But the practice of urban exploration has now splintered under the weight of relentless media attention, crackdowns by authorities and attempts at marketing exploitation – reforming along divergent lines.
Niamh Briggs, the full-back who has been cursed with injury for much of the past year, is a dangerous runner and she landed a 40-metre penalty before the Ireland pack drove forwards from lineout and splintered the English defence, with the scrum-half Larissa Muldoon darting over on the blindside.
The New York march was splintered several times by police, with some people heading north towards Harlem and others gathering in Times Square.
Some once major groups have splintered into numerous small, and particularly vicious gangs.
It struck silver from the cockatoo and splintered the windscreen of a toy truck threading up the mountain where trees went down to steel.
Though at times showing a shaky grasp of the detail, Sebelius largely withstood the splintered Republican attack, choosing to apologise for details, such as "legal boilerplate" notices on privacy or failures to conduct testing, but defending the overall system.
Nor do they know exactly where the borders of the new state would run.Many nations have declared independence in the past century: after Africa was decolonised; as the Soviet Union splintered; and often after civil wars (witness the countries that once made up Yugoslavia).
The opposition is splintered and state institutions are weak.
His party then conspicuously splintered early this month on the issue of the European Union reform treaty, which Mr Clegg, unlike many of his own MPs, believes should be ratified without a referendum.Yet for all this the Lib Dems find themselves in reasonable fettle.
After identifying clusters of these personal effects, which seemed to mark the main lines of battle, researchers went back to looking for ferrous materials and started finding a concentration of arrowheads.A few of the men were clenching their teeth so tightly that bits of them splintered offArrows were not the only things flying through the air that day.
"He was an idiot," says Mr Toscano of his former bishop.The biggest threat to the church's image comes from the hundreds of sects that have splintered from it.
