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 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:

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 the British gunboats were also hotly engaged at this end of the line.

Half of the able-bodied population of Artyom is engaged in the production of materials.

The Foreigners of the West of Connacht all assembled against them: to wit, William de Burgh and the Baron Mac Feorais Birmingham, lord of Ath-na-righ and all the Foreigners of the greater part of the Half of Conn. Battle was engaged in by them and defeat inflicted on the Gaidhil there.

Half crazed by the weight dragging, the dust, and the heat, the horse leaped our wall, dashing out the rider's brains against it, and leaving him lying there among us -- while the horse crashed away through the brush.

Half of it dripped down his chin.

Half a mile below at the mouth of Salyer's Canyon was an old ranch that the company had purchased from A. J. Armstrong, occupied by a Mexican, his wife, and an old trapper.

In 1609, the Dutch East India Company hired Hudson, gave him two learned geographers, fitted him out with a ship called the Half Moon, and supplied him with Dutch sailors.

When the Half Moon put in at Dartmouth, England, in the fall of 1609, word of Hudson's findings leaked out, and English interest in him revived.

On the third voyage, a near-mutiny rising from a quarrel between Dutch and English crew members on the Half Moon had almost forced him to head the ship back to Amsterdam in Mid-Atlantic.

The mate, Robert Juet, who had kept the journal on the Half Moon, was experienced -- but he was a bitter old man, ready to complain or desert at any opportunity.

Half of the population of the U.S. would be needed to work on arms just to feed the people ''.

Half an hour after he finished his round, Player holed out at the 18th green with a 69 and a three-round total of 206, four strokes ahead of Palmer.

Half of it was natural, half was Smith College.

Half slyly he enjoyed seeing her stoop to lift the things.

Ticket inspectors on the train line through Aberdour were known for their sing song refrain: " Half an hour, Half an hour, Half an hour to Aberdour-tickets please.

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.

Half of the annual global tropical timber acquisition comes from Borneo.

Half of the German divisions available in 1940 were combat ready, often being more poorly equipped than the British and French Armies, as well as the German Army of 1914.

* Half and half ( 10. 5 – 18 % fat )

In episode 73, season 4, entitled Working for Caligula of Two and a Half Men, the character of Berta said " I'm working for Caligula ," while picking up after Charlie who has resumed his hedonistic lifestyle after his brother Alan moved out.

British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777 ; Cook named the islands the ' Hervey Islands ' to honour a British Lord of the Admiralty ; Half a century later the Baltic German Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern published the Atlas de l ' Ocean Pacifique, in which he renamed the islands the Cook Islands to honour Cook.

In January 2009, Kane appeared in the TV series Two and a Half Men as the mother of Alan Harper's receptionist.