From the violence of that salt called saltpetre with sulphur and willow charcoal, combined into a powder so horrible a sound is made by the bursting of a thing so small, no more than a bit of parchment it, that we find ear assaulted by a noise exceeding the roar of strong thunder, and a flash

This is similar to the findings of a review by the British Medical Journal of studies up to February 2002 that failed to find clear effects of long and shorter chain n − 3 fats on total mortality, combined cardiovascular events and cancer.

However, the unlikelihood that the reputable historian Bede invented Ninian without some basis in the historical record, combined with an increased knowledge of Ireland's early saints and Whithorn's early Christian connections, has led to serious scholarly efforts to find Bede's basis.

(, steamers — not to be confused with a pressure cooker — are beginning to find their way into domestic households, sometimes as a combined appliance of oven and steamer.

This fact, combined with the troublesome personal union, of his divided kingdoms would thwart his attempts to find support in Sweden.

This method of finishing the competition would also eventually find use in winter events ; the Gundersen method details a means by which a similar finish is achieved in the Nordic combined.

Because the known laws of physics are all local, and because non-local interactions combined with relativity lead to causal paradoxes, many physicists find this unacceptable.

The results of the CAB investigation suggest that, soon after takeoff, Peterson became disoriented due the unfamiliar way the attitude indicator in the aircraft functioned, combined with an inability to find a point of visual reference on a night with no stars, and no visible lights on the ground.

John Brahm's The Locket ( 1946 ) featured Mitchum as bitter ex-husband to Laraine Day's femme fatale, while Raoul Walsh's Pursued ( 1947 ) combined western and noir styles, with Mitchum's character attempting to recall his past and find those responsible for killing his family.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

It is Ray ’ s hope that the power of comedy combined with the power of two peoples coming together on one stage will help Palestinians and Israelis find the courage to look past the pain and the suffering of the conflict and see each other as human beings, as partners and as people who have no other choice but to struggle together to achieve a lasting peace.

PED (∆ P / P ) if you wish to find the combined effect of changes in two or more determinants of demand you simply add the separate effects: ∆ Q / Q = PED (∆ P / P ) + YED (∆ Y / Y )

He described the book as " a virtual encyclopedia of Japanese history and culture ; somewhere among those half-million words, one can find a brief description of virtually everything one wanted to know about Japan ", and stated that " n sheer quantity, Shōgun has probably conveyed more information about Japan to more people than all the combined writings of scholars, journalists, and novelists since the Pacific War.

Much of the true " con artistry " has been driven out of funfairs in the twentieth century, and combined with an increasing emphasis on the role of families and small children in such entertainment, contemporary showmen often find greater profit in pricing their games far above the value of the prizes being offered, with complex formulae for upgrading to the large prizes that advertise the game and instil desire among customers.

Individuals who have acquired deafblindness ( loss of hearing and vision combined ) may find cochlear implants a radical improvement in their daily lives.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Shoemaker used film taken at the wide-field telescope at the Palomar Observatory, combined with a stereoscope, to find objects which moved against the background of fixed stars.

When they learn that Cindy wants to overcome her acute technophobia in order to write a combined apology / birthday e-mail, both of them help her finish the job, with Saati becoming the " computer fairy " in order to find her father's e-mail address.

This, combined with its skulking habits, makes this a difficult species to find and identify away from its breeding grounds in the Arctic.

In 1979, ABC commissioned a made-for-TV event called " Superbikers ," created by motorcycling journalist and promoter Gavin Trippe, intended to find the ultimate all-around motorcycle racer by putting all star riders from different genres of racing on a single track that combined three genres of racing: flat track racing, motocross and road racing.

As with the treatment of SSRI-induced sexual disorder, a higher dose of bupropion ( 300 mg ) may be necessary: a randomized study employing a lower dose ( 150 mg ) failed to find a significant difference between bupropion, sexual therapy or combined treatment.

Convolution is the basic concept in signal processing that states an input signal can be combined with the system's function to find the output signal.

The updated report ends with an invitation, asking the National Forum and regular citizens to recognize that " the result of these combined efforts will be a citizenry which is made up of effective lifelong learners who can always find the information needed for the issue or decision at hand.

The two byte streams could be combined, used to find data in tables, or counted to determine the frequency of various values.

However, if both heuristics fail to set any squares, the implications found by both of them are combined into a 2-satisfiability problem and a 2-satisfiability solver is used to find squares whose value is fixed by the problem, after which the procedure is again repeated.

While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.

A prime objective of the Army Quartermaster Corps program is to find the reasons for beef's low palatability and means of overcoming it, since it is a major and desirable dietary item.

Many other formulations were developed in the following decades, generally trying to find the optimum characteristics of a good artillery propellant ; low temperature, high energy, non corrosive, highly stable, cheap, and easy to manufacture in large quantities.

Lancaster, though motivated by charity, claimed in his pamphlets to be surprised to find that he lived well on the income of his school, even while the low costs made it available to the poorest street-children.

Today, because of low demand and complicated manufacturing process, animal vellum is expensive and hard to find.

The removal of trade and investment barriers, the growth of domestic markets, artificially low currencies, the proliferation of education, the rapid development of high tech and information systems industries and the growth of the world economy lead to a significant growth of offshore outsourcing during the decade as many multinational corporations significantly increased subcontracting of manufacturing ( and increasingly, services ) across national boundaries in developing countries and particularly in China and India, due to many benefits and mainly because the two countries which are the two most populous countries in the world provide huge pools from which to find talent and as because both countries are low cost sourcing countries.

After a search to find the special, two copies were found by viewers who recorded the show-one a low quality VHS copy, the other a mid quality Betamax recording.

The largest measured population density is very low, at approximately ten individuals per square meter ; velvet worms are often difficult to find in their natural habitat.

These elements are found in certain stable organic compounds, especially chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ), which may find their way to the stratosphere without being destroyed in the troposphere due to their low reactivity.

As a side effect, punched tape became a popular medium for low cost minicomputer data and program storage, and it was common to find a selection of tapes containing useful programs in most minicomputer installations.

Nicrophorus beetles find the ammonia excretions of blowfly maggots toxic, and the Poecilochirus mites, by keeping the maggot population low, allow Nicrophorus to occupy the corpse.

The third assumption is only a problem if you are trying to forecast a low, but maximum flow event ( say, you are tying to find the max event for the 1-year storm event ).

* that persons who have " low integrity " try to find reasons in order to justify such behaviour

Such copies were notoriously low quality, time consuming to make, expensive to produce ( over US $ 4000 in 1986 ) and difficult to find.

Included in the effort was a willingness to find American manufacturers who could supply merchandise for the entire Wal-Mart chain at a price low enough to meet the foreign competition.

Unlike Latham, Blériot had not visited Dover to find a suitable spot to land, and the choice had been made by Fontaine, who had selected a patch of gently sloping land called Northfall Meadow, close to Dover Castle, where there was a low point in the cliffs.

Coase ( 1960 ) argued that if the transaction costs between potential beneficiaries of a public good are sufficiently low, and it is therefore easy for beneficiaries to find each other and pool their money based on the public good's value to themselves, then an adequate level of public goods production can occur even under competitive free market conditions.

In the past, most highly rated ( AAA or Aaa ) debt securities were characterized by low volatility and high liquidity — in other words, the price of a highly rated bond did not fluctuate greatly day-to-day, and sellers of such securities could easily find buyers.

Gallagher was displeased with being ranked so low, and he told The Oregonian, " I looked at the other people and I was trying to find anyone I ever heard of.

This very low volume was obviously a disaster for Vauxhall, but ironically it has led to the car becoming a very collectible classic, thus ensuring its survival — some of the much more common production cars produced alongside it can be now harder to find.

It remains to be seen whether the new jet manufacturers will complete their designs, or find the market required to sell their jets at the low prices planned.

This may be to make them easier to find in low light, or be a signal of fitness to win the parents ' attention.

As individuals immigrate to unequal segments of society, immigrants to areas low on economic and ethnic hierarchies may find efforts to assimilate leading to limited social mobility and membership to a disadvantaged community.

There seems to be some foreshadowing in Beowulf that Hroðulf will attempt to usurp the throne from Hroðgar's sons Hreðric and Hroðmund, a deed that also seems to be referred to in Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum ( Book 2 ), where we find: "... our king, who laid low Rorik, the son of Bok the covetous, and wrapped the coward in death.