Mongi Slim of Tunisia and Frederick Boland of Ireland were early favorites in the running, but France didn't like the former and the Soviet Union would have none of the latter.

The yearly festival runs from the last week in July for a week, running into early August.

The first BBSes used homebrew software, quite often written or customized by the SysOps themselves, running on early S-100 microcomputer systems such as the Altair, IMSAI and Cromemco under the CP / M operating system.

In the early 1990s a small number of BBSes were also running on the Commodore Amiga models 500, 1000 and 1200 ( using external hard drives ), and the Amiga 2000, Amiga 3000 and Amiga 4000 ( which had built-in hard drives ).

MS-DOS continued to be the most popular operating system for BBS use up until the mid-1990s, and in the early years most multi-node BBSes were running under a DOS based multitasker such as DESQview or consisted of multiple computers connected via a LAN.

As early as 1930, the city's Planning Board was recommending a raised express highway running north-south through the downtown district in order to draw traffic off the city streets.

Early implementations were for the DEC PDP-7 and PDP-11 minicomputers using early Unix, and Honeywell 36-bit mainframes running the operating system GCOS.

Cleveland, however, was relying increasingly on the running game, in contrast to its pass-happy early years under Graham.

In addition, Commodore made the drive's controller board smaller and having a lower chip count than the early 1541s ( which had a large PCB with dozens of TTL chips running the length of the case ).

Campbell and Bluebird were running by early May but once again more rain fell, and low-speed test runs could not progress into the higher speed ranges.

Culturally, Edinburgh is best known for the Edinburgh Festival, which is a series of separate events running from the end of July until early September each year.

From then on until the early 1950s, both national and international competitions involved a changing variety of exercises gathered under the rubric, gymnastics, that would seem strange to today's audiences and that included for example, synchronized team floor calisthenics, rope climbing, high jumping, running, and horizontal ladder.

The PDP-10 machine AI at MIT, which was running the ITS operating system and which was connected to the Arpanet, provided an early hacker meeting point.

Prey, however, are moving targets, and though early humans changed the traditionally ape-like appearance of the australopithecines and adapted long, strong legs to facilitate sustained running, dense, hairy coats still posed a potentially fatal risk of causing overheating during the chase.

Not much is known of the early years of the team, but when Havok began to have an affair with Sue Storm of the Fantastic Four, Havok's wife Madelyne came running to Ice-Man.

However, he took his first steps in the world of business in his early 20's running a trading company called Alpraaz in Stockholm, Sweden.

The set features the entire album recorded in its original running order during a tour of England by Lee in early 2003 in which he was backed by the band Baby Lemonade and string and horn ensembles.

TOPS-10 was running on the Mars by the summer of 1984, and TOPS-20 by early fall.

Since the early 1990s shoulder running has been extensively used throughout the Netherlands on many locations.

These early migrants running away from the climate change in Africa, crossed the Red Sea into Yemen and Oman, trekked across Arabia during favourable climate conditions.

Donaldson had been entrusted by Gerry Adams with the running of Sinn Féin's operations in the U. S. in the early 1990s.

Plug-ins appeared as early as the mid 1970s, when the EDT text editor running on the Unisys VS / 9 operating system using the Univac 90 / 60 series mainframe computer provided the ability to run a program from the editor and to allow such a program to access the editor buffer, thus allowing an external program to access an edit session in memory.

He was nicknamed as the " Flying Finn " as he dominated distance running in the early 20th century.

An early design method derived from such thinking was " cross-programming ", introducing unexpected functions in room programmes, such as running tracks in skyscrapers.

It is thought that human running evolved at least four and a half million years ago out of the ability of the ape-like Australopithecus, an early ancestor of humans, to walk upright on two legs.

Secondly, to find a learned diversion and a pleasing joke in More's account of the stupid brutalities of early sixteenth century wars, of the anguish of the poor and dispossessed, of the insolence and cruelty of the rich and powerful requires a callousness toward suffering and sin that would be surprising in a moral imbecile and most surprising in More himself.

" This idea was developed as a joke by Kent State University art students Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis as early as the late 1960s.

Slapstick film, one-liner joke, observational humor are forms of comedy which have developed since the early days of jesters and traveling minstrels.

Reflecting their satiric and humorous intent, the two editors took for their name and masthead the anarchic glove puppet, Mr. Punch, of Punch and Judy ; the name also referred to a joke made early on about one of the magazine's first editors, Lemon, that " punch is nothing without lemon ".

Alpher and Gamow would publish the seminal Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper ( the addition of Bethe as an author was a joke, see the article on the paper ) outlining the theory of light-element production in the early universe.

The title derives from a joke early in the series, when Arthur Dent discovers that the entry for Earth in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy consists, in its entirety, of the word " Harmless ".

An early joke in the series was that Moe was a European immigrant to the United States.

One featured Annie Hall taking her new boyfriend to The Sorrow and the Pity, which she had reluctantly seen with Alvy ; the other, Alvy's monologue featuring the joke about ' we all need the eggs ', was conceived during a cab journey to an early preview.

A very early example was a short piece on the " Swiss Spaghetti Harvest " that appeared as an April fools ' joke on the British television program Panorama in 1957.

As a radical departure from the rest of Reed's catalog, Metal Machine Music is generally considered to be either a joke, a grudging fulfillment of a contractual obligation, or an early example of noise music.

The record was apparently only created to be a bizarre sort of joke at Sill's expense, who was soon to leave the Philles label, as a single copy was specially delivered to him in early 1963.

This was a running joke in the early seasons, but has been used less in the later episodes.

" Wicked Wisdom's guitarist Pocket Honore said while early dates of the tour were rocky, " once word got out that we weren't a joke, people started coming out and by the sixth or seventh gig we were on fire.

While witnessing an early post-production editing session, comedian Milton Berle once pointed out a particular joke and said, " as long as we're here doing this, that joke didn't get the response we wanted ".

The name was chosen by Tom Knight as a joke on the name of the earliest MIT time-sharing operating system, the Compatible Time-Sharing System, which dated from the early 1960s.

In the early editions of Poor Richard's Almanack, predicting and falsely reporting the deaths of these astrologers — much to their dismay — was something of a running joke.

Franklin, a teenaged African-American actor, plays a character called Woody, referencing Woody Guthrie's influence on Dylan's early career, and making a playful visual joke on Dylan's early habit of passing himself off as a drifter from the Dustbowl Southern states and denying his own middle-class Mid-Western origins.

A common joke on the size of the Parliamentary Liberal Party in the early 1970s was that only one taxi would be needed to transport the entire party ; after Smith's election, the party could fill two taxis.

The sincerity of many of these bands has been questioned-many saw the use of anarchism in early punk as a joke or fashion statement more than an ideology ( indeed, some lefist critics of punk saw it as " just another rock ' n ' roll pose ")-but over time bands such as Crass in the UK and Dead Kennedys in America emerged who held strong anarchist views, and over time this association strengthened.

The second place finisher and early leader was this joke, submitted by Geoff Anandappa of Blackpool:

Throughout late 2006 and early 2007, Dutt was involved in the Paparazzi Championship Series, led by Kevin Nash, who insinuated throughout the PCS Challenge that Dutt was taking steroids, as a running joke, which would usually lead to the hotheaded Dutt comically losing his temper.

Before rising to semi-stardom in 1977, the Hot Rods underwent several changes in personnel: One of the first members to leave the band was Eddie himself, a dummy that featured prominently in the Hot Rods ' early gigs and was discarded as the joke had worn thin.