New members swore " I (...), by entering into the society, do hereby swear by the Sun which shineth upon me, by the Earth which feedeth me, by God, by the blood of my forefathers, by my honour and by my life, that from this moment onward and until my death, I shall faithfully serve the task of this organisation and that I shall at all times be prepared to bear for it any sacrifice.

Approaching the minimum of the solar cycle ( also named butterfly cycle ), the extension of the quiet Sun increases until it covers the whole disk surface excluding some bright points on the hemisphere and the poles, where there are the coronal holes.

Louis XIV, known as the " Sun King ", reigned over France from 1643 until 1715 although his strongest period of personal rule did not begin until 1661 after the death of his Italian chief minister Cardinal Mazarin.

From March 2007 to February 2010, he was Vice President of Emerging Platforms at Sun, until the company merged with Oracle and he resigned his position with the company.

As the year progresses and the Earth moves around the sun, the North Pole gradually turns away from the sun until at midwinter it is facing away from the Sun to its maximum extent.

Sun taught there until 1928, a seminal period in the development of modern Yang, Wu and Sun-style t ' ai chi ch ' uan.

Moreover, their volatile composition means that as they repeatedly approach the Sun, radiation gradually boils the volatiles off until the comet splits or develops an insulating crust that prevents further outgassing.

Although the idea that the planets orbited the Sun had been suggested many times, it was not until the 17th century that this view was supported by evidence from the first telescopic astronomical observations, performed by Galileo Galilei.

Since the 1920s, Prime Ministers have typically been conferred the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, or the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers ( until 2003 a special higher class of the Order of the Rising Sun ), depending on tenure and eminence.

Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly / country and western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis.

It was founded in 1982 by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, and until 2010 was owned by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with the church.

Here is an example: a person born on, say August 28, 2002 would come to understand that his / her Sun sign was in Virgo according to western astrology ( conventional Sun sign dates August 23, to September 22, of every year ), but Sun on that same calendar date of the year 2002 was in the constellation Leo ( where it had been since August 10, 2002 and would remain until September 15, when it would then finally cross into Virgo ).

James Gosling first thought of Servlets in the early days of Java, but the concept did not become a product until Sun shipped the product.

Because the Earth orbits the Sun once a year, the sidereal time at any one place at midnight will be about four minutes later each night, until, after a year has passed, one additional sidereal day has elapsed compared to the number of solar days that have gone by.

Both Sun Wu and Sun Bin were referred to as Sun Tzu in classical Chinese writings, and some historians believed that Sun Wu was in fact Sun Bin until Sun Bin's own treatise was discovered in 1972.

It is sometimes credited to reporter Frank Ward O ' Malley who wrote for the New York newspaper The Sun from 1906 until 1919, allegedly based on the typical mid-day eating habits of a newspaper reporter.

They continued throughout the Annapolis Valley until the British-ordered expulsion of Acadians in 1755 which is memorialized at Grand Pré in the eastern part of the valley.

Barcelonnette and the Ubaye Valley remained under French sovereignty until the second Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis on 3 April 1559.

The Cheddar Valley line survived until the " Beeching Axe ".

Charlton stayed at The Valley until 1923, when the club moved to The Mount stadium in Catford as part of a proposed merger with Catford Southend Football Club.

The U. S. Army's last horse cavalry actions were fought during World War II: a ) by the 26th Cavalry Regiment ( PS ) in World War II — a small mounted regiment of Philippine Scouts which fought the Japanese during the retreat down the Bataan peninsula, until it was effectively destroyed by January 1942 ; and b ) on captured German horses by the mounted reconnaissance section of the U. S. 10th Mountain Division in a spearhead pursuit of the German Army across the Po Valley in Italy in April 1945.

Carnarvon financed Carter's work in the Valley of the Kings from 1914, but it was interrupted by World War I until 1917, when serious work was resumed.

Resigning when his home state of Virginia seceded, he served first under Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, but then in increasingly important cavalry commands of the Army of Northern Virginia, playing a role in all of that army's campaigns until his death.

After the success of his next film, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, he co-founded Studio Ghibli where he continued to produce many feature films until his temporary retirement in 1997 following Princess Mononoke.

Yaksha Malla, the grandson of Jayasthiti Malla, ruled the Kathmandu Valley until almost the end of the 15th century.

He is credited with nurturing Hewlett-Packard, Varian Associates, and other high-tech firms, until what would become Silicon Valley grew up around the Stanford campus.

Mississippi and Ohio Valley trade flowed south to New Orleans until 1825 Erie Canal and competing 1850s NY, PA and MD railroads connected east

The two tribes are not allowed to return to the Verde Valley until 1900.

The Wanapum people were never forced onto a reservation, and they lived along the Columbia River in the Priest Rapids Valley until 1943.

On 10 February, the Schwammenauel dam was taken by American forces, although the Germans had jammed open the dam's floodgates a day earlier, flooding the Rur Valley and delaying the U. S. advance to the Rhine for two further weeks, until 23 February, when the flood waters had receded.

A stalemate persisted, with regular exchanges of cannon fire, until September 21, when 100 Hessians, returning from the Mohawk Valley to support Burgoyne, arrived on the scene to provide reinforcement to the besieged fort.

The railway is currently not in operation, but remains fully intact awaiting necessary maintenance until it can once again ferry golfers up the 33 % grade overlooking the San Gabriel Valley and San Bernardino Mountains.

Not until the 2nd century AD was a road over the Brenner Pass opened: coming through the Puster Valley, the road crossed the Brenner and descended from there to Veldidena ( today Wilten ), where it crossed the Inn and then the Zirler Berg towards Partenkirchen and on to Augusta Vindelicorum.

At Valley International Airport the Confederate Air Force ( now Commemorative Air Force ) occupied hangar and apron space until 1991.

The ancient region of Histria extended over a much wider area, including the whole Kras plateau until the southern edges of the Vipava Valley, the southwestern portions of modern Inner Carniola with Postojna and Ilirska Bistrica, and the modern Italian Province of Trieste, but not the Liburnian coast which was already part of Illyricum.

* Kahkewistahaw, Chief of the Rabbit Skin Cree ( Wāpošwayānak ) and Saulteaux, signed in 15 September 1874 the Treaty 4, his tribal group was hunting in the area around Wood Mountain and the Cypress Hills and went back to the Qu ' Appelle Valley once a year to get their payments and gifts until a reserve was established in 1881 )

The Mission eventually became a parish church serving the Pueblo and Sonoma Valley until it was sold to a private interest in 1882.

He immigrated to the United States as a young man but remained obscure until 1868, when his large photographs of Yosemite Valley, California, made him world famous.

Another view has it that a decade would transpire until Solomon Burke's early recordings for Atlantic Records codified the soul style ; his early 1960s songs " Cry to Me ", " Just Out of Reach " and " Down in the Valley " are considered classics of the genre.

There was no relief from their difficulties until they left Castle Valley and made their way to the small Mormon settlement of Parowan.

From the late 1960s until the mid-1990s, cadets also completed SERE training in the Jacks Valley complex between their fourth-and third-class years.