On this giddy and oscillating platform over fifty feet from the floor, after a first dusting, we began to wash.

On Freeview channel 301, interactivity does not permit users to submit data ( such as answering questions in a quiz or requesting video on demand ), as the platform does not provide a return path.

On a PC you will usually have the ability to change the platform software.

On the PC compatible platform, an entire family of operating systems was called DOS.

On February 20, 1895, Douglass attended a meeting of the National Council of Women in Washington, D. C. During that meeting, he was brought to the platform and given a standing ovation by the audience.

On 10 May 2002, the second of the Potters Bar rail accidents occurred killing seven people ; the train was at high speed when it derailed and flipped into the air when one of the carriages slid along the platform where it came to rest.

On 24 April 2001, riding a wave of grassroots desire for change, maverick politician Junichiro Koizumi defeated former Prime Minister Hashimoto and other party stalwarts on a platform of economic and political reform.

On 30 January 1948, Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi was shot while he was walking to a platform from which he was to address a prayer meeting.

On 30 January 1948, Gandhi was shot while he was walking to a platform from which he was to address a prayer meeting.

On the other hand are two round logs, separated by a framework that carries a platform ; two simple craft and two entirely, almost mutually alien, concepts of design and construction.

On this platform Solomon Islanders with experience on the local councils started participation in central government, initially through the bureaucracy and then, from 1960, through the newly established Legislative and Executive Councils.

On the obverse of this coin a woman swimmer is depicted, preparing to dive from the starting platform, while in the background another woman athlete is just about to dive into the water in a scene from an Archaic bronze statuette.

On the Macintosh platform, Microsoft released a PowerPC version of Windows Media Player for Mac OS X in 2003, but further development of the software has ceased.

On August 18, 2011 an adaption of Talisman of Death was released by UK developer Laughing Jackal for the PlayStation Minis platform ( playable on the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3 ).

On September 17, 2011, Llamasoft released GoatUp the first platform game they have produced.

On orders from the SEAL leader Lt. Hiram Coffey ( Michael Biehn ) and without the platform crew's knowledge, the SEALs use one of the platform's mini-subs to retrieve a warhead from a Trident missile aboard the Montana.

On the platform, believing Bud to be dead, Lindsey and the crew are surprised to find Bud radioing back to them, telling them to get ready.

On the platform ( left to right ) Virchand Gandhi, Dharmapala, Swami Vivekananda

On 4 September 1970, he obtained a narrow plurality of 36. 2 percent to 34. 9 percent over Jorge Alessandri, a former president, with 27. 8 percent going to a third candidate ( Radomiro Tomic ) of the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ), whose electoral platform was similar to Allende's.

He gave the example of the success story of Amazon in making huge profits each year by developing a full blown open platform that supports a large and thriving community of companies that re-use Amazon ’ s On Demand commerce services.

On 25 January 2011 Orange announces the acquisition of 49 % of Dailymotion, the French online video platform, at a cost of 58. 8 million Euros.

On April 1, 2012, Miramax and Sky Italia, Italy ’ s leading pay TV platform, announced a deal under which that network will air many of the leading titles from Miramax ’ s collection across all of its pay television channels in Italy.

* The lyrics to " Torn On The Platform " by Jack Peñate refer to the station (" train leaves at two, platform 3, Waterloo ")

On its monumental platform were found several clay heads, some of which are portraits, perhaps of members of the royal family who were honoured after their death on the pyre.

On 1 July 1997, sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), ending over one and a half centuries of British rule.

On 29 January 1999, the Court of Final Appeal, the highest judicial authority in Hong Kong interpreted several Articles of the Basic Law, in such a way that the Government estimated would allow 1. 6 million Mainland China immigrants to enter Hong Kong within ten years.

On the other hand, the pro-government camp considered them to be in compliance with the legislative intent of the Basic Law and in line with the ' One country, two systems ' principle, and hoped that this would put an end to the controversies on development of political structure in Hong Kong.

On 4 December 2005, people in Hong Kong demonstrated against Sir Donald Tsang's proposed reform package, before a vote on 21 December.

Oh Hell ( also known as Oh Pshaw, Up the River, Up and down the River, Bumble, Vanishing Whist, Diminishing Whist, Hell Yeah !, Peanuts, Stinky Fingers, Get Fred, Gary's Game, Diminishing Bridge, Shit On Your Neighbor, " Screw Your Neighbor ", O ' Shay, Juego de Daniel, Nah Pearse, Old Hell, German Bridge in Hong Kong, and many variations of " Oh Hell " with euphemisms and other swearwords ) is a trick-taking card game in which the object is to take exactly the number of tricks bid, unlike contract bridge and spades: taking more tricks than bid is a loss.

Various lanes and streets including Gilman Street, Wing On Street, Tung Man Street, Hing Lung Street, and Tit Hong Lane were shortened.

On 20 July 1973, Lee was in Hong Kong, to have dinner with former James Bond star George Lazenby, with whom he intended to make a film.

On 6 January 2009, it was announced that Bruce's Hong Kong home ( 41 Cumberland Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong ) will be preserved and transformed into a tourist site by philanthropist Yu Pang-lin.

On the weekend of March 3, 2000, American Beauty debuted strongly in Hong Kong, Taiwan and in Singapore, markets traditionally " not receptive to this kind of upscale fare ".

His books of poetry include Poems 1913 and 1914 ( 1914 ); Poems Translated from the French ( 1914 ); Three Poems ( 1916 ); The Barn ( 1916 ); The Silver Bird of Herndyke Mill ; Stane Street ; The Gods of the World Beneath, ( 1916 ); The Harbingers ( 1916 ); Pastorals ( 1916 ); The Waggoner and Other Poems ( 1920 ); The Shepherd, and Other Poems of Peace and War ( 1922 ); Old Homes ( 1922 ); To Nature: New Poems ( 1923 ); Dead Letters ( 1923 ); Masks of Time: A New Collection of Poems Principally Meditative ( 1925 ); Japanese Garland ( 1928 ); Retreat ( 1928 ); Winter Nights: A Reminiscence ( 1928 ); Near and Far: New Poems ( 1929 ); A Summer's Fancy ( 1930 ); To Themis: Poems on Famous Trials ( 1931 ); Constantia and Francis: An Autumn Evening, ( 1931 ); Halfway House: A Miscellany of New Poems, ( 1932 ); Choice or Chance: New Poems ( 1934 ); Verses: To H. R. H. The Duke of Windsor, ( 1936 ); An Elegy and Other Poems ( 1937 ); On Several Occasions ( 1938 ); Poems, 1930-1940 ( 1940 ); Shells by a Stream ( 1944 ); After the Bombing, and Other Short Poems ( 1949 ); Eastward: A Selection of Verses Original and Translated ( 1950 ); Records of Friendship ( 1950 ); A Hong Kong House ( 1959 ); Poems on Japan ( 1967 ).

On the Disney Cruise Line ships and in Hong Kong Disneyland, Mulan and Li Shang appear in the stage show The Golden Mickeys.

On July 7, 1991, Hong Kong Office of the Commissioner of Banking ( forerunner of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority ) ordered BCCI to shut down its business in Hong Kong on the grounds that BCCI had problem loans and the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi, the major shareholder of BCCI, refused to provide funds to the Hong Kong BCCI.

On 6 July Hong Kong media carried headlines that Jiang was " critically ill ", while TV station ATV reported that Jiang had died in Beijing.

On September 23, 2002, at 6: 30 p. m., 45-year-old Hong Im Ballenger was shot in the head and killed by a Buckmaster rifle in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

On 22 January 2008, RJ launched flights to Hong Kong via Bangkok, with three flights / week during winter, and five flights / week during summer, making it the airline's first route to China.

On October 19, 1939, Chennault boarded Pan American Airways " California Clipper " ( Boeing B-314 ; NC18602 ) at the Pan American Airways terminal in Hong Kong.

On December 23, Aguinaldo and other Katipunan officials departed for Hong Kong to enter voluntary exile.

On 8 October 1856, Qing officials boarded the Arrow, a Chinese-owned ship ( a lorcha ) that had been registered in Hong Kong and was suspected of piracy and smuggling.

** Shing Fui-On 成奎安 ( 1955-2009 ; Xingning, Guangdong ; born in Hong Kong ; Hakka pronunciation: Shin Kui On ), Actor who is well known for bad guy roles