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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.
He became the first truly autocratic native Swedish sovereign and was a skilled propagandist and bureaucrat, with his main opponent, Christian's, infamous mark as the " tyrant king " and his alleged adventures during the liberation struggle still widespread to date.
In the 1st century AD, Persius had superstitious female relatives concoct a charm with the " infamous finger " ( digitus infamis ) and " purifying spit "; while in the Satyricon, an old woman uses dust, spit and her middle finger to mark the forehead before casting a spell.
He is not especially talented in fisticuffs ( although his endurance has grown from having to engage in them over the years ), but sometimes employs weaponry that exploits his gimmick, such as exploding jigsaw pieces, his infamous question mark cane, known to house a wide variety of technological devices and weapons, and question mark shaped pistols.

mark and act
The former is one of a pair of stone obelisks standing constructed on a sandy spit on the south side of the entrance to the Harbour to act as a day mark.
The Semites regarded the act of removing their shoes as a mark of reverence when approaching a sacred person or place.
Odoacer deposed Western Emperor Romulus Augustulus in 476, in an act often considered to mark the fall of the Roman Empire.
Joseph pleaded for more time, but Howard told him that he would consider their presence in the Wallowa Valley beyond the thirty-day mark an act of war.
Through touring heavily throughout 1999 and 2000, Guided by Voices ' live act became legendary, with shows often stretching past the three-hour mark, and populated by an endless stream of new and classic songs, Pollard solo tracks, impromptu covers of The Who, David Bowie and The Rolling Stones, all accompanied by continuous alcohol consumption.
The apparent players actually serve various roles in the swindle: they act as lookouts for the police ; they also serve as " muscle " to intimidate marks who become unruly and some are shills, whose job is to pretend to play the game, and entice the mark into betting.
Hanoi Rocks was a pioneering 1980s glam rock act that left perhaps a deeper mark in the history of popular music than any other Finnish group by being an influence for groups such as Guns ' n ' Roses.
In Canada, the legal basis can be found in Section 22 of the trade mark act that states that:
The refectory was restored, revealing an important but damaged fresco, as ( in 1881, to mark a charitable act by Sir Richard Dickenson the then mayor of Dover ) was the gatehouse.
Patti Boulaye was the only act who ever attained the maximum mark, doing so in the programme's final season.
In military organizations, the practice of carrying colours, standards or guidons, both to act as a rallying point for troops and to mark the location of the commander, is thought to have originated in Ancient Egypt some 5, 000 years ago.
A trademark attorney ( alternatively spelled trade mark attorney ) is a person who is qualified to act in matters involving trademark law and practice and provide legal advice on trade mark and design matters.
Club gave the episode an ' B -' rating, describing it as having potential, but being hampered by a script that fails to act on that: " we have Kirk and Spock unraveling the mystery by the halfway mark, and then spending the rest of the episode on clean-up duty.
The film was released with the gimmick of having the audiences act as a jury and be given ballot papers to mark deciding whether the accused was innocent or guilty.
Accompanying the Peace Tower clock is a 53-bell carillon, conceived by an act of parliament as a commemoration of the 1918 armistice that ended World War I, and was innagurated on 1 July 1927, to mark the 60th anniversary of Confederation.
According to contrast, infants act according to the notion that differences in form mark differences in meaning.
In each case the art lies not so much in the finesse of the individual mark, but in the orchestration of a previously uncodified set of personal " rules " about where to act and where not, how far to go and when to stop, in such a way as the cumulative courtship of seeming chaos defines an original, hybrid kind of order, which in turn illuminates a complex sense of human experience not voiced or left marginal in previous art.
In heraldry, an augmentation ( often termed augmentation of honour or sometimes augmentation of arms ) is a modification or addition to a coat of arms, typically given by a monarch as either a mere mark of favour, or a reward or recognition for some meritorious act.
Adi was also invited by UNDP to sit on the organising committee and act as the keynote speaker at the International Chernobyl Conference held in Minsk in April 2006 to mark the 20th Anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
* In season 6, episode 11 (" My Night to Remember ") of the television series Scrubs, Dr. Cox refers to Lesko in a rant: " Pregnant women are among a select group of people who are actually allowed to act insane, much like sports mascots, local weathermen, theme park performers and that guy with the question mark jacket who teaches people how to get free money from the government.
The inuksuit of the Arctic act as navigation aids, an aid for hunting, or to mark important locations.
The ceremony held was an act of investiture to mark the monarch's official ascension to the throne rather than a coronation.
The organizers were looking for something to mark three decades of the festival and as such, for the final act of the evening, they assembled " The Wicker Band ".

mark and name
So, after the sitting has been held, several readings at one time are mailed, and the distant sitter ( whose name or whose communicator's name was given to the medium ) must mark each little item as Correct ( Hit ), Incorrect ( Miss ), Doubtful, or Especially Significant ( applying to him and, he feels, not to anyone else ).
In the absence of other evidence to show the origin of these curious relics of antiquity the occurrence of a name known as Basilidian on patristic authority has not unnaturally been taken as a sufficient mark of origin, and the early collectors and critics assumed this whole group to be the work of Gnostics.
Next to each name is a checkbox, or another similar way to mark ' Yes ' or ' No ' for that candidate.
For example, to correctly display the for an English name brand ( LTR ) in an Arabic ( RTL ) passage, an LRM mark is inserted after the trademark symbol if the symbol is not followed by LTR text.
Therefore it is sometimes believed that Teckel is either a name for the hunting breed or a mark for passing the test for a trained hunting dog ( called " VGP ", " Verband-Gebrauchsprüfung ") in Germany.
One of the stones in Campbell's Chamber bears a mark, apparently the name of a work gang, which incorporates the only reference in the pyramid to Pharaoh Khufu.
Coins through one mark was also minted in the name of the empire, while higher valued pieces were issued by the states.
Whilst the terms are often used interchangeably, branding is more strictly related to the identifying mark or trade name for a product or service, whereas corporate identity can have a broader meaning relating to the structure and ethos of a company, as well as to the company's external image.
At the beginning of 1998 the Under Cover Music Group ( UCMG ) took over the rights to use the brand name of the label as well as the trade mark " Harthouse ".
The Israelites were instructed to mark the doorposts of their homes with the blood of a spring lamb and, upon seeing this, the spirit of the Lord knew to pass over the first-borns in these homes, hence the name of the holiday.
: he Roman owner of a mark or firm name was legally protected against unfair usage by a competitor through the action servi corrupti,.
The name Barbarossa came from the northern Italian cities he attempted to rule, and means " red beard " in Italian – a mark of both their fear and respect.
Splenda is the commercial name and registered trade mark of a sucralose-based artificial sweetener derived from sugar, owned by the British company Tate & Lyle.
In 1904 Cushman & Denison registered a trade mark for the " Gem " name in connection with paper clips.
Because the series ran for such a long time and featured young performers, Young Talent Time made an indelible mark on the psyche of several generations of Australian children, leading them to believe that if they tried hard enough, they too could be a ' star ' like the kids they saw on television ( Johnny Young launched talent schools in his own name in early 1980s ).
The name " Half-Fence " is derived from the mark left by the pole when striking a hanging piece of paper.
A slave bore an identification mark, removable only by a surgical operation, that later consisted of his owner's name tattooed or branded on the arm.
The generic URL ( Uniform Resource Locator ) syntax allows for a query string to be appended to a file name in a web address so that additional information can be passed to a script ; the question mark, or query mark, ?, is used to indicate the start of a query string.
In Chinese script, a proper name mark ( a kind of underline ) has sometimes been used to indicate a proper name.
Tabu itself has been derived from alleged Tongan morphemes ta (" mark ") and bu (" especially "), but this may be a folk etymology ( note that Tongan does not actually have a phoneme / b /), and tapu is usually treated as a unitary, non-compound word inherited from Proto-Polynesian * tapu, in turn inherited from Proto-Oceanic * tabu, with the reconstructed meaning " sacred, forbidden ".< ref name = POLLEX > In its current use on Tonga, the word tapu means " sacred " or " holy ", often in the sense of being restricted or protected by custom or law.
Attalus crushes his enemy in a battle outside the walls of his city and to mark the success he takes the title of king and the name Soter.
Albert Speer was listed in several notes of the conspirators as a possible Minister of Armaments ; however, most of these notes stated Speer should not be approached until after Hitler was dead and one conjectural government chart had a question mark beside Speer's name.

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