As late as Poland's Kościuszko Uprising in 1794, the pike reappeared as a child of necessity which became, for a short period, a surprisingly effective weapon on the battlefield.

The Geneva notes were surprisingly included in a few editions of the King James version, even as late as 1715.

Even though many spruces currently grow in that vicinity, recent pollen studies show that spruce forests came surprisingly late to that stretch of land.

Not surprisingly, at that late stage, it was refused.

The grapes were presumed worthless and given to local peasants, who produced a surprisingly good, sweet wine which subsequently became known as Spätlese, or late harvest wine.

Somewhat surprisingly to many commentators, in new orders issued on 13 July, he gave this task to Eighth Army, perhaps based on a somewhat over-optimistic situation report by Montgomery on late on 12 July, while U. S. 7th Army were to continue their holding role on Eighth Army's left flank despite what appeared to be an opportunity for them to make a bold offensive move.

From the reviews collected from notable publications by popular review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an overall approval rating of 91 %, with the consensus, " Visceral, energetic, and often very sad, Sid & Nancy is also a surprisingly touching love story, and Gary Oldman is outstanding as the late punk rock icon Sid Vicious.

Coinage was introduced by the Roman Republican government in circa 300 BC, " surprisingly late " in southern European terms ; the Greek world had already been using coinage over the previous three centuries.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Princes teaser trailer was released surprisingly late, but when it was pushed back from November 21, 2008 to July 17, 2009, the trailer was surprisingly early.

Mark Wright surprisingly returned to the club and a run of five successive wins late in the season secured another campaign in the Football League.

By the late nineties, however, the band had all but disappeared — until they surprisingly ( if briefly ) surged back into the limelight by winning the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom on 3 May 1997 with the song " Love Shine a Light ".

From the opening kick off the game descended into a series of high or late tackles and several all-in brawls, though surprisingly referee Keith Page didn't send any player off, despite threatening to do so and repeatedly handing out cautions, including twice to all 26 players on the field.

Not surprisingly, due to his wayward and flirtatious nature, he was reduced to poverty where he lived to be an old and forgotten man well into his late 70s, making a living as a Chinese opera stand-in and living in the cramped quarters of the opera set itself.

McArthur ran his first marathon late in the 1908 season, and surprisingly beat the Olympic silver medalist Charles Hefferon.

Since the Second Consonant Shift was beginning to occur at this time, Robinson says :" Thus many take the runic inscriptions from before about 550 as evidence for a surprisingly late breakup of Common Germanic ( excluding East Germanic ) into North and West Germanic ...."

Cricket must have reached Worcestershire by the 18th century but surprisingly the earliest reference to cricket in the county is as late as 1829.

Construction of the current town centre began in the late 18th century, when it looked surprisingly similar to how it does today, hence its heritage protection status.

The French and Indians arrived too late to set an ambush, as they had been delayed, and the British had made surprisingly speedy progress.

Apart from the production of Buddhist texts, which became widespread from the 11th century in Japan, the process was only adopted in Japan for secular books surprisingly late, and a Chinese-Japanese dictionary of 1590 is the earliest known example.

Japan was surprisingly late to introduce the sub-machine gun to its armed forces — a few models of the SIG Bergman 1920 ( a licensed version of the German MP 18 ) were purchased from Switzerland in the 1920s.

The late April session yielded a version of The Bee Gees ’ " To Love Somebody ", which became the group ’ s fourth R & B chart hit, and a version of The Righteous Brothers ' " Unchained Melody ," which surprisingly gave the group a charted, though minor hit.

The term primitive has been so frequent among popular writings however, that although it does occur in older technical books, it is surprisingly rare ; the influential figures of the late 19th century had quickly recognised the associated pitfalls.

Since Hedberg started a game in Pittsburgh on late notice and as a result was still wearing his customized Manitoba Moose helmet which, not surprisingly, had a large moose painted across it.

Not surprisingly, his arrival caused a great deal of controversy ; Hajduk fans had differing opinions, with a significant number seeing Ćiro as a miracle worker that would help Hajduk regain its former glory.

He did a memorable and often-played commercial spot for United Airlines, as a constantly-griping customer, whose every complaint is deftly solved by the flight attendant, and who surprisingly tells her on arrival that he had " a very nice flight!

Shortly after her arrival, Rino surprisingly becomes a member of elite group of girls called the Best Student Council.

* The main character of the anime / manga Prince of Tennis, Ryoma Echizen, owns a playful, mischievous and surprisingly smart Himalayan cat named Karupin ( or Kalpin in the English translation ), to whom he's very attached.

Not surprisingly given the local allegiances to John Hampden the towns ' people largely sided with the Parliamentarians at the outbreak of the English Civil War.

The earlier novels present an idealised version of rural or small-town, middle class English life in the years between the Second World War and the social revolution of the 1960s ; the later ones are still rooted in this era ( as Buckeridge admitted ) but reflect the changing times surprisingly well.

Perhaps more surprisingly, he made a bold move to manage Plymouth Argyle, a club which had reached the lowest ebb in its history, struggling in the English Football League Third Division.

This surprisingly large traditional English funfair, run by Wall & Son, arrives on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning and sets up in Broad Street.

Somewhat surprisingly, his great friend and mentor, Edward Thomas, likened Davies to Wordsworth, writing: " He can write commonplace or inaccurate English, but it is also natural to him to write, such as Wordsworth wrote, with the clearness, compactness and felicity which make a man think with shame how unworthily, through natural stupidity or uncertainty, he manages his native tongue.

Benjamin managed to lower the plane and regain control ( Joseph, writing a flight log in English, surprisingly wrote in Polish at one moment: " God, have mercy on us ").

Not surprisingly, most studies of Hong, both in Chinese and in English, focus on his esoteric writings, such as the " Inner Chapters " and Shenxian zhuan.

As everyone expected the English champions passed the round, after winning 4-0 at the Old Trafford, but surprisingly, Hibs drew the second round match in Malta, against the upcoming champions, 0-0 making this result one of the unforgettable moments for the Hibs and Maltese supporters.

Sometimes she is also called Clara Butt-Rumford after her marriage, was an English contralto with a remarkably imposing voice and a surprisingly agile singing technique.

His nickname was ' Stupid Brian ' for being very stupid but was surprisingly talented when he built a book shelf for the Harpers ' kitchen.

The bore is unrifled but is provided with an insert tube which is rifled and which, surprisingly, gives pretty fair accuracy even though it's only 3-1/2 inches long.

This corresponds to a speed of around 0. 05 c. There is surprisingly small variation around this energy, due to the heavy dependence of the half-life of this process on the energy produced ( see equations in the Geiger – Nuttall law ).

Ambroise is surprisingly accurate in his chronology ; though he did not complete his work before 1195, it is evidently founded upon notes which he had taken in the course of his pilgrimage.

It is continued internally by positive ions flowing into the electrolyte from the anode, i. e., away ( surprisingly ) from the more negative electrode and towards the more positive one ( chemical energy is responsible for this " uphill " motion ).

While this is intended as a clever con trick, the machine, surprisingly, works, sending Blackadder and Baldrick back to the time of the dinosaurs, where they manage to cause the extinction of the dinosaurs, through the use of Baldrick's best, worst and only pair of underpants as a weapon against a hungry T. Rex.

Not surprisingly, the gallery is especially strong in Baroque paintings and includes notable works by Rubens, Tintoretto, Veronese, Cranach, Gerard David, Murillo, Mattia Preti, Ribera, van Dyck, and Doré.

Somewhat surprisingly, contracts throughout the world ( for example, contracts involving parties in Japan, France and Germany, and from most of the other states of the United States ) often choose the law of New York, even where the relationship of the parties and transaction to New York is quite attenuated.

Lake Chad, located in the southwestern part of the basin at an altitude of 282 meters, surprisingly does not mark the basin's lowest point ; instead, this is found in the Bodele and Djourab regions in the north-central and northeastern parts of the country, respectively.

Not surprisingly, the Chinese Communists always rejected the use of this name and it is not well known in mainland China.

However, this political restriction is less confining than it may first appear in that the Marxist historical framework is surprisingly flexible, and a rather simple matter to modify an alternative historical theory to use language that at least does not challenge the Marxist interpretation of history.

Not surprisingly, it is impractical for generalized correctness, which probably cannot even be defined, much less proven.

It was noted by Biham and Shamir that DES is surprisingly resistant to differential cryptanalysis, in the sense that even small modifications to the algorithm would make it much more susceptible.

His teachings are surprisingly modern, therefore Asclepiades is considered to be a pioneer physician in psychotherapy, physical therapy and molecular medicine.

Despite its arid climate, the island is also home to a surprisingly large insect fauna.

The change in speed ( delta-v ) required to match velocity with another planet is surprisingly large.

Perhaps surprisingly, and to the development team ’ s credit, it has managed one in 2. 4 .”, he also noted that “ Words in particular is still lacking features ”.

Yet it is surprisingly timeless, in part because of the way our times have come weirdly to echo those in which it was conceived.

R. T. Gould wrote " A grey seal has a long and surprisingly extensible neck ; it swims with a paddling action ; its colour fits the bill ; and there is nothing surprising in its being seen on the shore of the loch, or crossing a road.

The climate is hot and humid but surprisingly dry, owing to the cool Benguela Current, which prevents moisture from easily condensing into rain.