They did not dawdle at the hour of decision but attacked quickly, using a massive series of short, rapid, vicious charges against the length of the whole Roman line, with charging units sometimes withdrawing to the forest to regroup while others took their place.

The Amstrad CPC ( short for Colour Personal Computer ) is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990.

* Dürer Prints Close-up: a series of short videos that explore the subjects and techniques of Dürer's prints.

While the Reno Air Races keep this tradition alive, most air shows today primarily feature a series of aerial demos of short duration.

The series originated from Frog Baseball, a 1992 short film by Judge.

As part of a promotional campaign for the new series, cinemas screening Jackass 3D opened the feature film with a 3-D Beavis and Butt-Head short subject.

In 1927 a short nine-game series took place in Argentina, with the Lions winning all nine encounters ; the tour did however become a financial success for Argentine rugby.

The word, meaning " lightning war ", in its strategic means is associated with a series of quick and decisive short battles to deliver a knockout blow to an enemy state before it could fully mobilize.

The suggestion that the German state intentionally streamlined its economy to carry out its grand strategy in a series of short campaigns in the near future was false.

This usually takes the form of a list of enemies with short descriptions ( e. g. the Metroid Prime and Castlevania games, as well as Dark Cloud and Final Fantasy ) and may even be central to the plot ( Pokemon series ).

Morse code was introduced in the 1840s and is used to encode each letter of the Latin alphabet, each Arabic numeral, and some other characters via a series of long and short presses of a telegraph key.

It was also the first full coalition in Britain since 1945, having been formed 70 years virtually to the day after the establishment of Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, although there had been the " Lib-Lab pact ", an agreement stopping short of a full coalition between the Labour and Liberal parties, from March 1977 until July 1978, when a series of by-election defeats had eroded Labour's majority of three seats which had been gained at the October 1974 election.

* The Berserker series of books and short stories by Fred Saberhagen

In contrast, Bruce Edwards published a short series of articles in 1990 based mostly on deduction and experiments in trying to recreate his experiences as a restaurant customer.

These calls may be a long rising and falling note ( a howl ) or a series of short notes ( yips ).

* The genetically engineered and prosthetics-ready warriors of the planet Sauron in the CoDominium series of short stories and novels initiated by Jerry Pournelle and also written by guest authors.

Comic strips, also known as " cartoon strips " in the United Kingdom, are found daily in newspapers worldwide, and are usually a short series of cartoon illustrations in sequence.

Perhaps the most extreme example in science fiction is James White's Sector General: a series of novels and short stories about multienvironment hospital for the strangest life-forms imaginable, some of them breathing methane, chlorine, water and sometimes also oxygen.

At the near end of each short, Clark gives out a smile and a wink to the audience ( that was carried over the 1966 Superman animated series ).

One series concerns the rogue and adventurer, Northwest Smith, and his wanderings through the Solar System ; the other is a short fantasy series about Jirel of Joiry ( one of the first female protagonists in sword-and-sorcery fiction ).

* The character Dan Rydell in the short lived series Sports Night was a Dartmouth alumnus, a subject that is mentioned in numerous episodes.

While at Ace, he and co-editor Terry Carr began an annual anthology series, The World's Best Science Fiction, the first collection of what they considered the best of the prior year's short stories, from magazines, hardcovers, paperback collections and other anthologies.

The Damon Runyon Theater radio series dramatized 52 of Runyon's short stories in weekly broadcasts running from October 1948 to September 1949 ( with reruns until 1951 ).

A montage sequence consists of a series of short shots that are edited into a sequence to condense narrative.

* " In Dust We Trust " contains several short samples of the Beastie Boys song " The Maestro " from the album " Check Your Head ".

As well, the video for " Check Ya " received moderate rotation on the short lived MTV-X channel.

Two animated short films were made following Check and Double Check: The Rasslin ' Match and The Lion Tamer.

* Check on the short diagonal.

* The Check Up ( 2005 )-branded content short for Volkswagen of America created by Arnold Worldwide, Boston and starring Joe Pantoliano and Kevin Connolly

The Form 4473 contains name, address, date of birth, government-issued photo ID, National Instant Criminal Background Check System ( NICS ) background check transaction number, make / model / serial number of the firearm, and a short federal affidavit stating that the purchaser is eligible to purchase firearms under federal law.

Sennett developed the Kid Comedies, a forerunner of the Our Gang films, and in a short time his name became synonymous with screen comedy.

Bosko was Looney Tunes first major lead character, debuting in the short Bosko, The Talk-Ink Kid in 1929.

" In the 1946 animated short Pluto's Kid Brother, Pluto has a younger brother named K. B.

After some success with short films, he graduated to features in 1942, turning out two crisp B mysteries, Eyes in the Night and Kid Glove Killer before getting his big break with The Seventh Cross ( 1944 ), starring Spencer Tracy, which was his first hit.

An author of novels, short stories, and plays, Mitchell is best known for his 1947 novel, Who Has Seen The Wind, which has sold close to a million copies in North America, and the radio series and later a collection of short stories 1961, Jake and the Kid, which subsequently won the Stephen Leacock Award.

Shaw's " What If ( Remo's Theme )" from Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins entered the Billboard Hot 100, while DeYoung's " This is the Time " from The Karate Kid, Part II soundtrack was featured for a short while on MTV.

No conventional music videos were initially released from Kid A, but 30-seconds-long short films called " blips " were set to its music.

Earlier live action films to use the new Technicolor process include the final musical number in the feature The Cat and the Fiddle released by MGM in February 1934, and in short sequences filmed for other movies made during 1934, including The House of Rothschild ( 20th Century Pictures / United Artists ) with George Arliss and Kid Millions ( Samuel Goldwyn / United Artists ) with Eddie Cantor.

In May 1929, they produced a short pilot cartoon, similar to Max Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell cartoons, Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid that showcased their ability to animate soundtrack-synchronized speech and dancing.

After losing their jobs at the Winkler studio, Harman and Ising financed a short Bosko demonstration film called Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid.

He had previously appeared in a number of short films, performing his Follies songs and comedy routines, and two silent features ( Special Delivery and Kid Boots ) in the 1920s.

* A Few Moments With Eddie Cantor, Star of " Kid Boots " ( 1923 ) ( DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film short film )

* Nathan Wuornos, a character in the television series Haven, based on Stephen King's short story The Colorado Kid

Made in 1930, this short marked the theatrical debut of Bosko the " Talk-Ink Kid " whom Harman and Ising had created to show to Warner Brothers.

He acquired the nickname " Kid " early in life, not only because of his short stature but also because of his energetic, youthful nature.

* Teksas Kid ( i još neka moja braća ), short story collection, includes Koža boje masline ( Mentor, 2003 )

In the Legion Worlds one-shot focusing on Braal, Cosmic Boy along with Invisible Kid, Leviathan, and Chuck Taine called themselves the " Legion of Subs "; the word ' Subs ' is short for subterfuge.

His film work became more sparse, culminating in Contact ( 1984 ) on the British military presence in Northern Ireland, Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire ( 1985 ), Road ( 1987 ) and his short film ( 40 mins.

The adoration was short lived after his next fight, a five round knockout over Kid McCoy, was widely believed to be a fix.

Pete Denton of Cube and Kid Symphony fame joined Arckid for a short period of time.

Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid is a 1929 live-action short film produced to sell a series of Bosko cartoons, was never released to theaters, and therefore not seen by a wide audience until 71 years later on Cartoon Network's television special Toonheads: The Lost Cartoons.

* In " The Sagebrush Kid ", a short story in Annie Proulx's 2008 Fine Just the Way It Is, a childless Wyoming couple transfer their affections first to a piglet, then a chicken, and finally to a sagebrush they fancy to have the appearance of a child.

Noble made his return to WWE on the December 17, 2005 edition of Velocity and would later frequently teamed up with fellow cruiserweight Kid Kash ; during June 2006, Noble and Kash debuted a gimmick, where they would wear dog collars as well as bark and bite and had a short face run.