London's novella The Scarlet Plague ( 1912 ), and some of his short stories, are placed in a dystopian future setting that closely resembles that of The Iron Heel, although there is no actual continuity of situations or characters.

Tar Heel is located on the banks of the Cape Fear River, and its major highways are NC 87 and NC 131.

* The positions expressed by the fictional Bishop Morehouse in the beginning of Jack London ’ s “ The Iron Heel ” ( s: The Iron Heel / Chapter II ) are clearly derived from the Rerum Novarum.

Granville Hicks, reviewing Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano, was reminded of The Iron Heel: " we are taken into the future and shown an America ruled by a tiny oligarchy, and here too there is a revolt that fails.

Most starve to death or are murdered by the Iron Heel

This variation goes against ancient dogma which states that knights are not well placed on the rim ; however, extra pressure is brought to bear against the Achilles Heel of the fianchetto lines-the weakness at c4.

Slides can be Heel side ( the side of the board your heel is on ) or Toe side ( the side of the board your toes are on.

Heel heights vary, but the majority are sold either as flats or with heels greater than three inches ( 7. 5 cm ).

Heel and toe overhang prevent narrower boards from reaching angles close to 90 degrees that are experienced in extreme carving.

* In Jack London's 1908 novel The Iron Heel, which predicts the rise of a nationalist government in the US, the hired thugs who are loyal to the regime and specialise in attacking labour meetings use the name of the Black Hundreds.

Heel wedges and related equipment are discouraged by some as they are thought to worsen form over the long term.

A variant of the # Heel turn, in which the feet are kept apart.

A folk tale, which cannot be dated earlier than the seventeenth century, relates the origin of the Friar's Heel reference.

Tar Heel had several turpentine stills and the remains of some of the old stills can be found in the area.

Along with Jack London's The Iron Heel, We is generally considered to be the grandfather of the satirical futuristic dystopia genre.

He was initially replaced by Kevin Cowen from fellow Rugby band The Darkside, Cowen only completed one gig ( Glastonbury 1994 ) before himself leaving to be replaced first by John Coxon ( Spring Heel Jack, Betty Boo ) and then later on by Julian Cope's former guitarist Michael Mooney ( Coxon returned to replace Mooney following his eventual departure ).

He became the first Tar Heel to be named ACC player of the year, and was a first team All-America.

Almost indestructible and superhumanly strong, each villain is programmed with specific weapons and weaknesses based on that villain's " theme "; e. g., " Killshot's " Achilles ' Heel was being sprayed with water, The Boss ' weak link was red ink, The Evil Shirley's was dirt and she would be wiped out by having a house fall on her, The Camp Counselor would get burned by being hit with charcoal and would be killed-off by an arrow shot right through his own bulls-eye, The Practical Joker could only be defeated by his master prank being foiled, The Motivational Speaker killed people with a device that ejected audiocassettes that bound and crushed them with audiotape, and he could only be destroyed by eating his own words.

The game would be remembered as the one in which Webber's technical foul for calling a time out when the team had none left led to a Tar Heel victory.

The term came to be applied to people or items related to Kansas, similar to the terms " Hoosier " for Indiana, " Sooner " for Oklahoma, " Tar Heel " for North Carolina, and " Buckeye " for Ohio.

On May 5, 2012, WBT signed back on with the Tar Heel Sports Network to be Charlotte's main carrier of the Tar Heels.

The simulation, whose results were featured in the 2007 documentary Titanic ’ s Achilles Heel, partially refuted Long ’ s suspicions by demonstrating that Titanics expansion joints were strong enough to deal with any and all stresses the ship could reasonably be expected to encounter in service and, during the sinking, actually outperformed their design specifications.

Heel expansibility may also be restricted, causing lameness from pressure around the coffin bone and reduced elasticity of the digital cushion.

Social criticism can also be expressed in a fictional form, e. g., in a revolutionary novel like The Iron Heel by Jack London or in dystopian novels like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World ( 1932 ) or George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) or Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 ( 1953 ), children's books or films.

Of country music artists, Connie Smith covered Andy Gibb's " I Just Want to Be Your Everything " in 1977, Bill Anderson did " Double S " in 1978, and Ronnie Milsap covered Tommy Tucker's " High Heel Sneakers " in 1979.

Prominent pieces of political fiction have included the totalitarian dystopias of the early 20th century such as Jack London's The Iron Heel and Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here.

* Heel replacement: heels periodically wear out.

The Heel Stone lies just outside the main entrance to the henge, next to the present A344 road.

Today it is uniformly referred to as the Heel Stone or Heelstone.

Some claim " Friar's Heel " is a corruption of " Freyja's He-ol " from the Nordic goddess Freyja and the Welsh word for track.

The Heel Stone lies beside the end portion of Stonehenge Avenue.

Excavations were once again carried out in 1978 by Atkinson and John Evans during which they discovered the remains of the Stonehenge Archer in the outer ditch, and in 1979 rescue archaeology was needed alongside the Heel Stone after a cable-laying ditch was mistakenly dug on the roadside, revealing a new stone hole next to the Heel Stone.

On 26 November 2011, archaeologists from University of Birmingham announced the discovery of evidence of two huge pits positioned within the Stonehenge Cursus pathway, aligned in celestial position towards midsummer sunrise and sunset when viewed from the Heel Stone.

London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel, The Iron Heel and his non-fiction exposé, The People of the Abyss.

In 1935, Feijenoord player Puck van Heel hit the first pole on their way into their new stadium.

The largest slaughterhouse in the world is operated by the Smithfield Packing Company in Tar Heel, North Carolina.

*< u > Bigspin Heel </ u >, skaters body does a 180 while their board does a laser flip.

* WCHL: local AM radio station ( 1360AM ) providing talk radio, news, and local sports coverage as the flagship station of the Tar Heel Sports Network.

* The Daily Tar Heel is the nationally-ranked, independent student newspaper that serves the university and the town.

* The Iron Heel by Jack London, ( 1971 ) ISBN 0-14-303971-7.

The student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel has won national awards for collegiate media, while the student radio station WXYC provided the world's first internet radio broadcast.

Wilkinson spoke off campus, while more than 1, 500 students viewed Aptheker's speech across a low campus wall at the edge of campus, christened " Dan Moore's Wall " by The Daily Tar Heel for Governor Dan K. Moore.

It was named in honor of Col. Thomas Robeson of Tar Heel, North Carolina, a hero of the Revolutionary War.

Heel brakes can interfere with a useful technique called a crossover turn, in which a skater crosses one leg over another to make a sharp turn without losing much speed ; for this reason, some users prefer not to use heel brakes.

The school also has competitive MIAA Division I athletics, having won several state titles in different sports and given rise to former major league pitcher Brian Rose and former North Carolina Tar Heel basketball player Jess Gaspar along with UCONN Football star Jordan Todman and Georgia's Arthur Lynch.