Whittington by Elstrack, showing the oddly-shaped cat

Britain was required to scrap most of her vast First World War fleet ( only two new, oddly-shaped, battleships, Rodney and Nelson were built at this time, known colloquially as the ' Cherry Tree Class ' as they had been ' cut down by Washington ').

The Convertible was heavy, not much faster than the Portable it replaced ( despite the newer CMOS processor and use of static RAM ), didn't come with traditional PC expansion ports ( such as serial ports and a parallel port ) without an add-on, and had a hard-to-read, oddly-shaped LCD screen ( the first screens lacked a backlight ).

Among the many landmarks in Barquisimeto is an obelisk ( El Obelisco ) which was raised to commemorate Barquisimeto's 400th anniversary of foundation ; and the cathedral, which is of an oddly-shaped design, very rare in Latin America, because it consists of a cross-like tinted glass dome.

Throughout the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, Kingston Pike was lined with motor courts and motels, and restaurants with oddly-shaped buildings and flashy signs designed to catch the attention of passers-by.

The oddly-shaped guitar played by Curtis is a Vox Phantom, often mistaken as the Vox Mark III.

The seating configuration is notable for the oddly-shaped south end, which features two large round roof support columns, no mid-level seating, and only one level of suites, bringing the upper level seats much closer to the floor.

Winton presented BBC One's Saturday night entertainment programme Hole In The Wall, based on the Japanese original, where contestants in skin-tight Lycra costumes contort themselves to fit through oddly-shaped holes in a moving wall.

Appearing somewhat like squashed trunkfish, filefish are oddly-shaped fish often with dazzlingly cryptic patterns.

Herein lies the origin of one of the Grove ’ s most distinctive features, the oddly-shaped, tightly-spaced homes radiating out from the Sacred Circle.

A textbook example would be a house built on an oddly-shaped lot.

Their oddly-shaped beaks are specially adapted to separate mud and silt from the food they eat, and are uniquely used upside-down.

The chaotic panels of Smokey Stover regularly include wild sight gags, mirthful mishaps, absurd vehicles and bizarre household items — including oddly-shaped furniture, clocks, vases, headwear, cigarette holders and telephones.

Upon landing, the PCs find themselves in a surreal, oddly-shaped hallway which contains The Pool of Tears and the entrance to a diminutive garden.

These oddly-shaped ferns grow on trees and rocks and can be found in gardens, especially tropical gardens.

Buys-Ballot is an oddly-shaped lunar crater that is located on the far side of the Moon.

** Layer now contains an oddly-shaped flag, and everything else is transparent.

They " fight " over the possession of Stormumriken, an oddly-shaped stone.

Plotted on independent axes ( voltage, temperature, refresh rates ), the range of working values will enclose a three-dimensional, usually oddly-shaped volume.

There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.

His first thought was that Mrs. Kirby, in her mania for color, had dyed a cat and that cat had somehow managed to open the refrigerator door and climb in ; ;

In the summer of 1993, Dick Zimmerman, a 44-year-old retired broadcasting executive from Larkspur, California, happened to see the episode in which Butt-head joked, “ Hey, Beavis, let ’ s go over to Stewart ’ s house and light firecracker in his cat ’ s butt .” Five days later, a cat was found killed by a firecracker in nearby Santa Cruz.

Less than a week after the government report, a boy was walking by the River Fowey when he discovered a large cat skull.

They determined that it was a genuine skull from a young male leopard, but also found that the cat had not died in Britain and that the skull had been imported as part of a leopard-skin rug.

In 1997, Systems & Control students at Bodmin College constructed Roadblock, a robot which entered and won the first series of Robot Wars and was succeeded by " The Beast of Bodmin " ( presumably named after the phantom cat purported to roam Bodmin Moor ).

( Marker was represented in Agnes Varda's 2008 documentary " The Beaches of Agnes " by a cartoon drawing of a cat, speaking in a technologically altered voice.

Her portrait of The Reverend Matthew Blackburne Grier was particularly well-received, as was Sita and Sarita, a portrait of her cousin Charles W. Leavitt's wife Sarah ( Allibone ) Leavitt in white, with a small black cat perched on her shoulder, both gazing out mysteriously.

Her animal alter ego was a monstrous black cat, not a large dog as in Dracula.

The club's nickname, the " Cats ", was first used in 1923 after a run of losses prompted a local cartoonist to suggest that the club needed a black cat to bring it good luck.

Geelong was nicknamed the ' Cats ' in 1923 after a run of losses prompted a local cartoonist to suggest that the club needed a black cat to bring it good luck.

No illness was linked to any of that brand's other batches of the same product or to any other brand of irradiated cat food.

In the Macho B incident, a former AGFD subcontractor pleaded guilty to violating the endangered species act for trapping the cat and a Game and Fish employee was fired for lying to federal investigators.

From this, the mandolino ( a small cat gut-strung mandola with six strings tuned g b e ' a'd g sometimes called the Baroque mandolin or cat-banjo and played with a quill, wooden plectrum or finger-style ) was developed in several places in Italy.

Mitosis was discovered in frog, rabbit, and cat cornea cells in 1873 and described for the first time by the Polish histologist Wacław Mayzel in 1875.

The MTM logo was a short video sequence parodying the MGM logo, but with a cat meowing instead of a lion roaring.

It is also claimed that this supposed " cat massacre " worsened the Black Death a century after Gregory's time, because the plague was spread by rats who were unchecked in Europe due to the decline of cat numbers.

One of Kobyla's sons, Feodor, a boyar in the boyar duma of Dmitri Donskoi, was nicknamed Koshka ( cat ).

A black cockerel was believed in medieval times to be a symbol of witchcraft along with the black cat, with the rooster " used as symbols of either virtue or vice " till modern times.

Little Archie # 35, " The Incredible Cat-Caper " ( 1965 ) by Bob Bolling was an homage to The Incredible Shrinking Man, with Little Archie shrinking and fending off a cat with a sewing needle.

By the 18th century, the menagerie was open to the public ; admission cost three half-pence or the supply of a cat or dog to be fed to the lions.

The " standoff " scene — which is in fact more a " cat and mouse " scene involving shooting one's enemy in the back — and its concurrent church fire scene were shot over a period of nine days.

The parasite has been found to have the ability to change the behaviour of its host: infected rats and mice are less fearful of cats — in fact, some of the infected rats seek out areas marked with cat urine.

The only clues to his identity are the trademark white cat, similar clothes to his previous onscreen appearances, the dialogue indicating that he and Bond have met before, and the fact that the scene begins with Bond paying his respects to Tracy, often considered by the producers as a means of providing an " immediate continuity link " in the event of a new actor taking the part of Bond ( although this was Roger Moore's fifth appearance as Bond ).

In spite of the fact that it is an active cat, it can live very well indoors.

However, if Fred and Joe agree on the fact that the cat has fleas, they may further question why this is so and put forth an explanation: " The reason the cat has fleas is that the weather has been damp.

On the other hand, the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment highlights the fact that quantum coherence cannot be arbitrarily applied to macroscopic situations.

The extirpation of the sand cat from Israel – along with the fact that the cat is threatened throughout its range – led the Jerusalem Zoo to begin a reintroduction project for the species.

Originally labeled W-48 due to the fact that he was the forty-eighth confirmed sighting of an Iriomote cat on the western part of the island, he eventually was given the name Yon.

Deng's famous “ Cats Theory ” (“ Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat ”), in fact, originated from Liu.

However, these kinds of news reports are far more common than reports where a cat falls out of the tree and dies, which may in fact be a more common event.

In this poem the phrase " sable furr " indicates that Hodge was a black cat ; also, the fact that Stockdale was Johnson's neighbour from 1769 onwards suggests that Hodge was alive at that time.

After he discovers this fact, he frantically searches for his cat around the district.

Though officially considered a male, Nermal's feminine preoccupation with being cute, and the fact that a woman provides a childlike voice of ambiguous gender for Nermal, allowed the character to be mistaken for a female cat, to the point that in the first two seasons of the show, the Spanish version featured Nermal as a female kitten named " Thelma ".

This statement is based on the fact that approximately one pet dog in five lives with a cat, and all pet cats live with humans ( some 60 million pet cats in the USA ).

Seven also had a constant companion in Isis, who at first appears to be an ordinary cat, but is shown to have great intelligence and in fact turns out to be able to alter its shape to become what appears to be a human female, which Miss Lincoln discovers during one scene as Isis changes shape into a human female and then back into a cat.

A suspected reason for his killing of the cat was that after Ireland killed Walker and had left this previous victim's dogs locked in a separate room, he later called anonymously to advise parties to the fact that these dogs were being or had been locked up.

His demonic retinue, which includes witches, vampires, and a gigantic talking cat, his role in the plot, and the fact that Woland was used as a synonym for Satan in ( now outdated ) German all imply that he is, in fact, the Devil.

Although the eye color is described as having depth " even greater even than that seen in a Siamese ( cat )" it, in fact, does not.