The phlogiston theory ( from the Ancient Greek φλογιστόν phlogistón " burning up ", from φλόξ phlóx " flame "), first stated in 1667 by Johann Joachim Becher, is an obsolete scientific theory that postulated the existence of a fire-like element called " phlogiston ", which was contained within combustible bodies and released during combustion.

In 1667, Johann Joachim Becher published his Physical Education, which was the first mention of what would become the phlogiston theory.

It takes its name from Captain Martin Becher who fell there in the first Grand National and took shelter in the small brook running along the landing side of the fence while the remainder of the field thundered over.

The first winner is The Duke ridden by Captain Martin Becher, after whom Becher's Brook will be named.

The first production was at the Cherry Lane Theatre, New York on 17 September 1961, directed by Alan Schneider with Ruth White as Winnie ( for which she won an Obie ) and John C. Becher as Willie.

Its first chairman was Johannes Robert Becher.

Increasingly drawn to photography and with Richter's support, Struth, along with Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, and Roswitha Ronkholz, joined the first year of the new photography class run by Bernd and Hilla Becher, in 1976.

The term was first used by Eduard Becher.

The term was first used by Eduard Becher.

Meeting as painting students at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1957, Bernd and Hilla Becher first collaborated on photographing and documenting the disappearing German industrial architecture in 1959.

In 2003, the race was revived and run on the first day of the November Becher Meeting.

Becher first moved to Israel in 1978, and served in the armoured infantry in the Israel Defense Force ,.

The fence took its name from Captain Martin Becher, who fell there from his mount, Conrad, in the first official Grand National in 1839, and took shelter in the brook to avoid injury.

The first such product marketed by Valenti to achieve multi-million dollar sales was also the first product he and Becher ever marketed: The Miracle Painter (" Why is this man painting his ceiling in a tuxedo?

Anne Becher, born 1792, was " one of the reigning beauties of the day ," and a daughter of John Harmon Becher ( Collector of the South 24 Parganas district d. Calcutta, 1800 ), of an old Bengal civilian family " noted for the tenderness of its women.

* October-J. J. Becher, German physician and chemist ( born 1635 )

Bernhard " Bernd " Becher ( August 20, 1931 – June 22, 2007 ), and Hilla Becher, née Wobeser ( born September 2, 1934 ), were German artists working as a collaborative duo.

Bernd Becher was born in Siegen.

Hilla Becher was born in Potsdam.

* Johann Joachim Becher ( 1635 – 1682 ), German physician, alchemist, precursor of chemistry, scholar and adventurer

** Leone d ' Oro for Lifetime Achievement: Giovanni Anselmo ( Italy ), Bernd and Hilla Becher ( Germany )

* Scia ' new First Nation ( Becher Bay Indian Band ), Vancouver Island, British Columbia

The image on the inside of the gatefold sleeve is of a powerplant electricity substation ( appropriately, as ' kraftwerk ' means " power station " in German ), photographed by Düsseldorf conceptualist artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, known for their photographic Typologies series that celebrated the industrial and urban environment – and by extension, the society that built it – by showing multiple variations of ordinarily mundane building types.

In 1976, Bernd Becher started teaching photography at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf ( policy matters prevented Hilla's simultaneous appointment ), where he remained on the faculty until 1996.

* Siegfried Becher ( 1806-1873 ), professor of economics.

A Becher ( tumbler ), traditionally used for Altbier, is similar to a Stange but is slightly shorter and much thicker.

In November 1921 he began reviewing plays for the Prager Tagblatt, and in 1925 joined the Gruppe 1925, a discussion circle of progressive and communist intellectuals including Bertolt Brecht, Johannes R. Becher, Ernst Bloch, Hermann Kasack, Rudolf Leonhard, Walter Mehring, Robert Musil, Joseph Roth, Ernst Toller, Kurt Tucholsky, and Ernst Weiß, among others.

* Conceptual art: Jan Dibbets, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Christo, Christian Boltanski, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Bruce Nauman, Gilbert and George, Barry Flanagan ;

* High precision industrial age souvenirs with Cornelius Tittel about how Bernd and Hilla Becher saved an era from being forgotten forever and set in motion the German photography boom at signandsight. com.

“ Callicott, J. Baird ,” Pages 141-143 in Ann Becher, Kyle McClure, Rachel White Scheuering, and Julia Willis, eds.

If the decision goes wrong, it may be -- as Mr. Stevenson fears -- `` the first step on the slippery path downhill '' to a U.N. without operational responsibilities and without effective meaning.

For the most part, however, the new version is contemporary and, as such, should be the means for many to attain a clearer comprehension of the meaning of those words recorded so many hundreds of years ago by the first followers of Christ.

But first, we must define two terms so that their meaning will be clearly understood: form -- any unique sequence of alphabetic characters that can appear in a language preceded and followed by a space ; ;

In the Steiners have busy lives without visiting relatives only context can indicate whether visiting relatives is equivalent in meaning to paying visits to relatives or to relatives who are visiting them, and in I looked up the number and I looked up the chimney only the meanings of number and chimney make it clear that up is syntactically a second complement in the first sentence and a preposition followed by its object in the second.

Note that " completeness " has a different meaning here than it does in the context of Gödel's first incompleteness theorem, which states that no recursive, consistent set of non-logical axioms of the Theory of Arithmetic is complete, in the sense that there will always exist an arithmetic statement such that neither nor can be proved from the given set of axioms.

The first meaning refers to a social philosophy or political philosophy which values rural society as superior to urban society, the independent farmer as superior to the paid worker, and sees farming as a way of life that can shape the ideal social values.

* Giuseppe Barzilai goes back for explanation to the first verse of the prayer attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah, the literal rendering of which is “ O, with thy mighty right hand deliver the unhappy ,” forming from the initial and final letters of the words the word Abrakd ( pronounced Abrakad ), with the meaning “ the host of the winged ones ,” i. e., angels.

The first meaning, " elm tree ", is problematic, and is reached by deriving * Elm-la from * Almilōn and subsequently to almr (" elm ").

In the Book of Samuel, Abner ( Hebrew אבנר " Avner " meaning " father of is a light "), is first cousin to Saul and commander-in-chief of his army ( 1 Samuel 14: 50, 20: 25 ).

The language of the poem is typically direct and concise and comprises short sentences-the first line is in fact a model of condensed meaning, comprising an exhortation (" Let's drink!

A good example of the contempt the first democrats felt for those who did not participate in politics can be found in the modern word ' idiot ', which finds its origins in the ancient Greek word, idiōtēs, meaning a private person, a person who is not actively interested in politics ; such characters were talked about with contempt, and the word eventually acquired its modern meaning.

Hermann Kolbe was the first person to use the word synthesis in the present day meaning.

Ayckbourn joined Wolfit on tour to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as an acting assistant stage manager ( meaning a role that involved both acting and stage management ) for three weeks, with his first role on the professional stage being various parts in The Strong are Lonely by Fritz Hochwälder .< ref name = acting >

The intended meaning was likely the first, which would be translated as Latin causātīvus or effectīvus, but the Latin term was a translation of the second.

" He notes that the first element of Bilröst — bil ( meaning " a moment ")—" suggests the fleeting nature of the rainbow ," which he connects to the first element of Bifröst — the Old Norse verb bifa ( meaning " to shimmer " or " to shake ")— noting that the element provokes notions of the " lustrous sheen " of the bridge.

The latter etymology was first suggested by John Mitchell Kemble who alluded that " of six manuscripts in which this passage occurs, one only reads Bretwalda: of the remaining five, four have Bryten-walda or-wealda, and one Breten-anweald, which is precisely synonymous with Brytenwealda "; that Æthelstan was called brytenwealda ealles ðyses ealondes, which Kemble translates as " ruler of all these islands "; and that bryten-is a common prefix to words meaning ' wide or general dispersion ' and that the similarity to the word bretwealh (' Briton ') is " merely accidental ".

The word battle is a loanword in English from the Old French bataille, first attested in 1297, from Late Latin battualia, meaning " exercise of soldiers and gladiators in fighting and fencing ", from Late Latin ( taken from Germanic ) battuere " beat ", from which the English word battery is also derived via Middle English batri, and comes from the staged battles in the Colosseum in Rome that may have numbered 10, 000 individuals.

where is a metalogical symbol meaning that, in the first case, and in the other are syntactic consequences of in some logical system ;

In Ó Duinnín's Irish dictionary ( 1904 ) it is referred to as Céadamh ( ain ) which it explains is short for Céad-shamh ( ain ) meaning " first ( of ) summer ".