* April 18 – April 21 – Octavian engages in charm offensive with consular Cicero who is fulminating against Mark Antony.

Silver fulminate is often confused with silver nitride, silver azide, or fulminating silver.

* The distinction between " explosive " and " fulminating " bullets is academic but important.

** A " fulminating " bullet contains a small unstable high explosive charge and is designed to shatter into fragments after impact or inside the wound.

It consisted of priming with a fulminating powder made of fulminate of mercury, chlorate of potash, sulphur, and charcoal, which was exploded by concussion.

A. J. Forsyth in 1807, and consisted of priming with a fulminating powder made of potassium chlorate, sulfur, and charcoal, which ignited by concussion.

The Great Powers agreed to renounce, in case of war among themselves, the use of any explosive projectile of less weight than 400 grams ( 14 ounces avoirdupois ) or one charged with fulminating or inflammable substances.

Symptoms can include fulminating dysentery, bloody diarrhea, weight loss, fatigue, abdominal pain, and amoeboma.

Acute fulminating illness of a few days and prolonged survival have been reported.

Gargallo suffered from fulminating bronchial pneumonia and died in Reus, Tarragona.

According to police he had in his possession at the time of his arrest, a loaded revolver, a sharpened file and a fulminating cap, used to detonate bombs.

Napier inoculated the strain into three monkeys, one of which was a rhesus macaque ( Macaca mulatta ), which developed a fulminating infection.

In 1863, the Russian Army had perfected a fulminating musketball that could explode when it hit a hard target and was designed to blow up powder magazines or ammunition wagons.

Photios I of Constantinople writes against Clement's theology in the Bibliotheca, although he is appreciative of Clement's learning and the literary merits of his work.

Starting in the 1960s, literary scholars, reacting against this, began to use analytical tools from critical social theory-initially semiotic, linguistic, and interpretive theory, then structuralism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, and deconstruction as well as Continental philosophy, especially phenomenology and hermeneutics, and various other forms of neo-Marxian theory.

The verse form itself then was little changed as the quality of a poet's hexameter was judged against the standard set by Virgil and the other Augustan poets, a respect for literary precedent encompassed by the Latin word aemulatio.

Some librarians certainly at times felt that Blyton's restricted use of language, a conscious product of her teaching background, militated against appreciation of more literary qualities.

With this he especially turned against the then predominant literary theory of Gottsched and his followers.

There are early literary references in the Quran, circa AD 632, to " war-horses … which strike fire, by dashing their hoofs against the stones …" which, if taken literally, is an effect that would have been obtained by shod horses, as barefoot hooves striking stone do not create sparks.

Some scholars have seen Perses as a literary creation, a foil for the moralizing that Hesiod develops in Works and Days, but there are also arguments against this theory.

To these last 34 years of his career belong the most important of his works ; his version of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew text, the best of his scriptural commentaries, his catalogue of Christian authors, and the dialogue against the Pelagians, the literary perfection of which even an opponent recognized.

" The remark was addressed to the senator Andromachus by Gelasius in an extended literary epistle that was virtually a diatribe against the Lupercalia.

It was during this upswell in icondule sentiment that Theodore began to compose his own polemic against the iconoclasts, the Refutatio, concentrating in particular on refuting the arguments and criticizing the literary merits of the new iconoclastic epigrams on the Chalke.

From there he carried on a literary polemic for the cause of the iconodules against the synod of 815.

While the " literary battle " against Peng raged, Mao fired Yang Shangkun – director of the Party's General Office, an organ that controlled internal communications – on a series of unsubstantiated charges, installing in his stead staunch loyalist Wang Dongxing, head of Mao's security detail.

Literature under the communist regime became the refuge of freedom and democracy, and literary works and authors were valued not only for their literary merits, but also for their struggle against the regime.

In many literary references, the Greek tradition relates that in order that Cronus should not hear the wailing of the infant, Amalthea gathered about the cave the Kuretes or the Korybantes to dance, shout, and clash their spears against their shields.

Although Shakespeare based many of his characters on existing archetypes from fables and myths ( e. g., Romeo and Juliet on Arthur Brooke's Romeus and Juliet ), Shakespeare's characters stand out as original by their contrast against a complex social literary landscape.

Vajrayana texts exhibit a wide range of literary characteristics — usually a mix of verse and prose, almost always in a Sanskrit that " transgresses frequently against classical norms of grammar and usage ," although also occasionally in various Middle Indic dialects or elegant classical Sanskrit.

Described as " the most eclectic and unpredictable of the literary world's annual gongs ", Michelle Pauli posed the question in relation to the longlist for the 2004 edition: " Where would you find Michael Dobbs and Tony Parsons up against Umberto Eco and Milan Kundera for a € 100, 000 prize?

Incantations form an important part of this literary heritage, covering a range of rituals from the sacred, Maqlû, " burning " to counter witchcraft, Šurpu, “ incineration ” to counter curses, Namburbi, to preempt inauspicious omens, Utukkū Lemnūtu ( actually bilingual ), to exorcise “ Evil Demons ,” and Bīt rimki, or “ bath house ,” the purification and substitution ceremony, to the mundane, Šà. zi. ga, “ the rising of the heart ,” potency spells, and Zu-buru-dabbeda, “ to seize the ‘ locust tooth ’,” a compendium of incantations against field pests.

Uruk was prominent in the national struggles of the Sumerians against the Elamites up to 2004 BC, in which it suffered severely ; recollections of some of these conflicts are embodied in the Gilgamesh epic, in the literary and courtly form that has come down to us.

Testimony regarding the literary merit of his novel I Once Had a Master helped a Vancouver LGBT bookstore, Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium, to partially win a case against Canada Customs in the Canadian Supreme Court in 2000.

In response to critics, Graves has accused literary scholars of being psychologically incapable of interpreting myth or too concerned with maintaining their perquisites to go against the majority view.

In its first issue, Chen called for young generation to struggle against Confucianism by " theories of literary revolution " ( 文學革命論 ).

The sidekick has the literary function of playing against the hero, often contrasting in skill, or performing functions not suited to the hero.

Outside those limits it asserted, as against other states, a position of sovereign equality, and, as against the `` inferior '' peoples of the non-Western world, a position of dominance.

They feel they are leagued against a hostile, persecutory world, faced with the concerted malevolent opposition of squares and their hirelings, the police.

But whereas the postwar American abstractionists seem to Helion to be determined to `` escape '' from the real world, or simply to rebel against it, the ordered abstractions which he and his associates of the 1930's were painting embodied the hope of `` improving '' things.

When we consider the disorganized state of the world community, and the legacy of predispositions adversely directed against all who are identified as Jews, it is obvious that the struggle for the minds and muscles of men needs to be prosecuted with increasing vigor and skill.

but if he is up against China's crusading spirit in world affairs, he is going to be faced with the most agonizing choice in his life.

Facing a prosecution which has demanded the death penalty, he said: ' I have participated in the war against Communism in Korea and at Dienbienphu, and I have helped in the evacuation of North Vietnamese to the free world.

Our research and development program, serving as it does an industry which must compete against low-cost production throughout the world, continues to have primary emphasis at Leesona.

What more could be asked for a Trial intended to warn the world against anti-Semitism than this opportunity to expose the exact link between the respectable Anti-Semite and the concentration-camp brute??

Certainly, one of the best ways of warning the world against anti-Semitism is to demonstrate its workings as a dangerous weapon.

The two of them against the world.

He held the title until 1999, when he resigned his title in protest against FIDE's new world championship rules.

* 1938 – English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia.

Rav loved the Book of Ecclesiasticus ( Sirach ), and warned his disciple Hamnuna against unjustifiable asceticism by quoting advice contained therein — that, considering the transitoriness of human life ( Eruvin 54a ), one should not despise the good things of this world.

This gave rise to the expression " Athanasius contra mundum " or " Athanasius against the world ".

The Lions ' 2005 tour to New Zealand, coached by 2003 England world cup winning coach Clive Woodward, won all seven games against provincial teams however suffered heavy defeats in all three tests and were narrowly defeated by the New Zealand Maori team.

* Lara holds the world record of scoring most runs in a single over ( 28 runs against left-arm spinner RJ Peterson of South Africa ) in Test cricket.

Micah reproaches unjust leaders, defends the rights of the poor against the rich and powerful, and preaches social justice ; while looking forward to a world at peace centered on Zion under the leadership of a new Davidic monarch.

It is because they have done so that England is the place where people can do more what they please than in any other country in the world ... It is this practice of allowing one set of people to dictate to another set of people what they shall do, what they shall think, what they shall drink, when they shall go to bed, what they shall buy, and where they shall buy it, what wages they shall get and how they shall spend them, against which the Liberal party have always protested.

Helped considerably by the Soviet campaign against the novel, Doctor Zhivago became an instant sensation throughout the non-Communist world upon its release in November 1957.

Lomborg campaigned against the Kyoto Protocol and other measures to cut carbon emissions in the short-term, and argued for adaptation to short-term temperature rises as they are inevitable, and for spending money on research and development for longer-term environmental solutions, and on other important world problems such as AIDS, malaria and malnutrition.

As the Byzantine Empire was situated in-between the Islamic world and the Christian west, so did Constantinople act as Europe ’ s first line-of-defence against Arab advances in the 7th and 8th centuries.

The early personages most cited for propounding composting within farming are for the German-speaking world Rudolf Steiner, founder of a farming method called biodynamics, and Annie Francé-Harrar, who was appointed on behalf of the government in Mexico and supported the country 1950 – 1958 to set up a large humus organization in the fight against erosion and soil degradation.

If a team places high enough at selected USASF / IASF sanctioned national competitions, they could be included in the Cheerleading Worlds and compete against teams from all over the world, as well as receive money for placing.