Ancient accounts, which differ to some degree, describe the structure as being built with iron tie bars to which brass plates were fixed to form the skin.

In 1884 when the railroad tie business began, the Moss Tie Company built a store beside the depot and it was operated by John W. King, who later bought it from the tie company.

The railroad located a tie boom on the nearby Medicine Bow River and built a depot, water stop, and coal-loading facility.

Many other bridges had been built to a similar design using cast iron columns and wrought iron tie bars, but none used this design detail.

When the computer was being built in the late 1960s, it was met with hostility by protesters who were suspicious of the University's tie with the Department of Defense ( through ARPA ), and felt that the University had sold out to a conspiracy to develop nuclear weapons.

Conn built a record of 47 wins, 9 losses and 1 draw ( tie ), with 7 knockout wins, before challenging for the World Light Heavyweight title.

Captain Clark built a small wharf after arriving to tie up his dead whales, but the date of its construction remains unknown.

Supporters of the scheme praised it for its harmonious architecture, much of it built in brick and stone like Wren's chapter house for St Paul's ( which is integrated into the plan ); for its mixture of offices and shops ; and for its coherent organization of space by means of a large central piazza and urban walkways that cut through the block in logical ways to tie it into the surrounding urban fabric.

Concrete block, when built in tandem with concrete columns and tie beams and reinforced with rebar, is a very common building material for the load-bearing walls of buildings, in what is termed " concrete block structure " ( CBS ) construction.

In place of a normal tie beam spanning the entire width of the roof, short beams, the ' hammer-beams ', are supported by curved braces from the wall, and further structure is built on top of the hammerbeams.

Towards the end of the 05-06 season, 2 new temporary stands were built for the big home tie against Harlequins, at one point these stands were made a long term part of the stadium, along with the grounds public house and original stand.

It was built from wooden barracks on the Pittufik, a Greenlandish word for " the place where we tie the dogs ", in a large glacier valley about two miles from the trade station North Star Bay, which the Polar explorer Knud Rasmussen built.

* new 78-mile road from Peace Point through and to the west boundary of Wood Buffalo National Park, cost $ 2, 500, 000-this was intended to tie in with an Alberta government roadway from Fort Vermilion that was never completed to Peace Point ; little, if any, of this 78-mile road appears to have ever been built

Subtly, she built a relationship with Akira that ensured his loyalty to even further tie him to her.

Yoyo's control panel was built into his chest, which could be opened by pulling his tie.

These balls are moving in great circles and ellipses, and are of course, the electrons, the particles of negative electricity which by their action create the forces that tie this atom of calcium to the neighboring atoms of oxygen and make up the solid structure of my finger bone.

Given this influence, it is unfortunate that many of the details of his life remain shrouded in mystery, perhaps forever ; even the only known picture of him, shown above, is heavily retouched, with a fake tie painted in by hand.

Sandberg then shocked the national audience by hitting a second home run, even farther into the left field bleachers, to tie the game again.

Generally, direct seeding into a compost is not recommended due to the speed with which it may dry and the possible presence of phytotoxins that may inhibit germination, and the possible tie up of nitrogen by incompletely decomposed lignin.

If there is still a tie, each atom in each of the two lists is replaced with a sub-list of the other atoms bonded to it ( at distance 3 from the stereocenter ), the sub-lists are arranged in decreasing order of atomic number, and the entire structure is again compared atom by atom.

The score was deadlocked 17-17 in the final period, but a 73-yard touchdown pass by Rams quarterback Norm van Brocklin to wide receiver Tom Fears broke the tie and gave Los Angeles the lead for good.

The game lasted 13 innings, and although the Padres got two runs off of a Scott Hairston home run in the top of the 13th inning to break a 6 – 6 tie, the Rockies came back in the bottom of the 13th by scoring three runs off of closer Trevor Hoffman to win 9 – 8.

( In the NFL overtime is decided by a 15-minute sudden-death quarter, and regular season games can still end in a tie if neither team scores.

In the election he also brought with him a Republican majority in the House ( by eight votes ) and in the Senate ( actually a tie, with Nixon providing the majority vote ).

The mayor's duties include running city council meetings and approves or vetoes all actions taken by the council members, and can vote in case of a tie.

* 1801 – An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.

A 2 – 1 away loss in the first leg at La Spezia was followed by a 0 – 0 home tie, and Verona were relegated to Serie C1 after 64 years of play in the two highest divisions.

Most of the voyages sent out by Henry consisted of one or two ships that navigated by following the coast, stopping at night to tie up along some shore.

Though he refused to attend church with his Episcopalian parents ( not being enthused by " the idea of sitting in a stuffy room wearing a little tie "), Jarmusch credits literature with shaping his metaphysical beliefs and leading him to reconsider theology in his mid-teens.

The tournament, which was now considered by some as the most important in Europe, was won by fellow Hungarian Péter Lékó while Polgár scored 7 / 13 to tie for fourth with Alexander Grischuk, Michael Adams and Kramnik.

The tournament finished with a three-way tie for first with the winner, Kramnik being decided by Elo over Mamedyarov and Kamsky.

While some people can look at diagrams or photos and tie the illustrated knots, others learn best by watching how a knot is tied.

* 1998 – Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens.

This is essentially part of the differentiation between " procedural " games, where the aim ( acknowledged or otherwise ) is to tie the entire ruleset into a paradoxical condition during each turn ( a player who has no legal move available wins ), and " substantive " games, which try to avoid paradox and reward winning by achieving certain goals, such as attaining a given number of points.

The two states have maintained a close relationship, a relationship which is described by the Nigerian Defence Minister as " friendly " and like a " family tie "

In the unusual event there is a tie, the tied player who bid the most wins the game ( This is done by adding up each tied-player's successful bids.

Second, any zero-zero tie is won by the Banker, regardless of the tiles in the hand.

If two or more vaulters have finished with the same height, the tie is broken by the number of misses at the final height.

General practice is to attach a tie every 4m on alternate lifts ( traditional scaffolding ).

The 1799 constitution changed the method of selecting the governor to direct election by majority vote and prescribed that, in the event of a tie vote, the governor would be chosen by lot in the Kentucky General Assembly.

The Lieutenant Governor does not have the power to preside or break tie votes in either house of the General Assembly.

Tower tried to tie Sanders to former United States Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who donated $ 2, 000 to the Sanders campaign.

Confederate General Robert E. Lee, coming to the conclusion that Early had done all that was practical, ordered Early to return two of his divisions to Richmond and remain to tie up Sheridan.

Under this strategy British forces would continue to tie down Washington's main army in the north while a Royal army under General Charles Cornwallis would advance northward.

A contested gubernatorial election is also to be decided by a joint convention of the General Assembly according to statutory law ; the General Assembly is also to decide the election by joint convention according to the constitution in the event of an exact tie in the popular vote, an extremely unlikely proposition.

The suit, which centered on Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system and the company's contractual restrictions imposed on personal computer manufacturers to tie the operating system to its Internet Explorer browser, was eventually merged with a federal case brought by the United States Department of Justice ( DOJ ) under Attorney General Janet Reno.

The Attorney General rightly points out that the Vice President can only invoke the 25th Amendment when a majority of the Cabinet agrees, and a tie vote does not constitute a majority.

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