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.

* Love in Transit ( chamber opera )

* Austin ( CTA Blue Line ), on the Chicago Transit Authority's Blue Line

At a meeting to inaugurate the Northern Corridor Transit Coordination Authority ( NCTCA ), the governments of Uganda and Burundi backed the proposed new railway from the Ugandan western railhead at Kasese into the DRC.

The Ministry also created the National Institute of Transit ( from the Spanish Instituto Nacional de Tránsito ), ( INTRA ) under the Transport and tariffs Directorate and was in charge of designing the first National roads plan with the support of many foreign multinational construction companies.

Afghanistan and Pakistan recently signed into law a new Afghan-Pak Trade and Transit Agreement ( APTTA ), which allows their shipping trucks to transit goods within both nations.

Many councils also have their own bus operators, such as Tampere City Transit ( TKL ), which operates some bus lines on a commercial basis in competition with privately owned providers.

1939 was a busy year, as he opened the 1939 New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, opened New York Municipal Airport No. 2 in Queens ( later renamed Fiorello H. LaGuardia Field ), and had the city buy out the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, thus completing the public takeover of the subway system.

With the individual satellites being associated with the name Navstar ( as with the predecessors Transit and Timation ), a more fully encompassing name was used to identify the constellation of Navstar satellites, Navstar-GPS, which was later shortened simply to GPS.

Available for purchase in every station of the Mass Transit Railway system, the Octopus card is a non-touch payment system which allows payment for not only public transport ( such as trains, buses, trams, ferries and minibuses ), but also at parking meters, convenience stores, supermarkets, fast-food restaurants and most vending machines.

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.

Its principal sections were: Political, Financial and Economics, Transit, Minorities and Administration ( administering the Saar and Danzig ), Mandates, Disarmament, Health, Social ( Opium and Traffic in Women and Children ), Intellectual Cooperation and International Bureaux, Legal, and Information.

For example, in the two famous Kinsman Transit cases from the 2nd Circuit ( exercising admiralty jurisdiction over a New York incident ), it was clear that mooring a boat improperly could lead to the risk of a boat drifting away and crashing into another boat, and that both boats could crash into a bridge, which collapsed and blocked the river, and in turn, the wreckage could flood the land adjacent to the river, as well as prevent any traffic from traversing the river until it had been cleared.

* Quincy ( CTA ), a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's ' L ' system

Sans Souci ( NSW ), Australia: Transit Press.

* Titan ( Transit Advertising Company ), a media sales company specializing in Out-of-Home advertising

In Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority ( 1985 ), the Court changed the analytic framework to be applied in Tenth Amendment cases.

The Utah Transit Authority ( UTA ) runs several buses through the university area as well as the TRAX Red Line ( light rail ), which runs to South Jordan.

There is a public bus service called Virgin Islands Transit ( VITRAN ), operated by Department of Public Works.

" often figures into jokes, like Special High Intensity Training ( a well-known joke used in job applications ), Special Hot Interdiction Team ( a mockery on SWAT ), Super Hackers Invitational Tournament, and any college name that begins with an S-H ( like Sam Houston Institute of Technology or South Harmon Institute of Technology in the 2006 film Accepted or Store High In Transit in the 2006 film Kenny ).

Launched in 2006 by the United Steelworkers and the Sierra Club, BGA has since grown to include the Communications Workers of America ( CWA ), Natural Resources Defense Council ( NRDC ), Service Employees International Union ( SEIU ), National Wildlife Federation ( NWF ), Utility Workers Union of America ( UWUA ), Union of Concerned Scientists ( UCS ), American Federation of Teachers ( AFT ), Amalgamated Transit Union ( ATU ), United Auto Workers ( UAW ), and the United Food and Commercial Workers ( UFCW ).