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Key realizations made during World War II, notably the fact that most small-arms engagements occurred within 100 yards ( 90 meters ), and that a high rate of fire was generally more effective than the slower but more accurate fire, ( such as provided by bolt-action and semi-automatic rifles ) were some of the key causes for the development of the assault rifle.
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Grant then made a few more albums before dropping out of college to pursue a career in music — Never Alone, followed by a pair of live albums in 1981 ( In Concert and In Concert Volume Two ), both backed by an augmented edition of the DeGarmo & Key band.
Key contributions were made by the Danish scholars Rasmus Rask and Karl Verner and the German scholar Jacob Grimm.
French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari made reference to Lovecraft in A Thousand Plateaus and called the short story " Through the Gates of the Silver Key " one of his masterpieces.
* Key frame, a frame made by an animator from which other frames are derived
Key invention in the development of electronic spreadsheets was made by Rene K. Pardo and Remy Landau, who filed in 1971 on spreadsheet automatic natural order recalculation algorithm in 1970.
Figures published by the UK Government in February 2008, show Bideford College had made significant improvements in the Key Stage 3 exams taken by 14 year old students.
The Council Key III is made up of President James K. Larson, Council Commissioner Todd Dykton and Scout Executive James Lakeman.
The Council Key III is made up of President James K. Larson, Council Commissioner Albin Sporny III and Scout Executive Jim Lakeman.
* Lover's Key State Park, a park made up of four barrier islands, is located within the city and just north of Bonita Beach.
In addition to the Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce, and in concert with the Town of Longboat Key, these entities have made Longboat Key an exemplar of local government and citizen cooperation in participation and management for communities of its type.
Nevertheless, the purchase by the federal government of most of the land on Elliott Key ended those plans, and in 1968, Islandia was made a part of Biscayne National Monument ( which later became Biscayne National Park ).
The original elbow chairs in this room were made by Stephen Langley and were unusual in their use of a Greek Key design interspersed with flowers, dated to 1735. Today these large pieces of furniture are situated in the Green Velvet Room.
" No changes are being made to the status of the New Zealand flag ," Mr Key said.
Initially Key had planned Puppy to be a side project while he continued his work in Images, however, when Images in Vogue relocated to Toronto, Key made Skinny Puppy his full-time project.
However, margaritas in Mexico are generally made with Mexican limes ( Key limes ).
He appeared for director John Huston as gangster Johnny Rocco in Key Largo ( 1948 ), the last of five films he made with Humphrey Bogart and the only one in which Bogart did not play a supporting role.
He leaves on a trip to Germany at the end of '" The Freckle, the Key, and the Couple Who Weren't ", and returns in " Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps ", just as Jane is expressing her amazement that the many sexual encounters she has had while he was away have not made her pregnant (" I have shagged and shagged and shagged and all the little bastards missed !").
The settlers made a living by providing fish, fresh vegetables and charcoal to Key West.
The novella Stella, concerning the dangers faced by the captains of rescue tugs in the English Channel during WWII, was made into a film entitled The Key in 1958.
L. W. de Laurence in 1914 published " The Greater Key of Solomon ", directly based on Mathers ' edition, to which he made alterations in an attempt to advertise his mail-order business ( for example by inserting instructions like " after burning one-half teaspoonful of Temple Incense " along with ordering information for the incense ).
Masaaki Imai made the term famous in his book Kaizen: The Key to Japan's Competitive Success.
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" The Star-Spangled Banner " has special meaning to Baltimore historically, as it was written during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812 by Francis Scott Key, a Baltimorean.
Key criteria are the composition of the clay and the temper used in the manufacture of the article under study: temper is a material added to the clay during the initial production stage, and it is used to aid the subsequent drying process.
Key among these during the post World War II period are Electa and Irving Johnson, Miles and Beryl Smeeton, Bernard Moitessier, Peter Pye, and Eric and Susan Hiscock.
As a result of this, Key was unable to do anything but watch the bombarding of the American forces at Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore on the night of September 13 – 14, 1814.
A later book also claiming to have been written by Solomon was originally written in Greek during the 15th century, where it was known as the Magical Treatise of Solomon or the Little Key of the Whole Art of Hygromancy, Found by Several Craftmen and by the Holy Prophet Solomon.
This defense was first used by U. S. Congressman Daniel Sickles of New York in 1859 after he had killed his wife's lover, Philip Barton Key, but was most used during the 1940s and 1950s.
Key recordings included Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow, the first album to come out of San Francisco during this era, which sold well enough to bring the city's music scene to the attention of the record industry: from it they took two of the earliest psychedelic hit singles: " White Rabbit " ( 1967 ) and " Somebody to Love " ( 1967 ).
It featured regularly in season 16 during the Key to Time saga.
The lyrics come from " Defence of Fort McHenry ", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.
Williams's career as an author began with A Key into the Language of America ( London, 1643 ), written during his first voyage to England.
In 1946 National City Lines ( NCL ), a General Motors holding company, acquired 64 % of Key System stock ; during the next several years NCL engaged in the conspiratorial dissolution of Oakland's electric streetcar system.
Key parts of Finland were sometimes under a Duke of Finland during the Swedish reign.
Also, during the run of Thriller, Karloff lent his name and likeness to a comic book for Gold Key Comics based upon the series.
Construction of Fort De Soto, on Mullet Key facing the mouth of Tampa Bay, was begun in 1898 during the Spanish-American War to protect Tampa Bay from potential invading forces.
First Capital Connect acquired 23 new four-coach Class 377 sets during 2009, on sublease from Southern, to be used on the Thameslink route for additional capacity and also to allow some of the Class 319 trains to be released for use on the Catford Loop service to Sevenoaks, now jointly operated with Southeastern under Key Output 0 of the Thameslink Programme.
Mary Tamm as Romana IThe White Guardian originally assigns Romana to assist the Doctor during the quest for the Key to Time, a series of linked serials which constitute the whole of Season 16 ( 1978 – 79 ).
Big Finish has announced that Mary Tamm will reprise the role of Romana alongside Tom Baker for a second series of original audio dramas ( the first series having featured Leela ) set during the Key to Time era ; the first of these are scheduled for release in late 2012-early 2013.
American settlement began after the Civil War, when Union sympathizers who had farmed on Cape Sable to supply Key West during the war, moved up the west coast of the peninsula.
Permanent historic occupation of the islands began in 1839, when the United States Army, led by General Zachary Taylor, established " Fort No. 4 ", which served as a depot and included a hospital, on Depot Key ( later known as Atsena Otie Key ) during the Second Seminole War.
Cedar Key was an important source of salt for the Confederacy during the early part of the war.
Some Longboat Key residents are " snowbirds ," who vacation on or own second homes on Longboat Key, and are present only during the winter months.
After the probable Amerindian name of Zarazote for the area and the bay, the key was originally named Sarasota Key by European cartographers during exploration beginning in 1513.
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