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Gender-specific body movements are not reliably associated with a person ’ s sexual orientation This is true of face shape, but surprisingly not for voices, even though people think they do.
On Cambodia's eastern border, South Vietnam, surprisingly, had not collapsed, even in the face of the communist Tet Offensive in 1968, and President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu's government was bringing a measure of stability to the war-ravaged country.
One of the problem players, Alex Coxon, surprisingly resigned after the 1950 season and it was widely said that " his face did not fit ", even though he was a top-class bowler who had played for England.
In the final they would face Cheltenham Town at The Millennium Stadium in Cardiff but, perhaps surprisingly as the bookmakers made them favourites and despite beating Cheltenham in both league fixtures during the season, they lost 1 – 0.
The effect was eerie and surprisingly modern, with its glowing green face and bright red needles.
His burly physique and stolid slab-like face enabled Throne to excel as gruff authority figures, and his keen intelligence and surprisingly wide emotional range added fascinating layers to his performances.
Fastolf, feeling hopeless in the face of the enemy, forms his wagons into a wagenburg and surprisingly wins.

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Washed, they came out surprisingly clear and bright.
Even though many spruces currently grow in that vicinity, recent pollen studies show that spruce forests came surprisingly late to that stretch of land.
Internacional finished first in their group with four wins, one tie and one loss ( although the defeat surprisingly came from Deportivo Galicia ).
The Archbishop accused St. Leger of treasonable words, giving Alan as his source, but the charge came to nothing when Alan, perhaps surprisingly, refused to confirm the report.
" Not surprisingly after a horrendous first year Ashton came lowest overall and in terms of living up to her commitments ," concluded the survey.
His final hurrah came in the 1990 World Championship qualifying, where he beat Ken Owers 10 – 8 before providing a surprisingly tough test for rising star James Wattana.
However, Kim left for a job in San Francisco and Romano surprisingly decided to keep Kerry's secret ( she came out to her staff for separate reasons later in Season 8 ).
They caused wave height to vary and often came on slowly, or would let up surprisingly in the middle of a race.
The idea for the production came to Mia from a painting that featured a character that looked very similar to Rosetta and a jester in the background that looked surprisingly like Fool ( the stage spirit that can be seen only by very talented students ).
He ran for the Winnipeg City Council in 1950 and 1952, and came surprisingly close to winning on the second occasion.
Broten briefly came out of retirement in 1999 to once again play for the US national team in the 1999 Ice Hockey World Championship qualifying tournament ( the U. S. team featuring several NHL players had surprisingly finished among the bottom four in the previous 1998 world championship tournament ) when no active NHL players were available.
Famously, early versions of the Storyteller System sometimes made rolling botches ( critical failures ) more likely the higher your skill or attribute was, since a critical failure would occur if any of the dice came up as a " 1 "; the probability that at least one " 1 " will be rolled increases the more dice are rolled, and so highly-skilled characters would botch surprisingly frequently, whereas poorly-skilled characters could frequently get away scot-free.
Tyson missed most of pre-season but made a surprisingly quick comeback against Leeds United on 25 August 2007 when he came on as a second half substitute, a month before he was expected back.
Naomi came off looking especially predatory — a common trait in media representations of gay and lesbian characters — by seducing a formerly heterosexual woman and convincing her to leave her family [...] not too surprisingly, Naomi and Sonia broke up.
A few newly created teams have since emerged such as Arsenal Kyiv and Metalurh Donetsk, as well as Vorskla Poltava, who surprisingly came third in the club's first season at the Top Level in the 1997.
The exhibition of female bodies in the nude came into mild, but mainstream competition in the so-called beach party films which started in 1963 and proved surprisingly popular.
Positive reviews came from highly influential critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, with Siskel describing the movie as " surprisingly entertaining ," and Ebert saying that the movie was clever in how it " combines the conventions of the horror and disaster genres " and " is actually a lot of fun, if you like special effects and gore.
The first number 1 of the year surprisingly came from heavy metal band Iron Maiden, scoring their first and only number one " Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter " which stayed at the top for 2 weeks.
Soon afterwards, an embassy came from Constantinople, bearing surprisingly lenient terms from Justinian.
Aboumoslem's only revenue came from advertisements and support from club fans, but surprisingly won promotion with the help of former Aboumoslem player, Akbar Misaghian.
Not surprisingly the most lavish praise upon the books release came from southern reviewers, an exception being Oscar Wilde who pronounced it a masterpiece ( though he only skimmed many of the military portions ).

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President Kennedy's latest warning to the Communist world that the United States will build up its military strength to meet any challenge in Berlin or elsewhere was, somewhat surprisingly, reported in full text or fairly accurate excerpts behind the Iron Curtain.
Attempts to accuse anthropologists of complicity with the CIA and government intelligence activities during the Vietnam War years have turned up surprisingly little ( although anthropologist Hugo Nutini was active in the stillborn Project Camelot ).
This is not possible, but the near-adiabatic high expansion ratio nozzles that can be used with rockets come surprisingly close: when the nozzle expands the gas, the gas is cooled and accelerated, and an energy efficiency of up to 70 % can be achieved.
He criticized the casting of Crystal, " Not surprisingly he handles the comedy superbly, but he's too cool and self-protective an actor to work as a romantic leading man ", and felt that as a film, " of wonderful parts, it doesn't quite add up ".
They said that, " its approach remains useful and that its conclusions are still surprisingly valid ... unfortunately the report has been largely dismissed by critics as a doomsday prophecy that has not held up to scrutiny.
His writings preceded, and were at times surprisingly consistent with, later neo-Freudian insights such as those evidenced in the works of Otto Rank, Karen Horney, Harry Stack Sullivan and Erich Fromm, some considering that it would take several decades for Freudian ego psychology to catch up with Adler's ground-breaking approach.
Not surprisingly, they come up with various suspects: Sir Eustace's estranged wife ; the father of a young lady whom Sir Eustace intended to marry after his divorce got through ; one of Sir Eustace's discarded mistresses ; and some more.
" He uses The Red House Mystery to illustrate the problems he saw in many mystery stories of this type, particularly the central puzzle ( which was intricate and clever but implausible in many ways ) and the fact that the amateur detective's chance to shine comes only because the police are incompetent and surprisingly willing to put up with a " brash amateur " romping through their territory.
Aided by the slowly spinning probe they would build up a full mosaic of the landing site, which, surprisingly, became clearly visible only below 25 kilometers altitude.
Not surprisingly, The Early Show enjoyed a relatively successful May sweeps, racking up a 5 percent increase in year-to-year total viewers and remaining flat in the 25-to-54-year-old demographic, at a time when both NBC's Today Show and ABC's Good Morning America were shedding viewers to the tune of 3 and 4 percent respectively.
The poll resulted in candidates including Guy Fawkes, who was executed for trying to blow up the Parliament of England ; Oliver Cromwell who created a republican England ; Richard III, suspected of murdering his nephews ; James Connolly, an Irish nationalist and socialist who was executed by the Crown in 1916 ; and a surprisingly high ranking of 17th for the former Some Mothers Do ' Ave ' Em star Michael Crawford.
However, surprisingly, when these children grew up and had children those children were also smaller than average.
In Paris, a committee of the liberal opposition, composed of banker-and-kingmaker < span lang =" fr "> Jacques Laffitte </ span >, < span lang =" fr "> Casimir Perier </ span >, Generals < span lang =" fr "> Étienne Gérard </ span > and < span lang =" fr "> Georges Mouton, comte de Lobau </ span >, among others, had drawn up and signed a petition in which, not surprisingly, they asked for the < span lang =" fr "> ordonnances </ span > to be withdrawn ; more surprising was their criticism " not of the King, but his ministers " – thereby disproving Charles X's conviction that his liberal opponents were enemies of his dynasty.
" Has a sidekick called Horse ( although the name could be false ), who has a habit of popping up surprisingly from the corner of the screen whenever needed.
It is a very rare vagrant in western Europe, but, surprisingly, of the three individuals recorded in Great Britain up to 2003, one was a Mongolian Plover.
Topics covered range from who the Democrats should put up for the presidency ( Moore proposes Oprah Winfrey or, surprisingly, General Wesley Clark, once the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO ) right through to ' How to talk to your conservative brother-in-law ', a guide on how to avoid interpersonal conflicts at Thanksgiving dinner with the family.
Later he receives an invitation for a class reunion and a chance to meet up with his students at an event ( surprisingly ) staged by a full-grown Bell ( Joel Gretsch ), who is now extremely rich and successful.
In some instances, notably a series of 1966 experiments, the process was initially judged to have worked surprisingly well, with up to 50 % of men subjected to such therapy not acting on their homosexual urges.
Understudy Geoff Barnett took his place, but Wilson regained the number one shirt once fully recovered, and was Arsenal's first-choice goalkeeper up until his surprisingly early retirement from playing in May 1974, at the age of 32.
The ancient religion of Egypt put up surprisingly little resistance to the spread of Christianity.
The town's George cinema was put up for sale in the autumn of 1982, but a surprisingly good run of E. T.
On Formula One coverage from 1980 to 1993, Walker struck up a surprisingly successful, but extremely popular, double act with World Champion James Hunt.
BBC's television series Top Gear demonstrated that the stock FQ-400 could surprisingly keep up with a Lamborghini Murciélago around a test track.

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