Although on the surface an entertaining escapist romance, alert contemporary readers would have quickly recognized the political subtext of Ivanhoe, which appeared immediately after the English Parliament, fearful of French-style revolution in the aftermath of Waterloo, had passed the Habeas Corpus Suspension acts of 1817 and 1818 and other extremely repressive measures and when traditional English Charter rights versus revolutionary human rights was a topic of discussion.

After a time of war, the animal people demanded civil rights and the Atlanteans used technology to expand the Savage Land's surface area for the animal people to live in.

Until the 20th century, optimism about progress was the most common attitude towards science ( with notable exceptions as Herbert G. Wells ), but latent anxieties about disturbing " the secrets of nature " would surface following the increasing role of science in wartime affairs, as well as increased scrutiny of vivisection and the development of the animal rights movement.

Beginning in the 1970s, conservative Christian protests against sexual immorality began to surface, largely as a reaction to the " permissive sixties " and an emerging prominence of sexual liberties arising from Roe v Wade and the gay rights movement.

Rapid City obtains most of its water supply from Rapid Creek and the alluvial aquifers associated with the creek, owning significant water rights in Pactola Reservoir located some west of the city, but does also obtain water from some springs in the vicinity, and has the ability to draw water from deep formations which receive water from recharge in areas of the Black Hills where the formations come to the surface.

The largest of these, the Bardenas Reales has a surface of 418 km < sup > 2 </ sup > and is governed by a board of representatives of 20 bordering municipalities, a valley in the Pyrenees, and a monastery, all of which have rights to use the area.

The new stadium reportedly cost less than half of a current-era NFL-style football stadium, and was built on what were former surface parking lots just a few blocks east of the former Memorial Stadium, with the naming rights purchased by TCF Bank.

Through late 19th century court decisions, Los Angeles had won the rights to all surface flow water atop an aquifer groundwater beneath the Valley, without it being within the city limits.

New freeway construction in Michigan has not included frontage roads since the completion of Interstate 696, most of which was constructed along the rights of way of major surface arteries, in 1989.

The project was opposed by neighboring water rights owners, local water conservation districts, the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, and the National Park Service who alleged the project would affect others water rights and cause significant environmental damage to nearby wetland and sand dune ecosystems by reducing the flow of surface water.

For example, the judicial approach to landowner rights to divert surface waters has changed significantly in the last century as public attitudes about land and water have evolved.

Sometimes this is not the same person who owns the surface rights.

In the 17th century, those who had land rights under what were called “ primordial title ” began to struggle with Spanish owned haciendas over surface water.

Heartened by this, Cox bought the rights to the remainder of the sunken fleet, and proceeded to lift the battlecruiser which was upside down in shallow water with her keel at the surface at low tide.

The rights of vehicle users are represented by the Green Lane Association, also known as GLASS and the Trail Riders Fellowship who oppose these restrictions on the basis that a road is just that, regardless of the type of surface.

In 2009, Special Products division of Marine Specialised Technology Limited bought KSA ( Underwater ) Ltd along with all rights to its product range including Subtug and Subskimmer Submersible Craft, and moved all production to its manufacturing facility in Liverpool where it already designs and manufactures surface craft for military and commercial applications.

These doctrines govern three areas: riparian rights, surface water rights, and underground water rights.

As with surface water and riparian rights, three theories of underground water rights have evolved.

Appropriative water rights are not always applied exclusively, as demonstrated by California which recognizes several different forms of water rights concurrently just for surface water.

Another early problem of buildup of cracks in the stator surface was eliminated by installing the spark plugs in a separate metal piece instead of screwing it directly into the block .. A later alternative solution to spark plug boss cooling was provided by variable coolant velocity scheme for water-cooled rotaries which has had widespread use and was patented by Curtiss-Wright, with the last-listed for better air-cooled engine spark plug boss cooling.

His patented inventions are a color graphics processor (" Data processing system and apparatus for color graphics display ") and an " Arrangement for producing a pattern on a light-sensitive surface "

The Astin-Weight piano company of Salt Lake City, Utah introduced two related innovations to the upright piano which were designed and patented by Edwin R. Astin Sr. Their purpose was to obtain the largest possible soundboard, and indeed, Astin-Weight soundboards cover the entire rear surface of the piano.

De Walt and others subsequently patented many variations on the original, but De Walt's original design ( sold under the moniker Wonder Worker ) remained the most successful: a circular saw blade directly driven by an electric motor held in a yoke sliding along a horizontal arm that is some distance above a horizontal table surface.

DuPont has a patented process for treating acetal homopolymer called satinizing which creates anchor points on the surface, giving an adhesive something to grab.

The E-300 uses Olympus ' patented Supersonic Wave Filter dust reduction system to shake dust from the sensor during startup and when requested by the user ; this largely eliminates the problem of dust accumulation on the surface of the image sensor.

The process was not froth flotation but used oil to agglomerate ( make balls of ) pulverised sulphides and buoy them to the surface, and was patented in 1898 with a description of the process published in 1903 in the Engineering and Mining Journal.

In 1903, Alfred Wehrsen patented an ebonite rotating disk possessing embedded sectors with button contacts at the disk surface.

However, other earlier patented technologies, such as that from Manteia ( acquired by Solexa ), which generate DNA on a solid phase surface by bridge amplification-are generally referred to as " Clusters ".

William Watts later patented the method used to drip the molten lead from a considerable height into the body of water below, a process " for making small shot perfectly globular in form and without dimples, notches and imperfections which other shot hereto manufactured usually have on their surface ".

The E-500 uses Olympus ' patented Supersonic Wave Filter dust reduction system to shake dust from the sensor during startup and when requested by the user ; this largely eliminates the problem of dust accumulation on the surface of the image sensor.

Spectacular displays of this sort are relatively rare in the entire land surface of the earth.

Improper irrigation of farm land can wick the sodium, calcium, and magnesium from the soil and water to the surface.

In contrast with other continents, it is marked by the comparatively small area of either very high or very low ground, lands under occupying an unusually small part of the surface ; while not only are the highest elevations inferior to those of Asia or South America, but the area of land over is also quite insignificant, being represented almost entirely by individual peaks and mountain ranges.

* global changes to land surface, such as deforestation

As a result, vegetation forms predicted by conventional biome systems are rarely observed across most of Earth's land surface.

Players take turns shooting discs across the circular playing surface, trying to have their discs land in the higher-scoring regions of the board, while also attempting to knock away opposing discs.

Introduction of pigs by guano miners at the beginning of the 20th century reduced the crab population on the island, which in turn allowed grassland to gradually cover about 80 percent of the land surface ( Sachet, 1962 ).

Beginning in fall 2007, the project will inject CO < sub > 2 </ sub > at the rate of one million tons per year, for up to 1. 5 years, into brine up to below the land surface near the Cranfield oil field about east of Natchez, Mississippi.

A region's climate is generated by the climate system, which has five components: atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, land surface, and biosphere.

Climate models use quantitative methods to simulate the interactions of the atmosphere, oceans, land surface and ice.

Cruise missiles can be categorized by size, speed ( subsonic or supersonic ), and range, and whether launched from land, air, surface ship, or submarine.

Rainforests once covered 14 % of the earth's land surface ; now they cover a mere 6 % and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years.

They claim that that rainforests 50 years ago covered 14 % of the world's land surface, now only cover 5 – 7 %, and that all tropical forests will be gone by the middle of the 21st century.

Its surface and shores are below sea level, Earth's lowest elevation on land.

Europe is the world's second-smallest continent by surface area, covering about or 2 % of the Earth's surface and about 6. 8 % of its land area.

The topography of the land determines the velocity at which surface runoff will flow, which in turn determines the erosivity of the runoff.

Urbanization has major effects on erosion processes — first by denuding the land of vegetative cover, altering drainage patterns, and compacting the soil during construction ; and next by covering the land in an impermeable layer of asphalt or concrete that increases the amount of surface runoff and increases surface wind speeds.

Other reasons include: a ) changes in plant canopy caused by shifts in plant biomass production associated with moisture regime ; b ) changes in litter cover on the ground caused by changes in both plant residue decomposition rates driven by temperature and moisture dependent soil microbial activity as well as plant biomass production rates ; c ) changes in soil moisture due to shifting precipitation regimes and evapo-transpiration rates, which changes infiltration and runoff ratios ; d ) soil erodibility changes due to decrease in soil organic matter concentrations in soils that lead to a soil structure that is more susceptible to erosion and increased runoff due to increased soil surface sealing and crusting ; e ) a shift of winter precipitation from non-erosive snow to erosive rainfall due to increasing winter temperatures ; f ) melting of permafrost, which induces an erodible soil state from a previously non-erodible one ; and g ) shifts in land use made necessary to accommodate new climatic regimes.

While scouting the land, as were the expedition members ' orders from the nation of Exile, the members are asked by the Empire to help save the surface from its blight.