The flat, hard cap was small, but he thrust it to the back of his head.

He was a florid, puffy man in his early sixties, very natty in his yachting cap, striped jacket and white flannels.

and buggies and wagons and chugging Fords kept gathering all morning, until the edges of the field were packed thick and small boys kept scampering out on the playing field to make fun of the visitors -- whose pitcher was a formidable looking young man with the only baseball cap.

An argument with Orville Torrence Killpath was as frustrating and as futile as a cap pistol on a firing range.

It was like the cap in the hospital, only a thousand times better.

The small skull cap evolved into a bigger true helmet, the bascinet, as it was lengthened downward to protect the back of the neck and the sides of the head.

More milestones followed as he won his 100th England cap on 21 April 1970 against Northern Ireland, and was made captain by Ramsey for the occasion.

There was a change to the cap insignia, with the cartoon Oriole returning.

Dennis the Menace's famous ' red and black ' jersey had formed the colours of a few of the Beano characters ' clothes ( Minnie the Minx has the same, although the placement of the stripes is a bit different ; Ball Boy's was a vertical red and black ; Roger the Dodger has a chessboard design top, and Danny ( from the Bash Street Kids ) has a similar cap ), but they have changed for Minnie and Ball Boy ( Minnie at one point had a red and yellow top and Ball Boy's strip is now black and blue ).

In July 1934 this cap was increased by 50, 000 to include men from drought affected states of the mid-west.

A different explanation was provided by Desaguliers ( 1725 ), who demonstrated the strong cohesion forces between lead spheres of which a small cap is cut off and which were then brought into contact with each other.

The cap was originally worn by ancient Romans and Greeks.

This type of cap was worn by revolutionaries at the fall of the Bastille.

Women of fashion copied her clothing, and a headdress she wore was widely adopted and known as the Abington cap.

With the percussion cap mechanism, the small primer charge of gunpowder used in all preceding small arms was replaced by a completely self-contained explosive charge contained in a small brass " cap ".

The cap was fastened to the touch hole of the gun ( extended to form a " nipple ") and ignited by the impact of the gun's " hammer ".

) In the case of percussion caps the hammer was hollow on the end to fit around the cap in order to keep the cap from fragmenting and injuring the shooter.

Once struck, the flame from the cap in turn ignited the main charge of gunpowder, as with the flintlock, but there was no longer any need to charge the touch hole with gunpowder, and even better, the touch hole was no longer exposed to the elements.

As a result, the percussion cap mechanism was considerably safer, far more weatherproof, and vastly more reliable ( cloth-bound cartridges containing a premeasured charge of gunpowder and a ball had been in regular military service for many years, but the exposed gunpowder in the entry to the touch hole had long been a source of misfires ).

A major innovation in small arms and light artillery came in the second half of the 19th century when ammunition, previously delivered as separate bullets and powder, was combined in a single metallic ( usually brass ) cartridge containing a percussion cap, powder, and a bullet in one weatherproof package.

Banks's international cap from the same match was also sold in the same auction.

Richard Shuckburgh, a British army surgeon, added words to a popular tune of the time, Lucy Locket ( e. g., “ stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni ”, macaroni being the London slang at the time for a foppish dandy ).

Cheonji-Hwarang, the forerunners of the Hwarang, wore a cap stuck with a sprig of Mugunghwa.

There was also a time when Cash missed a foul ball in the stands, turned a little boy's cap around, stuck his hand into the young fan's popcorn box and said, " Thanks, kid ," as the boy looked up in bewilderment.

Blackman kept up a near-constant stream of jokes and remarks, and he also provided the voice of the show's many invented characters ; some were merely voiced, while others were seen in various forms, including " Mrs McGillicuddy " ( a stock photo of a toothless old woman ), " Angel " ( a Barbie doll dressed as an angel and Chroma keyed into the scene ), " Norman Neumann " a talking Neumann boom microphone, " The Man From Jupiter " and the character that became an icon of the show, cheeky " schoolboy " Dickie Knee ( a ball with a school cap and wig, stuck on a stick ) who would pop up in front of Daryl ( operated by a stage hand ) and make rude remarks.

Moreover, metal valve caps without plastic linings can also cause corrosion and may become stuck to the valve and require breaking of the valve in order to remove it when the cap metal ( such as brass ) is different than the valve metal ( such as aluminium ).

Traditionally, Itsekiri men wear a long sleeved shirt called a Kemeje, tie a George wrapper around their waist and wear a cap with a feather stuck to it.

On February 15, 1993, Clinton made his first address to the nation, announcing his plan to raise taxes to cap the budget deficit.

From the river bank they hear a very loud cry, followed by a complaining clamour in savage discords: " It culminated in a hurried outbreak of almost intolerably excessive shrieking, which stopped short "-" The sheer unexpectedness of it made my hair stir under my cap.

1515, probably based on a drawing by Raphael, and using a composition derived from a Roman sarcophagus, was a highly influential treatment, which made Paris's Phrygian cap an attribute in most later versions.

He has an academic cap named after him, known as the Bishop Andrewes cap, which is like a mortarboard but made of velvet, floppy and has a tump or tuff instead of a tassel.

Only minor changes were made until 1990 ; the color of the road uniforms changed to grey in 1985, while the blue-yellow-blue road cap was abandoned the following year.

McVeigh made a prototype bomb using a plastic Gatorade jug containing ammonium nitrate prills, liquid nitromethane, a piece of Tovex sausage, and a blasting cap.

He wore a pointed skin cap made of sheepskin and wool, fastened securely under his chin by a hide thong.

An image made by Gustavus Vasa during his reign showing him ( in dark brown clothing and cap ) capturing and subduing Catholicism ( the lady in orange ).

The construction of a threaded plug valve involves a plug with a threaded cap which are made so that they fit with the threading on a corresponding piece of female glass.

On 20 June, " a mob of terrifying aspect " broke into the Tuileries and made the king wear the bonnet rouge ( red Phrygian cap ) to show his loyalty to France.

Steinway bridges are made of vertically laminated hard rock maple with a solid maple cap.

This connection may be made with a screw-thread base, two metal pins, two metal caps or a bayonet cap.

Aglets may also be made by melting a softer metal to cap the end of the cable.

It was a stiff horn-like bonnet, which was made of gemmed brocade or cloth-of-gold and worn over the camauro, a fine linen cap with a structured peak reminiscent of the Phrygian cap, a classical symbol of liberty.

While the metal percussion cap was the most popular and widely-used type of primer, their small size made them difficult to handle under the stress of combat or while riding a horse.

By the late 1860s, breech-loading metallic cartridges had made the percussion cap system obsolete.

The invention that made the percussion cap possible using the recently discovered fulminates was patented by the Rev.

On the nipple was placed the copper cap containing the detonating composition, now made of three parts of chlorate of potash, two of fulminate of mercury and one of powdered glass.

The crown, which is made of silver gilt, consists of a circlet and cap decorated with the arms in enamel of various provinces of the realm.

The cap on the inside of the crown is made of the same crimson velvet which also covers the reverse sides of the arches of the crown.

The invention that made the percussion cap possible was patented by the Rev.