Let us quote once more from R. G. Collingwood: `` History is properly concerned with the actions of human beings Regarded from the outside, an action is an event or series of events occurring in the physical world ; ;

Using Edgerton's method, the fast-closing action is obtained from the blackening of a window by exploding a series of parallel lead wires.

With Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra both out of action due to injuries, the American League champs still mounted a 15-hit attack against a parade of eight Cincinnati pitchers, the most ever used by one team in a series game.

At the end of the 1980s, the word " cartoon " was shortened, and the word " toon " came into usage with the live action / animated feature Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988 ), followed two years later by the TV series Tiny Toon Adventures ( 1990 ).

The series covered genres which included comedy, detective caper and action thriller.

In the season ten finale of the series he fully adopts the Superman identity, when he takes action to save Earth from Darkseid, who was drawn to Earth by Clark's actions and sought to take the hero as a host.

*** Dennis the Menace ( 1959 TV series ), a CBS network live action television show

Often several jets are used in series to enhance the pumping action.

Four years later, Dirk gained further popularity as con-man Lieutenant Templeton " Face " Peck in 1980s action television series, The A-Team.

This action was taken after a long period of increasing tension between the two countries due to a series of cross-border incidents involving the Eritrean Islamic Jihad ( EIJ ).

The live action series ran a little over 10 episodes, which was produced by Howard David Deutsch and directed by Savage Steve Holland.

Category: British action television series

FDA action on this suggestion would ostensibly also affect codeine and dihydrocodeine products such as the Tylenol With Codeine and Panlor series of drugs.

These plans are debated and approved by the assembly of the States of Jersey and translated into action by a series of business plans for each department.

One of Frankenheimer's last projects was the 2001 BMW action short-film Ambush for the promotional series The Hire, starring Clive Owen.

Otomo is apparently going to be the executive producer of the live action adaptation of his manga series Akira.

St. Anthony's Lighthouse at St. Anthony's Head near Falmouth, Cornwall was featured in the title sequence of the children's live action puppet television program series Fraggle Rock created by Jim Henson.

Their influence increased after a coup attempt in May 1985, that was blocked mainly thanks to the action of the Revolutionary Guard that engaged regular army units in a series of street battles.

The series has been adapted into three action thriller films with the fourth being discussed by Cloud Ten Pictures.

Konami's Zone of the Enders is a series of action games centred around mecha combat for the PlayStation 2.

Pellucidar is a fictional Hollow Earth milieu invented by Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories.

Quake III Arena is the third in the series and differs from previous games by excluding a traditional single-player element and focusing on multi-player action.

Many radical feminists in Australia participated in a series of squats to establish various women's centres, and this form of action was common in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

During the 1980s, perhaps as a reaction to the evening drama series that were gaining high ratings, daytime serials began to incorporate action and adventure storylines, more big-business intrigue, and an increased emphasis on youthful romance.

The Coronation Street releases generally kept the pace and style of conventional series episodes with the action set in foreign locations.

In Stephen R. Lawhead's Pendragon Cycle, Aurelianus ( most often referred to as " Aurelius ") figures prominently, along with his brother Uther, in the second book of the series, Merlin.

* Amphisbaena is one of the most sought after of the rare series 3 Monster in My Pocket figures (# 76 ).

The dramatic focus of the painting, portraying his entire family, is dispersed in a series of separate and disconnected figures of sorrow.

Also in France, Émile Cohl fully developed drawn animation in a series of films starting with Fantasmagorie ( 1908 ), in which humans and objects drawn as outline figures went though a series of remarkable interactions and transformations.

In the United States the response was from the famous strip cartoon artist Winsor McCay, who drew much more realistic animated figures going through smoother, more naturalistic motion in a series of films starting with the film Little Nemo, made for Vitagraph in 1911.

One participant recollects that Fermi then made a series of rapid calculations using estimated figures.

The coefficients in the upper and lower figures are respectively computed by the Fourier series integral and the discrete Fourier transform | DFT summation.

In Japan, this film has the highest box office attendance figures of all of the Godzilla series to date.

The first in 1733, known as the First Secession and headed by figures including Ebenezer Erskine, led to the creation of a series of secessionist churches.

In the one-day series Cronje managed just one fifty but with the ball he was economical and took his career best figures of 5 / 32, becoming the second South African to take five wickets in an ODI.

The figures are depicted carrying baskets or gourds, and using a ladder or series of ropes to reach the wild nest.

* A large series depicting commedia dell ' arte figures called Balli di Sfessania, in a simple, caricature-like style, from his years in Florence.

Geometrical figures consist of arranged series of points, and enlargement or diminution of these figures rests upon the addition or subtraction of points.

The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of notable social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience.

In the same period, the TNT Network presented a television movie on Geronimo, as well as two others on Native American historical figures, and a six-part documentary series on Native history, all within a 14-month period.

The famous bust of her, inscribed Johannes VIII, Femina ex Anglia, which had been carved for the series of Papal figures in the Duomo di Siena about 1400 and was noted by travelers, was either destroyed or recarved and relabeled, replaced by a male figure, of Pope Zachary.

In Norse mythology, Ragnarök (, or ), typically spelled Ragnarǫk in the handwritten scripts, is a series of future events, including a great battle foretold to ultimately result in the death of a number of major figures ( including the gods Odin, Thor, Týr, Freyr, Heimdallr, and Loki ), the occurrence of various natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in water.

After a series of high-profile guerrilla actions, including the hijacking of an aircraft, the attack on several small towns and cities, the arrest of the Irish Colombia Three ( see below ) and the alleged training of FARC-EP militants in bomb making by them, and the kidnapping of several political figures, Pastrana ended the peace talks on 21 February 2002 and ordered the armed forces to start retaking the FARC-EP controlled zone, beginning at midnight.

Later versions of the story have followed suit: the 1991 movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and 2006 BBC TV series Robin Hood each contain equivalents of Nasir, in the figures of Azeem and Djaq respectively.

It is often argued that this, combined with a series of bad trade figures, contributed to the Conservative victory at the 1970 general election.

It consisted of a " chorus " figure unique to each dance which was danced alternately with a standard series of up to ten " changes ", which were simple figures such as a right hand moulinet ( star ) common to cotillions in general.

By the late 1810s, it was not uncommon to dance a series of quadrilles during the evening, generally consisting of the same first three figures combined with a variety of different fourth and fifth figures.