Similarly, the shortest war in recorded history, the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896, was brought to a swift conclusion by shelling from British battleships.

The components of the primary are becoming closer together and will not be divisible in amateur telescopes beginning in 2015. δ Equ is a binary star with an orbital period of 5. 7 years, which at one time was the shortest known orbital period for an optical binary.

The shortest term was held by James Skivring Smith, who was interim president all of two months.

Pope Urban VII ( 4 August 1521 – 27 September 1590 ), born Giovanni Battista Castagna, was Pope for thirteen days in September 1590, the shortest papal reign in history.

He was chosen successor of Pope Sixtus V ( 1585 – 1590 ) on 15 September 1590, but died of malaria ( 27 September 1590 ) before coronation, making his the shortest papal reign in history.

When the first pubs were built, the main room was the public room with a large serving bar copied from the gin houses, the idea being to serve the maximum number of people in the shortest possible time.

His chosen topic was economics, as it seemed to be " the shortest and easiest study " available at the university, and passed his degree in 1919.

Then Karlis, whose earlier 48-yard kick had tied Jan Stenerud's Super Bowl record for longest kick made in the Super Bowl, was sent out to try a 23-yard field goal and missed it, setting another, this time infamous, mark of having the shortest missed field goal in Super Bowl history.

Because the western end of Lake Erie offered the shortest overland route to the frontiers of Indiana and Illinois, Maumee Harbor was seen as a site of immediate importance and great value.

Having brought her one-year-old daughter on the road with her, this tour was also one of Amos's shortest ventures, lasting just three months.

The second digit was the longest of the three digits present, while the first was shortest.

This passage states that in the shortest days of midwinter, the sun was still above the horizon at " dagmal " and " eykt ", two specific times in the Norse day.

Harding's term of office was the shortest of any 20th-century U. S. President.

A cease fire was declared 38 minutes later, and to this day the bombardment stands as the shortest war in history.

The principal advantages of Council Bluffs / Omaha were that it was well north of the Civil War fighting taking place in Missouri, was the shortest route to South Pass break in the Rockies in Wyoming, and would follow a fertile river that would encourage settlement.

One of the shortest conciliar documents, it was approved by a vote of 2, 110 to 39 and promulgated by Pope Paul VI on November 21, 1964.

It was the shortest of the documents and contained few, if any, references to the debates and the rationale that had gone into its making ; therefore, the changes to be brought about by the declaration on the Church's Relations with non-Christian Religions, Nostra Aetate, carried implications not fully appreciated at the time.

Only five episodes were filmed in this season, the shortest season of You Can't Do That on Television's 15-year span on the air, and one of the episodes ( Adoption ) proved so controversial that it was banned after being shown twice ( a " DO NOT AIR " sticker was reportedly placed on the master tape at CJOH ).

The Arctic route was the shortest and most direct route for lend-lease aid to the USSR, though it was also the most dangerous.

It is one of the shortest books in the Bible, being only 25 verses long.

Inside were 1, 224 pieces of wood, the longest long, the shortest.

Prescription hypnotics ( Benzodiazepines and Nonbenzodiazepines included ) should therefore be taken for the shortest duration of time with the least frequency possible, so as to avoid tolerance, drug dependence, and the adverse effects of long term use.

Bacup is home to the long Elgin Street which held the record as the shortest street in the world until November 2006, when it was surpassed by Ebenezer Place, in the Scottish Highlands.

It was a natural island in the Alboran Sea until 1934, when a huge thunderstorm washed large quantities of sand in the short channel between the island and the African continent Ever since, it has been a peninsula, currently connected to the Moroccan coast by an 85 m long sandy isthmus, the world's shortest land border.

Going the " long way round " on a great circle between two points on a sphere is a geodesic but not the shortest path between the points.

Only 2 blocks long, it is one of the shortest state highways in California.

The long bridges across the bay had not yet been built, and the shortest way from Tampa to St. Petersburg was through Oldsmar.

Its span is long, making it one of the shortest covered bridges in the Pacific Northwest.

The shortest lock on the main network is Salterhebble Middle Lock on the Calder and Hebble Navigation, at about long.

The Comal River is one of the shortest in the world at just 3. 2 miles ( 5. 2 km ) long, before emptying into the Guadalupe River.

Most receivers have the ability to compute a great circle route towards a waypoint, enabling them to find the shortest route even over long distances, although waypoints are often so closely spaced that this isn't a factor.

It is sometimes known as the City of Rivers as the centre of the city is the convergence of three different rivers, one of which is the shortest river in the country at 1200m long.

The most important work of the Annales school, Fernand Braudel's The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, contains a traditional Rankean diplomatic history of Philip II's Mediterranean policy, but only as the third and shortest section of a work largely focusing on the broad cycles of history in the longue durée (" long term ").

The shortest directly produced optical pulses are generally produced by Kerr-lens mode-locked Ti-sapphire lasers, and are around 5 femtoseconds long.

Douglas Freshfield always maintained that a route from the east up the Iryk valley, Irykchat glacier and over the Irykchat pass ( 3667m ) on to snowfields below long rock ribs of the east spur would become the shortest and most used approach.

At this time he also changed his impractically long surname to Lom (" a quarry " in Czech ) – because it was the shortest he found in local phone book.

In June 2009, JR Central also announced research results comparing the three routes, estimating revenue and travel time, which showed the most favorable being the shortest Plan C, with long tunnels under the Japanese Alps ( Akaishi Mountains ).

# Ants take the shortest route, long portions of other ways lose their trail pheromones.

Like other maniraptorans, they had long arms that could be folded against the body in some species, and relatively large hands with three long fingers ( the middle finger being the longest and the first finger being the shortest ) ending in large claws.

The speed of sending is directly related to the length of the shortest ( dot ) element: a dash is three dots long, an inter-character gap is the same ( 3 dots ) long, and inter-word and sentence gaps should be 5 or 7 dots long ( change from earlier standard-5 dots ).

In Riemannian geometry geodesics are not the same as " shortest curves " between two points, though the two concepts are closely related.

It usually has one of the shortest shafts, between and, though in some sets the sand wedge has a longer shaft than the pitching wedge.

In computer science, the Floyd – Warshall algorithm ( also known as Floyd's algorithm, Roy – Warshall algorithm, Roy – Floyd algorithm, or the WFI algorithm ) is a graph analysis algorithm for finding shortest paths in a weighted graph ( with positive or negative edge weights ) and also for finding transitive closure of a relation R. A single execution of the algorithm will find the lengths ( summed weights ) of the shortest paths between all pairs of vertices, though it does not return details of the paths themselves.

William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, PC ( 22 March 1684 – 7 July 1764 ) was an English politician, a Whig, created the first Earl of Bath in 1742 by King George II ; he is sometimes stated to have been Prime Minister, for the shortest term ever ( two days ), though most modern sources reckon that he cannot be considered to have held the office.

André's world title win was always recognized though, and is still considered the shortest world title reign in WWF history ( Until Yokozuna's first reign at Wrestlemania 9, when he won the title from Bret Hart only to challenge and lose the title to Hulk Hogan moments later ).

To this day there has not been constructed a dedicated rail alignment between Natchez and Nashville, even though the Trace's alignment would be the shortest distance between the two cities.

Even though this area spans the shortest number of years, it is by far the most popular for armor modelers due to the enormous range of vehicles used and the vast improvements in armor technology.

Jesus wept () is a phrase famous for being the shortest verse in the King James Version of the Bible, as well as many other versions, though it is not the shortest in the original languages.

Grudgingly, she attends Seisyu as a boy and proves to be an invaluable member of the boys ' basketball team though she is also the shortest member.

However, two or more packets may want to leave along the same output ( which is referred to as a contention among packets ), and then only one of the packets may be sent along the link, while the others are sent along available outputs, even though the other links are not preferred by the packets ( because, for instance, those links do not yield shortest paths ).

Thus, Cortés had to choose among three land routes: north to Tlatelolco, which was the least dangerous path but required the longest trip through the city ; south to Coyohuacan and Ixtlapalapan, two towns that would not welcome the Spanish ; or west to Tlacopan, which required the shortest trip through Tenochtitlan, though they would not be welcome there either.

This is one of the shortest ()— though in places steep — and most popular trails in Yosemite.

Most riders have already split off from the main peloton by this point, though, making their way home by the shortest route once the main portion of the ride is over.