When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.

a pile of wire cages for mice from his time as a geneticist and a microscope lying on its side on the window sill, vertical steel columns wired for support to the open ceiling beams with spidery steel cantilevers jutting out into the air, masonry constructions on the floor from the time he was inventing his disastrous fireplace whose smoke would pass through a whole house, visible all the way up through wire gratings on each floor.

He was stirred by the announcement of Volta's discovery of chemical electricity and he immediately applied the voltaic pile to experiments with acids and alkalis.

The most that was accomplished was adding Mrs. Beige's tray to the dish pile, and by means of repeated threats, on an ascending scale, seeing that the girls dressed themselves, after a fashion.

Then he called in his friend Walton and turned over the problem to him, with instructions to work out what was best -- provided it didn't pile unnecessary burdens on the President.

As Capp was ushered into the Oval Office, his prosthetic leg suddenly collapsed into a pile of disengaged parts and hinges on the floor.

Augustus Wylde records when he visited the battlefield months after the battle, the pile of severed hands and feet was still visible, " a rotting heap of ghastly remnants.

Traditionally, composting was to pile organic materials until the next planting season, at which time the materials would have decayed enough to be ready for use in the soil.

One of the first to discover and publish a link between man-made electric current and magnetism was Romagnosi, who in 1802 noticed that connecting a wire across a voltaic pile deflected a nearby compass needle.

That water could be decomposed by the current from a voltaic pile was discovered by Nicholson and Carlisle in 1800, a process now known as electrolysis.

It was not until the invention of the voltaic pile in the eighteenth century that a viable source of electricity became available.

The money was used in studies which led to the first nuclear reactor — Chicago Pile-1, a massive " atomic pile " of graphite bricks and uranium fuel which went critical on December 2, 1942.

This successful initiation of a chain-reacting pile was important not only for its help in assessing the properties of fission — needed for understanding the internal workings of an atomic bomb — but also because it would serve as a pilot plant for the massive reactors which would be created in Hanford, Washington, which would then be used to produce the plutonium needed for the bombs used at the Trinity site and Nagasaki.

But once mixed, for better results in a gun it was discovered that the final product should be in the form of individual, dense, grains ( originally the size of corn ) which allow the fire to spread quickly from grain to grain, much as straw or twigs catch fire more quickly than a pile of sawdust.

He is also not fond of reading and is a bit lazy as he was napping on a pile of books instead of giving them to Kitty to put away.

Its original name was Malmhaug ( with alternate spellings ), meaning " Gravel pile " or " Ore Hill ".

This turris was probably the " molem propinquam nubibus arduis " (" the pile, among the clouds ") mentioned by Horace.

The person whose pile contained the most ostraka would be banished, provided that an additional criterion of a quorum was met, about which there are two principal sources:

The result of all this complexity was that to ascertain what was " at issue " in a case, a stranger to the case ( i. e., such as a newly appointed judge ) would have to sift through a huge pile of pleadings to figure out what had happened to the original averments of the complaint and whether there was anything left to be actually adjudicated by the court.

Service on the BMT Broadway Line was also disrupted because the tracks from the Montague Street Tunnel run adjacent to the World Trade Center and there were concerns that train movements could cause unsafe settling of the debris pile.

Observation of amounts, and consideration of different materials as a pile is built over time, can quickly achieve a workable technique for the individual situation.

File: Alessandro Volta. jpeg | Alessandro Volta ( 1745-1827 ): built the first electric battery ( the voltaic pile ) in the 19th century, did substantial work with electric currents, namesake of the unit of electric potential: the volt ( V )

Two hypotheses regarding the origins of those names exist: one claims that it refers to a specific way of constructing buildings on boggy ground with additional pile support, which is still in use, while the other says that it is connected with a tower or other defensive structure built on the banks of the Słupia River.

Pooh and Piglet built it for him after accidentally mistaking the original house that Eeyore built for a pile of sticks.

Contemporary historian William Camden observed of the northern English and the Scots, " there is not a man amongst them of a better sort that hath not his little tower or pile ", and many tower houses seem to have been built as much as status symbols as defensive structures.

The Domesday Book records a castle being built by Rainald, a Norman Sheriff of Shropshire: ( meaning " the work " in French ) ( which was reduced to a pile of rocks during the English Civil War ), and the town changed hands between English and Welsh a number of times during the Middle Ages.

Near the defensive pile of the Old Fortress, a new fortress, together with the town-walls and the system of navigable canals, was then built.

It was built too far into the sea and constantly suffered erosion, until now reduced to a pile of rocks.

The eighth chapter, made after the publication and unexpected success of the first volume, opens with a guilt-ridden Spiegelman ( now in human form, with a strapped-on mouse mask ) atop a pile of corpses — the corpses of the six million Jews upon whom Mauss success was built.

Most meals are built around a cone-shaped pile of long-grain, highly polished rice.

Over the course of time, shops were built in the courtyard and the synagogue was left desolate, in a pile of rubble.

The pillar or High Lighthouse and the low wooden pile lighthouse or Lighthouse on legs on the beach were built to replace it.

The low wooden pile lighthouse or " Lighthouse on legs ", was built two years later, also by Joseph Nelson, to complement the High Lighthouse.

Close to the grave a stone pile with an iron cross was built.

A third lighthouse, Wyre Light, built in 1839-40 by blind engineer Alexander Mitchell, offshore on the northeast corner of North Wharf, was the first screw pile lighthouse to be built in Great Britain.

The elegant Cabrillo Bridge was built to span the canyon or arroyo, and the appearance of its long horizontal stretch ending in a great upright pile of fantasy buildings would be the crux of the whole composition.

Gradually a large pile of shells, mainly limpets, built up into a large midden.

Standard equipment on the DB5 included reclining seats, wool pile carpets, electric windows, twin fuel tanks, chrome wire wheels, oil cooler, magnesium-alloy body built to superleggera patent technique, full leather trim in the cabin and even a fire extinguisher.

The wales are built so that clear lines can be seen when they are cut into pile.

Kandor 10B ( Exploded Fortress of Solitude ) ( 2011 ) is a pile of dark boulders and slabs forming a cave with a quarry-like foyer made from faux black rock and built on a scale that invites the viewer into the forbidden fortress.

Cards are built down by suit ( e. g., 7-6-5-4 ) and cards or groups of cards can be moved from one pile to another or to the foundations.

A sleeper dike was built behind the dunes in 1432 and from 1506 active coastal defense took place, with pile heads of beams from Norway and Sweden and stone from Vilvoorde, Belgium.