This provides protection for the base of the bullet, and allows velocities of over 1500 ft / s ( 450 m / s ) in handguns, with little or no leading of the bore.

Competitions were held around tracks of varying lengths — the 1885 match between Axel Paulsen and Remke van der Zee was skated on a track of 6 / 7 mile ( 1400 metres )— but the 400 metre track was standardised by the ISU in 1892, along with the standard distances for world championships, 500 m, 1500 m, 5000 m and 10, 000 m. Skaters started in pairs, each to their own lane, and changed lanes for every lap to ensure that each skater completed the same distance.

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The events are the same for both men and women: 500 m, 1000 m, 1500 m, 3000m, and the relay ( 5000 m ( men )/ 3000 m ( women )).

Ko remains the second youngest individual gold medalist after Tara Lipinski in the history of the Olympic Winter Games, winning gold in women's 1500 m event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt lake city, United States, at 15 years and 277 days old.

A bronze in the inaugural 1500 m event, and two golds ; in the 500 m and again as a part of the relay team.

The great depth of the Grand Canyon and especially the height of its strata ( most of which formed below sea level ) can be attributed to 5, 000 to 10, 000 feet ( 1500 to 3000 m ) of uplift of the Colorado Plateau, starting about 65 million years ago ( during the Laramide Orogeny ).

A San Francisco newspaper demanded that he cut his estimate of the rim height — at 1500 feet ( 450 m ), already under by half — in half again before they would published it.

In the winter, it feeds on benthic prey, mostly flatfish, at depths of up to 1500 m under dense pack ice.

Shortwave radio received its name because the wavelengths in this band are shorter than 200 m ( 1500 kHz ) which marked the original upper limit of the medium frequency band first used for radio communications.

The broadcast medium wave band now extends above the 200 m / 1500 kHz limit, and the amateur radio 1. 8 MHz – 2. 0 MHz band ( known as the " top band ") is the lowest-frequency band considered to be ' shortwave '.

Two parallel ranges of mountains traverse it from north to south, reaching 600 – 1500 m ( 2000 – 5000 ft ).

In normal weather conditions, the service range of a station at an altitude of 1500 m. with respect to receivers at sea level can be found as,

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The workers are approximately about from the mine entrance and 1500 feet ( 457 m ) underground.

The river rises at the Roc d ' Aude and passes through the Matemale and Puyvalador dams on the Capcir plateau at 1500 m, then crosses the department from south to north across Axat, Limoux and Quillan following the upper valley of the Aude.

From a modern perspective these figures may seem small, but in the world of Greek city-states Athens was huge: most of the thousand or so Greek cities could only muster 1000 – 1500 adult male citizens and Corinth, a major power, had at most 15, 000 but in some very seldom cases more.

A 1500 byte ( 12000-bit ) full-size Ethernet frame takes only 1. 2 µs to transmit on a 10 Gbit / s network, reducing the need for small cells to reduce jitter due to contention.

Lequien ( I, 1123 ) mentions only six Greek bishops, the first as being present at the First Council of Ephesus in 431, when the see was united to that of Coela ( Coelia or Coele ), the last about 1500.

The Ionian Islands were only briefly ruled by the Ottomans ( Kefalonia from 1479 to 1481 and from 1485 to 1500 ), and remained primarily under the rule of Venice.

Bordeaux was next with only 20, 000 population in 1500.

Before 1500 European economies were largely self-sufficient, only supplemented with Asia and Africa.

Furthermore, it was only around 1500 that lute players started the transition from plectrum technique to that of the right hand: the latter allowed for complex polyphony, for which notation had to be developed.

Near Earth most of the ship's 1500 passengers are killed by meteors, and only two men and six women land in a lifeboat and become the ancestors of humanity.

Samoan oral history, however, extends only as far back as 1000 A. D. Whatever occurred between 1500 B. C.

Color TV was not very popular initially ; only about 1500 people watched the inaugural program in color.

By contrast, the rest of Europe combined sent only 882, 412 people from 1500 to 1795, and the fleet of the English ( later British ) East India Company, the VOC ’ s nearest competitor, was a distant second to its total traffic with 2, 690 ships and a mere one-fifth the tonnage of goods carried by the VOC.

It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501 ; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain.

In the central Baltic Sea only 52 known salt-water species resided compare with around 1500 in the North Sea.

For private use the ( reel-to-reel ) tape recorder was not very common and only slowly took off from about the 1950s ; with prices between 700 and 1500 DM ( which would now be about to €) such machines were still far too expensive for the mass market and their vacuum tube construction made them very bulky.

A full-size ( 1500 byte ) Ethernet frame takes 94 ms to transmit at 128 kbit / s but only 8 ms at 1. 5 Mbit / s.

A new floor, and fenestration ( in the lower section ) were fitted circa 1500, although only the rafters now remain.

Since the founding of the GSG 9 the group has participated in over 1500 missions, yet reportedly fired shots only on five occasions ( official count, prior to the 2003 Iraq War ).

Paavo Nurmi won the 1500 m and 5, 000 m ( which were held with only an hour between them ) and the cross country run.

Herman is one of only two composers / lyricists to have three musicals run more than 1500 consecutive performances on Broadway ( the other being Stephen Schwartz ): Hello, Dolly!

One of the town's oldest buildings is the Martinustoren ( St. Martin's Tower ), dating from around 1500 and the only remaining part of a church demolished in 1903.

In the Middle Ages, Lisse was a small settlement ; there were only 50 houses in 1500.

This state-run prison opened in 1990, has a capacity of 1500 inmates, and currently houses only male offenders.

In 1500, when he was only twenty-three ( that is, if Vasari is correct about his age when he died ), he was chosen to paint portraits of the Doge Agostino Barbarigo and the condottiere Consalvo Ferrante.

Within the 1500 years between the events of God Emperor of Dune ( 1981 ) and Heretics of Dune ( 1984 ), the Tleilaxu discover an artificial method of producing the spice in their axlotl tanks, previously only used to create gholas.

The band have jokingly remarked that their Ninja have been " 1500 years in the making " and that the only thing that trumps a ninja is a ' Hive '.