The Cullen inquiry was carried out in 2 blocks of sittings, sandwiching the ' joint inquiry '; the first block dealt with the accident itself, the second block dealt with the management and regulation of UK railway safety ; this had always been part of the inquiry terms of reference, but was given additional urgency by a further train crash at Hatfield in October 2000.

Other famous people who appear in the novel include the dance instructor Irene Castle, and the Harlem renaissance authors James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, Countee Cullen, W. E. B. DuBois, and a veiled reference to Malcolm X.

Thus he may be referring to some concrete thing, or incident, in his immediate environment by some symbolic-sounding, hyperbolic reference to transcendental events on the global scene.

The reference is to a lounge cover of the song, recorded by the band Nouvelle Vague, played during a scene in the Planet Terror segment of Grindhouse, although no rape takes place, and in fact the would-be rapist is killed by the would-be victim.

This was, at least partially, a reference to a scene in the original A Nightmare on Elm Street where the character Nancy Thompson ( portrayed by Heather Langenkamp ), watches the original Evil Dead on a television set in her room.

In turn, that scene was a reference to the torn The Hills Have Eyes poster seen in the original Evil Dead film, which was itself a reference to a torn Jaws poster in The Hills Have Eyes.

One of these is the famous work Saturn Devouring His Son ( known informally in some circles as Devoration or Saturn Eats His Child ), which displays a Greco-Roman mythological scene of the god Saturn consuming a child, possibly a reference to Spain's ongoing civil conflicts.

In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, the special effects crew was instructed to watch the giant octopus scene to get reference for the Kraken.

"; a reference to the scene in the movie Spartacus in which the survivors of Spartacus's army, defeated by Roman legions, are offered leniency by Crassus, if they will identify their leader.

The scene would have been drawn from life outdoors and then kept in the studio as reference material.

In commentary from the final season DVD, Jerry Seinfeld outlines that he and Jason Alexander spoke about this scene being in Monk's Cafe, with George saying " That was brutal " in reference to the four's stint in jail.

Along with the iconic main theme and effective support of the story line, the score also contains allusions to twentieth-century symphonic works, such as the reference to Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, second movement, in the tense quiet scene just before the shoot out.

" The chorus tells the audience " We'll not offend one stomach with our play ", a humorous reference to the fact that the scene of the play crosses the English Channel.

He left Edinburgh for the London punk scene in 1978, where he played guitar and sang in The Pubic Lice and Stairway 13, the latter a reference to the Ibrox disaster.

In 1724 a linen backing cloth was sewn on comparatively crudely and, in around the year 1800, large ink numerals were written on the backing which broadly enumerate each scene and which are still commonly used for reference.

The style was dubbed " emo ", " emo-core ", or " post-harDCore " ( in reference to one of the names given to the Washington D. C. hardcore scene ).

Most of the segment was shot in live action, including a scene where a UCLA athlete was asked to run and jump across one of the studio's sound stages with barrels in the way, which was used for reference when Mickey traverses through water.

* Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King ( 2008 ) has a scene, clearly meant to be an ironic reference to the eventual unpopularity of the character, where a monstrous Mystery Machine crashes through a carnival stand containing dolls of Scrappy, and running over them.

A reference to the aforementioned " octopus scene " is included, as the seventh level.

Once inside the facility, Jay and Silent Bob find a tranquilizer gun and the ape, an orangutan named Suzanne ( a reference to the ending scene in " Mallrats ").

Pursued by a group of security guards, they are able to escape by riding a bicycle over a ramp ( a reference to the iconic E. T., the Extra-Terrestrial moon scene ), propelling them through the window of a nearby building.

For example, in An Autumn Afternoon a wedding is mentioned in one scene, and then in the next, a reference is made to the wedding that has already occurred.

Godard compares this scene with Orphée's warning to Eurydice, and it is also possible to detect a reference here to the

The iconic intro scene in which Austin is chased around London by a crowd of women is a reference to the The Beatles ' film A Hard Day's Night.

In The Publick Spirit of the Whigs, it may be noted, Swift himself contemptuously dismissed Steele's reference to his friend at court: `` I suppose by the Style of old Friend, and the like, it must be some Body there of his own Level ; ;

If Af is the change per unit volume in Gibbs function caused by the shear field at constant P and T, and **yr is the density of the fluid, then the total potential energy of the system above the reference height is Af.

any such reference will make the index word or electronic switch unavailable at the end of this pass.

The reference coordinator at headquarters also serves as a consultant, and is available to work with the local librarian in helping to strengthen local reference service.

In Spanish, at least one reference reports estadounidense, estado-unidense or estadunidense are preferred to americano for U. S. nationals ; the latter tends to refer to any resident of the Americas and not necessarily from the United States.

For galaxies ( which are of course themselves much larger than 10 parsecs, and whose overall brightness cannot be directly observed from relatively short distances ) the absolute magnitude is defined by reference to the apparent brightness of a point-like or star-like source of the same total luminosity as the galaxy, as it would appear if observed at the standard 10 parsecs distance.

The third is the artist's only reference to music, created for a monument at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Claude Debussy's birthplace.

The reference he used to this effect was the Earth's magnetic field direction, which at that time was believed to be invariant.

In contrast, stellar aberration is independent of the distance of a celestial object from the observer, and depends only on the observer's instantaneous transverse velocity in certain frame of reference, at the moment of observation.

Thus, " Armageddon " would mean " Mountain of Assembly ," which Jordan says is " a reference to the assembly at Mount Sinai, and to its replacement, Mount Zion.

* whiff rate: a term, usually used in reference to pitchers, that divides the number of pitches swung at and missed by the total number of swings in a given sample.

The expression " You can't steal first base " is sometimes used in reference to a player who is fast but not very good at getting on base in the first place.

There is no corroborating reference to the Beltane fires at Uisneach in the annals, so Keating's claims cannot be proven.

116 This scroll contains the oldest reference to Daniel, only as an abbreviated text: a prayer of Daniel at ( 9: 4b-19 ).

We know from a reference in William Langland's Piers Plowman, that ballads about Robin Hood were being sung from at least the late 14th century and the oldest detailed material we have is Wynkyn de Worde's collection of Robin Hood ballads printed about 1495.

Bliss found especially useful their " triangle of reference ": the physical thing or " referent " that we perceive would be represented at the right angle ; the meaning that we know by experience ( our implicit definition of the thing ), at the top angle ; and the physical word that we speak or write, at the left angle.

In a reference frame uniformly rotating at angular rate Ω, the fictitious centrifugal force is conservative and has a potential energy of the form:

The standard state, or reference state, of an element is defined as its thermodynamically most stable state at 1 bar at a given temperature ( typically at 298. 15 K ).

While rooted in rather different theories, these two traditions have been characterised by a constant reference to experimental research to test hypotheses, both at clinical and basic level.

Many states at this time functioned as theocracies, with codes of conduct largely religious in origin or reference.