On 13 June 1979, Ontario Premier Bill Davis depressed the plunger on an electronic detonating device in downtown Toronto, triggering an explosion on the site.

On some clocks the pulse of electricity that drove the pendulum also drove a plunger to move the gear train.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

`` On each side of the Hoogli, where we are now sailing, are the Hindoo cottages, as thick together as the houses in our seaports.

On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

On the other side are the Celtic survivalists who have taken a tack divergent from both these schools of nineteenth century thought.

On the question of admission to Veterans Administration hospitals of service-connected and non-service-connected disabled veterans, it must be recognized that there are many men who are greatly affected by war service.

On this point there was fairly general agreement that assessors would like to do more than they are doing now.

On the basis that all citizens of the state are entitled to benefit equally in the development of its resources, plans for the provision of essential services ( such as water ) will be based on need regardless of arbitrary political boundaries, within the framework of the state plan.

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 the columns around the immense dome are round plaques with Arabic writing.

On the contrary, there are fewer colds and smaller doctor bills.

Chapter 8, is entitled `` On Magnetism '' and in it are included such remarks as, `` One has always been tempted to compare the magnetic forces with the electrical forces.

On large-area units, where additional structural requirements are imposed, one recent approach utilizes modular extruded or formed channels ( e.g. right-angled corrugations ) of the acrylic or butyrate.

On the other hand, there are a few antithyroid drugs of this same general type, such as resorcinol, possessing no reducing activity and possibly acting through formation of a complex with molecular iodine.

On the whole they maintain much the same high standard, but they are much more difficult to discuss in detail because of their wider variety of subject matter.

On the one hand, there are ecumenists who are so stirred by the crises of the church in its encounter with the world at large that they have no eyes for what the church is doing in their own town.

On the wall of this square there are delightful bas-reliefs of musical instruments.

On the upper Mississippi the Illinois post was to be established near Kaskaskia, and dependent posts were to be built on the Missouri, `` where there are mines in abundance ''.

On the day's schedule are a flower show, 4-H horsemanship contest and clown shows, the latter at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m..

On my first Guy Fawkes Day here, I found Catholics as well as non-Catholics celebrating with the traditional fireworks and bonfires, and was told that most Englishmen either do not know or are not concerned with the historical significance of the day.

On the contrary, the old plays are continually being reinterpreted, and each new production of a classic has only a brief history at the Comedie.

On land, amphibians are restricted to moist habitats because of the need for their skin to be kept damp.

On July 4, 1959, the patient developed marked abdominal pain and distension, went into shock, and died.

On the scale he used, the boiling-point of water was marked at + 73 and the melting-point of ice at 51, so that the zero of his scale was equivalent to about − 240 on the Celsius scale.

The beginning of set theory as a branch of mathematics is often marked by the publication of Cantor's 1874 article, " Über eine Eigenschaft des Inbegriffes aller reellen algebraischen Zahlen " (" On a Property of the Collection of All Real Algebraic Numbers ").

On June 22, 1996, the release of Quake marked the second milestone in Id Software history.

On the PCW, the files " in limbo " were marked as belonging to CP / M Plus users 8 to 15.

The year also marked the release of Christian Falk's second album, People Say, on which Robyn contributed the tracks " Dream On " and " C. C. C ".

On 17 November 1939 ( now marked as International Students ' Day ) the Czech University and all other Czech higher-education institutions were closed for 3 years, but remained closed until the end of the War.

Kathleen Wider proposes that the murder of Hypatia marked the end of Classical antiquity, and Stephen Greenblatt observes that her murder " effectively marked the downfall of Alexandrian intellectual life ", On the other hand, Maria Dzielska and Christian Wildberg note that Hellenistic philosophy continued to flourish in the 5th and 6th centuries, and perhaps until the age of Justinian.

In January 1997, Queen performed " The Show Must Go On " live with Elton John and the Berjart Ballet in Paris on a night in which Freddie Mercury was remembered, and it marked the last performance and public appearance of John Deacon, who chose to retire.

On 14 March 2011, which marked the band's 40th anniversary, Queen's first five albums were re-released in the UK and some other territories as remastered deluxe editions ( the US versions were released on 17 May ).

Fonda won an Academy Award for his work with Katharine Hepburn in On Golden Pond ( 1981 film ) | On Golden PondOn Golden Pond in 1981, the film adaptation of Ernest Thompson's play, marked one final professional and personal triumph for Fonda.

On some medieval maps, the Bay of Biscay is marked as El Mar del los Vascos ( the Basque Sea ).

On August 2, 2009, Baez played at the 50th Newport Folk Festival, which also marked the 50th anniversary of her breakthrough performance at the first festival.

On the posterior wall is a prominence, best marked in childhood, produced by a mass of lymphoid tissue, which is known as the pharyngeal tonsil.

# On a court or piste marked with strings a boule is dead if it completely crosses the string.

On July 26, 2005, Space Shuttle Discovery ( mission STS-114 ) marked the shuttle's return to space.

On that day, Heatley skated for the first time since his car accident with Snyder, but it also marked the last win for the Thrashers before an extended losing streak.

On weather maps, the surface position of the cold front is marked with the symbol of a blue line of triangles / spikes ( pips ) pointing in the direction of travel, and it is placed at the leading edge of the cooler air mass.

On weather maps, the surface location of a warm front is marked with a red line of half circles pointing in the direction of travel.

On older keyboards marked with the Apple logo.

On February 20, 1999, Trinidad defended the welterweight championship against Pernell Whitaker, winning the fight by unanimous decision in a contest that marked his thirteenth successful defense.

On maps ( both ancient and modern ) showing the provinces of France in 1789 ( in fact the gouvernements as was explained above ), Toulouse is always marked as the capital city of Languedoc.

On October 18, 1880, the two men marked a town site where soon a mining camp appeared.