When making a gun-like configuration, with the middle finger crossing under the index finger, the fingers represent the velocity vector, magnetic field vector, and force vector, respectively.

When Julius Caesar broke this rule, leaving his province of Gaul and crossing the Rubicon into Italy, he precipitated a constitutional crisis.

When a crossing road is at the same grade as the freeway, a bridge ( or, less often, an underpass ) will be built for the crossing road.

When the uprising was crushed, Engels was one of the last members of Willich's volunteers to escape by crossing the Swiss border.

When crossing wheat and rye, wheat is used as the female parent and rye as the male parent ( pollen donor ).

When crossing streams, bridges may or may not be desirable, depending on the size of the stream and the depth of its banks.

When the Israelites see the power of Yahweh they put their faith in Yahweh and in Moses, and sing a song of praise to the Lord for the crossing of the sea and the destruction of their enemies.

When Enrique finally decides to take the position, Rosa becomes gravely ill with typhus contracted from the rat bites she received during their border crossing.

When this crossing was closed Penge Lane was renamed and Old Penge Lane became the present day Penge Lane.

When they were eight or from home near the crossing of the Terre Bleu, they were met by the Native Americans and all, save Rebecca and Abraham Baker, were stripped of their clothing and left to find their way home in this plight ; the wagon loaded with venison, intended for the wedding feast, was also robbed.

When the bridge was congested, crossing it could take up to an hour.

When trains stop at the station, they block the roadway at one crossing or the other for entire duration of the stop, causing traffic backups.

When the Jefferson Highway was first located through Eufaula the only way of crossing the South Canadian River, about four miles below the town, was by means of a rather uncertain ferry, and the citizens of Eufaula, feeling the great need of a good bridge across the river, incorporated-The Jefferson Highway Bridge Company, and at a cost of almost a quarter of a million dollars, built the present splendid structure of steel and concrete, forty feet above low water ; affording a 365 day crossing throughout the year.

When the Columbia Plateau Route opened in 1847, it passed directly through Echo, crossing the Umatilla River.

When crossing water a screw propeller could be lowered down from the rear deck engine cover.

Newly opened Brandenburg Gate crossing on two sides of the gate When the Revolutions of 1989 occurred and the Wall fell, the gate symbolized freedom and the desire to unify the city of Berlin.

When entering or leaving the eddies, crossing the races, even large powerful vessels can be pushed off course, such is the demarcation between the relatively calm eddy and the fast-moving tide in the races.

When the line has been fully re-opened, following HM Rail Inspectorate approval, rail services will run between March Elm Road ( a new station next to Elm Road crossing, March ) and Wisbech East ( a new station on Weasenham Lane, Wisbech ).

* When John and Roy are leaving on the steamship, a bridge can be seen on the left crossing over the Hudson River.

When migrating, the Black Kite has a greater propensity to form large flocks than other migratory raptors, particularly prior to making a crossing across water.

When migrating between Europe and Africa, it avoids crossing the Mediterranean Sea and detours via the Levant in the east or the Strait of Gibraltar in the west, because the air thermals on which it depends do not form over water.

When crossing to my daughter's bed.

When Lancaster arrived at the town of Boroughbridge, Harclay was already in possession of the bridge crossing the river.

When he failed to win this he would turn to consolidate his conquests in Asia and the Urals.

When the Russians expanded into Transbaikalia ( eastern Siberia ) in 1609, the Cossacks found only a small core of tribal groups speaking a Mongol dialect called Buryat and paying tribute to the Khalkhas.

When the war broke out the Cossacks found themselves on both sides of the conflict.

When going to war, 16th-century Ukrainian Cossacks would shave their heads, leaving a long central strip.

When Poland-Lithuania and Russia agreed on to truce and anti-Swedish alliance in 1657, Khmelnytski's Cossacks supported the invasion of the commonwealth by Sweden's Transylvanian allies instead.

When Tekeli realised the escape, the remaining Cossacks were nothing left but to surrender.

When further reinforcements arrived and joined in, the Cossacks fled the field.

When the Poles, Cossacks and Tatars began negotiations, Marek Sobieski was sent to the Cossack camp as a guarantor of safety for the Cossack leader, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, who was in the Polish camp.

When Platov arrives to check on their progress, he has some Cossacks try to open the workshop.

When the Tsar refused to defend Ukraine against the Polish King Stanislaus Leszczynski, an ally of Charles XII of Sweden, Mazepa and the Zaporozhian Cossacks allied themselves with the Swedes on October 28, 1708.

When the Cossacks responded by electing as Hetman Pavlo Polubotok, opposed to these reforms, he was arrested and died in prison without having been confirmed by the tsar.

When communism overtook Russia, the Cossacks were forced to leave the country.

When he had finished he led him and the mare to the porch.

When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

When several minutes had passed and Curt hadn't emerged from the livery stable, Brenner reentered the hotel and faced Summers across the counter.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

When he sank on his knees, they had allowed him to char without administering the stroke of mercy.

When they had licked the last of the wieners' taste from their fingers, they settled back, and Cappy offered Ernie a cigarette.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

When, in 1832, the South Carolina nullifiers adopted the principle of state interposition which Madison had advanced in his old Virginia Resolve, they elicited no encouragement from that senior statesman.

When these had been pocketed, we could still spend a morning cracking open other pebbles for our delight in seeing how much prettier they were inside than their dull exteriors indicated.

When the hay wagon had gone, and an interval passed, a huckster's cart might turn the corner.

When Peter B. Kyne ( Pride Of Palomar, 43 ) informed us in 1921 that we had an instinctive dislike for the Japanese, did the heated debates of the Californians settle the truth or falsity of the proposition??

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

When May came the Caravan had already crossed the Equator.

When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship, the Astra, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors up the Irrawaddy River.

When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

When he remembered that he might have not signed the check, Mercer made out another for the same amount, instructing the bank to destroy the other -- especially if he had happened to have absent-mindedly signed both of them.

When Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen began their collaboration in 1940, Mercer, like Arlen, had several substantial film songs to his credit, among them `` Hooray For Hollywood '', `` Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride '', `` Have You Got Any Castles, Baby??

When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.

When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

When the captives arrived in Boston, `` the chaplain ( of their captors ) went to prayers in the open streets, that the people might take notice what they had done in a holy manner, and in the name of the Lord ''.