Nuclear weapons have given the world the means for self-destruction in hours or days ; ;

`` Standard years -- eighty-four years, seven months, three days, two hours, eleven and one half minutes.

Without a writing system, the Ainu were masters of narration, with the Yukar and other forms of narration such as the Uepeker ( Uwepeker ) tales, being committed to memory and related at gatherings, often lasting many hours or even days.

His first job at age 13 in 1848 was as a bobbin boy, changing spools of thread in a cotton mill 12 hours a day, 6 days a week in a Pittsburgh cotton factory.

John Young and Charles Duke spent 71 hours — just under three days — on the lunar surface, during which they conducted three extra-vehicular activities, or moonwalks, totaling 20 hours and 14 minutes.

Permanent PSAs may be initially removable ( for example to recover mislabeled goods ) and build adhesion to a permanent bond after several hours or days.

Designed with a retarder, slow drying medium, or other proprietary mediums that allow the paints to be reopened, these paints can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days, or even a few weeks to dry completely.

People commonly experience an increase in energy and a decreased need for sleep, with many often getting as little as three or four hours of sleep per night, while others can go days without sleeping.

Albert spent many days shooting deer and game, while Victoria took long walks of up to four hours daily.

The incubation period for pneumonic plague is usually between two and four days, but can be as little as a few hours.

The battle was over within hours, with the Dutch surrendering Fort Nassau-after some subterfuge-and within days the remainder of the Banda Islands.

This combination of story improvisation and relentless perfectionism — which resulted in days of effort and thousands of feet of film being wasted, all at enormous expense — often proved very taxing for Chaplin, who in frustration would often lash out at his actors and crew, keep them waiting idly for hours or, in extreme cases, shutting down production altogether.

Among the isotopes that do not occur naturally, the most long-lived are < sup > 109 </ sup > Cd with a half-life of 462. 6 days, and < sup > 115 </ sup > Cd with a half-life of 53. 46 hours.

44. 6 days ), and < sup > 117m </ sup > Cd ( t < sub > ½ </ sub > = 3. 36 hours ).

Coma lasting seconds to minutes results in post-traumatic amnesia ( PTA ) that lasts hours to days ; recovery plateau occurs over days to weeks.

Coma that lasts hours to days results in PTA lasting days to weeks ; recovery plateau occurs over months.

In completing her first space flight, Coleman orbited the Earth 256 times, traveled over 6 million miles, and logged a total of 15 days, 21 hours, 52 minutes and 21 seconds in space.

Some of these Buddhist vegetarian chefs are in the many monasteries which serve wu hun and mock-meat ( also known as ' meat analogues ') dishes to the monks and visitors ( including non-Buddhists who often stay for a few hours or days, to Buddhists who are not monks, but staying overnight for anywhere up to weeks or months ).

Most teams practice at least three days a week for about two hours each practice during the summer.

Each cabal was usually dedicated to one very specific area of the game which meant the cabal had to meet very regularly, in the case of Half-Life the members had to meet four days a week, six hours a day for five months.

Programs would run for hours or days, on multi-million-dollar computers, to generate a few minutes of music.

Conjunctivitis due to chlamydia typically occurs one week after birth ( compared with chemical causes ( within hours ) or gonorrhea ( 2 – 5 days )).

More temperately than in the study of Grey and despite his Liberal bias, Trevelyan vividly sketches the England of pre-French Revolution days, portrays the stresses and strains of the revolutionary period in rich colors, and brings developments leading to the Reform Bill into sharp and clear focus.

Walton, who soon made a break from journalism to become one of the capital's leading semi-abstract painters, vows that he and Kennedy never once discussed art in those days.

The son of a wealthy Evanston executive was fined $100 yesterday and forbidden to drive for 60 days for leading an Evanston policeman on a high speed chase over icy Evanston and Wilmette streets Jan. 20.

Two days after McClellan's return to command, General Robert E. Lee's forces crossed the Potomac River into Maryland, leading to the Battle of Antietam in September 1862.

* 1973 – A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis ; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term " Stockholm syndrome ".

By the next day the Doge and the leading Franks were installed in the Great Palace, and the city was given over to pillage for three days.

However, filming during the season cost the players valuable rest days leading to fatigue towards the end of the season.

Hughes was a professor in the 1890s, a staunch supporter of Britain's New Liberalism, an important leader of the progressive movement of the 20th century, a leading diplomat and New York lawyer in the days of Harding and Coolidge, and was known for being a swing voter when dealing with cases related to the New Deal in the 1930s.

While this rivalry was in many ways a holdover from the days when the Commodore 64 had first challenged the Atari 800 ( among others ) in a series of scathing television commercials, the events leading to the launch of the ST and Amiga only served to further alienate fans of each computer, who fought vitriolic holy wars on the question of which platform was superior.

Some days after that meeting, the delegation was approached by three French agents ( at first identified as " X ", " Y ", and " Z " in published papers, leading the controversy to be called the " XYZ Affair ") who demanded substantial bribes from the commissioners before negotiations could continue.

In the 1566 Battle of Szigetvár, Miklós Zrínyi defended Szigetvár for 30 days against the largest Ottoman army ever seen up to that day, and died leading his remaining few soldiers on a final suicide charge to become one of the best known national heroes.

Henry was accepted as king by the leading barons and was crowned three days later on 5 August at Westminster Abbey.

* 2009 – The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities.

Adenauer was imprisoned for two days after the Night of the Long Knives on the 30th June 1934, but already on the 10th of August 1934, maneuvering for his pension, he wrote a 10-page letter to Hermann Göring ( the Prussian interior minister ) stating among other things that as a mayor he had even violated Prussian laws in order to allow NSDAP events in public buildings and Nazi flags to be flown from city flagpoles, and added that in 1932 he had declared publicly that the Nazis should join the Reich government in a leading role.

Nevertheless after the war rebuilding started quickly and when Berlin was separated into East and West Berlin, the Kurfürstendamm became the leading commercial street of West Berlin in its Wirtschaftswunder days.

Medieval drama sometimes portrayed Christ leading a dramatic assault — The Harrowing of Hell — during the three days between the Crucifixion and the resurrection.

* 1992 – Three days of popular protests against the government of Prime Minister of Thailand Suchinda Kraprayoon begin in Bangkok, leading to a military crackdown that results in 52 officially confirmed deaths, many disappearances, hundreds of injuries, and over 3, 500 arrests.

* 2010 – Jamaican police begin a manhunt for drug lord Christopher " Dudus " Coke, after the United States requested his extradition, leading to three days of violence during which at least 73 bystanders are killed.

* 1908 – American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.

Ten days after the operation, her mother, Edith Luckett Davis, died in Phoenix, Arizona, leading Nancy to dub the period " a terrible month ".

The body then lies in state for several days before being interred in the crypt of a leading church or cathedral ; all who have died in the 20th and 21st centuries have been interred in St. Peter's Basilica.

* Battle Hymn ( 1956 ) is based on the real-life experiences of Lt Col Dean E. Hess, USAF ( played by Rock Hudson ) and his cadre of U. S. Air Force instructors in the early days of the Korean War, training the pilots of the Republic of Korea Air Force and leading them during their first missions in F-51D / F-51Ks.

Laennec is said to have seen schoolchildren playing with long, hollow sticks in the days leading up to his innovation.

The Romans identified Samhain with their own feast of the dead, the Lemuria, which was observed in the days leading up to May 13.

In the days leading up the Super Bowl, Henderson began talking about the Steelers in the same manner.