Around the same time, due to encouragement from influential speaker Themistocles, the Athenians also constructed the Long Walls connecting their city to the Piraeus, its port, making it effectively invulnerable to attack by land.

The idea of this name was proposed by Jim Kardach who developed a system that would allow cell phones to communicate with computers ( at the time he was reading Frans Gunnar Bengtsson's historical novel The Long Ships about Vikings and king Harald Bluetooth ).

Long term cross ownership of shares combined with a high capital tax rate greatly increases periods of asset deflation both in time and in severity.

* 1845 – Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia.

Long term budgets have a time horizon of 5 – 10 years giving a vision to the company ; short term is an annual budget which is drawn to control and operate in that particular year.

The Continental Army under Washington engaged the enemy for the first time as an army of the newly independent United States at the Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the entire war.

The discovery of the Long Beach Oil Field in 1921, which proved to be the world's richest in production per-acre of the time, increased the importance of the Los Angeles Basin as a worldwide oil producer.

" Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially.

The Long Parliament comprised " a set of the greatest geniuses for government, that the world ever saw embarked together in one common cause " and whose actions produced an effect, which, at the time, made their country the wonder and admiration of the world, and is still felt and exhibited far beyond the borders of that country, in the progress of reform, and the advancement of popular liberty.

* 1961 – Long time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

* 1842 – Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.

* 1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March ; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.

Another tale tells of a man named Wu Liang ( later corrupted to Wu Long, or Oolong ) who discovered oolong tea by accident when he was distracted by a deer after a hard day's tea-picking, and by the time he remembered to return to the tea it had already started to oxidize.

In Stocks for the Long Run, Siegel mentions that since 1948, ten recessions were preceded by a stock market decline, by a lead time of 0 to 13 months ( average 5. 7 months ), while ten stock market declines of greater than 10 % in the DJIA were not followed by a recession.

Long before then, running out of time and looking for a team with which he could win again, Gretzky had been traded from the Kings at his request.

* March 30 – Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation ( Dr. Crawford Long performed the operation using ether ).

* December 27 – Anesthesia is used for childbirth for the first time ( Dr. Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia ).

Political: Louisiana Governor Earl Long used nigger in advocating full voting rights for Black Americans ; in that time, like colored and negro, it was mainstream usage in the American South.

At the time of the Great Depression ( of the 1930s ), the phrase " The Great Depression " had already been used to refer to the period 1873 – 96 ( in the United Kingdom ), or more narrowly 1873 – 79 ( in the United States ), which has since been renamed the Long Depression.

In this engagement, Staff Sergeant Andrzej Ropel, a Polish immigrant who was at the time not a citizen of the United States, and Specialist William Geraci a native of Cleveland, Ohio, who was recently assigned to 1-87 from the Divisions Long Range Surveillance Detachment, ( LRSD ) led the squad under fire to a ridgeline above the " Halfpipe.

Long legs increase the time and distance over which a jumping animal can push against the substrate, thus allowing more power and faster, farther jumps.

Apparently the time was ripe for the fish franchise concept: Long John Silver's, Captain D's and Skipper's all started about the same time.

The Long Parliament dissolved itself and for the first time in almost 20 years, there was a general election.

A Long Island Rail Road station ( now Mets – Willets Point ) was built next to the Flushing Line station.

He was traded at the deadline to the New York Mets for Terrence Long and a minor league player.

The New York Mets drafted Long in the first round ( 20th pick ) of the 1994 amateur draft.

A Long Island Rail Road station ( now Mets – Willets Point ) was built next to the Flushing Line station.

Erickson was born in Long Beach, California, and began his professional career, after being drafted by the NY Mets in 1986, Houston Astros in 1987, and Toronto Blue Jays in 1988, in when he was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 4th round of the amateur draft.

The Mets also considered moving to Mitchel Field or Belmont Park in Nassau County, Long Island ; Sunnyside Yard in Queens, or the West Side Yard in Manhattan.

Citi Field is reachable via mass transit systems such as the New York City Subway via the trains at the Mets – Willets Point station, and the Long Island Rail Road station on the Port Washington Branch also called Mets – Willets Point.

** Q48 Bus to 111th Street (), Mets – Willets Point ( and seasonal Long Island Rail Road trains ), Flushing – Main Street ( and Long Island Rail Road trains ).

The parkway runs through Queens and passes the Cross Island Parkway, Long Island Expressway, LaGuardia Airport and Citi Field, home of the New York Mets.

Held at Curtiss Field on Long Island near New York City and sponsored by her friend Abbott and the Chicago Defender newspaper, the show billed Coleman as " the world's greatest woman flier " and featured aerial displays by eight other American ace pilots, and a jump by black parachutist Hubert Julian.

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The piece was conceptualized by lyricist, Tom Burchinal, and offers an anti-apocalyptic viewpoint of the popularized end-date of the Mayan Long Count Calendar in 2012.

Furthermore, in preparation for hostilities, the Boers had acquired around one hundred of the latest Krupp field guns, all horse-drawn and dispersed among the various Commando groups, and several Le Creusot " Long Tom " siege guns.

The Australian collection includes works by Charles Blackman, John Brack, Arthur Boyd, Louis Buvelot, Rupert Bunny, Nicholas Chevalier, Charles Conder, David Davies, William Dobell, Russell Drysdale, E. Phillips Fox, John Glover, Eugene von Guerard, Hans Heysen, George W. Lambert, Sydney Long, John Longstaff, Frederick McCubbin, Sidney Nolan, John Perceval, Margaret Preston, Hugh Ramsay, Tom Roberts, John Russell, Grace Cossington Smith, Arthur Streeton, Fred Williams and others.

Little Eva and Uncle Tom by Edwin Longsden Long

* Uncredited cast members include Eddie Acuff, Murray Alper, Ward Bond, Walter Brooke, Georgia Carroll, Glen Cavender, Spencer Charters, Wallis Clark, William B. Davidson, Ann Doran, Tom Dugan, Bill Edwards, Frank Faylen, Pat Flaherty, James Flavin, William Forrest, William Gillespie, Joe Gray, Creighton Hale, John Hamilton, Harry Hayden, Stuart Holmes, William Hopper, Eddie Kane, Fred Kelsey, Vera Lewis, Audrey Long, Hank Mann, Frank Mayo, Lon McCallister, Edward McWade, George Meeker, Dolores Moran, Charles Morton, Jack Mower, Paul Panzer, Francis Pierlot, Clinton Rosemond, Syd Saylor, Frank Sully, Dick Wessel, Leo White and Dave Willock.

When the Boers bombarded Ladysmith with Creusot ninety-four pounder siege guns, Chamberlain asked for the dispatch of comparable artillery to the war, but was exasperated by the Secretary of State for War, Lord Lansdowne's argument that such weapons required platforms that needed a year of preparation, even though the Boers operated their " Long Tom " without elaborate mountings.

National board members include Doris Betts, Walter Brueggemann, Scott Cairns, Michael Card, Elizabeth Dewberry, Tim Gautreaux, Philip Gulley, Ron Hansen, Roy Herron, Silas House, Richard Hughes, Thomas G. Long, Tom Lynch, Brian McLaren, Carrie Newcomer, Kathleen Norris, Katherine Paterson, Eugene H. Peterson, Charles Pollard, Barbara Brown Taylor, Will Willimon, John Wilson, Philip Yancey, and others.

* Tom Stevens, musician, singer, songwriter, bassist for The Long Ryders, Danny and Dusty and Gene Clark

* Long Tom Lake ( vast majority )

* Long Tom Lake ( northeast edge )

Long Tom Lake was named by William for his brother, Tom.

Junction City gained media attention in 2003, when a number of local men posed in the nude for " The Men of the Long Tom Grange Calendar " to raise money for the local school district.

It features a 6-mile drive along Ferguson Road, which leads to the Long Tom Grange, where visitors can purchase daffodil bulbs and other goods.

Sir Thomas Daniel " Tom " Courtenay (; born 25 February 1937 ) is an English actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of films including The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ( 1962 ), Billy Liar ( 1963 ), and Dr. Zhivago ( 1965 ).

The folk rock sound of The Byrds has continued to influence many bands over the years, including Big Star, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, R. E. M., The Long Ryders, The Smiths, The Bangles, The Stone Roses, Teenage Fanclub, and Delays among others.

# " How Long Is Too Long " ( Tom Bahler, Tony Asher )

* The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Tom Courtenay-( U. K .)

From the hills around the besieged town of Ladysmith to the plains of the Orange Free State, MacBride's Brigade first looked after the Boers ' great Long Tom gun, then fought in the Battle of Colenso and later held the rearguard, harassing Lord Roberts ' cavalry as the Boer army retreated.

" The impact of the Huntley-Brinkley Report on popular culture of the 1960s can be illustrated by a verse from the 1965 song " So Long, Mom ( A Song for World War III )" by the satirist Tom Lehrer:

* Heenan, Tom, Ben Kiernan, Greg Lockhart, Stuart Macintyre, and Gavan McCormack ( 2008 ): Wilfred Burchett and Australia's Long Cold War

In America he sired Long Look ( won Epsom Oaks ), the full brothers Ribocco and Ribero, both winners of the Irish Derby and St. Leger ; Boucher the winner of the 1972 St Leger ; Tom Rolfe, winner of the Preakness Stakes ; Arts and Letters, winner of the Belmont Stakes ; and Graustark.

Located in the Willamette Valley, the site is about west of Eugene along the Long Tom River.