In the manga series Pokémon Adventures, Team Rocket creates Mewtwo, but some of his DNA is placed inside of the Gym leader Blaine.

Additionally, Blaine does not appear to have any particular motivation for activating the Drums other than the sadistic pleasure he takes in sensing the Pubes ' fear.

The Republicans convened in Chicago and nominated former Speaker of the House James G. Blaine of Maine for president on the fourth ballot.

Cleveland's supporters rehashed the old allegations that Blaine had corruptly influenced legislation in favor of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad and the Union Pacific Railway, later profiting on the sale of bonds he owned in both companies.

* Hal Blaine: drums on " Andmoreagain " and " Daily Planet "

Blaine starts out with the ram (" There never was a bullier old ram than what he was "), and goes on for four more mostly dull but occasionally hilarious unparagraphed pages.

But on third down, safety Blaine Bishop pressured quarterback Kurt Warner to throw an incomplete pass.

Having concern over potential British military involvement in the war, on June 15, 1881, Blaine stressed that the conflict be resolved by consent of the Latin American countries involved and that the Peruvian government pay Chile an indemnity rather than cede the contested land.

Although Thomas C. Platt and other disaffected party leaders mounted a dump-Harrison movement coalescing around veteran candidate James G. Blaine of Maine, the president's forces had the nomination locked up by the time delegates met in Minneapolis on June 7-10, 1892.

Harrison was nominated on the first ballot with 535. 17 votes to 182. 83 for Blaine, 182 for William McKinley of Ohio, and the rest scattered.

Blaine was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and is of Puerto Rican descent on his father's side, and Russian Jewish on his mother's.

Blaine and his fiancee Alizee Guinochet have one daughter, born on January 27, 2011.

Due to the intense weather, no cars or taxis were on the road, so Blaine had to hail a snowplow, which transported the couple to the hospital.

On May 19, 1997, Blaine's first television special, David Blaine: Street Magic aired on the ABC network.

On April 5, 1999, Blaine was entombed in an underground plastic box underneath a 3-ton water-filled tank for seven days across from Trump Place on 68th St. and Riverside Drive.

On November 27, 2000, Blaine began a stunt called " Frozen in Time ", which was covered on a TV special.

* Hotel Babylon S3E7 features a character ( Dan Black ) loosely based on David Blaine, who performs the illusion in the lift ; later one of the main characters ( Anna ) shows the other hotel staff ( but not the viewer ) how the illusion is performed.

The novel ends with Blaine and Roland's ka-tet speeding through the Waste Lands, a radioactive land of mutated animals and ancient ruins created by something that is claimed to have been far worse than a nuclear war, on the way to Topeka-the end of the line.

On many of his appearances on the show, Willis stages elaborate jokes, such as wearing a day-glo orange suit in honor of the Central Park gates, having one side of his face made up with simulated buckshot wounds after the Harry Whittington shooting, or trying to break a record ( parody of David Blaine ) of staying underwater for only twenty seconds.

* KARI ( AM ), an AM radio station broadcasting on 550, licensed to Blaine, WA

The five crossing points are two at Blaine ( one at the Peace Arch, located on the Interstate 5 crossing, and the other a commercial and passenger crossing on the Pacific Highway at State Route 543, both to Surrey, British Columbia ), as well as at Lynden ( SR 539, to Aldergrove ), Sumas ( SR 9, to Abbotsford ), and Point Roberts ( Tyee Drive, to Tsawwassen ).

Indian Cave is an historic site located on the Holston River near present-day Blaine.

Major County is bounded by Woods and Alfalfa counties in the north, Garfield County on the east, Kingfisher, Blaine and Dewey on the south, and Woodward on the west, Major County has 957. 87 square miles of land and water.

A man named Blaine Smythe, with `` y '' and `` e '' but pronounced without them, had been fired at Payne's insistence.

Secretary Goldberg and Sen. Morse will hold a joint press conference at the Roosevelt Hotel at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Blaine Whipple, executive secretary of the Democratic Party of Oregon, reported Tuesday.

* Guys and Dolls ( 1955 ) — Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, and Stubby Kaye.

Blaine and Kaye reprise their roles from the 1950 Broadway production.

* Guys and Dolls ( 1950 ) starring Robert Alda ( Sky Masterson ), Vivian Blaine ( Miss Adelaide ), Samm Levine ( Nathan Detroit ), Isabel Bigley ( Sarah Brown ), Pat Rooney, Sr., B. S.

* 1933 – The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.

Blaine's nomination alienated many Republicans who viewed Blaine as ambitious and immoral.

Reform-minded Republicans called " Mugwumps " denounced Blaine as corrupt and flocked to Cleveland.

On some of the most damaging correspondence, Blaine had written " Burn this letter ," giving Democrats the last line to their rallying cry: " Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, the continental liar from the state of Maine, ' Burn this letter!

Blaine hoped that he would have more support from Irish Americans than Republicans typically did ; while the Irish were mainly a Democratic constituency in the 19th century, Blaine's mother was Irish Catholic, and he had been supportive of the Irish National Land League while he was Secretary of State.

The Irish, a significant group in three of the swing states, did appear inclined to support Blaine until one of his supporters, Samuel D. Burchard, gave a speech denouncing the Democrats as the party of " Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion ".

Bogart gained his first real romantic lead in 1942's Casablanca, playing Rick Blaine, the hard-pressed expatriate nightclub owner, hiding from the past and negotiating a fine line among Nazis, the French underground, the Vichy prefect and unresolved feelings for his ex-girlfriend.

It was reportedly his idea that Rick Blaine be portrayed as a chess player, which also served as a metaphor for the sparring relationship of the characters played by Bogart and Rains in the movie.

* In the 1942 film Casablanca, Captain Renault, a corrupt official played by Claude Rains recites the last two lines of the poem when talking to Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, referring to his power in Casablanca.

* 1952 – L. Blaine Hammond, NASA astronaut

The Jaguars selected Blaine Gabbert in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft.

In the 2011 NFL draft, the Jaguars traded a first and a second round pick in order to move up to the 10th pick and select Missouri quarterback Blaine Gabbert.

Of particular note, programs that were placed within the top 10 % of all size programs in that field based on an average of the R95 and S95 rank order include Aeronautics, Astrophysics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Bioengineering, Biology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Science and Engineering, Geology, Geophysics, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Planetary Science, and Social Science ( Economics ).

Himmler placed particular importance on the death's-head rings ; they were never to be sold, and were to be returned to him upon the death of the owner.

Though the original armiger may have placed particular meaning on a charge, these meanings are not necessarily retained from generation to generation.

Drugs are placed in the body and only activate on encountering a particular signal.

Others have placed the beginnings of postmodernism in the arts, with particular reference to music, at around 1930 ( Karolyi 1994, 135 ; Meyer 1994, 331 – 32 ).

Parimutuel betting ( from the or mutual betting ) is a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool ; taxes and the " house-take " or " vig " is removed, and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all winning bets.

If a player is not sitting on a particular spot, the hand is still assigned, but then placed on the discard pile with the four unused cards.

These melds are placed under " headings " where a card which is melded under a particular heading can be used again under another heading, but cannot be melded again under the same heading.

Some members of the legislature have expert knowledge of particular subjects of legislation, and these members are usually placed on committees to take full advantage of this specialized knowledge.

In " On Authority ", Engels also wrote of democratic workplaces that " particular questions arise in each room and at every moment concerning the mode of production, distribution of material, etc., which must be settled by decision of a delegate placed at the head of each branch of labour or, if possible, by a majority vote.

( In particular, a heavily-used machine instruction, " Load Address " ( LA ), explicitly cleared the top eight bits of the address being placed in a register.

Countries which had a writing system based on logographs and syllabaries placed particular emphasis on form and quality when learning.

Just as important as ( if not more important than ) any particular law was the value the rabbis placed on legal study and debate.

This agreement has placed particular financial pressure on the Spurs and the other three former ABA teams.

The Kennedy administration placed particular emphasis on improving ability to counter communist " wars of national liberation ", in which the enemy avoided head-on military confrontation and resorted to political subversion and guerrilla tactics.

The more recent the origin of a particular tradition, the less emphasis is placed on the sacrificial nature of the Eucharist.

Special emphasis is placed on three areas: works concerning the geographic regions spanning the Canadian Northwest and the American West ; innovative and experimental works that challenge the established canons, subjects and formats, with special interest in art and architecture ; and internationally focused manuscripts with particular attention to Latin America, World Heritage Sites, international relations and public policy.

A dental dam or rubber dam is a rectangular sheet of latex used in dentistry, in particular endodontic therapy, to reduce contamination, and where dental composite is being placed, due to the need for the area to remain dry during filling placement.

It is, in short, this vast ensemble, full of atmosphere, this corner of nature rendered with a simplicity so just, all of this admirable page in which an artist has placed all the particular and rare elements which are in him.

These policies targeted peoples, in particular Jews, as well as Gypsies, homosexuals and handicapped people, ethnic Poles, Russians who were labeled as " inferior " in a racial hierarchy that placed the Herrenvolk ( or " master race ") of the Volksgemeinschaft ( or " national community ") at the top, and ranked Poles, Russians, Romani, persons of color and Jews at the bottom.

* Pool betting or parimutuel betting, a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together

In others, Malebranche placed a greater emphasis than he had previously done on his occasionalist account of causation, and particularly on his contention that God acted for the most part through " general volitions " and only rarely, as in the case of miracles, through " particular volitions ".

In particular, this perspective placed little value on fields of mathematics ( such as combinatorics ) whose objects of study are very often special, or found in situations which can only superficially be related to more axiomatic branches of the subject.

* Accent ( music ), an emphasis placed on a particular note