* 1901 – Peter O ' Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of The record will stand for 20 years.

They are excellent climbers and can also jump far, using their long tail for balance.

They also noted that if they rubbed the amber for long enough, they could even get an electric spark to jump.

Multiple and nested subroutines could be called so long as the user knew the length of each one in order to calculate the location to jump to.

However, the court players may catch and touch the ball in the air within it as long as the player starts their jump outside the zone and releases the ball before they land ( landing inside the perimeter is allowed in this case as long as the ball has been released ).

The long jump ( formerly commonly called the " broad jump ") is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point.

Standing long jump, detail of a page from the Luzerner Chronik of 1513.

The long jump is the only known jumping event of Ancient Greece's original Olympics ' pentathlon events.

The long jump emerged probably because it mirrored the crossing of obstacles such as streams and ravines.

The long jump was considered one of the most difficult of the events held at the Games since a great deal of skill was required.

There has been some argument by modern scholars over the long jump.

The images provide the only evidence for the action so it is more well received that it was much like today's long jump.

The long jump has been part of modern Olympic competition since the inception of the Games in 1896.

However, it was not until 1928 that the women's long jump was added to the Olympic athletics programme.

In 1935, Jesse Owens set a long jump world record that was not broken for 25 years, until 1960 by Ralph Boston.

There are five main components of the long jump: the approach run, the last two strides, takeoff, action in the air, and landing.

A classic example of this long jump / sprint doubling are performances by Carl Lewis.

They became interested in how long " you could make the human body jump about without stopping ", which they did for a few months, until Mik ran out of money and wanted to return to Hawkwind, taking Lemmy with him.

He could long jump 23 ft 6 in and high-jump 6 ft 5 in.

By manipulating space in this way, Voidhawks can open wormholes and jump long distances ( many light years ) instantaneously.

Early skate tricks had consisted mainly of two-dimensional manoeuvres like riding on only two wheels (" wheelie " or " manual "), spinning only on the back wheels ( a " pivot "), high jumping over a bar and landing on the board again, also known as a " hippie jump ", long jumping from one board to another, ( often over small barrels or fearless teenagers ), or slalom.

They can reach running speeds up to and can leap 4 m ( 13 feet ) into the air and long jump up to 15 m ( 50 feet ).

My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.

It is a quiet but impressive room -- 140 feet long, thirty-nine feet wide, twenty-one feet high.

Down through the axis of the bridge there is a long diminishing vista like a visual echo of piers and arches, while the vaults fronting upstream and down frame the sunset and sunrise, the mountains and river pools.

As long as perception is seen as composed only of isolated sense data, most of the quality and interconnectedness of existence loses its objectivity, becomes an invention of consciousness, and the result is a philosophical scepticism.

It is a question which New Englanders long ago put out of their minds.

About one-third as long, it is less intimate and detailed, but better coordinated, more concise and more dramatic.

As he informs Watson, `` My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.

And it is clearly argued by Lord Percy of Newcastle, in his remarkable long essay, The Heresy Of Democracy, and in a more general way by Voegelin, in his New Science Of Politics, that this same Rousseauan idea, descending through European democracy, is the source of Marx's theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

There is a long train flowing from the shoulders.

The relatively long and often colorful selections in this anthology enable the reader to become genuinely absorbed in what is said, whether he responds with anger or applause.

It has been a long time since he has seen any campaign money, and when the proposition is laid down to him as the friends of Mr. Hearst are laying it down these days he is quite likely to get aboard the Hearst bandwagon ''.

His nationalism was not a new characteristic, but its self-consciousness, even its self-satisfaction, is more obvious in a book that stretches over the long reach of English history.

If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

Beginning in Cloth Of The Tempest ( 1943 ) he experimented in merging poetry and visual art, using drawings to carry long narrative segments of a story, as in Sleepers Awake, and constructing elaborate `` poems-in-drawing-and-type '' in which it is impossible to distinguish between the `` art '' and the poetry.

In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.

Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

The probable answer is that it will do so just as long as Russia can exercise a veto in favor of chaos and until young African nations wake up to the truth that out of false pride they are visiting ruin on Central Africa.

I wanted to grab her by the arm and beg her to wait, to consider, to know for certain because life is so long and marriage is so important.