Recurved limbs also put greater strain on the materials used to make the bow, and they may make more noise with the shot.

The rules of competition for discus are virtually identical to those of shot put, except that the circle is larger, a stop board is not used and there are no form rules concerning how the discus is to be thrown.

In 1897, Robert W. Paul had the first real rotating camera head made to put on a tripod, so that he could follow the passing processions of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in one uninterrupted shot.

When he began making longer films in 1902, he put a dissolve between every shot, just as Georges Méliès was already doing, and he frequently had the same action repeated across the dissolves.

Up to this point artificial lighting in studio scenes had always been put on from the front or side-front, but in 1912 there began to be a few cases where light was put onto the actors from arc floodlights out of shot behind them and to one side, to give a kind of backlighting.

Their main responsibility is to work closely with the Electrical Department to put in the non-electrical components of lighting set-ups required for a shot, such as flags, overheads, and bounces.

After that things got worse for England's newest keeper, when Denis Law wrong-footed Banks with a smart shot on the turn to put United 2 – 0 ahead.

Because of her actions, one of her squad gets shot, and she is put on a desk job.

He could pole vault, put the shot, throw the javelin, and throw the discus.

Playing into this, some heel wrestlers will attempt to " get themselves disqualified " to " protect " their championships, although whenever a " rematch clause " is put in play, the said advantage is often ruled out by the general manager to give the challenger a fair shot.

The shot put competition for men has been a part of the modern Olympics since their revival in 1896, women's competition began in 1948.

The first known events resembling the modern shot put likely occurred in the Middle Ages when soldiers held competitions in which they hurled cannonballs.

* Allows the shot to drop below his shoulder or outside the vertical plane of his shoulder during the put.

Two putting styles are in current general use by shot put competitors: the glide and the spin.

Once this fast speed is achieved the shot is released, transferring the energy into the shot put.

The shot put ball is made of different kinds of materials depending on its intended use.

Of these, four were making their Olympic debut – the men's 10 km walk, and the women's 200 metres, long jump and shot put.

In throwing events, athletes are measured by how far they hurl an implement, with the common events being the shot put, discus, javelin, and hammer throw.

At this point, Assata Shakur and Acoli were ordered to put their hands on their laps and not to move ; Harper said that Assata Shakur then reached down to the right of her right leg, pulled out a pistol, and shot him in the shoulder, after which he retreated to behind his vehicle.

Regardless, Zinoviev put up such resistance against the guards that, instead of taking him to the appointed execution room, the guards took him into a nearby cell and shot him there.

The History of Jin 《 金史 》 ( compiled by 1345 ) states that in 1232, as the Mongol general Subutai ( 1176 – 1248 ) descended on the Jin stronghold of Kaifeng, the defenders had a " thunder-crash bomb " which " consisted of gunpowder put into an iron container ... then when the fuse was lit ( and the projectile shot off ) there was a great explosion the noise whereof was like thunder, audible for more than a hundred li, and the vegetation was scorched and blasted by the heat over an area of more than half a mou.

It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

Across the way from the apartment building is a ruined house, shot to hell that day in 1849, and left that way as a memorial.

Assuming the lower figure for the big blast and one shot estimated by the Japanese at 10 megatons, a conservative computation is that the 24 announced tests produced a total yield of at least 60 megatons.

it's a single-shot bolt-action with an automatic safety -- i.e., the safety goes on every time the bolt is lifted and the gun cocked for the next shot.

In news items a man is less often shot in the body or head than in the suburbs.

The number of successes on each shot is a value of a random variable that has values 0 or 1, and there are 5 such random variables here.

Each scene is shot straight through, as had been the universal custom, from a camera fixed in a single position, but in the outdoor scenes, especially in the capture and destruction of the outlaws, Porter's camera position breaks, necessarily, with the camera position standard until then, which had been, roughly, that of a spectator in a center orchestra seat at a play.

You get back to the captain and tell him this: Somebody's going to take a shot at the prime minister, and Mahzeer is in on the plot.

One high-up camera shot is magnificent, as the Germans straggle from a cathedral, dotting a huge, cobblestone square, and drop their weapons.

This French film, set in Italy, is a summertime splurge in shock and terror all shot in lovely sunny scenery -- so breath-taking that at times you almost forget the horrors the movie is dealing with.

" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.

In some literature, this is simply referred to as a 3 / 4 shot.

* 1994 – The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.

* 1982 – Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada's capital.

Furthermore, the primary testimony to the commission that connected baseball to Doubleday was that of Abner Graves, whose credibility is questionable ; a few years later, he shot his wife to death and was committed to an institution for the criminally insane for the rest of his life.

* 2005 – Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by an LTTE sniper at his home.

* 1915 – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.

* 1943 – World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U. S. fighters over Bougainville Island.

In archery, some energy is dissipated through elastic hysteresis, reducing the overall amount released when the bow is shot.

A form particularly popular in Europe and America is field archery, shot at targets generally set at various distances in a wooded setting.

* The plane will be shot down if it is deemed to become a missile heading for strategic targets.