In picture are troops of the Khyber Rifles striking a pose, circa 1895.

His 1915 epic, The Birth of a Nation, used a number of colors, including amber, blue, lavender, and a striking red tint for scenes such as the " burning of Atlanta " and the ride of the Ku Klux Klan at the climax of the picture.

Housed in a striking picture sleeve, it comprised two original songs: " Borderline " and " Looking at You.

A striking illustration of this occurs in his famous picture of " Hamlet breaking from his Attendants to follow the Ghost ": Hamlet, it has been said, looks as though he would burst his clothes with convulsive cramps in all his muscles.

The most striking object in the treasure, the Great Dish ( see below ) has been illustrated and mentioned in countless publications, including a major paper on late Roman " picture plates ".

More simply, picture striking a billiard ball with a cue stick, except both hands grip the jō with palms down, and thumbs forward.

The online film database Allmovie rated the film four stars out five, stating that by " mixing several genres including cop drama, mystery, and horror, Lang created a rare hybrid picture full of striking characters and images.

He was chosen to highlight the new feature " Race for the Heisman ," and his cover picture showed him striking his famous Heisman pose while at Michigan.

The striking and powerful industrial landscape framing the Gang's play activities at the beginning of the picture was achieved with a glass-matte process that added towering silo-shaped structures to the more bucolic live views of the Arnaz Ranch, a frequent Roach shooting location.

John Davies, a Liverpool Church of England vicar chose Absolon's Job Club as his picture of the month in February 2005, saying, " Of all the striking paintings in The Stuckists: Punk Victorian exhibition ... Philip Absolon's hit me hardest.

The characters of Ryan and Maddox, as well as a handful of others, are vividly developed … Equally striking is the picture of contemporary Ireland, booming economically and fixated on the shabbiest aspects of American popular culture.

Further complicating the picture, the only person who can communicate with Frank is a young girl named Hattie, who bears a striking resemblance to Ryu / Takuto's lost love Maki.

" Michael Brunas, John Brunas and Tom Weaver wrote in Universal Horrors: The Studio's Classic Films, 1931-46 ( McFarland, 1990 ), Lindsay, "... one of the loveliest and most talented of ' 30s leading ladies, contributes a fine, mature performance that's probably the best, certainly the most striking, in the picture .... ad a Bette Davis played Hepzibah, this same performance would be hailed as a classic ..."

The lack of an intermediate condition in living and fossil flatfish species had led to debate about the origin of such a striking adaptation.

The altitude and vastness of the Tibetan Region is striking landscape uncompromisingly dominated by mountains and sky, where the starkness of the human condition relentlessly tests the mettle of its peoples.

* Postpartum depression, an after childbirth condition, is a mental health disorder striking women within the first year after giving birth

It is a striking illustration of the degenerate condition of Heraldry under the second Tudor Sovereign.

A striking feature of the park is the great wealth of cacti and succulents — the succulents being in excellent condition.

" Automotive industry consultant Dennis DesRosiers said that General Motors had missed the chance to slash labour costs, pointing out that bankruptcy was a looming threat, Ottawa and Queen's Park demanded cuts to the labour bill as a condition of the bailout, and that the deficit to the pension fund would prevent the CAW from striking.

* Adair v. United States ( 1908 ), striking down federal legislation prohibiting railroad companies from demanding that a worker not join a labor union as a condition for employment (" yellow-dog contract ")

The attributes considered include the presence or absence of force bulbs, bulb scars, and ripple lines ; the condition of the striking platform, whether intact, crushed or missing ; the angle of the striking platform ; and the striking platform type, whether single, multiple faceted, or with remaining cortex.

Gerbasi " tentatively dubbed " this condition " Species Identity Disorder ", saying that " the similarities between their connection to their species and aspects of GID are striking ".

Ludovico Saggi, O. Carm of the " Institutum Carmelitanum " in Rome, resulted in the Church briefly striking the feast day of Saint Simon Stock from the Carmelite liturgical calendar, though it was restored in 1979 as an optional memorial, on the condition that no mention be made of the scapular vision.

Whatever projection one makes, the striking fact about congregational and parochial life is the extent to which it is a vehicle of the social identity of middle-class people.

Modern cultures in this region, many of whom claim some of these ancient people as ancestors, contain a striking range of diversity in lifestyles, social organization, language and religious beliefs.

* 1959 – Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, the large number of people claimed to have been killed by the Jews is an improbability ; " Perhaps the most striking point against the historical value of the Book of Esther is the remarkable decree permitting the Jews to massacre their enemies and fellow subjects during a period of two days.

However, some people tan more easily than others, due to differences in their genotype: a striking example is people with the inherited trait of albinism, who do not tan at all and are very sensitive to sunburn.

The sacrificial feast followed, after which the Luperci cut thongs from the skins of the victims, which were called februa, dressed themselves in the skins of the sacrificed goats, in imitation of Lupercus, and ran round the walls of the old Palatine city, the line of which was marked with stones, with the thongs in their hands in two bands, striking the people who crowded near.

His family worked as sharecroppers as did most of the people of Sotto il Monte – a striking contrast to that of his predecessor, Eugenio Pacelli ( Pope Pius XII ), who came from an ancient aristocratic family, long connected to the Papacy.

For example: stakeholders withdrawing during a project may endanger funding of the project ; confidential information may be stolen by employees even within a closed network ; lightning striking an aircraft during takeoff may make all people on board immediate casualties.

God knows that the plan of striking the towers had not occurred to us, but the idea came to me when things went just too far with the American-Israeli alliance's oppression and atrocities against our people in Palestine and Lebanon.

The characters of Mrs. Wilcox in that novel and Mrs. Moore in A Passage to India have a mystical link with the past, and a striking ability to connect with people from beyond their own circles.

In Antigone, it is therefore natural that the people of Thebes did not bury the Argives, but very striking that Creon prohibited the burial of Polyneices.

The superstition of our ancestors, to within twenty or thirty years thereabouts, was such that in almost all the towns in the kingdom they had a notion that certain spirits underwent their Purgatory in this world after death, and that they went about the town during the night, striking and outraging many people whom they found in the streets.

Perhaps the most notable of these are the Apollo Sauroktonos, or the lizard-slayer, a youth leaning against a tree and idly striking with an arrow at a lizard ( Louvre Museum ), and the Aphrodite of Cnidus at the Vatican Museums, which is a copy of the statue made by Praxiteles for the people of Cnidus, and by them valued so highly that they refused to sell it to King Nicomedes, who was willing in return to discharge the whole debt of the city, which, says Pliny, was enormous.

In 2004, during Hurricane Ivan, dozens of homes were destroyed and 4 people were killed because of a severe tornado striking near the town.

Redwood has campaigned for wider share ownership among workers, so as to prevent them going on strike, because he believed that " Why would people go on strike if they were striking against themselves?

Forty people were wounded when Bophuthatswana Defence Force troops opened fire on striking civil servants.

Denis, his Flatbush landlord, said Ferguson appeared even more unstable upon his return, speaking in the third person about " some apocryphal-type doom scenario " that included black people rising up and striking down " their pompous rulers and oppressors ".

The breakdown of Leto's empire, severe famine on many worlds and the introduction of Ixian navigation machines have caused billions of people to leave the settled worlds, striking off into unknown space in a diaspora known as the Scattering.

Four people died and approximately 60 were injured when, during a severe storm, an ball of fire was described as striking and entering the church, nearly destroying it.

On 19 July 1984, Thatcher said in the House of Commons that giving in to the miners would be surrendering the rule of parliamentary democracy to the rule of the mob ; she referred to the striking miners as " the enemy within " and claimed they did not share the values of other British people.

In Roman cities, the bell in the forum rang the beginning of the business day at about six o ' clock in the morning ( Prime, the " first hour "), noted the day's progress by striking again at about nine o ' clock in the morning ( Terce, the " third hour "), tolled for the lunch break at noon ( Sext, the " sixth hour "), called the people back to work again at about three o ' clock in the afternoon ( None, the " ninth hour "), and rang the close of the business day at about six o ' clock in the evening ( the time for evening prayer ).

In The Romantic ' 90s, Richard Le Gallienne, a poet identified with the New Literature of the Decadence, described The Yellow Book as the following: " The Yellow Book was certainly novel, even striking, but except for the drawings and decorations by Beardsley, which, seen thus for the first time, not unnaturally affected most people as at once startling, repellent, and fascinating, it is hard to realize why it should have seemed so shocking.

Depending on tent size and the experience of the person or people involved, such tents can usually be assembled ( pitched ) in between 5 and 25 minutes ; disassembly ( striking ) takes a similar length of time.

Although both groups are descendents of the Qiang people, together with Tibetans, Pumi and Yi, and notwithstanding very striking resemblances between their respective languages, the two groups are now understood to be culturally distinct, the Nakhi more influenced by the very patriarchal Han Chinese culture, the Mosuo more influenced by Tibetan culture and their own matriarchal family practices.