Ivory has been important since ancient times for making a range of items, from ivory carvings to false teeth, fans, dominoes, joint tubes, piano keys and billiard balls.

The interviews also contain fans who engage in a range of illicit or unsavory activities, such as cel thieves, a pornography fan attempting to manufacture glasses to defeat the mosaic censorship common in Japanese porno videos and who is shown masturbating during the interview, and a computer gamer, who looks like Gainax member Hideaki Anno, obsessed with a character in a hentai computer game ( Noriko from Gunbuster who makes a cameo in Gainax's own hentai game: Cybernetic High School ).

Training camp at Fisher is considered one of the best in the NFL and attracts a wide range of fans from the northeast and Canada.

As Henry Pleasants has observed, she has a wider range than most opera singers, and many of the latter, including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, are among her biggest fans.

The series featured a mix of comedy, drama and melodrama, social commentary, nostalgia, and science fiction, which won it a broad range of fans.

His impressive range allowed frequent spectacular diving plays, and he often dazzled fans with over-the-shoulder basket catches and robbed opposing hitters of home runs by leaping up and pulling them back into the field of play.

Estimates of the number of fans in attendance range from 240, 000 to well over 300, 000.

The intensity of cheering and jeering at a sports bar by sports fans can often range from equal to stronger than that of fans actually at the sporting event for particularly significant games and matches.

The Canterbury Plains formed from the erosion of the Southern Alps ( an extensive and high mountain range caused by the meeting of the Indo-Australian and Pacific tectonic plates ) and from the alluvial fans created by large braided rivers.

Despite not possessing the four-octave range boasted by Kiske, Deris's vocal similarity to Kai Hansen, his enthusiasm, his strong songwriting skills, the return of the " classic " Helloween sound in songs such as " Where the Rain Grows " and " The Game Is On ", and the seeming rejuvenation of Weikath and Grapow seemed to strike a chord with the fans.

As Thomas LaMarre states, " Anime fans become familiar with a whole range of female

They range from simple tails and ears to full costumes cooled by battery-powered fans.

Haptic effectors, evoking precise perceivable sensations, range from small motors, fans, heating elements, or vibrators ; to micro-voltage electrodes which gently stimulate areas of the skin ( creating subtle, localized, " tingling " electrotactile sensations ).

The re-edited films range from clever to blatantly patchy, and Stooge fans often dismiss them as second-rate.

Commonplace in China is the sight of Ginseng on sale in herb shops, at a wide range of prices-Kung Fu classics fans may remember it used as a plot element at the start of Drunken Master 2.

Although the Turkey Day Game has long been defunct, avid fans still often commute from neighbor islands to O ' ahu to attend conference games in a wide range of sports.

" Kathy was especially fond of Connie Francis, evident in her solo Spanish recording of " Malaguena Salerosa ," which showcased her impressive vocal range, & the sisters made no secret that they were huge fans of the innovative, intricate musical stylings of both The Andrews Sisters and The Mills Brothers.

Cooling fans equipped with either 2 or 3 pin connectors are usually designed to accept a wide range of input voltages, which directly affects the rotation speed of the blades.

A system thermistor checks the temperature inside the chassis, and if it detects a temperature outside of range, it spins the fans up to maximum.

In 2005, she designed a range of clothing and accessories for H & M to boost public awareness of her own brand and to create more affordable options for her fans.

These fans typically have three speeds ( high, medium, and low ); however, the speed range can be anywhere from one through four.

But on the north side the Fairfield range is magnificent: here are dark precipices, long fans of scree ,... desolate combes and deep valleys.

Adapted to particular soil types and surface conditions, these plant communities range from riparian vegetation near the river to greasewood and saltgrass on the alluvial fans to plants such as hedgehog cactus in rocky outcrops at high elevation.

The big fans were going, drawing from the large room the remnants of stale smoke which drifted about in pale strata underneath the ceiling.

Viewed from afar, the CDC looks like a rather stalwart political pyramid: its elected directorate fans out into an array of district leaders and standing committees, and thence into its component clubs and affiliated groups -- 500 or so.

Once there had been big glittering rooms where Ulanys bowed and kissed the ladies' hands as they flirted from behind their fans.

In some cities games were broadcast throughout the week and then on weekends the announcer was silenced, and fans must needs drive to the city from all the broadcast area to discover how their heroes were faring.

You would be surprised how many fans purposely stayed away from Bears Stadium last year because of the television policy.

If the media agency responsible for the authorized production allows material from fans, what is the limit before legal constraints from actors, music, and other considerations, come into play?

Cuarón faced criticism from some of the more purist Harry Potter fans for his approach to the film.

News of the signings by the Boston and Philadelphia players leaked to the press before the season ended, and all of them suffered verbal abuse and physical threats from the kranks, as baseball fans were called at the time, in Beantown and the City of Brotherly Love.

Although every Major League Baseball team cultivates fans from outside its immediate metropolitan area, and even though the greater Phoenix area has 2 / 3 of the statewide population, Colangelo still decided to call the team the " Arizona Diamondbacks " rather than the " Phoenix Diamondbacks ".

With MCs Stefan and Clyde rapping about their personal lives and life in Amsterdam as a black man, de Spookrijders even gained respect from non-hip-hop musicians and fans.

Michael Giltz of Entertainment Weekly gave the book a " C -", feeling that " only hardcore fans will be satisfied by this tale " and saying that Jeter's " habit of echoing dialogue and scenes from the film is annoying and begs comparisons he would do well to avoid.

Since its introduction at games by the " Roar from 34 ", led by Wild Bill Hagy and others, in the late 1970s, it has been a tradition at Orioles games for fans to yell out the " Oh " in the line " Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave " in " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

" bellowed from the nearly 30, 000 Ravens fans that attended the November 21, 2010 away game at the Carolina Panthers ' Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.

", to which he received a resounding cheer from the crowd, after which he went out and took his ' lap of honour ' where he met and shook hands with many of the fans.

In 1996, the year after the film was released, the annual three-day " Braveheart Conference " at Stirling Castle attracted fans of Braveheart, increasing the conference's attendance to 167, 000 from 66, 000 in the previous year.

Signing Mare was very controversial from the perspective of the fans.

However, the official attendances can be considered somewhat dubious in this era as many fans would get in by climbing over the fence from Bishops Park into the Putney End.

The club's historic nickname is gialloblu ( from the club colors of yellow and blue ) although throughout Italian football the team recognised by most fans as " Gialloblu " are the original team from Verona – " Hellas Verona ".

The " flying donkeys " nickname was originally a derogatory term from a match chant sung by fans from crosstown rivals Hellas Verona, which said that " donkeys would fly before Chievo made it to Serie A ".

Adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent from the Kansas town of Smallville, Clark ( and thus Superman ) was raised with the values of a typical rural American town, including attending the local Methodist Church ( though it is debated by comic fans if Superman is a Methodist ).

While this rivalry was in many ways a holdover from the days when the Commodore 64 had first challenged the Atari 800 ( among others ) in a series of scathing television commercials, the events leading to the launch of the ST and Amiga only served to further alienate fans of each computer, who fought vitriolic holy wars on the question of which platform was superior.

With country music record sales declining as rock and roll took over, Atkins and Bob Ferguson took their cue from Owen Bradley and eliminated fiddles and steel guitar as a means of making country singers appeal to pop fans.