An exhaustive survey was made of the literature, and a primary reference file of approximately 600 references was catalogued.

This action was rationalized on the basis of a small survey which indicated that a high percentage of married freshmen women on our campus never become sophomores.

The expedition was under orders to make a swift survey of conditions and then to return to Earth.

Wakefield's idea was for the Government to survey and sell the land at a rate that would maintain land values high enough to be unaffordable for labourers and journeymen.

Light's survey was completed in this period, and land was promptly offered for sale to early colonists.

A cadastral survey seems also to have been instituted, and one of the documents relating to it states that a certain Uru-Malik, whose name appears to indicate his Canaanite origin, was governor of the land of the Amorites, or Amurru as the semi-nomadic people of Syria and Canaan were called in Akkadian.

He compiled a survey of mirror configurations in his work on remarkable mechanical devices which was known to Arab mathematicians such as Ibn al-Haytham.

It was the only way they could be mounted and survey the overall battlefield with safety from distant musket fire.

By 1987 a comprehensive survey of the phylum was completed: in all, 4516 species and 339 genera had been named.

In 2001, it achieved high rankings in the annual Maclean's University Rankings, including Best Overall for Primarily Undergraduate University in their opinion survey, and it received the Canadian Information Productivity Award in 1997 as it was praised as the first university in Canada to fully utilize information technology in the undergraduate curriculum.

The claims of Hawkins were largely dismissed, but this was not the case for Alexander Thom's work, whose survey results of megalithic sites hypothesized widespread practice of accurate astronomy in the British Isles.

Some people even believe that this was the biblical event of Noah's flood, but despite their historical significance, the first spectacular images of these submarine channels were obtained in 1999 ( Di Iorio, et al., 1999 ) in the frame of a NATO SACLANT Undersea Research project using jointly the NATO RV Alliance, and the Turkish Navy survey ship Çubuklu.

In 2002, a new survey was carried out on board the Ifremer RV Le Suroit for BlaSON project ( Lericolais, et al., 2003 ) completed the multibeam mapping of this underwater channel fan-delta.

The survey was run and coordinated from the Institute of Marine Sciences research ship, the R / V Koca Piri Reis.

Their accuracy has been called into question, however ( e. g., by Chauncey Brewster Tinker in The Translations of Beowulf, a comprehensive survey of 19th-century translations and editions of Beowulf ), and the extent to which the manuscript was actually more readable in Thorkelin's time is unclear.

In 1794, this fortress was used by the French astronomer Pierre François André Méchain for observations relating to a survey stretching to Dunkirk that provided the official basis of the measurement of a metre.

Although the SDP was seen as being largely a breakaway from the right wing of the Labour Party, an internal party survey found that 60 % of its members had not belonged to a political party before, with 25 % being drawn from Labour, 10 % from the Conservatives and 5 % from the Liberals.

It was also a crossover smash, reaching No. 1 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart and No. 2 on Billboard's Country survey.

Starting from 1880 the Hungarian census system was based on native language ( the language spoken at home in the early life of the person and at the time of the survey ), vulgar language ( the most frequently used language in the family ), and other spoken languages.

A survey of papers on Chinese history in the early 21st century would reveal relatively little attempt to fit Chinese history into a master paradigm of history as was common in the 1950s.

The January 2007 estimated population of the island was 281, 000, while the figure for the March 1999 census, when most of the studies – though not the linguistic survey work referenced in this article – were performed, was about 261, 000 ( see under Corsica ).

In 1797, Thompson was sent south by his employers to survey part of Canada-U. S. boundary along the water routes from Lake Superior to Lake of the Woods to satisfy unresolved questions of territory arising from the Jay Treaty between Great Britain and the United States.

There was the day Uncle Izaak had, in an unexpected grandiose gesture, handed over the pretty sloop to Abel for keeps, on condition that he never fail to let his brother accompany him whenever younger the boy wished.

In a report made by a Captain Mathew Munthe on an anti-piracy patrol for North Carolina, " Thatch " was described as operating " a sloop 6 gunns and about 70 men ".

Her captain, Henry Bostock, and crew, remained Teach's prisoners for about eight hours, and were forced to watch as their sloop was ransacked.

Realizing that the Adventure Prize was a marked vessel, he cached it in the Caribbean Sea and continued toward New York aboard a sloop.

Despite opinion that such a voyage was impossible and his having retired, Slocum rebuilt a derelict sloop Spray and sailed her single-handed around the world.

Arnold's raid was a success ; he seized the sloop HMS Royal George, supplies, and a number of bateaux.

Upon his return to Britain in 1779, Vancouver was commissioned as a lieutenant and posted aboard the sloop surveying coastlines.

** USS Sacramento ( 1862 ) was a sloop, launched in 1862 and wrecked in 1867.

*, was a ten-gun sloop commissioned in 1775, and served in the American Revolutionary War

*, was also a ten-gun sloop and took part in the First Barbary War

*, was a brig-rigged sloop of war launched on 28 July 1805 and sank in a storm on 29 September 1829

*, a block sloop in commission from 1812 to 1814 that was part of Joshua Barney's Chesapeake Bay Flotilla in the War of 1812

Whilst the cutter rig with twin foresails was once the standard rig for most cruising yachts until the 1960s ( when it began to be replaced by the two-sail sloop rig ) it is now only commonly found on larger cruising yachts ( usually around and over ).

With a total landmass of, and lacking any natural resources, other than the Bermuda cedar, the colonists applied themselves fully to the maritime trades, developing the speedy Bermuda sloop, which was well suited both to commerce and to commerce raiding.

* was a 14-gun sloop purchased in 1784, and lost in a hurricane later that year.

* was an Antelope-class iron paddle sloop launched in 1846 and sold in 1883.

One of the major events on the road to revolution in which Madeira played a key role was the British seizure of John Hancock ’ s sloop the Liberty on May 9, 1768.

Generally, a sloop was smaller than a frigate ; however, in the later days of the U. S. Navy's sailing fleet, some of the largest vessels were called sloops because they carried fewer guns than a frigate, as few as 20.

The classification of sloop was similar to that of a corvette.

With a total area of and lacking any natural resources other than the Bermuda cedar, the colonists applied themselves fully to the maritime trades, developing the speedy Bermuda sloop, which was well suited both to commerce and to commerce raiding.

When the Bermudian sloop Seaflower was seized by the Bahamians in 1701, the response of Bermuda Governor Bennett was to issue letters of marque to Bermudian vessels.

The battle ended after the sloop was beached and ran out of munitions, having fired over 400 rounds at the invading fleet.

* was a sloop constructed in 1806 and captured during the War of 1812

* was a sloop chartered in 1813 and returned to her owners in 1814