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.

An unusual variant is in The Magic of Scheherazade, which features semi-fault tolerant passwords: passwords between 1 and 5 incorrect characters still work to a limited degree, preserving the stage one has achieved, but not the player's attributes.

: ( see Thornycroft Bison for an unusual variant )

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

The lyric, Mercer remembers, was tailored to fit the unusual melody.

It was a somewhat unusual thing for a reporter to have a contract in those days before the epidemic of syndicated columnists.

I was delighted to make that personal contact in such trying and unusual circumstances.

An unusual, if not extraordinary, rendering of the classic myth that involves the rescue of Prometheus from the rock by the U.S. Cavalry was given last week in the warehouse of the Albany Leather Conduit Company amid cheers of `` Hubba hubba '' and `` Yalagaloo pip pip ''!!

he was working with species of Java, so perhaps some tropical snakes are unusual in this respect.

An unusual increase in the number of bronchial arteries present within the substance of the lung was noted.

Manchester's unusual interest in telegraphy has often been attributed to the fact that the Rev. J. D. Wickham, headmaster of Burr and Burton Seminary, was a personal friend and correspondent of the inventor, Samuel F. B. Morse.

This unusual collagen also was shown to undergo a reversible thermal phase transformation.

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.

but naturally, the royal ritual, which provided unusual control over already supremely powerful divine spirits, was held responsible for regulating the universe and insuring the welfare of the kingdom.

But this was not unusual, because youth in these quarters was always pushed at a distance from its elders.

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.

But the beer hall riot in Subic had been unusual, too, and Walt Perry was convinced that Doc had started it through some expert tactics in rabble rousing.

I had a pocketful of money, which was unusual when I was in the army, and the plane would be grounded all night.

His report was unusual in its detailed depiction of a non-European culture.

The archaeological record indicates that it was not unusual for ancient Pueblo peoples to adapt to climatic change by changing residences and locations.

It was unusual for a man of Mackenzie's humble origins to attain such a position in an age which generally offered such opportunity only to the privileged.

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

The rival forces met at Sievershausen on 9 July 1553, and after a combat of unusual ferocity Albert was put to flight.

Agrippina ’ s actions were considered unusual as for a Roman wife, because a conventional Roman wife was required to stay home.

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