" Given the massive undertaking in creating 11 volumes over 50 years, errors and incompleteness were inevitable by Durant's own reckoning ; but no other historical survey matches let alone exceeds the breadth and depth of his project, he claimed.

* Ted Raimi as Ricky: Robert G. Durant's henchman.

In Durant's book, In the Company of Heroes, he states that Gordon was on the left side of the Blackhawk, after both he and Shughart moved Durant to a safer location, and only heard Gordon say, " Damn, I'm hit.

According to Michael Durant's book In the Company of Heroes, the Somalis counted 25 of their militia dead after the firefight.

He did not agree with Durant's vision for the future of General Motors.

One son, Fisher, married to a full blood Choctaw, found a beautiful location for a home between Durant's present Eight and Ninth Avenues.

Fisher Durant's son Dixon Durant is recognized as the founder of Durant and is honored as its namesake.

Durant's first census was recorded in 1900, and the population was 2, 969.

The 2000 census reported Durant's population to be 13, 549.

In 2005, Durant's population grew to 14, 795.

Durant's daytime population increases to approximately 20, 000 people.

Another important part of Durant's economy is the city's Historic Central Business District and the Retail District.

The Retail District is west of Downtown, at the intersection of U. S. 69 / 75 and U. S. 70, and is Durant's fastest growing area.

This monument to the peanut growers in Bryan County is located on the front lawn of Durant's city hall.

Less than ten miles ( 16 km ) away, Lake Texoma has between 8 – 10 million tourists every year and is the 12th largest lake in the United States, and also one of the largest reservoirs in the country, contributing to Durant's economic and population growth.

Durant's KLBC publishes a monthly entertainment guide, The KLBC Buzz.

In a 2006 study by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, an average of about 19, 100 vehicles pass Durant's Main Street on U. S. 69 / 75 everyday.

MCSO is at the heart of Durant's medical district, along with the Durant Medical Complex, Choctaw / Chickasaw Indian Clinic, dentist offices, health clubs, and numerous other medical establishments.

McLaughlin who prior to his 100th birthday stated that he, Durant and Durant's son-in-law Dr Campbell from Port Perry and a lifelong friend of Sam were dickering after the Buick Motor deal for 15 years in 1907 and the exchange of $ 500, 000. 00 Buick stock for $ 500, 000. 00 McLaughlin stock with a name for their company and called it General Motors. This came to be in 1908.

The indecent finger features again in a mocking context in the Priapeia, a collection of poems relating to the phallic god Priapus.

Dullness of the lung fields to finger percussion and reduced breath sounds at the bases of the lung may suggest the development of a pleural effusion ( fluid collection in between the lung and the chest wall ).

Dating from the mid-4th Century AD, this hoard is a collection of thirty three inscribed spoons, twenty gold finger rings, four pendants, several necklaces and a 2 " gold buckle depicting a dancing satyr.

The Tusculum whistle is a 14-cm whistle with six finger holes, made of brass or bronze, found with pottery dating to the 14th and 15th centuries ; it is currently in the collection of the Museum of Scotland.

The ICRISAT Genebank serves as a repository for the collection of germplasm of the five mandate crops – sorghum, pearl millet chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut ; and six small millets – finger millet, foxtail millet, little millet, kodo millet, proso millet and barnyard millet.

" Slap style " may have influenced electric bass guitar players who, from the mid-sixties ( particularly Larry Graham of Sly and the Family Stone ), developed a technique called slap and pop that used the thumb of the plucking hand to hit the string, making a slapping sound but still letting the note ring, and the index or middle finger of the plucking hand to pull the string back so it hits the fretboard, achieving the pop sound described above.

An accessory developed recently includes finger pads to create a softer surface for clicking as well as for helping the joints bend more when clicking.

He also found that optimum tone was produced when the tone holes were too large to be covered by the fingertips, and he developed a system of finger plates to cover the holes.

During the 1980s two-handed tapping developed much further with many players such as Stanley Jordan and Enver Izmaylov using a 2 or more finger tapping technique.

The Finapres methodology was developed to use this information to accurately calculate arterial pressure from the finger cuff pressure data.

A generalized algorithm to correct for the pressure level difference between the finger and brachial sites within an individual patient was developed and this correction worked under all circumstances that it was tested, even when it was not designed for it, since it applied general physiological principles.

It is believed that a mathematical notation to represent counting was first developed at least 50, 000 years ago — early mathematical ideas such as finger counting have also been represented by collections of rocks, sticks, bone, clay, stone, wood carvings, and knotted ropes.

After Hoyt developed a blister on a finger of his pitching hand in the fourth, Huggins watched him carefully.

On 03Jan12, Neonode announced a new optical touch controller NN1001, developed in cooperation with TI, that tracks any high-speed multi-touch gesture with any object ( finger, gloved finger and passive pens ).

The latter is in some ways preferable, because the rider continues to hold the snaffle rein between the ring finger and pinkie, in the same manner as when riding with a snaffle alone, and so will already have the feel developed for that use.

Von Bruenchenhein developed his own unique style of finger painting also incorporating the use of small sticks and home made brushes which he made with his wife Marie's hair.

Before he developed problems with the skin on his spinning finger, he was, in spite of his unorthodox action, able to generate sharp spin.

Conrad Lam and Edward Munnell developed a technique for the correction of mitral valve stenosis, using a special six-finger glove with a knife attached to the sixth mid-palm finger.

In addition to the CyberGlove, Immersion Corp also developed three other data glove products: the CyberTouch, which vibrates each individual finger of the glove when a finger touches an object in virtual reality ; the CyberGrasp which actually simulates squeezing and touching of solid as well as spongy objects ; and the CyberForce device which does all of the above and also measures the precise motion of the user's entire arm.

the peonies, whose tight sticky buds would be blighted by the laying on of a finger, although they were not apparently harmed by the ants that crawled over them ; ;

As Pip agonizes over the theft that his own hands have committed, his guilty conscience projects itself upon the wooden finger of a local signpost, transforming it into `` a phantom devoting me to the Hulks ''.

We take leave of Pumblechook as he gloats over Pip's loss of fortune, extending his hand `` with a magnificently forgiving air '' and exhibiting `` the same fat five fingers '', one of which he identifies with `` the finger of Providence '' and shakes at Pip in a canting imputation of the latter's `` ingratitoode '' and his own generosity as Pip's `` earliest benefactor ''.

There was a sound like the one you produce by flicking a watermelon with your finger, only louder, and Pops fell forward from the waist and then over sidewise.

Franks, was followed by an immense bequest of 3, 300 finger rings, 153 drinking vessels, 512 pieces of continental porcelain, 1, 500 netsuke, 850 inro, over 30, 000 bookplates and miscellaneous items of jewellery and plate, among them the Oxus Treasure.

Using the thumb as the power finger, the disc is drawn from the thigh area ; rear-wards and up from behind the body ; to over the shoulder ; releasing towards a forward aimpoint.

Some players use the more nimble tips of the fingers to play fast-moving solo passages or to pluck lightly for quiet tunes. The use of amplification allows the player to have more control over the tone of the instrument, because amplifiers have equalization controls that allow the bassist to accentuate certain frequencies ( often the bass frequencies ) while de-accentuating some frequencies ( often the high frequencies, so that there is less finger noise ).

Designed by world-famous British architect Norman Foster, the 2 billion euro mega-project will feature three, 200-metre long finger quays and a sweeping kilometre-long curved breakwater to surround them, totaling over 300, 000 square metres of infill.

The specimen consisted of a partial wing ( in pterosaurs composed of the forearms and elongated fourth finger ), from an individual later estimated at over 10 m ( 33 ft ) in wingspan.

Beginning in the late 1960s, Allman used an empty glass Coricidin medicine bottle, which he wore over his ring finger as a slide.

The bottleneck or tube type of slide is usually worn over the ring ( 3rd ) or little ( 4th ) finger.

The finger or thumb is moved over the skin or rim of the tambourine, producing a fast roll from the jingles on the instrument.

Trackballs are generally either thumb-operated, with a ball about an inch in diameter or smaller moved by one digit ( almost always the thumb ) and the buttons clicked by others, or finger-operated, with a ball over two inches in diameter operated by the middle fingers and the buttons by the thumb and little finger.

To achieve these goals, Boehm adapted a system of axle-mounted keys with a series of " open rings " ( called brille, German for " eyeglasses ", as they resembled the type of eyeglass frames common during the 19th century ) that were fitted around other tone holes, such that the closure of one tone hole by a finger would also close a key placed over a second hole.

Half-baked onion with sugar is placed over the finger and fingernail in case of inflammation.

* If two people join their opposite hands and one slides his index and thumb over two joined fingers he will feel the other finger like it was one of his.

Most of the non-invasive methods under development are continuous glucose monitoring methods and offer the advantage of providing additional information to the subject between the conventional finger stick, blood glucose measurements and over time periods where no finger stick measurements are available ( i. e. while the subject is sleeping ).

The hand is said to be in straight position when the third finger runs over the capitate bone and is in a straight line with the forearm.

* Scratch input, an acoustic-based method of Human-Computer Interaction ( HCI ) that takes advantage of the characteristic sound produced when a finger nail, stick, or other object strikes or is dragged over a surface, such as a table or wall.

The width of the little finger is an angle just over 1. 5 degrees elevation at extended arms length and can be used to estimate the elevation of the sun from the horizon plane and therefore estimate the time till sunset.

Sauron reassumed his role as the Dark Lord and placed the One Ring on his finger, claiming dominance over all the Rings of Power and their bearers.

One day, when some friends are over, Madame Raquin eventually musters an enormous amount of strength to move her finger on a table, tracing words that would reveal Thérèse's and Laurent's deed.

Eye creams or gels should be applied over the entire eye area with the ring finger in a patting motion.

On May 14, 2010, President Barack Obama said in an interview with CNN that " you had executives of BP and Transocean and Halliburton falling over each other to point the finger of blame at somebody else " when referring to the congressional hearings held during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.