An unusual variant of the Electron was sold by British Telecom Business Systems as the BT Merlin M2105 Communications Terminal.

The archicembalo, built in the 16th century, had an unusual keyboard layout, designed to accommodate variant tuning systems demanded by compositional practice and theoretical experimentation.

* Abbreviations, use of a foreign language, variant spellings, or other unusual word tricks are indicated in the clue.

The medium consists of a glass plate coated on one side with a random mosaic of microscopic grains of potato starch dyed red-orange, green and blue-violet ( an unusual but functional variant of the standard red, green and blue additive colors ) which act as color filters.

This is an unusual variant on the story of such a prophecy, as Acrisius ' actions did not, in this variant, cause his death.

The dita ( a five-string lyre ) and: musical bows ( including an unusual three-string variant ) are among the chordophones found in the south.

In fact, Cyril Aldred proposed that her unusual name is actually a variant of the Ancient Egyptian word for " monkey ," making it unnecessary to assume a foreign origin for her.

It may have been an unusual variant of Zino's but this is unlikely since no similar bird has been seen amongst the more than 100 caught at the nest.

* Reuben Fine vs Salomon Flohr, Amsterdam AVRO 1938, French Defence, Winawer / Advance Variation ( C17 ), 1-0 Deep tactics in an unusual variant of French Defense.

* " Courting dulcimers ": One unusual variant is the " courting dulcimer.

Late in the Imperial period, the Romans might have experimented with an unusual variant of the idea that called for cataphract-style lancers to sit on a pair or a single horse drawing a " chariot " reduced to a bare axle with wheels, where the blades were only lowered into the fighting position at the last moment.

An unusual variant unique to New Zealand, available for some years, was a ' van ', basically the manual Avenger wagon with a flat rear floor in place of rear seats and fixed, rather than wind-down, rear door windows.

The Diana Deluxe variant offers,, and, and takes a 46 – 49 mm step-up ring, unusual for such a low-end camera.

This is a less common variant, and with this arrangement, an unusual coronary artery pattern is common.

The Ratel-90 fire-support variant is an unusual vehicle in that it can carry an infantry squad while retaining a 90 mm turret gun.

Pitcher David Cone had an unusual " variant " case of TOS, with an arterial aneurysm of the upper aspect of his pitching arm.

There are also different rules for movement, shooting, combat and so on, the action usually being dictated by the roll of a 6-sided die or a ' D6 ', or it can be a 6-sided ' scatter ' die used to generate random directions, often used alongside an ' artillery ' die, used mainly for cannon, stone-throwers, and unusual variant artillery.

An unusual variant occurs in Child ballad 34, Kemp Owyne, where the dragon is the maiden ; the hero, based on Ywain from Arthurian legend, rescues her from the transformation with three kisses.

Charles the Bold surprising David Aubert, a miniature with an unusual variant of the presentation portrait, probably alluding to Alexander the Great, who surprised one of his artists in similar fashion.

An unusual variant is the Oregon kicker, which bans surpluses of more than 2 % of revenue by refunding the money to the taxpayers.

The New England Patriots employed an unusual variant of the play in their 2007 NFL divisional playoff game against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Cylinder chess ( or cylindrical chess ) is a chess variant with an unusual board.

: ( see Thornycroft Bison for an unusual variant )

I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.

Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.

The most unusual of them is the Ithaca 49 ( about $20, $5 for a saddle scabbard ) -- a lever-action single-shot patterned after the famous Winchester lever-action and featuring the Western look.

the former figure is based on a somewhat unusual birth of four by a Central American female ( see chapter on Laying, Brooding, Hatching, and Birth ), the latter on a `` normal '' newly born individual.

The most unusual feature of Boris, however, is the use of the greatest character of all, the chorus.

After a while there come initials and names, and he is interested to hear some rather unusual family nicknames.

On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.

There is clear evidence that Lucy from childhood had an unusual mind.

One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.

Doc Doolittle's scheduled appearance at captain's mast was a very unusual thing, because the discipline dispensed there is ordinarily for the young and immature, and a chief is naturally expected to stay off the report.

An adventure is defined as an exciting or unusual experience ; it may also be a bold, usually risky undertaking, with an uncertain outcome.

In American jurisprudence, under the rules for hearsay, admission of an unsupported affidavit as evidence is unusual ( especially if the affiant is not available for cross-examination ) with regard to material facts which may be dispositive of the matter at bar.

The game is unusual in that no dice are used in resolving conflicts or player actions ; instead a simple diceless system of comparative ability, and narrative description of the action by the players and gamemaster, is used to determine how situations are resolved.

Cysteine is unusual since it has a sulfur atom at the second position in its side-chain, which has a larger atomic mass than the groups attached to the first carbon, which is attached to the α-carbon in the other standard amino acids, thus the ( R ) instead of ( S ).

It is somewhat unusual for directors to be credited co-editors, although the Coen Brothers and Robert Rodriguez have both directed and edited nearly all of their films.

However, there is also evidence that silent reading did occur in antiquity and that it was not generally regarded as unusual.

Perhaps the most unusual thing about the privately operated buses is the fact that they are all highly decorated and personalized, with decaling and home made interior designs that range from comic book scenes, to erotic themes, and even to " Hello Kitty " themes.

The river, named Hamza after the discoverer, an Indian-born scientist Valiya Mannathal Hamza who is working with the National Observatory at Rio, makes it the first and geologically unusual instance of a twin-river system flowing at different levels of the earth's crust in Brazil.

Due to a name which is unusual in Denmark, it is speculated that he was christened on the Danish " Absalon " name day, October 30.

There exist pairs of long and short vowels with overlapping vowel quality giving Australian English phonemic length distinction, which is unusual amongst the various dialects of English, though not unknown elsewhere, such as in regional south-eastern dialects of the UK and eastern seaboard dialects in the US .< ref >