In an attempt to save him from a fiery death, Batman flung a Batarang-attached cable around Black Mask's knees, causing him to fall face-first just as the bedroom's rafters were beginning to collapse.

He stayed perched in the sign as it was lifted into the rafters.

His aim was to climb into a barrel hoisted to the rafters of the Astrodome and to drop into a water tank on the floor.

The majority of Cajun festivals include a fais do-do (" go to sleep " in French, originating from encouraging children to fall asleep in the rafters of the dance hall as the parents danced late into the night ) or street dance, usually to a live local band.

The immediate culinary precursor with a direct connection to the English sandwich was to be found in the Netherlands of the 17th century, where the naturalist John Ray observed that in the taverns beef hung from the rafters " which they cut into thin slices and eat with bread and butter laying the slices upon the butter "— explanatory specifications that reveal the Dutch belegde broodje, open faced sandwich, was as yet unfamiliar in England.

* Rock splats – If the rafters load the back of the raft, they can paddle the raft into a rock on the river, having it hit the bottom of the boat instead of the nose ; if done correctly this can raise the raft up vertically on its stern.

On November 12, 2005, Gait was inducted into the NLL Hall of Fame, and on December 30, 2005, his number 22 jersey banner was hung from Pepsi Center rafters — the first NLL number ever to be retired and hung from any arena.

He was elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1971, and in his honor, the Celtics retired his # 14 jersey and hung it in the rafters of Boston Garden, where it has remained since.

Ezzard, watching the proceedings, manages to dispose of one of the hitmen, while the other moves up into the rafters of the gym.

On 4 March 2007 his number 3 was hoised into the rafters never to be worn again.

This application method has the radiant barrier sheets draped over the trusses of rafters, creating a small air space above with the radiant barrier facing into the entire interior attic space below.

For the final series, a selected member of the audience would be gunged by a tank lowered from the studio rafters or a retracting chair which would lower into the undercroft of the studio, gunge the victim and then elevate back up into the audience position.

This entailed vertical columns which transitioned into curved glued laminated eaves zones, and then became sloped rafters, all in a single laminated unit.

He was inducted into the Boston College Varsity Club Athletic Hall of Fame in 1978, and his number was retired to the rafters of Conte Forum at BC.

When it was over, Spider-Man went into the rafters and gave Jameson a roll of film, containing pictures of their " fight ", telling him the photographs depicting him standing back and letting Jameson beat him up would sell " a gazillion copies ", and leaves.

At their funeral, Tom and Huck are first revealed to not be in their caskets, seemingly watching the proceedings from the rafters, until Reverend Lovejoy orders their bodies lowered into the caskets, revealing that Tom and Huck are in fact dead.

Clarkson's performance of the song was accompanied only by Wurlitzer organ that earned her a prolonged ovation when she sent her voice soaring into the rafters.

There is a record of a Sirex-infested tree having been cut into rafters which were used in building a roof and covered with sheet-lead an eighth of an inch thick.

At curtain call, the four ugly chairs rise into the rafters and return encrusted in diamonds.

The northern front was intended to be appropriated to the use of domestics ; the whole building is rendered nearly indestructible by fire, by means of cast-iron joists and rafters, & c., certainly in this case an unnecessary precaution, since the whole pile is shortly to be pulled down.

Some of the figures in pit one and two showed fire damage and remains of burnt ceiling rafters have also been found ; these, together with the missing weapons, have been taken as evidence of the reported looting by Xiang Yu and its subsequent burning.

The floods that once scoured the river yearly are now contained behind the dam except in the worst cases ; the elimination of this periodic scouring has promoted vegetation encroachment which not only has considerably changed the riparian zone environment but has created problems for tourism, wherein hikers and rafters often cannot find good spots to camp due to overgrowth.

But these had become ruinous ; and the rafters had been taken down for fire-wood, or for other purposes ; the walls had given way in many places ; and, to complete the devastation, the sand had already drifted amongst the ruins, and filled up what had been once the chambers the contained, to the depth of two or three feet.

" Much of the WWF roster broke character in 1999 when Owen Hart fell to his death from the rafters of Kemper Arena in Kansas City ; much of the onscreen drama of the WWE was similarly shunted aside in 2005 for some weeks after the death of Eddie Guerrero.

The Pistons court was previously named the " William Davidson Court ", in honor of the late owner, prior to the home opener on October 28, 2009 ; however Davidson's signature, along with the retired numbers, were removed from the hardwood when Tom Gores took over the Palace ownership, and were re-retired instead atop the Palace rafters as replacement banners.

He shows us the cottages, inside and out: vine leaves cloak the poverty of the outer walls ; indoors, nothing decorates the patchwork of rafters and thatch, the tumble-down chimneys and the ladder staircases, the rustic Dutch home of those days.

Although some of the temple has been rebuilt, original elements remain: the wooden beams and rafters have been shown by carbon dating to be original ; the Newari door frames, columns and finials date from the 7th and 8th centuries.

Framers build walls out of studs, sills, and headers ; build floors from joists and beams ; and frame roofs using ridge poles and rafters.

Light frame material dimensions range from 38 mm by 89 mm ( 1. 5 in by 3. 5 in ; i. e., a two-by-four ) to 5 cm by 30 cm ( two-by-twelve inches ) at the cross-section, and lengths ranging from for walls to or more for joists and rafters.

We were treated to a cappella singing as Song Director Curtis Darnall from Glendale Church led us all in seven songs ; St. Leo's rafters rang with enormous voice power.

One of the rafters contained a Sirex in either the larval or pupal stage ; and when the perfect insect sought its freedom it found the way obstructed by the lead.

The swallow, though called the chimney-swallow, by no means builds altogether in chimnies, but often within barns and out-houses against the rafters ...

His name was later hung from the rafters of the Staples Center, along side the retired numbers of past Lakers players, though with a microphone in place of a number.

The ends of rafters which protrude beyond the edge of the roof are also carved and painted, though in this case with the heads of spirits and ancestors.

The trousers were eventually bought for $ 500 by comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who famously hung them from the rafters of his television studio.

Such wines were described by the Romans, and northern Italy is home to a number of ' passito ' wines, where the grapes are dried on straw, on racks, or hung from the rafters.

Secondary rafters were also added to the design to ensure that the weight was equally distributed.

A new floor, and fenestration ( in the lower section ) were fitted circa 1500, although only the rafters now remain.

: They forced the high heaven of the flame of the brow-moon head against the rafters of the ( rock -) hall, and were crushed against the rocks of the plain ( of the rock-hall ).

Because buttresses were forbidden by the city fathers, and clearly was impossible to obtain rafters for scaffolding long and strong enough ( and in sufficient quantity ) for the task, it was unclear how a dome of that size could be built, or just avoid collapse.

Fans were told to expect a " Sexual Psycho Circus, I am not sure if you will want to quote me on that, but fans will see half-naked, penny rafters, guitar solos, and tribal drums ..." This was exactly what the fans got.

When the rafters were all in place, one of the workers, a former sailor, climbed to the top of the structure, removed a flask of whiskey from his pocket and christened the home, " Mogadore ".

In 1637, the rafters over the choir were blown down and in 1640 the minister of St Giles along with the Laird of Innes and Alexander Brodie of Brodie, all ardent Covenanters, removed and destroyed the ornately carved screen and woodwork that had remained intact.

Fulfilling that prophecy, and in further recognition of the special link between the Morenz and Geoffrion families, the two numbers were raised side by side ( Morenz's banner was lowered halfway and was raised back up to the rafters with Geoffrion's banner ).

Dried heads of opium plants were found in the rafters.

On Leonsis ' authorization, the final remaining attendance banners were removed from the Verizon Center rafters in 2010.

4 beams at the center of the dwelling supported the roof of the house, upon which rafters were laid, connecting the top of the yurt to the earthen walls.

The halls and rooms were old and decaying, the walls crumbling, the pillars rotten at their base, and the beams and rafters crooked and aslant.

The buildings were generally built with double wall dry-stone walls packed with earth and wooden rafters covered with a thatch of turf with cereal straw or reed.

Debra and Jarrett were interviewed moments after Hart's fall from the rafters at Kemper Arena, where Debra was noticeably shaken and fighting back tears of concern for her friend, and was unable to stay in her persona.

Most notably, the advertisements that were on the boards during the final Sabres home game in 1996 were still present and the scoreboard hanging above center ice remained in the rafters.

Heather and Megan fall from the rafters and the red paint they were going to use to spill on Tiffany and Brittany falls on them instead.

The building received new rafters and several columns to improve its load-bearing capacity, and the walls were now plastered.

Banners signifying the success of Oklahoma State Athletics are hung from the rafters, as well as a banner commemorating the loss of ten members of the OSU basketball family when they were killed in a plane crash in Colorado.

During a Fox NHL broadcast, the puck emitted infrared pulses that were detected by both the 20 pulse detectors and the 10 modified IR cameras that were located in the rafters.