While both types of gun were effective against wooden ships, neither had the capability to pierce the armour of ironclads ; due to reports of slight problems with the breeches of the Armstrong gun, and their higher cost, the older muzzle-loaders were selected to remain in service, instead.

* August 4 – American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the Seventh Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clashes for the first time with the Sioux, near the Tongue River ( only 1 man on each side is killed ).

While he orbited the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the first manned landing on the lunar surface.

While Oxford officially marks the year 1683 as its founding because in that year it was first named by the Maryland General Assembly as a seaport, the town began between 1666 and 1668 when were laid out as a town called Oxford by William Stephens, Jr .. By 1669 one of the first houses was built for Innkeeper Francis Armstrong ( see Talbot County Land Records, A 1, f. 10 / 11 ).

While British designers had produced the ABC Dragonfly radial in 1917, they were unable to resolve the cooling problems, and it was not until the 1920s that the Bristol Aeroplane Company and Armstrong Siddeley produced reliable air-cooled radials such as the Bristol Jupiter and the Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar.

While Garner Ted Armstrong was being removed, Stanley Rader had been orchestrating the church's involvement in a number of corporations which Rader established.

While Armstrong administered church business through Stanley Rader from his Arizona retreat, the church continued to be headquartered in Pasadena.

While Oliver had more admirers, to some extent preference was a matter of taste ; Jelly Roll Morton, Lil Hardin Armstrong, and Wellman Braud all thought Keppard superior to Oliver.

While today's radios are amazing pieces of modern technology, filled with low-power, high performance, integrated circuits crammed into the smallest spaces, the basic principle of the radio receiver is practically always the superheterodyne one, the same idea which was developed by Edwin Armstrong back in 1918.

While in camp with Gates at Newburgh, New York, Armstrong became involved in the Newburgh Conspiracy.

While working at Armstrong Cork, Usery served as the IAM's special representative at the U. S. Air Force Cape Canaveral Air Force Missile Test Center ( AFMTC ).

While traveling to the moon aboard Apollo 11 in July 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong extended a greeting to the scouts attending the national jamboree in Idaho.

While his commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Carol Mathieu described Armstrong as bordering on insanity at the inquiry, the only evidence he produced was that he liked to climb onto the roof of the hospital at night in Somalia and watch the stars.

While the works of Allen and Armstrong are by no means identical, with Allen's work being much earlier, much longer and in hard-back book format, the core of Allen's work does appear to have served as inspiration for Armstrong, and Allen's book was not unknown to Armstrong's students at Ambassador College.

While his most recent character, Admiral Forrest, was killed in action on Star Trek: Enterprise, Armstrong got the chance to play Forrest again in the two-part episode " In a Mirror, Darkly ", in which the Mirror Universe version of Forrest appears.

While bench pressing a dumbbell weighing upwards of 180 lb ( 82 kg ) in a gym in Huntington, Georgia, the bench that Armstrong was lying upon broke, leading to the weight falling on his face.

While undergoing surgery, Armstrong donned a wrestling mask to conceal his disfigured features and began using the ring name " The Bullet ".

" While the bulk of her partnership activities began in the Spring of 2010, Armstrong began contributing weekly content to the network's Design Happens blog in February 2010 ..

While performing at the Ottawa Bluesfest, Denis Armstrong of Canadian Online Explorer commented on her performance saying " her show was a Disney-esque choreographed fantasy of non-stop hip-swivelling, sassy attitude and personal endearments and a string of funky, sugar-free hits.

While the action worked, Armstrong caused a bomb to explode, killing his brother and sister in the blast.

While serving in the United States Senate, Armstrong was the chairman of the Republican Policy Committee ( 99th through 101st Congresses ).

While doing the illustrations he noted to Armstrong that he " didn't like to work with a script he hadn't written ", thus Armstrong decided to give Lobos free reins for the creation of characters and stories in all future installments of Mampato's saga.

While my memory holds with relentless tenacity, as I cannot too often stress, to my wrongs, when it comes to my shames, it gestures and jokes and toys with chronology like a prestidigitator in the hope of distracting me from them.

While he is worldly, the musician often cultivates public attitudes of childlike astonishment and naivete.

While individual sportsmen are aware of this situation, too many of our political, social, educational and even religious leaders too often forget it.

While the factories were always the center of the labor market, they were often on the city's periphery.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

While the arithmetic mean is often used to report central tendencies, it is not a robust statistic, meaning that it is greatly influenced by outliers.

While Zhuyin is not used as a mainstream writing system, it is still often used in ways similar to a romanization system — that is, for aiding in pronunciation and as an input method for Chinese characters on computers and cellphones.

While Greek states had in the past often been ruled by tyrants, this was a form of arbitrary government that was on the decline.

While Eros and Anteros ' godly stations favored their mother, Adrestia by far preferred to emulate her father, often accompanying him to war.

While fighting at the front, Bäumer and his comrades have to engage in frequent battles and endure the dangerous and often dirty conditions of warfare.

While often cited as an Indian legend, the white doe seems to have its roots in English folklore.

While some Anglicans claim it for their communion, their views are often nuanced and there is widespread reluctance to ' unchurch ' Christian bodies which lack it.

While the term " anti-globalization " arose from the movement's opposition to free-trade agreements ( which have often been considered part of something called " globalization "), various participants contend they are opposed to only certain aspects of globalization and instead describe themselves, at least in French-speaking organisations, as " anti-capitalist ", " anti-plutocracy ," or " anti-corporate.

While the Freien Ämter often had independent lower courts, they were forced to accept the Confederation's sovereignty.

While administrative decision-making bodies are often controlled by larger governmental units, their decisions could be reviewed by a court of general jurisdiction under some principle of judicial review based upon due process ( United States ) or fundamental justice ( Canada ).

While discussing the profession of treasure hunting, he notes that poorer treasure hunters were often sponsored by rich businessmen to go on archeological expeditions.

While all real fluids are compressible, a flow problem is often considered incompressible if the density changes in the problem have a small effect on the outputs of interest.

While the atypical ( second-generation ) antipsychotics were marketed as offering greater efficacy in reducing psychotic symptoms while reducing side effects ( and Extrapyramidal symptoms in particular ) than typical medications, the results showing these effects often lacked robustness, and the assumption was increasingly challenged even as atypical prescriptions were soaring.

While they can synthesize arginine and histidine, they cannot produce it in sufficient amounts for young, growing animals, and so these are often considered essential amino acids.

While rubber bridge is played competitively and for stakes, it is most often played socially and with less formality than duplicate bridge.

While some people with bipolar disorder mainly experience manic symptoms, others more often feel depressed.

While Boxing Day is 26 December, many retailers who hold Boxing Day Sales will run the sales for several days before or after 26 December, often up to New Year's Eve.

While nations often strive for substantive harmony to facilitate cross-national distribution, philosophical differences about the optimal extent of regulation can be a hindrance ; more restrictive regulations seem appealing on an intuitive level, but critics decry the tradeoff cost in terms of slowing access to life-saving developments.

In The Encylopedia of Protestantism, JG Melton writes: " While often associated with Evangelical Christianity, the again phenomenon is common across the entire spectrum of Protestant churches.

While von Neumann is most often credited with the design of the stored-program computer because of his design of EDVAC, others before him, such as Konrad Zuse, had suggested and implemented similar ideas.