We quickly ran into the same trouble that plagued Bill Ruger in his first experiments: Three or four bullets would be placed well in a six-inch bull at 100 yards and then, unaccountably, one could stray far out of the group.

He knew the house fairly well, he had been there on two previous visits during the past three or four months alone.

Catching the impulse from Hilary and confirmed in it by the success of Arian psalmody, Ambrose composed several original hymns as well, four of which still survive, along with music which may not have changed too much from the original melodies.

However, Sargon took this process further, conquering many of the surrounding regions to create an empire that reached westward as far as the Mediterranean Sea and perhaps Cyprus ( Kaptara ); northward as far as the mountains ( a later Hittite text asserts he fought the Hattite king Nurdaggal of Burushanda, well into Anatolia ); eastward over Elam ; and as far south as Magan ( Oman ) — a region over which he reigned for purportedly 56 years, though only four " year-names " survive.

The four persons appearing in those two dialogues are the politicians Critias and Hermocrates as well as the philosophers Socrates and Timaeus of Locri, although only Critias speaks of Atlantis.

In 2011 the production received four Lucille Lortel Award nominations including Outstanding Musical, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League nominations, as well as five Drama Desk nominations including Outstanding Musical and won for Outstanding Ensemble Performance.

Athanasius is counted as one of the four Great Doctors of the Church in the Roman Catholic Church as well as one of the Great Doctors of the Church in Eastern Orthodoxy, where he is also labeled the " Father of Orthodoxy ".

During his post-ABBA career Andersson won four Swedish Grammis awards, and together with Ulvaeus received the " Special International " Ivor Novello award from ' The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters ', twice " The Music Export Prize " from the Swedish Ministry of Industry and Trade ( 2008 ), as well as the " Lifetime Achievement " award from the Swedish Music Publishers Association ( SMFF ).

The 1962 tour to South Africa saw the Lions still win 16 of their 25 games, but did not fare well against the Springboks, losing three of the four tests.

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

The name " Branch Davidian " is most widely known for the Waco Siege of 1993 on their property ( known as the Mount Carmel Center ) near Waco, Texas, by the ATF, FBI, and Texas National Guard, which resulted in the deaths of their leader, David Koresh, as well as 82 other Branch Davidians and four ATF agents.

Although its Academy Award was presented to Taiwan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in fact an international co-production between companies in four regions: the Chinese company China Film Co-Production Corporation ; the American companies Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Sony Pictures Classics and Good Machine ; the Hong Kong company EDKO Film ; and the Taiwanese Zoom Hunt International Productions Company, Ltd ; as well as the unspecified United China Vision, and Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., created solely for this film.

Chlorine exists in all odd numbered oxidation states from − 1 to + 7, as well as the elemental state of zero and four in chlorine dioxide ( see table below, and also structures in chlorite ).

Daily strips have suffered as well, in 1910 the strips had an unlimited amount of panels, covering the entire width page, while by 1930 most " dailies " had four or five panels covering six of the eight columns occupied by a traditional broadsheet paper, by 1958 those four panels would be narrower, and those would have half of the space a 1910 daily strip had, and around 1998 most strips would have three panels only ( with a few exceptions ), or even two or one on an occasional basis, apart from strips being smaller, as most papers became slightly narrower.

In February 2006, the Independent Monitoring Commission ( IMC ) blamed the CIRA for planting four bombs in Northern Ireland during the final quarter of 2005, as well as several hoax bomb warnings.

However, Empedocles of Acragas, is best known for having selected all elements as his archai and by the time of Plato, the four Empedoclian elements of were well established.

Cnidarians are classified into four main groups: the almost wholly sessile Anthozoa ( sea anemones, corals, sea pens ); swimming Scyphozoa ( jellyfish ); Cubozoa ( box jellies ); and Hydrozoa, a diverse group that includes all the freshwater cnidarians as well as many marine forms, and has both sessile members such as Hydra and colonial swimmers such as the Portuguese Man o ' War.

Soon after independence, the leaders of the four former Soviet Central Asian Republics met in Tashkent and declared that the definition of Central Asia should include Kazakhstan as well as the original four included by the Soviets.

Historically, the caste system in India consisted of four well known categories ( the Varnas ):

Eventually, the system grew to include seven senior colleges, four hybrid schools, seven community colleges, as well as graduate schools and professional programs.

Roosevelt mentioned four fundamental freedoms, which ought to be enjoyed by people " everywhere in the world "; these included the freedom of speech and religion, as well as freedom from want and fear.

The four communes of Castellina in Chianti, Gaiole in Chianti, Greve in Chianti and Radda in Chianti are located entirely within the boundaries of the Classico region with parts of Barberino Val d ' Elsa, San Casciano in Val di Pesa and Tavarnelle Val di Pesa in the province of Florence as well as Castelnuovo Berardenga and Poggibonsi in the province of Siena included within the permitted boundaries of Chianti Classico.

All four of these books are based on interviews with Engelbart as well as other contributors in his laboratory.

Other tourist attractions include sailing, fishing, and other water sports, as well as visiting the countryside and hills, wineries on the north coast, and nightlife on the south shore.

The tying and untying of knots and hitches as well as the general handling of ropes and lines are fundamental to the art of sailing.

Such a challenging enterprise requires keen knowledge of sailing in general as well as maintenance, navigation ( especially celestial navigation ), and often even international diplomacy ( for which an entire set of protocols should be learned and practiced ).

If an electric boat has sails as well, and will be used in deep water ( deeper than about 15 m or 50 ft ), then a towed generator can help build up battery charge while sailing ( there is no point in trailing such a generator while under electric propulsion as the extra drag from the generator would waste more electricity than it generates ).

There are also Staines clubs catering for rowing, sailing, cricket, hockey, running, rambling, martial arts ( jujitsu ), rifle & pistol shooting, bowls, chess, contract bridge, snooker / darts / pool / poker, and various football teams, as well as a district table tennis league.

Compared to other types, sloops therefore tend to perform very well when sailing upwind ( also known as sailing to windward or sailing close hauled ).

A similar figure is Njord of the Vanir, Norse god of wind, fertile land along the seacoast, as well as seamanship, sailing and fishing, whom the prose Edda also associates with the power to calm the sea or fire.

Three large man-made lakes provide residents with sport fishing, water skiing, and sailing as well as hydroelectric power.

The sailing barque Ethel, which ran aground on 2 January 1904, was well preserved on the beach for many years but little now remains.

The camp facilities include many water-based activities on the camp's half-mile of waterfront, including rowing, motorboating, sailing, waterskiing and swimming, as well as handicrafts, nature, rifle and archery ranges, and scoutcraft areas.

A stable configuration is not only desirable in sailing, but in aircraft design as well.

The ketch rig also allows sailing on mizzen and jib only without introducing excessive lee helm, and in an emergency can be quite well steered without use of the rudder.

The river is well known for its rowing, sculling, dragonboating, and sailing, both recreational and competitive.

Attacking the Danish fleet would have been difficult as Parker's delay in sailing had allowed the Danes to prepare their positions well.

A yawl ( from Dutch jol ) is a two-masted sailing craft similar to a sloop or cutter but with an additional mast ( mizzenmast or mizzen mast ) located well aft of the main mast, often right on the transom, specifically aft of the rudder post.

In the myth of Janus the ship of Saturn as well as the myth of Carmenta and Evander are remininscent of an ancient Preroman sailing life.

It was seen as " fast and well sailing ", but required a large crew to handle its rigging.

Together with his partners ( Westervelt & MacKay and Westervelt & Sons ) he designed some of the fastest and most successful sailing packets, clippers and steamships ever built, among these the screw sloop and the clipper, as well as many vessels for foreign governments and Royal Houses.

Sailing enthusiasts attend in order to compete, as well as mostly young people who have little or no interest in sailing ; they attend only in order to party and drink.

Until 1864, the Red Ensign was also the principal ensign of the Royal Navy, and as such it was worn by ships of the Red Squadron of the navy, as well as by those warships that were not assigned to any squadron ( i. e., those sailing under independent command ).

The Canoe Lifeguards train in local rivers and in the North Sea in order to attain various British Canoe Union awards and the SBS possess RIBs powered by outboard motors as well as small sailing craft to teach pupils boat handling and maintenance.

A catboat ( alternate spelling: cat boat ), or a cat-rigged sailboat, is a sailing vessel characterized by a single mast carried well forward ( i. e., near the bow of the boat ).