On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

On her bureau lay a small, brass ornament of simple design and faded engraving -- an object which, Pamela believed now, had been the property of her great-grandfather, Major Hiram Munroe Culver.

On unoccupied roadway the bottle shattered into a small amber flash.

On Christmas Eve, students brought out two small Christmas trees which I placed on either side of the tent.

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 the remainder of the clear channels, the dominant ( class 1 ) -- B stations are protected as described above, and the relatively small number of secondary ( class 2 ) ) stations permitted to operate on these channels at night are required to operate directionally and/or with reduced power so as to protect the class 1, stations.

On Big Stone Lake near the headwaters of the Red River, Robert Dickson, Superintendent of the Western Indian Department of Canada, had a trading post and planned in 1818 to build a fort to be defended by twenty men and two small artillery pieces.

On February 6, 1862, Union Navy gunboats quickly reduced the defenses of ill-sited Fort Henry, inflicting 21 casualties on the small remaining Confederate force.

* On the inner façades of the small arches are engraved the names of the military leaders of the French Revolution and Empire.

On March 25, 1853, Alameda County was created by division of Contra Costa County, as well as from a small portion of Santa Clara County.

On personal computers and small workstations, the CPU is housed in a single silicon chip called a microprocessor.

On land, mammals were a small and still relatively minor component of the fauna.

On Earth, small amounts of new atoms are naturally produced in nucleogenic reactions, or in cosmogenic processes, such as cosmic ray spallation.

On July 2, 2011, an F-15E intercepted a small two-seat passenger plane flying near Camp David, where President Obama was in residence.

On July 10, 2011, an F-15 Intercepted another small two-seat passenger plane flying near Camp David where President Barack Obama was in residence, totalling the number of interceptions over the July 9 weekend at 3 planes.

On 6 December 2008 Crowded House played the Homebake festival in Sydney, with warm up gigs at small venues in Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney.

On the other hand, if the condition number is small then the error in x will not be much bigger than the error in b.

On cleavage by trypsin into two parts that are still connected via an S-S bond, cleaved chymotrypsinogen molecules can activate each other by removing two small peptides in a trans-proteolysis.

On June 13, 2008, a small majority of members of the House of Ariki attempted a coup, claiming to dissolve the elected government and to take control of the country's leadership.

On this issue, Trotsky said, " as this regime becomes consolidated all affairs are concentrated in the hands of a small group, sometimes only of a secretary who appoints, removes, gives the instructions, inflicts the penalties, etc.

On a small island, in a tiny hut on stilts, he first read Vannevar Bush's article " As We May Think ", which greatly inspired him.

On the other hand, nominal damages are very small damages awarded to show that the loss or harm suffered was technical rather than actual.

On 5 February 1869, George Goyder, the Surveyor-General of South Australia, established a small settlement of 135 people at Port Darwin.

On the northeast corner of High Street and Court Street the U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey, now the U. S. National Geodetic Survey, has placed a small medallion into a granite block showing an elevation of.

On 20 April 1899 Beatty was appointed executive officer of the small battleship HMS Barfleur, flagship of the China Station, Captain Stanley Colville under Rear-Admiral James Bruce.

On many farms, the basic composting ingredients are manure generated on the farm and bedding.

On the average, at least twice each decade houses, farms, and harbor facilities are devastated by these great storms.

On occasions this compensation implied merely the right to work for seasons in the newly created coffee farms and to be allowed to grow their own food.

On sheep farms 7-wire fences are common with the second ( from bottom ) to fifth wire being plain wire.

On prison farms inmates run the important tasks of a farm, producing crops.

On the other hand, marine mammals regularly take finfish from farms, which creates significant problems for marine farmers.

* On the influence of large wind farms on the upper ocean circulation.

The cold wreaked havoc in other ways, as well: On July 9, 1816, a freak frost destroyed crops and forced hungry families to sell their farms for half their worth.

On April 12, 1979, farms, houses and mobile homes just north of the city were damaged by an F2 tornado.

On May 1, 1800 John Schell purchased large tracts of land of more than, which were later divided into farms and given to each of his sons with an equivalent in money and land to his daughters.

On July 19, 1850, William H. Adams, John Mercer and Philo T. Farnsworth, Mormon pioneers sent by Brigham Young, arrived at the area now known as Pleasant Grove and staked out farms in what is now the southwest corner of the city.

On the west side of the freeway are parks, farms, and a few subdivisions developed in the hills to the west.

On August 18, 2005, an F3 tornado cut a 10-mile path across rural subdivisions and farms north of Stoughton, killing one person and damaging hundreds of homes.

On 20 May 1729, a waterspout came ashore, became a tornado, and travelled inland to Battle and Linkhill ; nine farms and properties received serious damage.

On US farms, particularly on the Great Plains, windpumps were used to pump water from farm wells for cattle.

On the plain were spread numerous hamlets and farms which represented strategic points.

On the eve of the Great Famine it had risen to 8 million, mostly living on ever-smaller farms and depending on the potato as a staple diet.

On 1 January 1964, the northern part of the municipality of Rovde ( population: 562 ) plus three farms in the Gurskedalen valley ( population: 25 ) were merged with Sande.

On 1 January 1964, three farms in the Gurskedalen valley ( population: 25 ) were transferred from Herøy to Sande.

On 1 January 1888, the Krakken farm ( population: 17 ) was transferred from Hyllestad and eight farms ( population: 317 ) from Askvoll were all transferred to Utvær.

On 1 January 1964, Lærdal ( population: 1, 755 ) was merged with the municipality of Borgund ( population: 492 ) and the Muggeteigen, Luggenes, and Bergmål farms ( population: 11 ) from Årdal.

On 1 January 1964, the Muggeteigen, Luggenes, and Bergmål farms ( population: 11 ) were transferred from Årdal to Lærdal.

On 1 January 1888, several farms ( population: 317 ) were transferred from Askvoll to neighboring Utvær.

On 1 January 1990, Askvoll and Fjaler did a land trade: the Fjaler farms of Vårdal, Holmedal, Rivedal, and part of Hestad ( population: 731 ) were transferred to Askvoll ; and the Askvoll farms of Fure, Folkestad, and Våge ( population: 482 ) were transferred to Fjaler.