Many of you are familiar, I'm sure, with the story of my early struggles: the fire in January, 1947, that destroyed everything -- even our precious list of subscribers.

Many Christian denominations have been influenced by Arminian views, notably the Baptists ( See A History of the Baptists Third Edition by Robert G. Torbet ) in the 16th century, the Methodists, the Congregationalists of the early New England colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries and the Universalists and Unitarians in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Many of Alcott's educational principles are still used in classrooms today, including " teach by encouragement ", art education, music education, acting exercises, learning through experience, risk-taking in the classroom, tolerance in schools, physical education / recess, and early childhood education.

Many early investigators proposed a Caucasian ancestry, although recent DNA tests have not shown any genetic similarity with modern Europeans.

Many members of the royal family died in rapid succession in early 1205, including Amalric himself.

Many of Canberra's suburbs are named after former Prime Ministers, famous Australians, early settlers, or use Aboriginal words for their title.

Many retailers open very early ( typically 5 am or even earlier ) and offer doorbuster deals and loss leaders to draw people to their stores.

Many of the early building societies were based in taverns or coffeehouses, which had become the focus for a network of clubs and societies for co-operation and the exchange of ideas among Birmingham's highly active citizenry as part of the movement known as the Midlands Enlightenment.

Many of these materials were initially published in Church periodicals in the early days of church.

Many thinkers point to the concept of citizenship beginning in the early city-states of ancient Greece, although others see it as primarily a modern phenomenon dating back only a few hundred years.

Many early aircraft engines ( and a few in other applications ) had the crankshaft fixed to the airframe and instead the cylinders rotated, known as a rotary engine design.

Many of these early Polish carols were collected in 1838 by Rev.

Many of Jones ' cartoons of the 1930s and early 1940s were lavishly animated, but audiences and fellow Schlesinger staff members found them lacking in genuine humor.

Many early forms of music and dance were created and performed together.

Many thought the incident would end his season early, but Earnhardt refused to give up.

Many early PDP-11 applications were developed using standalone paper-tape utilities.

There are early mystery novels in which a police force attempts to contend with the type of criminal known in the 1920s as a homicidal maniac, such as a few of the early novels of Philip Macdonald and Ellery Queen's Cat of Many Tails.

Many of the early strips were reprints of the Bull Tales cartoons, with some changes to the drawings and plots.

Many years later these alpha versions were sanctioned by id Software because of historical interest ; they reveal how the game progressed from its early design stages.

Many early experiments found that any modification of the apparatus that can determine which slit a particle passes through will reduce the visibility of interference at the screen, thereby illustrating the complementarity principle: that light ( and electrons, etc.

She outlined her family's poverty in her early songs " Coat of Many Colors " and " In the Good Old Days ( When Times Were Bad )".

Many early bassists doubled on both the brass bass and string bass, as the instruments were then often referred to.

Many instances of video or digital playback occurred during the early 2000s and claims to significance for the development of the industry vary.

Many historic bands and early rock music recordings used this configuration, notable users including Ringo Starr in the Beatles, Mitch Mitchell in the Jimi Hendrix Experience, John Barbata in the Turtles and many others.

Many carbines are shortened versions of full rifles, firing the same ammunition at a lower velocity due to a shorter barrel length.

Many owners may choose to shorten the barrels down to NFA-lengths, and register them as " short barrel rifles " SBRs.

Many HK civilian rifles that were briefly sold in the United States now have a high value on the secondary market.

Many rifles, often referred to as rifled muskets, were very similar to the muskets they replaced, but the military also experimented with other designs.

Many modern sniper rifles can trace their ancestry back for well over a century, and the Russian 7. 62 x 54 mm cartridge, as used in the front-line Dragunov Sniper Rifle ( SVD ), dates from 1891.

Many of their rifles are specially crafted to suit long-range varmint hunting, where the accuracy of the single-shot action is helpful.

Many semi-automatic-only versions ( also known as " sporting " or " civilian " versions ) of fully automatic assault rifles are available, and their external appearance can be nearly identical to their automatic counterparts.

Many SAWs ( such as the RPK and L86 ) are modified assault rifles or battle rifles that may have increased ammunition capacity and heavier barrels to withstand continued fire and will almost always have a bipod.

But with a mixed command he was reorganizing and training up on the fly ( Many Australian units were drilling with wooden mockups of rifles in August 1942 ) before MacArthur's people could set up his planned defensive bases on the north coast of eastern Papua, the Japanese Army had moved in and taken both north-coast villages he'd targeted for bases as reinforcements and war materials finally began to trickle in from the States in July — Buna and Gona — several weeks before the forces and transports his staff was organizing could have reached them in strength — at a time when Japan's Navy and Air forces were dominant every where they chose to go.

Many hollow-point bullets, especially those intended for use at high velocity in centerfire rifles, are jacketed, i. e. a portion of the lead-cored bullet is wrapped in a thin layer of harder metal, such as copper or mild steel.

This eliminates the need for training left-handed operators to adapt to a right-handed weapon. Many right-handed persons shoot rifles left-handed because they have left dominant eye.

Many captured Arisaka rifles were employed by neighboring countries both during and after World War II, in places such as China, Thailand and Cambodia.

Many were also converted into FR7 rifles for military training and Guardia Civil use.

Many military rifles derive from the M98 design.

Many Canadians of the First Contingent ( now renamed the 1st Canadian Division ) at Ypres retrieved Lee Enfields from British casualties to replace their Ross rifles.

Many people also would give their rifles names such as " Killdeer ", the rifle of Natty Bumppo from the Leatherstocking Tales.

Many rifles were poorly seated in their stocks allowing the receiver to shift upon firing, though selective shimming with birch chips was practiced as a field modification.

Many police services and law enforcement organizations ( such as the U. S. Secret Service ) now use rifles designed for law enforcement purposes.

Many of them were simply farm boys armed with rifles.

Many armed forces employ selective fire assault rifles such as the M16 Rifle and other small arms with a burst mode instead of, or in addition to, a fully automatic mode, to encourage soldiers to use effective fire techniques.

Many of the first repeating rifles, particularly lever-action and pump-action types, used a single or multiple tubular magazines that store cartridges end-to-end inside of a spring-loaded tube typically running parallel to the barrel, or in the buttstock.

Many NATO member nations subsequently developed or purchased rifles with the ability to accept this type of magazine ; however the standard was never ratified and remains a ' Draft STANAG '.

Many protests evolved into dangerous activities, including trespassing into the low-level flying ranges ( at detriment of the safety of protesters ), and even to shooting hunting rifles at the fighter aircraft.