Pools and fountains had been a feature from Roman times, but hydraulic engineers first took full advantage of characteristic sloping sites of villas in the hills surrounding Lazio, where there was copious available water.

Pools of organic matter, for example, that have been metabolically incorporated into living tissues persist in decomposing tissues, but as molecules become oxidized into the open environment, such as atmospheric CO < sub > 2 </ sub >, this creates a separate pool of inorganic compounds.

The upper reaches of this tributary have been variously known as Billingswell Ditch, Pools Creek and Counters Creek.

The Football Pools companies have traditionally been charitable, donating over £ 1. 1 billion to sports-related causes.

Several swim training products have been created to address this issue including ergometers like the Vasa Swim Trainer or compact swimming treadmills like Endless Pools.

The upper reaches have been variously known as Billingswell Ditch, Pools Creek and Counters Creek.

Since then, the operation of legal gambling in Singapore has been limited to the government-run Singapore Pools for lotteries, and Singapore Turf Club for horse racing.

It also holds investments in public icons like the Singapore Zoo and Singapore Pools, the only legal betting company in Singapore.

However, Daphne is only concerned with the discovery of her estranged husband, Henry Barnes ( Peter Butterworth ) living a downtrodden life as the camp's odd-job man, despite having won the Pools.

Singapore Pools is the only legal lottery operator in Singapore, incorporated in 1968 to curb illegal gambling.

Chiltern Pools consists of three swimming pools, including a 25 metre main pool, a fun poolwith three water slides and a diving pool with a moveable floor to allow all ages to progress in swimming ability.

Stockport Metro Swimming Club, based at Grand Central Pools, is the most successful British swimming club, through the last three Olympic Games.

The current Classic Pools game, based on the old Treble Chance game, uses a scoring scheme which awards three points to score draws ( matches where both team scored the same, strictly positive, number of goals ), two points to no-score draws ( matches where neither team scored a goal ) and one point to both home wins ( matches where the home team scored more goals than the away team ) and away wins ( matches where the away team scored more goals than the home team ).

Matches which were postponed would often have their results adjudicated, for the sake of the football pools results, by a board known as the Pools Panel ; which was formed in 1963 when a particularly cold winter scrapped football for three weeks running.

They cleared wooded swamps and built a dike to create Raymond and Shearness Pools and a causeway to separate Shearness and Finis Pools, creating three freshwater impoundments ; they planted over fifty thousand trees ; and they built a headquarters building, a boathouse and marine railway, an observation tower, and houses for the manager and a patrolman.

The traditional and most famous game entered was the ‘ Treble Chance ’, now branded the ‘ Classic Pools ’ game.

John Magnier began his association with Coolmore in partnership with his father-in-law and champion racehorse trainer, Vincent O ' Brien, and Vernon ’ s Pools magnate, Robert Sangster.

In its current form, the ' Classic Pools ' game has a top prize of £ 3 million, separate to the pool prize that is given to the highest point scorer ( s ).

The Littlewoods Football Pools Collection which shows the history of the pools is held by the National Football Museum.

Pools make good midday resting spots for medium to large trout.

Pools winner Viv Nicholson, remembered for her " spend, spend, spend " assertion was born and still lives in the Castleford area.

Retail and food outlets are provided for in the traditional high street and the Riverside Shopping Centre, and Four Pools Lane Retail Park.

* British Ornithologists ' Union Records Committee: Slender-billed Curlew at Druridge Pools accepted as first for Britain ( with photo ).

* Home Birth Pools Resource Resource for advice on home birth products.

In order to enhance vessel utilization and TCE revenues, the Company has placed its ULCC, VLCC, Suexmax, Aframax tankers as well as a number of Panamax tankers into Commercial Pools that are responsible for the Commercial Management of these vessels.

Another talent for prose was revealed by Frederik van Eeden ( 1860 – 1932 ) in De kleine Johannes (" Little Johnny ", 1887 ) and in Van de koele meren des doods (" From the Cold Pools of Death ", 1901 ), a melancholy novel.

* Lost Citadel for Pools of Darkness

* ' Whelford Pools Nature Reserve – Superb lake refuge for wetland birds, plants and dragonflies ', ( undated ), Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust

In 2000, Littlewoods Pools was sold for £ 161 million.

A state-owned lottery company, Singapore Pools, was set up in 1968 to raise funds for the stadium.

Singapore Pools also helped the Stadium repay a government loan of $ 7. 8 million meant as start-up money for a stadium management corporation.

Today, Singapore Pools is still a major sponsor for the National Stadium, as well as the National Day Parade.

The versatility of the Middlesbrough-born player was a big attraction for Pools when signing him, as he is able to operate anywhere across the back four or in midfield.

Singapore Pools ' stated aim is to provide a legal avenue for betting in Singapore to counter illegal betting syndicates, and to devote surplus earnings towards worthy causes that serve the needs of the community.

The band returned to the BBC in November 1987 and recorded versions of ' Sweet Water Pools ', ' I Wanna Be A Flintstone ' and ' Big Brother Muscle ' from the ' Bikini Red ' LP for the Janice Long programme.

Orange Grove boasts a park which is frequented by residents from surrounding suburbs and in the past most of its residents would utilise Hoy Park Public Pools for recreation, in Sydenham.

His leadership skills and experience were another part of the reason that Pools were quick to move for him when he became available.

The movie uses a swimming treadmill by Endless Pools in the opening minutes to punctuate the swimming and futuristic themes.

The early 1990s saw further successes, as they were Pools Cup winners in 1991 and 1993, finished runners-up in the FAS Premier League from 1991 to 1993 and bagged the FA Cup in 1994.

Zhentarim are involved directly or indirectly as antagonists in the SSI / Stormfront Studios Gold Box computer games Curse of the Azure Bonds, Pools of Darkness, Gateway to the Savage Frontier, Treasures of the Savage Frontier and the MMORPG Neverwinter Nights ( exclusively on AOL, 1991 – 1997 ).

They have operated several facilities including a Sports Centre, Swimming Pools and Running Track previously run by Dacorum Borough Council and others sited at schools, since April 2004.

Since 1 May 2004, Singapore Pools is owned by Singapore Totalisator Board, a statutory board under the Ministry of Finance.