We did not dare speak to so exalted a being, but Norton aimed his camera and shot him, so to speak, on the rise, the split second between the halt and the turn.

For a split second, Nick relaxed his grip and Poet's slippery body spun completely around before Nick could stop him, holding him now from the rear.

He got hit from the blind side by the split end coming back on the second play of the game.

* Split ( only available as first decision of a hand ): If the first two cards have the same value, the player can split them into two hands, by moving a second bet equal to the first into an area outside the betting box of the original bet.

The very early universe, which is still poorly understood, was the split second in which the universe was so hot that particles had energies higher than those currently accessible in particle accelerators on Earth.

By 1534 the Spanish crown had determined to split the region in two parallel lines, forming the governorship of " Nueva Castilla " ( from the 1 ° to the 14 ° latitude, close to Pisco ), and that of " Nueva Toledo " ( from the 14 ° to the 25 ° latitude, in Taltal, Chile ), assigning the first to Francisco Pizarro and the second to Diego de Almagro.

The second key factor in the split between the Montagnards and the Girondins was the September Massacres of 1792.

Typically, the time of contact where a force is applied is a split second.

The first period of Sartre's career, defined in large part by Being and Nothingness ( 1943 ), gave way to a second period -- when the world was perceived as split into communist and capitalist blocs -- of highly publicized political involvement.

In the time between the release of the band's second seven-inch EP and the Out of Step record, the band briefly split when guitarist Lyle Preslar moved to Illinois to attend college for a semester at Northwestern University, Preslar was a member of Big Black for a few tempestuous rehearsals.

A split in the Coulibaly dynasty in Ségou led to the establishment of a second Bambara state, the kingdom of Kaarta, in what is now western Mali, in 1753.

Some 26 months after the Earth Return Vehicle is originally launched from Earth, a second vehicle, the " Mars Habitat Unit ", would be launched on a 6-month long low energy transfer trajectory to Mars, and would carry a crew of four astronauts ( the minimum number required so that the team can be split in two without leaving anyone alone ).

Smith finished second in MVP balloting to Andre Dawson, who had played on the last-place Chicago Cubs, largely because Smith and teammate Jack Clark split the first-place vote.

This imbalance would have been exceptionally small, on the order of 1 in every ( 10 < sup > 10 </ sup >) particles a split second after the Big Bang, but after most of the matter and antimatter annihilated, what was left over was all the baryonic matter in the current universe, along with a much greater number of bosons.

Some types of phospholipid can be split to produce products that function as second messengers in signal transduction.

As he was technically inside the ring for a split second before exiting again, it is sufficient to restart the count.

The issue split the Liberal Party ( a breakaway group went on to create the Liberal Unionist party ) and the bill was thrown out on the second reading, ending his government after only a few months and inaugurating another headed by Lord Salisbury.

Accounts vary on why the split occurred — executives on both sides of the split cite greed and arrogance on the part of the other side, and executives on the Andersen Consulting side maintained breach of contract when Arthur Andersen created a second consulting group, AABC ( Arthur Andersen Business Consulting ) which began to compete directly with Andersen Consulting in the marketplace.

Henny came right on time to contribute the remaining three tracks ( and the ska -/ reggae-influences ) to the second album ; 32 Jaar ( about a lovestruck, shaky-legged 32-year-old ), Smoorverliefd ( Smitten ) and De Laatste Keer ( The Last Time ), a song about breaking up and starting over ( Henny had recently split with his wife and stepsons ).

Because the opposition vote in the rest of Canada was split between the Reform Party, the Progressive Conservative Party, and the New Democratic Party, the Bloc narrowly won the second largest number of seats in the House of Commons, and therefore became the official opposition.

A culture of violence rooted in the deep conflicts that split the countryside under Dutch rule would repeatedly erupt throughout the whole second half of the twentieth century.

After winning Game 7, 6 – 1, the Flyers fought Ottawa in the second round with equal vigor as they split the first four games of the series, Cechmanek earning shutouts in both wins.

The six team divisions play a split season with the first half ending in June and the second half ending in September.

William Scott-Elliot in The Story of Atlantis ( 1896 ) elaborated on Blavatsky's account, claiming that Atlantis eventually split into two linked islands, one called Daitya and the other Ruta, and that the latter was later reduced to a final remnant called Poseidonis.

In the 13th century, the Principality of Anhalt was split off from the Duchy, and later, the remaining state was split into Saxe-Lauenburg and Saxe-Wittenberg.

Athlon was the first x86 processor with a 128 kB split level 1 cache ; a 2-way associative, later 16-way, cache separated into 2 × 64 kB for data and instructions ( Harvard architecture ).

An alliance of pro free-trade Conservatives ( the " Peelites "), Radicals, and Whigs carried repeal, and the Conservative Party split: the Peelites moved towards the Whigs, while a " new " Conservative Party formed around the protectionists, led by Disraeli, Bentinck, and Lord Stanley ( later Lord Derby ).

In other words, scholars have theorized that these books were originally composed as one book by a single author, but later were split apart.

In January, 1947, fear of Soviet and American intentions led to a secret meeting of senior cabinet ministers, where it was decided to press ahead with the development of Britain's independent nuclear deterrent, an issue which later caused a split in the Labour Party.

Australia-New Guinea, having split from Gondwana during the early Cretaceous, drifted north and, eventually, collided with South-east Asia ; Antarctica moved into its current position over the South Pole ; the Atlantic Ocean widened and, later in the era, South America became attached to North America.

Davros proved too effective a character to be kept dead and was resurrected four years later in 1979's Destiny of the Daleks ( played by David Gooderson using the mask Friedlander made for Wisher-the mask had to be split into sections and rejoined to get as good a fit as possible ).

* 1903 – The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established ( later split into Department of Commerce and Department of Labor ).

Since FR Yugoslavia, ( renamed to Serbia and Montenegro and with membership negotiations later split in two ), is not recognised as a direct SFRY successor state ; therefore, its application is considered a new ( non-GATT ) one.

* 395: Following the death of Theodosius I, the Empire is permanently split into Eastern Roman Empire ( later Byzantium ) and Western Roman Empire.

The death of Uthman was followed by a civil war known as the First Fitna, and the succession to Ali ibn Abi Talib was disputed, leading to the split between the Sunni and Shia sects, and later to competing caliphates when the descendants of Muhammad through his daughter Fatimah and Ali set up separate Fatimid societies.

In the later 19th century the issue of Irish Home Rule led to a split among the Liberals, with a minority breaking away to form the Liberal Unionists in 1886.

A century later it came into increasing conflict with the expanding neo-Assyrian empire, which first split its territory into several smaller units and then destroyed its capital, Samaria ( 722 ).

Though one party appeared to dominate, it had begun to split into rival factions, which would later form the basis of the modern party system.

She later spoke up about their split: " It was a disaster, a total disaster.

After the French party split into a reformist and revolutionary party, some accused Guesde ( leader of the latter ) of taking orders from Marx ; Marx remarked to Lafargue, " What is certain to me is if this is Marxism, then I myself am not Marxist " ( in a letter to Engels, Marx later accused Guesde of being a " Bakuninist ").

Madagascar later split from India about 88 million years ago, allowing plants and animals on the island to evolve in relative isolation.

The original DEC StrongARM team eventually split into two MIPS-based start-ups: SiByte which produced the SB-1250, one of the first high-performance MIPS-based systems-on-a-chip ( SOC ); while Alchemy Semiconductor ( later acquired by AMD ) produced the Au-1000 SoC for low-power applications.

The Japanese release for the PC Engine was split across two game cards ( HuCards ) titled R-Type I and R-Type II and the later North American release for the TurboGrafx 16 contained the entire game on a single card.

His descendants took the surname Koshkin, then changed it to Zakharin, which family later split into two branches: Zakharin-Yakovlev and Zakharin-Yuriev.

Because of his health problems, Jordan did not work at full force on the final installment A Memory of Light ( later split into three volumes beginning with The Gathering Storm ), but blog entries confirmed that he continued work on it until his death, and he shared all of the significant plot details with his family not long before he died.

In 2008, Jonze dated Michelle Williams several months after the death of Heath Ledger, but around a year later they split.