From his playmates in Savannah, Mercer had picked up, along with a soft Southern dialect, traces also of the Gullah dialects of Africa.

To the right of the infantry Lord John Hay ’ s ‘ Scots Greys ’ also picked their way across the stream and charged the Régment du Roi within Autre-Eglise.

Carotenes are also found in some species of termites, where they apparently have been picked up from the diet of the insects.

The disco fad was also picked up even by " non-pop " artists.

This was so novel a proposition at the time that it got picked up and published by Newsweek and also covered by Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News.

Tillage also increases wind erosion rates, by dehydrating the soil and breaking it up into smaller particles that can be picked up by the wind.

This statement was likely picked up by the author of the Estoire Merlin, or Vulgate Merlin, where the author ( who was fond of fanciful folk etymologies ) asserts that Escalibor " is a Hebrew name which means in French ' cuts iron, steel, and wood '" (" c ' est non Ebrieu qui dist en franchois trenche fer & achier et fust "; note that the word for " steel " here, achier, also means " blade " or " sword " and comes from medieval Latin aciarium, a derivative of acies " sharp ", so there is no direct connection with Latin chalybs in this etymology ).

Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan ( 1965 ) also picked up the Special Jury Prize at Cannes and received a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards.

Cleveland's margin of victory was, at the time, the largest in a contested New York election, and the Democrats also picked up seats in both houses of the New York State Legislature.

As he slowly continued analyzing Tycho's Mars observations — now available to him in their entirety — and began the slow process of tabulating the Rudolphine Tables, Kepler also picked up the investigation of the laws of optics from his lunar essay of 1600.

The club also picked up goalkeeper Kevin Hartman from Los Angeles Galaxy as a move to help the club with that position.

iTunes picked " Saints of Los Angeles " in their " Best of 2008 " in the Rock category as the number one song ; the song was also nominated for a Grammy Award in the " Best Hard Rock Performance " category.

He also introduced the concept of utility, later picked up on and developed by Jeremy Bentham.

Reports also include inanimate objects being picked up and thrown as if by an invisible person ; noises such as knocking, rapping, or even human voices ; and petty physical attacks on human beings, such as pinching, biting, and hitting.

The Boerne, Texas legend also has plenty of evidence pointing to the fact that polo was played in Boerne before James Gordon Bennett Jr. ever picked up a polo mallet.

In the early 1900s, Guglielmo Marconi, Lord Kelvin, and David Peck Todd also stated their belief that radio could be used to contact Martians, with Marconi stating that his stations had also picked up potential Martian signals.

Active SETI, also known as messaging to extraterrestrial intelligence ( METI ), consists of sending signals into space in the hope that they will be picked up by an alien intelligence.

San Diego also picked up another first that summer, compiling an 84 – 78 mark for manager Roger Craig, the only time in 10 seasons the team finished a season with a winning percentage above. 500.

Swedish traders and aristocrats naturally also picked up some food traditions in foreign countries ; cabbage rolls ( kåldolmar ) being one example.

After graduating from Perm gymnasium in 1890, he went to the capital to study law at St. Petersburg University, but ended up also taking classes at the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music, where he studied singing and music ( a love of which he had picked up from his stepmother ).

The Broncos also possessed a solid defensive unit, led by outside linebacker Karl Mecklenburg, who recorded 7 sacks and picked off three passes, and defensive back Mike Harden with four interceptions.

The first streetcars, also known as horsecars in North America, were built in the United States and developed from city stagecoach lines and omnibus lines that picked up and dropped off passengers on a regular route without the need to be pre-hired.

William Empson revived the villanelle more seriously in the 1930s, and his contemporaries and friends W. H. Auden and Dylan Thomas also picked up the form.

Due to his knowledge, reputation, and active support for the cause of Islam, in 1972, a 15-member council selected him as head of Jamiat-e Islami of Afghanistan ; the founder of Jamiat-e Islami of Afghanistan, Ghulam M. Niyazi was also present.

Dominica is also a member of the 15-member Caribbean Community ( CARICOM ) and of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States ( OECS ).

He also said that he was prepared to reform the 15-member Central Election Commission, which had been strongly criticised for apparently colluding in the fixing of the run-off vote.

Proposition E also established a 15-member SFMTA Citizens Advisory Council which must review the agency's budget and which makes recommendations on agency policy.

It was also agreed that some reorganization of the cabinet would be helpful to draw more Democratic support ; though changes were made, Seward and Stanton, who had the most tenuous relationship with the party, were not affected.

Dürer also appears to have been collecting for his own cabinet of curiosities, and he sent back to Nuremberg various animal horns, a piece of coral, some large fish fins, and a wooden weapon from the East Indies.

Botswana's cabinet is headed by the President, who is also head of government.

There also are two vice presidents and the president's cabinet composed of his ministers.

The United Kingdom also operates a formal coalition cabinet between the Conservative and the Liberal Democrat parties, but this is unusual because the UK normally has a majority government.

Eisenhower also conducted the first pre-inaugural cabinet meeting in history in late 1952 ; he used this meeting to articulate his anti-communist Russia policy.

This person also becomes prime minister of the cabinet.

Politics of Gabon takes place in a framework of a republic whereby the President of Gabon is head of state and in effect, also the head of government, since he appoints the prime minister and his cabinet.

Although united on international trade issues and on questions of domestic reform, his cabinet which also contained Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell, who were certain to differ on questions of foreign policy.

The 1948 Constitution of Italy establishes the parliament, an executive branch ( cabinet ), headed by the Prime Minister ( also called President of the Council ), and an independent judicial branch headed by the ' Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura '.

This also led to complaints as more states joined the Confederacy, however, because there were more states than cabinet positions.

It also exercises political control over the cabinet through formal questioning of ministers on policy issues and by requesting a confidence debate.

Foreign Office minister Sir Eyre Crowe also wrote a memorandum to the British cabinet claiming that " a solemn league and covenant " would just be " a treaty, like other treaties ".

It also includes a presidentially appointed cabinet.

They have the executive power and authority over the cabinet and also help the Prime Minister in his tasks and responsibilities.

Fayed also revealed that the cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken had stayed for free at the Ritz Hotel in Paris at the same time as a group of Saudi arms dealers leading to Aitken's subsequent unsuccessful libel case and imprisonment for perjury.

It is also used to refer to political situations where one leader replaces another, only to be rapidly replaced in turn due to the instability of the governing system ( see cabinet shuffle ).

The cabinet exercises theoretical control over the executive ministries and has the authority to issue decrees concerning administration of the government, although in reality the government also took its directions from Kim Jong-il until 2011.

Walpole required that no minister other than himself have private dealings with the king, and also that when the cabinet had agreed on a policy, all ministers must defend it in public or resign.

Nevertheless, this cabinet was also known by contemporaries as " The Royal Cabinet " because among the thirteen cabinet members, five were members of the imperial family or Aisin Gioro relatives.

He also redesigned his office, famously replacing the board on which condemned prisoners were listed with a drinks cabinet.

A cabinet of ministers also was formed consisting of eight members of the DP and four of the SPUP, with Chief Minister Mancham becoming Prime Minister.

The Constitution also empowers him to nominate ten non-elected members of Parliament, who are also eligible to become cabinet members.