However, as a practicing historian, he, himself, has left few clues to the amount of professional scholarship that he used when writing history.

Except for a rich friendship with the painter, Chauncey Ryder who gave him the only professional instruction he ever had -- and this was limited to a few lessons, though the two artists often went on painting trips together -- Roy developed his art by himself.

But with the exception of professional athletes, few contact sports and physical education activities in our schools have any carryover in the adult life of the average American man or woman.

A few professional baseball players cultivated eccentricities, with the encouragement of the press, so that they might see their names in big black print, along with Daddy Browning's, Al Capone's, Earl Sande's, and the Prince of Wales'.

Active alumnae have built a fine building on the campus where members can come and stay for a few days or longer and where they can have their social gatherings and professional meetings.

Although the National Association held on for a few more seasons, it was no longer recognized as the premier organization for professional baseball.

A few US professional societies whose professions frequently employ various non-word characters, such as chemistry and computer programming, use the British form in their style guides ( see ACS Style Guide ).

There are only a few professional cheerleading leagues around the world ; some professional leagues include the NBA Cheerleading League, the NFL Cheerleading League, the CFL Cheerleading League, the MLS Cheerleading League, the MLB Cheerleading League, and the NHL Ice Dancers.

The first few years of Clarke's professional career were largely theatrical, apart from her role in Dragonslayer.

According to some fans, a tour guide explained that Jerry Jones invited a few professional soccer players to drop kick soccer balls to try to hit the screen.

Association football is the most prominent team sport for women in several countries, and one of the few women's team sports with professional leagues.

A few fanzines have evolved into professional publications ( sometimes known as " prozines "), and many professional writers were first published in fanzines ; some continue to contribute to them after establishing a professional reputation.

Only a few fans could afford more professional printers, or the time it took them to print, until photocopying became cheap and ubiquitous in the 1970s.

Each of FAO ’ s Goodwill Ambassadors – celebrities from the arts, entertainment, sport and academia such as Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi Montalcini, actress Gong Li, the late singer Miriam Makeba, and soccer players Roberto Baggio and Raúl, to name a few – has made a personal and professional commitment to FAO ’ s vision: a food-secure world for present and future generations.

These competitions have contributed to local interest in the sport and the first professional local team, the Fuerteventura-Canarias, was formed, initially run by Óscar Guerrero, director of Kaiku, although they have not competed for the past few seasons.

The Great Man approach to history was most fashionable with professional historians in the 19th century ; a popular work of this school is the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition ( 1911 ) which contains lengthy and detailed biographies about the great men of history, but very few general or social histories.

Whilst a few social scientists who draw inspiration from ' organic ' views of society have embraced Gaia philosophy as a way to explain the human-nature interconnections, most professional social scientists are more involved in reflecting upon the way Gaia philosophy is used and engaged with within sub-sections of society.

In Germany, only very few professional associations obtained the right to negotiate salaries and working conditions for their members, notably the medical doctors association Marburger Bund and the pilots association Vereinigung Cockpit.

Lyon & Healy harps are widely-played by professional musicians since they make one of the few harps for orchestral use — which are known as " concert harps " or " pedal harps ".

The four year, full-time undergraduate program maintains a balance between professional majors and those in the arts and sciences, and is selective, admitting few transfer students and 9. 7 % of its applicants in the 2010 – 2011 application season.

Membership is limited to established professional cartoonists, with a few exceptions of outstanding persons in affiliated fields.

Indeed, in most western nations relatively few physicians smoke, and their professional knowledge does appear to have a beneficial effect on their health and lifestyle.

Indeed, it has only been a matter of the last few years that reputable schools of art have granted degrees at all.

We will make a few simplifying assumptions: that the uncompressed volume of the cylinder is 1000cc's ( one liter ), that the gas within is nearly pure nitrogen ( thus a diatomic gas with five degrees of freedom and so

For example, cold weather crops like rye, oats, wheat, and apples are expected to decline by about 15 % in the next fifty years and strawberries will drop as much as 32 % simply because of projected climate changes of a few degrees.

In 1835, Methodist Episcopal settlers established Albion College, which was known by a few other names before 1861 when the college was fully authorized to confer four-year degrees on both men and women.

For geometries, bond lengths can be predicted within a few picometres and bond angles within 0. 5 degrees.

Piazzi could only track Ceres for a few months, following it for three degrees across the night sky.

It has a relatively high orbital inclination, but at the time of Tombaugh's discovery of Pluto, Makemake was only a few degrees from the ecliptic near the border of Taurus and Auriga at an apparent magnitude of 16.

In this book, Hofstadter jokingly describes himself as " pilingual " ( meaning that the sum total of the varying degrees of mastery of all the languages that he's studied comes to 3. 14159 ...), as well as an " oligoglot " ( someone who speaks " a few " languages ).

More prolonged moderate heating to temperatures just a few degrees above normal ( 39, 5 ° C ) can cause more subtle changes.

For this reason, most implantation is carried out a few degrees off-axis, where tiny alignment errors will have more predictable effects.

Cousteau changed course a few degrees off the optimal course to the center of the strait, and the porpoises followed for a few minutes, then diverged toward mid-channel again.

However, locations along the Indian Ocean have more moderate temperatures, as a few degrees cooler in the daytime, such as at Mombasa ( see chart below ).

Although Kenya is centered at the equator, it shares the seasons of the southern hemisphere: with the warmest summer months in February-March and the coolest winter months in July-August, although only a few degrees cooler.

In general, a flat-surface uncoated LED semiconductor chip will emit light only perpendicular to the semiconductor's surface, and a few degrees to the side, in a cone shape referred to as the light cone, cone of light, or the escape cone.

Rigid bodies have size and shape, but retain a simplicity close to that of the particle, adding just a few so-called degrees of freedom, such as orientation in space.

Kearny said the maximum estimated temperature drop would be only about by 20 degrees Fahrenheit ( 11 degrees Celsius ), and that this amount of cooling would last only a few days.

The temperature in the south is usually a few degrees higher than the north and temperatures in the central interior mountains are always cooler than the rest of the island. the highest temperature record was in the Town of San German with 105 ° F and the minimum registration is 39 ° F in Aibonito.

Various processes and methodologies have been developed over the last few decades to improve software quality management, with varying degrees of success.

It is suspected this explains how the location of the island was certainly known to the English only a few years later, for example, William Barrett ( who died in 1584 as English consul at Aleppo, Syria ) stated the island was “ sixteene degrees to the South ”, which is precisely the correct latitude.

The STM can be used not only in ultra-high vacuum but also in air, water, and various other liquid or gas ambients, and at temperatures ranging from near zero kelvin to a few hundred degrees Celsius.

Typical modern snowboards have an upward curvature of a few degrees along the effective edges.

Seasonal divisions are more clearly marked in the northern half than in the southern half of the country, where, except in some of the highlands, seasonal temperatures vary only a few degrees, usually in the range.