For example, in The Trouble with Physics, the theoretical physicist, Lee Smolin says "... it is practically career suicide for young theoretical physicists not to join the field of string theory.

Shortly thereafter, a terrorist organization called the " Individual Eleven " ( responsible for a string of violent attacks on Japanese citizens and an attempt to assassinate the Prime Minister ) commit mass suicide live on television news.

The review said, " Sometimes it's easier to string together some power chords and a few forlorn references to religion, fame and suicide than to actually write songs.

In Austria, the imperial state also censored all books mercilessly ; The Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe's novel depicting a young man's ecstatic love and suicide, spawned a string of copyat suicides across Germany, and many states banned the work, but Austrian authorities also banned Goethe's entire opus.

* 2012 – At least 107 people are killed and more than 250 others wounded in a string of bombings and attacks in Iraq.

Locally the movement's activists were led by Fred Shuttlesworth, a fiery preacher who became legendary for his fearlessness in the face of violence, notably a string of racially motivated bombings that earned Birmingham the derisive nickname " Bombingham ".

Posada has been convicted in absentia in Panama, of involvement in various terrorist attacks and plots in the Americas, including: involvement in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed seventy-three people ; admitted involvement in a string of bombings in 1997 targeting fashionable Cuban hotels and nightspots ; involvement in the Bay of Pigs invasion ; and involvement in the Iran-Contra affair.

The ensuing police investigation led by Detective Chief Superintendent George Oldfield was rushed, careless and ultimately forged, resulting in the arrest of the mentally ill Judith Ward who claimed to have conducted a string of bombings in Britain in 1973 and 1974 and to have married and had a baby with two separate IRA members.

The first string instruments with struck strings were the hammered dulcimers.

Most passive oscillators, such as a plucked guitar string or a struck drum head or struck bell, naturally oscillate at not one, but several frequencies known as partials.

A driven non-linear oscillator, such as the human voice, a blown wind instrument, or a bowed violin string ( but not a struck guitar string or bell ) will oscillate in a periodic, non-sinusoidal manner.

3rd bridge is a plucking method where the string is divided in two pieces and struck at the side which is unamplified.

* Patent No. 126, 848 ( May 14, 1872 ): Steinway invented the Duplex Scale on the principle of enabling the freely oscillating parts of the string, directly in front of and behind the segment of the string actually struck, also to resound.

For example, the piano has strings, but they are struck by hammers, so it is not clear whether it should be classified as a string instrument or a percussion instrument.

Hornbostel-Sachs divides drums into three main types: struck drums, where the skin is hit with a stick, the hand, or something else ; string drums, where a knotted string attached to the skin is pulled, passing its vibrations onto the skin ; and friction drums, where some sort of rubbing motion causes the skin to vibrate ( a common type has a stick passing through a hole in the skin which is pulled back and forth ).

While the experiment was under way, ball lightning appeared and travelled down the string, struck Richmann's forehead and killed him.

When the string is struck, the mouth is used to amplify and modulate the tone.

However, when a string is struck or plucked, as with a piano string that is struck by a hammer, a violin string played pizzicato, or a guitar string that is plucked by a finger or plectrum, the string will exhibit inharmonicity.

The strings are generally arranged such that the first string of each pair to be struck on a downward strum is the higher octave string ; however, this arrangement was reversed by Rickenbacker on their electric 360 / 12.

Falling somewhere in a category between Einstein's theory and sand fleas -- difficult to see but undeniably there, nevertheless -- is the tropical green `` city '' of Islandia, a string of offshore islands that has almost no residents, limited access and an unlimited future.

Archaeological confirmation of Bethlehem as an Israelite city was uncovered in 2012 at the archaeological dig at the City of David in the form of a bulla ( seal impression in dried clay ) in ancient Hebrew script that reads " From the town of Bethlehem to the King ," indicating that it was used to seal the string closing a shipment of grain, wine, or other goods sent as a tax payment in the 8th or 7th century BCE.

They next string up a barrier of power lines around the city filled with a 1, 000, 000 volts of electricity ( 300, 000 volts had been tried in the first film, but failed to turn the monster back ).

Once restored to his native city, however, he played a crucial role in a string of Athenian victories that eventually brought Sparta to seek a peace with Athens.

Along the fault in the city, a string of artesian springs known as Comal Springs give rise to the Comal River, which is known as one of the shortest rivers in the world, as it winds three miles through the city before meeting the Guadalupe River.

The city of Jūrmala actually consists of a string of small resorts.

By this stage, the recession had ended three years earlier and the battle against inflation had clearly been won ; however unemployment-seen as a major factor in a string of inner city riots that autumn-was still above 3, 000, 000.

The long string of war-caused damage went on in 1806 and 1807, when the Ottoman army burnt down the city to ruins leaving 230 people dead.

Stuyvesant is also a powerhouse in fencing with a string of PSAL city championships from 1986 through 1989 and from 2007 through 2010.

Dark Avenger's first virus appeared in early 1989 and contained the string " This program was written in the city of Sofia ( C ) 1988-89 Dark Avenger ".

As both a DA's man and a city cop, he fights a string of flamboyant, Gould-ian criminals like " Stitches ", " Bottleneck ", and " Bulldozer.

Twenty-five minutes from the city of Rockhampton, Yeppoon is the principal town on the Capricorn Coast, a string of seaside communities stretching more than 150 kilometres from north to south.

Many of the most popular early luk thung stars have come from the central city of Suphanburi, including megastar Pumpuang Duangjan, who adapted it to 1980s string ( Thai pop ) music by making a dance-ready form called electronic luk thung.

A string of city car concepts in the 1990s were tied to the 360 in various ways.

Backed by a string melody, the speaker describes a derelict city, where the government is corrupt and the inhabitants are drugged.

The Huntsville Times stated that her " string of recent successes is a whiff of the famous optimism and spirit that characterized the city for decades.

The bill and its amendment were created in response to an effort by the Omaha schools district to " absorb a string of largely white schools that were within the Omaha city limits but were controlled by suburban or independent districts ".

After Ivica Vrdoljak and Mario Mandžukić were transferred to city rivals Dinamo Zagreb at the beginning of the season, the team saw a string of mediocre results before finishing the season sixth.

When Go-Toba heard of this string of defeats, he left the city for Mount Hiei, where he asked for aid from the sōhei, the warrior monks of Mount Hiei.

The group ( minus Ivan Elias, who died of cancer in June 1995 ) reunited in 2004 for VH1's Bands Reunited show and did a string of concerts on the United States East Coast culminating in a show at Irving Plaza in their home city ( New York ) on February 9, 2005.

A string of attacks and counter attacks ( punctuated by a Seljuk embassy being shown the ample stores inside the city ) ended in an attempt to storm the walls by night.

Late in 1941, the Permanent Joint Board on Defense — Canada and the United States — decided in the autumn of 1940 that a string of airports should be constructed at Canadian expense between the city of Edmonton in central Alberta and the Alaska-Yukon border.

Growth of the city demanded more markets, and the string of open-air markets extending from the Delaware River ran for six blocks, or one full mile, prompting the main street ( then called ' High Street ') to be renamed ' Market Street.