Ulyate and Kearton climbed on toward the sound of the barking of the dogs and the sporadic roaring of the lion, till they came, out of breath, to the crest, and peering through the branches of a bush, this is what Ulyate saw: Jones who had apparently ( and actually had ) ridden up the nearly impassable hillside, sitting calmly on his horse within forty feet of a full-grown young lioness, who was crouched on a flat rock and seemed just about to charge him, while the dogs whirled around her.

Further examples cited by Needham supposed to demonstrate dissenting voices from the ancient Chinese consensus actually refer without exception to the Earth's being square, not to its being flat.

A longe line is sometimes called a " longe rein ," but it is actually a flat line about long, usually made of nylon or cotton web, about one inch wide, thus longer and wider than even a driving rein.

Today, most post-communist countries in Europe are generally seen to have mixed economies, although it is often argued that some ( such as Romania, Slovakia and Estonia, with their flat tax rates ) are actually more capitalist than Western Europe.

She later actually did at Johnny Rotten's flat prior to a concert at Victoria Park.

Thus, if in this example the composer actually wanted the note a semitone lower than G-natural, he might put first a natural sign to cancel the previous G-sharp, then the flat.

However, critics argue that the tax rates these countries have are actually more progressive than flat.

Foods termed " grilled " may actually be prepared on a hot griddle, or flat pan.

Additionally, using a screensaver with a flat panel or LCD screen instead of powering down the screen can actually reduce the lifetime of the display, since the fluorescent backlight remains lit and ages faster than it would if the screen were turned off completely.

The Chippewa / Ottawa word " dusinagon ", or " tessi-nagan ", actually, means flat dish or plate.

The fact that most headphones are actually designed to have a notch in the 5 kHz region is not widely understood, and this may have led to errors in the assessment of binaural recordings, since flat headphones are not normally available, and ' high quality ' headphones incorporate the notch just like any others, though perhaps with a better approximation to that needed by the average ear.

Cornelia is actually an intrusion of the generally flat, rolling upper Chattahoochee River Plateau and the beginning of the Georgia Mountain Region.

The Ricci-flat metric on a torus is actually a flat metric, so that the holonomy is the trivial group SU ( 1 ).

Each of the smaller chambers has a large flat " basin stone ", which was where the bones of the dead were possibly originally deposited, although whether it was actually a burial site remains unclear.

Derek " Del Boy " Trotter ( played by David Jason ), a fast-talking, archetypal cockney market trader, lives in a council flat in a high-rise tower block, Nelson Mandela House, in Peckham, South London – though it was actually filmed in Harlech Tower in Acton and later Bristol – with his much younger brother, Rodney Trotter ( Nicholas Lyndhurst ), and their elderly Grandad ( Lennard Pearce ).

Her absence was actually due to his holding her captive in his flat.

It is implied that the reason for the historical discrepancies is that our Earth was actually created by Kin Arad to replace the flat Earth featured in the book, which was starting to malfunction.

However, he soon realizes that that photo actually holds the key to the case: the flat and even tire marks going over the curb reveal that Billy's car could not have been used for the getaway, since Billy's Skylark does not have a suspension system that would do this.

These are not true mansard roofs in most cases ; they are actually flat roofs and the sloped façade provides a way to conceal heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment from persons at ground level.

The inhabited part of the building actually ends abruptly with a flat roof.

* George Brown, Baron George-Brown Labour politician, Foreign Secretary 1965 – 7, represented Belper from 1945 until 1970, but never actually lived here. He kept a flat in Swadlincote at the opposite end of the constituency.

Although, part of the interior was actually within another flat at Gorey, six miles away.

What is actually performed when a relief is cut in from a flat surface of stone or wood is a lowering of the field, leaving the unsculpted parts seemingly raised.

The camera obscura's optical reduction of a real scene in three-dimensional space to a flat rendition in two dimensions influenced western art, so that at one point, it was thought that images based on optical geometry ( perspective ) belonged to a more advanced civilization.

The word Choctaw ( also known as Chahta, Chato, Tchakta, and Chocktaw ) may derive from the Castilian word " chato ," meaning flat ; however, noted anthropologist John Swanton suggests that the name belonged to a Choctaw leader.

Diodore of Tarsus (?- 390 AD ), Cosmas Indicopleustes ( 6th century ), and Chrysostom ( 347 – 407 AD ) belonged to this flat Earth tradition.

A meeting with Geno Washington at a party at Brown's flat in Hulme, in which Washington told Brown that he would be a star and should be a singer, convinced Brown to take Squire up on his offer.

During one of his absences, ex-Mamas and Papas singer Cass Elliot and a few members of her tour group stayed at the flat while she performed solo at the London Palladium, headlining with her Torch Songs and " Don't Call Me Mama Anymore.

During a period in which various methods of temperament were used by keyboards, strings and even singers, Tosi laments that “ except in some few Professors, that modern Intonation is very bad .” He speaks of a differing “ Semitone Major and Minor ” ( or a larger and a smaller semitone ) whose “ ifference cannot be known by an Organ or Harpsichord, if the Keys of the Instrument are not split .” Consequentially, he warns that “ if a Soprano was to sing D sharp, like E flat, a nice Ear will find he is out of Tune, because this last rises .” Tosi ’ s remedy to poor intonation is to begin the singer young on solfege, using the traditional gamut created by Guido.

He wasn't a natural singer, with a flat, nasal baritone voice, but he generally had singers singing harmony or background to sweeten the sound.

Twentieth-century residents included the 1930s ' big band ' singer Al Bowlly ( killed in his flat on the street by a parachute mine during the Blitz of 1941 ).

However when the Greek singer gives Beryl a congratulatory kiss, Robert drunkenly starts a fight and ends the night in a police cell while the girls compare their new rings back at their flat.

In the mid-1970s, Henrietta Moraes shared a mews flat in Hanover Terrace, Regents Park, with singer and actress Marianne Faithfull, an episode in both their lives that forms a key chapter in Faithfull's Memories Dreams & Reflections, published in October 2007.

* Dermot Povey ( Harry Enfield, series one only ) – Dermot is Gary's original flat mate featured only in series one.

Chicago runner James Lightbody won the steeplechase and the 800 m and then set a world record in the 1500 m. Harry Hillman won both the 200 m and 400 m hurdles and also the flat 400 m. Sprinter Archie Hahn was champion in the 60 m, 100 m and 200 m. In this last race, he set an Olympic record in 21. 6, a record that stood for 28 years.

The building is an unusual survivor of the buildings designed for the Central London Railway by Harry Bell Measures, with a flat roof so that commercial development could take place above-in this case, a hotel.

His band's official website contains a " soapbox " page, where Daniels has made statements such as the following: " In the future Darwinism will be looked upon as we now look upon the flat earth theory ," and " I am more afraid of you and your ilk than I am of the terrorists ," regarding U. S. Senator Harry Reid.

His ex-wife, the former Carolyn Jane Mercer, is the daughter of flat jockey Manny Mercer, niece of jockey Joe Mercer and granddaughter of jockey Harry Wragg.

Excavations in the early 1960s revealed the presence of two timber halls on the flat topped mound, one being 43 metres in length and provided evidence of the site being burned, as it was by Harry of Monmouth, later to become King Henry V when he was present to oversee the total destruction of the site in May 1403.

Nilsson cumulatively spent several years at the flat, which was located near Apple Records, the Playboy Club, Tramps disco and the homes of friends and business associates.

Nilsson, distraught over another friend's death in his flat, and having little need for the property, sold it to Moon's bandmate Pete Townshend and consolidated his life in Los Angeles.