Two weeks later, just as the country was beginning to overcome the initial shock of four suicide bombings that caused the deaths of 52 people and injured more than 950, many seriously, came the attempted bombings of 21 July.
Just like that, from the 134th Derby to the running of No. 135, the shock of Eight Belles's collapse and death by injection last year gave way to Mine That Bird's romp of awe.
They then had the shock of seven players arrested in July, before all charges were dropped four months later, over an incident while at their pre-season training camp in Cornwall.
The matter also brings more fresh turmoil on Villa following their relegation and the shock resignation of two board members on Monday.
"They're moving past the shocks of five to six months ago and looking ahead at the future," he says.
In the layers of rock and the detritus of once living things, he can trace the imperceptibly slow workings of evolution and geologic time and identify the short shocks of five mass extinctions that have periodically wiped out nearly all life on Earth in the last half billion years.
First, they recommend a single shock instead of three stacked shocks for ventricular fibrillation, followed by immediate resumption of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Miami, the University of, got the shock of having two of its quarterbacks announce a transfer on the same day.
Also opening Friday at the center is "SUN XUN: SHOCK OF TIME," two recent hand-drawn animations by the Chinese artist Sun Xun.
Now, to the shock of the two Russians and Muehlegg, the labs caught the presence of darbepoetin, which is similar to the hormone erythropoietin (EPO), which produces red blood cells.
