It had just suffered a calamity, the final crisis in a long series of calamities.

between the north shore of Deer Island and the Salisbury side there was an arch of 113 feet and a series of piers with a draw forty feet long.

General Jones was fresh from a long series of bridge burnings, including the long bridge at Fairmont, and, after seeing a great drove of horses and cattle he had collected safely across the bridge, he sent his men to work piling combustibles in and around it.

Within an easy walk from Capitol Hill where Pennsylvania Avenue comes together with Constitution Avenue, begins a series of great federal buildings, some a block long and all about seven-stories high.

NBC plans a new series of three long programs exploring America's scientific plans titled `` Threshold '', to start in the fall.

This music is characterized by a large technical research and focuses mainly on twelve long Noubate " series ", its main instruments are the mandolin, violin, lute, guitar, zither, flute and piano.

In the 1990s, given Australia's long dominance of the Ashes and the popular acceptance of the Darnley urn as ‘ The Ashes ’, the idea was mooted that the victorious team should be awarded the urn as a trophy and allowed to retain it until the next series.

A long series of cultural development culminated in the expansion of the Inca civilization and Inca Empire in the central Andes during the 15th century.

The former, also known as Iulus ( or Julius ), founded Alba Longa and was the first in a long series of kings.

Yet in the case of Pericles, it is wrong to see his power as coming from his long series of annual generalships ( each year along with nine others ).

This battle ended a long series of ineffectual operations.

In all the Stargate television series, characters are able to communicate instantaneously over long distances by transferring their consciousness into another person or being anywhere in the universe using " Ancient communication stones ".

After this, the senior priest ( or bishop ) pours pure olive oil and a small amount of wine into the shrine lamp, and says the " Prayer of the Oil ", which calls upon God to "... sanctify this Oil, that it may be effectual for those who shall be anointed therewith, unto healing, and unto relief from every passion, every malady of the flesh and of the spirit, and every ill ..." Then follow seven series of epistles, gospels, long prayers, Ektenias ( litanies ) and anointings.

Here he produced a long series of operas, remarkable chiefly for their fluency and expressiveness, as well as other music for state occasions.

Adoptionism was one position in a long series of Christian disagreements about the precise nature of Christ ( see Christology ) in the developing dogma of the Trinity, an attempt to explain the relationship between Jesus of Nazareth, both as man and God, and God the Father while confidently claiming to be uncompromisingly monotheistic.

Milward argued the German Reich could not fight a long war, so it deliberately refrained from arming in depth, to arming in breadth, to enable it to win a series of quick victories.

The game became very popular and led to a long series of sequels and spin-offs.

Although he initially declined the part of Dr. David Banner in The Incredible Hulk because of its comic book origins, on reading Kenneth Johnson's script for the pilot episode, he was persuaded to change his mind ( and agreed to remain involved with the series for as long as Johnson was to be involved ).

Morse code was introduced in the 1840s and is used to encode each letter of the Latin alphabet, each Arabic numeral, and some other characters via a series of long and short presses of a telegraph key.

As NVA / VC activity grew, the United States and South Vietnam became concerned, and in 1969, the United States began a 14 month long series of bombing raids targeted at NVA / VC elements, contributing to destabilization.

In the latter, only taxa associated with a rank can be named, yet there are not enough ranks to name a long series of nested clades ; ranks determine the form of names, so names must in many cases change when a name is inserted into such a series ; and taxon names cannot be defined in a way that guarantees them to refer to clades.

These calls may be a long rising and falling note ( a howl ) or a series of short notes ( yips ).

The Winter Olympics, the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and the FIS World Cup events ( including the Holmenkollen and the Tour de Ski, a grueling 9 race series completed in eleven days ) have long been a showcase for the world's fastest cross country skiers.

After further experiments, Fleming was convinced penicillin could not last long enough in the human body to kill pathogenic bacteria, and stopped studying it after 1931.

Early experiments in color required extremely long exposures ( hours or days for camera images ) and could not " fix " the photograph to prevent the color from quickly fading when exposed to white light.

The Soal – Goldney experiments of 1941 – 1943 ( suggesting precognitive ability of a single participant ) were long regarded as some of the best in the field because they relied upon independent checking and witnesses to prevent fraud.

In 1970, team also studied the same reaction with oxygen-18 and identified < sup > 261 </ sup > Rf with a half-life of 65 seconds ( later refined to 75 seconds ).< ref name = 70Gh01 > Later experiments at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California also revealed the formation of a short-lived isomer of < sup > 262 </ sup > Rf ( which undergoes spontaneous fission with a half-life of 47 ms ), and spontaneous fission activities with long lifetimes tentatively assigned to < sup > 263 </ sup > Rf.

Its ample size — much greater than that of the shuttle alone, or even the shuttle plus Spacelab — was enough, with some modifications, for up to seven astronauts of both sexes, and experiments needing a long duration in space ; even a movie projector for recreation was possible.

His early experiments were successful in detecting the signal, and he quickly proved to be able to do so at long ranges.

This was the first of a long series of experiments that Rubbia has performed in the field of weak interactions and which culminated in the Nobel Prize-winning work at CERN.

* Quatermass and the Pit ( 1958 – 1959 ) – A British television serial in which a crashed spacecraft is discovered in London, which reveals that humanity on Earth is the result of experiments by a Martian civilisation, now long dead.

He also performed two important diffraction experiments using fibers and long narrow strips.

The protoscience of alchemy long had a resemblance to mad science with its lofty goals and bizarre experiments.

While Scheele's experiments generated substances which have long since been found to be hazardous, the compounds and elements he used to start his experiments were dangerous to begin with, especially heavy metals.

This result could partially explain the relatively long half-life of < sup > 294 </ sup > Uuo measured in experiments at Dubna.

Between 1854 and 1857, Sir Joseph Whitworth conducted a long series of rifle experiments, and proved, among other points, the advantages of a smaller bore and, in particular, of an elongated bullet.

Re-puddling was a long process therefore experiments with the use of heavy gauge polythene to line the canal were undertaken.

In this position, O ' Leary won plaudits for declassifying Cold War-era records, which showed the U. S. Government had used American citizens as guinea pigs in human radiation experiments, as had long been rumored.

Inferring the events to represent experiments on people until they died, the study interpreted that use of trepanation as an indicator of the stressful sociopolitical climate that not long thereafter resulted in the abandonment of Monte Alban as the primary regional administrative center in the Oaxacan highlands.

They were originally called elementary particles and were thought to contain the entire respiratory apparatus of the mitochondrion, but, through a long series of experiments, Ephraim Racker and his colleagues ( who first isolated the F < sub > 1 </ sub > particle in 1961 ) were able to show that this particle is correlated with ATPase activity in uncoupled mitochondria and with the ATPase activity in submitochondrial particles created by exposing mitochondria to ultrasound.

This ATPase activity was further associated with the creation of ATP by a long series of experiments in many laboratories.

It has moreover been argued, that DSR with an energy-dependent speed of light is inconsistent and first order effects are ruled out already because they would lead to non-local particle interactions that would long have been observed in particle physics experiments.

Additional animal experiments have suggested that growth hormone may generally act to shorten maximum lifespan ; knockout mice lacking the receptor for growth hormone live especially long.

On the question of the ' validity of the law of causality ' we have this opinion: as long as one takes into account only experiments that lie in the domain of our currently acquired physical and quantum mechanical experience, the assumption of indeterminism in principle, here taken as fundamental, agrees with experience.

Prisoners were subjected to other torturous experiments such as being hung upside down to see how long it would take for them to choke to death, having air injected into their arteries to determine the time until the onset of embolism, and having horse urine injected into their kidneys.

In 1911, Curtiss unveiled a development of his floatplane experiments married to a larger version of his successful Curtiss Model D land plane, but with a larger engine and a rudimentary hull and fuselage, designated as the Model E. This was the first air plane with a hull, and arguably the creation of the " flying boat " type that dominated long distance air travel for the next four to five decades.