A small minority held that something concrete had indeed happened on October 22, but this event had been misinterpreted.

Different bookmakers may offer different odds on the same outcome of a given event ; by taking the best odds offered by each bookmaker, a customer can under some circumstances cover all possible outcomes of the event and lock a small risk-free profit, known as a Dutch book.

The rare case risks are extremely high because these small price differences are converted to large profits via leverage ( borrowed money ), and in the rare event of a large price move, this may yield a large loss.

In the criminal justice system, actual conspiracies and conspiracy theories can also be distinguished by scale, as actual conspiracies are usually small in scale and involve " a single event or issue.

After the sinking of the Essex of Nantucket by a whale, on November 20, 1820, ( an important source event for Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ) the survivors, in three small boats, resorted, by common consent, to cannibalism in order for some to survive.

< p > Men are involuntarily unemployed if, in the event of a small rise in the price of wage-goods relatively to the money-wage, both the aggregate supply of labour willing to work for the current money-wage and the aggregate demand for it at that wage would be greater than the existing volume of employment.

Non-avian dinosaur fossils are found only below the K – T boundary, indicating that they became extinct during the boundary event .< ref > A very small number of dinosaur fossils have been found above the K – T boundary, but they have been explained as reworked fossils, that is, fossils that have been eroded from their original locations then preserved in later sedimentary layers.

Most species of brachiopods, a small phylum of marine invertebrates, survived the K – Pg extinction event and diversified during the early Paleocene.

Early in the Cenozoic, following the K-Pg event, the planet was dominated by relatively small fauna, including small mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.

Although this is possible, such an event has a small probability of occurring, making it unlikely.

Started as a local event in a Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood in 1950 and expanded nationally in 1952, the program involves the distribution of small boxes by schools ( or in modern times, corporate sponsors like Hallmark, at their licensed stores ) to trick-or-treaters, in which they can solicit small-change donations from the houses they visit.

# Limited risk of catastrophically large losses: Insurable losses are ideally independent and non-catastrophic, meaning that the losses do not happen all at once and individual losses are not severe enough to bankrupt the insurer ; insurers may prefer to limit their exposure to a loss from a single event to some small portion of their capital base.

The law of averages is a lay term used to express a belief that outcomes of a random event will " even out " within a small sample.

This event is now commemorated as National Day, and a small museum and memorial center honor the hero on his home island of Utheemu on South Thiladhummathi Atoll.

Lasting 42 million years, the Paleogene is most notable as being the time in which mammals evolved from relatively small, simple forms into a large group of diverse animals in the wake of the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event that ended the preceding Cretaceous Period.

After the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event, which saw the demise of the dinosaurs, they transformed from a few small and generalized forms and began to evolve into most of the modern varieties we see today.

Guests who attend are expected to bring a small gift, usually related to the upcoming life event, like getting married or having a baby.

Radiogenic < sup > 107 </ sup > Ag was first discovered in the Santa Clara meteorite in 1978 .< ref > The discoverers suggest the coalescence and differentiation of iron-cored small planets may have occurred 10 million years after a nucleosynthetic event.

In contrast, objects with a very small mass, such as the electron, have wavelike characteristics which permit such an event, referred to as tunneling.

Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee stated that women's ski jumping will not be an Olympic event because " we do not want the medals to be diluted and watered down ," referring to the relatively small number of potential competitors in women's ski jumping.

In 1969, artists in a small Northern California town began the Kinetic sculpture race which has grown to a, three-day all terrain, human-powered sculpture race and county wide event.

Through small group discussions, the event gives participants the opportunity to hear directly about the experiences of former incarcerees first-hand, to share their experiences and feelings about what they learned, and talk about the relevance of what happened at Manzanar to their own lives.

The Global Ecovillage Network, formed by a group of about 25 people, from various countries, who had attended the Findhorn conference, crystallized the event by linking hundreds of small projects from around the world, who had with similar goals but had formerly operated without knowledge of each other.

It is developing as an annual autumn event in his native town of Legnago where a theater has been renamed in his honor.

Lugh instituted an event similar to the Olympic games called the Assembly of Talti which finished on Lughnasadh ( 1 August ) in memory of his foster-mother, Tailtiu, at the town that bears her name ( now Teltown, County Meath ).

This event, along with another town fire in 1342, the Black Death in 1349, 1356 and 1365, but above all the rise of the Territorial Princes, led to a gradual decline.

A separate revival occurred in Hastings in 1983 and has become a major event in the town calendar.

Unlike the wrecking of a ship, the destruction of a town by a seismic event can take place over many years and there may be evidence for several phases of damage, sometimes with rebuilding in between.

* 1356 – Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel, Switzerland.

* In Ghent, first recorded instance of emission of life annuities by a town in the Low Countries, this event confirms a trend of consolidation of local public debt in north-western Europe initiated in 1218 by Rheims.

The mob became enraged at this event and, led by Jan Žižka, stormed the town hall.

These days, it is a big event ; decorated floats drive through the town, with young women in skimpy costumes on board, throwing flowers onto the crowds.

Clayton's event did not have repercussions outside of Fairmont for several reasons, among them: the city was overwhelmed by other events, the celebration was never promoted outside of the town itself and no proclamation was made in the City Council.

The acropolis, high above the main town, was a safe haven for the populace in the event of a raid.

This testimony was given by a resident of the town and he wore the tie of the East Lancs to commemorate the event.

This event helped modernize the city with the development of infrastructure such as an airport, motorways, and a town hall.

His 1967 film The Fireman's Ball, on the face of it a naturalistic representation of an ill-fated social event in a provincial town, has been viewed by both movie scholars and the then-authorities in Czechoslovakia as a biting satire on East European Communism, which resulted in it being banned for many years in Forman's home country.

On the face of it a naturalistic representation of an ill-fated social event in a provincial town, the film has been seen by both movie scholars and the then-authorities in Czechoslovakia as a biting satire on East European Communism, which resulted in it being banned for many years in Forman's home country.

In any event, the Mexicas eventually arrived on a small swampy island in Lake Texcoco where they founded the town of Tenochtitlan in 1325.

The town of Frankfort likely received its name from an event that took place in 1780s.

Unlike many other works by King, there is little focus on the supernatural ; the only such event in the book is a telepathic vision, which forms a link to King's novel Gerald's Game ; although reviewer Sean Piccoli observed the novel otherwise contained " vintage bone-yard King: the tiny town, the secret lives.

Discontent at the introduction of mechanisation into the mills resulted in the deaths of two men in a riot in the town in 1775, an event which apparently discouraged the mill-owners from pursuing modernisation, a decision which resulted in Shepton's cloth trade losing out to the steam-powered mills in the north of England in the early 19th century.

A study by the Environment Agency identified that the current standard of flood protection in those parts of the town was insufficient, being of a 5 – 10 year event standard ; current guidelines require protection of a 50 – 200 year standard.

Another local festival commemorates The Vote Day ( January 14 ), an event during the Black Plague, when the townsfolk voted for the bringing of the Virgin of the Olive across the town to worship her.

This event gave rise to the term Zabernism ( from the German name of the town ), meaning abuse of military authority, or unwarranted aggression.

In the second half of the 13th century, Radom was granted Środa Śląska town charter from Prince Bolesław V the Chaste, but no documents exist to confirm the exact date of this event.

( Note: The deportation of Viennese Jews to Opole most likely is a reference to a historical event that happened in " the other Opole ," a town by the same time in Lublin, in eastern Poland.