On a particularly dark and wet night Philip attempted a surprise attack but was thwarted by the appearance of a bright light in the sky.

On Thursday, December 12, 1799, Washington spent several hours inspecting his plantation on horseback, in snow, hail and freezing rain — later that evening eating his supper without changing from his wet clothes.

On average, the months hit hardest by the wet season are from September to October, with of rain falling between them.

On the alps southern fall, this exists as wet forest and rainforest, a consequence of the higher rainfall on this side of the park.

On the road, drilled or slotted discs still have a positive effect in wet conditions because the holes or slots prevent a film of water building up between the disc and the pads.

On September 5, 1936, in wet conditions, local driver Jack Chambers lost control of his Riley beneath the railway bridge coming into Newtownards, and crashed into the crowd killing eight spectators.

On 12 September 1968 a great storm followed a very wet summer, so when the heavy rain came that night the ground was too waterlogged to let the rain drain away.

On June 9, 2009, Paintsville became a " wet " city for the first time since March 14, 1945.

On the northern end of the pool near the galley, there used to be a giant wet slide featured in " Zest " soap commercials on television in the 1960s.

On ice or wet corn snow the skins do not perform as well.

On reception, children were sent to wet nurses in the countryside, where they stayed until they were about four or five years old.

" On a Chinese airplane, Fallows was given a wet wipe labeled " Wet turban needless wash ", translating mianxi shijin ( 免洗濕巾 lit.

* 2006-01-13, Sciencedaily: Deep-rooted Plants Have Much Greater Impact On Climate Than Experts Thought Citat: "... The tap roots transfer rainwater from the surface to reservoirs deep underground and redistribute water ... increases photosynthesis and the evaporation of water ... by 40 percent in the dry season ... During the wet season, these plants can store as much as 10 percent of the annual precipitation as deep as 13 meters ( 43 feet ) underground, to be tapped during the dry months ... tree roots acting like pipes to allow water to shift around much faster than it could otherwise percolate through the soil ..."

On a cold, wet day in May, he broke from post position nine ( only Layminister in 1910 and Canonero II in 1971 won from the ninth post ) and was the runaway winner of the 2003 Preakness Stakes at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course.

On their way north, the weather had been hot and dry, but on the way back the wet season broke and the tropical monsoonal rains began.

On a wet track Gerry had aquaplaned off the circuit at Paddock Hill Bend and pretty much wrote of the Barnet Motor Company's Elan, which had only been raced a handful of times.

On a corner without tyre walls or armco-barriers, Andrea hit a sloping grass bank still very wet from overnight rain, dug in, and tumbled end over end.

On the Saharan southern edge of the Maghreb are small communities of black populations, sometimes called Haratine, who are apparently descended from black populations who inhabited the Sahara during its last wet period and then migrated north.

On a wet December 6, 1846 day Kearny's forces encountered Andrés Pico ( Californio Governor Pio Pico's brother ) and a force of about 150 Californio Lancers.

On this visit, the Rovers slept in the gardener's shed in the orchard because the ground was so wet they could not pitch tents.

On September 5, 1936, in wet conditions, local driver Jack Chambers lost control of his Riley and crashed into the crowd, killing eight spectators.

On the other hand, rainfall is evenly distributed throughout the year wherein during the period from 1995 to 2000, there was no observed extreme dry or wet season.

On the shelves are usually wet paper towels and plastic boxes to store sushi for take-out customers.

The author of On Ancient Medicine launches immediately into a critique of opponents who posit a single " cause in all cases " of disease, " having laid down as a hypothesis for their account hot or cold or wet or dry or anything else they want ".

On November 6 he overcame a wet and muddy Belmont track ( described as a " sea of slop ") to beat Faireno in the Whitney Gold Trophy.

She provides the only major element of Bring It On that plays as tweaking parody rather than slick, strident, body-slam churlishness.

" Jessica Winter from The Village Voice shared this sentiment, commenting that " provides the only major element of Bring It On that plays as tweaking parody rather than slick, strident, body-slam churlishness.

On lap 148, he spun in an oil slick, and dropped out of the race.

On July 18, 2006 they released their self-titled major label debut, which featured slick production, anthemic choruses à la Def Leppard, dark industrial electronic programming and all-melodic vocals reminiscent of the then-current hard rock trend successfully embraced by fellow OC band Avenged Sevenfold.

On What's Your Tag Say ?, the shift toward slick hip-hop and R & B was even greater, with a strong lyrical focus on the youth market and extensive choreography incorporated into their live performances.

On returning to the airfield, he communicated the coordinates of the slick to geologists, who subsequently discovered a major hydrocarbon deposit there.

He continued with the pop-oriented music for two albums after Rit ( Rit / 2 in 1982 and Banded Together in 1984 ), while releasing a slick, yet more crossover-styled, Direct-Disk instrumental album in 1983 called On The Line.

On the night Kenny's mother gave birth to him, a powerful snowstorm made the roads icy and slick.

On Sunday afternoons when we went calling on the older generation of relatives, those who had been active in the Sixties, I sat on the bony knees of veterans and the fat slippery laps of great aunts and heard them talk.

On a very slippery surface such as sheet ice or gravel, it is possible to lock multiple wheels at once, and this can defeat ABS ( which relies on comparing all four wheels, and detecting individual wheels skidding ).

On slippery submarine decks, he re-aggravated an old soccer knee injury.

On rainy weather the slippery stones make the terrain very difficult, whilst sudden fogs and associated whiteout can make orientation on the highland south of the cape impossible without a GPS.

On 10 January, the divisional commander, Standartenführer Hans Lingner, was captured by a patrol from the 114th Infantry, 44th Infantry Division, when his car overturned on the slippery roads.

On a misty Sunday morning last month, a small band of militant anti-Communists called the Minutemen held maneuvers in a foggy field about fifteen miles east of here.

On his side of the road there were two farm hands, well back in a field, leaning against a plow.

On Saturday, the orchestra was sensibly situated down on the field, the stage floor was apparently in decent condition for dancing, and the order of the program improved.

On September 11, 2001, Nami boarded United 93 and assisted in the hijacking of the plane, which crashed into a field in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after a passenger uprising, due to the passengers receiving information from their families of the 3 other hijacked planes that hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

On September 11, 2001, Haznawi boarded United Airlines Flight 93 and assisted in the hijacking of the plane, which crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after a passenger uprising.

On tables that pay triple the field on a twelve roll, the stickman will often loudly exclaim " triple " either alone or in combination with " 12 craps 12 " or " come away triple ".

On September 23, 1949, Bill Veeck and the Indians buried their 1948 pennant in center field the day after they were mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.

On punts and field goal attempts ( but not kickoffs ), members of the kicking team, other than the kicker and any teammates who are onside ( behind the kicker at the time of the kick ), may not approach within five yards of the ball until it has been touched by the receiving team.

In his 1868 paper " On Governors ", J. C. Maxwell ( who discovered the Maxwell electromagnetic field equations ) was able to explain instabilities exhibited by the flyball governor using differential equations to describe the control system.

Although control systems of various types date back to antiquity, a more formal analysis of the field began with a dynamics analysis of the centrifugal governor, conducted by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1868 entitled On Governors.

On the top of the vent on the outside of the cannon is a flat circular space called the vent field where the charge is lit.

On the Cowboys opening possession after 49ers punt, Romo found WR Jesse Holley on a 78 yard pass, which set up the game winning field goal by rookie kicker Dan Bailey.

On September 8, 1974, Tom Wilkinson, quarterback for the Edmonton Eskimos, unsuccessfully attempted a drop kick field goal in the final seconds of a 24-2 romp over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

The heraldic description given by the EU is: " On an azure field a circle of twelve golden mullets, their points not touching.

In 1921, his third year at the university, he published his first scientific works in the Italian journal Nuovo Cimento: the first was titled: On the dynamics of a rigid system of electrical charges in translational motion ; the second: On the electrostatics of a uniform gravitational field of electromagnetic charges and on the weight of electromagnetic charges.

On the conclusion of peace he was made an inspector-general of the army and a field marshal.

On 5 November 1854, Russian forces tried to relieve the siege at Sevastopol and tried to defeat the Allied armies in the field in the battle of Inkerman.

On September 19, 1937, he hit the first-ever homer into the center field bleachers at Yankee Stadium.

On the other hand, Islamic law and the later common law " had no difficulty in accepting agency as one of its institutions in the field of contracts and of obligations in general ".

On September 23, 1957, Aaron hit a two-run walk-off in Milwaukee, clinching the pennant for the Braves and Aaron was carried off the field by his teammates.

On the fifth field trip, Lönnrot met Arhippa Perttunen who provided a large portion of the verses for The Kalevala.

On August 28, the FBI New York field office requested that a criminal case be opened to determine whether Mihdhar was still in the United States, but the request was refused.

On May 17, 1875, in front of an estimated crowd of 10, 000 people, a field of 15 three-year-old horses contested the first Derby.

On April 20, 2012, Torvalds was declared one of two winners of that year's Millennium Technology Prize, together with Shinya Yamanaka for what is widely described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the technology field.