File 2010 04 07 PurbeckBallClay Mine.jpg thumb right A PurbeckBallClay Quarry PurbeckBallClay is a concentration of ballclay found on the Isle of Purbeck in the England English county of Dorset . Geology The main concentration of ballclay in Dorset is to the north of the Purbeck Hills centred around Norden. Ball clays are sedimentary in origin. Approximately 45 million years ago in the Lutetian ... ballclay was dispatched by rail. ref name trop Approximately 80 of the ballclay extracted has been exported. The ballclay is processed today at the Furzebrook plant of Imerys . It is said that a third of all fine pottery ever produced in England contains PurbeckBallClay. Citation needed date August 2008 Usage Ball clays are used in making everyday articles including wall and floor tiles, wash ... from upland areas they mixed with other clay minerals, sands, gravels, and vegetation before settling in low lying basins to form overlaying seams of ballclay. Ball clays usually contain three dominant ... minerals and some carbonaceous material derived from ancient plants present. Exploitation PurbeckBallClay has been used for thousands of years, but large scale commercial extraction began in the middle ... cables, pale coloured bricks, and clay drainage pipes windscreen wipers, spark plugs, and engine mountings hoses and fertilisers pharmaceutical and polymers and many others kiln furniture BallClay ... BallClay ... Corfe Castle, Dorset Corfe Castle and Wareham, Dorset Wareham . Originally the clay was taken by pack ... . ref name trop cite book title The Railways of Purbeck publisher The Oakwood Press last Kidner first ... Plateway , which connected clay workings owned by the London Merchant Benjamin Fayle ... sanitation would have been impossible, Without Ball Clays to bind refractory materials, a whole host of metallurigical and engineering processes could not be carried out. Without powdered clay ... more details
for 1400 tons a year of ballclay with Thomas Hyde of Purbeck, enabling him to fire thinner walled ceramics. ref name purb cite web title History of BallClay Swanage Railway publisher The Purbeck ... Abbot Ballclay and the Stover Canal Ballclay and the Stover Canal PurbeckBallClay Notes and references Reflist Pottery Category Pottery Category Geology of Devon fr Ballclay es Arcilla de bola ...Ball clays are kaolinite kaolinitic sedimentary clay s, that commonly consist of 20 80 kaolinite , 10 25 mica , 6 65 quartz . Localized seam geology seam s in the same deposit have variations in composition, including the quantity of the major mineral s, accessory minerals and carbonaceous materials such as lignite . ref name ima They are fine grained and plastic in nature. Ball clays are relatively scarce deposits due to the combination of geological factors needed for their formation and preservation. They are mining mine d in parts of the Eastern United States and from three sites ref The Bovey Beds Bovey Basin in South Devon, the Petrockstowe Basin in North Devon and the Wareham Basin in South Dorset. ref in Devon and Dorset in South West England . ref name bgs cite web last Highley first David authorlink coauthors Bloodworth, Andrew Bate, Richard title BallClay Mineral Planning Factsheet ... stability during the shaping processes. History The name ballclay is believed to derive from the time when the clay was mined by hand. It was cut into 15 to 17 kilogram cubes and during transport the corners of the cubes became rounded off leaving balls . ref name ima cite web title What is ballclay? publisher Industrial Minerals Association North America url http www.ima na.org ballclay accessdate 2008 08 05 ref The ceramic use of ball clays in Great Britain Britain dates back to at least the Roman Empire Roman era. More recent trade began when a clay was needed to construct Smoking pipe ... of BallClay work Introduction to Ball Clays publisher The BallClay Heritage Society url http www.clayheritage.org ... more details
Purbeck may refer to Isle of Purbeck , a peninsula in the English county of Dorset Purbeck District , a local government district in the English county of Dorset Purbeck Hills , a range of hills in the English county of Dorset Purbeck Marble , a stone found on the Isle of PurbeckPurbeckBallClay , a ballclay found on the Isle of Purbeck disambig nl Purbeck ... more details
, Swyre Head Tyneham Worbarrow Tout , Wareham Forest , Winspit , Wytch Farm See also Purbeck Marble PurbeckBallClay External links http www.nci st albans.org.uk National Coastwatch Institution St ... Grid OS grid reference Elements unique to this article official name Purbeck District image skyline imagesize image alt image caption image shield shield size shield alt shield link image map Purbeck UK locator map.svg mapsize 150px map alt map caption Purbeck shown within Dorset subdivision name2 South ... 1 April 1974 governing body Purbeck District Council leader party EnglishDistrictControl ONS 19UG ... SY9223587441 website URL http www.dorsetforyou.com Purbeck is a Non metropolitan district local government district in Dorset , England . The district is named after the Isle of Purbeck , a peninsula ... further north and west than the traditional boundary of the Isle of Purbeck along the River Frome, Dorset ... 1974, from the former municipal borough of Wareham, Swanage urban district and Wareham and Purbeck ..., Purbeck, Dorset Kingston , Kimmeridge Langton Matravers , Lytchett Matravers , Lytchett Minster ... Castle , Lulworth Cove Kimmeridge Nine Barrow Down Old Harry Rocks Poole Harbour , Purbeck Heritage ... and Roger Holman http www.purbeckmuseums.co.uk Links to all the Museums on the Isle of Purbeck Dorset ... in Dorset Category Purbeck Category Non metropolitan districts of Dorset Category Local government districts of South West England bg de Purbeck es Purbeck distrito fr Purbeck it Purbeck nl Purbeck district no Purbeck pl Purbeck dystrykt ro Purbeck sv Purbeck ... more details
by horse drawn tramways. With the coming of the railway from Wareham to Swanage, most ballclay was dispatched by rail, often to the Potteries district of Staffordshire . Quarrying still takes place in Purbeck, with both PurbeckBallClay and limestone s being transported from the area by road. There are now no functioning quarries of Purbeck Marble . Wild flowers The Isle has the highest number of species ... of Purbeck , not a true island but a peninsula , is in the county of Dorset , England . It is bordered ... of Purbeck is a warren of our lord the King and pertains to his said castle, and it extends from ... book last Hyland first Paul authorlink Paul Hyland title Purbeck The Ingrained Island publisher ... of the Isle of Purbeck lies within the local government district of Purbeck district Purbeck , which ... boundary of the Isle of Purbeck along the River Frome. Geology see also Geology of Dorset The geology ... along the south. The northern part is Eocene clay Barton Beds , including significant deposits of PurbeckBallClay . Where the land rises to the sea there are several parallel strata of Jurassic rocks, including Portland stone Portland limestone and the Purbeck beds . The latter include Purbeck ... . A ridge of Cretaceous chalk runs along the peninsula creating the Purbeck Hills , part of the southern ... famous cathedral s are adorned with Purbeck marble, and much of London was rebuilt in Portland and Purbeck stone after the Great Fire of London . By contrast, the principal ballclay workings were in the area between Corfe Castle, Dorset Corfe Castle and Wareham, Dorset Wareham . Originally the clay .... ref name flowers cite book first Edward A. last Pratt title The Wild Flowers of The Isle of Purbeck ... in Purbeck. Nearly 50,000 flowering Raceme spikes were counted in 2009. Late April is the best time ... of Romano British sites have been discovered and studied on the Isle of Purbeck, including a villa at Bucknowle ... of places on the Jurassic Coast Notes reflist 2 External links commons Isle of Purbeck http www.soton.ac.uk ... more details
Infobox rockunit name Purbeck Group image caption type Group stratigraphy Group age Early Cretaceous prilithology mudstone otherlithology limestone , evaporite s namedfor Isle of Purbeck namedby region ... The Purbeck Group is an Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous lithostratigraphy lithostratigraphic ... the district known as the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset where the stratum strata are exposed in the cliffs west of Swanage . The Purbeck Group is famous for its fossils of reptiles and early mammals . This sequence of rocks has gone by various names in the past including amongst others the Purbeck Beds , Purbeck Formation and Purbeck Stone . ref Hopson et al. 2009 A stratigraphical framework for the Lower ... timescale . Outcrops The Purbeck Group outcrops follow the line of the Jurassic outcrop from Dorset, through the Vale of Wardour, Swindon , Garsington , Brill and Aylesbury . In East Sussex, the Purbeck ... near Burwash . Deposits of evaporite minerals such as gypsum and anhydrite , within the Purbeck Group ... by portions of the Speeton Clay . Lithology and stratigraphy The rocks predominantly comprise calcareous mudstones though also include clay s, shale s and marl s with marl y, tufaceous and shelly ... Sussex the Purbeck Group has a typical thickness of between 77m and 186m ref cite web title The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units Purbeck Group url http www.bgs.ac.uk lexicon lexicon.cfm?pub PB publisher The British Geological Survey accessdate 26 September 2010 ref . In most places the Purbeck ... was uplifted and worn away to some extent prior to the deposition of the Purbeck Group. Correlations In the past, many geologists have ranged the Purbeck Group with the overlying Lower Cretaceous Wealden ..., ally the Purbeck more closely with the Upper Jurassic rocks of other parts, and it may be regarded ... Purbeck Kalk , Serpulit and M nder Mergel . Subdivisions Modern The Purbeck Group in Dorset is now ... 6 ref . In East Sussex the Purbeck Group is formally subdivided into the Blues and Greys Limestones ... more details
Unsourced image removed Image Old Harry Rocks, Dorset aerial .jpg thumb The Purbeck Hills form a headland where they meet the sea at Old Harry Rocks Image Corfe Castle.jpg thumb Corfe Castle guards a gap in the ridgeway Image with unknown copyright status removed Image Lulworth Cove, Dorset Aerial .jpg thumb At Lulworth Cove the sea has broken through the limestone, eroded away the weak clays and exposed the chalk of the Purbeck Hills deletable image caption 1 Wednesday, 22 April 2009 Image Mupe Bay cliffs.jpg thumb Chalk cliffs, with cliff fall, at the eastern end of Bindon Hill The Purbeck Hills and South Dorset Downs are a broken ridge of chalk downland downs in Dorset , England . The hills extend from the Dorset Downs west of Dorchester, Dorset Dorchester , where the River Frome, Dorset River Frome begins to form a valley dividing them from the larger area of downland to the north. The ridge then runs east through the Isle of Purbeck to Old Harry Rocks where it meets the sea. The hills are part of a system of chalk downlands in southern England formed from the Chalk Group which also includes Salisbury Plain and the South Downs . For most of their length the chalk of the Purbeck Hills is protected from coast al erosion by a band of resistant Portland limestone . Where this band ends, at Durlston Head , the clay and chalk behind has been eroded, creating Poole Bay and the Solent . The ridge of steeply dipping chalk forming the Purbeck Hills would once have been continuous with that of the Isle of Wight to the east. The height of the chalk ridge and proximity to Poole Harbour and the south coast have made the hills of strategic importance. There are a number of Iron Age , Roman Britain Roman and Anglo Saxons Saxon archaeological sites, such as Nine Barrow Down . At Corfe ... Isle of Purbeck Geology of Dorset Jurassic Coast coord 50 38 N 2 07 W display title region GB type mountain source GNS enwiki Category Hills of Dorset Category Isle of Purbeck es South Dorset Downs ... more details
Purbeck Marble is a fossil iferous limestone quarry quarried in the Isle of Purbeck , a peninsula in south east Dorset , England. Image PurbeckFormationPortland.jpg thumb Purbeck Formation Jurassic , Isle of Portland , Dorset , England . The circular structure is a thrombolite around a tree trunk. It is one of many kinds of Purbeck Limestone , deposited in the late Jurassic or early Cretaceous periods. Purbeck Marble is not a metamorphic rock like a true marble , but like true marble it can take ... of the Purbeck Limestone Group, Durlston Bay, Swanage, Dorset , Proceedings of the Dorset Natural ... marine ingression s, mineral impurities give some Purbeck Marble fine red and green varieties. During the Romano British period, Purbeck Marble was used for inscriptions , architectural molding decorative .... ref Beavis, John 1971 , The use of Purbeck Marble in Roman Britain , Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society , 92 , 181 204. ref Purbeck Marble was also quarried in medieval ... panels and flooring. ref Leach, Rosemary 1978 , An investigation into the use of Purbeck marble ..., but a remarkable example is the church at Kingston, Purbeck, Dorset built in 1874 1880. ref http people.bath.ac.uk ... strata of Purbeck Limestone are being quarried at the present time 2008 , there are no active quarries in the Purbeck Marble. However Purbeck Marble is required from time to time for restoration work, and some was extracted in 1993. ref Haysom, Treleven 1998 , Extracting Purbeck Marble , Hatcher Review , 5 45 , 48 54. ref Purbeck Marble is used by a number of contemporary sculptors. Purbeck stone ... is found in the Purbeck Limestone. ref name Lockleyetal2008 Lockley, M. Harris, J.D. and Mitchell ... Society, including Museum of the Purbeck stone industry http www.pmmmg.org Purbeck Mineral & Mining Museum http www.palmyra.me.uk pur preface.html Roman Purbeck Stone http www.salisburycathedral.org.uk ... Category Isle of Purbeck de Purbeck Marmor simple Purbeck marble ... more details
Location map Canada Newfoundland and Labrador lat 49.7474 long 56.6471 width 200 caption Location of Purbeck s Cove in Newfoundland and Labrador label Purbeck s Cove Purbeck s Cove is a List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador . coord 49.747 N 56.647 W display title region CA type city source GNS enwiki Category Populated places in Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland geo stub ... more details
unreferenced date February 2012 Infobox UK school name The Purbeck School image size 220px latitude 50.68269 longitude 2.12316 dms motto motto pl established approx type Community School religion president head label head Richard Holman r head label r head deputy head label deputy head r deputy head label r deputy head chair label chair founder founder pl specialist Science specialist pl street Worgret Road city Wareham county Dorset country England postcode BH20 4PF LEA Dorset ofsted yes dcsfno urn 113855 staff enrollment 992 gender Mixed sex education Coeducational lower age 13 upper age 18 houses colours publication website http www.purbeck.dorset.sch.uk website name The Purbeck School is a mixed community TOE school in Wareham, Dorset Wareham in the central southern area of Dorset , England, near the Isle of Purbeck . The organisation of schools in the Purbeck area is based on a comprehensive three tier pyramid system. Children transfer at the age of 9 from fourteen First School s ages 5 to 9 to four Middle School s 9 to 13 . Most of them will then come to the Purbeck School 13 to 18 . The school is home to the Purbeck miniature railway . References Reflist External links Official http www.purbeck.dorset.sch.uk DEFAULTSORT Purbeck School Category Comprehensive schools in Dorset Dorset school stub ... more details
Viscount Purbeck was a title in the Peerage of England that was created on 19 July 1619, along with the title Baron Stoke , for John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck John Villiers , the brother of the George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham 1st Duke of Buckingham and the Christopher Villiers, 1st Earl of Anglesey 1st Earl of Anglesey . ref Rayment date February 2012 ref John Viliers wife Frances had an Infidelity affair with Robert Howard royalist Sir Robert Howard over a period of more than ten years. ref name odnb H. M. Chichester, Howard, Sir Robert 1584 5 1653 , rev. Sean Kelsey, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 http www.oxforddnb.com view article 13934, accessed 14 May 2010 ref The title became extinct upon his death on 18 February 1657 subsequent use was as a self styled title. Viscounts Purbeck 1619 John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck circa c. 1590 1657 References reflist Category Viscountcies Purbeck Category Extinct viscountcies Purbeck Category Villiers family ... more details
building, with an apse, central tower and narthex, built throughout of Purbeck stone. Its tower dominates ... Taylor & Co ., of Loughborough, in 1880. Inside the clustered pillars and other details are made of Purbeck ... to The Scott Arms. References references Gallery gallery Image Kingston purbeck church to church.jpg ... gallery BR External links Commons category inline Kingston, Purbeck, Dorset Kingston, Purbeck Category Isle of Purbeck Category Villages in Dorset de Kingston Dorset fr Kingston Dorset pl Kingston Purbeck ... more details
The Purbeck Monocline is a Fold geology geological fold . The term fold is used in geology when one or more originally flat sedimentary Stratum strata surfaces are bent or curved as a result of plastic i.e. permanent deformation. A monocline is a step like fold, in which one limb is roughly horizontal. The Purbeck Monocline was formed during the late Oligocene and early Miocene Geologic time scale epochs , about 30 million years ago. It is the northernmost ripple of Geological structure of Great Britain The Alpine Orogeny the Alpine Orogeny . The Purbeck Monocline gives rise to the prominent ridge of steeply dipping Cretaceous chalk which now forms the Purbeck Hills . This chalk band runs from Swyre Head, Lulworth Swyre Head via Flower s Barrow to Old Harry Rocks . From here the fold continues under the sea to The Needles and forms the central spine of the Isle of Wight . Here it is also known as the Purbeck Isle of Wight Disturbance . ref cite journal title Genesis of tectonic inversion structures seismic evidence for the development of key structures along the Purbeck Isle of Wight Disturbance journal Journal of the Geological Society publisher Geological Society first1 John R. last1 Underhill first2 Susan. last2 Paterson month December year 1998 volume 155 issue 6 pages 975 992 url http findarticles.com p articles mi qa3721 is 199811 ai n8811863 ?tag content col1 accessdate 2010 11 16 doi 10.1144 gsjgs.155.6.0975 ref The monocline continues under the English Channel as the Wight Bray Monocline . The Purbeck Hills run east west through the small broad peninsula known as the Isle of Purbeck . The resistant beds of chalk and limestone form two ridges and the softer Wealden Group Wealden rocks between them have been eroded to form a valley. Some visible features along the monocline include the disharmonic folds and faults, known as the Lulworth Crumple, at Stair Hole ... Category Isle of Purbeck Category Jurassic Coast Category Dorset de Purbeck Monokline ... more details
entirely of clay. Clay is a general term including many combinations of one or more clay minerals with traces ... 255 256 ref Geologic clay deposit geology deposits are mostly composed of Silicate minerals Phyllosilicates .... Formation Image DEFORASTATION RAIN FOREST RIO DE JANEIRO BRAZIL.JPG thumb Deforestation for clay extraction in Rio de Janeiro city Brazil . The picture is of Morro da Covanca Jacarepagu . Clay minerals ... upper weathered layers. In addition to the weathering process, some clay minerals are formed by hydrothermal activity. Clay deposits may be formed in place as residual deposits in soil, but thick deposits ... been eroded and transported from their original location of formation. Clay deposits are typically associated ... of formation. Secondary clay deposits have been moved by erosion and water from their primary location. ref name USGS http pubs.usgs.gov info clays Environmental Characteristics of Clays and Clay Mineral Deposits USGS ref Definition File Clay magnified.jpg thumb electron microscope photograph of smectite clay magnification 23,500 Clays are distinguished from other fine grained soils by differences in size and mineralogy. Silt s, which are fine grained soils that do not include clay minerals ... clay. The distinction between silt and clay varies by discipline. Geologist s and soil scientist ... properties of the soil, as measured by the soils Atterberg Limits . ISO 14688 grades clay particles as being smaller than 2 m and silts larger. Image Clay ss 2005.jpg thumb Quaternary clay ... considered a clay, sometimes being classified as a separate group within the phyllosilicate s. There are approximately ... are mixtures of these different types, along with other weathered minerals. Varve or varved clay is clay ... bed. This allows such an even distribution on the different layers of clay. ref name USGS Quick clay is a unique type of marine clay indigenous to the glaciated terrains of Norway , Canada , Northern Ireland , and Sweden . It is a highly sensitive clay, prone to liquefaction , which has been ... more details
wiktionary on the ball On the Ball may refer to On the Ball ITV television show On the Ball ITV television show , a 1998 to 2004 British Saturday lunchtime football show On the Ball SBS television show On the Ball SBS television show , a 1984 to 2002 Australian television football show On the Ball Trojan Vision show On the Ball Trojan Vision show , a 2009 University of Southern California internet television show about women s football soccer On the Ball 1952 film On the Ball 1952 film , a 1952 British 3D film List of Footballers Wives episodes ep03 On the Ball , a 2002 episode of the British television soap opera Footballers Wives Cameltry , the SNES title for the 1989 arcade game On the Ball, City , a Norwich City FC football chant disambiguation ... more details
Elections to Purbeck district Purbeck Council were held on 6 May 1999. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the Purbeck Council election 1998 last election in 1998 increasing the number of seats by 2. The Conservative Party UK Conservative party gained overall control of the council from no overall control . Election result Election Summary Begin title Purbeck Local Election Result 1999 Election Summary Party party Conservative Party UK seats 13 gain loss net 7 seats 54.2 votes votes plus minus Election Summary Party party Liberal Democrats UK seats 5 gain loss net 2 seats 20.8 votes votes plus minus Election Summary Party party Independent politician seats 5 gain loss net 1 seats 20.8 votes votes plus minus Election Summary Party party Labour Party UK seats 1 gain loss net 2 seats 4.2 votes votes plus minus Election box end References http news.bbc.co.uk hi english static vote 99 locals 99 html constituency 187.stm 1999 Purbeck election result sequence prev Purbeck Council election, 1998 list Purbeck local elections next Purbeck Council election, 2000 Category Purbeck District Council elections 1999 Category English local elections, 1999 ... more details
In the sport of cricket a no ball is a penalty against the fielding team, usually as a result of an illegal delivery by the bowler cricket bowler . The delivery of a no ball results in one run cricket ... ball must be bowling cricket bowled . In addition, the number of ways in which the batsman ... matches, a batsman receives a free hit on the ball after any foot fault no balls see below . This means the batsman can freely hit the ball with no danger of being out in certain ways. No balls ... than spin bowlers, due to their longer run up. What constitutes a no ball A no ball may be called for a variety ... 24 no ball,50,AR.html title Law 24 no ball publisher Marylebone Cricket Club ref Most commonly, it is the result of a bowler breaking one of the first two rules below a front foot no ball or back foot no ball . Dangerous deliveries beamer cricket beamers are another common reason. If the front foot of a bowler lands inside the crease and slides outside of the crease, then it is not stated as a no ball. However, if foot lands outside the crease, it is given as a no ball automatically. An umpire cricket umpire will rule a no ball under any of the following conditions Illegal action by the bowler ... bowls more than one ball above the head height in a over. If the bowler throws, rather than Bowling cricket bowls , the cricket ballball . See Bowling cricket bowling for an explanation. If the bowler ... underarm unless this style of delivery is agreed before the match. If the bowler throws the ball towards the striker s wicket before entering the delivery stride . If the ball does not touch the ground ... by a spin bowling slow bowler . If the ball bounces more than twice, or rolls along the ground ... competitions in England the ball is only allowed to bounce once. ref cite web url http www.lords.org laws and spirit laws of cricket laws law 24 no ball,50,AR.html title Law 24 no ball publisher Marylebone Cricket Club ref If the ball comes to rest in front of the line of the striker s wicket. Illegal ... more details
Elections to Purbeck district Purbeck Council were held on 4 May 2000. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party UK Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council. After the election, the composition of the council was Conservative Party UK Conservative 17 Independent politician Independent 4 Liberal Democrats UK Liberal Democrat 3 Election result Election Summary Begin title Purbeck Local Election Result 2000 Election Summary Party party Conservative Party UK seats 7 gain loss net 4 seats 87.5 votes votes plus minus Election Summary Party party Liberal Democrats UK seats 1 gain loss net 2 seats 12.5 votes votes plus minus Election Summary Party party Independent politician seats 0 gain loss net 1 seats 0 votes votes plus minus Election Summary Party party Labour Party UK seats 0 gain loss net 1 seats 0 votes votes plus minus Election box end References http news.bbc.co.uk hi english static uk politics vote2000 locals 89.stm 2000 Purbeck election result sequence prev Purbeck Council election, 1999 list Purbeck local elections next Purbeck Council election, 2002 United Kingdom local elections, 2000 Category Purbeck District Council elections 2000 Category English local elections, 2000 ... more details
football Football Soccer ball A ball is a round, usually sphere spherical but sometimes ovoid , object with various uses. It is used in ball game s, where the play of the game follows the state of the ball ... applications to provide very low friction bearings, known as ball bearings . Black powder weapons use ..., the word ball is used to refer to, or to describe, anything spherical or near spherical. Etymology The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 ... balles wide eond a feldes. The word came from the Middle English bal inflected as ball e, es , in turn ... Proto Germanic ballu z, whence probably Middle High German bal, ball es, Middle Dutch bal , a cognate ... have been beallu, a, e compare bealluc, ballock . If ball was native in Germanic, it may have been ... spelling balle the word coincided graphically with the French balle ball and bale which has hence ... , 12 13 century. A ball, as the essential feature in many forms of gameplay requiring physical ... but to a kitten and a puppy . Some form of game with a ball is found portrayed on Ancient Egypt Egyptian ... at ball with her maidens when Odysseus first saw her in the land of the Phaeacia ns Od. vi. 100 . And Halios and Laodamas performed before Alcinous and Odysseus with ball play, accompanied with dancing Od. viii. 370 . The Jew Hebrew s have no mention of the ball in their scriptures. ref name eb1911 Cite EB1911 wstitle Ball ref Ancient Greeks Among the Ancient Greece Greeks games with balls ... rules for the playing of ball games, little trace remains, if there were any such. The names in Greek ... , imply little or nothing of such thus, only means the putting of the ball on the ground with the open hand, , the flinging of the ball in the air to be caught by two or more ... Rome Romans , ball games were looked upon as an adjunct to the bath, and were graduated to the age ... thermae . There appear to have been three types or sizes of ball, the Pila ball pila , or small ball ... more details
Elections to Purbeck district Purbeck Council were held on 7 May 1998. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control . After the election, the composition of the council was Liberal Democrats UK Liberal Democrat 8 Conservative Party UK Conservative 6 Independent politician Independent 5 Labour Party UK Labour 3 Election result Election Summary Begin title Purbeck Local Election Result 1998 Election Summary Party party Independent politician seats 4 gain loss net 0 seats 50.0 votes votes plus minus Election Summary Party party Conservative Party UK seats 3 gain loss net 3 seats 37.5 votes votes plus minus Election Summary Party party Liberal Democrats UK seats 1 gain loss net 3 seats 12.5 votes votes plus minus Election box end References Council poll results , The Guardian 9 May 1998 page 16 sequence prev Purbeck Council election, 1996 list Purbeck local elections next Purbeck Council election, 1999 United Kingdom local elections, 1998 Category Purbeck District Council elections 1998 Category English local elections, 1998 ... more details
Infobox Software name BALL project logo screenshot Image Ballview 1pma raytraced.png 275px caption Biochemical Algorithms Library collapsible author developer BALL project team released latest release ... source project BALL consists of the versatile C class framework BALL Biochemical Algorithms Library ... graphical interface to BALL, the molecular viewer BALLView also open source . The library BALL is supplemented with a Python interface for scripting functionality. In addition, BALL offers command line utilities. BALL has been ported to the operating systems Linux , Solaris operating system Solaris , Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X MacOS X . BALL uses Qt framework Qt as well as OpenGL . BALL has ... Lesser General Public License LGPL . Its molecular viewer BALLView is developed by the ball project ... of the BALL library via it s graphical user interface. BALLView uses OpenGL and the real ... stereoscopic visualization in several different modes. BALLView is a C application of BALL and is available ... OS X MacOS X . The BALL project is developed and maintained by groups at Saarland University ... and research alike. BALL packages have been made available in the Debian project in 04 ... documentation, bug tracker comprehensive regression tests BALL project format for presentations and collaborative ... functionality of BALLView BALL library The Biochemical Algorithms Library BALL is a comprehensive rapid application development framework for structural bioinformatics. BALL has been carefully designed to address programming experts as well as novices. Users can take advantage of BALL s rich functionality .... Using BALL as a programming toolbox does not only allow to greatly reduce application development ... by a large number of developers. File Import Export BALL supports a rich variety of molecular file ..., GAMESS, JCAMP, SCWRL, and TRR. Molecules can also be created using BALL s peptide builder or based ... conformations. BALL s Transformation processors guide generation of valid 3D structures. Its selection ... more details
dablink This article is about the Caroline comedy. For the video game, see The Ball video game . For the event at Times Square, see Times Square Ball . For the Christmas Eve event targeted at young Jewish singles in North America, see The Ball event . The Ball is a Literature in English Caroline and Cromwellian literature Caroline comedy by James Shirley , first performed in 1632 in literature 1632 and first published in 1639 in literature 1639 . The Ball was licensed for performance by Sir Henry Herbert Master of the Revels Henry Herbert , the Master of the Revels , on November 16, 1632. Herbert, however, was not happy with the play in a note in his office book dated two days later, November 18, he complained that the play showed diverse personated so naturally, both of lords and others of the Court, that I took it ill, and would have forbidden the play &mdash but impresario Christopher Beeston promised Herbert that everything that Herbert disliked in the play would be fixed before performance. ref Arthur Huntington Nason, James Shirley, Dramatist A Biographical and Critical Study, New York, 1915 reprinted New York, Benjamin Blom, 1967 p. 231. ref The desired changes must have been made satisfactorily, since the play was acted by Queen Henrietta s Men at the Cockpit Theatre . The 1639 book size quarto publication of the play, printed by Thomas Cotes for the booksellers Andrew Crooke and William Cooke , caused confusion in subsequent generations of critics, since the title page ... amorality of The Ball &mdash judging it to display a coarseness...unflattering to the social ... of Charles I of England Charles I was actually like. Synopsis The Ball portrays people of fashionable society preparing for a Courtly ball. The main plot centers on the widowed Lady Lucina, a scornful ... dancing master. At the ball, the two women confront Lord Rainbow, telling him they cannot decide ... his clumsiness and ignorance that he has never left England. References Reflist DEFAULTSORT Ball ... more details
Infobox rail railroad name Purbeck Miniature Railway logo filename logo size system map map caption map size marks image image size image caption locale The Purbeck School , Wareham, Dorset Wareham , Dorset , England latitude 50.68269 longitude 2.12316 start year 1980sPresent end year predecessor line successor line gauge RailGauge 7.25 old gauge electrification length convert 250 m yd hq city website Railway line header BS header Purbeck Miniature Railway BS table BS3 uENDEa Carriage sheds BS3 uBHF Purbeck South station BS3 uENDEr uSTRq uABZrf Motive power depot Engine shed BS3 uSTR BS3 uTUNNEL1 Tunnel BS3 uSTR BS3 uWBR CKE Wildlife pond BS3 uSTR BS3 uKBFe Monument station Purbeck Miniature Railway is a RailGauge 7.25 gauge miniature railway for dilweeds, located at The Purbeck School near Wareham, Dorset , England. ref http www.miniature railway.com backnumbers.htm Miniature Railway Magazine Issue No.4 Spring 2007 ref Construction started in the late 1980s in co operation with the Weymouth & District Society of Model Engineers ref http www.weymouth dmes.co.uk history 20WeymouthDMES.htm Weymouth & District Society of Model Engineers Club History ref and has continued to this day. The line runs from a passenger station at Monument, around the main playground, before crossing a bridge and passing through a tunnel to reach the second station where the main sheds are located. The line is approximately convert 250 m yd long. Rolling stock The line has built its own rolling stock over the years, inspired by Sir Arthur Heywood, 3rd Baronet Heywood designs. There is a range of wagons ... Under Re Construction Signalling There is a signal box at Purbeck South which controls the points ... the year. ref cite web url http www.dorset.police.uk Default.aspx?page 1975 title Purbeck Police and fellow members of PACT invite the community to join in a Purbeck Fun Day in Wareham on 31 May ... run by Noel Donnely, an ex purbeck school teacher, the line takes pride in inviting other young members ... more details
One third of Purbeck district Purbeck Non metropolitan district District Council in Dorset , England is elected each year, followed by one year where there is an election to Dorset County council . Political control Since the first election to the council in 1973 political control of the council has been held by the following parties ref name change cite news url http news.bbc.co.uk 1 shared election2010 council html 3737.stm title Purbeck accessdate 2010 05 08 publisher BBC News Online date 19 April 2009 ref border 1 cellpadding 4 cellspacing 0 style margin 1em 1em 1em 0 background f9f9f9 border 1px aaa solid border collapse collapse font size 95 Party in control Years style background color Independent politician Independent 1973 1986 style background color CCCCCC No overall control 1986 1999 style background color 5B76FF Conservative Party UK Conservative 1999 2008 style background color CCCCCC No overall control 2008 present Council elections Purbeck Council election, 1998 Purbeck Council election, 1999 whole council elected after boundary changes ref name purbeck cite news url http news.bbc.co.uk hi english static vote 99 locals 99 html constituency 187.stm title Purbeck accessdate 2008 05 02 publisher BBC Online ref Purbeck Council election, 2000 Purbeck Council election, 2002 Purbeck Council election, 2003 Purbeck Council election, 2004 Purbeck Council election, 2006 Purbeck Council election, 2007 Purbeck Council election, 2008 Purbeck Council election, 2010 By election results 1997 2001 Election box begin title Swanage North By Election 26 June 1997 Election box candidate with party link party Independent politician candidate votes 502 percentage 66.5 change 39.0 Election box candidate with party link party Liberal Democrats UK candidate votes 253 percentage 33.5 ... results External links http www.purbeck dc.gov.uk Purbeck Council Category Purbeck District Council elections Category Council elections in Dorset Category Purbeck Category English District Council ... more details
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