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Cy Young's career is seen as a bridge from baseball's earliest days to its modern era ; he pitched against stars such as Cap Anson, already an established player when the National League was first formed in 1876, as well as against Eddie Collins, who played until 1930.
This image has no display of an axe or a strong central state ; rather, it symbolizes the power of the liberated people by placing the Liberty Cap on top of the classical symbol of power.
Prior to his death, Parsons stated that he wanted his body cremated at Joshua Tree and his ashes spread over Cap Rock, a prominent natural feature there ; however, Parsons ' stepfather arranged for a private ceremony back in New Orleans and neglected to invite any of his friends from the music industry.
Germans controlled about 80 % of the country's international commerce ; they also owned and operated utilities in Cap Haïtien and Port-au-Prince, the main wharf and a tramway in the capital, and a railroad serving the Plaine de Cul-du-Sac.
At the time of his retirement, Williams ranked third all-time in home runs ( behind Babe Ruth and Jimmie Foxx ), seventh in RBIs ( after Ruth, Cap Anson, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Foxx, and Mel Ott ; Stan Musial passed Williams in 1962 ), and seventh in batting average ( behind Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Lefty O ' Doul, Ed Delahanty and Tris Speaker ).
The coastline is deeply indented ; two prominent features are the natural harbor at Antsiranana ( Diégo Suarez ), just south of the Cap d ' Ambre ( Tanjon ' i Bobaomby ), and the large island of Nosy-Be to the West limits the potential of a port at Antsiranana by impeding the flow of traffic from other parts of the island.
In Africa, 1950 saw the first French-run Méditerranée-le Cap, a rally from the Mediterranean to South Africa ; it was run on and off until 1961, when the new political situation hastened its demise.
In the late 1970s and during the 1980s, Lichtenstein received major commissions for works in public places: the sculptures Lamp ( 1978 ) in St. Mary ’ s, Georgia ; Mermaid ( 1979 ) in Miami Beach ; the 26 feet tall Brushstrokes in Flight ( 1984, moved in 1998 ) at Port Columbus International Airport ; the five-storey high Mural with Blue Brushstrokes ( 1984 – 85 ) at the Equitable Center, New York ; and El Cap de Barcelona ( 1992 ) in Barcelona.
Large portions of Ellesmere Island are covered with glaciers and ice, with Manson Icefield and Sydkap in the south ; Prince of Wales Icefield and Agassiz Ice Cap along the central-east side of the island, along with substantial ice cover in Northern Ellesmere Island.
The Cap ' n Crunch commercials have historically used basic cartoon animation by Hanna-Barbera animation ; however, Vinton Studios produced a claymation ad during the 1980s.
The county is divided into forty-nine townships: Ada, Anderson, Antelope, Barrett, Beck, Bison, Brushy, Burdick, Cash, Castle Butte, Chance, Chaudoin, Clark, De Witt, Duell, Englewood, Flat Creek, Foster, Fredlund, Glendo, Grand River, Hall, Highland, Horse Creek, Liberty, Lincoln, Lodgepole, Lone Tree, Maltby, Marshfield, Martin, Meadow, Moreau, Plateau, Rainbow, Rockford, Scotch Cap, Sidney, Strool, Trail, Vail, Vickers, Viking, Vrooman, Wells, White Butte, White Hill, Wilson, and Wyandotte ; and eight areas of unorganized territory: Duck Creek, East Perkins, Independence, Pleasant Valley, South Perkins, Southwest Perkins, West Central Perkins, and West Perkins.
The Wing Cap allows Mario to fly ; the Metal Cap makes him immune to most damage, allows him to withstand wind, walk underwater, and be unaffected by noxious gases ; and the Vanish Cap renders him partially immaterial and allows him to walk through some obstacles such as wire mesh, as well as granting invulnerability to some forms of damage.
The first European to discover the area was the French Admiral Bruni D ' Entrecasteaux in 1792 and he named it Cap Arride ; Matthew Flinders anglicized the name in 1892 and the park took its name from this feature.
Delgadillo's brother Juan opened Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In in 1953 ; the eatery has since become a famous roadside attraction.
Other products advertised on Sabado Gigante have included AC Delco, Allstate, American Airlines ( for the show's travel segment " La Camara Viajera "), AutoZone, Cap ' n Crunch, Coca-Cola, Colgate, Dog Chow ( alternates with its Puppy Chow counterpart ), Domino's Pizza, Ferrero Rocher, M & M's ( alternates with its sister brands Snickers, Skittles and Starburst ), Mazola, Miller ( for the musical segments ), Pampers, Payless ShoeSource, Pepto-Bismol, Polaroid ( for the car games ) Quaker Instant Oatmeal ( most often for El Chacal de La Trompeta ; alternates with Aunt Jemima ), Secret Deodorant and Sprint.
Her favourite places were Cap Martin on the French Riviera, where tourism had started only in the second half of the nineteenth century ; Lake Geneva in Switzerland ; Bad Ischl in Austria, where the imperial couple would spend the summer ; and Corfu.

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Alpine skis are wider at the tip and tail than they are at the waist ; when rotated onto their edge, known as " edging ", this causes the ski to bend into a curved shape and allows them to " carve " a turn.
Cross-country techniques use different styles of turns ; edging is not as important, and skis have little sidecut.
; Metal laminates: Although a number of companies had experimented with all-aluminum skis in the 1940s, none of these proved practical.
Slalom skis ; as well as many recreational skis ; are shorter with a greater side cut to facilitate tighter, easier turns.
Note that the weighted ski is on-edge and forming an arc ; if both legs were parallel the skis would begin to smoothly carve.
: Part of the binding ; a cord that attaches the ski to the boot and prevents the wobbling of skis during flight.
; Jumping skis
While most modern telemark skis are virtually identical to today's alpine skis, they differ in one critical way ; the heel of the skier's boot is detached from the ski.
* Finnish troops having higher mobility due to skis and sledges ; in contrast, Soviet heavy equipment confined them to roads.
They do not have any enclosures except for a windshield and their engine normally drives a continuous track or tracks at the rear ; skis at the front provide directional control.
In 1993 Bancroft led a four-woman expedition to the South Pole on skis ; this expedition was the first all-female expedition to cross the ice to the South Pole.
When skiing is the primary goal, skis are carried on backpack as far as the mountaineers go ; when not, they are removed and cached until the climbers return from their continued ascent.
Skiing may be activated any time the player is on foot and does not cost energy ; this switches the player to a frictionless ground-travel mode, allowing the player to slide very rapidly down slopes and ( with sufficient speed before activating the skis ) across flat terrain.
Using discarded military parts and weapons from the salvage yard, Chance and Jake built themselves a three-engine jet fighter called the Turbokat, which resembled several different jet fighters, most notably the Grumman F-14 and the Saab Draken, along with a handful of such other vehicles as the Cyclotron, a motorcycle built into the jet ; the Turbo Mole, a subterranean vehicle used to drill underground ; the Hoverkat, a militarized hovercraft, the Thunder Truck, a militarized Jeep modified from their tow truck, and they also built two jet skis which they used in the second season episode Mutation City.
As with the other New Gods, his appearance has been redesigned ; he now wears a sleeker armor only faintly resembling his classic appearance ( his skis now appear to be highly stylized boots ), and his poles appear much like scythes.
Most carriages have a small compartment for storing bicycles and / or skis at one end of the carriage ; this end is marked by a bicycle drawn on the outside of the closest doors.
The first descent on skis was made by Bill Briggs in the spring of 1971 down the Ford Couloir ; a route near the Owen-Spalding is now named in his honor.
Adapting their business to whatever people in the neighborhood wanted to buy, as Wedgwood residents began putting in lawns and gardens, McVicar's sold them the requisite supplies ; they sold specialty foods and rented out skis ; they were also, for a decade, the only hardware store in the state licensed to sell beer and wine.

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During the period of about 4 hours around sunset, skywave transmission conditions are building up until full nighttime conditions prevail ; ;
During the year 1959, we granted 354 Fellowships ; ;
During early childhood, children are more interested in the approval of their parents and teachers than they are in the approval of other children ; ;
During early childhood boys tease and bully, on the average, more than girls ; ;
During late childhood boys like to tease, jostle, and talk smart to girls ; ;
During the following week, six tons of hay belonging to one rancher were burned ; ;
During about three and a half months of the year, in the summer, there are three boats that run from the mainland to the Island carrying passengers, food, and cars ; ;
During his raid on Washington, D. C. in 1864, Lincoln was watching the combat from an exposed position ; Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes shouted at him, " Get down, you damn fool, before you get shot!
During the post-World War I period ski-lifts were built in Swiss and Austrian towns to accommodate winter visitors, but summer tourism continued to be important ; by the mid-20th century the popularity of downhill skiing increased greatly as it became more accessible and in the 1970s several new villages were built in France devoted almost exclusively to skiing, such a Les Menuires.
During the journey in the wilderness, Aaron is not always prominent or active ; and he sometimes appears guilty of rebellious or treasonable conduct.
During the Fourth Test news broke that prominent England players had agreed to take part in a " rebel tour " of South Africa the following winter ; three of them ( Tim Robinson, Neil Foster and John Emburey ) were playing in the match, and were subsequently dropped from the England side.
During each winter there is usually one fall of snow in the south and two in the north ; but the snow quickly disappears, and sometimes, during an entire winter, the ground is not covered with snow.
During Ahab's reign, Moab, which had been conquered by his father, remained tributary ; while Judah, with whose king, Jehoshaphat, he was allied by marriage, was probably his vassal.
During his tenure as abbot, he supported the abbey with gifts ; the medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury said that they were splendid and many.
During this term Johnson also made a concerted effort to increase his sphere of interactions ; his higher profile was exemplified by a biographical sketch published in the New York Times in May 1849, describing him as an excellent committee worker and investigator.
During his reign, Spain lost its last colonies in the Americas ( Cuba and Puerto Rico ) and the Philippines ; fought and, after several setbacks, won a war in Morocco ; witnessed the start of the Spanish Generation of 1927, and endured the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera.
During his marriage, he had called himself " King and Emperor of Castile, Toledo, Aragón, Pamplona, Sobrarbe, and Ribagorza " in recognition of his rights as Urraca's husband ; of his inheritance of the lands of his father, including the kingdom of his great-uncle Gonzalo ; and his prerogative to conquer Andalusia from the Muslims.

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