Meeting with Professor Cavor, the League is sent against Fu Manchu in his Limehouse lair, who has stolen the only known example of cavorite and plans to use it to build an offensive airship, against which Britain would have little defence.

Having eventually retrieved the cavorite, the League delivers it into the hands of their employer — none other than Professor Moriarty ( arch nemesis of Sherlock Holmes ), who plans to use it in an airship of his own, with which he will bomb his adversary's Limehouse lair flat, taking large parts of London and the League itself with it.

Taylor was the architect and joint surveyor to the Regent's Canal Railway Company, which, in 1845, proposed to fill in the Regent's Canal between Paddington and Limehouse and use its route for a railway.

There are many indigenous cultures in South America, mostly in the Upper Amazon Basin whose traditional religious practices include the use of ayahuasca.

In the Peruvian Amazon Basin, shamans and curanderos use medicine songs called icaros to evoke spirits.

The first use of rams within the actual Mediterranean Basin, featuring in this case the simultaneous employment of siege towers to shelter the rammers from attack, occurred on the island of Sicily in 409 BC, at the Selinus siege.

The Great Lakes Commission is a United States interstate agency established in 1955 through the Great Lakes Compact, in order to " promote the orderly, integrated and comprehensive development, use and conservation of the water resources of the Great Lakes Basin ," which includes the Saint Lawrence River.

Although the extreme lack of water in the Great Basin makes this distinction of little current practical use, it does mean that in wetter times the lake that once filled Death Valley ( Lake Manly ) was the last stop for water flowing in the region, meaning the water there was saturated in dissolved materials.

The use of remotely sensed data is dramatically improving conservationists ' knowledge of the Amazon Basin.

These mummified remains may have been of people who spoke Indo-European languages, that remained in use in the Tarim Basin, in the modern day Xinjiang region, until replaced by Turkic influences from the northern Xiongnu Empire, and by Chinese influences from the eastern Han Dynasty, who spoke a Sino-Tibetan language.

The discovery and use of water held underground in the Great Artesian Basin opened up thousands of square miles of country away from rivers in inland New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia, previously unavailable for pastoral activities.

The use of this method is currently expanding in the Powder River Basin of northeast Wyoming and southeast Montana.

* Calico Basin is a day use area in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area

The schools of the Tulelake Basin Joint Unified School District are known for their use of technology.

The UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center is dedicated to research, education and public outreach, and to providing objective scientific information for restoration and sustainable use of the Lake Tahoe Basin.

The Permian Basin Petroleum Museum houses a collection of race cars designed by Jim Hall, a long time Midland resident who pioneered the use of aerodynamic downforce in the design of Formula One cars.

The cowboys of the Great Basin still use the term " buckaroo ", which may be a corruption of vaquero, to describe themselves and their tradition.

The Titicaca Basin is the most productive environment in the area with predictable and abundant rainfall, which the Tiwanaku culture learned to harness and use in their farming.

Several influential Russians would propose new terms for the territories, as in 1805 when the Russian explorer Timovski revived the use of " Turkestan " to refer to Middle Asia, and " East Turkestan " to refer to the Tarim Basin east of Middle Asia in southern Xinjiang ; or in 1829, when the Russian sinologist Nikita Bichurin proposed the use of " East Turkestan " to replace " Chinese Turkestan " for the Chinese territory east of Bukhara.

The earliest known use of muscle relaxant drugs dates back to the 16th century, when European explorers encountered natives of the Amazon Basin in South America using poison-tipped arrows that produced death by skeletal muscle paralysis.

The Pocklington Canal, previously in commercial use in the 19th century by barges, is now navigable as far as Melbourne Basin.

During the summer of 1857 a scheme for an independent ' Grosvenor Basin Terminus ' in the West End of London, ' for the use of the Southern Railways of England ' was mooted.

Under direction of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, a comprehensive dynamic hydrology transport model was developed by Earth Metrics Inc .; the model's name was subsequently changed to DSSAM, and it was applied to analyze impacts of a variety of land use and wastewater management decisions throughout the Truckee River Basin.

It was closed to commercial traffic in 1969, with one quay at the Basin retained for the use of pleasure craft.

The model's name was subsequently changed to DSSAM, and it was applied to analyze land use and wastewater management decisions throughout the Truckee River Basin of and to provide guidance in other U. S. river basins.

Residents of the area surrounding the confluence of the Columbia and Snake rivers — a region centering on the Tri-Cities, Washington metropolitan area — use the term " Columbia Basin " to refer to their own, much smaller region.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

Not satisfied with various unofficial checks on the liveliness of baseballs currently in use, the major leagues have ordered their own tests, which are in progress at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

It is natural that he should turn for his major support to a select and dedicated few from the organization which actually owns the university and whose goals are, in their opinion, identified with its highest good and ( to use that oft-repeated phrase ) ' the attainment of excellence ' ''.

In Japan armour continued to be used until the end of the samurai era, with the last major fighting in which armour was used happening in 1868. Samurai armour had one last short lived use in 1877 during the Satsuma Rebellion

These activists also point out that heavy subsidization of developed nations ' agriculture and the aggressive use of export subsidies by some developed nations to make their agricultural products more attractive on the international market are major causes of declines in the agricultural sectors of many developing nations.

Their use in the first trimester is also associated with a risk of major congenital malformations, particularly affecting the cardiovascular and central nervous systems.

In the use of the terms " tranquilizer " and " ataractic ", medical practitioners distinguished between the " major tranquilizers " or " major ataractics ", which referred to drugs used to treat psychoses, and the " minor tranquilizers " or " minor ataractics ", which referred to drugs used to treat neuroses.

In principle and in academic use, an arbitrage is risk-free ; in common use, as in statistical arbitrage, it may refer to expected profit, though losses may occur, and in practice, there are always risks in arbitrage, some minor ( such as fluctuation of prices decreasing profit margins ), some major ( such as devaluation of a currency or derivative ).

Authors Martin Walker and Bob Woodward state Clinton's innovative use of sound bite-ready dialogue, personal charisma, and public perception-oriented campaigning was a major factor in his high public approval ratings.

The British Virgin Islands are a major target for drug traffickers, who use the area as a gateway to the United States.

There were major commissions: one from the city of Dessau for five tightly designed " Laubenganghäuser " ( apartment buildings with balcony access ), which are still in use today, and another for the headquarters of the Federal School of the German Trade Unions ( ADGB ) in Bernau bei Berlin.

Although the use of aircraft has for the most part always been used as a supplement to land or naval engagements, since their first major military use in World War I aircraft have increasingly taken on larger roles in warfare.

Methods for predicting the use of biological agents in urban areas as well as assessing the area for the hazards associated with a biological attack are being established in major cities.

As noted above, biomedical engineering has only recently been emerging as its own discipline rather than a cross-disciplinary hybrid specialization of other disciplines ; and BME programs at all levels are becoming more widespread, including the Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering which actually includes so much biological science content that many students use it as a " pre-med " major in preparation for medical school.

The simpler microcontrollers are usually cheaper, use less power, and therefore generate less heat, all of which can be major design considerations for electronic devices.

The Navy also maintained that to decide, at the outset of any future conflict, to initiate the widespread use of nuclear weapons — attacking the major population centers of the enemy homeland — was immoral.

A proposal by the U. S. to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission ( UNAEC ) to a ) extend between all nations the exchange of basic scientific information for peaceful ends ; b ) implement control of atomic energy to the extent necessary to ensure its use only for peaceful purposes ; c ) eliminate from national armaments atomic weapons and all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction ; and d ) establish effective safeguards by way of inspection and other means to protect complying States against the hazards of violations and evasions.

The major economic use of carbon other than food and wood is in the form of hydrocarbons, most notably the fossil fuel methane gas and crude oil ( petroleum ).

Though the Cayman Islands are involved in no major international disputes, they have come under some criticism due to the use of their territory for narcotics trafficking and money laundering.

In response, by the year 2000, most of the major US restrictions on the use of strong encryption were relaxed.

Global cuisines can be categorized by various regions according to the common use of major foodstuffs, including grains, produce and cooking fats.

Some sites are major FTP servers which mirror lots of other software, but others are simply servers owned by companies that use Perl heavily.