The expedition sailed from England on 26 August 1768, rounded Cape Horn and continued westward across the Pacific to arrive at Tahiti on 13 April 1769, where the observations of the Venus Transit were made.

* 2004 – The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.

* December 11, 2117: Transit of Venus.

* December 8, 2125: Transit of Venus.

* May 24 – The Transit of Venus occurs, the last before optical filters allowed astronomers to observe them.

* May 26 – A Transit of Venus occurs.

* November 24 – Transit of Venus – the last not to be part of a pair.

He wrote three novels – The Fifth String, Pipetown Sandy, and The Transit of Venus – as well as a full-length autobiography, Marching Along and a great number of articles and letters-to-the-editor on a variety of subjects.

An early scientific duty assigned to the Observatory was the U. S. contribution to the definition of the Astronomical Unit, or the AU, which defines a standard mean distance between the Sun and the Earth, conducted under the auspices of the Congressionally funded U. S. Transit of Venus Commission.

* Transit of Venus

The obsession of the undiscovered continent culminated in the brain of Alexander Dalrymple, the brilliant and erratic hydrographer who was nominated by the Royal Society to command the Transit of Venus expedition to Tahiti in 1769.

* March 17 – Transit of Venus from Uranus

* October 29 – Transit of Venus from Uranus.

Category: Transit of Venus

Josephine would inspire Crosby's next collection of poems which he dedicated to her, titled Transit of Venus.

Caresse published a boxed set of Harry's work titled Collected poems of Harry Crosby containing Chariot of the Sun with D. H. Lawrence's intro, Transit of Venus with T. S. Eliot's intro, Sleeping Together with Stuart Gilbert's intro and Torchbearer in 1931.

* Transit of Venus.

* Transit of Venus.

Commented on by one of the solar scientists during the NASA Edge Live Broadcast of the Transit of Venus, June 5, 2012.

* " Transit Of Venus March " m. John Philip Sousa

Henry died on 13 May 1878, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in the Georgetown section of northwest Washington, D. C. John Phillips Sousa wrote the Transit of Venus March for the unveiling of the Joseph Henry statue in front of the Smithsonian Castle.

In 1761, Mason was assigned to travel to the island of Sumatra to observe the Transit of Venus as part of an international effort to record data that would enable scientists to determine the distance from the earth to the sun.

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Transit of Venus was performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company and recorded by the BBC.

An opera version of Transit of Venus premiered at Manitoba Opera in 2007.

The third a cappella musical to appear Off-Broadway, In Transit, premiered 5 October 2010 and was produced by Primary Stages with book, music, and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan, and Sara Wordsworth.

A spin-off, " People's Park Annex ," was established at the same time by activist citizens of Berkeley on a strip of land above the Bay Area Rapid Transit subway construction along Hearst Avenue northwest of the U. C.

Bus service across the bridge is provided by the Dumbarton Express, run by a consortium of local transit agencies ( SamTrans, AC Transit, VTA and others ) which connects to BART at Union City and Caltrain at Palo Alto and California Avenue.

The first satellite navigation system, Transit, used by the United States Navy, was first successfully tested in 1960.

With these parallel developments in the 1960s, it was realized that a superior system could be developed by synthesizing the best technologies from 621B, Transit, Timation, and SECOR in a multi-service program.

) The construction of freeways and underpasses by the municipal government, the implementation of reversible lanes during peak rush hour traffic flows, as well as the establishment of the Department of Metropolitan Transit Police ( PMT ) has helped traffic flow in the city ; however, the Guatemalan metropolitan area still faces a growing transportation problem.

After agreeing to the deal, Mayflower Transit trucks were dispatched to the team's Maryland training complex on March 29, 1984 in the early morning, where workers loaded all of the team's belongings and the trucks left for Indianapolis with the Colts completely gone from Baltimore by midday.

* Jacob Lawrence's permanent artwork at Times Square-42nd Street, commissioned by Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts for Transit.

By 2010 under one of the National Key Economic Areas ( NKEA ) and under the Government Transformation Programme ( GTP ), the federal government have announced to improve the public transport system by building a Mass Rapid Transit ‘”( MRT )”’ system in the Klang Valley / Greater KL.

Ultra-low sulfur kerosene is a custom-blended fuel used by the New York City Transit to power its bus fleet.

* Time-lapse movie " Kiel-Canal Transit In 9 Minutes " released by UNITED CANAL AGENCY

Before construction of the Panama Canal, a stagecoach line owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt's Accessory Transit Company connected the lake with the Pacific across the low hills of the narrow Isthmus of Rivas.

It granted his Accessory Transit Company the exclusive right to build a canal within 12 years and gave the same company sole administration of a temporary trade route in which the overland crossing through the Rivas isthmus was done by train and stagecoach.

In Ghostbusters II, the " river of slime " under New York city is found by the Ghostbusters boys to be flowing through an old pneumatic tube line – a reference to the Beach Pneumatic Transit tube.

* Served by Pecos Trails Transit

These problems are being mitigated by the expansion of SR-520 and the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, as well as the planned light rail service via East Link from Seattle to Redmond during the second phase of Sound Transit.

The North East Line operated by SBS Transit.

The future Downtown Line will be operated by SBS Transit.

Fare regulation and bus service standards are under the purview of an independent body, the Public Transport Council, while TransitLink, established by SBS Transit, SMRT Trains and SMRT Buses, helps to create an integrated multi-modal system with a common fare-payment mode, information platform, and a physical network without duplication of services.

For $ 8 a day, tourists can take any number of rides on buses and trains operated by SBS Transit, SMRT Buses and SMRT Trains.

Similar salutes are used by honour guards for non-police services ( e. g. Toronto Fire Services, Toronto Transit Commission ) during funerals or ceremonial events.

A special plaque commemorating the joint achievement of both the railway and Edison can be seen today in the waiting room of Lackawanna Terminal in Hoboken, presently operated by New Jersey Transit.

Local bus service is provided by the Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority ; commonly shortened to TARTA.