It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

`` It was a king cobra, the largest you ever saw, and it deserved to live out its life in the jungle, didn't it??

Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.

It was the Eisenhower Administration which produced the largest peacetime deficit.

This was the largest house he had ever been in, almost the largest building, except for a hotel.

In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.

Reflecting the largest percentage of high-end sets such as consoles and combinations since 1953, dollar value of home entertainment electronics in 1960 was about $1.9 billion, compared to $1.7 billion in 1959.

Even so, it was still not clear to many in the enormous horde of spectators -- unquestionably the largest golf crowd ever -- that this tournament was to be, essentially, a match between Palmer and Player.

From 1853 to 1860, another of Lincoln's largest clients was the Illinois Central Railroad.

The single largest organization of Anthropologists is the American Anthropological Association ( AAA ), which was founded in 1903.

The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.

* 1965 – The largest swimming pool in Europe was opened in Fürstenfeld, Austria.

In December 1988, the second largest city in the republic, Leninakan ( now Gyumri ), was heavily damaged by a massive quake that killed more than 25, 000 people.

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

The largest successful publicly known brute force attack against any block-cipher encryption was against a 64-bit RC5 key by distributed. net in 2006.

( The largest problem that could be solved without the use of the intermediate output and input was two simultaneous equations, a trivial problem.

The massive skull of Albertosaurus, perched on a short, S-shaped neck, was approximately 1 metre ( 3. 3 ft ) long in the largest adults.

* 1990 – Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton found to date, was discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.

Aachen Cathedral was erected on the orders of Charlemagne in AD 786 and was on completion the largest cathedral north of the Alps.

The largest of these contingents was that of the Goths, who in 382, had been allowed to settle within the imperial boundaries, keeping a large degree of autonomy.

Among these was a raid taking place in Kent, an allied country in Southeast England, during the year 885, which was quite possibly the largest raid since the battles with Guthrum.

Freddy needed a job, having been detached from a rather dangerous career in real estate and skyscraper financing by Gerry, and it was up to Arthur Willis to provide him with one.

This skyscraper was the filming location for R & B group Dru Hill's music video for " How Deep Is Your Love ," directed by Brett Ratner, who also directed the movie Rush Hour, whose soundtrack features the song.

Foster + Partners submitted a plan for a 385 metre tall skyscraper, the London Millenium Tower, but its height was seen as excessive for London's skyline.

Nashville's first skyscraper, the Life & Casualty Tower, was completed in 1957 and started the construction of high rises in downtown Nashville.

After the great depression, skyscraper construction was abandoned.

Home Insurance Building in Chicago, United States was considered a skyscraper when it was built in 1884, but it had only ten storeys.

The term " skyscraper " was first applied to buildings of steel framed construction of at least 10 storeys in the late 19th century, a result of public amazement at the tall buildings being built in major cities like Chicago, New York City, Detroit, and St. Louis.

The first steel frame skyscraper was the Home Insurance Building ( originally 10 storeys with a height of ) in Chicago, Illinois in 1885.

The structural definition of the word skyscraper was refined later by architectural historians, based on engineering developments of the 1880s that had enabled construction of tall multi-storey buildings.

That year the Movement was constructing 70-storey twin skyscraper in Seoul at an estimated cost of $ 2 billion USD.

* Windsor Tower, a skyscraper in Madrid, Spain, which was destroyed in a fire in 2005

Louis Henry Sullivan ( September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924 ) was an American architect, and has been called the " father of skyscrapers " and " father of modernism " He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School, was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School.

* 1987 – 190 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Ill .; Burgee's first skyscraper in Chicago, where he was born

Gilbert was a skyscraper pioneer ; when designing the Woolworth Building he moved into unproven ground — though he certainly was aware of the ground-breaking work done by Chicago architects on skyscrapers and once discussed merging firms with the legendary Daniel Burnham — and his technique of cladding a steel frame became the model for decades.

Certain specific incidents in the fictional Keating's career are pointed to by Heynick as having been drawn from Hood's real-life career, such as their both suddenly gaining national fame by winning the highly-publicized skyscraper contest for a media corporation in the early 1920s with a design in the historicist style, and their both heading the committee for a " modernistic " World's Fair in the 1930s from which the hero architect ( Howard Roark in the novel, Frank Lloyd Wright in real-life ) was excluded.

At the time, it was seen as provocation on a grand scale: crowning a Manhattan skyscraper with a shape echoing a historical wardrobe top defied every precept of the modernist aesthetic: historical pattern had been effectively outlawed among architects for years.

Their primary expertise is in high-end commercial buildings, as it was SOM that led the way to the widespread use of the modern international-style or " glass box " skyscraper.

The Transamerica Pyramid was the tallest skyscraper west of the Mississippi from 1972 to 1974 surpassing the then Bank of America Center.

Constructed from 1969 to 1972, it was the tallest skyscraper in France until 2011, when it was surpassed by the Tour First.

He was a member of the Oakland City Methodist Church and a native of Atlanta.

Haren was 15 – 9 with a 3. 07 ERA for Oakland in 2007.

Barney died on August 12, 1997, and in his honor that night's game at Camden Yards against the Oakland Athletics was held without a public – address announcer.

It was not yet " Berkeley ," but merely the northern part of the " Oakland Township " subdivision of Alameda County.

That same year, the mainline of the transcontinental railroad into Oakland was re-routed, putting the right-of-way along the bay shore through Ocean View.

Reed Johnson and Jim Edmonds were added early on and Rich Harden was acquired from the Oakland Athletics in early July.

Ironically, Holliday, traded from Oakland to St. Louis in July, was in the opposing dugout watching the play.

The structure was re-striped to accommodate six lanes on October 18, 1989 in response to the temporary closing of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge due to the Loma Prieta earthquake, and the permanent widening of the approaches was completed by July 2003.

The team went back to wearing this uniform at home on Thanksgiving Day in 2009 while their opponent was the Oakland Raiders who wore their AFL Legacy Weekend throwbacks.

The Marlins ' first manager was Rene Lachemann, a former catcher who had previously managed the Seattle Mariners and Milwaukee Brewers, and who at the time of his hiring was a third base coach for the Oakland Athletics.

The Colts 1977 playoff loss in double overtime against the Oakland Raiders was famous for the fact that it was the last playoff game for the Colts in Baltimore and is also known for the Ghost to the Post play.

( Porter was released the following year and Groves was traded to Oakland in 2010.

The franchise was established following the actions of Stuart Symington, then-United States Senator from Missouri, who demanded a new franchise for the city after the Athletics ( Kansas City's previous major league team from 1955 to 1967 ) moved to Oakland, California.

The following day's second Oakland concert was the band's final live appearance in the United States.

On March 2, 2005, Vikings wide receiver Randy Moss was traded to the Oakland Raiders for linebacker Napoleon Harris and the Raiders ' first round draft pick.

Since, they have played in three additional World Series, including a dramatic run in that ended in a Game Seven loss to the Oakland Athletics, a second championship in against the Boston Red Sox that was cited in the Curse of the Bambino, and a Subway Series against their cross-town rivals the New York Yankees in the 2000 World Series which they lost in five games.

One of the reasons cited for the poor attendance figures was the decision to issue costly Personal Seat Licenses ( PSLs ) upon the Raiders ' return to Oakland in 1995.

In November 2005, the team announced that it was taking over ticket sales from the privately run Oakland Football Marketing Association ( OFMA ), and abolishing PSLs.

Upon moving to Oakland, the " A " cap emblem was restored, although in 1970 an " apostrophe-s " was added to the cap and uniform emblem to reflect the fact that Finley was in the process of officially changing the team's name to the " A's.