Similarly, the shortest war in recorded history, the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896, was brought to a swift conclusion by shelling from British battleships.

The components of the primary are becoming closer together and will not be divisible in amateur telescopes beginning in 2015. δ Equ is a binary star with an orbital period of 5. 7 years, which at one time was the shortest known orbital period for an optical binary.

The shortest term was held by James Skivring Smith, who was interim president all of two months.

Pope Urban VII ( 4 August 1521 – 27 September 1590 ), born Giovanni Battista Castagna, was Pope for thirteen days in September 1590, the shortest papal reign in history.

He was chosen successor of Pope Sixtus V ( 1585 – 1590 ) on 15 September 1590, but died of malaria ( 27 September 1590 ) before coronation, making his the shortest papal reign in history.

When the first pubs were built, the main room was the public room with a large serving bar copied from the gin houses, the idea being to serve the maximum number of people in the shortest possible time.

The shortest was 165-bases long, though it has been estimated that only part of the molecule was crucial for this function.

His chosen topic was economics, as it seemed to be " the shortest and easiest study " available at the university, and passed his degree in 1919.

Then Karlis, whose earlier 48-yard kick had tied Jan Stenerud's Super Bowl record for longest kick made in the Super Bowl, was sent out to try a 23-yard field goal and missed it, setting another, this time infamous, mark of having the shortest missed field goal in Super Bowl history.

Because the western end of Lake Erie offered the shortest overland route to the frontiers of Indiana and Illinois, Maumee Harbor was seen as a site of immediate importance and great value.

Having brought her one-year-old daughter on the road with her, this tour was also one of Amos's shortest ventures, lasting just three months.

The second digit was the longest of the three digits present, while the first was shortest.

This passage states that in the shortest days of midwinter, the sun was still above the horizon at " dagmal " and " eykt ", two specific times in the Norse day.

Harding's term of office was the shortest of any 20th-century U. S. President.

A cease fire was declared 38 minutes later, and to this day the bombardment stands as the shortest war in history.

The principal advantages of Council Bluffs / Omaha were that it was well north of the Civil War fighting taking place in Missouri, was the shortest route to South Pass break in the Rockies in Wyoming, and would follow a fertile river that would encourage settlement.

One of the shortest conciliar documents, it was approved by a vote of 2, 110 to 39 and promulgated by Pope Paul VI on November 21, 1964.

It was the shortest of the documents and contained few, if any, references to the debates and the rationale that had gone into its making ; therefore, the changes to be brought about by the declaration on the Church's Relations with non-Christian Religions, Nostra Aetate, carried implications not fully appreciated at the time.

Only five episodes were filmed in this season, the shortest season of You Can't Do That on Television's 15-year span on the air, and one of the episodes ( Adoption ) proved so controversial that it was banned after being shown twice ( a " DO NOT AIR " sticker was reportedly placed on the master tape at CJOH ).

The Arctic route was the shortest and most direct route for lend-lease aid to the USSR, though it was also the most dangerous.

While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

Already our leaky lifeboat was filled with five inches of water.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

and `` Marmee '' March, like Sophie Szold, was the competent manager of her brood of girls, of whom the Marches had only four to the Szolds' five.

So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.

Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.

Trig was one of the five volunteers.

It was a grotesque hen, five or six feet tall.

Giselle was reluctant but Alex succeeded in persuading her to come back in five minutes and the door was shut again.

At five o'clock that night it was already dark, and behind my closed door I was dressing as carefully as a groom.

The work program, as it was originally proposed, was to take five years to complete.

After five minutes with Blanche, one might welcome the astringency of Grazie, who was a sort of Gwen Cafritz to Francesca's Perle Mesta.

It was five minutes after four.

Overwhelmed with the care of five young children and concerned about persistent economic difficulties due to her husband's marginal income, her defense of denial was excessively strong.

For five days now, they had been in port and that filthy stuff was still in the hold.

If he is not told which of four or five readings was meant for him, he can more readily assess each item in a larger frame: `` Does that statement really sound as if it were for me, significant in my particular life??

After heavy rains and an onslaught of mice, snow fell on October 15, 1825, and remained on the ground through a winter so cold that the ice on the Red was five feet thick.

At twelve minutes after five on the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, San Francisco was shaken by a severe earthquake.

Another common cure was to soak the feet five or ten minutes in warm water, then to apply a solution of equal parts of soda and common brown soap on a kid bandage overnight.

They adopted a program by which Louisiana was divided into five districts.

Each of the five principal posts was to have a director, responsible to a director-general at New Orleans.

The Oldsmobile with the license number JYJ 114 was in stall number five.