Total sales of the ColecoVision are uncertain but were ultimately in excess of 2 million units, as sales had reached that number by the spring of 1984, while the console continued to sell modestly up until its discontinuation the following year.

Marion Zimmer Bradley, who acknowledges the influence of Murray, uses the figure of the " horned god " in her feminist fantasy transformation of Arthurinian myth, Mists of Avalon ( 1984 ), and portrays ritualistic incest between King Arthur as the representative of the horned god and his sister Morgaine as the " spring maiden ".

In the spring of 1984, Chernenko was hospitalized for over a month, but kept working by sending the Politburo notes and letters.

Their spring 1984 announcement generated excitement in the PDP-10 world.

Kent Haruf's to rhyme with " sheriff " novel The Tie That Binds ( 1984 ), is the fictitious story of 80 year-old Edith Goodnough of Holt County, Colorado, as told to an unnamed inquirer on a Sunday afternoon in the spring of 1977 by her 50 year-old neighbour, a farmer called Sanders Roscoe.

Percussionist and singer Mino Cinélu replaced Rossy in the spring of 1984 and appeared on the band's video release Live in Japan ( reissued on DVD in 2007 ).

He had also supported her when disputes about her behaviour arose within the commune leadership, but in spring 1984, as tension amongst the inner circle peaked, a private meeting was convened with Sheela and his personal house staff.

The computer was launched in the spring of 1984 under the original name Kontiki 100, and was first and foremost intended for the emerging educational sector, especially for primary schools.

* In the spring of 1999 Zombie Nation released a remix of game musician David Whittaker's Lazy Jones ( originally written for the SID in 1984 ) under the title Kernkraft 400.

During primaries in the spring of 1984, when the commercial was at its height of popularity, Democratic candidate and former Vice President Walter Mondale used the phrase to sum up his arguments that program policies championed by his rival, Senator Gary Hart, were insubstantial, beginning with a March 11, 1984 televised debate prior to the New York and Pennsylvania primaries.

Buzz and Boomer have been the official mascots of the Winnipeg Blue Bomber since the spring of 1984.

In the spring of 1984, Kennedy completed a month-long stay at St. Mary's Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in Minneapolis.

Due to the severe damage, the name " Alicia " was retired in the spring of 1984, and will never be used again for an Atlantic hurricane.

* Vicki Peterson performed one show with Redd Kross, playing guitar for them at the Pomona Valley Auditorium in the spring of 1984.

In the spring season of 1984, a Yugoslav team led by A. Kunaver climbed the peak via the south face.

Today, thousands of Orthodox Jews, particularly Chabad Hasidim, participate in one of the annual study cycles of Mishneh Torah ( 1 or 3 chapters a day ), innovated by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in the spring of 1984.

Following Gutiérrez's loss to Dan Rostenkowski he helped found the Cook County Coalition for New Politics in spring of 1984.

Encouraged by the success of the Liverpool City Council, which delayed issuing a budget in 1984 until the government agreed to restore some funding cuts, twelve Labour councils that had the cap imposed on them chose not to set a rate at all in the spring of 1985, demanding that the government lift the cap.

In the spring of 1984 Nutt was hired by Arkansas State University as a full-time assistant coach but he spent only four months there before returning to Oklahoma State that summer as a receiver's coach.

Consequently, Border, who was now captain of Queensland, became Australian vice-captain to Kim Hughes for the tour of the West Indies in the northern spring of 1984.

The song was an international chart success, peaking at No. 4 in their native UK where it became the band's biggest seller earning a gold disc, and reached No. 3 in the US in the spring of 1984 becoming their biggest American hit.

They held a congress in the spring of 1984 in Liège and set up a restructured European Green Coordination ( EGC ), with a secretariat provided by the Dutch Political Party of Radicals.

Under his guidance, he built the highest rated per capita " modern " country station in the US ( 21. 1 12 + ARB spring 1984 ).

Hansen will be getting a late spring training start, which might very well set him back.

A visit in the early spring after a thaw will be very informative.

The development of the Andrena larvae is very rapid, so that by the end of spring they have already pupated and become adults.

But although the idea of communism is very old even in More's day and did not spring full-clad from his imagination in 1515, it is not communism as such that we are concerned with.

In the spring and early summer of that year she met a wealthy foreign tycoon who took her to France, where she later met a very wealthy man and toured all Europe with him.

If the administration does not succeed in passing the sales tax bill, or any other tax bill, it could very well be faced this spring at the fiscal session of the Legislature with an interesting dilemma.

The above model of an oscillating mass on a spring is plausible but not very realistic: in practice, friction will tend to decelerate the mass and have magnitude proportional to its velocity ( i. e. dx / dt ).

A hydraulic ram has only two moving parts, a spring or weight loaded " waste " valve sometimes known as the " clack " valve and a " delivery " check valve, making it cheap to build, easy to maintain, and very reliable.

Since Brighid represented the light half of the year, and the power that will bring people from the dark season of winter into spring, her presence was very important at this time of year.

Before Jack and I moved to Montreal, we had just been through some very rough treatment in the racially biased South during spring training in Florida.

The spring is often very short.

La Russa said, " I think it's fair to say he misunderstood how he compared to Royce in spring training ... When I and the coaches evaluated the play in spring training — the whole game — Royce started very slowly offensively and you could see him start to get better.

The observed behavior is very different: most of the ozone is found in the mid-to-high latitudes of the northern and southern hemispheres, and the highest levels are found in the spring, not summer, and the lowest in the autumn, not winter in the northern hemisphere.

Poseidon struck the ground with his trident and a spring sprang up ; the water was salty and not very useful, whereas Athena offered them an olive tree.

At the very end of the stroke, with the blade still in the water, the hands drop slightly to unload the oar so that spring energy stored in the bend of the oar gets transferred to the boat, which eases removing the oar from the water and minimizes energy wasted on lifting water above the surface ( splashing ).

Built in winter 3807 BC or spring 3806 BC, tree-ring dating ( Dendrochronology ) enabled very precise dating.

Warm southern winds blow from the plains and intermontane regions of the Western United States during much of July and August, very cool or hot but changeable airmasses often occur during spring and in September.

Unrestricted submarine warfare in the spring of 1917 was initially very successful, sinking a major part of Britain-bound shipping.

" Leaf " forms typically spring sideways from the stem, in what is often called a " half-palmette " form, named after its distant and very different looking ancestor in Ancient Egyptian and Greek ornament.

However, this assumption is incorrect, as all watches in the time of Huygens and Hooke employed the very un-detached verge escapement, the action of which destroys the isochronal properties of any form of balance spring, spiral or otherwise.

Although often still very cold, Candlemas was celebrated as the first day of spring.

It shows how astronomical observations prove the inverse square law of gravitation ( to an accuracy that was high by the standards of Newton's time ); offers estimates of relative masses for the known giant planets and for the Earth and the Sun ; defines the very slow motion of the Sun relative to the solar-system barycenter ; shows how the theory of gravity can account for irregularities in the motion of the Moon ; identifies the oblateness of the figure of the Earth ; accounts approximately for marine tides including phenomena of spring and neap tides by the perturbing ( and varying ) gravitational attractions of the Sun and Moon on the Earth's waters ; explains the precession of the equinoxes as an effect of the gravitational attraction of the Moon on the Earth's equatorial bulge ; and gives theoretical basis for numerous phenomena about comets and their elongated, near-parabolic orbits.

Michael Calderone of Politico quoted Lipsky as saying not to read too much into the initial items since "... a business plan for the site is still in formation ," and "... these are just some very, very early bulbs of spring ( or late winter ).