In the field of entertainment there is no spur to financial daring so effective as audience boredom, and the first decade of the new device was not over before audiences began staying away in large numbers from the simple-minded, one-minute shows.

As Player began his second round in a twosome with amateur Bill Hyndman, his share of the gallery was not conspicuously large for a contender.

The first of the Australian gold rushes, in the 1850s, began a large wave of immigration, with approximately two per cent of the population of the United Kingdom emigrating to the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria.

Beginning in the 17th century, immigrants from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Germany and France began arriving in large numbers, bringing with them new styles and instruments.

It was only in the subsequent period, from 1977 through 1988, that the three firms began to export arms on a large scale.

Other periodicals appeared and began to give Breton a fairly large body of literature for a minority language.

However, sealed trains began carrying large numbers of prisoners to the Soviet Gulags.

The Musée Bonnat began with a large collection bequeathed by the local-born painter Léon Bonnat.

The first true towns are sometimes considered to be large settlements where the inhabitants were no longer simply farmers of the surrounding area, but began to take on specialized occupations, and where trade, food storage and power was centralized.

About the same time, he began to appear as a lecturer and, by his droll and eccentric humor, attracted large audiences.

The decline of the Roman infrastructure made it more difficult to field large infantry forces, and during the 4th and 5th centuries cavalry began to take a more dominant role on the European battlefield, also in part made possible by the appearance of new, larger breeds of horses.

In 1719, to further protect strategic interests in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and St. Lawrence River, France began the 20-year construction of a large fortress at Louisbourg on Île-Royale.

In 1949, Broadcast Relay Service began negotiations for the implementation of what was to be the first large scale cable TV system in North America.

However, by 1704 the Province of Pennsylvania had grown so large that their representatives wanted to make decisions without the assent of the Lower Counties and the two groups of representatives began meeting on their own, one at Philadelphia, and the other at New Castle.

Since large vertebrate terrestrial herbivores had not yet appeared, free-sporing vascular plants began to spread across dry land, forming extensive forests which covered the continents.

The Royal Navy began experiments with the " torpedo boat catcher ", a class of 17 large torpedo boats.

When Emily was 13, she and Anne withdrew from participation in the Angria story and began a new one about Gondal, a large island in the North Pacific.

The most recent large earthquake of magnitude 9. 0 or larger was a 9. 0 magnitude earthquake in Japan in 2011 ( as of March 2011 ), and it was the largest Japanese earthquake since records began.

By 27 June, the royal party had overtly given in, although the military began to arrive in large numbers around Paris and Versailles.

Carthage, seeking to make up for the recent territorial losses and a plentiful source of silver to pay the large indemnity owed to Rome, turned its attention to Iberia, and in 237 BC the Carthaginians, led by Hamilcar Barca, began a series of campaigns to expand their control over the peninsula.

The large scale mobilization of the Red Guards began in the late evening of 27 January.

The welfare system provided a safety net for the large number of unemployed workers, and many factories reduce their labor force and began to concentrate on high-profit specialty items.

The recorded history of Haiti began on 5 December 1492 when the European navigator Christopher Columbus happened upon a large island in the region of the western Atlantic Ocean that later came to be known as the Caribbean.

In the absence of policies designed to protect independent suppliers, economically strapped cooperatives began to sell land to the two large corporations.

The song was originally intended to be performed in 6 / 8 time, but had to be slowed down to its present rhythm when it began to be sung by large crowds.

* 2011 – An EF5 Tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri killing 161 people, the single deadliest tornado in the United States since modern record keeping began in 1950.

The tornado began to form around 3: 00 PM.

Also, the area within the triangular shape has been reported to had never had a tornado fully touch the ground since 1871 when recording began in Biscay.

The Stockton tornado began in Vernon County, near Nevada, Missouri and moved eastward through Cedar and Polk counties before dissipating east of the Dallas County line.

Rebuilding began immediately, and by 2000, the population of Barneveld was almost exactly double what it was at the time the tornado nearly destroyed the town.

The downtown area received little warning as the tornado struck less than 1 minute after the tornado siren began to sound.

( In the province of Ontario, Emergency Management Ontario recently began issuing red alerts for areas of the province that are already under an Environment Canada issued tornado warning.

The storm quickly developed supercell characteristics and began exhibiting potentially tornadic rotation, resulting in the NWS issuing the first tornado warning of the event for Comanche, Caddo and Grady counties 22 minutes later at 4: 47 p. m. CDT.

A week after the tornado struck, summer classes began at Topeka West High School.

Though there has been some discussion as to whether this was a single tornado or a tornado family, recent and ongoing detailed reanalysis has found no break in the path and in fact that the tornado began 15 mi ( 24 km ) before previously thought.

At about 9: 35PM, a second and much more significant tornado touched down near the campus of Texas Tech University, and began to track northeast, carving a path of destruction that at its peak reached almost two miles in width right through the heart of the city.

The tornado was the first to hit the downtown area since weather record keeping began in the 1880s.

It was the first tornado to hit the downtown area since weather record keeping began in late 1878, or unofficially at any time in the city's history.

In 2005, the speedway received heavy damage on the evening of July 6, caused by an F2 tornado spawned from the remains of Hurricane Cindy. Damage caused tornadoes spawned by Hurricane Cindy Roofs and facades were torn off buildings andto Friday night, and shortly afterwards both Cup races began featuring night qualifying.

It was the first tornado to hit the downtown area since weather record keeping began in the 1880s.

The Late-May 1998 Tornado Outbreak and Derecho was a historic tornado outbreak and derecho that began on the afternoon of May 30 extending throughout May 31, 1998, across a large portion of the northern half of the United States and southern Ontario from southeastern Montana east and southeastward to the Atlantic Ocean.

The seriousness of these misconceptions began to be revealed in the 1960s and 1970s, when surveys of major tornado damage in residential areas showed that the section of a house in the direction of the tornado's approach is actually the least safe.

It was the first tornado to hit the downtown area since weather record keeping began in the 1880s.

Meanwhile, the tornado began to move slightly north of east, moving across Mooresville Road and crossing through the Copeland community near the intersection of Copeland Road and East Limestone Road.

Severe storms began entering Western South Carolina by mid-afternoon, and tornado watches had been issued for most of South Carolina, North Carolina and a portion of Virginia.