She sat down and played two slots at once, looking grim, as if bested by mechanical devices, and Owen felt sorry for the lay-sisters depending on her support.

He played three matches against Kasparov for the title from 1986 to 1990, before becoming FIDE World Champion once again after Kasparov broke away from FIDE in 1993.

Spalding's. 796 career winning percentage ( from an era when teams played about once or twice a week ) is the highest ever achieved by a baseball pitcher.

With the return of South Africa in 1992 after the ending of the apartheid boycott, nine teams played each other once in the group phase, and the top four teams progressed to the semi-finals.

This system is particularly useful for basslines that have a repeating pedal point such as a low D, because once the note is locked in place with the mechanical " finger ," the lowest string sounds a different note when played open ( e. g., a low D ).

The hi-hat has a similar function to the ride cymbal ; The two are rarely played at once, but one or the other keeps the fine rhythm much of the time, played by the right stick of a right-handed drummer.

The album lacked actual strings, replaced once again by synthesisers, played by Tandy.

The RAF once again played its part, flying 900 sorties during the day.

He played in nine more internationals prior to the start of the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, for which England once again had not needed to qualify, this time owing to their status as holders.

; he played just the once – a home game at Richmond Park on 2 October 1977 against Shamrock Rovers, keeping a clean sheet in a 1 – 0 win – before returning to the Strikers for the North American 1978 season.

Also called Gobang or Five in a Row, it is traditionally played with Go pieces ( black and white stones ) on a go board ( 19x19 intersections ); however, because once placed, pieces are not moved or removed from the board, gomoku may also be played as a paper and pencil game.

Finally, when Telemann got the post of organist and music director at the Neukirche, he only played the organ once, and assigned the organist's duties to his students.

The Hawick Baw game was once played here by the ' uppies ' and the ' doonies ' on the first Monday after the new moon in the month of February.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who once lived in Birmingham, may have borrowed Baskerville's surname for one of his Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles – which, in turn, was borrowed by Umberto Eco for the character William of Baskerville in his best-selling novel, The Name of the Rose ( Sean Connery played the character in the film based on the book ).

This is her one active mythic role: once Apollo and Artemis are grown, Leto withdraws, to remain a dim and benevolent matronly figure upon Olympus, her part already played.

Although the games existed in pockets in Europe -- it is recorded as being played as early as the 17th century by merchants in England -- it has never gained much popularity in most regions, except in the Baltic area, where once it was a very popular game (" Bohnenspiel ") and Bosnia, where it is called Ban-Ban and still played today.

However, once a student learns that most Baroque instrumental music was associated with dances, such as the gavotte and the sarabande, and keyboard music from the Baroque era was played on the harpsichord or the pipe organ, a modern-day student is better able to understand how the piece should be played.

Games are played over 50 overs per side, and the teams are divided into two groups, where each team meets the other once over a period of a month.

Charlie Chaplin once again joined the U. S. war effort, creating The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), in which he played the Hitler-like character of ' Adenoid Hynkel.

In some board games, including some abstract strategy games like Gomoku, a piece once played will not be moved on the board or removed from the board.

The game ends once a player has achieved a Megiddo or Arbatta, or when all points have been played and none remain ( called a Patara ).

In the South of the city you can find Aachen's biggest tennis club " TC Grün Weiss ", which hosts the famous ATP Tournament once a year.

* Aerated Bread Company, a former and once famous British bakery and tea-room chain

A famous British newspaper headline once read, " Fog in Channel ; Continent Cut Off ".

Jimmy Hill once referred to the Riverside being " a bit like the London Palladium " as Blocks V & W ( the middle section ) are often filled with the rich and famous ( including often Al-Fayed ).

Vader was once Anakin Skywalker, a famous Jedi turned to the Dark Side.

Emsworth's once famous oyster industry went into decline in the early years of the 20th century.

* Canon 21, the famous " Omnis utriusque sexus ", which commands every Christian who has reached the years of discretion to confess all his, or her, sins at least once a year to his, or her, own ( i. e. parish ) priest.

Although the recruits had signed on as part of a scientific expedition and expected to spend their three month assignment collecting botanical and biological samples, once out to sea they were told, " Your names will go down in history " and that the islands would become " famous air bases in a route that will connect Australia with California ".

He once wrote a paper under a pseudonym derived from Kobayashi Issa, a famous Japanese haiku poet.

Mallaig, once the busiest herring port in Europe, is famous for its traditionally smoked kippers, as well as Stornoway kippers and Loch Fyne kippers.

The company was once famous for its innovative line of graphic adventure games, the critical and commercial success of which peaked in the mid 1990s.

So long as everyone was using the same tactics these weaknesses were not immediately apparent, but with the advent of the Roman legion they proved fatal in every major engagement, the most famous being the Battle of Pydna, as the Romans were able to advance through gaps in the line and easily defeat the phalangites once in close.

He once said to a group of lobbyists the famous quote and " By the want of it we have been overthrown.

Imported papyrus once commonplace in Greece and Italy has since deteriorated beyond repair, but papyrus is still being found in Egypt ; extraordinary examples include the Elephantine papyri and the famous finds at Oxyrhynchus and Nag Hammadi.

In addition to its unique architecture, the castle is famous because of persistent myths that it was once the home of Vlad III Dracula.

Gladstone is famous for his oratory, for his rivalry with the Conservative Leader Benjamin Disraeli and his poor relations with Queen Victoria, who once complained, " He always addresses me as if I were a public meeting.

Contributions to Yoko Ono's Wish TreeJohn Lennon once described her as " the world's most famous unknown artist: everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does.

The famous " Sanch Procession " folklore, once forbidden by the Catholic Church | Church, is still celebrated in Perpignan, Arles-sur-Tech and Collioure.

In the US, Eugene V. Debs, one of the most famous American socialists, led a movement centered around democratic socialism and made five bids for President, once in 1900 as candidate of the Social Democratic Party and then four more times on the ticket of the Socialist Party of America.

One famous story exemplifying the Empress ’ s vanity is that once the Elizabeth got a bit of powder in her hair and was unable to remove it.

County Donegal is famous for being the home of the once mighty Clann Dálaigh, whose most famous branch were the Clann Ó Domhnaill, better known in English as the O ' Donnell Clan.

ITV Digital operated out of Marco Polo House, the south London building home to shopping channel QVC and which had once housed The Observer newspaper, but perhaps most famous as the lavish headquarters of the ill-fated British Satellite Broadcasting.

His most famous phrase was used as the title for the sports quiz programme They Think It's All Over, on which he once appeared as a guest.

For example, several of the battles that Edward Shepherd Creasy listed in his famous 1851 book The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World rate hardly a mention here, and the confrontation between Muslims and Christians at Poitiers-Tours in 732, once considered a watershed event, has been downgraded to a raid in force.