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Nelson had conceived the idea for his environmental teach-in following a trip he took to Santa Barbara right after the horrific oil spill off the coast in 1969.

It took something shocking, such as the horrific productions of the Grand Guignol theatre, to cause a sensation in this age.

While horrific actions took place, the number of people killed and wounded appears to have been relatively modest ; historian Ian Steele claims that it is unlikely that more than 200 people ( about 7. 5 % of the captured population ) were killed or wounded.

Ironically, the Mesan Alignment is conducting its string pulling behind the interstellar political events in an attempt to overthrow the Solarian League and its early laws outlawing genetic engineering upon man and genetic slaves in general as pushed into law by the highly prestigious daughter colony Beowulf after " Earth's Final War " where genetically altered soldiers and their genetically enhanced leadership played a horrific role and took decades to defeat.

During the 2006 season, two horrific accidents occurred in the oval track during NASCAR Mexico T4 Series events, which took several drivers out of the race and even required some of them to be taken to the hospital.

The British launched the Somme offensive on 1 July and the 1st and 2nd Dublins took part in the First Day of the Somme that saw the British forces sustain horrific casualties, some 60, 000, about 20, 000 of which were killed.

On March 22, a horrific incident took place in Buffalo during a game between the Buffalo Sabres and the St. Louis Blues.

The duke was generally considered " horrific " — very ugly, physically deformed, and sexually debauched — yet the privileges of being a duchess compensated for the unfortunate match, e. g. le tabouret: In a letter to her daughter, Madame de Sévigné described an incident that took place at St. Germain during an audience with the Queen.

( Sanity, solvency and relations with our wine merchant took a beating that first summer as we inadvertently became the neighborhood free-drink stop.

In his first year, he took the team to the 2001 playoffs but lost to the Minnesota Vikings a week after beating the St. Louis Rams for the team's first ever playoff win.

In the 1993 elections, both PAM and labour took 4 seats each, whilst on Nevis, a new party, the Concerned Citizens Movement, took 2 seats, beating the NRP's 1.

They finally won the first semi against Essendon, and the following year took out their only premiership so far, beating Geelong and then Melbourne in the 1954 VFL Grand Final.

The French van also took a beating, although it was less severe.

Reviews for the show were poor and it closed after 25 performances ; Tracy later said of the failure, " My ego took an awful beating.

Five years after their first cup win, Feijenoord took the prize for a second time in 1935, by beating Helmond Sport.

In 1983, he won his 3rd European Cup title by winning the 200 metres, beating his old adversary Pietro Mennea in London, and again took 2nd in the 100.

According to an even later legend, Lautaro took Valdivia to the Mapuche camp and put him to death after three days of torture, extracting his beating heart and eating it with the Mapuche leaders.

Blankers-Koen sped to the finish line in 11. 9, easily beating her opponents Dorothy Manley and Shirley Strickland, who took second and third.

Despite winning Game 2 by a score of 96 – 95, with the help of a James buzzer beating three-pointer, it was not enough as Orlando eventually took the series in 6 games.

Rosario took off for 7 months, went 7-0 with 6 KO's, and after Chavez vacated the title in 1989, Rosario came back and won it again, beating tough Kronk prospect Anthony Jones for the championship.

The Argonauts took home the 1991 Grey Cup beating Calgary 36 – 21 in the final.

De La Hoya took a beating and his corner stopped the fight after the eighth round.

Brasenose College Boat Club ( BNCBC ) is sometimes held to be the oldest boat club in the world ; this is impossible to verify but BNCBC is certainly the oldest collegiate boat club and took part in the first ever head race, beating Jesus College Boat Club on that occasion.

Andretti Green's Acura took second place overall and first in the LMP2 class, while Fernández Racing took third overall, and Highcroft sixth, beating a series of established Porsche teams in their class.

Though Walker fought bravely and took the lead on points early in the fight, Schmeling showed both boxing ability and punching power in dealing out a terrific beating as the fight progressed.

Bohemond was the first to get into position before Antioch ( October 1097 ), and he took a great part in the siege of the city, beating off the Muslim attempts at relief from the east, and connecting the besiegers on the west with the port of St Simeon and the Genoese ships which lay there.

In 2003, Rob English took on and beat the UK 4-man pursuit champions VC St Raphael in a 4000 m challenge race at Reading, beating them by a margin of 4 min 55. 5 s to 5 min 6. 87 s-and dropping one of the St Raphael riders along the way.

" Save Your Kisses for Me " made it to the final twelve songs and on 25 February, Brotherhood of Man took the title, beating the second placed act, Co-Co by two points.

The duo also competed as a pair in the gentlemen's doubles and took the gold medal, beating the Austrians Felix Pipes and Arthur Zborzil.

Regardless of the circumstances of the fight's conclusion, the fact is that Buchanan took a beating throughout the bout and required hospitalization and surgery after the bout.

Some ten years later, Go Seigen took revenge on Fujisawa by beating him in two consecutive jubango with lopsided scores of 7-2 and 5-1 respectively.

and, when you took a walk you never knew what adventure or pair of sparkling eyes were waiting around the next corner.

And then the Amen corner took hold, re-enacting a form of group participation in worship that stemmed from years before the Greek chorus, spreading down through the African forest, overseas to the West Indies, and then here in Alabama.

`` You took a picture of me at the corner of Washington and Blake about three thirty this afternoon ''.

He was in his car with his camera and equipment bag in less than two minutes, and it took him only three more to reach the corner, a block from Columbus Avenue.

IRA members openly mounted roadblocks in front of the media, and daily clashes took place between nationalist youths and the British Army at a spot known as " aggro corner ".

French and English buccaneers took advantage of Spain's retreat into a corner of Hispaniola to settle the island of Tortuga, off the northwest coast of Hispaniola, in 1629.

The only substantial combat of the first day of the Rising took place at the South Dublin Union where a piquet from the Royal Irish Regiment, encountered an outpost of Éamonn Ceannt's force at the north-western corner of the South Dublin Union.

She pieced it together from the news she heard that the prince's wife Ata-bime came to and took a clump of earth in the corner of her neckerchief.

Charleville took its name from the original location at the corner of the Charleville and Cabra Roads.

Just minutes before the killings, a truck driver named Elmer Lewis had turned a corner only a block away from 2122 North Clark and sideswiped what he took to be a police car.

The alternative route took the rails through the north-eastern corner of the county, by-passing most of the settlements in the county.

It was widely reported at the time that the Williams car's steering column had failed, though Hill told BBC Sport in 2004 that he believed Senna simply took the corner too fast for the conditions, referring to the fact that the car had just restarted the race with cold tyres after being slowed down by a safety car.

In the short term Price would commission Nash to design Castle House Aberystwyth ( 1795 ), its plan took the form of a rightangled triangle, with an octagonal tower at each corner, sited on the very edge of the sea, this marked a new and more imaginative approach to design in Nash's work.

The 1999 film Stir of Echoes starring Kevin James had scenes shot on location in Joliet at the Rialto Square Theatre ( the hypnotism scenes in which James saw the word " Dig " on the movie screen ), at the corner of Scott Street and Washington, and at the old Menards that took over the Wieboltd's building at Jefferson Square Mall.

In 1938, the city took over the library and it was moved to a southeast corner room of the bank.

John Kettell took up residence in a portion of land in the southwestern corner of Stow, where the flatness helped with farming and its proximity to the Lancaster Garrison House ( in present day Bolton, Massachusetts, owned by Reverend Joseph Rowlandson ) house proved vital in later years.

Both battles supposedly took place right at the corner of David Jacob van Lennep's house Huis te Manpad, where the monument stands.

In 1993, phase two took place as the city added a mixed-use light industrial and office building at the northeast corner of Montgomery and Sherman Avenues.

He took a five-year break from music, and withdrew from his musical friends, but did not destroy his manuscripts ; instead he stacked them neatly in one corner of his house.

Backed into a corner, de Valera took the Oath, declaring that he was simply signing a piece of paper to be admitted to the Dáil.

He took a corner too fast and lost control of the car, which rolled down an embankment and crashed into a drive-in restaurant.

' And he says, ' Well you took me off my corner, give me $ 40. 00.

In Germany, Barrichello took the lead at the first corner but after his first stop, he came out behind Felipe Massa who held him up.