Gravitational-wave detectors work (see diagram) by splitting a laser beam in twain.
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But while I'm pregnant, I've set it to "split Robin's arrow in twain" mode.
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Some had their heads split in twain by axes, others beaten into jelly with clubs, others pierced or cut to pieces with bowie knives.
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Or tells what he did with the legendary sword of the Crusader Godfrey of Bouillon: I tried it on a Moslem, and clove him in twain like a doughnut.
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Benjamin's voice swings between the rhythms of the Southern hills and the lofty, elevated tone encountered in Twain and contemporary westerns (which ultimately comes from an acquaintance with the King James Bible).
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Terms like "sleazo inputs" are dropped casually, weird reveals are punctuated with "oo-ee-oo," haughty language is alloyed with hippie ("during the gobble the girl went nuts and, all in one incision, bit in twain Manson's virility").
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Photo: Christopher Sherman (AP)The 50-acre Boca Chica, Texas facility where Elon Musk's SpaceX is testing the prototype version of its Starship rocket—recently in the news for tipping over in high wind—could be split in twain by Donald Trump's proposed wall on the Mexican border, Bloomberg reported on Friday.
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" Melville's first two books are narratives of his travels, " Typee ," published in 21863, and " Omoo ," in 18763, gripping adventure stories that made the young and dashing writer a celebrity, not least because of their lustiness, fifty shades of ocean spray, a quality not confined to his descriptions of half-naked Polynesian women, like Fayaway, in "Typee"—"Her full lips, when parted with a smile, disclosed teeth of a dazzling whiteness; and when her rosy mouth opened with a burst of merriment, they looked like the milk-white seeds of the 'arta,' a fruit of the valley, which, when cleft in twain, shows them reposing in rows on either side, embedded in the rich and juicy pulp"—but extending, as well, to the sea itself, the Pacific wind blowing "like a woman roused.
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Some had their heads > split in twain by axes, others beaten into jelly with clubs, others pierced > or cut to pieces with bowie knives. Some struck down as they mired; others > had almost reached the water when overtaken and butchered.
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Headsman is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. His apparent real name is Cleavon Twain (a play on the words "cleave in twain") though it is unclear if this is his actual birth name or simply an alias.
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He conjured other diverse illusion but the son of Phalguni however, neutralized them all, with his weapons. Rakshasa seeing his illusion destroyed and himself struck, fled in great fear. Bhishma battles Subhadra's son. Satyaki rushes in battle towards Drona's son, who cut off his bow in twain.
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The second day of the battle saw fierce fighting where Khalsa College, Amritsar is located now. Bhai Bhanno was killed in the fighting and Guru Hargobind took up command when he died. The battle ended when Mukhlis Khan's head was "cleft in twain" by a blow from Guru Hargobind.
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The Bezirk was split in twain in 1831, creating Oberrheintal, with its capital in Altstätten, and Unterrheintal, with its capital alternating between Rheineck and Berneck, St. Gallen. This division persisted until 2003, when a constitutional revision created the modern constituency (), with the loss of Thal to the adjacent Wahlkreis of Rorschach.
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Oxygen Games was a developer and publisher of video gaming entertainment for major console platforms including the Nintendo DS, Wii, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable, as well as for the PC. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Northamptonshire UK with North American operations based in Twain Harte, California.
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Pendexter began his career as a humorous writer; some of this early work was anthologised in Mark Twain's book series, Library of Humor.Pendexter, Hugh, "Billy Campbell's Jungle Story", in Twain, Mark (ed.) Mark Twain's Library of Humor, Volume 2. New York; Harper & Brothers, 1906 (p.223). Pendexter's main body of fiction consisted of historical novels and Westerns for such publications as Adventure and Argosy.
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The chapel joined an existing congregation, which had first met in the house of Thomas Willoughby in Horwich from 1672 and this led to the building of a new chapel there in 1774. In this way the Horwich and Rivington chapels were "rent in twain", to quote the local historian Thomas Hampson writing in 1893. A manse, or minister's house, was built in 1787.
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"Inventing Mark Twain". 1997. The New York Times. Cited in Twain was of Cornish, English, and Scots-Irish descent. Only three of his siblings survived childhood: Orion (1825–1897), Henry (1838–1858), and Pamela (1827–1904). His brother Pleasant Hannibal (1828) died at three weeks of age, his sister Margaret (1830–1839) when Twain was three, and his brother Benjamin (1832–1842) three years later.
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The original campus of Twain was a red brick building. Originally Twain's magnet program was focused on after-school programs. In the 1980s parents in the area considered Twain to be an undesirable school. In 1986 a group of parents at Bethany United Methodist Weekday School decided to organize the group Friends of Mark Twain to call for an improvement in Twain and lobbied on its behalf.
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Gordon Yarrow was a Blenheim pilot and had been on the operations against the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. He had completed a tour of operations before he was killed. His brother Peter was in the Royal Navy, and was on when it was engaged in the valiant action against the Bismarck in the north Atlantic in 1941. During the battle the Hood was rent in twain by a mighty explosion.
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He then sighted the gun again and as he stepped back to order fire, a Parrott shell struck him in the side, nearly cutting him in twain. Just before he dismounted, he ordered his son, a boy of about 17 years to go with a squad and drive some sharpshooters from a gin house on our left, who were annoying our cannoneers. The son had been gone 10 or 15 minutes on this mission before his father was killed." Emilie Riley McKinley: May 21, 1863 "Gen.
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On March 23, 1922, a young labourer named Crispino Lacandaso was chopping wood from a felled, hundred year-old sampalok (Tamarindus indica) tree on an empty lot at 1885 Juan Luna Street, Gagalangin, Manila, Lacandaso initially had difficulty cutting the trunk, but upon finally cleaving in twain, he saw a dark cross on a base, imprinted on both halves of the wood. The pieces of wood were subsequently encased in glass, and devotees from other parts of the city flocked to the site, and a small chapel was later built to enshrine the wood.
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And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down. And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost. And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.
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Many riders missed altogether; others broke the goose's neck without snapping off the head. The American poet and novelist William Gilmore Simms wrote that Goose-pulling largely died out in the United States after the Civil War, though it was still occasionally practised in parts of the South as late as the 1870s; a local newspaper in Osceola, Arkansas reported of an 1870s picnic that "after eats, gander-pulling was engaged in. Mr. W.P. Hale succeeded in pulling in twain the gander's breathing apparatus, after which dancing was resumed." A variant called "rooster pulling" has survived in New Mexico for some time.
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The French king being informed, however, of the earl's powerful strength, and wishing to witness some exhibition of it, de Courcy, at the desire of King John, cleft a massive helmet in twain at a single blow. To reward his singular performance, King John supposedly granted de Courcy the privilege of remaining covered in the presence of the Sovereign. The 1823 edition of Debrett's Peerage gives an entirely fictitious account of how Almericus de Courcy, 23rd Baron Kingsale, asserted the privilege:Quoted at Mists of Antiquity Chapter 3: Debrett's and Burke's. The Baronage Press Ltd and Pegasus Associates Ltd.
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The Peril Room is a training room akin to those used by many hero teams, fraught with boobytraps and holographic opponents. One of the unique features of the Peril Room is that, Bugtown-like, one cannot sustain lasting injury within; many stories pit a would-be legionnaire against the Ultimate Ninja in mortal combat: if they last more than a minute before he slices them in twain, then they are granted membership. The LNH also has a more general-use holodeck and swimming pool. The Hall of Lost Heroes contains memorials to those who have fallen in battle.
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Historians, political figures, friends, foes, and family members—all have sought to characterize, understand, and interpret this figure who continues to live in the minds and imaginations of a broad reading public. The Give 'Em Hell Harry Series is designed to keep available in reasonably priced paperback editions the best books that have been written about Harry S. Truman. The Mark Twain and His Circle Series, edited by Tom Quirk. This series incorporates books on Mark Twain and the several circles he inhabited (domestic, political, artistic, and other) to provide a venue for new research in Twain studies and, from time to time, to reprint significant studies that have been too long out of print.
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Twain is an archaic term for "two", as in "The veil of the temple was rent in twain." The riverboatman's cry was "mark twain" or, more fully, "by the mark twain", meaning "according to the mark [on the line], [the depth is] two [fathoms]", that is, "The water is deep and it is safe to pass." Twain said that his famous pen name was not entirely his invention. In Life on the Mississippi, he wrote: > Captain Isaiah Sellers was not of literary turn or capacity, but he used to > jot down brief paragraphs of plain practical information about the river, > and sign them "MARK TWAIN", and give them to the New Orleans Picayune.
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LCCN 73-75623. The Alberta was upbound with her usual number of passengers and freight on her regular run between Owen Sound, Ontario and Port Arthur, Ontario. The Osborn carefully whistled her approach through the fog but one ship whistled once for a starboard course and the other ship whistled twice for a port course. Shipwreck historian Frederick Stonehouse wrote: > As reported in the local papers, 'the barge blew three whistles, the Alberta > answering, and checked down to seven miles per hour, but in a moment the > Osborn appeared under the Alberta's bow and the latter struck her midway > between the main and mizzen masts on the starboard side, cutting her almost > in twain.
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The book proved a great success and for years was one of the most frequently called for in the libraries. It was placed in nearly all of the college libraries in the Southern and Western States, as of historic value, from which may be learned from one upon the firing line of memory, the truth of the amazing situation during and following the Civil War. Treating also of the feudal life before the war, which is fast passing into the silence that follows every epoch of national change, the story of The Belle of the Bluegrass Country, possessing the atmosphere and charm of a bygone people and life, has attained the importance of history. Her second book, The Heart of Kentucky (1908), breathes of that stirring period when the State was almost rent in twain by two political factions.
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Now, just as these Ethiopians on our side of Oceanus, > who face the south throughout the whole length of the inhabited land, are > called the most remote of the one group of peoples, since they dwell on the > shores of Oceanus, so too, Crates thinks, we must conceive that on the other > side of Oceanus also there are certain Ethiopians, the most remote of the > other group of peoples in the temperate zone, since they dwell on the shores > of this same Oceanus; and that they are in two groups and are "sundered in > twain" by Oceanus.Strabo, Geography, i.2.24 The classic drawing of the sphere displays the known world, or Oecumene (Europe, North Africa, and Asia), with three other continents, labeled the Perioeci, the Antipodes, and the Antioeci. Crates' Perioeci and Antipodes arguably do exist, corresponding roughly to North America and South America respectively, but the continent of the Antioeci, Terra Australis, does not, except in fragments (Australasia and southern Africa).
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