They took their chief meal in a common refectory or dining hall at 3 P. M., up to which hour they usually fasted.

The first German tank destroyers were the Panzerjäger (" tank hunters ") which took an existing anti-tank gun and mounted it on a convenient chassis to give mobility, usually with just a three-sided gun shield for protection.

] When he had done eating, he usually took a Kind of Chocolate, made after the Manner of the Country, that is, the Substance of the Nut beat up with the Mill till the Cup was filled more with Froth than with Liquor ; after which he used to smoak Tobacco perfum'd with liquid Amber.

The importance and meaning of coronation ceremonies and regalia also varied within the tradition: for instance Holy Roman Emperors could only be crowned emperor by the pope, which meant the coronation ceremony usually took place in Rome, often several years after these emperors had ascended to the throne ( as " king ") in their home country.

In English law it is usually created by the decision of a higher court, such as the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, which took over the judicial functions of the House of Lords in 2009.

This involved a number of players recording run-throughs of individual levels, using every trick and shortcut they could discover in order to minimize the time it took to complete, usually to a degree that even the original level designers found difficult to comprehend, and in a manner that often bypassed large areas of the level.

There were eight regional viceroys in China proper, each usually took charge of two or three provinces.

The term Scandinavia is usually used as a cultural term, but in English usage, it is occasionally confused with the purely geographical term Scandinavian Peninsula, which took its name from the cultural-linguistic concept.

This is apart from North v. South which was technically a fixture of higher quality given that the amateur Gentlemen were usually ( until Grace took a hand ) outclassed by the professional Players.

It is usually assumed, based on Plato's Parmenides 128c-d, that Zeno took on the project of creating these paradoxes because other philosophers had created paradoxes against Parmenides's view.

* December 11 – A surprise attack by forces under the command of the Duke of Savoy and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva ( This actually took place after midnight, in the early morning of December 12, but commemorations / celebrations on Fête de l ' Escalade are usually held on December 11 or the closest weekend ).

( Note that the earliest episodes took place in 2099, though most following stories have taken place in the 22nd century, usually 122 years after real-world publication ( so a story published in the comic in 2008 would take place in 2130 ).

There are also many examples of courtesans who took advantage of their involvement with powerful individuals, which usually ended in their downfall.

For homonuclear A – A bonds, Linus Pauling took the covalent radius to be half the single-bond length in the element, e. g. R ( H – H, in H < sub > 2 </ sub >) = 74. 14 pm so r < sub > cov </ sub >( H ) = 37. 07 pm: in practice, it is usual to obtain an average value from a variety of covalent compounds, although the difference is usually small.

At the magnificent banquet to celebrate her father's elevation, Anne took precedence over the Duchesses of Suffolk and Norfolk, seated in the place of honour beside the King which was usually occupied by the Queen.

Although the population exchange of the Arabs of Palestine with Jews from across the Arab world took place around the period of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the idea of the transfer of Arabs from Palestine, usually to Iraq ( where there was a sizable Iraqi Jewish population ), had been considered about half a century beforehand.

The first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, providing faster, safer, and usually cheaper travel east and west ( the journey took seven days and cost as little as $ 65 ).

Pirates tended to kill few people aboard the ships they captured ; usually they would kill no one if the ship surrendered because, if it became known that pirates took no prisoners, their victims would fight to the last and make victory both very difficult and costly in lives.

In France, before the guillotine, members of the nobility were beheaded with a sword or axe, which typically took at least two blows to kill the condemned, while commoners were usually hanged, a form of death that could take minutes or longer.

* Paskwüw ( Paskwa, Pisqua, usually called Pasquah-‘ The Plain ’; French: Les Prairies ), Chief of the Plains Cree, born 1828, son of the famous chief Mahkaysis, 1874 his tribal group were making their living with bison hunting in the vicinity of today's Leech Lake, Saskatchewan, they had also created gardens and raised a small herd of cattle, in September 1874 Pasqua took part in the negotiations on the Treaty 4 in Qu ' Appelle Valley, he asked the Canadian government for the payment of £ 300, 000 to the tribes, which the Hudson's Bay Company had received for the sale of Rupert's land to Canada, despite the refusal of Canada he finally signed the treaty and moved to a reserve five miles west of Fort Qu ' Appelle, stayed out with his tribal group from the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, died in March 1889 he succumbed to the tuberculosis )

The early script notes that he was the son of Commodore Matt Decker, who had been featured in " The Doomsday Machine " ( an episode of the original television series ), and would " command some landing parties ", anticipating the TNG situation where the first officer usually took down away teams.

The L-100 took plenty of abuse during the stage act and was usually reinforced, to the point where it weighed so much that, on at least one occasion, Emerson became trapped beneath it and had to be rescued by a roadie.

His master usually found him a slave girl for a wife ( the children were then born slaves ), often set him up in a house ( with farm or business ) and simply took an annual rent of him.

The workshops, kitchens, living quarters, storerooms, and other ancillary chambers were usually grouped in the form of a quadrangle, inside which religious celebrations and other festive events often took place.

Reactionary theories, for this reason, usually assume some form of organismic theory.

If there are any major restrictions, they usually can be obtained in printed form.

and a background, usually a silhouetted form foiled against the sky.

Time codes are usually published in the form of UTC, which differs from TAI by a well-known integer number of seconds.

These free-standing statues were usually marble, but also the form rendered in limestone, bronze, ivory and terracotta.

The aardvark is not closely related to the pig ; rather, it is the sole recent representative of the obscure mammalian order Tubulidentata, in which it is usually considered to form one variable species of the genus Orycteropus, the sole surviving genus in the family Orycteropodidae.

Amateur astronomers often like to keep records of their observations, which usually takes the form of an observing log.

Compared to Liliales, they usually have plain tepals without markings in the form of dots.

Therefore the perfect of these verbs would be ich bin gesessen, ich bin gelegen and ich bin geschlafen respectively ( note: ich bin geschlafen is a very rare form, usually you will hear ich habe geschlafen ; but ich bin eingeschlafen fell asleep is quite normal ).

A standard contract for an author will usually include provision for payment in the form of an advance and royalties.

Although Romans who had been adopted into a new family usually retained their old nomen in cognomen form ( e. g. Octavianus for one who had been an Octavius, Aemilianus for one who had been an Aemilius, etc.

Aggravated assault is, in some jurisdictions, a stronger form of assault, usually using a deadly weapon.

Despite exceptions such as usage in The New York Times, the names of sports teams are usually treated as plurals even if the form of the name is singular.

( The two-syllable form learnèd, usually written without the grave, is used as an adjective to mean " educated " or to refer to academic institutions in both BrE and AmE.

Despite advances in the protection offered by ballistic armour against projectiles, as the name implies, modern ballistic body armour is much less impervious to stabbing weapons unless they are augmented with anti-knife / anti-stab armour ( usually a form of mail ).

They are highly mobile, usually based on caterpillar track carrying either a large howitzer or other field gun or alternatively a mortar or some form of rocket or missile launcher.

The madrigal, up until its development in the early Baroque into an instrumentally-accompanied form, is also usually in a cappella form.

The term anthem means either a specific form of Anglican church music ( in music theory and religious contexts ), or more generally, a song ( or composition ) of celebration, usually acting as a symbol for a distinct group of people, as in the term " national anthem " or " sports anthem ".

He was usually portrayed as a half human, half jackal, or in full jackal form wearing a ribbon and holding a flail in the crook of its arm.

“ Clean ” or unpolluted rain has an acidic pH, but usually no lower than 5. 7, because carbon dioxide and water in the air react together to form carbonic acid, a weak acid.

Fractional bandwidth or Ratio bandwidth, usually used for wideband antennas, is defined as and is typically presented in the form of.

These may take the form of temporary charter hire of service buses, or the temporary or permanent conversion and operation of buses, usually of second-hand buses.

They are usually considered closest in form to British broadside ballads and in terms of style are largely indistinguishable, however, they demonstrate a particular concern with occupations, journalistic style and often lack the ribaldry of British broadside ballads.

Most pop standard and jazz ballads are built from a single, introductory verse ; usually around 16 bars in length, and ending on the dominant ; the chorus or refrain, usually it is 16 or 32 bars long, and in AABA form ( though other forms such as ABAC are not uncommon ).