After a tortuous drive in an open truck and a World War 2, army jeep down soggy trails, the band arrived at a small clearing squeezed between a long, low ridge and a creek-filled gully.

The acoustics of the small hall had been misgauged by the artists, so that for the first half of the program, when the piano was partially open, Mr. Jenni's playing was too loud.

Mostly open two-seater sports cars and mostly bodied by Bert Bertelli's brother Enrico ( Harry ) a small number of long-chassis four-seater tourers, dropheads and saloons were also produced.

The highly successful metal pressure tube anemometer of William Henry Dines in 1892 utilized the same pressure difference between the open mouth of a straight tube facing the wind and a ring of small holes in a vertical tube which is closed at the upper end.

Herbert, worried that they might try to scuttle the steamer, ordered his men to open fire with small arms, killing all in the water.

The area of Berkeley was at this period mostly a mix of open land, farms and ranches, with a small though busy wharf by the bay.

The open, bath-type bain-marie heats via a small, hot-water tub ( or " bath "), and the vapour-type bain-marie heats with scalding-hot steam.

A breaking stress of at least 20 kN ( 20, 000 newtons = approximately 4, 500 pounds of force which is significantly more than the weight of a small car ) with the gate closed and 7 kN with the gate open is the standard for most climbing applications, although requirements vary depending on the activity.

While western Cairo is dominated by wide boulevards, open spaces, and modern architecture of European influence, the eastern half, having grown haphazardly over the centuries, is dominated by small lanes, crowded tenements, and Islamic architecture.

:* Domestic: The individual islands are connected by a combination of satellite earth stations, microwave systems, and VHF and HF radiotelephone ; within the islands, service is provided by small exchanges connected to subscribers by open wire, cable, and fiber-optic cable

" The rebuilt church site consisted of " a court open to the sky, with five small chapels attached to it.

Type I genomes are characterized by a small circular DNA genome ( approximately 2-kb ), with the Rep protein and the major open reading frame ( ORF ) in opposite orientations.

It is encoded in Unicode as U + 025B (" Latin small letter open e ", ) and U + 0190 (" Latin capital letter open e ", ) and is used as an IPA phonetic symbol.

At this time, the girls ' objective was to obtain sufficient education to open a small school of their own.

* SKS: very small open source tool for ECC ( like a simplified PGP )

While noir is often associated with an urban setting, many classic noirs take place in small towns, suburbia, rural areas, or on the open road ; so setting cannot be its genre determinant, as with the Western.

The hippie movement in the 1970s saw a new definition develop, with the use of fart as a personal noun, to describe a ' detestable person, or someone of small stature or limited mental capacity ', gaining wider and more open usage as a result.

These channels are gated so they can open and close, thus regulating the flow of ions or small polar molecules.

As the trigger ( often actually a lever ) was pulled, the match was brought into the open end of a " touch hole " at the base of the gun barrel, which contained a very small quantity of gunpowder, igniting the main charge of gunpowder in the gun barrel.

Grenada has a largely tourism-based, small, open economy.

At the other extreme, an Sc galaxy has open, well-defined arms and a small core region.

The twelve resident halls surround Eisenhower hall in the center, a non-residential building which contains a late night diner called Ike's ( open until 4am ), a large study lounge, a handful of small group study rooms, HDTV lounge with a pool table and vending machines.

Shaw's home, now called Shaw's Corner, in the small village of Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire is a National Trust property, open to the public.

The Lebesgue covering dimension is defined as the minimum number of overlaps that small open balls need to have in order to completely cover the object.

An aircraft with a load of small nuclear weapons could very conceivably be given a mission to suppress all trains operating within a specified geographic area of Russia -- provided that we had used some of our ICBMs to degrade Russia's air defenses before our bombers got there.

It was then distilled at least three times from a trap at -78-degrees to a liquid air trap with only a small middle fraction being retained in each distillation.

In air, where oxygen is more concentrated, some small species can rely solely on cutaneous gas exchange, most famously the plethodontid salamanders, which have neither lungs nor gills.

The alpha particles ionize air between a small gap.

A small current is passed through that ionized air.

The two most popular heaters for ultra-high-efficiency houses are a small heat pump, which also provides air-conditioning, or a central hydronic ( radiator ) air heater with water recirculating from the water heater.

In 1944, the American armed forces constructed a small and short-lived air base on the island of Santa Maria.

Although the mingling motion of dust particles is caused largely by air currents, the glittering, tumbling motion of small dust particles is, indeed, caused chiefly by true Brownian dynamics.

The transformation from the stalemate of the First World War into tremendous initial operational and strategic success in the Second, was partly the employment of a relatively small number of mechanised divisions, most importantly the Panzer divisions, and the support of an exceptionally powerful air force.

Videos of rod-shaped objects moving quickly through the air were claimed by some to be alien life forms or small UFOs, but subsequent experiments showed that these rods appear in film because of an optical illusion / collusion ( especially in interlaced video recording ).

Because the Earth completes only one rotation per day, the Coriolis force is quite small, and its effects generally become noticeable only for motions occurring over large distances and long periods of time, such as large-scale movement of air in the atmosphere or water in the ocean.

The UN operates a large fleet of aircraft and helicopters, and compared to other African countries the DRC has a large number of small domestic airlines and air charter companies.

The majority of FARDC members are land forces, but it also has a small air force and an even smaller navy.

The number of paved airports in Equatorial Guinea can be counted on one hand, and as such the number of airplanes operated by the air force is small.

Deflation is divided into three categories: ( 1 ) surface creep, where larger, heavier particles slide or roll along the ground ; ( 2 ) saltation, where particles are lifted a short height into the air, and bounce and saltate across the surface of the soil ; and ( 3 ) suspension, where very small and light particles are lifted into the air by the wind, and are often carried for long distances.

The corners of the mouth always remain relaxed, and only a small amount of air is used.

It was based on the small fast aircraft developed before the war for such air races as the Gordon Bennett Cup and Schneider Trophy.

Many of these balls now are made with aerodynamic technology, where the ball has over a thousand small dimples in it that reduce air resistance.

If the indoor air is very humid, rather than moderately so, water will first condense in small droplets and then freeze into clear ice.

The African country of Gabon has a small, professional military of about 5, 000 personnel, divided into army, navy, air force, gendarmerie, and national police.

As with any gas with differing density from air, inhaling a small volume of helium temporarily changes the timbre and quality of the human voice.

For similar reasons, and also due to the small size of helium atoms, helium's diffusion rate through solids is three times that of air and around 65 % that of hydrogen.

The Island of Ile-a-vache, La Tortue, Petit and grand Caillimite, gros-caille and la Gonave are reachable only by ferry or small sailing boat, except La Gonave who has an air strip that rarely use.

The Communist Party of Honduras ( Partido Comunista de Honduras — PCH ) was outlawed, but the PLH continued to function, and even the leaders of a small uprising in 1935 were later offered free air transportation should they wish to return to Honduras from their exile abroad.