To the stump of a tree as he passed it, the same stump which had impaled the car of many a guest in the past thirty years and which he refused to have removed.

" Caltech students also passed out T-shirts to MIT's incoming freshman class that had MIT written on the front and "... because not everyone can go to Caltech " along with an image of a palm tree on the back.

When the traversal encounters an atom through which the current path has already passed, a ghost atom is generated in order to keep the tree finite.

When a tree stump or other obstruction such as a rock is encountered, the ploughshare is thrown upwards, clear of the obstacle, to avoid breaking the plough's harness or linkage ; ploughing can be continued when the weight is returned to the earth after the obstacle is passed.

In a myth passed down among the Iroquois, The World on the Turtle's Back, explains the origin of the land in which a tree of life is described.

The first use of rubber was by the Olmecs, who centuries later passed on the knowledge of natural latex from the Hevea tree in 1600 BC to the ancient Mayans.

Like the view system in most GUIs, NeWS included the concept of a tree of embedded views along which events were passed.

Under a resolution passed at a mass meeting of the public at Pence Ranch on July 27 a volunteer posse of 500 white men sought to kill or remove every non-white from Butte County ; they rounded up 461 people from the surrounding area including those at Bidwell's Landing-for the kidnapping and killing, two were tied to a tree and executed by firing squad.

Several miles east of the Fort the railroad passed through a tree claim belonging to William Annin ( also spelled " Annon "), who sold his claim for a new townsite.

Ferdinand himself was buried at the foot of his tree when he passed in the 1960s with his wife on one side and the five

The name of the tree passed into Low German as Eller which is very close to the word Aller.

It may assume that the partial candidate c and all its ancestors in the tree have passed the reject test.

After many centuries the tree was cut down and the wood used to build a bridge over which the Queen of Sheba passed, on her journey to meet King Solomon.

When Gordon's head was unwrapped at the Mahdi's feet, he ordered the head transfixed between the branches of a tree ".... where all who passed it could look in disdain, children could throw stones at it and the hawks of the desert could sweep and circle above.

Although topiary fell from grace in aristocratic gardens, it continued to be featured in cottagers ' gardens, where a single example of traditional forms, a ball, a tree trimmed to a cone in several cleanly separated tiers, meticulously clipped and perhaps topped with a topiary peacock, might be passed on as an heirloom.

Simcoe, as a part of Haldimand-Norfolk at that time, passed their first tree conservation by-law in 1947.

Using this dataset corrected in comparisons with other tree series, their reconstruction passed the validation tests for the extended period, but they were cautious about the increased uncertainties involved.

Charles confirmed to Samuel Pepys in 1680 that while he was hiding in the tree, a Parliamentarian soldier passed directly below it.

The Tambalacoque ( Sideroxylon grandiflorum ), often called the dodo tree, is also threatened with extinction, although this is principally as a result of unripened seed destruction by the introduced crab-eating macaque ( Macaca fascicularis ) rather than any connection to a reliance on the dodo to assist with seed germination after the seeds passed through the extinct bird's digestive tract.

But ever since the tree passed near Gold six earth years ago it has been falling in toward Voy, nearly dropping out of the Smoke Ring.

As years passed, these populations eventually settled along the coast and founded the towns of Cahuita ( named after the sangrillo or cawa tree ), Old Harbour ( Puerto Viejo ), Grape Point ( Punta Uva ), and Manzanillo ( named after the manchineel tree ).

The tree was noteworthy because it flowered twice in a year, once in the late spring which is normal, but also once after the harshness of midwinter has passed.

A large tree at the edge of town was pointed out to visitors in the following years as where Emperor Menelik passed judgement on the Eritreans captured in the battle.

tree branches snapped as she pushed them ruthlessly away from her.

In Ovid's version of the story, Dryope was wandering by a lake, suckling her baby Amphissus, when she saw the bright red flowers of the lotus tree, formerly the nymph Lotis who, when fleeing from Priapus, had been changed into a tree.

Dryope wanted to give the blossoms to her baby to play with, but when she picked one the tree started to tremble and bleed.

She tried to run away, but the blood of the tree had touched her skin and she found her feet rooted to the spot.

Legend has it that it was here in 1558, while sitting under an oak tree in the Park, that she learned that she had become Queen following the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary I.

She follows the ears under the house where she discovers two small magical creatures ( chibi or " dwarf " totoro and chu or " medium " totoro ), who lead her through a briar patch and into the hollow of a large camphor tree.

The girls perch in a tree outside of the hospital, overhearing a conversation between their parents and discovering that she has been kept in hospital by a minor cold and is otherwise doing well.

Osiris ' wife, Isis, searched for his remains until she finally found him embedded in a tree trunk, which was holding up the roof of a palace in Byblos on the Phoenician coast.

In this cult Artemis is hanged from a tree, just like Ariadne in Greek mythology, who was hanged from a tree when she was abandoned by Theseus.

Saved by a giant turtle from drowning, she formed the world on its back by planting bark taken from the tree.

After reciting the long poem " The Walrus and the Carpenter ", the Tweedles draw Alice's attention to the Red King — loudly snoring away under a nearby tree — and maliciously provoke her with idle philosophical banter that she exists only as an imaginary figure in the Red King's dreams ( thereby implying that she will cease to exist the instant he wakes up ).

In the second stanza of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, the völva ( a shamanic seeress ) reciting the poem to the god Odin says that she remembers far back to " early times ", being raised by jötnar, recalls nine worlds and " nine wood-ogresses " ( Old Norse nío ídiðiur ), and when Yggdrasil was a seed (" glorious tree of good measure, under the ground ").

In stanza 27, the völva details that she is aware that " Heimdallr's hearing is couched beneath the bright-nurtured holy tree.

Sometimes she is depicted as holding a lotus, or, as a sycamore tree.

On 19 August 1800, when Anning was 15 months old, an event occurred that became part of local lore ; she was being held by a neighbour, Elizabeth Haskings, who was standing with two other women under an elm tree watching an equestrian show, being put on by a travelling company of horsemen, when lightning struck the tree.

Although the ' Captain ' is the person at the top of the tree, having received the payment from the 8 paying passengers, once he or she leaves the scheme is able to re-enter the pyramid as a ' Passenger ' and hopefully recruit enough to reach captain again, thereby earning a second payout.

Having taken the chest, she leaves the tree in Byblos, where it becomes an object of worship for the locals.

Bryant shot twice at Alannah, as she ran behind the tree, missing.

She was returned to Britain when she was three to live with an aunt, a professional governess Bessie Nicholson, in Wimbledon, London, after her pregnant mother, Florence, committed suicide by hanging herself from a tree.