As he was dying on the voyage back from Egypt, he gave instructions to those close to him that they should not be responsible for making any image of his person, be it modeled or painted or copied, " For if I have accomplished any glorious feat, that will be my memorial.

The feat, if true, exceeded the best of the Wright brothers first powered flights by 540 m ( 1770 ft ) and preceded the Kitty Hawk flights by more than two years, but is not accepted by most aviation historians

It would be strange if humans could accomplish this feat, but an omnipotent being could not.

The significant hole in the belief that Ekins was Wittman's killer is that, if Wittman's Tiger was one of three Tigers engaged and destroyed by Ekins that afternoon-a truly remarkable feat of tank gunnery, who then is responsible for one of the three Tigers nearest to where Ekins fired from.

The statute prohibits anyone who does not hold at least a private pilot certificate and a current medical certificate from manipulating the controls of an aircraft, if that individual " is attempting to set a record or engage in an aeronautical competition or aeronautical feat.

To accomplish such a feat as well as they have, they used complicated rhyme schemes that would render a poem nonsensical if any of the key words were changed from the original version.

Treatise on the Astrolabe addressed to his son Lowys AD 1391. As the Franklin says in his prologue, his story is in the form of a Breton lai, although it is in fact based on a work by the Italian poet and author Boccaccio ( Filocolo 1336 retold in the 1350s as the 5th tale on the 10th day of the Decameron ) in which a young knight called Tarolfo falls in love with a lady married to another knight, extracts a promise to satisfy his desire if he can create a flowering Maytime garden in winter, meets a magician Tebano who performs the feat using spells, but releases her from the rash promise when he learns of her husband's noble response.

Having blown out the Force 42-0 in the first quarter alone thanks to three Force pick-sixes ( including one achieved by a lateral ), the Explosion continued to pile on, offering free tickets if the Explosion hit 100 points ; when the players were told that the indoor record was 133 points ( they were not informed of the overall pro record ), they decided to attempt to break it, a feat they succeeded in achieving.

Controversy exists as to the actual details of the flight and if this flight took place, it is generally not recognized as a record because of a lack of verifiable speed measurement and because the aircraft's highest speeds were attained while diving, whereas Yeager's X-1 completed the feat in level flight.

This was no easy feat, as they received little if any money for the records they produced during this period, and very little for their concerts as well.

The ' feat ' table provides pointers to the localizable strings which can be used to describe a feature to the end user and the appropriate flags to send to the text engine if the feature is selected.

After winning the Masters and the U. S. Open to start the season, he remarked that if he could win the Open Championship and PGA Championship to finish the season, he would complete " a grand slam of his own " to rival Bobby Jones's 1930 feat.

The Salle du Roi would have been taken if a Flemish squire of Robert of Namur, named Hannequin, had not performed a great feat of arms.

Lew Harris is beside himself and trying to decide if he should postpone the opening, but Molly, who has been rehearsing extensively with Katy, convinces Harris that while she'll have to fake the dancing, a feat with which she's been getting away for decades, she can go on in Tim's place.

This is justified by it selling over 100, 000 units in a one-year period, a feat which few if any paintball markers has ever done to date ; some markers that have been available for over a decade haven't been able to match these numbers.

In topping the charts, Wells became the first woman to ever accomplish the feat, at least as a solo act ; if all female singers are considered, then Margaret Whiting gets the honor ( in a 1949 duet No. 1 with Jimmy Wakely called " Slippin ' Around ").

A comparison of the original field notes, transcript notes, plats and report of the examiner, shows that at the season of the year ( from December 1, 1884 to January 3, 1885 ) when the deputy pretends to have made the surveys, the deep snows made the survey at that time impossible ; that in the original notes ( which are now in this office ) much is omitted that is found in the transcripts and data supplied from memory, or rather made up ; that disregarding clerical errors the transcripts are not in any sense copies of the original notes ; that triangulations omitted in originals are audaciously given in detail in the transcripts, just as if they had really been made in the field, that the high speed, more than 6 miles per day, at which it is pretended the work was executed, surpasses belief when we take into consideration the nature of the ground, and bear in mind that the surveying was done during the shortest days of the year ; that the deputy gives descriptions of erroneous bearing trees where no such trees, either as regards size or species, are to be found ; that in the face of all the embarrassing conditions, big canyons, high and steep mountains, deep snow, impenetrable chaparral, precipices impossible to ascend or descend, the deputy with his two parties of four men each, frequently with the impassable San Joaquin river between them, pretends to have subdivided T8SR24E at the rate of more than 6 miles per day, and then accomplishes the feat of recording all this work in one field book.

William Lyon Phelps notes that if Zagłoba is a copy of Falstaff, he is as good as the original, a feat he applauds Sienkiewicz for.

This was a feat almost unheard of at that time but it is not quite clear from the original source if it was in one innings or his match total.

According to Seymour Siwoff, who was on Baseball's Committee for Statistical Accuracy, the feat could not be listed with the " pure " no-hitters because " Young didn't get the chance to go out and pitch the ninth ... who knows what would have happened if he did.

In a match at Bishopsbourne Paddock on 8-12 August 1796, playing for White Conduit Club versus Kent, Walker came very close to scoring two centuries in the match and would have been the first known achiever of this feat if he had scored five more in his first innings.

Several historians of science suspect that either the multi-talented Emanuel Swedenborg or the brilliant inventor Christopher Polhem – also present at the meeting in Lund – may have been the true inventor behind this feat, or at least a main contributor.

The spreadsheet program was superior in its day, offering true 3D capability, where spreadsheets could form outline which can be " opened " to reveal a separate spreadsheet as well as other frame types — a feat of sheer convenient function never again seen and further enhanced in much later versions.

Alexander began with an engineering feat that shows the true extent of his brilliance ; as he could not attack the city from sea, he built a kilometer-long causeway stretching out to the island on a natural land bridge no more than two meters deep.

In 1865, Loschmidt was the first to estimate the size of the molecules that make up the air: his result was only twice the true size, a remarkable feat given the approximations he had to make.

The brass chords in the course of the piece resemble a true big band, no small feat with 1970s synthesizers.

That Vincent was able to redeem Connor in such a short time is a true feat in itself and it was singularly responsible for making the finale as heartbreaking and haunting as it ended up being.

It cost $ 1, 700, 000, exhibits Errol Flynn and 3, 000 other cinemactors performing every imaginable feat of spectacular derring-do, and lasts two hours and seven minutes ... Produced by Warner's Hal Wallis with a splendor that would set parsimonious Queen Bess's teeth on edge, constructed of the most tried -&- true cinema materials available, The Sea Hawk is a handsome, shipshape picture.

Rama then shoots the arrow up into the sky with Vishnu's bow, performing a feat true to his supreme, divine nature with his natural weapon.

If true, the voyage of Melgueiro would have preceded the 1878 feat of Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld by more than two centuries.

The race serves as the middle leg of the Triple Crown, preceded by the 2, 000 Guineas and followed by the St Leger, although the feat of winning all three is now rarely attempted.

His relief of Ciudad Rodrigo in the autumn of 1811 in spite of the presence of the British army was a great feat, and in the manoeuvring which preceded the battle of Salamanca he had the best of it.

It can also serve as the middle leg of the Fillies ' Triple Crown, preceded by the 1, 000 Guineas and followed by the St Leger, although the feat of winning all three is rarely attempted.

The first took place on May 7, 1925, when Pittsburgh's Glenn Wright achieved the feat.

* Harry Atwood ( 1884-1967 ), pioneer American aviator, landed Wright aeroplane on White House South Lawn, 1911, given gold medal by President Taft for this feat

Wright has appeared in music videos for Busta Rhymes ' " Touch It Remix " ( feat.

He thus took the place of Hardheri, one of the mythical Hartung brothers, the original hero of this feat.

The pop science TV program MythBusters attempted to model Archimedes ' feat by using mirrors to ignite a small wooden boat covered with tar, with only partial success — they found it too difficult to focus light from their hand-held mirrors onto a point small enough to ignite the boat.

In addition to winning the 1966 MVP, Robinson also won the Triple Crown ( leading the American League in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in ), a feat also achieved the following season by Boston's Carl Yastrzemski but never since.

He achieved this feat in 2005 by scoring his first Test century against Pakistan at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados.

* Lara has scored an 20 % of his team runs, a feat surpassed only by Bradman ( 23 %) and George Headley ( 21 %).

On the other hand, Steve McMichael holds the record for most consecutive games played by a Bear with 191 ; he accomplished the feat from 1981 to 1993.

Had the Bears won either championship, the club would have completed a championship three-peat – a feat completed only by the Packers ( twice ), although no team has done it since the AFL-NFL merger.

Steve Carlton in 1982 became the first pitcher to win more than three Cy Young Awards, while Greg Maddux in 1994 became the first to win at least three in a row ( and received a fourth straight the following year ), a feat later repeated by Randy Johnson.

Constantius had made him magister militum in 353, with the purpose of blocking the German threats, a feat that Silvanus achieved by bribing the German tribes with the money he had collected.

The originality of Descartes ' thinking, therefore, is not so much in expressing the cogito — a feat accomplished by other predecessors, as we shall see — but on using the cogito as demonstrating the most fundamental epistemological principle, that science and mathematics are justified by relying on clarity, distinctiveness, and self-evidence.

Cesare called for a reconciliation, but imprisoned his condottieri in Senigallia, a feat described as a " wonderful deceiving " by Paolo Giovio, and had them executed.

This was no small feat since Athanasius was regarded as a " man of God " by Constantine.

Another major feat was his appointment as the Patriarch of Constantinople by expelling Paul I of Constantinople ; Paul would eventually return as Patriarch after Eusebius ' death.

In the winter of 1859-60, Scammon, again in the bark Ocean Bird, along with several other vessels, performed a similar feat of daring by entering San Ignacio Lagoon to the south where he discovered the last breeding lagoon.

In modern baseball, the feat is typically achieved by hitting the ball over the outfield fence between the foul poles ( or making contact with either foul pole ) without first touching the ground, resulting in an automatic home run.

The Colts then repeated the feat by posting an identical record and routing the Giants in the 1959 final.

In 1263 troops commanded by Haakon Haakonarson repeated the feat but the ensuing Battle of Largs between Scots and Norse forces, which took place on the shores of the Firth of Clyde, was inconclusive as a military contest.

( The feat has since been repeated once, by the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2001.

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.

He had exceptionally long fingers and was capable of playing three octaves across four strings in a hand span, an extraordinarily difficult feat even by today's standards.

They continued on to complete the first surface crossing of the Arctic Ocean – and by its longest axis, Barrow, Alaska to Svalbard – a feat that has never been repeated.

Hannibal's feat in crossing the Alps with war elephants passed into European legend: detail of a fresco by Jacopo Ripanda, ca.

Innocent could therefore live a period in which he was the effective sovereign of most of the peninsula, and on 27 October 1254 he celebrated the feat by entering the city of Naples.

His feat of holding the world records for the mile, the 5, 000 m and the 10, 000 m at the same time has not been matched by any other athlete before or since.

This feat would be achieved by exhumation and extraction of DNA, constructing a clone of Fredric and retrieving memories and recollections — from Ray's mind — of his father.