Wicket-keeper Bert Oldfield's skull was fractured by a ball hitting his head ( although the ball had first glanced off the bat and Larwood had an orthodox field ), almost precipitating a riot by the Australian crowd.

In 1853, gold was discovered in the interior, precipitating border disputes with Brazil and Suriname ( these were later settled in 1891, 1899 and 1915, though a small region of the border with Suriname is still disputed ).

He was captured by Pakistani officials in November 2001, as he attempted to flee Afghanistan following the collapse of the Taliban precipitating the 2001 U. S. invasion of Afghanistan.

In October 1965, Jakarta was the site of an abortive coup attempt in which 6 top generals were killed, precipitating a violent anti-communist purge in which half-a million people were killed, including many ethnic Chinese, and the beginning of Suharto's New Order.

However tensions between Mormons and non-Mormons again escalated to the point that in 1844, Smith was killed by a mob, precipitating a succession crisis.

This apparent reversal of prefix and root is a carry-over from the mid 19th century, when nimbus was the root word for all precipitating clouds.

The throne of England was temporarily restored to Henry VI ; on 14 March 1471, Edward brought an army back across the English Channel, precipitating the Battle of Barnet a month later.

The financial incentive to discover an alternative to Venice's monopoly control of this lucrative business was perhaps the single most important factor precipitating Europe's Age of Exploration.

Soon after, Liu Biao died while Cao Cao was preparing a major campaign to subjugate both Liu Biao and Sun Quan under his control, precipitating a major confrontation.

* Dr. William Beanes ( 1749 – 1828 ), indirectly responsible for precipitating the situation in which the American national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, was written

During the interregnum of despair between Franklin Roosevelt's election and his inauguration, the only bank in North Bend, the First National, was forced to temporarily close its doors, precipitating a cash-flow crisis for the City of North Bend.

RFE's Hungarian service was accused of precipitating the 1956 Hungarian revolution by giving its Hungarian listeners false hope of Western military assistance.

Supply arrived at Pensacola, Florida, on 7 December 1860, just a month and a day after Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States, precipitating the secession crisis.

The Nazi movement was precipitating the rapid emigration of scientific talent from Germany, and Muller was particularly opposed to the politics of National Socialism.

Hamann was one of the precipitating forces for the counter-enlightenment.

The Chinese opened fire on the advancing French, precipitating a two-day battle in which the French column was seriously mauled.

He was criticized by Chief Joseph as precipitating the war by trying to rush the Nez Perce to a smaller reservation, with no advance notice, no discussion, and no time to prepare.

The so-called Dorian invasion of Greece was placed in this context as well ( although more recent evidence suggests that the Dorians moved in 1100 BC into a post Mycenaean vacuum, rather than precipitating the collapse ).

The precipitating event was a police raid of an unlicensed, after-hours bar then known as a blind pig, on the corner of 12th ( today Rosa Parks Boulevard ) and Clairmount streets on the city's Near West Side.

A few years earlier, Louis Le Chatelier in France developed a method for making alumina by heating bauxite in sodium carbonate, Na < sub > 2 </ sub > CO < sub > 3 </ sub >, at 1200 ° C, leaching the sodium aluminate formed with water, then precipitating aluminium hydroxide by carbon dioxide, CO < sub > 2 </ sub >, which was then filtered and dried.

This episode was one of the precipitating events of the emerging Cold War, the postwar rivalry between the United States and its allies, and the USSR and its allies.

Similarly, when the Spanish Civil War broke out, Blum was forced to adopt a policy of neutrality rather than assist his ideological fellows, the Spanish Left-leaning Republicans, for fear of splitting his alliance with the centrist Radicals, or even precipitating a religious civil war in France.

The basic concept of Wernerian geology was the belief in an all encompassing ocean that gradually receded to its present location while precipitating or depositing almost all the rocks and minerals in the Earth's crust.

His cause was to commemorate the glory of her past and to incite her people to perpetuate it in the present.

One cause of Schopenhauer's pessimism was the fact that he failed to learn the guitar.

Mando, pleading her cause, must have said that Dr. Brown was the most distinguished physician in the United States of America, for our man poured out his symptoms and drew a madly waving line indicating the irregularity of his pulse.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

But when the situation was so complicated that even Nogaret, one of the principal actors in the drama, could misinterpret the pope's motives, it is possible that Othon and his companions, equally baffled, attributed their difficulties to a more immediate cause.

I never met John Dewey, whose style was a sort of verbal fog and who had written asking me to go to Mexico with him when he was investigating the cause of Trotsky ; ;

Whether this, or overt action, was the cause of the crash must be promptly determined.

The Congo, in whose cause he died, was the scene of one of his greatest triumphs.

Possibly their compulsivity was not strong enough to cause them to build their own structure.

( This patient, in actuality, was a neurasthenic who had almost come to the point of accepting the fact that it was not her soma but her psyche that was the cause of her difficulty.

`` To be creative is to have the ability to cause to exist -- to produce where nothing was before -- to bring forth an original production of human intelligence or power ''.

wetting a wart with this saliva on wakening the first thing in the morning was supposed to cause it to disappear after only a few treatments, and strangely enough many warts did just that.

Here was a cause she believed in.

And even as she, having indeed a husband, Adam, but being nevertheless as yet a virgin, having become disobedient, was made the cause of death, both to herself and to the entire human race ; ;

They would become tagged as men not interested in being purely real estate `` professionals '' but agitators for some kind of `` cause '' or `` reform '', and this was no longer to be a `` pro ''.

In order for the appeal to succeed, the appellant must prove that the lower court committed reversible error, that is, an impermissible action by the court acted to cause a result that was unjust, and which would not have resulted had the court acted properly.

She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm.

Due to her immense beauty, Zeus was frightened that she would be the cause of violence between the other gods.

Mackenzie's faith was to link him to the increasingly influential temperance cause, particularly strong in Ontario where he lived, a constituency of which he was to represent in the Parliament of Canada.

This created the second cause of instability, which was the Carlist Wars.