Between that year and the buying out of Mr. Darling's interest in 1892, a large portion of the company's precision tool business was carried out under the name of Darling, Brown & Sharpe, and to this day many old precision tools are in use still bearing that famous trademark.

Every taxpayer is well aware of the vast size of our annual defense budget and most of our readers also realize that a large portion of these expenditures go for military electronics.

Semi-permanent mooring anchors ( such as mushroom anchors ) and large ship's anchors derive a significant portion of their holding power from their mass, while also hooking or embedding in the bottom.

) Given the exclusionary and ancestral conception of citizenship held by Greek city-states, a relatively large portion of the population took part in the government of Athens and of other radical democracies like it.

A large portion of his time was also devoted to anatomy, which science was regarded by him as the secret of the art.

Following Schubert's early death in 1828, Diabelli purchased a large portion of the composer's massive musical estate from Schubert's brother Ferdinand.

In the 1820s, the Russian-American Company, which administered a large portion of the North Pacific during a Russian led expansion of the fur trade, resettled many families to the Commander Islands ( currently, within the Aleutsky District of the Kamchatka Krai in Russia ) and to the Pribilof Islands ( currently in Alaska ), where there are currently established majority Aleut communities.

A large portion of its nearly 2, 000 T-55 tanks fell into disrepair, and eventually almost all of them were scrapped or sold to other countries.

A large portion of this strategy is the privatization of the National Telecommunications Office ( ONATEL ), with additional focus on a rural telephony promotion project.

The cerebellum of mammals contains a large portion ( the neocerebellum ) dedicated to supporting the cerebral cortex, which has no counterpart in other vertebrates.

A large portion of the site is now controlled by the Bletchley Park Trust.

Indirect combat through the use of aircraft and missiles now comprise of a large portion of wars in place of battles, where battles are now mostly reserved for capturing cities.

Nakagawa's defenses were based at Peleliu's highest point, Umurbrogol Mountain, a collection of hills and steep ridges located at the center of Peleliu overlooking a large portion of the island, including the crucial airfield.

After the loss of their capital, according to Strabo, a large portion of the Boii left Italy.

Due to the use of these biological weapons, and the apparent lack of medical advancement necessary to defend surrounding regions from them, widespread epidemics such as the bubonic plague quickly moved across all of Europe, destroying a large portion of its population.

76-91 ), most of which follows the Masoretic Text closely and with Mur XII reproducing a large portion of the text.

Bra-ket notation is widespread in quantum mechanics: almost every phenomenon that is explained using quantum mechanics — including a large portion of modern physics — is usually explained with the help of bra-ket notation.

Finally, the Black and Tans sacked Cork city, on the night of 11 December 1920, destroying a large portion of the city centre.

Given that drug poisoning causes a large portion of patients in a coma, hospitals first test all comatose patients by observing pupil size and eye movement, through the vestibular-ocular reflex.

Even tracing a portion large enough to produce an image takes an inordinate amount of time if the sampling is not intelligently restricted.

Due to the large number of calculations, a work in progress is usually only rendered in detail appropriate to the portion of the work being developed at a given time, so in the initial stages of modeling, wireframe and ray casting may be used, even where the target output is ray tracing with radiosity.

Lake Shore Drive runs adjacent to a large portion of Chicago's lakefront.

Since the 1990s, several novel classes of antiemetics have been developed and commercialized, becoming a nearly universal standard in chemotherapy regimens, and helping to successfully manage these symptoms in a large portion of patients.

In 2022, an explosion of an experimental hyperspace gateway severely damaged the Moon, resulting in a debris ring and meteor bombardments that eradicated a large portion of the Earth's population.

The controllers are a joystick without a base ; the main body is a large hand grip with a triangular " cap " on top, the top being the portion that actually moved for eight-way directional control.

His tomb still exists on the plateau between Lake Gygaea and the river Hermus to the north of Sardis — a large mound of earth with a substructure of huge stones.

Situated at its center, on the southern shore of Groom Lake, is a large military airfield.

The Quinte area played a vital role in bootlegging during Prohibition in the United States, with large volumes of booze being produced in the area, and shipped via boat on the Bay to Lake Ontario finally arriving in New York State where it was distributed.

One of the earliest accounts relating to a large unknown freshwater animal was in 1818, when Hamilton Hume and James Meehan found some large bones at Lake Bathurst in New South Wales.

At N ' Djamena the Logone empties into the Chari, and the combined rivers flow together for thirty kilometers through a large delta and into Lake Chad.

Dominant features are the large, almost centrally located, Tonle Sap ( Great Lake ) and the Mekong River, which traverses the country from north to south and is the 12th longest river in the world.

Caligula had two large ships constructed for himself, which were recovered from the bottom of Lake Nemi during the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini.

The ecological effects of the eruption of a large caldera can be seen in the record of the Lake Toba eruption in Indonesia.

The large, saltwater predecessor of the Dead Sea is called " Lake Lisan.

Gygax spent his early childhood in Chicago, but in 1946 ( after he was involved in a brawl with a large group of boys ), his father decided to move the family to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where Gary's mother's family had settled in the early 19th century.

Owens Lake in California also contains a large population of the halophilic bacteria Halobacterium halobium.

This includes one of only two known cyprinid species flocks ( the other, from Lake Lanao in the Philippines, has been decimated by introduced species ), which consists of fifteen relatively large, up to long, Labeobarbus barbs.

Lake Tana supports a large fishing industry, mainly involving the Labeobarbus barbs ( formerly in genus Barbus ), Nile tilapia and sharptooth catfish ( a large catfish that is widespread in Africa ).

Although it is smaller than the Great Lakes of Ontario, Erie, Huron, Superior, or Michigan, Lake Champlain is a large body of fresh water.

The monster still receives considerable attention, as indicated by the name ( Vermont Lake Monsters ) and mascot ( Champ ) of the state's minor league baseball team and a Vermont Historical Society publication, which also offers several mundane explanations for the so-called monster: " floating logs, schools of large sturgeons diving in a row, or flocks of black birds flying

Slavic prince Pribina began to build in January 846 a large fortress as his seat of power and several churches in the region of Lake Balaton, in a territory of modern Zalavár surrounded by forests and swamps along the river Zala.

The Lake Eyre Basin is a large endorheic system surrounding the lakebed, the lowest part of which is filled with the characteristic salt pan caused by the seasonal expansion and subsequent evaporation of the trapped waters.

As the flood did not start filling the lake's deepest point ( Belt Bay ) until late March little bird life appeared preferring instead to nest in the upper reaches of the Lake Eyre Basin, north of Birdsville, where large lakes appeared in January as a result of monsoonal rain.

" Another of Hagenbeck's sources, Hans Schomburgk, asserted that while at Lake Bangweulu, he noted a lack of hippopotami ; his native guides informed him of a large hippo-killing creature that lived in Lake Bangweulu ; however, as noted below, Schomburgk thought that native testimony was sometimes unreliable.

According to cryptozoologists Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe, authors of the Field Guide to Lake Monsters, " African guides found large, unexplained tracks along the bank of a river and later in a swamp the team heard mysterious roars, which had no resemblance with any known animal ".

Natives of the Bangombe tribe who lived near Lake Tele were said to have constructed a large spiked fence in a tributary of Tele to keep Mokèlé-mbèmbé from interfering with their fishing.