In baseball, hit by pitch (HBP) is an event in which a batter or his clothing or equipment (other than his bat) is struck directly by a pitch from the pitcher; the batter is called a hit batsman (HB). A hit batsman is awarded first base, provided that (in the plate umpire's judgment) he made an honest effort to avoid the pitch, although failure to do so is rarely called by an umpire. Being hit by a pitch is often caused by a batter standing too close to, or "crowding", home plate.The rule dates from 1887; before that, a pitch that struck the batter was merely a ball. == Official rule == P...

Onigiri (お握り or 御握り), also known as omusubi (お結び), nigirimeshi (握り飯), or rice ball, is a Japanese food made from white rice formed into triangular or cylindrical shapes and often wrapped in nori. Traditionally, an onigiri is filled with pickled ume (umeboshi), salted salmon, katsuobushi, kombu, tarako, mentaiko, takanazuke (pickled takana, Japanese giant red mustard greens) or any other salty or sour ingredient as a natural preservative. Because it is easily portable and eaten by hand, onigiri has been used as portable food or bento from ancient times to the present day. Originally, it was used...

The Yayoi period (弥生時代, Yayoi jidai) started in the late Neolithic period in Japan, continued through the Bronze Age, and towards its end crossed into the Iron Age.Since the 1980s, scholars have argued that a period previously classified as a transition from the Jōmon period should be reclassified as Early Yayoi. The date of the beginning of this transition is controversial, with estimates ranging from the 10th to the 3rd centuries BC.The period is named after the neighbourhood of Tokyo where archaeologists first uncovered artifacts and features from that era in the late 19th century. Distinguishing...

A controlled-release fertiliser (CRF) is a granulated fertiliser that releases nutrients gradually into the soil (i.e., with a controlled release period). Controlled-release fertilizer is also known as controlled-availability fertilizer, delayed-release fertilizer, metered-release fertilizer, or slow-acting fertilizer. Usually CRF refers to nitrogen-based fertilizers. Slow- and controlled-release involve only 0.15% (562,000 tons) of the fertilizer market (1995). == History == Controlled-nitrogen-release technologies based on polymers derived from combining urea and formaldehyde were first produced...

== English == === Etymology === Treading shoe-leather refers to walking, in the sense of “walking on this earth”. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əz ɛvə ˈtɹɒd ˈʃuːˌlɛðə/ (General American) IPA(key): /əz ɛvɚ ˈtɹɑd ˈʃuːˌlɛðɚ/ Hyphenation: as ever trod shoe-lea‧ther === Phrase === as ever trod shoe-leather (idiomatic, archaic) As ever existed or lived. ==== Alternative forms ==== as ever trod shoe leather ==== Related terms ==== shoe-leather tread the boards ==== Translations ==== === See also === that ever walked on two legs

Bomber is a novel by Len Deighton that was published in the United Kingdom in 1970. It is the fictionalised account of "the events relating to the last flight of an RAF Bomber over Germany on the night of June 31st, 1943", a deliberately non-existent date, in which an RAF bombing raid on the Ruhr area of western Germany goes wrong. In each chapter, the plot is advanced by seeing the progress of the day through the eyes of protagonists on both sides of the conflict. Bomber was the first novel to be written on a word processor, the IBM MT/ST. == Plot summary == Sam Lambert is an experienced...

Sault Ste. Marie ( SOO-saynt-mə-REE) is a city in Ontario, Canada. The third-largest city in Northern Ontario after Sudbury and Thunder Bay, it is located on the St. Mary's River on the Canada–US border. To the southwest, across the river, is the United States and the Michigan city of the same name. The two cities are joined by the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge, which connects Interstate 75 on the Michigan side to Huron Street on the Ontario side. Shipping traffic in the Great Lakes system bypasses the Saint Mary's Rapids via the American Soo Locks, the world's busiest canal in terms of...

Adjective: bisdrucciolo (feminine bisdrucciola, masculine plural bisdruccioli, feminine plural bisdrucciole)

1. (linguistics) having the stress on the fourth from last syllable (of a word)

Adjective: trisdrucciolo (feminine trisdrucciola, masculine plural trisdruccioli, feminine plural trisdrucciole)

1. (grammar, linguistics) having the stress on the fifth-to-last syllable (of a word)

Spring Snow (春の雪, Haru no Yuki) is a novel by Yukio Mishima, the first in his Sea of Fertility tetralogy. It was published serially in Shinchō from 1965 to 1967, and then in book form in 1969. Mishima did extensive research, including visits to Enshō-ji in Nara, to prepare for the novel. == Plot == The novel is set in the early years of the Taishō period with the reign of the Emperor Taishō, and is about the relationship between Kiyoaki Matsugae, the son of a rising up and coming rich family, and Satoko Ayakura, the daughter of an aristocratic family fallen on hard times. Shigekuni Honda,...