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; and Caster
; Caster board: Two narrow platforms known as " decks " are adjoined by a rubber or aluminium coated metal beam that houses a strong spring.
The district comprised three extremely fertile valleys formed by the outflow of three rivers, among the most considerable in Asia Minor: the Hermus in the north, flowing into the Gulf of Smyrna, though at some distance from the city of that name ; the Caster, which flowed under the walls of Ephesus ; and the Maeander, which in ancient times discharged its waters into the deep gulf that once bathed the walls of Miletus, but which has been gradually filled up by this river's deposits.
The Caster throws continually until he hath thrown Dubblets under ten, and then he is out and loseth ; or Dubblets above ten, and then he passeth and wins.
On November 22, 1933, as Parker and Barrow approached the previous evening's family meeting spot, law enforcement officers Smoot Schmidt, Ted Hinton, Ed Caster, and Bob Alcorn ; armed with Thompson submachine guns,. 351 " Bullhead " repeating rifle, and BAR ( Browning Automatic Rifles ) opened a fusillade of gunfire from a ditch about seventy-five feet away.

; and Skating
** Ye Qiaobo 葉喬波 / 叶乔波 ( 1964 -; Hexian, Guangxi ; Hakka pronunciation: Yap Kiau Poh ), Winner, World Sprint Speed Skating Championships, 1992, 1993
Other landmarks within the Ardmore Progressive Civic Association borders include the Ardmore Post Office and Ardmore Public Library on South Ardmore Avenue ; the Ardmore Ice Skating Club on Greenfield Avenue ; a public swimming pool ; lighted tennis / basketball courts ; the community center known as " The Shack "; and two senior housing projects.
Among the dead was the entire American delegation to the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships, slated to be held in Prague ; the competition was canceled in the aftermath.
In 1908, organised ice hockey was still relatively new ; the first organised indoor ice hockey game took place on 3 March 1875 at Montreal's Victoria Skating Rink .< ref >
; Brum is an Ice Skating Star-Ragdoll Production For BBC TV.
During Bellows ' years the series also developed a series of investigative reports about Hollywood's drug use and hiring practices ; but during the 1996 – 97 season ET began to include more sensational fare, featuring paid exclusive interviews with controversial and infamous newsmakers of the day, including disgraced Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding, who became notorious for her role in the conspiracy to physically attack rival Nancy Kerrigan at a 1994 U. S. Figure Skating Championships practice session ; Amy Fisher, who appeared with Joey and Mary Jo Buttafuoco, reunited after Fisher's infamous assault on Mrs. Buttafuoco ; convicted child molester Mary Kay Letourneau, who married Vili Fualaau ; and attorney Howard K. Stern, from the Anna Nicole Smith paternity controversy.
According to the rules of the International Skating Union, a standard track should be either 400 m or 333⅓ m long ; 400 m is the standard used for all major competitions.
Brandon Mroz of the United States is credited with landing the first quadruple Lutz jump in a sanctioned competition at the 2011 Colorado Springs Invitational, a club competition sanctioned by U. S. Figure Skating ; Mroz's jump was subsequently ratified by the International Skating Union after video review.
Thomas Litz was the first skater to land a triple toe loop, which he accomplished at the 1964 World Figure Skating Championships ; Grzegorz Filipowski of Poland was the first skater to perform a triple-triple toe loop combination in competition-1980.
The facility has also hosted major events including concerts by Led Zeppelin, KISS, Bob Dylan, Elton John, WCW Monday Nitro, Backstreet Boys, Michael Bublé, Hilary Duff ; the Scott Tournament of Hearts, Four Nations Cup, Homesense Skate Canada International, the World Junior Figure Skating Championships and more!
* Numerous people have been named after Presley, several of them becoming quite well known themselves: Elvis Mitchell, a former motion picture and arts reviewer and staff writer for the New York Times, Elvis Stojko, a Canadian who was the three-time World Figure Skating Champion ; Elvis Crespo, a salsa and merengue musician ; Elvis Dumervil, a former University of Louisville All American football player, now with the Denver Broncos ; Elvis Perkins, a musician who is the son of actor Anthony Perkins ; and Elvis Polanski, son of movie director Roman Polanski.
To mention only a few, the Square Milers established and then funded such Montreal institutions as: McGill University ; McCord Museum ; Royal Victoria Hospital ; Montreal General Hospital ; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts ; Mount Royal Park ; Mount Royal Cemetery ; Campbell Concerts and Parks ; Notre-Dame Basilica ; Ritz-Carlton Montreal ; Redpath Library ; Redpath Museum ; Allan Memorial Institute ; Macdonald Campus ; Mount Royal Tennis Club and the Victoria Skating Rink.

; and Similar
Similar to the view of Leopold Kronecker that " God made the integers ; all else is the work of man ," musicians drawn to the alphorn and other instruments that sound the natural harmonics, such as the natural horn, consider the notes of the natural harmonic series — particularly the 7th and 11th harmonics — to be God's Notes, the remainder of the chromatic scale enabled by keys, valves, slides and other methods of changing the qualities of the simple open pipe being an artifact of mere mortals.
Garden door Similar to a French door ; the hinge is next to the adjacent fixed door and the latch is located at the wall opening jamb.
* Webcam: Similar to a virtual cache ; there is no container, log book, or trade items for this cache type.
Similar examples were procured of Catharine Linck in Prussia in 1717, executed in 1721 ; Swiss Anne Grandjean married and relocated with her wife to Lyons, but was exposed by a woman with whom she had had a previous affair and sentenced to time in the stocks and prison.
Similar memes are thereby included in the majority of religious memeplexes, and harden over time ; they become an " inviolable canon " or set of dogmas, eventually finding their way into secular law.
Similar nebulae not illuminated by stars do not exhibit visible radiation, but may be detected as opaque clouds blocking light from luminous objects behind them ; they are called " dark nebulae ".
* 10 times exact scoring: Similar to Exact scoring, with or without penalty, but each trick bid is worth 10 points ; a player who bids 4 is awarded 40 points for exactly making the bid and scores either zero or-40 if he does not make the contract.
; Similar terms
Similar counsel is repeated in the first chapter of the Epistle of Titus ; however, the redactor of 1 Corinthians ( chapter 7, verse 2 ) writes, " Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Similar effects have been observed in yeast proteins ; this mechanism of selective degradation is known as regulated ubiquitin / proteasome dependent processing ( RUP ).
; Similar sites
; Similar creatures in folklore
Similar to his " Sestina " each stanza first repeats end-words 12 then 1 of the previous stanza ; the rest are ad lib.
Similar Chinese narratives state that if a vampire-like being came across a sack of rice, it would have to count every grain ; this is a theme encountered in myths from the Indian subcontinent, as well as in South American tales of witches and other sorts of evil or mischievous spirits or beings.
; Similar spacecraft
Similar information is given in Ibn at Athir's Chronicle under the year 1119 ; " In this year was opened the tomb of Abraham, and those of his two sons Isaac and Jacob ... Many people saw the Patriarch.
; Flowboarding: Similar to surfing but done on a man-made artificial sheet wave.
; Streetboarding: Similar to skateboarding, but also influenced heavily by snowboarding.
; Longboarding: Similar to freeboarding but with long skateboards that come in different shapes and sizes, longboarding is mostly a racing sport but there are many other styles as well
; Mountainboarding: Similar to snowboarding, but on snowless peaks ( in between winter seasons ).
; Kite landboarding: Similar to Kite Surfing but the kite is used to pull the rider along flat ground ( often a hard packed sandy beach ) on a mountainboard.
Similar terms include disyllable ( and disyllabic ) for a word of two syllables ; trisyllable ( and trisyllabic ) for a word of three syllables ; and polysyllable ( and polysyllabic ), which may refer either to a word of more than three syllables or to any word of more than one syllable.
Similar riddles have been recorded by folklorists in other languages, such as " Boule Boule " in French, " Lille Trille " in Swedish and Norwegian and " Runtzelken-Puntzelken " or " Humpelken-Pumpelken " in different parts of Germany ; although none is as widely known as Humpty Dumpty is in English.

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As for this rider, I never saw him before or afterwards and never saw him dismounted, so whether he stood tall or short in his shoes, I can't say ; ;
I don't know whether he was after our rider, who had gone by a minute before, or whether he was simply scouting conditions ; ;
Various styles can be used as a control measure, to prevent the horse from avoiding rider commands by raising its head out of position ; or as a safety measure to keep the horse from tossing its head high or hard enough to smack its rider in the face.
The saddle has a flat seat and no knee support ; the rider adopting a forward-leaning seat and closed knees dissimilar to a classical dressage seat.
If one rider closely follows, they draft or slipstream another, because the leading rider pushes air around themselves ; any rider closely following has to push out less air than the lead rider and thus can travel at the same speed while expending less effort.
Track time trial bikes differ from normal track bikes in two major ways ; firstly they have two solid disc wheels for aerodynamics, and secondly they use aero-bars to allow the rider to adopt a more aerodynamic riding position, for the same reasons as in road individual time trials.
Like the ( much longer ) team pursuit event, two teams race against each other, starting on opposite sides of the track, but at the end of the first lap, the leading rider in each team drops out of the race by riding up the banking leaving the second rider to lead for the second lap ; at the end of the second lap, the second rider does the same, leaving the third rider to complete the last lap on his own.
The blue band is not technically a part of the track ; although it is not illegal to ride there, moving into it to shortcut another rider will result in disqualification.
A rider leading in this zone cannot be passed on the inside ; other riders must pass on the longer outside route.
A typical beginner to intermediate rider will tend to have an easier time hitting the wake heelside because it tends to come more naturally to the rider, while more advanced riders can hit the wake both heelside as well as toeside ; and progress into switch stance as well.
; Wakeskating: A rider is pulled behind a boat on a wakeskate which is smaller than a wakeboard and has no bindings with a foam or griptape surface.
; Kneeboarding: A discipline of surfing where the rider paddles on his belly into a wave on a kneeboard, then rides the wave face typically on both knees.
Dressage ( or ; a French term, most commonly translated to mean " training ") is a competitive equestrian sport, defined by the International Equestrian Federation as " the highest expression of horse training ", where " horse and rider are expected to perform from memory a series of predetermined movements " Competitions are held at all levels from amateur to the World Equestrian Games.

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