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five and toes
The front feet have lost the pollex ( or ' thumb '), resulting in four toes, while the rear feet have all five toes.
Its front feet have five toes apiece, unlike other the related hyenas that have four toes.
The Amblypoda take their name from their short and stumpy feet, which were furnished with five toes each and supported massive pillar-like limbs.
While most casts have five toes — like all known apes — some casts of alleged Bigfoot tracks have had numbers ranging from two to six.
Some have also contained claw marks, making it likely that a portion came from known animals such as bears, which have five toes and claws.
Cats have five toes on their forefeet and four on their hindfeet, reflecting their reliance on gripping and holding down their prey with their claws.
The forefoot is composed of five toes and the corresponding five proximal long bones forming the metatarsus.
Between the toes, the dorsal and plantar interossei stretch from the metatarsals to the proximal phalanges of digits two to five.
The hellbender has a few characteristics that make it distinguishable from other native salamanders — these include a gigantic, dorsoventrally flattened body with thick folds travelling down the sides, a single open gill slit on each side, and hind feet that have five toes each.
This demarcation can be made by noting the presence of external gills in the mudpuppy, which are lacking in the hellbender, as well as by noting the presence of four toes on each hind foot of the mudpuppy ( in contrast with the hellbender ’ s five ).
Like most salamanders, they have short legs with four toes on the front legs and five on their back appendages, and their tails are keeled to propel them through water.
Anthropologists are convinced the system originated from digit counting, as did bases five and ten, twenty being the number of human fingers and toes combined
Most salamanders have four toes on their front legs and five on their rear legs.
Most species have four clawless toes on the forelimbs and five on the hind limbs.
Virginia opossum tracks generally show five finger-like toes in both the fore and hind prints.
Each of the footprints measured in length with five toes that measured a total of across.
The first Ming Emperor copied the Yuan ruling and decreed that the dragon would be his emblem and that it would have five toes ( or claws ) The four-clawed dragon was typically for imperial nobility and certain high-ranking officials.
They have long hind legs, with four toes on each foot, and shorter fore legs, with five toes each.
The hind feet each had three short toes, while each forefoot had five toes ; only the inner two toes had a blunt hoof.

five and rule
In 1887, the National League and American Association agreed to abide by some uniform rule changes and decreased the number of balls required for a walk to five.
James L. Richardson identified five central themes in Locke's writing: individualism, consent, the concepts of the rule of law and government as trustee, the significance of property, and religious toleration.
* Among other rule changes in 2007, kickoffs were moved from the 35-yard line back five yards to the 30-yard line, matching a change that the NFL had made in 1994.
Following the examples of Vitruvius and the five books of the Regole generali d ' architettura by Sebastiano Serlio, published from 1537 onwards, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola produced an architecture rule book that was more practical than the previous two books, which were more philosophical in nature, his Cinque ordini di erchitettura ( The Five Orders of Architecture ) from 1562 ; the book is considered " one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written ", despite having no text apart from the notes and the introduction.
The conditions of the resulting Peace of Nisibis were heavy ; Armenia returned to Roman domination, with the fort of Ziatha as its border ; Caucasian Iberia would pay allegiance to Rome under a Roman appointee ; Nisibis, now under Roman rule, would become the sole conduit for trade between Persia and Rome ; and Rome would exercise control over the five satrapies between the Tigris and Armenia: Ingilene, Sophanene ( Sophene ), Arzanene ( Aghdznik ), Corduene ( Carduene ), and Zabdicene ( near modern Hakkâri, Turkey ).
The only exception to this rule is if a player receives a 5th non-victory point progress card on his or her turn, in which case he or she has the option of playing any one of the five progress cards in his or her hand during the turn, thus bringing the progress card count back down to four.
The building was named after the ancient phrase of Hakkō ichiu ( literally " eight cords, one roof "), which had been attributed to Emperor Jimmu and, since 1928, has been espoused by the Imperial government as an expression of Japanese expansionism, as it envisioned to the unification of the world ( the " eight corners of the world ") under the Emperor's " sacred rule ", a goal that was considered imperative to all Japanese subjects, as Jimmu, finding five races in Japan, had made them all as " brothers of one family.
A breach of this rule results in a penalty for illegal procedure ( five yards ).
However, a rule used by many casinos is that a player is not allowed to draw five consecutive cards from the deck.
* 1861 – Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.
This rule, often called the " five percent hurdle ", was incorporated into Germany's election law to prevent political fragmentation and strong minor parties.
During the first five years of Humayun's reign, these two rulers were quietly extending their rule, although Sultan Bahadur faced pressure in the east from sporadic conflicts with the Portuguese.
Examples range from the discovery that the presence of humans tends to sexually arouse ostriches, to the statement that black holes fulfill all the technical requirements to be the location of Hell, to research on the " five-second rule ", a tongue-in-cheek belief that food dropped on the floor will not become contaminated if it is picked up within five seconds.
The WBA proposed a number of rule changes, including the use of five designated hitters to replace defensive players who would remain in the game ; the use of one designated runner per game ; the pitcher would be required to throw a pitch within 20 seconds ; a walk would be on three balls instead of the usual four ; and stealing home after the sixth inning would count as two runs.
The German rule lasted only five years.
Led by Prime Minister Ian Smith, it endured as an unrecognized state under white rule for the next 14 years, with majority rule coming in 1979 with the Internal Settlement between Smith's government and moderate black nationalists, the associated multiracial elections and the reconstitution of the country as Zimbabwe Rhodesia, with Bishop Abel Muzorewa at the helm of a coalition cabinet comprising 12 blacks and five whites.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was created following the end of minority rule and the apartheid system, reported in 1997 that five former members of the South African security forces who had admitted to killing Biko were applying for amnesty.
The inaugural WBC in 2006 followed the IBAF mercy rule, with an additional rule stopping a game after five innings when a team is ahead by at least 15 runs.
In NCAA softball, the rule is invoked if one team is ahead by at least eight runs after five innings and, unlike with college baseball, applies in the NCAA tournament as well ( but not in the Women's College World Series ).
In American high school softball, most states use a mercy rule of 20 runs ahead in three innings or 10 in five innings.
Host state high school associations ( where games are seven innings ) have rules where a baseball game ends after the winning team has built a 10-run lead and at least five innings have been played ; some associations further this rule ending a game after either three or four innings if the lead is at least 15 runs.
For softball, the rule is 12 after three innings, and 10 after five.
From a pro-independence supporter's point of view, the movement for Taiwan independence began under Qing rule in the 1680s which led to a well known saying those days, " Every three years an uprising, every five years a rebellion ".

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