: Popular from the 1880s through the first half of the 20th century, wooden surface provides a very low bounce and plays very fast.

CGI rendering of Princeton University's lithium-fed self-field MPD thruster ( from Popular Mechanics magazine ) MPD thruster technology has been explored academically, but commercial interest has been low due to several remaining problems.

Popular support for the war was at its all-time low, and Washington had to put down mutinies both in the Pennsylvania Line and New Jersey Line.

The use of low forms of art were a part of modernist experimentation as well, as documented in Kirk Varnedoe and Adam Gopnik's 1990-91 show High and Low: Popular Culture and Modern Art at New York's Museum of Modern Art, an exhibition that was universally panned at the time as the only event that could bring Douglas Crimp and Hilton Kramer together in a chorus of scorn.

Popular pitches tend to be public places with large volumes of pedestrian traffic, high visibility, low background noise and as few elements of interference as possible.

Popular mangrove habitats in Hong Kong are located along Deep Bay, such as Pak Nai and Tsim Bei Tsui, where salinity is very low under the influence of fresh water from the Pearl River, and along some mud flats where salinity is lowered by surrounding streams, such as Three Fathoms Cove and Ting Kok.

IMM is a mall located within walking distance and visible from Jurong East MRT Station, with a family-orientated food court at the highest storey of the mall, many furniture stores and other stores that meet the needs of the people, such as a Popular Bookstore and Daiso department store which sells decorative stuffs and other lifestyle products at a reasonably low price of $ 2.

Finally the PS-Arrate ( or " renewed ") low to its candidate Ricardo Lagos and adds to the candidacy whose was one of the main adversaries of the government of the Popular Unity, being president of the Christian Democratic Party.

He struggled to pass legislation and budgets and had historically low approval ratings within Illinois ; at one time the Rasmussen Reports ranked him " America's Least Popular Governor " even before the news of his corruption investigation broke.

The car was available in Europe with a I4 ( high compression and low compression options ), either a 1. 1 L and 1. 3 L OHV petrol engines and in Base, Popular, L, GL ( 1978 onward ), Ghia and S trim, as well as a van.

Popular notions of clusters include groups with low distances among the cluster members, dense areas of the data space, intervals or particular statistical distributions.

In the later years of the 20th century, as the club's fortunes began to decline and finances became tighter, the capacity of Belle Vue was cut dramatically, falling as low as 4, 859 in May 1987 when mining subsidence was found underground beneath the Popular Stand terrace.

Popular drinks include the Hurricanes, Hand Grenades and Huge Ass Beers-a large plastic cup of draft beer marketed to tourists at a low price.

Popular support for the NDP was at an historically low level when the election was called, due to soaring Autopac rates and a taxpayer-funded bailout of the Manitoba Telephone System.

Popular support within Liberia helped the group grow from an initial force numbering in the low hundreds to a large irregular army which occupied around 80 percent of the country in less than a year.

... a closer look cyberpunk authors reveals that they nearly always portray future societies in which governments have become wimpy and pathetic ... Popular science fiction tales by Gibson, Williams, Cadigan and others do depict Orwellian accumulations of power in the next century, but nearly always clutched in the secretive hands of a wealthy or corporate elite.

* 1936 – Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.

In 1936, the left united in the Popular Front and was elected to power.

In 1996, the centre-right Partido Popular government came to power, led by José María Aznar.

*" New Era In Power To Turn Wheels " Popular Science, December 1939, early article on operations of gas turbine power plants, cutaway drawings

The old guard returned Mutalibov to power in May 1992, but less than a week later his efforts to suspend scheduled presidential elections and ban all political activity prompted the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party ( PFP ) to organize a resistance movement and take power.

Popular power forward Charles Oakley, who had led the league in total rebounds in both ' 87 and ' 88, was traded on the eve of the 1988 draft to the New York Knicks along with a Round 1 draft pick used by the Knicks on Rod Strickland for center Bill Cartwright and a 1st round draft pick which the Bulls used to obtain center Will Perdue.

Popular by acts of graceful but corrupting generosity, by charming manners, and by the appeal of hereditary honours-they collected the material power granted by a multitude of clients and followers, and the intellectual power provided by the monopoly of philosophical education ; their taste in the fine arts, and their knowledge of stylish literature.

In the October 2000 elections, Guéï was defeated by Laurent Gbagbo of the Ivorian Popular Front, but he refused to recognize the result and it took a spate of street protests to bring Gbagbo to power.

Popular culture and mass media are regularly identified as a source of soft power, as is the spread of a national language or a particular set of normative structures ; a nation with a large amount of soft power and the good will that engenders it inspire others to acculturate, avoiding the need for expensive hard power expenditures.

During the 1970s, in the Portuguese African colonies of Mozambique and Angola, upon assuming government power, the Liberation Front of Mozambique ( FRELIMO, Frente de Libertação de Moçambique ) and the People ’ s Movement for the Liberation of Angola — Labour Party ( MPLA, Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola — Partido do Trabalho ), respectively, established policies to counter neo-colonial agreements with the ( former ) colonist country.

Popular bands to have emerged from Wales have included the Beatles-nurtured power pop group Badfinger in the 1960s, Man and Budgie in the 1970s and The Alarm in the 1980s.

The Popular Front's founding manifesto condemned the actions of the conservative-led government, demanding the release of political prisoners detained after November 1933, the re-hiring of state employees who had been suspended, fired, or transferred " without due process or for reasons of political persecution ", it proposed establishing an independent judiciary from government control, the investigation and prosecution of acts of unwarranted violence by police, and revision of the Law of Public Order to protect the rights of citizens against arbitrary power.

Further political instability rocked the nation when Luis García Meza was forced to resign, and in 1982 the left wing Democratic and Popular Union ( Unidad Democrática y Popular-UDP ) took power in representative democratic elections, with Hernán Siles Zuazo becoming president.

The leftist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ), supported by Cuba and the Soviet Union, came to power.

In 1934, the Communists changed their line, and the four left-wing parties came together in the Popular Front, which won the 1936 elections and brought Blum to power as France's first SFIO Prime Minister.

" Meanwhile, self-declared socialist movements had their own versions of " lesser of two evils " policies such as justifying their Popular Front Against Fascism by arguing that allying with capitalist powers to overthrow fascism would be better than having the latter successfully occupy the world and permanently consolidate power.

Hobbyists and students equipped with wire wrap tools, a ' breadboard ' and a 5-volt power supply could also experiment with digital logic referring to how-to articles in Byte magazine and Popular Electronics which featured circuit examples in nearly every issue.

His only real political power at this time lay in the Jacobin Club, which had extended itself beyond the borders of Paris and into the country as a network of " Popular Societies ".

In 1930, the magazine Popular Mechanics described how to make adhesive tape at home using plain cloth tape soaked in a heated liquid mixture of rosin and rubber from inner tubes.

Popular activities include fishing for salmon, steelhead and shad ; and floating the river on inner tubes, canoes or kayaks.

His interest in marionettes began in 1935 when his father, who was the head carpenter for a major shipping line, gave him a copy of an American magazine called Popular Science Monthly, which contained instructions for making a puppet out of used bicycle inner tubes.

Popular commercial BBS programs were Blue Board, Ivory BBS, Color64 and CNet 64.

Popular BBS software for the Amiga were ABBS, Amiexpress, C-Net, StormforceBBS, Infinity and Tempest.

Popular DBMS products that utilized it were Cincom Systems ' Total and Cullinet's IDMS.

Popular leaders were writers of elegy — Solon the lawgiver of Athens composed on political and ethical subjects — and even Plato and Aristotle dabbled with the meter.

At one point in the earliest 1940s, approximately half of all the pulp sf and fantasy magazines in the U. S. were being edited by Futurians: Frederik Pohl at the Popular Publications offshoot Fictioneers, Inc. ( Astonishing Stories and Super-Science Stories ); Robert Lowndes at Columbia Publications, most notably with Science Fiction and Future Fiction ( though through the decade to come, Lowndes's responsibilities would expand to other types of fiction magazine in the chain ), and Donald Wollheim at the very marginal Albing Publications with the short-lived, micro-budgeted Cosmic Stories and Stirring Science Stories ( Wollheim soon moved on to Avon Books ; Doë " Leslie Perri " Baumgardt also worked on a romance fiction title for Albing ).

Popular songs whose style bore characteristics of both hillbilly and African American music were referred to, in the late 1940s and early 1950s as hillbilly boogie, and in the mid-1950s as rockabilly.

The large numbers of skilled technicians among the force of Cuban soldiers sent in to support the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ) government in the Angolan Civil War were able to make a valuable contribution to restoring and maintaining basic services in the city.

In September 2002, new legislative elections were held, and the Socialist Union of Popular Forces ( Union Socialiste des Forces Populaires — USFP ) led all other parties in the voting.

The new armed forces were formed by integrating those soldiers of the former Popular Forces for the Liberation of Mozambique ( FPLM ) and the rebels Mozambican National Resistance RENAMO who wished to stay in uniform.

Over the course of their evolution, there were a huge number of pulp magazine titles ; Harry Steeger of Popular Publications claimed that his company alone had published over 300, and at their peak they were publishing 42 titles per month.

In April 1940, Popular Science showed an example of a radar unit using the Watson-Watt patent in an article on air defence, but not knowing that the U. S. Army and U. S. Navy were working on radars with the same principle, stated under the illustration, " This is not U. S. Army equipment.

The four killers were arrested together with the head of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ), Ahmad Sa ' adat.

Popular tools that are often used in the systems engineering context were developed during these times, including USL, UML, QFD, and IDEF0.

They were still primarily a home-built proposition ; a 1946 Popular Science article details a slingshot builder and hunter using home-built slingshots made from forked dogwood sticks to take small game at ranges of up to 30 ' with No. 0 lead buckshot (. 32 in., 8 mm diameter ).

According to Said Aburish, the government of Jordan and a number of Fatah commandos informed Arafat that large-scale Israeli military preparations for an attack on the town were underway, prompting fedayeen groups, such as George Habash's newly formed group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) and Nayef Hawatmeh's breakaway organization the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ), to withdraw their forces from the town.

Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, due to a tendency to group the years according to decimal values, as if year zero were counted.

Popular culture sometimes holds the year 1000 as the first year of the 11th century and the 2nd millennium, due to a tendency to group the years according to decimal values, as if a year zero were counted.

In 1990, the first free elections were held for Parliament, with the opposition Popular Front winning them.

On September 18, 1989, while Compaoré was returning from a two-week trip to Asia, Lengani and Zongo were accused of plotting to overthrow the Popular Front.

*" Well Diggers Trick ", June 1951, Popular Science article on how flood control engineers were using an old method to protect flood levees along rivers from seepage undermining the levvee-i. e.

Popular plays like 1 Henry IV and Pericles were reprinted in their quarto editions even after the First Folio appeared, sometimes more than once.

Six seats each were won by Hamas and the local coalition of Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

One month after the election, on 20 October, while the senate had still to reach a decision and negotiations were actively in place between the Christian Democrats and the Popular Unity, General René Schneider, Commander in Chief of the Chilean Army, was shot resisting a kidnap attempt by a group led by General Roberto Viaux.

Among the protesters who organised the unsanctioned rally were the Sevastopol branches of the National Salvation Front, the Russian Popular Assembly, and the All-Crimean Movement of the Voters for the Republic of Crimea.