Lamellar bone, which makes its first appearance in the fetus during the third trimester, is stronger and filled with many collagen fibers parallel to other fibers in the same layer ( these parallel columns are called osteons ).

The Athenians had honed their style of fighting in combat with other phalanxes, wooden shields smashing against wooden shields, iron spear tips clattering against breastplates of bronze ... in those first terrible seconds of collision, there was nothing but a pulverizing crash of metal into flesh and bone ; then the rolling of the Athenian tide over men wearing, at most, quilted jerkins for protection, and armed, perhaps, with nothing more than bows or slings.

It may be significant that Elbing's first industry was the same as Truso's had been: manufacture of amber and bone artifacts for export.

* metatarsus: first, second, third, fourth, and fifth metatarsal bone

There can be many sesamoid bones near the metatarsophalangeal joints, although they are only regularly present in the distal portion of the first metatarsal bone.

Both heads are inserted into the lateral sesamoid bone of the first digit.

* Kleftiko: literally meaning " in the style of the Klephts ", this is lamb slow-baked on the bone, first marinated in garlic and lemon juice, originally cooked in a pit oven.

The first button seals were produced from terracotta and bone and had geometric designs.

The process takes place in bone multicellular units ( BMUs ) as first described by Frost in 1963.

Demonstrating the link between phosphorus and life, elemental phosphorus was historically first isolated from human urine, and bone ash was an important early phosphate source.

When Europeans first arrived, inhabitants of New Guinea and nearby islands – while still relying on bone, wood, and stone tools – had a productive agricultural system.

The origin of the pteroid is unclear: it may be a modified carpal, the first metacarpal, or a neomorph ( new bone ).

The dating of cremated remains found on the site indicate that deposits contain human bone material from as early as 3000 BC, when the initial ditch and bank were first dug.

In the second week of spring training in, Williams broke a bone in his right ankle, limiting him to pinch hitting for the first two weeks of the season.

Besides the first good description of the sphenoid bone, he showed that the sternum consists of three portions and the sacrum of five or six ; and described accurately the vestibule in the interior of the temporal bone.

In 1984, the use of meat and bone meal in cattle feed resulted in the world's first outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE or, colloquially, mad cow disease ) in the United Kingdom.

There are two advantages to barbecue-braising: the first is that this method now allows for browning the meat directly on the grill before the braising, and the second is that it also allows for glazing the meat with sauce and finishing it directly over the fire after the braising, effectively cooking the meat three times, which results in a soft textured product that falls right off the bone.

Although the Xia is an important element in early Chinese history, reliable information on the history of China before 13th century BC can only come from archaeological evidence since China's first established written system on a durable medium, the oracle bone script, did not exist until then.

One of the most feared injuries for a running athlete, Hird was first struck with a stress fracture of his navicular bone early in the 1998 season.

Median sagittal section through the occipital bone and first three cervical vertebræ, showing ligamentous attachments.

There are two advantages to barbecue-braising: the first is that this method now allows for browning the meat directly on the grill before the braising, and the second is that it also allows for glazing the meat with sauce and finishing it directly over the fire after the braising, effectively cooking the meat three times, which results in a soft textured product that falls right off the bone.

The cypriniformes ( family Cyprinidae ) are traditionally grouped with the Characiformes, Siluriformes and Gymnotiformes to create the superorder Ostariophysi, since these groups have certain common features, such as being found predominantly in fresh water and that they possess Weberian ossicles ( an anatomical structure originally made up of small pieces of bone formed from four or five of the first vertebrae ); the most anterior bony pair is in contact with the extension of the labyrinth and the posterior with the swimbladder.

The Wilson service, introduced in 1918, was the first American-made presidential bone china service.

Lenox was the first North American bone china to be used in the White House, and the company has since made tableware for six U. S. presidents.

Besides Dick Tracy, Capp parodied many other comic strips in Li ' l Abner — including Steve Canyon, Superman ( at least twice ; first as " Jack Jawbreaker " in 1947, and again in 1966 as " Chickensouperman "), Mary Worth, Peanuts, Rex Morgan, M. D., Little Annie Rooney and Little Orphan Annie ( in which Punjab became " Punjbag ," an oleaginous slob ).

These longer strips include The Bash Street Kids Adventures written and drawn by Kev F Sutherland which since 2004 have featured parodies of famous comic strip images, including Amazing Fantasy's first Spider-Man cover, Action Comics ' first Superman cover, and most recently the cover of X Men # 100.

The first newspaper comic strips appeared in North America in the late 19th century.

The first comic book appeared in the United States in 1933, reprinting the earlier newspaper comic strips, which established many of the story-telling devices used in comics.

The term " comic book " arose because the first comic books reprinted humor comic strips.

On February 20, 2008, the first of a series of Dilbert strips showed Wally being caught posting a comic strip which " compares managers to drunken lemurs ".

* Trudeau received “ Certificates of Achievement ” from the US Army 4th Battalion 67th Armor Regiment and the Ready First Brigade in 1991 for his comic strips dealing with the first Gulf War.

Common dishes are: mashed potatoes, which are first boiled ( usually peeled ), and then mashed with milk or yogurt and butter ; whole baked potatoes ; boiled or steamed potatoes ; French-fried potatoes or chips ; cut into cubes and roasted ; scalloped, diced, or sliced and fried ( home fries ); grated into small thin strips and fried ( hash browns ); grated and formed into dumplings, Rösti or potato pancakes.

The outer rind is first stripped off, and the sticky fibrous inner pith is cut lengthwise into thin strips of about long.

The first mouldboard ploughs could only turn the soil over in one direction ( conventionally always to the right ), as dictated by the shape of the mouldboard, and so the field had to be ploughed in long strips, or lands.

Created and drawn by Richard F. Outcault in the comic strip Hogan's Alley ( and later under other names as well ), it was one of the first Sunday supplement comic strips in an American newspaper, although its graphical layout had already been thoroughly established in political and other, purely-for-entertainment cartoons.

His nightshirt, a hand-me-down from an older sister, was white or pale blue in the first color strips.

Richard F Outcault's last Hogan's Alley cartoon for Truth magazine, Fourth Ward Brownies, was published on 9 February 1895 and reprinted in the New York World newspaper on 17 February 1895, beginning one of the first comic strips in an American newspaper.

A forerunner to beaded wire may be the notched strips and wires which first occur from around 2000 BC in Anatolia.

Warlock magazine ( first published by Puffin Books and later Games Workshop ) provided additional information on the Fighting Fantasy universe, and each issue featured a gamebook, new rules, monsters, reviews and comic strips.

The first references to hosiery can be found in works of Hesiod, where Romans are said to have used leather or cloth in forms of strips to cover their lower body parts.

The first material called " duck tape " was long strips of plain cotton duck cloth used in making shoes stronger, for decoration on clothing, and for wrapping steel cables or electrical conductors to protect them from corrosion or wear.

The first of these, Cinerama, debuted in September 1952, and consisted of three strips of 35mm film projected side-by-side onto a giant, curved screen, augmented by seven channels of stereophonic sound.

This changed in 1846 when Samuel Phillippe made the first six strips of Calcutta cane.

In 1985 Smiffy has appeared in two spin-off strips the first called Says Smiffy, which ran from 1971 – 1972, and the second called Simply Smiffy, which ran from 1985 – 1987, where he starred alongside his brother Normal Norman.

John of Salisbury is one of the first examples related by Richard Kieckhefer, but as a Parisian ecclesiastical court record of 1323 shows, a " group who were plotting to invoke the demon Berich from inside a circle made from strips of cat skin ," were obviously participating in the church ’ s definition of " necromancy ".

The young cousins added features such as advice columns and homegrown comic strips like Little Orphan Annie and Moon Mullins, then turned to " crusades ", with their first success coming with the ouster of the Republican political boss of Illinois, Sen. William Lorimer.

Apart from the newspaper strips, Disney Br ' er Rabbit comics were also produced for comic books ; the first such stories appeared in late 1946.

He was hired by William Randolph Hearst's Chicago Evening American, where he produced his first comic strips, Fillum Fables ( 1924 ) and The Radio Catts.