Half a dozen or more times a day, Potsdamer Platz ground to a halt while a train of 60 to 100 wagons trundled through at walking pace preceded by a railway official ringing a bell.

In 1609, Henry Hudson, thinking he had found the legendary " Northwest Passage ", sailed on the Half Moon up the river that would one day bear his name and anchored near the area that is now Haverstraw before continuing to disillusionment north of Albany.

Half a dozen trains each day linking the city with the Spanish capital, highlighting the service Alvia ( At 10. 09 in the morning ), which, via Valladolid, uses the infrastructure of the AVE to arrive in 3 hours 43 minutes to Madrid.

Half of these men were inducted at Fort Pitt, while the other half assembled at Fort Union, the site of present day Lewisburg, under the command of General Andrew Lewis.

The present day right of way departs westward from Route 111 as Conklin's Road or Half Mile Road, passing St. Thomas More Roman Catholic Church before terminating at the Smithtown / Islip border.

The album was so successful that it was quickly followed by My Son, the Celebrity, which ended with " Shticks of One and Half a Dozen of the Other ," fragments of song parodies including Robert Burns ' " Comin ' Thro ' the Rye ": " Do not make a stingy sandwich, pile the cold cuts high ;/ Customers should see salami comin ' thru the rye " and " All day, all night Cary Grant ," a takeoff on " Marianne.

Dubroff, her father, and her flight instructor arrived in Cheyenne the evening before the accident, after a long day of flying from their Half Moon Bay, California departure point.

In 2011, Sheen set a new Guinness World Record for Twitter as the " Fastest Time to Reach 1 Million Followers " ( adding an average of 129, 000 new followers per day ) as well as the Guinness record for " Highest Paid TV Actor Per Episode – Current " at $ 1. 25 million while he was a part of the cast of Two and a Half Men sitcom.

Half of this was deducted for living costs, leaving the soldier ( if he was lucky enough actually to get paid ) with about 1. 65 sestertii per day.

* Grade III: Half a day climb.

In the following year, a Half Price Ticket Tent was added in association with Metro, offering special ticket prices for different shows each day, selling 45, 000 tickets in its first year.

Half a million people are expected to use the Circle Line each day.

Bloodlines was released on November 16, 2004 ( the same day as Half Life 2 ).

Half a millennium after Poland had indeed reintegrated, and while yet another dismemberment of the polity was underway in the Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the framers of the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791, would dedicate this progressive political document to Saint Stanisław Szczepanowski, whose feast day fell close to the date of the Constitution's adoption.

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York explained not only the living conditions in New York slums, but also the sweatshops in some tenements which paid workers only a few cents a day.

Half of the LVTs were knocked out of action by the end of the first day.

Ager and Blestren would go on to get married and raise nine children in a home that still stands to this day near Half Moon Lake in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

The name Half Day Road is erroneously thought to derive from the tall-tale that prior to the 1900s, it supposedly, and incorrectly took a half day to travel from the Lincolnshire area to Chicago.

Since Passover involved only a partial redemption of the Jews and the destruction of Egypt, and as the same sacrifice was offered in the Temple on every day of the holiday ( as opposed to Sukkot ), only " Half " ( or Partial ) Hallel is recited on all of the last six days of Pesach.

Ferries leave on a regular basis during the day for the city, Waiheke and Great Barrier Island from Half Moon Bay Marina.

* Akshaya Tritiya-third Tithi ( Lunar day ) of Bright Half ( Shukla Paksha ) of the pan-Indian month of Vaishakha

Half of the village celebrates festival on Dola purnima but other half celebrates the next day i. e. on Holi. Holi is widely enjoyed by the villagers with a ending ceremony that is dancing crazily.

Half day kindergarten is paid for by the state.

Half a day later, at 2135 local time ( 1335 UTC ), it made second landfall in Fujian Province, China as a minimal typhoon.

Half or more of the trench is filled with " green " ( unfired ) bricks which are stacked in an open lattice pattern to allow airflow.

Half of Pune is submerged, more than 100, 000 families need to be relocated and the death tally exceeds 2, 000.

The Half Kaddish is used to punctuate divisions within the service: for example, before Barekhu, between the Shema and the Amidah and following readings from the Torah.

The first recorded exploration by the Dutch of the area around what is now called New York Bay was in 1609 with the voyage of the ship Halve Maen or " Half Moon ", captained by Henry Hudson, in the service of the Dutch Republic, as the emissary of Holland's stadholder Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange.

A more elaborate example is HLROM ( Half Left to Right, Ones to Memory ), which takes the Left half of the register contents, places them in the Right half of the memory location, and replaces the left half of the memory location with Ones.

Half the increase in bone density ( measured by X-ray densitometry ) is attributed to the higher atomic weight of Sr compared with calcium, whereas the other half a true increase in bone mass.

Half a century later Rav Saadia Gaon, also of Sura, composed a siddur, in which the rubrical matter is in Arabic.

Theodore " Ted "/" Half Ted " Raimi ( born December 14, 1963 ) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his roles as Lieutenant Tim O ' Neill in seaQuest DSV and Joxer the Mighty in Xena: Warrior Princess / Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

According to the International Triathlon Union, and USA Triathlon, the main international race distances are Sprint Distance, which has a swim, cycling, run ; Intermediate ( or Standard ) distance, commonly referred to as " Olympic distance " ( swim, bike, run ; the Long Course ( swim, ride, run, such as the Half Ironman ), and Ultra Distance ( swim, ride, and a full marathon: run ); the most recognized branded Ultra Distance is the Ironman triathlon.

* Half of the Limburg province of Belgium is added to the Netherlands ( since 1839 there is a Belgian Limburg and Dutch Limburg ).

Kingston is served well by a modern bus system ( JUTC ), mini buses, and taxis, which operate throughout the city with major hubs at Parade, Cross Roads, Half Way Tree and elsewhere.

Kingston is served well by a modern bus system ( JUTC ), mini buses, and taxis, which operate throughout the city with major hubs at Parade, Cross Roads, Half Way Tree and elsewhere.

The marathon is the only road running event featured at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics and the Summer Olympics, although there is also an annual IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.

The foremost separate road running event is the annual IAAF World Half Marathon Championships ( formerly World Road Running Championships ).

* Garry's Mod ( Half Life 2 Mod )-The Physics Gun is used in the sandbox game to build using props by freezing them in mid-air with an adjustable distance tractor beam

Half of the campaign goal is intended for the endowment to provide long-lasting support for faculty, students and breakthrough innovations.

A well-known result of this process is Half Dome, located in Yosemite Valley.

In the Bay Area, for example, the average maximum temperature in July is about at Half Moon Bay on the coast, at Walnut Creek only inland, and at Tracy, just inland.

The valley is about long and up to a mile deep, surrounded by high granite summits such as Half Dome and El Capitan, and densely forested with pines.

Between them both, at the eastern end of the valley, is Half Dome, the most famous and most recognizable natural feature in the Sierra Nevada.

Above and to the northeast of Half Dome is Cloud's Rest ; at 9926 feet ( 3025 m ), the highest point around Yosemite Valley.

The youngest Yosemite Valley pluton is the 87 million year old Half Dome granodiorite, which makes up most of the rock at Glacier Point, the Royal Arches, and its namesake, Half Dome.