Several accidents have reportedly been caused by discharging firearms into the air ; although the evidence in a few such cases has been disputed, a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found 43 likely cases of injury from falling bullets during 2004 New Year celebrations in Puerto Rico.

Several local politicians have expressed concern that Puerto Rico has become a " piggy bank " for presidential campaigns.

Several other countries, such as Chile, whose name is unrelated, Perú, Puerto Rico, and Argentina, use ají.

Several district courts require attorneys seeking admission to their bars to take an additional bar examination on federal law, including the following: the Southern District of Ohio, the Northern District of Florida, and the District of Puerto Rico.

Several of Puerto Rico's most important contemporary authors and filmmakers have been inspired by Isabel Luberza Oppenheimer's life and made works based on her experiences.

Several international pop-stars have come from Puerto Rico or are of Puerto Rican descent, including Danny Rivera, and Chucho Avellanet, alongside Chayanne, Jennifer Lopez ( although she's a native New Yorker ), Luis Miguel, ( born in P. R.

Several businesses have their headquarters or local Puerto Rican branches in Guaynabo.

Several highway termini are claimed to exist, including the cities of Puerto Montt and Quellón in Chile and Ushuaia in Argentina.

Several famous passengers were among the dead, including former world boxing champion Carlos Cruz, his wife and nineteen-month-old son, who were flying to Paris for a bout against Roger Zami ; the wife, daughter and sister of Imbert Barreras, a Dominican Army Brigade General who participated in the plot to kill the dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina in Santo Domingo, on May 30, 1961 ; Juan Ramón Loubriel, who had participated in three professional sports leagues in Puerto Rico ( basketball, volleyball and association football ); the then-girlfriend of astrologer Walter Mercado, and most of the members of Puerto Rico's women's national volleyball team, who were returning home after a friendly game against the Dominican Republic's women's national team.

( Several cities include a dragon in their flag design, including Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, Ljubljana, the capital city of Slovenia, and Puerto Madryn in Argentina.

Several genera appear to be endemic: Entransia is unique to Nova Scotia, and Pleurodiscus to Puerto Rico ; Mougeotiopsis is known only from Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina and British Columbia.

* Several months later they arranged for the escape of William Morales, a member of the Puerto Rican separatist group, the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña ( FALN ), from Bellevue Hospital in New York City where he was recovering after a bomb he was building exploded in his hands.

Several editions featuring Newton's first three stanzas and the verse previously included by Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom's Cabin were published by Excell between 1900 and 1910, and his version of " Amazing Grace " became the standard form of the song in American churches.

Several collectors have catalogued the songs including John Meredith whose recording in the 1950s became the basis of the collection in the National Library of Australia.

Several of the other countries it occupied that were not directly annexed into the USSR became Soviet satellite states.

Several of his researchers became alienated from him and left his organization for Xerox PARC, in part due to frustration, and in part due to differing views of the future of computing.

Several to-be professional game designers started their careers making Doom WADs as a hobby, among them Tim Willits, who later became the lead designer at id Software.

Several of Bulwer-Lytton's novels were made into operas, one of which, Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen ( 1842 ) by Richard Wagner, eventually became more famous than the novel.

Several years later he emigrated to Ohio and became an American citizen in 1944.

Several cities such as Cologne became Imperial Free Cities, which did not depend on princes or bishops, but were immediately subject to the Emperor.

" Several years after Liébeault's death in 1904, Coué founded what became known as the New Nancy School, a loose collaboration of practitioners who taught and promoted his views.

Several other major new figures became associated with the society during this period.

Several of his students ( e. g. Morteza Motahhari ) later became leading Islamic philosophers and also marja.

" Several people have managed to just wander into the TARDIS without any problem over the years, including some who became companions ; since the TARDIS uses keys, it could easily have been left unlocked.

Several months later, five children became ill with E. coli infections after attending a " Carnival of Horrors " event held at the Medina County fairgrounds.

Several cantons remained Catholic and became the basis of serious conflicts that eventually led to the outbreak of the Wars of Kappel.

Several of the men were killed before Atalanta became the first to hit the boar and draw blood.

Several of his instrumental works were adapted into songs that became standards.

Several of the bookshops closed nonetheless, including Silver Moon, apparently Europe ’ s largest women ’ s interest bookshop, which became part of Foyles.

Several small Islamic states along the coast of Mozambique, Kilwa, Brava and Mombasa were destroyed or became subjects or allies of Portugal.

Several songs, including " There's a New Star in Heaven Tonight " and one by his first wife Jean Acker, entitled " We will meet at the end of the trail ", became best sellers.

Several invasive species, including sea lamprey, alewife and rainbow smelt, became abundant in the lake by the 1930s.

Several regions in the then British Malaya such as Penang, Malacca and Singapore became Chinese dominated.

) Several years later, the U. S. Air Force became interested in the design, and it ordered the SR-71 Blackbird, a two-seater version of the A-12.

Several Princesses of Wales became queens consort.

Several battalions of the regiment saw notable service in France and Belgium during the First World War, in particular the 1st, which became forever associated with the terribly destructive action at Mametz Wood in 1916, and the 2nd, which endured the horrors of the massacre in the mud of Passchendaele ( Third Ypres ) in 1917.

Several editions of the Pius X Breviary were produced during the twentieth century, including a notable edition prepared with the assistance of the Sisters of Stanbrook Abbey in the 1950s.

Several notable people have been born or lived in Cheddar.

Several things were notable about this battle, in which Charles set the pattern for the remainder of his military career: first, he appeared where his enemies least expected him, while they were marching triumphantly home and far outnumbered him.

Several notable RPG authors have written material for Chaosium, including Steve Perrin, Sandy Petersen, Lynn Willis, Keith Herber, David Conyers, Ken St. Andre, and Arduin creator David A. Hargrave.

Several notable retrospectives have examined the influence of Dada upon art and society.

Several notable performances have included the Backstreet Boys, Boston, and Steve Miller Band.

Several other notable gin-based drinks include:

Several notable architectural accomplishments include the Institute for Sound and Vision, and the largest man-made wildlife crossing in the world, Zanderij Crailo

Several notable American craft brewers use his equipment: Geary's Brewing, Shipyard, and Middle Ages Brewing Company to name a few.

Several notable music artists died of unnatural causes in the 1980s.

Several other atomic operations can be used to provide mutual exclusion of data structures ; most notable of these is Compare-And-Swap ( CAS ).

Several notable networks started as MANs, such as the Internet peering points MAE-West, MAE-East, and the Sohonet media network.

Several notable leaders such as Chandra Shekhar Azad, B. R. Ambedkar, Shankar Dayal Sharma and Atal Bihari Vajpayee were born in what is now Madhya Pradesh.

Several strong themes link the works in the Pym canon, which are more notable for their style and characterisation than for their plots.

Several notable singers are from the Memphis area, including Ruth Welting and Kallen Esperian.

Several notable battles were fought though pirate junks continued operating off China for years more.

Several notable Public Choice scholars have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, including James M. Buchanan ( 1986 ), George Stigler ( 1982 ), and Gary Becker ( 1992 ).

Several notable Russian linguists, such as S. A. Starostin and V. V. Ivanov, have claimed that the Hurrian and the Hattic were related to the Northeast Caucasian languages.

" Several notable archaeological sites contain dwellings and other evidence of daily life 1400 years ago ; these were found preserved beneath 6 m ( 20 ft ) of volcanic ash.

Several notable stars of the day received classical theater training, among them actress Nanette Fabray.

Several of the forest-living species are notable for eating large quantities of conifer needles, which most other vertebrates refuse.

Several notable exceptions exist in the Commonwealth of Virginia: the University of Virginia ( Charlottesville ), University of Mary Washington ( Fredericksburg ), George Mason University ( Fairfax ), Virginia State University ( Petersburg ), Virginia Commonwealth University ( Richmond ), Washington and Lee University ( Lexington ), the College of William and Mary ( Williamsburg ), Old Dominion University ( Norfolk ), and Virginia Tech ( Blacksburg ) use the term " Rector " to designate the head of the Board of Visitors.

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.