In 1975, Bowie achieved his first major American crossover success with the number-one single " Fame " and the hit album Young Americans, which the singer characterised as " plastic soul ".

Young Americans was a commercial success in both the US and the UK, and a re-issue of the 1969 single " Space Oddity " became Bowie's first number one hit in the UK a few months after " Fame " achieved the same in the US.

A study of patients with previously untreated epilepsy demonstrated that 47 % achieved control of seizures with the use of their first single drug.

Geelong holds a number of league records including the longest winning streak in AFL / VFL history ( 23 games ); the most goals kicked in a single game ( on two occasions-37. 17 ( 239 ) against Brisbane in 1992 and 37. 11 ( 233 ) against Melbourne in 2011 ); the highest score recorded in a single game ( 37. 17 ( 239 ) against Brisbane in 1992 ; the highest-ever aggregate season total for points scored ( 3, 334 points in 1992 ); the record for restricting an opponent to the lowest ever score in a game ( St Kilda 0. 1 ( 1 ) in 1899 ); the most consecutive 100-point victories ( 3 games in a row, in 1989 ); the longest winning streak in interstate games ( 12 games ) and achieved the longest home ground winning streak in VFL / AFL history — 29 games straight at Simonds Stadium ( also known as Kardinia Park ).

This can be achieved by a single mine left on a civilian road to be detonated by a civilian target which is clearly quite different from the normal military application.

They achieved the same distinction of a simultaneous No. 1 album and No. 1 single in the United Kingdom.

By January 1983, Men at Work had the top album and single in both the US and the UK-a feat never achieved previously by an Australian act.

Prithvi Narayan Shah dedicated himself at an early age to the conquest of the Kathmandu Valley and the creation of a single state, which he achieved in 1768.

The first stations recognized as having achieved single band WAC RTTY were W1MX ( 3. 5 MHz ); DL0TD ( 7. 0 MHz ); K3SWZ ( 14. 0 MHz ); W0MT ( 21. 0 MHz ) and FG7XT ( 28. 0 MHz ).

It achieved lunar orbit using a single stage.

Unified into a single state in 370 BC by the Aeacidae dynasty, Epirus achieved fame during the reign of Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose campaigns against Rome are the origin of the term " Pyrrhic victory ".

2001's Temptation Island achieved some notoriety by placing several couples on an island surrounded by single people in order to test the couples ' commitment to each other.

The British victory spectacularly confirmed the naval supremacy that Britain had established during the previous century and was achieved in part through Nelson's departure from the prevailing naval tactical orthodoxy, which involved engaging an enemy fleet in a single line of battle parallel to the enemy to facilitate signalling in battle and disengagement, and to maximise fields of fire and target areas.

While " Cast Your Fate To The Wind " by Guaraldi achieved modest chart success as a single in 1963, a cover version two years later by British group Sounds Orchestral cracked the Billboard top 10 ( in the spring of 1965 ).

This short length is achieved by the spiral valve with multiple turns within a single short section instead of a long tube-like intestine.

He achieved another hit in this decade, with the lead single of his 1977 compilation, Greatest Hits, Etc., " Slip Slidin ' Away ", reaching No. 5 in the United States.

The term multiculturalism is most often used in reference to Western nation-states, which had seemingly achieved a de facto single national identity during the 18th and / or 19th centuries.

A single pound of fat is believed to contain approximately 3500 calories, and weight loss is achieved by reducing caloric intake.

The Krell had all died mysteriously in a single night, some 200, 000 years before, just as they achieved their crowning scientific triumph.

At one point in 1984, Prince simultaneously had the number one album, single, and film in the U. S .; it was the first time a singer had achieved this feat.

Its best sound is achieved using a single steel-wire snare-brush or whisk broom.

This is achieved in a single generation, as opposed to many, which would otherwise occupy much physical space / facilities.

Queensrÿche had the most melodic sound of the three and achieved, with Operation Mindcrime and Empire the genre's most immediate commercial successes, which peaked with the crossover single " Silent Lucidity " reaching number nine on the Billboard Hot 100.

" The Spurs have consistently posted winning road records during this period, including an NBA-record longest single road trip winning streak ( 8 games out of 9, achieved in 2003 ).

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

The inventory of tones is much smaller, and commonly the contrasts range along one single dimension, pitch level.

* The single verse, 2 Samuel 18: 33, regarding David's grief at the loss of his son (" And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!

Kolton opposed the idea of a merger with the New York Stock Exchange while he headed the exchange saying that " two independent, viable exchanges are much more likely to be responsive to new pressures and public needs than a single institution ".

Again, this difference is much more obvious to a Turkish speaker, for whom and are separate phonemes, than to an English speaker, for whom they are allophones of a single phoneme.

This meant that the playing of chords, even if they interrupted the melodic smoothness of a single part, became a much more prevalent feature of music.

Thus, much of the spirits used in making a Canadian whisky, prior to aging, may have less grain-derived flavour than typical single malts or U. S. " straight " whiskeys.

Modern single-panel gag cartoons, found in magazines, generally consist of a single drawing with a typeset caption positioned beneath or ( much less often ) a speech balloon.

The concept was much improved by the Italian Roberto Valturio in 1463, who devised a boat with five sets, where the parallel cranks are all joined to a single power source by one connecting-rod, an idea also taken up by his compatriot Francesco di Giorgio.

More generally, to insist that all evidence converge precisely with no deviations would be naïve falsificationism, equivalent to considering a single contrary result to falsify a theory when another explanation, such as equipment malfunction or misinterpretation of results, is much more likely.

By contrast, if the same historian had made the same claim five times in five different places ( and no other types of evidence were available ), the claim is much weaker because it originates from a single source.

When " Too Drunk to Fuck " came out in May 1981, the song caused much controversy in the UK as the BBC feared the single would reach the Top 30 ; this would require a mention of the song on Top of the Pops.

It was too much for a single person to control, and Diocletian needed a lieutenant.

Thus the second experiment gives us 8 times as much precision for the estimate of a single item, and estimates all items simultaneously, with the same precision.

In 1978 he wrote to The Times that he had ' not been able to find a single person even in much maligned Chile who did not agree that personal freedom was much greater under Pinochet than it had been under Allende.

Although turret presses operate much like single stage presses, they eliminate much of the setup time required in positioning individual dies correctly.

The reloading of such large cartridges is also much more complex, as developing a load using a specific lot of powder can require nearly all of a 5 lb bottle of powder, and a load must be developed with but a single lot of powder for reasons of safety.

If only because there was a much smaller number of skilled artists, the quantity of icons, in the sense of panel paintings, was much smaller in the West, and in most Western settings a single diptych as an altarpiece, or in a domestic room, probably stood in place of the larger collections typical of Orthodox " icon corners ".

In conjunction with an appropriate codec using MPEG or various manufacturers proprietary algorithms, an ISDN BRI can be used to send stereo bi-directional audio coded at 128 kbit / s with 20 Hz – 20 kHz audio bandwidth, although commonly the G. 722 algorithm is used with a single 64 kbit / s B channel to send much lower latency mono audio at the expense of audio quality.

Even when an address is not based on the MAC address though, the interface's address is ( contrary to IPv4 ) usually global instead of local, which makes it much easier to identify a single user through the IP address.

By the release of 1979's The Original Disco Man, Brown wasn't providing much production or writing, leading most of it to producer Brad Shapiro, resulting in the song " It's Too Funky in Here " becoming Brown's most successful single in this period.

Previously the risk of foul-biting had always been at the back of an etcher's mind, preventing him from investing too much time on a single plate that risked being ruined in the biting process.