Among these were the " Expedición de los Trece " ( Expedition of the 13 ) in 1826, the " Gran Legión del Aguila Negra " ( Great Legion of the Black Eagle ) in 1829, the " Cadena Triangular " ( Triangular Chain ) and the " Soles de la Libertad " ( Suns of Liberty ) in 1837.

See also: Great Chain of Being

A Chain Home tower in Great Baddow, United Kingdom

It served as the basis for the Chain Home network of radars to defend Great Britain.

Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated a working prototype and patented the device in 1935 ( British Patent GB593017 ) The device served as the base for the Chain Home network of radars to defend Great Britain.

Pope gets the message across that humans must accept their position in the " Great Chain of Being " which is at a middle stage between the angels and the beasts of the world.

There is also a distinct order to the process of creation, from earth to plants to animal, which evokes the concept of The Great Chain of Being.

The community received its name, McLean, from John Roll McLean, the former publisher and owner of The Washington Post, who, with Stephen Benton Elkins and French aristocrat Jean-Pierre Guenard, built in 1906 the electrified Great Falls and Old Dominion Railway ( later the Washington and Old Dominion Railway ), which connected the area with Washington, D. C. McLean named a railroad station after himself where the rail line ( traveling on the present route of Old Dominion Drive ) crossed the old Chain Bridge Road.

The idea of a " tree of life " arose from ancient notions of a ladder-like progression from lower to higher forms of life ( such as in the Great Chain of Being ).

From the ancient Greeks until the work of Carolus Linnaeus ( also known as Carl Linnaeus, or Carl von Linné ) and other 18th century naturalists, the main concept of natural history was the scala naturae or Great Chain of Being, a conceptual arrangement of minerals, vegetables, more primitive forms of animals, and more complex life forms on a linear scale of increasing " perfection ", culminating in our species.

The former Chain Home Radar Tower in Great Baddow Chelmsford

The tallest structure by far in the Chelmsford area is the former Chain Home radar tower in the urban village Great Baddow which rises to.

1579 drawing of the Great Chain of Being from Didacus Valades, Rhetorica Christiana.

* William F. Bynum: " The Great Chain of Being after Forty Years: An Appraisal ", History of Science 13 ( 1975 ): 1-28

* Arthur O. Lovejoy: The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press ( 1936 )

* The Great Chain of Being reflected in the work of Descartes, Spinoza & Leibniz Peter Suber, Earlham College, Indiana

*: Grand Cross with Golden Chain of the Order of Vytautas the Great

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The former Chain Home radar transmitter tower, in the grounds of Marconi Research Centre | BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre, Great Baddow – a prominent local landmark.

The Great Baddow Mast – a former Chain Home radar transmitter tower, originally sited at RAF Canewdon – was moved to the outskirts of Great Baddow around 1954 and is used by BAE Systems for equipment testing.

Natural history referred to the descriptive aspects of biology, though it also included mineralogy and other non-biological fields ; from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance, the unifying framework of natural history was the scala naturae or Great Chain of Being.

Category: Grand Crosses with Golden Chain of the Order of Vytautas the Great

The framework of his arguments center on the Great Chain of Being, in which God's perfect goodness is relative to His perfect being.

* National Monuments Record for Great Bromley Chain Home Station

Being the first publications to question the official Macedonian position of the existence of a distinct Macedonian identity going back to the time of Alexander the Great ( Macedonism ), the books triggered a reaction of shock and disbelief in Macedonian public opinion.

Being an Exact and True account ( by way of Journal ) of the various actions of infernal Spirits or ( Devils Incarnate ) Witches or both: and the great Disturbance and Amazement they gave to George Walton's family at a place called Great Island in the county of New Hampshire in New England, chiefly in throwing about ( by an Invisible hand ) Stones, Bricks, and Brick-Bats of all sizes, with several other things, as Hammers, Mauls, Iron-Crows, Spits, and other Utensils, as came into their Hellish minds, and this for space of a quarter of a year.

* Raymond Horricks: " The Importance of Being Eric Dolphy ", D J Costello Publishers Ltd., Great Britain, 1989.

* The Next Master which refers to the coming to Earth of a ' Great Cosmic Being ' from another planet, according to the Aetherius Society, to guide mankind into the New Age.

* Gichi-manidoo is the father of life, " The Great Spirit, the Supreme Being "

Being involved in the Great Train Robbery, our name was good.

The American spiritual writer and philosopher Ken Wilber uses a concept called " Great Nest of Being " which is similar to the Great chain of being and which he claims to belong to a culture-independent " perennial philosophy " traceable across 3000 years of mystical and esoteric writings.

Other influential anti-James histories written during the 1650s include: Sir Edward Peyton, Divine Catastrophe of the Kingly Family of the House of Stuarts ( 1652 ); Arthur Wilson, History of Great Britain, Being the Life and Reign of King James I ( 1658 ); and Francis Osborne, Historical Memoirs of the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James ( 1658 ).

* The Doctor of Pimlico, Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime ( 1919 )

Being a direct descendent of Cyrus the Great, Atossa had a great authority within Achamenian royal house and court.

One concept, that of Christian Western Europe, conceived of the races as constituting a hierarchical chain of life known as the Great Chain of Being, which was believed to have been created by God, in which the people thought the Christian European races were closest to God in perfection.

The Great Chain of Being, a medieval idea that there was a hierarchical structure of life from the most fundamental elements to the most perfect, began to encroach upon the idea of race.

The American Planning Association ( APA ) “ is an independent, not-for-profit educational organization that provides leadership in the development of vital communities .” The Great Places in American program helps to celebrate areas with “ exemplary character, quality, and planning .” Being designated as a Great Place in America, Fair Park was one of only ten cities chosen in 2011.

* Édouard Schuré, The Great Initiates: A Study of the Secret History of Religions ( 1889 ), Blauvelt ( N. Y .): Garber Books, 1992, 480 p. “ Rama, Krishna, Hermes, Moses, Orpheus, Pythagoras, Plato, and Jesus .”

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Peter Lovesey wrote in The Kings of Distance: A Study of Five Great Runners that Nurmi " accelerated the progress of world records ; developed and actually came to personify the analytic approach to running ; and he was a profound influence not only in Finland, but throughout the world of athletics.

Max Weismann is an American philosopher and a long-time friend and colleague of Mortimer Adler, with whom he co-founded the Center for the Study of the Great Ideas in Chicago.

A comprehensive background to the Great Artesian Basin, including an overview of the nature of the Basin, the extraction of water and the impacts of that extraction, can be found in the Great Artesian Basin Resource Study, developed by the GABCC to support the Great Artesian Basin Strategic Management Plan.

* James Potter, " A Case Study of the Impact of Population Influx on a Small Community in Nebraska, Great Plains Research, Sept 2004, Vol.

* The Ri-Me Philosophy of Jamgon Kongtrul the Great: A Study of the Buddhist Lineages of Tibet by Ringu Tulku, ISBN 1-59030-286-9, Shambhala Publications

* Ringu Tulku, The Ri-Me Philosophy of Jamgon Kongtrul the Great: A Study of the Buddhist Lineages of Tibet, ISBN 1-59030-286-9, Shambhala Publications

In the The Princeton Review's 2013 college rankings, Olin ranked # 4 in " Best College Dorms ," # 4 in " LGBT-Friendly ," # 10 in " There's a Game ?," # 19 in " Lots of Race / Class Interaction ," # 19 in " Professors Get High Marks ," # 13 in " Stone-Cold Sober Schools ," # 17 in " Great Financial Aid ," # 2 in " Students Study the Most ," # 10 in " Town-Gown Relations are Great ," # 4 in " Easiest Campus to Get Around ," # 10 in " Best Classroom Experience ," # 10 in " Best Quality of Life ," and # 18 in " Their Students Love These Colleges.

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* The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage ( 335 pages in 1910, followed by numerous " revised and enlarged " editions )

* Li Chengrui ( 李成瑞 ): Population Change Caused by The Great Leap Movement, Demographic Study, No. 1, 1998 pp. 97 – 111

* Recent Developments in the Study of The Great European Witch Hunt

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Adler bequeathed these films to the Center for the Study of the Great Ideas, where they are available for purchase.

* Center for the Study of the Great Ideas website

* Women ’ s Corsetry 1850-1989: A Case Study into the Spirella Corset Company of Great Britain.

* Study Text of the Divine Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great

* Study Text of the Ruthenian Divine Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great