Famously, early versions of the Storyteller System sometimes made rolling botches ( critical failures ) more likely the higher your skill or attribute was, since a critical failure would occur if any of the dice came up as a " 1 "; the probability that at least one " 1 " will be rolled increases the more dice are rolled, and so highly-skilled characters would botch surprisingly frequently, whereas poorly-skilled characters could frequently get away scot-free.

Famously, Czech Taborites ( radical section of the Hussite movement ) in the 15th century attempted to build a society of shared property in the city of Tábor in south Bohemia.

Famously, the greater part of the Danish army ( 280 ships-5000 men ) wintered at Appledore in 892-893, before moving into Wessex and suffering defeat at the hands of the Saxons led by King Alfred's son Edward the Elder at Farnham in Surrey.

Famously, he stated that the point is to know one way or the other what the solution is, and he believed that we always can know this, that in mathematics there is not any " ignorabimus " ( statement that the truth can never be known ).

Famously, they are an essential component of a full English or Irish breakfast.

Famously, nuclear weapon systems that launch-on-command are fail-safe, because if the communications systems fail, launch cannot be commanded.

Famously, on the Supreme Court of the United States, the most junior Associate Justice ( currently Justice Elena Kagan ), has the task of answering the door when the Justices are in private conference.

Famously, Carney eventually marched into de Steiguer's cabin, snapped, " Admiral, I just want to tell you I think you are a goddamn rotten son of a bitch ," and stormed out.

Famously, he branded him with the nickname " cothurnus ", the name of a boot worn on the stage that could fit either foot ; Theramenes, he proclaimed, was ready to serve either the democratic or oligarchic cause, seeking only to further his own personal interest.

Famously, Montgomerie was left with only one shirt to play in during the Monday playoff, a dark tartan design, which did not help his cause in the very hot playing conditions.

Famously, he came within two minutes of picking up a winners ' medal in 1999, only to have his hopes dashed by Manchester United, who scored two last-minute goals in the final, after he was substituted in the 86th minute of play while the team was still leading 1 – 0.

Famously, one of his stalls sold goods that cost only one penny.

Famously reclusive, his musical gift was only recognised-although highly regarded-among a small enclave of musical celebrities.

Famously Aylesbury became the only non-League side to face the full England team, as they hosted the national side in a warm up match in 1988 in preparation for the European Championships it produced at record attendance of over 6, 000 at Buckingham Road and people even watched from the trees, England won the game 7 – 0.

Famously, a British Foreign Secretary is said to have rejected the Playfair cipher because, even if school boys could cope successfully as Wheatstone and Playfair had shown, ' our attachés could never learn it!

Famously, radar was developed in the UK, Germany, and the United States during the same period.

Famously, Anthony is said to have faced a series of supernatural temptations during his pilgrimage to the desert.

Famously, the Société Linguistique de Paris in 1866 refused to admit any further papers on the subject.

Famously, the first version of Superman ( a bald-headed villain ) appeared in the third issue of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's 1933 fanzine Science Fiction.

Famously, Machiavelli argued that virtue and prudence can help a man control more of his future, in the place of allowing fortune to do so.

* Leo Strauss: Famously rejected modernity, mostly on the grounds of what he perceived to be modern political philosophy's excessive self-sufficiency of reason and flawed philosophical grounds for moral and political normativity.

Famously, Pat Boone recorded sanitized versions of Little Richard songs.

Famously Plato argued against sophist thinkers such as Gorgias of Leontini, who held the physical world cannot be experienced except through language, this meant that for Gorgias the question of truth was dependent on aesthetic preferences or functional consequences.

Famously vituperative attacks came from journalist H. L. Mencken, whose syndicated columns from Dayton for The Baltimore Sun drew vivid caricatures of the " backward " local populace, referring to the people of Rhea County as " Babbits ," " morons ," " peasants ," " hill-billies ," " yaps ," and " yokels.

Famously, he saw no practical use for his discovery.

Famously, the Romans used their shields to create a tortoise-like formation called a testudo in which entire groups of soldiers would be enclosed in an armoured box to provide protection against missiles.

Famously, in the midst of being so giddy with delight after Life Is Beautiful was announced as the Best Foreign Film, Benigni climbed over and then stood on the backs of the seats in front of him and applauded the audience before proceeding to the stage.

Famously, the much smaller Greek army held the pass of Thermopylae against the Persians for three days before being outflanked by a mountain path.

Famously, this was mis-dated in Roman numerals as " 1468 ", thus apparently pre-dating Caxton.

Famously, he strung along the opposition and was expected to make his declaration of election in a broadcast on 7 September 1978.

Other well-known celebrities who live on or have regularly visited the island: Famously renowned Harlem Renaissance artist Lois Mailou Jones, U. S. President Barack Obama ; former president Bill Clinton and his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ; comedian and talk show host David Letterman ; Bill Murray ; Tony Shalhoub ; Quincy Jones ; Ted Danson and wife Mary Steenburgen ; Larry David ; the Farrelly brothers ; Meg Ryan ; Chelsea Handler.

Famously, the ' Stoke Newington 8 ' were arrested on 20 August 1971 at 359 Amhurst Road for suspected involvement in The Angry Brigade bombings.

Famously exclusive sports club, the Hurlingham Club, is also located within Fulham.

Even English has general, albeit complex, rules that predict pronunciation from spelling, and these rules are successful most of the time ; rules to predict spelling from the pronunciation have a higher failure rate.

Concepts such as the stress concentration factor and the strain energy release rate can be used to predict failure.

Failure of the cosmic censorship hypothesis leads to the failure of determinism, because it is yet impossible to predict the behavior of space-time in the causal future of a singularity.

This methodology is used extensively on aircraft and involves understanding the failure modes of the serviceable replaceable assemblies in addition to the means to detect or predict an impending failure.

Einstein later referred to his failure to predict the expansion of the universe from theory, before it was proven by observation of the cosmological red shift, as the " biggest blunder " of his life.

This data is analyzed on board or at a remote location by computer to evaluate its current serviceability and increasingly its likely future state using algorithms which predict potential future failures based on previous examples of failure through field experience and modeling.

Rather, the phrase " ash heap of history " appeared in this speech, used by Reagan to predict what he saw as the inevitable failure and collapse of global communism.

The failure of either realism or liberalism to predict the end of the Cold War boosted the credibility of constructivist theory.

The authors conclude that, while unsatisfactory as a prediction, " it was an attempt to predict a major earthquake that for the first time did not end up with practical failure.

There are two ways to determine when a part is in danger of metal fatigue ; either predict when failure will occur due to the material / force / shape / iteration combination, and replace the vulnerable materials before this occurs, or perform inspections to detect the microscopic cracks and perform replacement once they occur.

The methods employed to predict the response of a structure under loading and its susceptibility to various failure modes may take into account various properties of the materials other than material yield strength and ultimate strength ; for example, failure by buckling is dependent on material stiffness and thus Young's Modulus.

Nikos Sampson ’ s presidency was short-lived, as the regime of the " invisible dictator " Ioannides in Athens collapsed only a few days after the Turkish invasion as a result of its failure to predict the Turkish invasion and intervene militarily in the war of Cyprus.

However even English has general, albeit complex, rules that predict pronunciation from spelling, and these rules are successful most of the time ; rules to predict spelling from the pronunciation have a higher failure rate.

Due to lapses on the part of the Intelligence Bureau to predict the Sino-Indian War of 1962, and later on, intelligence failure in the India-Pakistan War in 1965, it was bifurcated in 1968 and entrusted with the task of internal intelligence only.

It applies the physics of stress and strain, in particular the theories of elasticity and plasticity, to the microscopic crystallographic defects found in real materials in order to predict the macroscopic mechanical failure of bodies.

Hence the uniaxial tensile strength, which had been used extensively to predict material failure before Griffith, could not be a specimen-independent material property.

* Video of Gilbert discussing humans ' failure to predict what makes us happy.

* Prognostic Horizon ( PH ) quantifies how much in advance an algorithm can predict with a desired accuracy before a failure occurs.

Opponents predict that, following a failure of the line to attract significant passenger numbers, future rail projects will have difficulty gaining funding in Ireland.

It was during this time that occurred one of the US Army's greatest intelligence failures in history-the failure to predict Chinese entry into the Korean war.