His head snapped round and he reeled back, crashing into the table where his buddies were sprawling.

* 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.

Abd al-Rahman had no banner, and so one was improvised by unwinding a green turban and binding it round the head of a spear.

Some even depict it as a horned, dragon-like creature with a serpent-headed tail and small, round ears, while others have both " necks " of equal size so that it cannot be determined which is the rear head.

Kippot range in size from a small round beanie that covers only the back of the head, to a large, snug cap that covers the whole crown.

With practice, and without moving the head or eyes, it is possible to accurately record the observed details by tracing round the observed shapes by simultaneously " seeing " the pencil point in the microscopical image.

The ball is struck with the broad sides of the mallet head rather than its round and flat tips.

One night he shaved his head, wrapped a towel round his waist and entered the food hall.

After former Georgia Tech head coach Bobby Ross was hired by the Chargers in 1992, the team won the AFC West with an 11-5 regular season record and won an opening round playoff game against Kansas City.

Chinese penholders favour a round racket head, for a more over-the-table style of play.

For the second round of negotiations with the Central Powers, Leon Trotsky replaced Adolph Joffe as the head of the Soviet delegation.

At the end of this round, there is no elimination, with the game instead moving to a head to head round.

For the head to head round, the remaining two players are each required to answer five questions each in a penalty shootout format.

Price wrote: " We saw several sorts of dung of different animals, one of which Wilson called a Whom-batt, which is an animal about 20 inches high, with short legs and a thick body with a large head, round ears, and very small eyes ; is very fat, and has much the appearance of a badger.

Russian roulette is a potentially lethal game of chance in which a player places a single round in a revolver, spins the cylinder, places the muzzle against his or her head, and pulls the trigger.

They have pert snub noses and slightly rounded chins which help emphasise the breed's powerful jaw and round head.

Originally, perhaps, each town clustered round one temple, and each head of family had a right to minister there and share its receipts.

Skirting round the head of the Tagdumbash Pamir, it finally merged into the Pamir Mountains boundary, and turned westwards, following the course of the Oxus, to the junction of that river and the Khanabad ( Kunduz ).

A particularly important element in Ashi's success was the length of his tenure of office as head of Sura Academy, which must have lasted 52 years, but with tradition, probably for the sake of round numbers, was exaggerated into 60.

Australian Mists are medium-sized shorthaired cats, with a round head and large, expressive eyes.

The head is round, with large rounded eyes, medium sized ears, and a distinct muzzle, whose length is equal to half its width.

Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

Long after the erratic climate and the washed-out final round on Sunday have become meteorological footnotes, the 1961 Masters will be remembered as the scene of the mano a mano between Arnold Palmer and Gary Player.

Most recently the OSCE sponsored a round of negotiations between the Presidents in Key West, Florida.

The circumstances preceding the mutiny on the Bounty and Jack London's story " Make Westing " poignantly illustrated the difficulty it caused for mariners seeking to round Cape Horn on the clipper ship route between New York and California.

A minute is typically spent between each round with the fighters in their assigned corners receiving advice and attention from their coach and staff.

On the Chari, between N ’ Djamena and Lake Chad, transportation is possible all year round.

Scoring occurs after all pieces ( generally 12 per player or team ) have been played, and is differential: i. e., the player or team with higher score is awarded the difference between the higher and lower scores for the round, thus only one team or player each round gains points.

A tropical savanna is a grassland biome located in semiarid to semi-humid climate regions of subtropical and tropical latitudes, with average temperatures remain at or above year round and rainfall between and a year.

The imbalance of this effect between the warmer black side and the cooler silver side means the net pressure on the vane is equivalent to a push on the black side, and as a result the vanes spin round with the black side trailing.

Clippers sailed all over the world, primarily on the trade routes between the United Kingdom and its colonies in the east, in trans-Atlantic trade, and the New York-to-San Francisco route round Cape Horn during the California Gold Rush.

The DECT standard was developed by ETSI in several phases, the first of which took place between 1988 and 1992 when the first round of standards were published.

With Colorado beating Detroit in the third round in 1996, in the second round of both 1999 and 2000, and the Red Wings beating the Avs in the third round in 1997, the battles between these two teams had become one of the fiercest in the league.

The constant battle between armour and round has caused a near constant development of the main battle tank and this certainly had a major influence on tank design during the Cold War.

Each round has a 1-minute rest in between rounds.

These pulses will repeat at the round trip time, that is, the time that it takes light to complete one round trip between the mirrors comprising the resonator.

The presidential elections were the most competitive in the history of the country in which the difference in the ballot count between the winner and the first runner up was less than one percent point, and in which neither candidate got absolute majority in a system in which a second round of voting has not been instituted.

Twenty-two territories, including Monaco, were thus evaluated between 1998 and 2000 on a first round.

Monaco is the only territory that refuses to perform the second round, initially forecast between 2001 and 2003, whereas the 21 other territories are implementing the third and last round, planned between 2005 and 2007.

Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.

Continued contraction then pumps oxygenated blood round the rest of the body.

A round then be done with 16 table lookups and 12 32-bit exclusive-or operations, followed by four 32-bit exclusive-or operations in the < tt > AddRoundKey </ tt > step.

When told no, it grew round, he said, " What then?

She first supported Michael Ancram, who was eliminated in the first round, and then Kenneth Clarke, who lost in the final round.

The winners of that round then advanced to the best-of-seven ALCS.

in 2012, the playoffs were expanded again so that two wild card teams face off in a one game wild card round to determine which team advances to the division series, with the playoffs then continuing as it had before 2012 ( though with the possibilty of a fifth seed being in the playoffs and a fourth seed being out ) after the end of the wild card round.

The maximum 50, 000-point bonus is awarded for clearing a round in 5 seconds or less ; this bonus then drops down to zero over the next minute, after which no bonus is awarded.

If your side has two aces and a void, then you are not at risk of losing the first two tricks, so long as ( a ) your void is useful ( i. e., does not duplicate the function of an ace that your side holds ) and ( b ) you are not vulnerable to the loss of the first two tricks in the fourth suit ( because, for instance, one of the partnership hands holds a singleton in that suit or the protected king, giving your side second round control ).

* If the button has been turned to " Off ", then the table is in the come-out round.

They then developed an intermediate-power cartridge round, which was accomplished by reducing the power and the length of the standard 7. 92x57 Mauser rifle cartridge to create the 7. 92x33 Kurz ( Short ) cartridge.

In her journal for Christmas Eve 1832, the delighted 13-year-old princess wrote, " After dinner … we then went into the drawing-room near the dining-room … There were two large round tables on which were placed two trees hung with lights and sugar ornaments.

These pulsar planets are believed to have formed from the unusual remnants of the supernova that produced the pulsar, in a second round of planet formation, or else to be the remaining rocky cores of gas giants that somehow survived the supernova and then decayed into their current orbits.

Players pick up the cards and hold them in their hands, being careful to keep them concealed from the other players, then a round of betting occurs.

In France, the Lumière company sent cameramen all round the world from 1896 onwards to shoot films, which were exhibited locally by the cameramen, and then sent back to the company factory in Lyon to make prints for sale to whoever wanted them.

If any candidate in the first round gains a majority of votes, then there is no second round.

Upon their arrival, Odin threw Jörmungandr into " that deep sea that lies round all lands ", and then threw Hel into Niflheim, and bestowed upon her authority over nine worlds.

An excellent all round sportsman, he represented the then Orange Free State Province in cricket and rugby at schools level.

* In 2010, Butler reached their first Final Four as a # 5 seed, beating # 12 seeded UTEP in the first round behind a flurry of 3-pointers, edging out a very good # 13 seed Murray State ( who upset # 4 seed Vanderbilt in the first round ), and then in the Sweet 16, Butler upset # 1 seed Syracuse, and in a thrilling Elite Eight game Butler upset # 2 seed Kansas State.

The two teams met twice a year ( interrupted in 1982 by a player strike ) 1970 – 2001 ; with the move of the Colts to the AFC South the two teams ' rivalry actually escalated, as they met three times in the playoffs in the South's first nine seasons of existence ; the Jets crushed the Colts 41 – 0 in the 2002 Wild Card playoff round ; the Colts then defeated the Jets 30 – 17 in the 2009 AFC Championship Game ; but the next year in the Wild Card round the Jets pulled off another playoff upset of the Colts, winning 17 – 16 ; it was Peyton Manning's final playoff game with the Colts.