At the turn of the 19th century, the city of Alameda took a large chunk of Charles Froling's land away to build a street.

The first version was ready in 1974 / 5, and work then started on multi-table systems in which the data could be split so that all of the data for a record ( some of which is optional ) did not have to be stored in a single large " chunk ".

Among other things, this treaty took away a large chunk of the Terai from Nepal and the rivers Mahakali and Mechi were fixed as the country's western and eastern boundaries.

That is, when an application program desires to send a large chunk of data across the Internet using IP, instead of breaking the data into IP-sized pieces and issuing a series of IP requests, the software can issue a single request to TCP and let TCP handle the IP details.

The basic concept of implosion is to use chemical explosives to crush a chunk of fissile material into a critical mass, where neutron multiplication leads to a nuclear chain reaction, which suddenly releases a large amount of energy.

With independence, it was feared, a large chunk of the money currently flowing into the Bermuda Government's coffers would disappear.

It is not always possible to perform this substitution, because there might not be a large enough chunk of free space beyond the end of A.

When ABB's board made the pension payment public, a huge scandal ensued and Barnevik was forced to resign as chairman of Investor, the Swedish investment company controlled by the powerful Wallenberg family, and to hand back a large chunk of his pension to ABB.

Mr. Liaw and Mr. Spencer were in charge of the spreadsheet engine ( written in assembly language ) while Mr. Low wrote a large chunk of the UI.

A large chunk of the area is covered by forest, but there are also heathlands.

This was because previously, each great family ruled a large chunk of land and each had their own king.

The most devastating development since Walt's death occurred in September 1979, when studio animator Don Bluth led a walkout of himself and 11 of his supporters ( a large chunk of the studio's animation department at the time ), including Gary Goldman and John Pomeroy.

When dealing with large media files, the expansion or contraction of the INFO chunk during tag-editing can result in the following " data " section of the file having to be read and rewritten back to disk to accommodate the new header size.

Baldwin took possession of a much-reduced Flanders, lessened by the large chunk, including Artois, given by Philip of Alsace as dowry to Baldwin's sister Isabelle of Hainaut, and another significant piece to his own wife.

* Obe ata pelu Shaaki — Nigerian Stew made with large chunk of cow and goat tripe

However, considering the fact that we have a large chunk of Digitally Literated audience, the digital medias are slowly replacing the printed version of year books.

" The mystic Barrier " at Bay of Whales, near where Amundsen first encountered itNote humans for size comparison ( dark spots next to the large chunk of sea ice at left image border )

The Tordesillas Meridian divided South America into two parts, leaving a large chunk of land to be exploited by the Spaniards.

Durham eventually persuades her, however, by showing her the complexity of the Autoverse planet she had designed, Planet Lambert, which had then been running on a suitably large chunk of the TVC universe for several billion subjective years.

I was fascinated because it's a name I didn't know about before, and it was filling up a large chunk of the Manhattan white pages.

Advani succeeded in drawing away a large chunk of Hindu voters who were already mortified at the rise of Mandal politics, away from the Congress.

He considered some of the exhibits, such as a red dress worn by Helen Thomas, as " faintly ridiculous " while praising others such as a large chunk of the actual Berlin Wall.

It also paved the way for the large supermarket chains to take a chunk of the book business, typically offering a small number of best-selling titles at deeply discounted prices.

Back then, it covered a large chunk of central part of the country, including such cities as Radom, Częstochowa and Sosnowiec.

Kendrew realized that the oxygen-conserving tissue of diving mammals could offer a better prospect, and a chance encounter led to his acquiring a large chunk of whale meat from Peru.

If, in a certain part of the range, it starts life 1 foot longer than do any of the other ( relatively large ) giants, and reaches maturity at, let us guess, 18 inches longer than the others, a quadrupling of the maturity length would result in a maximum of ( nearly ) 40 feet.

His face was always in the newspapers, sometimes in cartoons that seemed nearly as large as life.

As befits its weedy life history, amaranth grains grow very rapidly and their large seedheads can weigh up to 1 kilogram and contain a half-million seeds in three species of amaranth.

The Persian Wars would play a large role in the playwright's life and career.

A large collection of Maillol's work is maintained at the Musée Maillol in Paris, which was established by Dina Vierny, Maillol's model and platonic companion during the last 10 years of his life.

He remained Sovereign Grand Commander for the remainder of his life ( a total of thirty-two years ), devoting a large amount of his time to developing the rituals of the order.

Accidents have occurred, sometimes with a large loss of life, such as the 1988 disaster at Ramstein Air Base in Germany and the 2002 air show crash at Lviv, Ukraine.

The army reforms were not yet completed by the war of 1809, in which Charles acted as commander in chief, yet even so it proved a far more formidable opponent than the old and was only defeated after a desperate struggle involving Austrian victories and large loss of life on both sides.

It is clear that using oxygen to completely oxidize glucose provides an organism with far more energy than any oxygen-independent metabolic feature, and this is thought to be the reason why complex life appeared only after Earth's atmosphere accumulated large amounts of oxygen.

At last her own woman, Potter settled into the partnerships that shaped the rest of her life: her country solicitor husband and his large family, her farms, the Sawrey community and the predictable rounds of country life.

Steven Weinberg and a number of string theorists ( see string landscape ) have used this as evidence for the anthropic principle, which suggests that the cosmological constant is so small because life ( and thus physicists, to make observations ) cannot exist in a universe with a large cosmological constant, but many people find this an unsatisfying explanation.

The resultant flood washed out a large gladiatorial exhibition held to commemorate the opening, causing Claudius to run for his life along with the other spectators.

They then moved to Vernon, then to a house in Giverny in Normandy, where he planted a large garden and where he painted for much of the rest of his life.

Brâncuși represented or caricatured her life as a large gleaming bronze phallus.

* The comic series Concrete ( 1986 -) revolved around the life of an ordinary human whose brain had been placed in a large artificial stone body by aliens.

The album also references many aspects of British life and popular culture, and uses British slang to a large extent.

The red LED and blue / green vacuum fluorescent displays consumed a lot of power and the calculators either had a short battery life ( often measured in hours, so rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries were common ) or were large so that they could take larger, higher capacity batteries.

* someone acquitted of a " life sentence offence " ( murder, violent gang rapes, large commercial supply or production of illegal drugs ) where there is " fresh and compelling " evidence of guilt ;

In North America, Diesel engines are primarily used in large trucks, where the low-stress, high-efficiency cycle leads to much longer engine life and lower operational costs.

In 2011, Italian Disney fan forum papersera. net published Don Rosa: A Little Something Special ( edited by Italian Rosa fan Paolo Castagno ), a large folio format, bilingual ( Italian and English ) book about Rosa's life and work, containing interviews with Rosa and articles by many Italian and European Disney artists, Disney scholars, and established art critics commenting on Rosa's work and career, also including many exclusive, rare Rosa drawings and illustrations.

Paul Erdős ( 1913 – 1996 ) was an influential and itinerant mathematician, who spent a large portion of his later life living out of a suitcase and writing papers with those of his colleagues willing to give him room and board.

In contrast to his own diminutive stature, his personal assistant and secretary Eduard Hedvicek, who later played a significant role in the unsuccessful attempt to save his life was a very large and tall man ( 200 cm

Toward the end of his life, Fermi questioned his faith in society at large to make wise choices about nuclear technology.

A wave as it is understood in everyday life would paint a large area of the detection screen, but the electrons would be found to impact the screen at single points and would eventually form a pattern in keeping with the probabilities described by their identical wave functions.