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decade and before
These carts were of a type devised in Pembina in the days of Alexander Henry the Younger about a decade before the Selkirk colony was begun.
In the field of entertainment there is no spur to financial daring so effective as audience boredom, and the first decade of the new device was not over before audiences began staying away in large numbers from the simple-minded, one-minute shows.
Roma finished in the lower half of Serie A for five seasons in a row, before eventually succumbing to their only ever relegation to Serie B at the end of the 1950 – 51 season ; around a decade after their championship victory.
Their operating systems, called MCP ( Master Control Program — the name later borrowed by the screenwriters for Tron ), were programmed in ESPOL ( Executive Systems Programming Oriented Language, a minor extension of ALGOL ), and later in NEWP ( with further extensions to ALGOL ) almost a decade before Unix.
As Adalvard was back in Bremen already by 1069 and is mentioned as one of Adam's sources of information, it would have been expected that word about Birka's destruction had reached also Adam before he published his work half a decade later.
This opened in 2000 and survived for a decade before sponsorship was eventually lost.
Determining styles in capoeira is a very tough task, since there was never a unity in the original capoeira, or a teaching method before the decade of 1920.
It's a pleasure to be able to say to you: Welcome to Channel Four ", before heading into a montage of clips from its programmes set to the station's signature tune, " Fourscore ", written by Lord David Dundas, which would form the basis of the station's jingles for its first decade.
Nearly a decade before he was born, his uncle David Guest, a lecturer and Communist Party member, was killed in the Spanish Civil War fighting in the International Brigades.
In 1849, during his tour of Britain he completed ( a decade and a half before the name Christadelphian was conceived ) Elpis Israel ( elpis being Greek for " hope ") – in which he laid out his understanding of the main doctrines of the Bible.
Like many other devices that were more fully developed in Europe during the next decade, what could be called the " atmospheric insert shot " made its first appearance in American films during the years before 1919.
Some alleged proofs, like Kempe's and Tait's mentioned above, stood under public scrutiny for over a decade before they were exposed.
New York Times film critic Vincent Canby, who a decade before had given a negative review to Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, gave Godzilla vs. Megalon a generally positive review.
Since Carangi's death, she has been considered a lesbian supermodel and icon and is said to have epitomized " lesbian chic " more than a decade before the term was coined.
The two protagonists of the fateful decade 1912 – 1922: King Constantine I of Greece | Constantine I and PM Eleftherios Venizelos in the days of their close cooperation during the Second Balkan War, before the deep political and personal rift between the two materialized and led to the National Schism.
A decade before the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the sequel Through the Looking Glass, Carroll wrote the first stanza to what would become " Jabberwocky " while in Croft on Tees, close to nearby Darlington, where he lived as a child,
They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations .” Following the Russian Revolution, environmental scientists such as revolutionary Aleksandr Bogdanov and the Proletkul't organisation made efforts to incorporate environmentalism into Bolshevism, and " integrate production with natural laws and limits " in the first decade of Soviet rule, before Joseph Stalin attacked ecologists and the science of ecology, purged environmentalists and promoted the pseudo-science of Trofim Lysenko.
* 1961 – Apollo program: U. S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a " man on the Moon " before the end of the decade.
" However, Freitas and Merkle argue that a focused effort to achieve diamond mechanosynthesis ( DMS ) can begin now, using existing technology, and might achieve success in less than a decade if their " direct-to-DMS approach is pursued rather than a more circuitous development approach that seeks to implement less efficacious nondiamondoid molecular manufacturing technologies before progressing to diamondoid ".
Trained Mesa programmers from Xerox were well versed in the fundamental of GUIs, networking, exceptions, and multi-threaded programming, almost a decade before they became standard tools of the trade.
Fowler was born in Walsall, England, and lived in London a decade before moving to United States in 1994.
Also, the typically multi-ethnic Byzantine force was always racked by dissension and lack of command unity, a similar situation also being encountered among the Sassanids who had been embroiled in a bitter civil war for a decade before the coming of the Arabs.
However, the television division would be playing catch-up for over a decade after Diller's departure in 1984 before launching its own television network – UPN – in 1995.

decade and classic
Upon release of a special 10th Anniversary edition of Lost Souls, Publishers Weekly — the same periodical that criticized the novel's " amorality " a decade prior — deemed it a " modern horror classic " and acknowledged that Brite established a " cult audience.
Porsche's sport coupes which were originally based on Volkswagen parts and platforms continue to use the classic rear engine layout ( which later became water-cooled ) in the Porsche 911 series, which remains competitive in the second decade of the 21st century.
Other popular films he starred during these decade were Falling Down, The American President, The Ghost and the Darkness, The Game ( directed by David Fincher ), and a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's classic – Dial M for Murder – titled A Perfect Murder.
In the late 2000s ( decade ) a new generation of young poets came, who prefer the classic style of writing, which inherits the traditions of the Silver Age: Maria Markova ( owner of the Russian presidential award ), Andrey Nitchenko ( winner of many authoritative literary contests ) and many others.
A decade later, after the success of the film, The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie, which consisted predominately of footage from the classic shorts by Jones, a new in-house studio to produce original animation opened its doors in 1980 named Warner Bros.
The oldies format was an attempt to recreate the station's history as a popular music station ( and was part of a nationwide fad of " real oldies " formats on AM radio stations in the early 2000s ( decade )), and while they maintained the official WWKB calls for station identification, they also played the original " WKBW Buffalo " jingles and featured many of the classic WKBW jocks including Armstrong and Neaverth.
The Daily Telegraph listed The Brown Bunny as one of the 100 " defining " films of the decade, calling it the decade's " most reviled " film, but saying it was " destined to become a future lost classic ".
However the east coast delivered one classic album after another for the rest of the decade.
In that same decade, a new incarnation of Hal Roach Studios ( operated by the Roach Trust ) was established, and today this new version of the company has released classic films on DVD, many of which are from Roach's own archival prints of his films, while others are public domain titles mastered from the best available 35 mm elements.
It became an instant classic among many observers, some of whom boldly declared it " the best electro album of the decade.
Later in the decade, Hovis teamed up with Gary Bernstein to form Bernstein-Hovis Productions, which produced the game shows Anything For Money, the original version of Lingo and the short-lived Yahtzee, a TV version of the classic dice game, for which Hovis also announced and served as a regular panelist.
The shot was fired at the Shubert Theater, where a riotously entertaining show called Crazy for You uncorked the American musical ’ s classic blend of music, laughter, dancing, sentiment and showmanship with a freshness and confidence rarely seen during the Cats decade.
Popular music, or " classic pop ," dominated the charts for the first half of the decade.
The first seven cartoons originated the classic opening line which was later adopted by the Superman radio series and in the live-action television series a decade later: " Faster than a speeding bullet!
Canaro composed the music for the 1915 Argentine classic, Nobleza gaucha, and later was romantically attached to Argentine actress and tango vocalist Ada Falcón, but the relationship, which began in the early 1920s, grew apart a decade later.
Becoming a naturalized Argentine citizen in 1940, much of his recorded music is in the classic salon style of that decade, but he is also considered a member of the old guard, and some of his later recordings contributed to the transition to concert tango.
The classic therapeutic ketogenic diet was developed for treatment of pediatric epilepsy in the 1920s and was widely used into the next decade, but its popularity waned with the introduction of effective anticonvulsant drugs.
" The movie was enormously successful, spawned a whole decade of disaster films, and is a cult classic today.
( Astaire would " retire " several more times over the next decade, but he would also go on to make a number of additional classic musicals in between retirements.
In the early 2000s ( decade ), 1970s music was increasingly included, and early 1980s music is beginning to also be called " oldies ", though the term " classic hits " is used to distinguish the " new " oldies ( the Generation X oldies ) from the " old " oldies ( the Baby Boomer oldies ).
Prospect Heights has seen rapid demographic changes over the last decade, and its shifts are exemplified by a mixture of older buildings under reconstruction, rows of classic 1890s brownstones, and newly built luxury condominiums.
In 1961 Rey played in a European Western, The Savage Guns, and as the popularity of that genre increased during that decade appeared in some other movies, including the political The Price of Power ( 1969 ), the bizarre cult classic Companeros ", and two sequels of The Magnificent Seven, namely Return of the Seven ( 1966 ) and Guns of the Magnificent Seven ( 1969 ).
2010 marked the 50th anniversary of Dr. Seuss's classic book, One Fish, Two fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, as well as the Census of Marine Life's celebration of a decade of discovery with the release of their 10-year report documenting biodiversity in the world's ocean.
Songs from the album were repeatedly covered throughout the decade by many artists, notably Eric Clapton who recorded " Ramblin ' On My Mind " on John Mayall's 1966 classic Bluesbreakers album, and " Cross Road Blues " with his own power trio Cream on the 1968 album Wheels of Fire.

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