Joseph-Nicolas Delisle set up a 62-station network for observing the transit.

In October 2009, Dr. Delisle Worrell, who is slated to become the replacement Governor of Barbados ' Central Bank of Barbados and current Executive Director of the Centre for Money and Finance at the UWI Cave Hill Campus revealed that " the average Barbadian now earns between BDS $ 200 and BDS $ 499 per week ...."

The map-publishers of the time did not know how to utilize the material supplied mainly by the French astronomers of the latter half of the seventeenth century, and Delisle recognized that the new methods of measuring by scale and of marking the places were very valuable for cartography ; with this help he therefore produced a new and more accurate picture of the world.

On Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississippi ( 1718 ) by Guillaume Delisle and on A Map of North America ( 1768 ) by John Blair, the St. Croix River — more specifically what was then known as the east branch of the St. Croix River ( known today as the Namekagon River )— is shown as the Ouasisacadeba, a French representation of the Dakota name for the St. Croix River.

Nash, along with Steven Delisle and a conditional third round pick in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft were traded to the Rangers for Artem Anisimov, Brandon Dubinsky, Tim Erixon and a 2013 first round draft pick.

* French astronomer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle invents the Delisle scale for measuring temperature ( recalibrated in 1738 ).

The Celsius scale, like the Delisle scale, originally ran from zero for boiling water down to 100 for freezing water.

The Delisle thermometer remained in use for almost 100 years in Russia.

Delisle admitted to 13 irregularities in the references of her book and later corrected citations for some of the disputed quotations.

Delisle, by contrast, argues that antisemitism is an integral component of Groulx ' race-based nationalism and his enthusiasm for right-wing authoritarian governments.

Delisle is mostly known for the Delisle scale, a temperature scale he invented in 1732.

On April 6, 1995 Savard was traded back to Chicago, for a 1996 sixth-round pick ( Xavier Delisle ).

It has a nine man football team ( Delisle Rebels ) that has won several Provincial titles ; a track and field team that competes well for top spots in provincials and holds records for countless events ; and a drama program, that while in decline in recent years, has often performed well at large drama festivals.

Delisle was the setting for the Canadian modern day hockey movie Paperback Hero ( 1973 film ).

* Joseph-Nicolas Delisle ( 1688 – 1768 ), French astronomer for whom the lunar features as well as the temperature scale below are named

When the French government decided on printing a general catalogue of the printed books in the Bibliothèque, Delisle became responsible for this undertaking and took an active part in the work ; in the preface to the first volume ( 1897 ) he gave a detailed history of the library and its management.

Delisle proved that the bulk of the manuscripts of French origin which Lord Ashburnham had bought in France, particularly those bought from the book-seller Jean-Baptiste Barrois, had been purloined by Count Libri, inspector-general of libraries under King Louis-Philippe, and he procured the repurchase of the manuscripts for the library, afterwards preparing a catalogue of them entitled Catalogue des manuscrits des fonds Libri et Barrois ( 1888 ), the preface of which gives the history of the whole transaction.

The Bibliographie des travaux de L. Delisle ( 1902 ), by Paul Lacombe, may be consulted for a full list of his numerous works.

He first played in his hometown of Delisle for the Tigers hockey team in 1932 – 33 before playing a year in Saskatoon, then another in Regina before settling in Moose Jaw for three seasons beginning in 1935 – 36.

* 1743 – Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury are organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle.

* November 5 – Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury are organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle.

62 ( plus ten low-power repeaters for the Montevideo station ) ( 2005 )

Cardiff Bus services 1 / 2 ( City Circle ), 24 / 25 ( Whitchurch ), 33 / 33A ( Radyr / Morganstown ) 60 / 62 / 62A ( Pentrebane / Fairwater ) and Stagecoach service 122 ( Tonypandy ) operate through the area to / from Cardiff central bus station.

* Conewango – The hamlet of Conewango, a former station on the Erie Railroad, is in the northwest part of the town on US Route 62, NY Route 241, and County Road 40.

* Dayton – The hamlet of Dayton, formerly a station on the Erie Railroad, is on US Route 62 in the northeast corner of the town.

The station houses two pumpers, Engine 64 ( first due ) and Engine 62, one tower ladder, Ladder 63, and one rescue unit, Rescue 61.

* September 29 – WGPR-TV, channel 62 in Detroit, became the first television station in the U. S. to be owned and operated by blacks ( It is now CBS-owned WWJ-TV )

In 1961 / 62 he built his own radio transmitter and briefly ran a private radio station playing ska and rhythm and blues which he soon shut down when he heard that the police were looking for the perpetrators.

The $ 62 million construction of the dam and hydroelectric station began in 1958.

The main station, now called simply Banbury, is now served by trains running between London Paddington and Birmingham via Reading, Oxford and Leamington Spa, and from London Marylebone via High Wycombe and Bicester, the fastest non-stop train taking 68 minutes to London Marylebone ( and 62 minutes for the return journey ).

His gambling uncle, Harvey Bilchik, wins the deed to Channel 62, a bankrupt UHF television station, in a poker game, and prodded by his wife, gives control of the station to George.

On his way out of the station, he encounters the janitor, Stanley Spadowski ( Michael Richards ), recently fired by Fletcher, and offers him a job at Channel 62.

The peak load of the entire station being 40 KVA, Dakshin Gangotri Station was energised by three 62. 5 KVA three-phase generators for duty maintenance and stand by.

A pioneering French Antarctic research station, Port Martin, located 62 km east of D ' Urville, was destroyed by fire on the night of January 23, 1952, without death or injury.

The station was originally assigned the call letters WKAF and was on UHF channel 62 rather than 68.

After being reassigned to channel 68, the owners of WKAF ( Channel 62 Inc .) got the station on-the-air February 15, 1986 and aired religious programming for three hours a day.

London Buses route 62 serves Upney Lane passing outside the station.

The station was co-owned with WGPR-TV channel 62, which the Freemason group established in 1975.

The Avenger originated from Long Island, NY-based station WHN and was broadcast over a time-span of 62 weeks.

The Free Press entered a news partnership with CBS owned-and-operated station WWJ-TV channel 62 in March 2009 to produce a morning news show called " First Forecast Mornings ".

As it raced eastward at 62 mph ( 100 km / h ), the system entered into western Quebec in the Témiscamingue region around 11: 00 p. m. A gust of 65 mph ( 102 km / h ) was reported at the automatic station of Angliers.

The station serves as the eastern terminus of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway from Fenchurch Street railway station in the City of London, some 39 miles ( 62. 7 km ) to the west.

A new gas station and McDonald's is being built at Highway 62 and Highway 7, while an Ontario Provincial Police station is located on Highway 7 just west of the Tim Hortons.