Several other powerful hurricanes have passed near to the island with damaging effects.

* 1917 – Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon, killing 101 people and injuring 689.

Several dozen nearby large galaxies, with no sign of a quasar nucleus, have been shown to contain a similar central black hole in their nuclei, so it is thought that all large galaxies have one, but only a small fraction emit powerful radiation and so are seen as quasars.

Medieval Japan employed spears for infantrymen to use, but it was not until the 11th century in Japan that samurai began to use spears over bows. Several spears ( Yari ) and pole weapons were very fearsome in the Japanese theatres ; the naginata was a heavy, but powerful pole arm often used by mounted samurai in the 16th century.

Several other significant changes took place due to the crisis: mankind discovered it could now tap into ultraplanar energies that were seen as magical forces, the stars were gone from the sky, dimensional nexi were uncovered and pacts with " demons " ( inhabitants of dimensions near in n-dimensional space to Tékumel's pocket dimension ) were made and a complex pantheon of " Gods " ( powerful extra-dimensional or multi-dimensional alien beings ) discovered.

Several powerful double-clad fiber lasers and disk lasers use Yb < sup > 3 +</ sup > ions as dopant at concentration of several atomic percent.

Several powerful criminal clans originate from the town.

Several species of pigeon and dove are used as food, and probably any could be ; the powerful breast muscles characteristic of the family make excellent meat.

Several " add-in applications " can be " attached " and activated, extending Symphony's capabilities, including a powerful macro manager, a document outliner, a spell-checker, statistics, various communications configurations, and a tutorial, which demonstrates Symphony usage by running macros.

Several other powerful men supported Perdiccas, including Ptolemy, Lysimachus, Peithon and Eumenes.

Several Lanterns were killed slowing the renegade Superboy's advance on Oa, a sacrifice that enabled Earth's most powerful heroes to execute their plan to restrain him.

Several powerful hurricanes following the Civil War and up to the 1893 hurricane resulted in uprooted trees and flood damaged dikes in the rice fields and ultimately ended the production of rice on the Waccamaw Neck.

Several of these Canadian pioneers achieved enormous wealth and worldwide fame, such as Louis B. Mayer and Mary Pickford who were, in their day, two of the most powerful personalities in Hollywood.

Several other sorcerer kings had been rumored to be dragons, but all others were only in a process of being transformed into a dragon type being, unique to the Athas world, which took several long stages to complete, but became greatly powerful if achieved.

Several of these " penghulus ", notably that of Sungai Ujong, Jelebu, Johol and Rembau became powerful enough to exalt themselves above other " penghulus ".

Several times his path crosses the mysterious and powerful figure Robert Roy MacGregor, known as Rob Roy, an associate of Sir Hildebrand.

Several of the songs give an impression of Oski being a powerful guardian-being dwelling in the heavens, as well as sallying forth from a lair on Earth.

Several jars of the powerful chemical had burst on the stairway.

Several new and powerful cruisers were added to the navy, and the internal economy of this branch of the national defence was thoroughly inspected ; many defects were remedied.

Several " uberguilds " ( highly powerful and influential groups of players ), including Fires of Heaven, Afterlife, Ascent, and Keepers of the Faith, departed from EverQuest around this time.

Set in an alternate timeline of the James Bond universe, the player takes the role of an ex-MI6 agent who is recruited by Auric Goldfinger, a member of a powerful unnamed criminal organization, to assassinate his rival Dr. No. Several other characters from the Bond film series make appearances throughout the game, including Pussy Galore, Oddjob, and Xenia Onatopp as well as Francisco Scaramanga, playing a Q type character with the voice and likeness of Christopher Lee, who played the same character in 1974's The Man with the Golden Gun.

Several times, powerful lords attempted to obtain the mastery of the city ( Alidosi, 1292 ; Maghinardo Pagano, 1295 ).

Several months later, Brinkley was allowed to increase to one million watts, " making XER far and away the most powerful radio station on the planet " that, on a clear night, could be heard as far away as Canada.

Several years later, Minax got older and very powerful, more so than Mondain once was.

Several well-known horror enthusiasts publicly criticized the German ban on the movie, including author Stephen King ( who gave it a rave review in the November 1982 issue of Twilight Zone ).

Several of Alberus's hymns, all of which show the influence of his master Luther, have been retained in the German Protestant hymnal.

Several of the best secondary schools in Kabul are founded and supported by the German government.

Several twentieth-century German writers, including Peter Bender, Johannes Lang, Karl Neupert, and Fritz Braun, published works advocating the hollow Earth hypothesis, or Hohlweltlehre.

Several times the Liberian government borrowed money from English banks on severe terms, and even from local German merchants.

* Several PDP and LAB's, still runnable in a German computer museum

Several German guided missiles and rockets of World War II were developed by the HVP, including the V-2 rocket ( A-4 ) ( see test launches ), and the Wasserfall ( 35 Peenemünde trial firings ), Schmetterling, Rheintochter, Taifun, and Enzian missiles.

Several marriages were contracted with princesses from other Slavic monarchies and other orthodox kingdoms, and even a couple of cadet-line princesses were allowed to marry Russian high noblemen-whereas until 1850s, practically all marriages had been with German princelings.

Several German military orders in both world wars had grades adorned with crossed swords, e. g. Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords ( mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern ), and so was the British Order of Merit when awarded for military achievements.

Several European armed forces have or are currently replacing older M109s with the German PzH 2000, which outperforms the M109 in speed, range, round capacity and crew requirements.

Several thousand of them headed straight for the West German embassy in Prague and demanded safe passage to West Germany.

Several German guards were killed when 300 prisoners escaped.

Several early German and French scholars compiled old works and conducted new research on birds.

Several British and French operations took place beyond Flanders during the 3rd Ypres campaign, intended to assist Allied operations at Ypres, by obstructing the flow of munitions and reinforcements to the German Fourth Army in Belgium and to exploit opportunities created by the German need to economise elsewhere.

Several weeks later Garros was forced to land behind German lines.

Several heads-of-state have expressed doubts about the success of multicultural policies: The United Kingdom's Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Australia's ex-prime minister John Howard, Spanish ex-president Jose Maria Aznar and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have voiced concerns about the effectiveness of their multicultural policies for integrating immigrants.

Several groups within the German armed forces attempted to raise their own paratroop formations, resulting in confusion.

Several efforts were made by the various German manufacturers to develop a single unified keyboard system for all German concertinas ; but this was only partially accomplished at the end of the 19th century when the Chemnitzer and Carlsfelder systems were merged into the unified concertina system and a unified bandonion system was created.

Several of her friends and associates, especially Lord Lothian ( Philip Kerr ), became heavily involved in the German appeasement policy ; this group became known as the " Cliveden set ".

Several variations of Limburgish are also still actively used, these being a diverse group of dialects which share features in common with both German and Dutch.

Several German princes abandoned the Catholic Church and formed the Schmalkaldic League in order to challenge Charles ' authority with military force.

Several prominent German military, cultural, and political figures in subsequent history, including poet Theodor Fontane, General Hermann von François, the hero of the First World War Battle of Tannenberg, Luftwaffe General and fighter ace Adolf Galland ; and famed U-boat captain Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, trace their ancestry to the Huguenot refugees from France.