Called " sea locusts " by ancient Assyrians, " prawn killers " in Australia and now sometimes referred to as " thumb splitters " – because of the animal's ability to inflict painful gashes if handled incautiously – mantis shrimp sport powerful claws that they use to attack and kill prey by spearing, stunning, or dismemberment.

Called the lowest prison in the Western Hemisphere, it lies below sea level.

Called a `` Slo-Flo '' meter it was designed for this job by Power Plus Industries of Los Angeles, a key individual being Don Nelson.

Called al-Nasir li-Din Allah (" the Defender of God's Faith "), he ascended the throne in his early 20s, and reigned for half a century as the most powerful prince of Iberia.

He has also appeared in several films directed by fellow Python Terry Gilliam and made notable appearances in other films such as A Fish Called Wanda, for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

He appeared in the comedy film A Fish Called Wanda, for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

Called MicroQuests, these inexpensive adventures allowed for group or solitary play.

# Called for " legally binding mid-term targets ".

Plans for the new network were scrapped when sufficient advertising slots could not be sold, though Paramount would contribute some programs to Operation Prime Time, such as the mini-series A Woman Called Golda, and the weekly pop music program, Solid Gold.

Cook has been responsible for successful remixes for Cornershop, Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, and Wildchild.

Called the " Old Spiral Highway ", the very twisty road ( 64 curves ) was opened in 1917 and was the primary route north for 62 years.

( Called in to advise on a leaking roof at St Chad's Church Shrewsbury in 1788, he correctly warned the church was in imminent danger of collapse ; his reputation was made locally when it collapsed 3 days later, but he was not the architect for its replacement ).

The People Called Shakers: A Search for the Perfect Society ( 1953 )

Called the SRC, for Superconducting Ring Cyclotron, it has 6 separated superconducting sectors, and is 19m in diameter and 8m high.

Called Late Boomers, or Trailing-Edge Boomers, this second cohort includes about 37, 818, 000 individuals, according to Live Births by Age and Mother and Race, 1933-98, published by the Center for Disease Control's National Center for Health Statistics.

Called " the heart of American show business ," vaudeville was one of the most popular types of entertainment in North America for several decades.

Called Twice Ken is Plenty and intended as a two-man showcase for Horne and Kenneth Williams, the 21st century version was performed by Jonathan Rigby and Robin Sebastian.

He received an Emmy award nomination for best supporting actor for the TV film A Woman Called Golda ( 1982 ).

Called forth to stand trial on Trantor for allegations of treason ( for foreshadowing the decline of the Galactic Empire ), Seldon explains that his science of Psychohistory foresees many alternatives, all of which result in the Galactic Empire eventually falling.

* Called to Controversy: The Unlikely Story of Moishe Rosen and the Founding of Jews for Jesus by Ruth Rosen ( Thomas Nelson, 2012 ) ISBN 978-1-59555-491-8

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* Steeleye Span does a rendition of the traditional folk song on their album They Called Her Babylon

Called " PLUS cards ", their connector design allowed them to be smaller ( and cheaper ) than standard ISA cards and to stack, rather than connecting to separate motherboard connectors ; both of these aspects of the design saved space and allowed up to three cards to be installed in a small card compartment of the compact integrated system case.

* Called by Olegarius, the bishop of Tarragona, the knights Templar establish their first stronghold in Catalonia.

Called juries of presentment, these men testified under oath to crimes committed in their neighborhood and indicted.

Called " third generation " pressure cookers by their manufacturers, these include an electric heat source that is automatically regulated to maintain the operating pressure.

& Rakim, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, and the Jungle Brothers due to their themes of Afrocentricity and political militancy, their experimental music, and their eclectic sampling.

Called a disruptive coloration, it protects them from predators and helps them to catch their prey.

Called New Suncook Plantation, it was granted by the Massachusetts General Court in 1774 to the officers and soldiers ( or heirs ) for their services to the state.

He lives with them and begins to understand / accept their lifestyles, in the unforgettable and powerful motion picture " A Man Called Horse ".

Called simply the " community workshop ", they continued until the mid-1990s to share expertise and common experiences in providing computing services, even though MTS was no longer the primary source for computing on their campuses and some had stopped running MTS entirely.

With Nicol on board, the band released the album They Called Her Babylon early in 2004, and extensively toured the UK, Europe and Australia, and their relatively prolific output continued with the release of the Christmas album ' Winter ' later the same year, as the band ended a busy year of touring with a gala performance in London's Palladium theatre.

Called domical vaults, cloister vaults, or coved vaults, these are domes which maintain a polygonal shape in their horizontal cross section.

For the remixes of these tracks, Barnes called upon Paul Daley, then a hairdresser, but also in A Man Called Adam and a formerly a session musician for the Brand New Heavies and Primal Scream, appearing on their Dixie-Narco EP.

New York-based groups such as De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, and the Jungle Brothers also earned recognition for their musical eclecticism.

were released, copyright issues with Yoko Ono led to the song " Don't Worry " being removed and replaced on future pressings by " Moon 83 ", a remixed version of the track " There's a Moon in the Sky ( Called the Moon )" from their debut album.

Called " fencibles ", the new units were organized within the British army, but charged wholly with the defence of their home colonies.

Called " supernatural Delta blues by way of Swinging London " by Rolling Stone, the song was perceived by some as the band's return to their blues roots after the psychedelia of their preceding albums Between the Buttons and Their Satanic Majesties Request.

The main four actors have roles here that display similar dynamics to their roles in A Fish Called Wanda: John Cleese's character is the morally upright straight-man, Jamie Lee Curtis's character starts out morally grey but ends up romantically linked to John Cleese's character, Kevin Kline is the dense antagonist of the film's plot, and Michael Palin's character provides an active supporting role to the main events.

The beginning of the live recording of their song " Long Red " has become one of the most sampled drum breaks in hip hop, sampled in songs by EPMD, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, A Tribe Called Quest, Nas, Kanye West, Game, among many others.

Called " factories " ( because the " factor ," i. e., a person acting as a mercantile agent did business from there ), these posts operated in the manner of the Dutch fur trading operations in New Netherland.