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More potent a charm to bring back that time of life than this record of a few pictures and a few remembered facts would be a catalogue of the minutiae which are of the very stuff of the mind, intrinsic, because they were known in the beginning not by the eye alone but by the hand that held them.
Temperatures exceed in the lower elevations of interior valleys during mid-summer, with the record high of being held in Lytton on July 16, 1941.
There might have been minor orders ranking below a deacon ; but there is no record of whether Bede held any of these offices.
Charlton held the record for most appearances for Manchester United ( 758 ), but this was surpassed by Ryan Giggs on 21 May 2008 ( the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final ).
Charlton also held the club record for most league appearances ( 606 ) until this too was overtaken by Giggs on 6 March 2011.
A hat-trick in the 8 – 1 rout of Switzerland in June 1963 took Charlton's England goal tally to 30, equalling the record jointly held by Tom Finney and Nat Lofthouse and Charlton's 31st goal against Wales in October the same year gave him the record alone.
He also held the record for the highest total number of runs in a Test career, after overtaking Allan Border in an innings of 226 played at Adelaide Oval, Australia in November 2005.
" The university was not challenged about the origin of its interracial dating policy, and the District Court accepted " on the basis of a full evidentiary record " BJU's argument that the rule was a sincerely held religious conviction, a finding affirmed by all subsequent courts.
Wills also broke an attendance record of 2, 100 previously held by Jan Garbner at the Armory in Klamath Falls, Oregon, by attracting 2, 514 dancers.
The previous record was 12. 3 million cubic meters held by Itaipu hydropower station in Brazil.
By the end of the season, the rookie quarterback had rewritten the record book in Charlotte and many more in the NFL ( including most passing yards by a rookie with 4, 051, previously held by Peyton Manning with 3, 739 ; and most rushing touchdowns by a QB with 14 ).
The international record is held by Jimmy O ' Connor, an Irish player who notched up his hat trick in 2 minutes 13 seconds in 1967.
Pumpkin chunking is another widely popularized use, in which people compete to see who can launch a pumpkin the farthest by mechanical means ( although the world record is held by a pneumatic air cannon ).
One of his wins that year came at North Wilkesboro, in a race where Harry Gant had a chance to set a single-season record by winning his fifth consecutive race, breaking a record held by Earnhardt.
He also held the records for the oldest Serie A player and most Serie A appearances ( 570 matches ) for more than 20 years, until the season 2005 – 06 when the record was broken by S. S. Lazio goalkeeper Marco Ballotta and A. C. Milan defender Paolo Maldini respectively.
This record attempt was held in the WTC Expo hall in Leeuwarden.
At the time, the final episode of The Fugitive held the record for the greatest number of American homes with television sets to watch a series finale, at 72 % in August 1967.
* 1981 – In the 39th game of his 3rd NHL season Wayne Gretzky scores 5 goals giving him 50 on the year setting a new NHL record previously held by Maurice Richard and Mike Bossy who earlier had each scored 50 goals in 50 games.
On Tuesday, February 14, 2012, the Red Wings set the NHL record for most consecutive wins at home in a single season by winning their 21st home game with a 3-1 victory over the Dallas Stars, and on Sunday, February 19, 2012, defeated the San Jose Sharks to record their 23rd consecutive home victory, breaking the overall record previously held by the Boston Bruins over two seasons from 1929-1930.
After many, problems and a number of modifications to K7, Campbell finally succeeded on Ullswater on 23 July 1955, where he set a record of, beating the previous record by some held by Stanley Sayres.

held and for
If she, Pamela, were being held responsible for his crimes, then hers must be the final act of expiation.
His burst held for a second on the engine section of the plane.
There were two rubbing sticks for making fire, two stones shaped roughly like knives, a woven-root container which held a few pounds of dried worms and the dead body of some rodent.
'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.
These began to be apparent in a press conference held during the second illness in order that the consulting specialists might clarify the President's condition for the nation.
Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.
but, he held, instead of continuing as an `` art of reduction '', it must grow, must make a place for the contributions of the Raphaels and Poussins as well as for those of the early cubists and Mondrian.
Their afflictions centered on one maddening difficulty: Miriam held up the divorce proceedings that she herself had asked for.
This conference was held despite Stavropoulos' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his return on January 22, except that the Secretary General would probably order the list destroyed.
Arlen is one of the few ( possibly the only ) composer Mercer has been able to work with so closely, for they held their meetings in Arlen's study.
The attack started on October 2, 1643, and the Gortonists held out for a day and a night.
They even accept the `` double standard '' of sex morality in a double sense, i.e., both sexes agree that standards for men differ from standards for women, and women apply to both sexes a standard different from that held by men.
To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.
much of the glamor President Kennedy's Peace Corps may have held for some prospective applicants has been removed by Sargent Shriver, the head corpsman.
I know a man who held resentment against a neighbor for more than three decades.
The maneuvers were held `` in secret '' after a regional seminar for the Minutemen, held in nearby Shiloh, Ill., had been broken up the previous day by deputy sheriffs, who had arrested regional leader Richard Lauchli of Collinsville, Ill., and seized four operative weapons, including a Browning machine gun, two Browning automatic rifles and an M-4 rifle.
He thought he saw -- it awakened and, for a moment, interested him -- that Elizabeth held a leash in her hand and that a round fuzzy puppy was on the end of the leash.
If a branch extended out too far, each man held it back for the next, and if they met a low overhang, each warned the other.
The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.

held and longest
The longest lasting of the ten governments between 1924 and 1932 was that of General Carlos Ibáñez, who briefly held power in 1925 and then again between 1927 and 1931 in what was a de facto dictatorship.
Chadwick had been imprisoned for nine years at that time and continued to be held in prison until 2009, when a state court set him free after 14 years, making his imprisonment the longest on a contempt charge to date.
When they are the longest serving State Governor, the Governor of New South Wales holds a dormant commission to act as the Administrator of the Commonwealth when the Governor-General of Australia is absent from Australia, a role held by the current Governor.
At the time the 16-inning game held the record for the longest in MLB postseason history.
Cannon is also ( still ) the longest serving Republican House of Representatives member ever, the second longest serving Republican member of congress ever, as well as first member of congress, of either party, ever to surpass 40 years of service ( non-consecutive ), ending his career with 46 years of cumulative congressional service, a record that held until 1959.
The Loudon Classic, held at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway ( formerly Bryar Motorsport Park and New Hampshire International Speedway ) is the longest running motorcycle race in the United States, and is held every year on Father's Day.
By winning their first 13 games, the Saints also set the record for the longest undefeated season opening ( 13 – 0 ) by an NFC team since the AFL – NFL merger, surpassing the previous record ( 12 – 0 ) held by the 1985 Chicago Bears.
Tulio Lizcano is the first hostage to escape since the successful military rescue of Ingrid Betancourt, and the longest held political hostage by the organization.
The situation began to change on 19 October 1948, when Lieutenant General Curtis LeMay assumed leadership of the Strategic Air Command, a position he held until June 1957, the longest tenure for any United States armed forces commander since Winfield Scott.
Although Payton was ultimately the Bears ' leading rusher during the game, the Patriots defense held him to only 61 yards on 22 carries, with his longest run being only 7 yards.
This game also remains as the longest period in a Super Bowl for one team to be shut out, as Washington was held scoreless until 2: 07 remained in the fourth quarter.
One of the longest stalactites viewable by the general public is in Doolin Cave, County Clare, Ireland, in a karst region known as The Burren ; what makes it more impressive is the fact that the stalactite is held on by a section of calcite less than.
On 13 January 1967, Eyadema Gnassingbe overthrew Grunitzky in a bloodless coup and assumed the presidency, which he held from that date until his sudden death on 5 February 2005 after 38 years in power, the longest occupation of any dictator in Africa.
According to the statistical record used by CricketArchive, Grace's final first-class appearance in 1908 was his 870th and concluded a first-class career that had lasted 44 seasons from 1865 to 1908, equalling the record for the longest career span held by John Sherman, who played from 1809 to 1852.
The first widely known ski jumping competition was the Husebyrennene, held in Oslo in 1879, with Olaf Haugann of Norway setting the first world record for the longest ski jump at 20 metres.
One way by which this was addressed after the Admiral retired was that only the very strongest, former at-sea submarine commanders have held Rickover's now uniquely eight-year position as NAVSEA-08, the longest chartered tenure in the U. S. military.
In her " capitalism peace theory ," Ayn Rand held that the major wars of history were started by the more controlled economies of the time against the freer ones and that capitalism gave mankind the longest period of peace in history — a period during which there were no wars involving the entire civilized world — from the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914, with the exceptions of the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 ), the Spanish-American War ( 1898 ), and the American Civil War ( 1860-1863 ), which, notably, occurred in perhaps the most liberal economy in the world at the peak of the industrial revolution.
Previous to this the record was held in West Virginia, USA, by New Zealander Chris Allum, who bungee jumped 823 ft ( 251m ) from the New River Gorge Bridge on " Bridge Day " 1992 to set a world ’ s record for the longest bungee jump from a fixed structure.
She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular ; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women.
At 39 years, the noisy but impressive Shackleton held the distinction of being the aircraft with the longest period of active RAF service, until overtaken by the English Electric Canberra in 1998.
Though the election had been held in May, Parliament did not resume sitting until October, one of the longest break periods in Confederation.
Cornwall held out the longest of any, perhaps even, in parts, to the time of Bishop Aedwulf of Crediton ( 909 ).
During the season, Paul Stastny set an NHL record for longest point streak by a rookie, with 20 games, three more than the previous record, held by Teemu Selanne and Karlis Skrastins set a new NHL record for the longest game streak by a defenseman, with 495 games.

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