Various mechanical devices were used, including the starting gates ( hyspleges, singular: hysplex, Greek: ὕσπληγξ-ὕσπληγγες ) which were lowered to start the race.

Various idioms involving the ace of spades include " black as the ace of spades " ( which can refer either to color or to race ), and the French expression « fichu comme l ' as de pique » – that is, " filthy as the ace of spades ".

Various white nationalist and Neo-Nazi groups use the sun cross to represent the white race ; the Knights Party also uses it in their official flag.

Various holographic storage technologies are also attempting to leapfrog existing systems, but they too have been losing the race, and are estimated to offer 1 Tbit / in² as well, with about 250 GB / in² being the best demonstrated to date-for non-quantum holography systems.

Various fund raising activities were held, including a " pram push " across England and a 24-hour relay race from Wallsend to Edinburgh Castle and back.

Various alternate theories on the origin of the Hall have been proposed, including that the Hall was not the work of Ancient Egyptians at all but another society ( this has ranged from advanced prehistoric societies to a superior race of intelligent beings ).

Various semi-independent princes still claimed specific territories, but Ivan III forced the lesser princes to acknowledge the grand prince of Moscow and his descendants as unquestioned rulers with control over military, judicial, and foreign affairs.

Various other symptoms, such as numbness of the extremities, generalized weakness, loss of smell, and loss of coordination, are reported more rarely ; none are specific for IIH.

* Various hymns employ specific forms, such as the common meter, long meter, and short meter.

Various heights of throw, considered to take specific " beats " of time to complete, are assigned a relative number.

Various vendors and individuals ( even those who were not part of the original group ) can use the standards document to make products that implement the common protocol defined in the standard, and are thus interoperable by design, with no specific liability or advantage for any customer for choosing one product over another on the basis of standardised features.

Various religions may use these terms in more specific ways.

Various manufacturers use different driver mounting arrangements to create a specific type of sound field in the space for which they are designed.

Various types of racing have given rise to horse breeds that excel in the specific disciplines of each sport.

Various criticisms have been leveled against the use of gender-neutral language, most focusing on specific usages, such as the use of " human " for " man " and " he or she " for " he ".

Various specific cases of animal testing have drawn attention, including both instances of beneficial scientific research, and instances of alleged ethical violations by those performing the tests.

Various works of fantasy fiction, such as Clark Ashton Smith's " Empire of the Necromancers ", had used lich as a general term for any corpse, animated or inanimate, before the term's specific use in fantasy role-playing games.

Various Asian, Latin, Native American and European characters spoke in a wide range of specific, broadly caricatured dialects as well.

Various target materials are used when protons or other nuclei are accelerated, depending upon the specific investigation.

Various models of Swiss Army knives exist, with different tool combinations for specific tasks designed for everyday carry.

Various specific programs for community economics and local currency, e. g. Ithaca Hours, are often promoted in green politics.

Various software tools and hardware developments have been created for the specific purpose of managing a digital menu board system.

Various applications using such enabling technologies with added features have been devised that meet some of the features offered by the DOI system for specific sectors ( e. g., ARK ).

Various activities of KE specific for the development of a knowledge-based system:

Henry Clay, Chairman of the Select Committee on the Various Propositions for the Admission of Missouri into the UnionWhile earlier select committees often narrowly tailored to specific issues, some select committees ultimately had a noticeable impact on federal legislation and American history.

Various commercial packages are available containing impulse responses from specific locations, ranging from small rooms to large concert halls.

Various specific phthalates are also restricted in varying concentrations in notepads with vinyl coverings, purses, slippers, flip flops with rhinestones and similar plastic footwear, ear buds and headsets, and exercise / fitness mats.

Various specific obligations have been applied to broadcasters by governments to fulfill public policy objectives of broadcast localism, both in radio and later also in television, based on the legislative presumption that a broadcaster fills a similar role to that held by community newspaper publishers.

Various export markets also received market specific editions, such as the " Le Jouet " series marketed in France in the early nineties.

Various methods are available to capture the value of urban trees, each designed to analyse a specific type of green space ( individual trees, parks, trees on golf courses etc .).

Various monasteries were founded on these lines, but without any formal bond between them.

Various locations, including the parsonage, were considered.

Various third party replacement joysticks were also released, including those made by Wico.

Various refinements were made to the instrument, including the use of a so-called position-sensitive ( PoS ) detector by Alfred Cerezo, Terence Godfrey, and George D. W. Smith at Oxford University in 1988.

Various local legends were compiled by J. W. Burns in a series of Canadian newspaper articles in the 1920s.

Various rock and roll histories have asserted the singing group The Hollies were named in homage to Buddy Holly.

Various written accounts of bunyips were made by Europeans in the early and mid-19th century, as settlement spread across the country.

Various images, originally ivory numbers fully animated against a deep red background, were designed to fit the pace of the channel, and the music soon gained notoriety, and was often satirised and parodied in popular culture, perhaps most famously by comic Bill Bailey who likened the theme music to an " apocalyptic rave ".

Various measures were carried out to improve conditions in the workplace.

Various live local programs with local interests were rapidly being created all over the United States in most major television markets in the early 1980s.

Various conventions of the detective genre were standardized during the Golden Age, and in 1929 some of them were codified by writer Ronald Knox in his ' Decalogue ' of rules for detective fiction, among them to avoid supernatural elements, all of which were meant to guarantee that, in Knox's words, a detective story " must have as its main interest the unravelling of a mystery ; a mystery whose elements are clearly presented to the reader at an early stage in the proceedings, and whose nature is such as to arouse curiosity, a curiosity which is gratified at the end.

Various MF signaling protocols were devised by the Bell System and CCITT.

Various spin-offs and modifications to the original Duke Nukem 3D were produced in the following years of the game's initial launch.

Various editions from the 3rd to the 9th were pirated for sale in the United States, beginning with Dobson's Encyclopaedia.

Various detection claims made starting in the nineteenth century were all eventually rejected by astronomers.

Various interior scenes were shot on a soundstage ; the final scenes were shot at the Sepulveda Dam, in Sherman Oaks.

Various Soviet directors were more concerned with artistic success than with economical success ( They were paid by the academy, and so money was not a critical issue ).

Various materials were found to absorb the energy from Radar waves, and were incorporated into special finishes that have since found widespread application.

Various explanations have been put forth throughout history to explain what fossils are and how they came to be where they were found.

Various other decisions were promulgated.