a " Howard Hughes look.

Eaton's heel run did not last long before he rescued his former Jet Set partner, George Gulas, from a two-on-one attack by The Blond Bombers ( Larry Latham and Wayne Ferris ) to return to the fan-favorite side once more.