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.

For instance the prolific Clarissa Ross and Marilyn Ross were pseudonyms for the male writer Dan Ross and Frank Belknap Long published Gothics under his wife's name, Lyda Belknap Long.

* 6-Barry Long, 77, Australian spiritual teacher and writer.

In the 20th century Ferrara was the home and workplace of writer Giorgio Bassani, well known for his novels that were often adapted for cinema ( The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Long Night in 1943 ).

Long after it was first invented, slugging percentage gained new significance when baseball analysts realized that it combined with on-base percentage ( OBP ) to form a very good measure of a player's overall offensive production ( in fact, OBP + SLG was originally referred to as " production " by baseball writer and statistician Bill James ).

Fantasy writer Larry Niven in his 1969 short story Not Long Before the End described mana as a natural resource which is used or channeled by wizards to cast magic spells.

* Terry Mosher, Long time sports writer for the Kitsap Sun

These early singles credited Dee Long as a writer of several tunes ; the others ( including " Sub-Rosa Subway ", " Dr. Marvello " and the hit single " California Jam ") were credited to " Chip Dale ", a collective pseudonym for Woloschuk and frequent co-writer Dino Tome.

* The Long Long Trail ( writer )-a musical about the First World War featuring popular songs of the time interspersed with scripted material.

According to Stevenson's letters, the idea for the character of Long John Silver was inspired by his real-life friend William Henley, a writer and editor.

Pam Long became head writer in 1983 and refocused the show on Freddy Bauer ( now called " Rick "), Phillip Spaulding, Mindy Lewis, and Beth Raines.

** Thomas Long, clergyman and writer ( died 1707 )

Long before the story's timeline, a writer named Drosselmeyer from Gold Crown () Town, played with others ' fates using stories that became reality.

Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance ( December 1, 1890 – March 20, 1932 ), born Sylvester Clark Long, was an American journalist, writer and actor from Winston-Salem, North Carolina who became internationally prominent as a spokesman for Indian causes.

His primary mentors there were Mircea Eliade, the influential Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer and philosopher ; Frank Reynolds ( South Asian Buddhism ), Charles Long ( indigenous religions ) and Joseph Kitagawa ( East Asian Buddhism ).

* The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings ( 1976 ) writer

Loos, Emerson and fellow writer Frances Marion, migrated to New York as a group, Loos and Emerson sharing a leased mansion in Great Neck, Long Island.

" Madame Butterfly " is a short story by American lawyer and writer John Luther Long.

Guttenplan ( author of Holocaust on Trial ) and former Washington Post writer Myra MacPherson ( author of the Vietnam War classic, Long Time Passing ).

Glen Albert Larson ( born January 3, 1937 in Long Beach, California ) is an American television producer and writer best known as the creator of the television series Battlestar Galactica, Quincy, M. E., B. J.

Mitcham was the home of comedian Dave O ' Neil, The Volvos musicians Heynes Arms & AC Fanta, Sforzando ( band ) lead vocalist, poet and writer Quincy Hall, actor brothers Brett and Trevor Lewis, playwright Sandra Long, writer Michael McArthur, director James McArthur, sculptor Joanne Mott and abstract artist ' Egghatch '.