Half of the time, the blood test is normal, so it is not foolproof in diagnosing appendicitis.

Half Man Half Biscuit were formed by two friends from Birkenhead, Neil Crossley ( previously with a local punk band Venom ) and singer, guitarist and songwriter Nigel Blackwell, ( previously with Split Gut and North of Watford ) who was ( in his own words ) at the time " still robbing cars and playing football like normal people do ".

Half of the townspeople want to be turned back into their normal selves, including the Bumblebee Man, who was transformed into a giant bee, and Ned Flanders, chased by the bee as a result of turning into a flower.

Although probably best known as a comic actor, and especially for his appearances in Hancock's Half Hour, he has since played a number of serious roles, notably in Peter Weir's films Picnic At Hanging Rock ( 1975 ), Gallipoli ( 1981 ) and The Year of Living Dangerously ( 1982 ).

Randy Glasbergen ( born 1957 ) is an American cartoonist and humorous illustrator best known for the daily comic The Better Half.

Randy ’ s comic panel “ The Better Half ” is syndicated by King Features Syndicate, appearing seven days a week in print and online newspapers around the world.

The Cassandra Cain version of Batgirl, depicted as a biracial character ( Half White and half Chinese ), is notable as one of the most prominent characters of Asian descent to appear in American comic books.

The highly popular character was spun off into his own comic, Ally Sloper's Half Holiday in 1884.

The arrival of the First World War in 1914 saw massive paper rationing, and in 1916 the Half Holiday comic ceased production.

Ally Sloper's Half Holiday was a British comic, first published on 3 May 1884.

19th-century issue of the British comic magazine Ally Sloper's Half Holiday

The black-and-white weekly comic paper Ally Sloper's Half Holiday, typically of eight tabloid pages and priced one penny, was first published on 3 May 1884, a short time after Ross, had sold the rights to the character to Gilbert Dalziel, an engraver and the publisher of Judy.

* The Better Half comic strip is often seen as a tamer version of The Lockhorns.

In Japan sometimes other names were used, e. g. Centre Dividing Wall NATM, or Cross Diaphragm Method ( both abbreviated as CDM ), and even Upper Half Vertical Subdivision method ( UHVS ).

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 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.

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 it was natural, half was Smith College.

Madero's great grandson Jose ' Pepe ' Madero was once a key member of the Football Manager-based Forum The Dugout Community's The Third Half ( TTH ) section.

Half of the increase was from higher summer melting, with the rest caused by velocities of some glaciers exceeding those needed to balance upstream snow accumulation ( Krabill et al., L24402, GRL 2004 ).

Half of the respondents, aged from 16 to 19, agreed Stalin was a wise leader.

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.

Half of the island was expected to remain uninhabitable for another decade.

In autumn 2006, Smith starred opposite Belinda Lang in a tour of a new comedy An Hour and a Half Late by French playwright Gérald Sibleyras, which was adapted by Smith.

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.

On March 14, 1942, the first patient was treated for streptococcal septicemia with US-made penicillin produced by Merck & Co. Half of the total supply produced at the time was used on that one patient.

: Half an hour after his head was cut off.

: Half an hour after, his head was cut off.

Half an hour later it ( or another one ), was seen back in Chicago.

After some time spent inactive, he was asked to play the famous Half Note in New York City in 1971 by guitarist Jim Hall.

Half the native population of Hispaniola in 1518 was killed by smallpox.

The surname Stark was later used in King's novel The Dark Half, in which an author's malevolent pseudonym, " George Stark ", comes to life.

" King dedicated his 1989 book The Dark Half, about a pseudonym turning on a writer, to " the deceased Richard Bachman ", and in 1996, when the Stephen King novel Desperation was released, the companion novel The Regulators carried the " Bachman " byline.

Meanwhile, in 1954, he began working with Tony Hancock in BBC radio's Hancock's Half Hour, playing a character with his own name ( but having the invented middle name Balmoral ), who was a petty criminal who would usually manage to con Hancock.

In 1894, Roosevelt met Jacob Riis, the muckraking Evening Sun newspaper journalist who was opening the eyes of New York's rich to the terrible conditions of the city's millions of poor immigrants with such books as, How the Other Half Lives.

* Half, also called float16, a 16-bit floating point value.

He made his name as Tony Hancock's co-star in Hancock's Half Hour and also starred in the popular Carry On films.

His Sidney Balmoral James from Hancock's Half Hour also appeared in his own Citizen James series.

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

* Half loop ( also known as a " Euler " or " Thoren "), a full-rotation jump with a loop entry but landed on the back inside edge of the opposite foot.

* Half axel ( also known as a " Bell jump "), a one-rotation jump with an axel entry and a forward landing.

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.

They also formed Cloud's Rest behind Half Dome as an arête.

Half Dome is also an element or inspiration of various company and organization logos, including that of The North Face outdoor product company, the Sierra Club environmental group and the Sierra Entertainment game studio.

It was on one of his return visits to the UK in 1968 that he also brought back the late Tony Hancock's ashes to the UK in an Air France bag-“ My session with the Customs was a Hancock Half Hour in itself.

He also appeared as a guest star in one episode of Two and a Half Men playing the father of Charlie's neighbor Rose ( Melanie Lynskey ), and another as guest star Denise Richards ' father ; at the time that episode aired, Richards was still married to Charlie.

Half of them also indicated that CEOs counted on them to challenge the company ’ s strategy.

During the eight-year run of Terry and June, Whitfield also appeared in It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Minder.

This shorter course, also known as a Half Ironman, consists of a swim, bike ride, and run.

Races that are not officially " Ironman " race are also referred to as Iron distance and Half Iron distance ( unofficially ).

At the same time, the BBC was also running Hancock's Half Hour starring Tony Hancock, the first of a new generation of comedies based on believable characters and situations.

Half of the 1973 National Scout Jamboree ( Jamboree East ) was held at Moraine State Park in Pennsylvania, where the 1977 National Scout Jamboree and Campaganza 2010 were also held.

The city is also home to the International World Jet Ski Final Races, multiple professional fishing tournaments, custom boat regattas, the Western Winter Blast pyrotechnics convention, Havasu 95 Speedway, the Chilln-n-Swilln Beer Festival annual charity event, the Havasu Triathlon, the Havasu Half Marathon and the Havasu Island Hot Air Balloon Fest & Fair.

Indie rock band Pavement ( who also toured with Stereolab ) acknowledged the group's sound on their song " Half A Canyon.

A fictional town of Ludlow, Maine is also the setting of the novels and films Pet Sematary and The Dark Half by Stephen King.

The parents, supported by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, also asked Dr. Wheaton to order the 2, 295 students in the Wyandanch schools ( 86 per cent of whom were African-American ) to be divided equally into the more affluent and predominantly white surrounding Half Hollow Hills, Deer Park, North Babylon, West Babylon and Farmingdale school districts.

She has also acted on TV as a character ( not as " MC Lyte ") in such shows as In the House, Get Real, Half & Half, and The District.

The superiority of Scottish castle design also diminished ; the Half Moon battery built at Edinburgh Castle in 1574, for example, was already badly dated in continental terms by the time it was built.