* A bain-marie can be used to re-liquify hardened honey by placing a glass jar on top of any improvised platform sitting at the bottom of a pot of gently boiling water.

In modern Homeric scholarship many of Homer's " nods " are explicable as the consequences of the poem being retold and improvised by generations of oral poets.

This could reflect Guest's background in theater, and simply a kind of meta-commentary, as a real performance is of course what is being improvised for the duration.

The series was noteworthy for being both partially improvised and each episode being produced in the 5 days prior to airing to take advantage of topical events that could be worked into the fictional narrative.

Although director Curtiz was famous for being a taskmaster, he also gave his actors some latitude, and Cagney and other players improvised a number of " bits of business ," as Cagney called them.

died March 9 after being struck by an improvised explosive device while on dismounted patrol March 9 near Haji Rahmuddin, Afghanistan.

The most complicated vocal tracks ended up being Dukowski's " What I See ", which was supposed to have an improvised speech in the song's bridge but ended up having one written out by Dukowski when Rollins could not come up with anything that he was satisfied with, and " T. V.

General Ludwig Beck, chief of the German general staff, noted that Hitler's change of heart in favour of quick action was due to Czech defences still being improvised, which would cease to be the case 2 – 3 years later, and British rearmament not coming into effect until 1941 / 42.

In the Iraq War, the Bradley proved somewhat vulnerable to improvised explosive device ( IED ) and rocket propelled grenade ( RPG ) attacks, but casualties were light — the doctrine being to allow the crew to escape at the expense of the vehicle.

The latter were used as improvised gunships / bombers, being armed with 50 caliber machine guns and equipped with a roller system to trundle 250 pound bombs out the cargo door during flight.

* Hillbilly armor: a US military slang term coined during the occupation to refer to the improvised vehicle armor being used by some US troops.

This assisted in the improvised soundtrack being successful both inside and outside the film's context.

The pseudo Old English carol " God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen " first appeared in 1833, in Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern, a collection of seasonal carols gathered and apparently improvised by William B. Sandys ; after its brief appearance in Dickens ' " A Christmas Carol " ( 1843 ), it quickly developed its reputation for being 16th century or earlier.

These shorts were among the first works of motion-picture propaganda, and a few had that most characteristic fault of propaganda, studio re-enactments being passed off as footage of actual events ( The Battle of Santiago Bay was filmed in an improvised bathtub, with the " smoke of battle " provided by Mrs. Blackton's cigar ).

The live shows continued to bear improvised noise elements until Peter Christopherson left the group and Fergusson implemented musicians capable of improvisational pop music, known as hyperdelic, such as that featured on the singles Godstar and Roman P. This led to an intended series of 23 live show recordings being released, which dominated most of Psychic TV's output until 1988.

Although they belong to the lesser-known tradition of the commedia erudita rather than the commedia dell ' arte-which means they were written out as entire scripts instead of being improvised from a scenario-della Porta's comedies are eminently performable.

The plan was attacked by the PLQ and ADQ as being " improvised " since it was only presented near the beginning of the election.

Previously Cardinals were housed in improvised accommodation which were often noted for not being particularly comfortable.

Norman is supposedly immortal and has improvised being various legends, including Sir Lancelot, Thor, Samson, and Hercules, as first talked about in episode 5, " Let Sleeping Dragons Lie.

Serious botches resulting in injuries often result in improvised endings to matches ; one famous example being the match between Stone Cold Steve Austin and Owen Hart, in which a botched piledriver left Austin with a broken neck and forced Hart to improvise an extended taunt / victory dance sequence until Austin was able to roll him up in a schoolboy pin, ending the match earlier than planned but with the desired winner.

" However, the phrase itself was being employed in an absurdist and humorous context as early as the 1750s, when it appeared in a well-known piece of nonsense prose improvised by the English dramatist and actor Samuel Foote in order to test the memory of a rival: " So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf to make an apple-pie ; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop.

Denton made his first television appearance as an extra on ABC television series The Investigators, and progressed to being a member of the team that was runner-up on the Australian improvised comedy show Theatresports in 1987.

Initially very annoyed of Zack's " stalking ", she starts to warm up to him after being impressed by his improvised on-stage art performance under pressure at Jester Theater, and the mutual feeling between them begins to strengthen after she gradually opens up.

Even Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal — an amalgam of " improvised " programs — was " far from being intrinsically progressive, capable of being adapted to very conservative purposes ".

A form of giant abatis, using whole trees instead of branches, can be used as an improvised anti-tank obstacle.

Rogers, having relinquished his regular shield to Barnes, carried a variant of the energy shield which can be used with either arm, and used to either block attacks or as an improvised offensive weapon able to cut through metal with relative ease.

The residents had used the marble columns and structures as support beams and roofs for their improvised houses, a usual way of rebuilding towns that were partially or totally destroyed, especially after the earthquake in 1580, which demolished several towns in Phocis.

Schematic of an improvised double boiler, as used in outdoor cooking

Though many types of improvised explosive devices (" IEDs ") can technically be classified as land mines, the term land mine is typically reserved for manufactured devices designed to be used by recognized military services, whereas IED is used for makeshift devices assembled by paramilitary, insurgent, or terrorist groups.

The Molotov cocktail, also known as a petrol bomb, gasoline bomb, Molotov bomb, fire bottle, fire bomb, or simply Molotov, is a generic name used for a variety of improvised incendiary weapons.

The terms psychedelic rock and acid rock are often used interchangeably, but some commentators have distinguished the former, which generally evoked the effects of psychedelic drugs, and acid rock, which can be seen as a more extreme sub-genre that focused more directly on LSD, was often louder, made greater use of distortion and often consisted of long, improvised jams.

Nurmi improvised new training methods in the army barracks ; he ran behind trains, holding on to the rear bumper, to stretch his stride, and used heavy iron-clad army boots to strengthen his legs.

So-called PRIGs ( Propelled Recoilless Improvised Grenade ) were improvised warheads used by the Provisional IRA.

The nitrogen-rich fertilizer ammonium nitrate is also used as an oxidizing agent in improvised explosive devices, sometimes called fertilizer bombs, leading to sale regulations.

Lazzi (; from the Italian lazzo, a joke or witticism ) is an improvised comic dialogue or action commonly used in the Commedia dell ' arte.

During improvised performances a lazzi may be used to fill time or to ensure a certain frequency of laughs in a show.

An improvised system, placing large pipes over the spillway to siphon water over it, was soon installed, but the inflow from an unusually wet spring was such that the dam would have overflowed anyway, leading to a spectacular cascade over the huge rock steps formed when the rock used for the dam itself was quarried from the valley walls.

The Molotov cocktail is a term coined by the Finns during the Winter War, as a generic name used for a variety of improvised incendiary weapons.

" Jefferson airplane " is slang for a used paper match split to hold a marijuana joint that has been smoked too short to hold without burning the fingers – an improvised roach clip.

While some elements of the series will be used, the majority of the play was improvised, with Kitson and Emerick each deriving their cues of what to do from the audience.

Lieutenant Horace Smith-Dorrien, a member of Chelmsford's staff, wrote that the day after the battle an improvised gallows was used " for hanging Zulus who were supposed to have behaved treacherously ".

He constantly sought new techniques and used both primitive and improvised ways of creating visual effects that would later be done electronically.

Remote controls are used by insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan to attack coalition and government troops with roadside improvised explosive devices, and terrorists in Iraq are reported in the media to use modified TV remote controls to detonate bombs.

Generally EOD render safe procedures ( RSP ) are a type of tradecraft protected from public dissemination in order to limit access and knowledge, depriving the enemy of specific technical procedures used to render safe ordnance or an improvised device.

One famous example of this is the electric-taped tennis ball which was originally improvised by children in the inner-city neighborhoods of Karachi as a means to make a tennis ball less bouncy and heavier to closely emulate a real cricket ball ; the tape can also be used to create a seam on the ball.