In the early 1950s an English couple built a hydrofoil water craft called the White Hawk that was jet powered in an attempt to beat the absolute water speed record.

Unions may organize a particular section of skilled workers ( craft unionism, traditionally found in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA ), a cross-section of workers from various trades ( general unionism, traditionally found in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Netherlands, the UK and the USA ), or attempt to organize all workers within a particular industry ( industrial unionism, found in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Finland, Norway, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA ).

Leigh explained that she played " as many different parts as possible " in an attempt to learn her craft and to dispel prejudice about her abilities.

They encounter a strange alien craft, board it and attempt to salvage it but are thwarted by the alien ship's defence mechanism.

Despite the success of Barker's first panorama in Leicester Square, it was neither his first attempt at the craft nor his first exhibition.

The project was to combat supersonic, low level, high manoeuvrability craft, eschewing any attempt at automated guidance in favor of a purely optical system.

On the second attempt the craft broke up as it left the catapult ( Hallion, 2003 ; Nalty, 2003 ).

" The Court's defenders argued that this was a reasonable precaution against the possibility that the decision might be read over-broadly, arguing that in the short time available it would not be appropriate to attempt to craft language spelling out in greater detail how to apply the holding to other cases.

Some one-hit wonder artists have embraced this following openly, while others distance themselves from their hit in an attempt to craft successful songs with different sounds, or embark on new careers as songwriters ( such as Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes and Gregg Alexander of New Radicals ), or even game show hosts ( such as Chuck Woolery of The Avant-Garde ).

* January 11 – 13 – Max Anderson and Don Ida make a failed attempt to circumnavigate the world by balloon, although their craft, the Jules Verne, makes a flight of 2, 900 miles ( 4, 667 km ) from Luxor, Egypt, to New Delhi, India, in 48 hours before they give up.

An attempt was also made using a chair with modern rockets attached ; however, the uncontrollable craft proved that there were far too many complications for such a thing to have succeeded.

The flight also included the first attempt to make a space rendezvous as McDivitt attempted to maneuver his craft close to the Titan II upper stage which launched it into orbit, but this was not successful.

The decision was made to return to earth, as the Soyuz was equipped with batteries designed to last about two days, and the craft lacked fuel to attempt to dock with the port on the opposite side of the station.

On May 19, Selfridge became the first US military office to pilot a modern aircraft when he took to the air alone in AEA's newest craft, White Wing, traveling 100 feet on his first attempt and 200 feet on his second.

Knowing all was lost, Kai rammed his small fighter craft into the control pod of the Foreshadow in an attempt to destroy His Divine Shadow.

The attempt to impose craft distinctions in other industries was not so successful.

In the steel industry, for example, after the routing of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers in its titanic strike against Andrew Carnegie's steel operations at Homestead, Pennsylvania in 1892, and the defeat, a generation later, of the 1919 steel strike, the craft unions within the AFL claimed that any attempt to organize steel workers must recognize their separate craft jurisdictions: workers who used bricks to build kilns or similar structures would have to belong to the brickmasons union, workers who sawed wood to build structures within the plant should be carpenters, and so forth.

Thus " pan-pan " informs potential rescuers ( including emergency services and other craft in the area ) that a safety problem exists whereas " Mayday " will call upon them to drop all other activities and immediately initiate a rescue attempt.

This type of craft was also adopted by Philip V of Macedon, and soon after by the Seleucids, Rome, and even the Spartan king Nabis in his attempt to rebuild the Spartan navy.

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there had been no attempt to illegalise the cunning craft, although private law suits had been brought against some of them by those clients who felt that they had been cheated out of their money.

In an apparent attempt to quell speculation about the military nature of flying saucers, a press conference was held in July 1952, at which Major John A. Sandford denied any knowledge of the craft, and retired Major Donald E. Keyhoe declared his belief that they were of alien origin.

The plane did not attempt a landing because its skis would risk sticking to the ice and its fuel and hydraulic lines would rapidly freeze, dooming the craft.

The first attempt at rendezvous was made on June 3, 1965, when US astronaut Jim McDivitt tried to maneuver his Gemini 4 craft to meet back up with its spent Titan II launch vehicle's upper stage.

United Nations Day is the birthday of the United Nations, mankind's noblest attempt to establish lasting peace with justice ; ;

* 1268 – Kublai Khan sends an emissary to the Kamakura Shogunate of Japan demanding an acknowledgment of souzerainty and payment of tribute ; the Japanese refuse, starting a diplomatic back-and-forth lasting until the Mongols attempt to invade in 1274.

* Kublai Khan sends an emissary to the Kamakura Shogunate of Japan demanding an acknowledgment of suzerainty and payment of tribute ; the Japanese refuse, starting a diplomatic back-and-forth lasting until the Mongols attempt to invade in 1274.

A more lasting work was his Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge ( 1919 ), a pioneering attempt to synthesize the philosophical underpinnings of physics.

It is not necessarily the end of a war, since it might be just a cessation of hostilities while an attempt is made to negotiate a lasting peace.

* In 2006, following a successful protest lasting over one year, tree sitters in Cathedral Grove ( also known as MacMillan Provincial Park ), British Columbia, halted the removal of a number of old growth Douglas Fir trees which were scheduled to be to taken down in an attempt to calm traffic and improve the parking facilities.

Although many expeditions visited the coast during the next 200 years, there was no lasting attempt at establishment of a permanent settlement.

He diverted some of the water from the millpond to the canal in an attempt to improve the canal's water supply ; this had a lasting effect as the watercourse would define the boundary between the later school and cemetery.

* Late July-The government and separatist rebels from the far-eastern border state of Nagaland agree to extend their ceasefire for a further year in an attempt to bring a lasting solution to the 53-year rebellion.

On February 28, shortly after the attempt to serve the warrant, an intense gun battle erupted, lasting nearly two hours.

" Hugh Gough ( Professor of history at University College Dublin ) called Secher's book an attempt at historical revisionism unlikely to have any lasting impact.

Other breeds were cross bred in an attempt to increase the size and stature of the Suffolk Punch, as well as to improve the shoulders, but they had little lasting influence, and the breed remains much as it was before any crossbreeding took place.

After two friends found him, he was left with no lasting damage, and said the attempt was stupid but that he had reached the stage of desperation.

" An attempt to realize this wish came in 1950 with a summer school lasting from July 1 – 13, with few students, that is " not regarded part of the ' official ' Marlboro canon ".

While the Crown-influenced Coach RE was not a success ( its production lasting from 1992 – 1993 ), Carpenter used the Crown brand name in the late 1990s in an attempt to re-brand itself.

An unsuccessful attempt to induce such an abortion can also cause lasting damage to the fetus.

A further attempt to create a lasting international organization was made in Amsterdam in 1907, though this would enjoy an even shorter life than the Black International.

Originally, the Rogues were just the Flash's enemies teaming together after they were all broken out of jail by another Flash foe, the super-intelligent Gorilla Grodd to distract the Flash during his attempt at world conquest, but though they were all defeated by the Flash making their weapons hit each other, since then they have formed a lasting group, and usually a Rogue will never commit a crime by himself.

Two bridges, one recent, one dating back to the nineteenth century, apparently the result of first attempt at a Genoan bridge, show the lasting efforts of conquest and control of the territory.

During the 1800s there was an attempt to convert the regiment to Light Cavalry, and various appropriate changes to uniform were made, however this change did not come to fruition, leaving various oddities, such as a Light Cavalry sabre, and the Blue and Yellow of British Light Cavalry that would be a lasting legacy.