Surprisingly, the government was run with an average tax rate of about 10 % of GDP with taxes rising to about 20 % of GDP in the Seven Years ' War, American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars and then receding back to about 10 % when the war bonds, loans etc.

Surprisingly, only 40 % of the potential population registered on the Māori roll.

Surprisingly for some, participation was low and only 3, 710, 567 votes were cast, with an abstention of nearly 75 % of the electorate.

Surprisingly, the party managed to cross the required 5 % threshold in the 2004 European Parliament elections, receiving 7 % of votes and 4 of 54 seats reserved for Poland in the European Parliament as part of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party, of which it was a member.

Surprisingly, Flynn hits a single, and Blake follows with a double ( Flynn reaching third on the play ).

Surprisingly, Cook never sighted the largest island, Rarotonga, and the only island that he personally set foot on was tiny, uninhabited Palmerston Atoll.

Surprisingly from a modern perspective, little was made of the war crime status of her actions ; as discussed below, the German authorities instead justified prosecution merely on the basis of the German law and the interests of the German state.

Surprisingly, Thomson did not send Joule a copy of his paper but when Joule eventually read it he wrote to Thomson on 6 October, claiming that his studies had demonstrated conversion of heat into work but that he was planning further experiments.

Surprisingly the first use of a radio interferometer for an astronomical observation was carried out by Payne-Scott, Pawsey and Lindsay McCready on 26 January 1946 using a SINGLE converted radar antenna ( broadside array ) at 200 MHz near Sydney, Australia.

Surprisingly, this key character was not introduced until the first show of their seventh year on the air, 4 / 15 / 41.

Surprisingly though, a B to C trill key as found on the saxophone did more or less become standard

Surprisingly, the town of Tobyhanna, Tobyhanna Lake, the Tobyhanna Army Depot, and the Tobyhanna State Park are all located well within the boundaries of Coolbaugh Township, which adjoins Tobyhanna Township on the north.

Surprisingly, “ Hip Hug-Her ” was the first single released with Jones on a Hammond B-3 organ, the instrument he is most known for playing ( he played a Hammond M-3 on all of the earlier recordings, including " Green Onions ").

Surprisingly, she also had some pop chart success in 1960 with " Serenata " on Roulette and a couple of residual tracks from her Mercury contract, " Eternally " and " You're My Baby ".

Surprisingly, the village records omit any mention this event, and the parish register of 1645 makes absolutely no mention to the battle, with the vicar only recording one birth in the parish on the day of the battle.

Surprisingly, despite predictable tail winds that blow up the Himalayas ( in the same direction of travel as the geese ), bar-headed geese spurn these winds, waiting for them to die down overnight, when they then undertake the greatest rates of climbing flight ever recorded for a bird, and sustain these climbs rates for hours on end.

Surprisingly it was her last Top 40 Pop hit, but Manchester continued to place singles on the Adult Contemporary charts throughout the 1980s.

Surprisingly, most went on to become best sellers and some even set new standards for games of their genres.

Surprisingly they are not officially called holidays and are not so marked in calendars, but for most people, are not working days, and in practice they differ from official holidays only in that most shops are open on those days from early morning till noon.

Surprisingly, the officer did not kill Szpilman, but instead after finding out that he was a pianist, asked Szpilman to play for him on a piano they had found.

( Surprisingly, it was issued in the US on Liberty with a modified cover.

Surprisingly, in 2007 the IIHS reported that in real life situations, the 2001-2004 Chevrolet Astro recorded during calendar years 2002-2005 the least number of killed drivers of all passenger vehicles in the United States, as calculated per every million units on the road.

Surprisingly, this Pacific species has wandered to western Europe as a rare vagrant on a number of occasions, and has interbred with the Sandwich Tern in France ; there is also one record from Cape Town, South Africa in January 2006, the first record for Africa.

Surprisingly, I wasn't too cold, except around where my mouth held on to my regulator, and that instantly froze and became numb.

Surprisingly, the Canadian Mathematical Society did not invite James Rickards to the 2010 Canadian IMO team, making him the first student in over a decade to have placed 2nd on the CMO, but not to have been announced a member of the IMO team.

Surprisingly, in the 1997 leadership election, Gorman deserted right-winger John Redwood because she believed that he was " a bad-mannered, insensitive snob whose remarks on single mothers were a disaster ".

Surprisingly, though most ships on both sides were damaged, and some severely, no ships from either battle line were lost.

Surprisingly, duck meat is rarely found on menus in West Bengal even though the birds are common in the many ponds and lakes.

Surprisingly, though, he enrolled at Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico in San Germán, with plans to study medicine.

Surprisingly, Stephen himself ended up paying their costs, allowing Henry to return home safely ; his reasons for doing so are unclear.

Surprisingly, two representative of CDU / CSU voted for SPD's Willy Brandt, so that the vote failed.

Surprisingly, Stephen himself ended up paying their costs, allowing Henry to return home safely ; his reasons for doing so are unclear.

Surprisingly, if you run through the path twice, i. e., run from north pole down to south pole, jump back to the north pole ( using the fact that north and south poles are identified ), and then again run from north pole down to south pole, so that φ runs from 0 to 4π, you get a closed loop which can be shrunk to a single point: first move the paths continuously to the ball's surface, still connecting north pole to south pole twice.

Surprisingly, many have continued to use the original block size and data field widths as the original UFS, so some degree of ( read ) compatibility remains across platforms.

Surprisingly, if you run through the path twice, i. e., from north pole down to south pole and back to the north pole so that φ runs from 0 to 4π, you get a closed loop which can be shrunk to a single point: first move the paths continuously to the ball's surface, still connecting north pole to south pole twice.

Surprisingly, however, direct transmission between fish has also been demonstrated, so far in three species of Enteromyxum.

Surprisingly, the option to take three people to the boardroom was only used twice, with the first person ( Ivana Ma ) who did so making the decision after pressure to do so from Donald Trump.

Surprisingly, this encourages the team so much that they start winning match after match.

Surprisingly, both de Surville and Cook were navigating New Zealand waters at the same time, the only Europeans to do so since Abel Tasman, a century earlier.

Surprisingly, Battletrap is cheerful and good-natured-but that's probably because he enjoys his work so much.

Surprisingly, a group of victims ' families called Mothers of Beslan led by Susanna Dudiyeva, has shown sympathy for Kulayev, promising to seek an appeal on his behalf given his honesty and cooperation during the trial ; one went so far as to pledge to send any compensation money she received to Kulayev's children, though there is otherwise no mention of his having children.