* 1236: Half of Iberia has been reconquered by the Christians.

Half of these beneficiaries were to be Jews and the other half Christians ; and the board of directors of the Jewish community was entrusted with the administration of the bequests.

Half the manhours you pay for on most jobs are wasted because the job was not planned right, so the right tools were not handy at the right place at the right time, or the right materials were not delivered to the handiest spots or materials were not stacked in the right order for erection, or you bought cheap materials that took too long to fit, or your workmen had to come back twice to finish a job they could have done on one trip.

Half of the Members of the Bundestag are elected directly from 299 constituencies ( first-past-the-post system ), the other half are elected from the parties ’ Land lists in such a way as to achieve proportional representation for the total Bundestag ( if possible ).

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 the species know are in the great diverse Begonia group of Begoniaceae with 2 genera, and 1500 species.

Half of the spots on the 6-6 domino are colored red to make them stand out as the top ranking tiles.

Two comprehensive histories of Engelbart's laboratory and work are in What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry by John Markoff and A Heritage of Innovation: SRI's First Half Century by Donald Neilson.

Half reactions for a Daniell cell are these:

Half of the country's workers are engaged in farming.

Bogart told her, " Half the world's female population would throw themselves at Frank's feet and here you are flouncing around with guys who wear capes and little ballerina slippers.

Half of the ten members are from Macau, the others from mainland China.

Half wavelength long wires or strips of conducting material, such as chaff, are very reflective but do not direct the scattered energy back toward the source.

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.

Such triathlons may be described as a full distance triathlon or " Half distance ", but the " Ironman " and " Iron " labels are the official property of the WTC.

" Half " jumps are now allowed.

Half of the patients with the disorder who have cosmetic surgery performed are not pleased with the aesthetic outcome.

Among the many films that have copied this formula are Under Siege ( terrorists take over a ship ), Snakes on a Plane ( poisonous snakes take over a passenger plane ), Speed, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory and Derailed ( hostages are trapped on a train ), Sudden Death ( terrorists take over an Ice Hockey stadium ), Passenger 57, Executive Decision and Air Force One ( hostages are trapped on a plane ), Con Air ( criminals take over a transport plane ), and Half Past Dead and The Rock ( criminals or terrorists take over a prison ).

* ( 1890 ) In How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis, the effects of typhus fever and smallpox on " Jewtown " are described.

Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.

New boys are now admitted only at the start of the Michaelmas Half, unless in exceptional circumstances.

Half to three-quarters of all adults are diagnosed with the disease, and about a third of the tribe's adults require regular medical treatment.

Half of these possibilities, those where the left boundary is even, correspond to the 8 types of DCT ; the other half are the 8 types of DST.

Half the army with the baggage under Hephaestion and Perdiccas, both cavalry commanders, are sent through the Khyber Pass, while Alexander leads the rest, together with his siege train, through the hills to the north.

Half a million Muslims succeeded in going to Ottoman controlled lands and 672. 215 Muslim were reported to have remained after the war in Bulgaria.

Half of the total number of crimes against women reported in 1990 related to molestation and harassment at the workplace.

Half of all cases reported are children under 12 living in these conditions.

These acts of vandalism were reported by Ibn-e-Safi himself in the paish-rus ( preface ) of " Dairh Matwaalay " ( One and a Half Amused-# 42 ) ( which was the novel he returned with after his recovery ).

The characters have made cameo appearances ( either visually or only voices ) and have been referenced in numerous television shows, such as Friends, Two and a Half Men, Celebrity Deathmatch, Robot Chicken, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and Saturday Night Live ( TV Funhouse ), in films such as Airheads, Clueless, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and Jackass 3D, and even parodied in children shows such as Tiny Toon Adventures, Regular Show and Arthur.

Douglas Hunter, in Half Moon ( 2009 ), believes Hudson may not have mentioned his supposed discovery of the island because he was " loath to address a crew insurrection that might well have erupted at that time, when the men realized where he was trying to take them.

Novels such as " Half Life " by Shelley Jackson and " Light " by M. John Harrison have received the James Tiptree, Jr. award for incorporating themes of fantasy and sexuality.

Half a dozen urban plans for Tirana prepared by consultants have included proposals on how to guide development.

The claim for the women's vote appears to have been first made by Jeremy Bentham in 1817 when he published his Plan of Parliamentary Reform in the form of a Catechism and was taken up by William Thompson in 1825, when he published, with Anna Wheeler, An Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, to Retain Them in Political, and Thence in Civil and Domestic Slavery: In Reply to Mr. Mill's Celebrated Article on Government.

Half the bacteria have allele A and the other half have allele B.

Acts such as Adam Ant, Bad Manners, Buzzcocks, Evile, Fish, Hawkwind, Half Man Half Biscuit, John Martyn, Ocean Colour Scene, The Beat, Ron Sexsmith, Suzi Quatro, Saxon, The Beat and Red Hot Chilli Pipers have performed.

Half of the residents of the affluent South Hills neighborhood of West Covina have the option of choosing either West Covina Unified School District ( WCUSD ) or Covina Valley Unified School District ( CVUSD ).

Members of Selwyn are eligible for invitation to the club if they have been awarded a Full Blue or Half Blue by the University, if they have captained a Selwyn College team deemed a ' First Class sport ', or if they have competed on behalf of Selwyn in two ' First Class ' Cuppers competitions.

In 1984, a book called The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed was published, allegedly written by the chatbot Racter ( though the program as released would not have been capable of doing so ).

In his speech he told the attenders, " Half of you won't be here in 30 or 40 years ' time ", but that others would have to live with consequences of a Labour government if it stayed in power.

Half of these new units were mothers ’ centres, with an estimated membership of 45, 000 women, and the government claimed to have distributed 70, 000 sewing machines to these centres.

** In the season 3 episode " Half Measures ," Jesse requests Walter's help in producing ricin to use against a pair of rival drug dealers who have employed children in their practice.

Half cross stitch. jpg | Needlepoint is worked upon specialized types of stiff canvas that have openings at regular intervals.