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"cannonball" Definitions
  1. a large metal or stone ball that is fired from a cannon

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Bullet to cannonball to flywheel, bullet to cannonball to flywheel, repeated.
He does this by imagining a cannonball—a super fast cannonball fired from a super high mountain.
They called it the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, more commonly known as the Cannonball Run.
It was during these early tours that she met jazz artists including Cannonball Adderley, with whom she'd later collaborate on the 1961 disc, Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley.
And now you take your gun powder, now you put it in a cannonball and you fire your cannonball, your big bet, on a calibrated line of sight.
While some of his performances were critically praised, others were ridiculed, particularly in the bloated action comedy "Cannonball Run II," a sequel to his financial success "The Cannonball Run" (1981).
They're the ones that scaled it up into a cannonball.
Next, imagine a cannonball that brings the house crashing down.
That cannonball was fired from Rwanda, Congo's tiny, turbulent neighbour.
"A kinetic impactor is basically a giant cannonball," Plesko said.
It's a recreation for the one used in 'Cannonball Run.
Just across the Cannonball River is a third, smaller camp, Rosebud.
Kim blew an actual lifeguard whistle for "Cannonball," and emerged grinning.
Only problem is, a run-cannonball-run is hard to dress for.
The diagram of Newton's cannonball seems nice, but it's just a sketch.
I squeezed onto a Cannonball train to the Hamptons to examine overcrowding.
" He might also perform "Limehouse Blues," from "Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago.
It looks like a cantaloupe or a cannonball, but it's actually cheese.
Cannonball narrowly missed in the six-furlong Diamond Jubilee Stakes in 2009.
He wanted a cannonball shot into the west wall of the gallery.
Getting hit with a Gundam-scale explosive cannonball would absolutely kill a human.
Cannonball, North Dakota (CNN)Full operations are underway on the Dakota Access Pipeline.
He then crossed the river and built Fort Rice near modern-day Cannonball.
Another early album, the collaboration "Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley," became a jazz touchstone.
"I'll never understand the man who is the Human Cannonball," Mr. Payne said.
The crystal-blue waters of the Bahamas, urging you to cannonball in from orbit.
She flies through the air as if she were part bird and part cannonball.
This waterproof mascara will hold up long after your final cannonball into the pool.
After they yelled cut he said, 'You just came at me like a cannonball.
Loved our time together on the set of Cannonball II & our trip to FSU.
The Indian encampment on the Cannonball grows daily, with nearly 90 tribes now represented.
If a bird flew past and struck Tom, it would be like a cannonball.
He makes me think of Cannonball Adderley ("He's my guy," McBride tells me later).
It's a space cannonball, otherwise known as a pulsar, fired out of a supernova.
But the rush to emulate Trump's cannonball into the political pool has its limits.
Take a golf ball and a cannonball and drop them off the Tower of Pisa.
That original X-Force team consisted of Cannonball, Boom-Boom, Warpath, Shatterstar, Feral, and Domino.
The theatre went down in flames after an errant cannonball set fire to some scenery.
It's bookended by the thinly frozen Cannonball River and the sun setting against distant hills.
Miles Davis and Cannonball Adderley gave historic performances there, some of which became canonical recordings.
It's as if he does a cannonball into a pool of identity politics, splashing everyone.
He's short and squat, but he runs like a cannonball fired out of the start.
I LOVE Cannonball Adderley, but that's mostly because I'm an 80-year-old man inside.
Go to YouTube and search "EV Cannonball" , click the top video and watch the whole journey.
Water, mud, solid objects—even a cannonball—poured from the holes and back into the ocean.
Now, the music video for "Cannonball" has arrived, and it's an extension of the song's fire.
Highway 1806 remained closed Thursday between Fort Rice and Cannonball, according to the sheriff department's statement.
He conducted most of his career singlehandedly—the other having been blown off by a cannonball.
President Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric on trade hit like a cannonball across our Great Lakes heartland.
People line a steep hill leading to the banks of the Cannonball River, chanting and singing.
I came to Miles through Cannonball Adderley, because I played alto sax when I was young.
The combination of heat, salt, sun, and cannonball contests takes a serious toll on its health.
It's as if Burt Reynolds paused in "The Cannonball Run" to explore issues of treaty rights.
Mr. Harris's résumé includes stints with the likes of Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon and Cannonball Adderley.
Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Art Blakey and Cannonball Adderley all performed at the club in their time.
It's an unquestionably strong showing that builds on Dirge's breakneck speed and cannonball grooves without feeling stale.
Man.. I grew up watching Cannonball Run.. Smokey and the Bandit... Stroker Ace and so many others.
You don't have to do a cannonball into the deep end, you can inch into the pool.
He talks about luminescence specifically on "Cannonball"—"You're magnified in light," he sings at the song's outset.
The Turnin' Turbo Dashboard actually plays Cannonball, a C++ port of the arcade version of Out Run.
Taking Cannonball Adderley's 1960s crossover gambits as his model, Mr. Glasper began to tailor the band's approach.
In Mozambique, for example, he turned a cannonball and a whitewashed fort into an otherworldly blue landscape.
Vocations Samantha Schaible, 25, is an experiential marketing and design manager with Cannonball Productions in New York.
They ran along the Cannonball River to Highway 22016, then down toward Cheyenne River, their first stop.
Meanwhile, it's hard for a home viewer to see him and not see Ms. McCarthy's seething cannonball.
Then have a blast, cannonball as many lives as possible on your way down the trash chute.
Turning a cannonball into shotgun-shell fragments could still result in Armageddon if the shards strike Earth.
It's surrounded by several other camps, including a new overflow camp on the other side of Cannonball River.
But she was warmly welcomed and tried dishes including the grenade [fried banana] and cannonball [fried sweet potato].
And remember that scene in The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants where our girls cannonball into the ocean?
Mostly to each other but at some time a lot of Cannonball Adderly, Gwen Guthrie, and Janet Jackson.
That November, eight vehicles — one a motor home — set out from Manhattan for the first competitive Cannonball Run.
The ball was rumored to be a mixture of will-o'-the-wisp and cannonball, impossible to control.
In 2008, that meant a game that was uniquely aligned with Nate Robinson's heedless ball-stopping cannonball routine.
Frank took his own leap ... more of a cannonball -- he took out a whole section of the crowd.
I helped with heavy artillery, passing off a blank cannonball to be fired by a team of men.
The Cannonball ride was first invented in the 1970s by Brock Yates, an editor with Car and Driver Magazine.
Then she can slip in a model for a given asteroid, and see how it responds to a cannonball.
With my best estimates, these are cannonball speeds of 2800 m/s, 4200 m/s, and 6200 m/s.
Everything keeps calling Don Jr "Fredo" when Don Don from Cannonball 2 is a far more accurate comparison. pic.twitter.
Or to GIF-ify what he was getting at: Popsicle with sunglasses, Will Ferrell cannonball, dancing backward-hat guy.
But in between the two areas, where Cannonball River flows into the Missouri River, is a much larger camp.
Get a high enough score and you'll get a chance at bonus games such as Cannonball and Sky Diving!
Early at Washington State, he won teammates over by doing a cannonball into a pool in just a jockstrap.
He played tenor saxophone on Machito's seminal Afro-Cuban jazz album "Kenya" (1958), which featured Cannonball Adderley on alto.
Some quickly return to the surface like a cannonball, while others escape into the vast emptiness of deep space.
You take all that gun powder, you put it in a big cannonball and you fire it at the ship.
The next day, police trucks and construction vehicles entered the camp, and some holdouts fled onto the frozen Cannonball River.
Since the angle is measured from the horizontal x-axis, these cannonball trajectories start from the left and move right.
On the banks of the Cannonball River in North Dakota, far from reliable cell-phone service, a struggle is underway.
Four months later came The Fame—a fitting album title that would mark the pop star's cannonball into the industry.
"He's a young man who needs my support," said Chan, who had roles in "The Cannonball Run" road-race movies.
"We were probably the last ones to get the electric Cannonball mostly within the limits of the law," Thomsen said.
Astronomers also witnessed a space cannonball and discovered how bombastic meteors can be when they explode in the Earth's atmosphere.
"I say we didn't dodge a bullet, we dodged a cannonball," Miami Beach mayor Philip Levine told CNBC on Monday.
The confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball Rivers in North Dakota is sacred ground for the people of Standing Rock.
A small part alongside Burt Reynolds in "The Cannonball Run" (1981) failed to ignite Chan's career in the United States.
Cannonball initially ran in the five-furlong King's Stand Stakes on opening day of the meet, finishing sixth for Velazquez.
"Scaramucci's arrival was described by one adviser as 'a cannonball from a diving board into a pool,'" Politico reported on Thursday.
If Amazon's bookstores were a toe-dip in the waters of physical retail, its acquisition of Whole Foods is a cannonball.
Now, in part thanks to Rondo, he's playing with the unyielding punch of a cannonball; it's very awesome to see. 2.
Black, ant-like figures crown a russet hill ringed by the Cannonball River at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota.
A highlight, at least for me, was the classic toy soldier dance, in which a cannonball slow-motion slays the corps.
They're supposed to be wading tentatively into the shallow end of a swimming pool, hoping no one swamps them with a cannonball.
After all, just imagine how painful it would be to have J.R. Smith cannonball into your knee while you're airborne and defenseless.
I had been browsing other videos while looking for [inspiration for] 'Cannonball,' and I saw myself being drawn towards black and white.
Hosted by BFI (Bas Fisher Invitational), Cannonball, Dimensions Variable, and Locust Projects, #CommonFieldMIA will include panels, breakouts, skillshares, art parties, and more.
The season's final moments, however, felt like a cannonball off the diving board after nine episodes of wading in the shallow end.
The Missouri River and all the tributaries that flow into it, including the Cannonball River that runs by the camps, are sacred.
Because the Oceti Sakowin camp is located on a flood plain, waste from the camp poses risks to the nearby Cannonball River.
Some stuff is obviously custom made just to appear fantastical, like the cannonball-powered clock, or the two-story Rube Goldberg machine.
But that is exactly what you're supposed to do in these new Tracksmith running shorts, aptly named the Run Cannonball Run Shorts.
On Wednesday's taping of the Tonight Show, the hooting audience essentially dared Jimmy Fallon to do a cannonball live in Rockefeller Center.
Named after Erwin "Cannonball" Baker, a record-setting cross-country driver, it had only one rule: The vehicle that finishes first wins.
Last week, the Army Corps of Engineers ordered all protesters to vacate the area north of the Cannonball River by December 5.
He also lost his leg, which he kept, along with the cannonball that took it, on display at a hospital in Washington.
On Monday, many protesters defied an order by the Army Corps of Engineers to leave a campsite north of the Cannonball River.
Last week, the Army Corps of Engineers ordered all protesters to leave the area north of the Cannonball River by December 5.
The martial arts and action film star has had his own onscreen racing credentials as far back as 1984's Cannonball Run 2.
Amy Roloff knows how to do vacation the right way -- dance your ass off as much as possible ... and enter a cannonball contest.
The Army Corps has said it would close remaining camps on federal lands along the Cannonball River in North Dakota after Feb. 22.
Temperatures in Cannonball, North Dakota are now at lethal lows, dipping well below freezing, with winds reaching up to 50 miles per hour.
"This is where we are, and where we're staying," Retha Henderson said, surveying a bustling camp on the edge of the Cannonball River.
Here's Richard Sherman on the set of an Oberto beef jerky commercial where he was SUPPOSED to do a cannonball into a pool.
Everyone knows a cannonball is two hands wrapped around your knees while entering the water ass first ... a la Ron Burgundy. Watch. Learn.
He is a black belt in jiu-jitsu and constantly training with kettlebells, a Russian weight that resembles a cannonball with a handle.
Most hunters now don padded headgear that, however inelegant, is a lot more useful in the event a rider becomes a human cannonball.
An avid tennis player and jazz enthusiast (he was a friend of the saxophonist Cannonball Adderley), Dr. Leffall was also a language maven.
The bands of Cannonball Adderley and Chico Hamilton, in which he got his start, were good places to explore this kind of thinking.
The alto saxophonist and vocalist Braxton Cook has a rare mix of Cannonball Adderley-like saxophone chops and svelte, tightly arranged fusion tunes.
The pictures "took a cannonball to his reputation," said Shachi Kurl, the executive director of the Angus Reid Institute, a nonprofit polling organization.
He told The Palm Beach Post in 2005 that his father had been an iron worker, middleweight boxer, rodeo clown and human cannonball.
The 2000 year-old car lover is known as the current record holder of the New York to Los Angeles "Cannonball Run" transcontinental record.
I thought about where it would make sense, where his flavor would feel really good, and I thought it would be awesome on 'Cannonball.
"One hundred years from now, somebody's going to go down along the Cannonball River and they're going to hear those stories," Spotted Eagle says.
He may best be remembered for his mustachioed roles in action-comedies like Cannonball Run, but Reynolds always maintained that Deliverance was his favorite.
It's hard to imagine that they would have considered any strike — missile or cannonball — to be not an act of war requiring congressional authorization.
The group leaving the main camp sang songs and prayed as they walked along a highway and over a bridge atop the Cannonball River.
Milestones (1958) and Kind of Blue (19683), on which they're joined by alto player Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, are iconic works that transcend the genre.
But this time, thanks to the indigenous Americans who began showing up along the banks of the Cannonball in April, we know about it.
They were praying together at one end of a bridge over the Cannonball River; at the other end was an array of militarized police.
Bronze — The technique itself, which can best be described as a jackknife dive into a front flip into a cannonball, and back up again.
Rocked by the hands of Sorrasak, Pud Pad Noy demonstrated his versatility and shook up his opponent with cannonball round kicks left and right.
Both Ms. White and the cannonball, Mr. Zacchini, won, but intellectual property lawyers said this argument, too, is likely a long shot against Fortnite.
"There are two ways to get in a cold pool," he said, "toe by toe, or take a tequila shot and do a cannonball."
Most protesters left Wednesday of their own volition, and others departed Thursday by crossing the frozen Cannonball River to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
He moved to New York at the urging of the alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, whom he had met at a jazz camp in Florida.
Reynolds' notoriety soared through the late 1970s and 1980s, during which time he spearheaded the "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Cannonball Run" movie franchises.
Thousands of people are protesting at camps located on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land, north of the Cannonball River in Cannon Ball, North Dakota.
The camp lies across the floodplain of Cannonball River, which feeds into the Missouri River to form the northeast boundary to the Standing Rock reservation.
Chan, whose own onscreen racing credentials go as far back as 1984's Cannonball Run 2, is part owner of the BAXI DC Racing team.
"WARNING!" flashed in Roy's display, so he ducked, and above his head passed a phantom cannonball close enough to take in its wake his cap.
I'm a leaf in a storm and also the exquisite drop pooling at the tip, doomed to fall to the floor like a cannonball dive.
The emptying of the site ended a remarkable mobilization of activists to the remote patch of North Dakota prairie near the Cannonball and Missouri Rivers.
Cannonball in spaaaaace What hurtles through space at 2.5 million miles an hour and could go between the Earth and the moon in six minutes?
Common finds include old newspapers, sometimes used for insulation, and firearms and munitions, like the Revolutionary War cannonball found in a Brooklyn backyard last August.
While digging, the construction crew came upon a cannonball dating from the Battle of Brooklyn, which Mr. Lief intends to display in a special case.
I ended up shooting all of my early music videos—like the Breeders video for "Cannonball" and the Beastie Boys "Sabotage" video—with those two cameras.
In the camps along the Cannonball and Missouri, they were drawing on old traditions and new alliances alike to create a different society in that space.
Workers had been alerted of the possibility that ordnance would be found, and stopped when the first cannonball turned up in the bucket of a excavator.
Many Motherboard staff have lab experience under our belts, but have any of us ever dunked a flaming metal cannonball into a tin of combustible thermite?
A "free speech" zone is apparently to be established south of the Cannonball River, but activists have vowed to stay put in defiance of the order.
Right now, private contributions to nonprofit foundations such as the one I founded — Cannonball Kids' cancer — are holding down the fort, but it is not enough.
"Why not backflip into the pool instead of just a plain old cannonball?" one Clinton surrogate said in endorsing the idea of a less conventional move.
Burgum and the Army Corps of Engineers had set Wednesday's deadline for protesters to leave, citing hazards posed by impending spring floods along the Cannonball River.
The couple found an 8-inch cannonball and a smaller 3-inch shell, Chief Andrew Gilreath with the Folly Beach Department of Public Safety told CNN.
Usually I sat by the piano, with Johnny Costa, a well-known jazz musician at the time, admired by greats like Duke Ellington and Cannonball Adderley.
The concept of using electric vehicles for coast-to-coast "Cannonball Runs" is fairly new, and only started gaining popularity when the charging infrastructure started to mature.
"Cannonball," an exploration of longing, became a collaboration with Fantastic Negrito, a blues singer who so excited Ward she called him up to guest on her track.
Whether you're watching a tear-jerker, hitting the gym, or heading to a pool party, Urban Decay's Cannonball Ultra Waterproof Mascara will be your new best friend.
It's kind of like the plot of "Cannonball Run," except that these people are old, they drive very slowly, and some of them just might die tonight.
By September, more than 300 tribes — including my tribe, the Ojibwe — were physically represented at the protest camp, at the confluence of the Cannonball and Missouri Rivers.
The Long Island Rail Road's Cannonball service to Montauk begins on Friday, and new timetables and extra service for other nearby beach locales have just been announced.
Bonus: These suits won't shift when you're splashing around, so you don't have to hold onto your bottom when you finally execute that cannonball you've been plotting.
As with so many things involving Trump, the president's cannonball into the middle of a relatively contained pool of player protest set off waves in all directions.
The human cannonball dispute was this kind of case, and Vanna White once sued Samsung for an ad featuring a blond, begowned robot flipping over giant letters.
The added challenge of driving an electric car, and the time it takes to recharge the vehicle's battery, is also appealing to many would-be Cannonball Runners.
After the lesson, Kiara padded over to her mother and declared her love for throwing herself into the water with that tried and true method, the cannonball.
If you've ever wanted to see "The Cannonball Run" — surprisingly unavailable on streaming services — on a print with Dutch subtitles, the Drafthouse has you covered on Monday.
Soon after his arrival, he ran into the alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, who was on his way to becoming one of the country's most popular jazz musicians.
And the fact that we are both in a branch of show business — he was in reality TV. A human cannonball was in show business, you know?
Dr. Harris has worked or played with everyone from Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins to Sonny Stitt; he played with Cannonball Adderley, Dexter Gordon and Yusef Lateef.
Native Americans and their allies have established three new camps south of the Cannonball River in recent days, Iron Eyes told reporters during a conference call on Monday.
With that feat, Bolian became the reigning king of the so-called "Cannonball Run," in which a driver barrels from New York to Los Angeles at maximum speeds.
The Army Corps of Engineers announced this month it would clear tents and teepees from federal land it manages near the Cannonball River, citing concerns about impending flooding.
He acted in dozens of movies as well, including "Cannonball Run II" (1984), "Look Who's Talking" (1989), "Joe Versus the Volcano" (1990), "Sugar Hill" (1993) and "Underworld" (1996).
While the cannonball thrashing had little impact on the bot's stability, knocking the whole thing over with a forklift produced less than desirable results for a prospective pilot.
WATERLOO, Belgium (Reuters) - A cannonball discovered this week by archaeologists provides a further indication of how close Napoleon Bonaparte came to winning the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Yet again, Texas disappoints us: Texas made a cannonball-sized splash when Governor Greg Abbott declared war on sanctuary cities and by extension both undocumented immigrants and police.
Mr. Nabors played supporting roles in three movies starring his friend Burt Reynolds: "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" (1982), "Stroker Ace" (1983) and "Cannonball Run II" (19903).
Struck with bluesy warmth and the relentless swing of Cannonball Adderley, Birckhead's playing has lately established him as one of the most riveting young improvisers in New York.
His mix of nuanced syncopation and raw power helped define some quintessential hard-bop groups of the 1960s, led by figures such as Cannonball Adderley and Oscar Peterson.
Five people were arrested on Tuesday afternoon for trespassing after crossing the Cannonball River onto Army Corps land, the Morton County Sheriff's Department said in a statement on Wednesday.
The smallest is Manu Li, a Phife Dawg-sized and Phife Dawg-attitudinal non-athlete, an onstage cannonball whose pitched-up rapping is in equal turns ribald and thoughtful.
While Galileo's law prescribes that the trajectory of a projectile like a cannonball follows a parabolic path, the true path deviates from a parabola, mostly because of air resistance.
As long as summer is still the time of the quiet campfire as well as of the cannonball splash, the intimate realm of chamber music will retain its appeal.
John W. Henderson, said the emergency services and facilities needed to protect demonstrators camped north of the Cannonball River during the harsh North Dakota winters could not be provided.
In industrial pockets of Brooklyn, the same kind of scene thrives, throwing pop-up parties in places like the shells of an ancient cannonball factory or an abandoned hospital.
As the temperatures spike and mosquitoes descend, outdoorsy types — even those who haven't canoed or performed a running cannonball in decades — think back to halcyon summers at overnight camp.
In 2008, a Virginia man was killed after a Civil War-era cannonball he was restoring exploded in his driveway, sending shrapnel through a neighbor's porch a quarter-mile away.
And of course, Homer has been no stranger to truly odd jobs — a local moonshine taste tester ($20,000), a cannonball performance artist ($22,000), and a walking billboard ($24,000) among them.
The 3 kilogram (6-pound), rusty cannonball was found on Monday near the site of a field hospital about 600 meters behind Anglo-Allied lines on the battlefield in Belgium.
The team found the cannonball while excavating the site of a field hospital, where they found unexpected evidence of heavy fighting in the area and some human remains from amputations.
The next LEGO movie is The LEGO Ninjago, with a straight LEGO Movie sequel and then a Cannonball Run homage after that, not to mention countless straight-to-video movies.
The Thai Tea (Belvedere vodka, Thai tea, orange bitters) is refreshing and strong, but the Rum Cannonball (Bacardi, pineapple, grenadine) has the toothachy sweetness of an alcohol-soaked Jolly Rancher.
In this new ESA video, Tim Peake and fellow ISS astronaut Tim Kopra, conduct a neat space-based experiment in which Peake is spun around and around in a cannonball.
We are a peaceful people and our tribal council is committed to nonviolence; it is our constitutional right to express our views and take this stand at the Cannonball camp.
She also tackles the internal barriers, the "fear and otherness" that hold so many back, that keep marginalized people toe-dipping in the system while the privileged cannonball straight in.
Mr. Chow pursued films in Hollywood in the 1980s, and Golden Harvest produced several American box-office hits, including "The Cannonball Run," with an ensemble cast that included Burt Reynolds.
The concept of using electric vehicles for coast-to-coast "Cannonball Run" speed trials is fairly new, and only started gaining popularity when the EV charging infrastructure started to mature.
If all goes to plan, the above scenario—a cannonball into a bottomless pool of global soccer history—will be reality by the time Euro 2016 kicks off in June.
"As I learned more and more about the history of Cannonball, I saw how all the things that seemed broken or different about me might actually be an advantage," Bolian said.
Moore was also known for his starring role in The Cannonball Run as well as the popular television series The Saint, in which he played the charmingly roguish criminal Simon Templar.
LOOOK, WE'VE HAD VERY, VERY EASY MONETARY – I SEE THE CANNONBALL EXPRESS IS COMING BY. FABER: YES, THERE'S SOMETHING IN OUR ROOM THAT READS A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY OF THIS.
London five-piece Pumarosa—who are truly loved by all—have put together a video for their emotional cannonball of a song "Honey" and it requires every ounce of your attention.
The Army Corps sent a letter to the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe on Friday, saying all lands north of the Cannonball River would be closed on Dec. 5.
There are smaller camps on land not subject to the planned restrictions, including an area south of the Cannonball River where the Corps said it was establishing a free-speech zone.
It's mostly for cruising and relaxing, but if you want to blast down an onramp or cannonball down a country road it'll wake up and make you laugh for a moment.
All that remains of the battle are a few monuments and markers, as well as a British cannonball embedded in a post of the Keeler Tavern, now a local history museum.
The US Army Corps of Engineers has set a deadline for the group to leave their encampment north of the Cannonball River by the end of this weekend, Monday, December 5.
Formed by the Pixies bassist Kim Deal and best known for the 1993 noise-pop single "Cannonball," the Breeders returned in 2018 with "All Nerve," their first album in a decade.
And the fact that we were both in a branch of show business – I mean, you know, he was in reality TV. A human cannonball was in show business, you know?
It costs just under $3,000, so while you still have to be pretty rich to buy one, at least you won't ruin your camera when you cannonball into the pool with it.
The other magical mascaras Urban Decay's brought us include the Cannonball Mascara, dubbed "the mascara for all mermaids (we have really tested them in the sea!)," and the super voluminous Big Fatty.
Check out the forthcoming documentary APEX, which takes you inside the history of the Cannonball Run, the secret, illegal race to get across the country as fast as possible in a car.
The visitor peers in through the hat's crown to see themselves reflected in a mirrored cannonball nestling in the barrel of a mortar—thus becoming part of the artist's meditation on gun violence.
On the back of their hyperactive single, "Cannonball," Last Splash sold more than one million copies alone in the US in its first year, and another million or so elsewhere in the world.
"When I get to the 'number of drinks' question at the doctor's office, I skip to the next line," Yoav Gilat, a founder and owner of Cannonball Wine Company, in Napa, told me.
Thankfully, behind the delicate phrase on the cover of "A Long Way From Home" is a propulsive account of an Australian road race, a "Cannonball Run" with sociopolitical commentary lashed to the bumper.
The Autopilot user interface could have been better, said a reviewer at The Drive, who drove the car across the entire U.S. in an "electric cannonball run" that ran just over 50 hours.
They seem more like an arboretum than anything else, and I admired mazelike java fig trees, a towering smooth-barked kauri and a fascinating cannonball tree, which holds dozens of large, spherical fruits.
The bill "amounts to launching a cannonball into the insurance pool and then claiming it won't cause a splash or make anyone wet," John Graves, a health policy professor at Vanderbilt University, told me.
Melissa Wiggins is the founder and executive director of Cannonball Kids' cancer, a nonprofit foundation established in 2015 with the focus of funding innovative and accessible research for pediatric cancer and educating for change.
It feels significant, then, that the waters Vizl photographs often look depopulated, like an empty soundstage across which his subjects are wandering — a thresher shark, a school of striped Bengal snappers, a cannonball jellyfish.
In early April, a handful, joined by a few former Keystone activists, moved into tepees in a protected ravine beside the Cannonball River, on the extreme north end of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
He also appeared in movies, including "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" and "Cannonball Run II." He also was an accomplished singer, who recorded dozens of albums and scored 5 gold and 1 platinum records.
Protesters fighting pipeline construction must vacate property near the Cannonball River in North Dakota -- the location of a large campsite for demonstrators -- by December 5 or face arrest, the Army Corps of Engineers said Friday.
Hundreds of protesters from Standing Rock and other tribes have set up camp for months in protest a few miles away from where Thursday's confrontation occurred, close to where the Missouri and Cannonball rivers meet.
MYSTERIOUS SHIPWRECK DISCOVERED IN GREAT LAKES BELIEVED TO BE NEARLY 200 YEARS OLD Also in 2017, archaeologists in Japan found a cannonball that could lead to the sunken remains of a treasure-laden Spanish galleon.
In short order, construction on the section of the Dakota Access Pipeline crossing the Cannonball River will be complete, desecrating the ancestral lands of the Lakota Sioux who call that corner of North Dakota home.
Op-Ed Contributor Near Cannon Ball, N.D. — It is a spectacular sight: thousands of Indians camped on the banks of the Cannonball River, on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota.
In short order, construction on the section of the Dakota Access Pipeline crossing the Cannonball River will be complete, desecrating the ancestral lands of the Lakota Sioux who call that corner of North Dakota home.
When Cannonball ran sixth in the Group 1 King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot in 2009, he brought him back on four days of rest to place second in the Group 1 Golden Jubilee Stakes.
The sanctuary is next to a larger, privately owned property that includes a bed-and-breakfast in a historic building dating to 1760 when this area was known as Speedwell and included a cannonball forge.
I'm blindly following a man named Llacko into the Amazonian jungle: Stray branches sway and scratch my back, bats zip past my ears in loud swooshes, and cannonball fruits crack like fireworks into thin air.
Master of a prose style that qualifies him as perhaps the last of the great 19th-century authors, he has written about oddities like cannonball catchers, poker-playing pigs, performing fleas and people who tame bees.
KELLY is a reactivated "Brilliant Pebble," a remnant of Star Wars, containing a single tungsten cannonball that falls to earth under its own gravity, generating the kinetic energy of a nuclear explosion on the way down.
In 1984, Mr. Yates started the Cannonball One Lap of America, which has since become the Tire Rack One Lap of America, a grueling loop around the country interspersed with time trials and other racetrack competitions.
In 1783, the Continental Congress briefly met in Nassau Hall, in the same room where campus lore holds that a cannonball (fired by Alexander Hamilton, no less) decapitated a portrait of George III six years earlier.
Plus, political reporter Stephanie Murray joins from Boston to discuss the oddly expanding Democratic primary field, with Michael Bloomberg dipping his toes in the water and Deval Patrick going for a full cannonball into New Hampshire.
The 26-year-old activist is one of thousands of people who have spent much of the past year being part of the Standing Rock resistance, protesting and praying near the pipeline site by the Cannonball River.
Earlier this month, he and a friend set the record for fastest transcontinental drive in an electric car: a "cannonball run" from California to New York in a Tesla Model S in 23 hours and 47 minutes.
"I told them that ... a significant portion of the country wanted someone to do a cannonball into the pool and mess up the status quo," said Farley, who advises Wall Street brokerages on regulation and arbitration issues.
The three unidentified people were accused of cutting security wire, removing fencing material and dismantled lights that are used to illuminate a bridge near the confluence of the Cannonball River and the Missouri River, the sheriff said.
That being said, there have surely been outbreaks of Crypto and other waterborne outbreaks caused by older swimmers who should know better than to cannonball into a pool when they're still trying to keep their shit together.
Start building after next year's draft, with whatever new rookies are on hand, and then cannonball into a free-agent pool that could include Westbrook, Curry, Blake Griffin, Chris Paul, Gordon Hayward, Ibaka, and Durant, among others.
Consider "Cabinet" (2006-7), from its "Robber Baron" series, a sculpture of an 18th-century French armoire made of polished, patinated and gilded bronze with a black hole through it, suggesting the explosive path of a cannonball.
Hart, a stellar alto saxophonist who burst onto the New York scene alongside Roy Hargrove in the early 1990s as part of the Young Lions generation, has always worn his debt to Cannonball Adderley on his cuffs.
All the hallmarks of a liberated Russ outing were there: the human-cannonball drives and atmosphere-singeing crosscourt passes, the stretches where his jumpers hit the front of the rim and his dishes landed in courtside seats.
Inspired by Roy and his exploits, Connor said he saw the Cannonball Run as an opportunity to make his mark, as well as promote his business, Out of Spec, which helps car enthusiasts transition to electric vehicles.
According to the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame, the 7,500-acre ranch is at the confluence of the Cannonball and Missouri rivers, just north of the town of Cannon Ball and about 40 miles south of Bismarck.
At max dynamic air pressure, where the force on the rocket is the greatest, we're a bit worried about ice falling from the upper stage onto the boosters and it would kind of cannonball through the nose cone.
" The race's outlaw appeal endured, and Mr. Yates capitalized on it when Hal Needham, the director of the car-oriented Burt Reynolds film "Smokey and the Bandit," asked him to write the script that became "The Cannonball Run.
Roger Cohen Napoleon is said to have remarked that if only a cannonball had hit him when he was riding into Moscow in 1812, he would have gone down in history as the greatest man who ever lived.
His leg blown apart by a cannonball or shrapnel, Lt. Wilkeson was taken nearby to a community poor house serving as an ad hoc Union medical center, but the surgeons retreated from the site under the Confederate advance.
But he ultimately, disappointingly, backs off, and the "Cannonball Run"-style end-credit bloopers effectively defang whatever celebrity satire the franchise achieves — a winking assurance that everyone is in on the joke, and it's all in good fun.
"Cannonball technology is actually very good technology, because you're intercepting the object at very high speed, so it ends up being more effective than conventional high explosives," Plesko said at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December.
Just as they cross the 493-yard line, Lynch shoves Sharper off him with his right-hand, delivering a devastating stiff-arm that makes it look more like the defender was hit with a cannonball than any human limb.
Other new summer Blizzard flavors include Caramel Cannonball, a blend of caramel-coated truffles and crunchy toffee pieces, and Cotton Candy, which comes with pink and blue cotton candy sprinkles layered in and on top of the ice cream.
I keep expecting him to boom onto the bed with me in the middle of the night, and now I hate sleeping uninterrupted till morning because there's no 90-pound body to cannonball off the mattress at 3 am.
The discovery of a six pound French cannonball in the area also suggests that Napoleon was able to bring the French artillery close enough to the front lines late in the day of battle to punish the Allied forces.
"Beneath her wrinkly exterior lies a complexity not often found in such a young cheese," reads Capriole's description of the Wabash Cannonball, a popular, prizewinning cheese named for the folk song about a fictional train sung by Johnny Cash.
He recalls once chatting idly with the wife of the Human Cannonball when she dropped into the conversation that her husband was going to dial up the act by lighting himself on fire before being fired from the cannon.
New Mutants began as an 80s spin of the original team, and much of the names are the same here like Magick (Anya Taylor-Joy), Wolfsbane (Maisie Williams), Mirage (Blu Hunt), and Cannonball (Charlie Heaton), but with a horror spin.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the federal land where the main camp protesting the Dakota Access pipeline is located, said last week it would close public access to the area north of the Cannonball River on Dec.
As a hip young lawyer in Los Angeles in the 21927s and '19763s he represented a colorful list of clients that included the comedian Lenny Bruce, the jazz musicians Miles Davis and Cannonball Adderley, and emerging pop stars like Johnny Rivers.
Brock Yates, an automotive journalist who founded an anarchic, cross-country road race in the 2175s, then fictionalized it in the script for the 21972 Burt Reynolds film "The Cannonball Run," died on Wednesday in Batavia, N.Y. He was 21991.
Ultimately, he wore her down, and on July 12th, the two set out with their daughter Robin — who had just received her driver's license — from the Red Ball Garage in New York City, the traditional starting point for Cannonball Runs.
A proud apostle of the midcentury jazz culture that raised him, the 88-year-old Mr. Harris still leads a weekly bebop workshop, passing on lessons that came to him in the bands of Cannonball Adderley, Max Roach and Coleman Hawkins.
Sock has been a breath of fresh air, treating the crowds to trick shots as well as his cannonball forehand and his semi-final against fellow first-time qualifier Grigor Dimitrov on Saturday promises to be a feast of spectacular tennis.
As a white driver, Frank Vallelonga, known as Tony Lip, and his black employer, the composer and musician Don Shirley, in the 1962 South, they have genuine chemistry that plays like a Miles Davis solo with a Cannonball Adderley accompaniment.
Archambault said Saturday that he doesn't believe the Corps will forcibly evict people from the camp, adding that the tribe is working to provide protesters protection from the elements on its reservation, which is south of the Cannonball River, but offered few details.
The rest of the New Mutants team includes Dani Moonstar, a Cheyenne girl who can cast illusions; Sunspot, a Brazilian boy who can channel solar power; Cannonball, a Kentuckian guy who can propel himself like a jet; and Warlock, a shapeshifting alien.
The Associated Press reported last week that the Army Corps sent a letter to the tribe saying it would close all lands north of the Cannonball River, which would include part of the area where protestors have set up, on Dec. 5.
It's not like every movie was good then — this is the same decade that gave us sequels like Cannonball Run II and Staying Alive — but what you will find is summer after summer of films that, good or bad, largely remain cultural touchstones.
An obituary on Sunday about Brock Yates, who founded a cross-country road race and then fictionalized it in the script for the movie "The Cannonball Run," misstated, at one point, the given name of the actor who starred in that movie.
There was a fight, of course, between Kim Deal, the songwriter, singer and guitarist who co-founded the band, and the drummer, Jim Macpherson, sometime after Lollapalooza in 1994 — the year after the song "Cannonball" cemented their status as alt-rock heroes.
Dual Function Perfect for triathletes, "Chariots of Fire" re-enactors or anyone who feels like diving into a lake after a long jog, the water-repellent Run Cannonball Run shorts by the New England brand Tracksmith work equally well for running or swimming.
Regarding Trump, his doctor looks like the one hired by Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise in Cannonball Run to help their ambulance race across the country to win the coast-the-coast contest for $1 million dollars (a big deal at the time).
Across two days in Los Angeles the week of his album release, DaBaby, who is compact like a cannonball, with an alpha manner and deep dimples, only ever seemed professional and locked-in, fully aware that stardom was his for the securing.
"There's a reason that people spend insane amounts of money buying tiny armies, assembling and painting them, only for them to get flattened by an imaginary cannonball and removed from the field in the first five minutes of a battle," Smith explains.
Mr Murray's conqueror, Mischa Zverev, is one of the few active players to rely heavily on the serve-and-volley tactic, and Coco Vandeweghe, the American who eliminated Ms Kerber, has used a cannonball serve to record her only career titles on speedy grass courts.
When you're a kid doing a cannonball into the deep end on a blazing hot July day, the last thing on your mind is whether the chemical used to keep germs at bay may also be doing serious damage to your skin and hair.
"It looks like somebody threw a cannonball through it," says Sydney Vail, a trauma surgeon in Phoenix, Arizona, who helped care for Jaime after he arrived by ambulance, his heart having been shocked several times along the way as paramedics struggled to stabilise its rhythm.
Traffic would be allowed on Highway 1806 from Fort Rice, south of Mandan in the state's southwest, to the Cannonball Bridge near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation starting at noon, the Morton County Sheriff's Department and North Dakota Highway Patrol said in a statement.
Tillis also had something of an acting career, with small roles in a number of films such as "The Cannonball Run" and "Smokey and the Bandit II." He also made a TV appearance in an episode of "The Dukes of Hazzard" in the late '70s.
Eventually a friend of a friend put them in touch with Mr. MacDermot, a pianist who had won two Grammys for the 1961 instrumental piece "African Waltz" (best original jazz composition and best instrumental theme or instrumental version of a song), recorded by Cannonball Adderly.
A National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, Cobb is the last living member of the sextet that made Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue," and he has recorded hundreds of albums with other eminent jazz figures: Cannonball Adderley, Sarah Vaughan, John Coltrane and more.
It was a shot across the bow, and the snowboarder Billy Morgan played the part of cannonball, wearing all black while tucking and somersaulting through the air more than 100 feet from a specially constructed jump made of snow at a resort in Livigno, Italy.
Nick Kyrgios (Australia) World ranking: 51 Born: April 27, 1995 (Age 23) Grand Slam titles: 0 Career ATP titles: 4 Best Australian Open performance: Quarter-finals (2015) Biggest weapon: Cannonball serves that can blow opponents away and incredible athletic ability that makes him solid on both wings.
A CHRISTMAS RETURN (Ballantine, $20), the 15th entry in this Victorian series, features Mariah Ellison, an elderly termagant who has resigned herself to spending yet another Christmas alone when the unexpected gift of an ornamental cannonball shocks her into revisiting an unsolved 20-year-old crime.
Back in the States for a family vacation with the car a year later, Thomsen thought it would be fun to try to beat the most recent EV Cannonball Run record of 50 hours and 16 minutes, set by Alex Roy and Dan Zorrilla in 33.
For five weeks' work on another car-chase picture, "The Cannonball Run" (20103) — directed, as were the first two "Smokey" movies, by Mr. Reynolds's friend Hal Needham, a former stuntman — he was paid $22010 million (the equivalent of about $22015 million in 240 dollars), a record at the time.
A nimble pianist with a gentle but bracing touch, Mr. Willis has followed a winding career path: He accompanied Jackie McLean, Dizzy Gillespie and Cannonball Adderley; played for seven years in the rock fusion group Blood Sweat & Tears; and worked in the seminal Latin jazz Fort Apache Band.
On the trumpeter Sean Jones's busied-up reworking of "So What," the alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón took a solo that referred to Cannonball Adderley — the influential alto saxophonist who played on Davis's seminal recording of that tune, from "Kind of Blue" — but stayed loyal to Mr. Zenón's own sound.
Back in the 1970s and 1980s it became an aspirational icon (or symbol of decadent excess), showing up in movies from "Cannonball Run" to "Rain Man" and on posters that adorned nearly as many teenage boys' walls as the one of Farrah Fawcett in her red bathing suit.
He grew up Greek Orthodox and spent many years as a Baptist, though he's quick to chuckle about his delinquent days "smoking pot and sleeping in the van" in Key West and racing his Pontiac Trans Am in the cross-country Cannonball Run made famous in the Burt Reynolds film.
Original story reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent division of the Simons Foundation whose mission is to enhance public understanding of science by covering research developments and trends in mathematics and the physical and life sciences Now do the same experiment again, but replace the cannonball with a pigeon.
Proponents of the bills say they are commonsense measures to ensure public safety after the high-profile protests against the Dakota Access pipeline near Cannonball, North Dakota, and against the police shootings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and of Jamar Clark and Philando Castile in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota, area.
Be it a sea lion sunbathing under the water's surface, or the silhouette of a spotted eagle ray seen from below, two giant mantas touching the tips of each other's wings or the cannonball jellyfish near the surface with the sun on its back, Vizl's photographs are beautiful, sensitive, and visually stunning.
His great quintets—which made stars of now-legendary musicians John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and Tony Williams just to name a few—recorded albums that are definitive for almost every major subgenre of jazz at the time, including hard bop, post-bop, modal jazz, and fusion.
For mornings when nothing but a cannonball dive into sugar will do, Kopitiam is ready with a sculptural pile of thick-cut French toast battered with Milo malt-chocolate powder, a Malaysian passion, with streams of sweetened condensed milk playing the part that in this country is normally taken by maple syrup.
During his tenure as James Bond, Mr. Moore played almost a score of unrelated acting roles, most notably in "The Cannonball Run" (1981), the car-race comedy with Burt Reynolds, and the television movie "Sherlock Holmes in New York" (1976), in which he starred as Holmes and John Huston played Professor Moriarty.
Reynolds was also the owner of the USFL Tampa Bay Bandits and had a promo car for the team which is also up for auction — a 1984 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am. A 1987 Chevrolet R30 Pickup, a recreation of the car he drove in the 1981 film Cannonball Run, will also be auctioned off.
There weren't enough hours to watch all the TV I wanted, even if it was a fifth viewing of "Cannonball Run II" or "National Lampoon's European Vacation," which I'd watch while gnawing the pretzel casings away from Combos Baked Snacks to extract the wads of pizza-flavored cheese and mash them into one big ball.
If that weren't enough, the company also dropped two new Blizzards on its summer menu: the Brownie Dough Blizzard (with brownie dough, coco chunks, and cocoa fudge) and the Caramel Cannonball Blizzard (caramel coated caramel truffles, toffee pieces, and caramel topping.) The additions comes as the company has also rolled out a more savory offering: Chicken and Waffle Baskets.
Standing Rock Sioux tribal leader Dave Archambault and other protest organizers confidently explained that they'll stay at the Oceti Sakowin camp and continue with nonviolent protests a day after Archambault received a letter from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that said all federal lands north of the Cannonball River will be closed to public access Dec.
Initiated by LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, a preservation officer with the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, it took place first on Allard's land on the banks of the Cannonball River in North Dakota, but soon spread to other camps as hundreds and eventually thousands of "water protectors" (a term coined by activist Dallas Goldtooth) joined the movement.
You may know him as Burt Reynolds' sidekick in such notable films as The Cannonball Run (both I and II) and Smokey and the Bandit II, or as the voice of Itchy Itchiford in All Dogs Go To Heaven (what a tearjerker that was, amiright?), or from one of many Mel Brooks' films like Spaceballs or Blazing Saddles.

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