McNelly's Rangers surprised a group of sixteen Mexican cattle thieves and one white man, driving about 300 head of cattle toward the Rio Grande, and also toward Juan Cortina, and a steamer headed for Cuba.

McNelly's methods had been questioned throughout the years, and although he recovered many cattle stolen from the Texan Ranches while aggressively dealing with lawlessness on the Mexican border, he had also gained a reputation of taking part in many illegal executions, and confessions forced from prisoners by extreme means.

Leander McNelly's most infamous exploit was his invasion of Las Cuevas, Mexico in order to get back stolen cattle.

Smith was apparently too inexperienced to fully appreciate McNelly's terse orders because he got too close to a wounded Mexican bandit ; the bandit killed the boy before Smith even knew what was happening.

King also privately funded operations of the Texas rangers, particularly the " Special Force " under Leander H. McNelly, and donated $ 4, 000 for a monument to McNelly upon McNelly's death.

Following that incident, McNelly was ill, and went home to recuperate on his cotton farm near Burton. There is a contemporary report that six members of McNelly's unit were engaged in a gunfight with unknown parties six miles from Clinton, Texas on the Yorktown road, which resulted in one missing, one wounded, and two horses killed

From among American outlaws, McNelly's greatest rival was Texas gunman King Fisher and his band of outlaws.

John Barclay Armstrong, a Texas Ranger known as " McNelly's Bulldog " since he served with the Special Force as a sergeant and Captain Leander McNelly's right hand, received permission to arrest the outlaw.

Willis E. McNelly's The Dune Encyclopedia has an article on Galach that consists entirely of summaries of phonological, morphological, and syntactic changes from " Proto-Galach " ( modern English ) through various stages of development to " Atreidean Galach ," the state of the language at the time of Herbert's novels.

While Frank Herbert himself considered THE DUNE ENCYCLOPEDIA interesting and entertaining, he did not refer to Dr. McNelly's derivative work while writing any of his DUNE novels.

The Charles Men consists not of a connected narrative but of a group of short stories, each depicting a special phase of the general subject.

It lacks the NH < sub > 2 </ sub > group because of the cyclization of the side-chain and is known as an imino acid ; it falls under the category of special structured amino acids .</ ref > where R is an organic substituent known as a " side-chain "); often the term " amino acid " is used to refer specifically to these.

Moreover, the special fund (€ 80, 189, 123 ) was removed from the asset and co-currently for the equity as scheduled, made Roma group had a negative equity of € 8. 795 million on 30 June 2007.

Besides immune competent cells ( granulocyte, monocyte, lymphocyte ) a large group of cells-considered previously to be fixed into tissues-are also motile in special physiological ( e. g. mast cell, fibroblast, endothelial cells ) or pathological conditions ( e. g. metastases ).

* Bundles of groups, group actions, sets, and equivalence relations can be regarded as special cases of the notion of groupoid, a point of view that suggests a number of analogies ;

* He constructed the projective special linear group PSL ( 2, p ).

In the December 1994 Wild Forest Review, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair wrote " The mainstream environmental movement was elitist, highly paid, detached from the people, indifferent to the working class, and a firm ally of big government .… The environmental movement is now accurately perceived as just another well-financed and cynical special interest group, its rancid infrastructure supported by Democratic Party operatives and millions in grants from corporate foundations .”

The show's hosts are a group of local technology aficionados, many with industry experience, who offer light-hearted commentary on current news topics and events while delving deeper into specific areas each week with special guest interviews.

( The defining symmetry of special relativity is the Poincaré group which also includes translations and rotations.

If the field of scalars of the vector space has characteristic p, and if p divides the order of the group, then this is called modular representation theory ; this special case has very different properties.

Citizens who attempt to leave the country are tracked down and forcibly brought back to the island by the special police force known as Magistrates, and mutant problems are handled by a special group known as the Press Gang.

A holiday is a day designated as having special significance for which individuals, a government, or a religious group have deemed that observance is warranted.

One special group of hormones is the tropic hormones that stimulate the hormone production of other endocrine glands.

In Newtonian mechanics, which can be viewed as a limiting case of special relativity in which the speed of light is infinite, inertial frames of reference are related by the Galilean group of symmetries.

Many diabetes specialists no longer think of flexible insulin therapy as " intensive " or " special " treatment for a select group of patients but simply as standard care for most patients with type 1 diabetes.

Using the FCC-issued special event callsign K5K, the group made more than 80, 000 individual contacts with amateurs around the world over a period of 10 days.

For example, in the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs video lectures, one of the lecturers presents the audience with the button, saying they are now members of this special group.

" Always Look on the Bright Side of Life " is also featured in Eric Idle's Spamalot, a Broadway musical based upon Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and was sung by the rest of the Monty Python group at Graham Chapman's memorial service and at the Monty Python Live At Aspen special.

As a concrete example, consider the special linear group SL ( n, R ), consisting of all n × n matrices with real entries and determinant 1.

It has a closed connected subgroup SL < sub > n </ sub >( R ), the special linear group, consisting of matrices of determinant 1 which is also a Lie group.

This group is disconnected, but it has a connected subgroup SO < sub > n </ sub >( R ) of the same dimension consisting of orthogonal matrices of determinant 1, called the special orthogonal group ( for n = 3, the rotation group SO ( 3 )).

I had long since begun to lose my general innocence when I lost my trust in you, but this special innocence I lost before ever I loved, through my discovery that one could tremble with desire and even experience a flaming delight that had nothing, nothing whatever to do with friendship or liking, let alone with love.

Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.

Adams contended that once such a special class had been created it became a vested interest and sought to maintain itself by assuming exclusive control over the relationships between God and man.

Yet, the idea imbedded in each was identical: to surround the unknown with mystery and to isolate that class which had been given special dominion over the secrets of God.

He had also sampled various special fields of learning, being unable to miss some study of divinity, Justinian ( law ), and Galen ( medicine ).

Berto's The Sky Is Red had been a small masterpiece and in its special way the best book to come out of the war.

-- Rep. Frelinghuysen, R-5th Dist., had a special reason for attending the reception at the Korean Embassy for Gen. Chung Hee Park, the new leader of South Korea.

The phone had been disconnected but telegrams came for him and notes by special messenger.

What right had John to any special consideration??

His soil was `` nothing special '', just prairie land, but he had harrowed in compost until it was loose, spongy and brown-black.

Resolved that his wrongs and bereavements in Kansas, occasioned by the violence and brutality of those who were intent on the propagation of slavery in that territory, call for a charitable judgment upon his recent efforts in Virginia to undermine the despotism from which he had suffered, and commend his family to the special sympathy and aid of all who pity suffering and reverence justice.

This had a pleasant effect upon the Sunday gate receipts as well as upon the intake of the rail and bus companies, some of which began to offer special excursion rates, including seats at the park, just as the trolley and ferry companies had when baseball was new.

We'd seen his handiwork out in the back yard, and the little his tenants had told us of him did make him sound a little special.

Motion picture cameras had been installed to film the audience, the reservation list was being checked out name by name, and a special detail was already at work in the parking lot scrutinizing automobiles for a possible lead.

There was, of course, no special reason to believe that the man or woman they sought had stayed only overnight at the hotel.

Aside from the fact that business was slow this time of year and his one salesgirl was not the most enterprising, Mr. Phillips had no worries at all, and he said as much to Gun Matson, who sat across from him in civilian clothes, on a Jiffy-Couch-a-Bed, mauve velour, $79.89 nothing-down special!!

Contempt proceedings originally had been brought against 677 persons in 133 precincts by Morris J. Wexler, special prosecutor.

`` Olivetti had a special interest for Hodges.

but, as he had a special fondness for magic and divination, he ordered that books on these subjects should be spared.

In fact, the neat balance of these pairs, and their subtle equilibrium, would have had special meaning in the minds of the Old Chinese.

The mushrooming of FM outlets, offering concerts ( both jazz and classical ), lectures, and other special events, is a phenomenon which has had a fair amount of publicity.

Chris made trip after trip in our old car, moving the clothes and dishes and the stock of groceries Nadine had bought on special.

The " space " character had to come before graphics to make sorting easier, so it became position 20 < sub > hex </ sub >; for the same reason, many special signs commonly used as separators were placed before digits.