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.

Long time Mets ace Tom Seaver, who threw five one-hitters as a Met, eventually threw a no-hitter, but by then he was playing for the Cincinnati Reds.

* 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.

" Long time UFC referee " Big " John McCarthy said that he felt UFC 40 was the turning point in whether or not the sport of MMA would survive in America.

* 1947 – Theodore Long, American wrestling referee and manager

Crooked referee Teddy Long used a fast count to cheat the Road Warriors out of their titles.

In late 2002, Theodore Long retired as a WWE referee and managed D ' Lo, who had complained about acts of racism being talked about on him during his matches.

Theodore Rufus " Teddy " Long ( born September 15, 1947 ) is a former American professional wrestling manager, former referee and Former WWE General Manager of its SmackDown brand.

He eventually became a member of the ringcrew and was promoted to referee in the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions in 1985 as Teddy Long.

In 1989, at the Chi-Town Rumble event, Long was the replacement referee when Ricky Steamboat won the NWA World Champion.

This was actually a story lifted from Championship Wrestling from Florida, where Long had been a referee and did several heel-decisions in the ring, including one for Ron Simmons over Skip Young.

Long debuted in the WWF as a referee in 1999 at the Royal Rumble and stayed with that role until September 2002, when he was taken off the road.

Like his previous referee stints, Long went by the shortened Teddy Long name during this period.

Long was the referee when Darren Drozdov ended up paralyzed and can be seen in WWE's Don't Try This At Home warning looking at the paramedics lift Droz up on a stretcher.

The New Talent Initiative would continue, with a name-change to the New Superstar Initiative, when Long moved to ECW in 2008 and would see the debuts of Sheamus, Jack Swagger, Kofi Kingston, Evan Bourne, Tyler Reks, Trent Baretta, Caylen Croft, DJ Gabriel, Ricky Ortiz, Gavin Spears, Braden Walker and ECW referee Aaron Davis.

General Manager Theodore Long finally announced a final encounter at Armageddon, appointing Haas as referee.

Freed of the masks and now under management of former referee " The Godfather " Teddy Long, Doom began to prosper.

On April 2, 1989 at Clash of the Champions VI the combination of Williams and Rotunda were able to defeat the Warriors, thanks to a fast count by referee Teddy Long., who had been bribed by Sullivan.

:* The count on Hawk was super fast, so fast that Teddy Long was fired as a referee over it, Long became a manager shortly after this.

The referee Teddy Long pulled Reed from the ropes, causing Sting to pin Reed with the Sunset Flip for the win.

Teddy Long came in as the replacement referee.

In early 1989 Teddy Long was a referee for the National Wrestling Alliance but due to a series of questionable calls, including one that cost the Road Warriors their world tag-team titles Teddy Long was fired and took up managing instead.

The Skyscrapers quickly became involved in a feud with the Road Warriors, sparked by Teddy Long ’ s actions while still a referee.