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* ditto d ' Optique ( 1750 ), & c.

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* ditto de Mécanique ( 1743 ), & c.
* Map showing first two digits of postal codes ( see List of postal codes in the Netherlands ), ditto
The union runs four shops on campus, Essentials ( all-purpose food and essentials ), Parkwood Essentials ( ditto, but in student village Parkwood ), Extras ( off-licence ) and " Unique " ( a clothing shop ).
According to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Universe has an infinite area ( as far as anyone can make out ), no imports whatsoever ( because the Universe has no outside from which to import anything ), exports ( ditto ), art ( because " the function of art is to hold a mirror up to nature, and there simply isn't a mirror big enough "), or population ( because its population, by definition, must be finite, and the number of planets is infinite, as there is infinite space to put them in ; not all planets are inhabited, and any finite number divided by infinity is zero, or as near to it as makes no odds ), or sex ( well, there is an awful lot of this, largely because of the total lack of anything else that might keep the non-existent people of the universe occupied ).
Any transformation of the plane leaving this pattern invariant can be decomposed into a translation, ( x, y )( n + x, y ), optionally followed by a reflection in either the horizontal axis, ( x, y )( x ,− y ), or the vertical axis, ( x, y ) → (− x, y ), provided that this axis is chosen through or midway between two dots, or a rotation by 180 °, ( x, y ) → (− x ,− y ) ( ditto ).
* The Emperor Tacitus is acclaimed by the Senate, meeting in the ' Curia Pompiliana ' ( no such building ) and after orations by the consul ' Velius Cornificius Gordianus ' ( no such person ) and ' Maecius Faltonius Nicomachus ' ( ditto: most of the ' Maecii ' in the HA are invented ), he goes to the Campus Martius and is presented to the troops by the Prefect of the City ' Aelius Cesettianus ' ( no such person ) and the Praetorian Prefect ' Moesius Gallicanus ' ( ditto: the HA has several invented ' Gallicani ').
There is documented, based on archeological examination of graves, a three-class division of societies: farmers were burned and buried in simple, flat graves ( they were in the Bronze Age buried in ditto ; the cremation was merely a new custom from continental Europe, and not a particular burial process imposed on farmers ), grand farmers and aristocrats were buried together with rich goods, and chieftains were buried in mounds.

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The ditto machine ( spirit duplicator ) sold by Ditto, Inc. beginning in 1910, used two-ply " spirit masters " or " ditto masters ".
In a review of the DVD critic Gary W. Tooze lauded Edward's direction and the acting, writing, " Blake Edwards's powerful adaptation of J. P. Miller's Playhouse 90 story, starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick in career performances, remains a variation in his body of work largely devoted to comedy ... Lemmon is at his best and ditto for Remick in this harrowing tale of people consumed by their mutual addiction.
Historically, when a parish was dominated by a fundamentalist majority and ditto rector, the liberal minority would often set up a voluntary congregation with their own rector-and vice versa.
In a tabulated table or list, vertical repetition can be represented by a ditto mark (〃).
The book opens with a green ditto being chased across the city by ditto thugs of Beta, a criminal figure engaged in copyright violation by kidnapping desirable dittos and duplicating them.
ditMaharal runs away, and when the gray follows, he is captured by the ditto.
Riggs defended Tongues Untied for its ability to “ shatter this nation's brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference .” He explained that the widespread attack on PBS and the National Endowment for the Arts by moral critics in response to the film was predictable, since “ any public institution caught deviating from their puritanical morality is inexorably blasted as contributing to the nation's social decay .” In his defense, Riggs claimed that “ implicit in the much overworked rhetoric about ' community standards ' is the assumption of only one central community ( patriarchal, heterosexual and usually white ) and only one overarching cultural standard ( ditto ) to which television programming must necessarily appeal .” Riggs stated that ironically, the censorship campaign against Tongues Untied actually brought more publicity to the film than it would have otherwise received and thus allowed it to achieve its initial aim of challenging societal standards regarding depictions of race and sexuality.
---- ditto, co-published as another festscrift by the Sultanate of Oman, Muscat, Oman, 1995.
Designed by Enrico Fumia, his line could remember in part one of the successful predecessor, the Autobianchi Y10, wedge-shaped with a nearly vertical tailgate, but it is much larger than 30 cm, with innovative design " quadrifrontale " or " Four-side-look ", where the arches are repeated on all sides of the car ( both front and in the queue, ditto on the sides ).

d and Astronomie
* L ' âge d ' or de l ' astronomie ottomane, Antoine Gautier, in L ' Astronomie, ( Monthly magazine created by Camille Flammarion in 1882 ), December 2005, volume 119.
In an 1847 work, Etudes d ' Astronomie Stellaire: Sur la voie lactee et sur la distance des etoiles fixes, Struve was one of the first astronomers to identify the effects of interstellar extinction ( though he provided no mechanism to explain the effect ).
Groups from the Institut d ' Astrophysique in Liege and the Laboratoire d ' Astronomie Spatiale in Marseille contributed optical performance, calibration and alignment test procedures ; Captec in Dublin and Logica in London contributed to the on-board software and calibration.
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* Antoine Gautier, L ' âge d ' or de l ' astronomie ottomane, in L ' Astronomie, ( Monthly magazine created by Camille Flammarion in 1882 ), December 2005, volume 119.

d and 1746
* 1694 – Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher ( d. 1746 )
* 1686 – Jean-Joseph Fiocco, Flemish ( Belgian ) composer ( d. 1746 )
* 1746 – Archduchess Marie Amalie of Austria, duchess of Piacenza ( d. 1806 )
* 1746 – Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer ( d. 1826 )
* 1746 – King Gustav III of Sweden ( d. 1792 )
* 1746 – George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Royal Navy admiral ( d. 1823 )
* 1746 – Thomas Heyward, Jr., American statesman, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ( d. 1809 )
* 1746 – André Michaux, French botanist ( d. 1802 )
* 1709 – Georg Steller, German naturalist ( d. 1746 )
* 1746 – William Billings, American composer ( d. 1800 )
* 1656 – Thomas Baker, English antiquarian ( d. 1746 )
* 1693 – Charles Radclyffe, English politician ( d. 1746 )
* date unknown – Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Italian rabbi, mystic, and philosopher ( d. 1746 )
* December 25 – Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter ( d. 1746 )
* October 26 – John Peter Zenger, newspaper printer ( d. 1746 )
* September 14 – Thomas Baker, English antiquarian ( d. 1746 )
* October 20 – Nicolas de Largillière, French painter ( d. 1746 )
* November 15 – Hermann von der Hardt, German historian ( d. 1746 )
* March 10 – Georg Steller, German naturalist ( d. 1746 )
* February – Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician ( d. 1746 )
* December 10 – King Christian VI of Denmark ( d. 1746 )
* date unknown – Robert Blair, Scottish poet and cleric ( d. 1746 )
* August 8 – Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher ( d. 1746 )
* September 3 – Charles Radclyffe, British politician ( d. 1746 )

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