Nosebleed could be stopped by wrapping a red woolen string about the patient's neck and tying it in a knot for each year of his life.

Points in contact with the string are shown in red.

Figure 2: The string at 6 consecutive epochs, the first ( red ) corresponding to the initial time with the string in rest

The red curve is the initial state at time zero at which the string is " let free " in a predefined shape The initial state for " Investigation by numerical methods " is set with quadratic splines as follows:

The skimpy costume consisted of a copper brassiere fastened over the neck and behind the back with string, copper plates at the groin in front and back, a red silk loincloth, and leather boots.

Her next single, " Cocoon ", was also banned by MTV as it featured a nude Björk ( which the nude body was actually a fitted body suit rigged with red string ).

In China, during the Qin Dynasty, the elderly would thread coins with a red string.

* the string of the red balloon is not straight as it should be, given the fact that the balloon is not moving-as though the string is a thin, curling ribbon.

In Sicily, potato salad is made with string beans and red onion, dressed with olive oil and vinegar.

The paradox of something being invisible yet having visible characteristics ( e. g., color ) is reflected in some East Asian cultures, wherein an " invisible red string " is said to connect people who have a shared or linked destiny.

The adult basically resembles a small European Herring Gull, the most noticeable differences being the short stubby red bill and " string of pearls " white wing primary tips, rather than the large " mirrors " of some other species.

In Bulgaria there is a tradition called Martenitsa, which sometimes involves tying a red and white string around the wrist to please Baba Marta in order for spring to come sooner.

In Greece a similar tradition, weaving a bracelet from red and white string on the first day of March and wearing it till the end of summer, is called " Martis " and is considered to help protect the wearer's skin from the strong Greek sun.

The show would feature some of the band's most famous instruments, including Mike Rutherford's double neck that consisted of a MicroFret six string bass and a Rickenbacker 12 string guitar, and Phil Collins ' largest drum kit with Genesis featuring four timbales, a red seven-piece Ludwig kit ( and later a natural finish Premier kit in same configuration ,) a Fibes Crystallite snare, a set of five red temple blocks, a vibraphone, a set of orchestral bells, tubular bells, and a set of tuned tambourines ( which can be heard on " In the Cage.

In this Randolph Caldecott rendition, a dish, spoon, and other utensils are anthropomorphized while a cat in a red jacket holds a fiddle in the manner of a string bass.

The garments consisted of a large belt, two all-white wedding robes, a white wedding robe with red stripes at top and bottom, white buckskin leggings and moccasins, a string for tying the hair, and a reed mat in which to wrap the outfit.

Smokey wears bright red ( or yellow ) rubber boots and a clownish striped “ helmet ” ( always worn back-to-front ), which he sometimes ties to his nose with string, in lieu of a chinstrap.

Mărțișor, marţ and mărțiguș are all names for the red and white string from which a small decoration is tied, and which is offered by people on the 1st day of March.

The string can also be black and white, or blue and white ) Giving this talisman to people is an old custom, and it is believed that the one who wears the red and white string will be strong and healthy for the year to come.

In point of fact, this is a beige box with a bright red door, about one and a half feet square and hung from the wall about six feet from the door to Wisman's right.

The dress in the painting is a bright red, with rhinestones forming a spray on the right side.

Thus Burns's `` My love is like a red, red rose '' and Hopkins' `` The thunder-purple sea-beach, plumed purple of Thunder '' although clearly intelligible in content, hardly present ideas of the sort with which we are here concerned.

The expense ( operating ) budget is to be a program budget, and red tape is cut to allow greater autonomy ( with the Mayor approving ) in fund transfers within a department.

Leila ( Malia Phillips ), 25, is a Greenwich Village painter of Persianesque miniatures who has red hair that cascades almost to her ankles.

The video signal is amplified and then switched, in synchronism with the three ultraviolet light sources which are sequenced by the rotating mirror so that during one-twentieth of a second only one wavelength, corresponding to red, green, or blue, is seen.

Now the thing for us to do is to find ourselves a couple of those wonderful flowering currants such as the red Ribes sanguineum of our Pacific Northwest, or otherwise a good sloe tree, or perhaps some nice pussy willow in bloom, preferably one with male or staminate catkins.

Almost equal in size to a honeybee, A. armata is much more beautiful in color, at least in the female of the species: a rich, velvety, rusty red.

This is especially true of red wines, and a practice which, though not always practicable, is well worth the effort.

In this way, red wine warms of itself quite rapidly -- and though it is true that it may not attain its potential of taste and fragrance until after the middle of the meal ( or the course ), in the meantime it will have run the gamut of many beguiling and interesting stages.

This does not mean, though, that a red wine improves with prolonged aeration: there is a reasonable limit -- and wines kept over to the next meal or the next day, after they have once been opened, are never as good.

very old red wine is often decanted so that the puckering, bitter elements which have settled to the bottom will not be mingled with the wine itself.

Though there are many exceptions, which we have noted in preceding pages, white wine is as a rule best consumed between two and six years old, and red wines, nowadays, between three and ten.

the average claret is notably longer-lived than its opposite number, red Burgundy.

If a red Bordeaux of a good name and year is bitter or acid, or cloying and muddy-tasting, leave it alone for a while.

The 1961 theme is the Dakota Territorial Centennial, with the pictures including the Lewis and Clark expedition, the first river steamboat, the 1876 gold rush, a little red schoolhouse on the prairie, and today's construction of large Missouri River reservoirs.

Or you could hope the parachute wouldn't open just so you could say you saw it not open, not because you meant any harm to Starkey Poe in his suit of red underwear, but mainly because you were tired of being an old maid -- a thing which cannot admit when it thinks it might be pregnant, but must stand the dizzy feeling all alone and go on like everything is all right instead of being able to say to somebody in a normal voice: `` I think I'm pregnant ''.

The red bars mark the pivot element ; at the start of the animation, the element farthest to the right hand side is chosen as the pivot.

Black arsenic is similar in structure to red phosphorus.

It is in fact a private memento, and for this reason it is never awarded to either England or Australia, but is kept permanently in the MCC Cricket Museum where it can be seen together with the specially made red and gold velvet bag and the scorecard of the 1882 match.

Ajax originally played in an all black uniform with a red sash tied around the players ' waists, but that uniform was soon replaced by a red / white striped shirt and black shorts.

The traditional Roman fasces consisted of a bundle of birch rods, tied together with a red leather ribbon into a cylinder, and often including a bronze axe ( or sometimes two ) amongst the rods, with the blade ( s ) on the side, projecting from the bundle.

These were densified into networks of traverses ( polygons ), into which local mapping surveying measurements, usually with measuring tape, corner prism and the familiar red and white poles, are tied.

Though unique for each pope, the arms are always surmounted by the two keys in saltire ( i. e., crossed over one another so as to form an X ) behind the escutcheon ( shield ) ( one silver key and one gold key, tied with a red cord ), and above them a silver triregnum with three gold crowns and red infulae ( lappets — two strips of fabric hanging from the back of the triregnum which fall over the neck and shoulders when worn ).

At least two of the cellphone calls made by passengers indicate that all the hijackers they saw were wearing red bandannas, and indicated that one of the men, believed to be either Ahmed al-Haznawi or Ahmed al-Nami, had a box tied around his torso, and claimed there was a bomb inside.

Her face, which was red and spotted, was rendered something frightful by her negligent dress, and the foot affected was tied up with a poultice and some nasty bandages.

The use of blue is also tied to the fact that the blue emulsion layer of film has the finest crystals and thus good detail and minimal grain ( in comparison to the red and green layers of the emulsion.

These were densified into networks of traverses ( polygons ), into which local mapping surveying measurements, usually with measuring tape, corner prism and the familiar red and white poles, are tied.

A bunting flag that exists, in the white and red configuration with 13 blue stars, is not believed to be Alabama-associated, but rather to be tied to Rucker's Brigade, as well.

Then when he was asked to deliver a stool sample to the onsite lab, he placed it in a gift box and tied a red ribbon around it.

A sign of peaceful relations between the indigenous peoples and the Norsemen is noted here ; the two sides bartered with furs and gray squirrel skins for milk and red cloth, which the natives tied around their heads as a sort of headdress.

It is traditionally described as a silver shawl, tied, on a red background.

Crosses made of rowan tied with red twine were also used as a witch deterrent.

200 to 300 firecrackers were tied up in a bunch, then red clay was spread at the bottom of the bunch, and forced into each end of the firecracker with a punch, gun power was pour into it, then the other end was sealed with awl by turning the tube inward, and a fuse inserted.

* III-All placed on a sword in pale, pommelled gold, hilted blue, except for the center part, which is red and contains a silver star, all upon a crown formed by a branch of coffee fruited on the dexter side and another of flowering tobacco on the sinister side, both in proper colors, tied blue, the whole assembled on a splendor of gold, the contours of which form a star of 20 points

During the construction, two temporary masts were erected to assist in the construction of the tied arch ; the towers were painted red and lighted, enabling them to be seen from afar.

After noticing a red ribbon tied to a wall grate in a corridor, Sheridan meets up with a woman sent by General Hague, who warns him of great danger.

* Distinguished from the Shaido Aiel by red headbands ( siswai ' aman ) or cloth tied around their arms ( Maidens ).

The traditional attire of a miko would be a pair of red hakama ( long, divided trousers ) or a long, red, slightly pleated skirt tied with a bow, a white haori ( kimono jacket ), and some white or red hair ribbons.

Anna frequently wears a red scarf tied around her head, though she occasionally wearing the scarf around her neck.