In 1195 Walter issued an ordinance by which four knights were appointed in every hundred to act as guardians of the peace, a precursor to the office of Justice of the Peace.

He worked as farmer in Steuben County, Indiana until the age of 47, but following the death of his wife in 1958 he joined the International Voluntary Services, a precursor to the Peace Corps, which offered him a job as an agricultural adviser in Laos.

In September 2009, the journal Nature reported that researchers at the University of Washington and University of Florida were able to give trichromatic vision to squirrel monkeys using gene therapy, a hopeful precursor to a treatment for color blindness in humans.

* September 23 – Leopold I Habsburg grants the status and privileges of a university to the Jesuit Academy in Zagreb, the precursor to the modern University of Zagreb.

William Henry Fox Talbot ( 11 February 180017 September 1877 ) was a British inventor and photography pioneer who invented the calotype process, a precursor to photographic processes of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The university was founded on 22 September 1910 by Justo Sierra, then Minister of Education in the Porfirio Díaz regime, who sought to create a very different institution from its 19th-century precursor, the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico, which had been founded on 21 September 1551 by a royal decree signed by Crown Prince Phillip on behalf of Charles I of Spain and brought to a definitive closure in 1867 by Benito Juárez and his fellow Liberals.

Eric Paul Allman ( born September 2, 1955 ) is an American computer programmer who developed sendmail and its precursor delivermail in the late 1970s and early 1980s at UC Berkeley.

Galdos demonstrated an early map style engine pulling data from an Oracle-based " GML " data server ( precursor of the WFS ) at the first OGC Web Map Test Bed in September 1999.

Francis Melvin Rogallo ( January 27, 1912 – September 1, 2009 ) was an American aeronautical engineer inventor born in Sanger, California, U. S. A .; he is credited with the invention of the Rogallo wing, or " flexible wing ", a precursor to the modern hang glider and paraglider.

Lastly, on 30 September 1948, Federal recognition was granted to the 170th Fighter Squadron, the precursor to the 183d Fighter Wing, with 60 men meeting Thursday nights at the State Armory.

* September Massacres – the September 1792 massacres of prisoners perceived to be counter – revolutionary, a disorderly precursor of the Reign of Terror.

On September 7, 1959, CUC's precursor Beijing Broadcasting Institute ( BBI ) was established.

The precursor to Hurricane Fern was a cold front that entered the Gulf of Mexico in late September.

Started at Power 99 in September 1992, hosting a nightly alternative music program called " Power 99 On the Edge ", a precursor to 99X's format change nearly two months later.

Explorers We is a thematic precursor to A Little Something For Us Tempunauts, and was reprinted as a limited edition booklet to commemorate Dick's appearance at the Second International Festival of Science Fiction at Metz, France, September 1977.

The precursor to Pellissippi State, State Technical Institute at Knoxville, was established on September 4, 1974.

Stanisław Konarski ( actual name: Hieronim Konarski ; born September 30, 1700 in Żarczyce Duże, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship – died August 3, 1773 in Warsaw, Poland ) was a Polish pedagogue, educational reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist monk and precursor of the Enlightenment in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth.

A friend put Kweskin in touch with New York City's Atlas Comics, the 1950s precursor of Marvel Comics, and Kweskin " flew into NYC in August or September 1952 " to met with Atlas editor-in-chief Stan Lee.

On September 26, 1906 the first armed rebellion against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, precursor to the Mexican Revolution began in Jiménez, it was led by Juan José Arredondo and Calixto Guerra, members of the Partido Liberal Mexicano of Ricardo Flores Magon.

On June 25, 2000, 94. 3 in Garden Grove became " Cool 94. 3 " in Anaheim, with a " cool AC " format ( somewhat of a precursor to the Jack FM format ), and the call letters changed to KMXN on September 29, the call letters likely being chosen because the format was similar to previous Orange County station KXMX known as " Mix 95. 9 " ( now KFSH-FM ).

From this viewpoint, the A-law and μ-law algorithms ( G. 711 ) used in traditional PCM digital telephony can be seen as a very early precursor of speech encoding, requiring only 8 bits per sample but giving effectively 12 bits of resolution.

This position was effectively the precursor to the Department of the Navy ( effectively making Vernon the first Secretary of the Navy, before the position was officially established in the 1790s ).

The International Bible Students Association ( precursor to Jehovah's Witnesses ) identified Abaddon as Satan in the 1917 seventh and final volume of Millennial Dawn, to which Charles Taze Russell's name was attached ( although his authorship of the work is doubted ).

However, the possibility of actually constructing a conscious machine was probably first discussed by Ada Lovelace, in a set of notes written in 1842 about the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, a precursor ( never built ) to modern electronic computers.

The trial and execution of Charles by his own subjects shocked the rest of Europe ( the king argued to the end that only God could judge him ) and was a precursor of sorts to the beheading of Louis XVI 145 years later.

Collini was the curator of the " Naturalienkabinett ", or nature cabinet ( a precursor to the modern concept of the natural history museum ), in the palace of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria at Mannheim.

In 1828, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve praised Chénier as an heroic forerunner of the Romantic movement and a precursor of Victor Hugo.

Although eclipsed by his contemporaries ( like Charles Darwin ), Sclater may be considered as a precursor of biogeography and even pattern cladistics.

His great-grandson was also named Charles Chauncy ( 1705 – 1787 ), minister of the First Church ( Congregational ) of Boston 1727 – 1787, an Old-Light opponent of Jonathan Edwards and the New Light ministers of the Great Awakening, and a precursor of Unitarianism.

At nearly the same time, in America, Charles R. Keeran was developing a similar pencil that would be the precursor of most of today's pencils.

This was the original site of Charles Herrold's experimental broadcasts which were the precursor of KCBS.

In the case that is the precursor to Wecht's federal prosecution, US vs. Wecht, Wecht ruled that Charles Dixon had been suffocated through positional asphyxiation during a 2002 encounter with police officers from Mount Oliver and Pittsburgh.

Thornton posed for sculptor Charles Sykes and was the model for his Spirit of Ecstasy, which is used as the bonnet / hood ornament on cars manufactured by Rolls-Royce, as well as a precursor sculpture, The Whisperer.

The precursor to today ’ s American Dance Festival began in 1934 as the Bennington Festival, a summer program at Bennington College where modern dance pioneers Hanya Holm, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman came together to teach dance technique and perform new works.

Within a 24 hour period, Martin Beck searches through the policeman's many enemies for the killer, for whom the murder was only a precursor to a Charles Whitman-style attack on Stockholm.

Continuing collaboration with the staff at Farnborough proved helpful in the quest for higher quality, but, ironically, Courtaulds's big advantage as manufacturer of the " Courtelle " precursor now became a weakness.

In 1980, van Vogt received a " Casper Award " ( precursor to the Canadian Aurora Awards ) for Lifetime Achievement .< ref >

The figurative style of his large bronzes is perceived as an important precursor to the greater simplifications of Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti, and his serene classicism set a standard for European ( and American ) figure sculpture until the end of World War II.

This technique, a precursor to impressionism, is noted for the short brush strokes where the colors are not necessarily blended smoothly.

It was also the first BBS to produce audio for its visitors, broadcasting news about screen printing and music in a pre-recorded method in what was the precursor to Internet Radio.

Chemical kinetics experiments can then be carried out in a " pump-probe " fashion using a laser to initiate the reaction ( for example by preparing one of the reagents by photolysis of a precursor ), followed by observation of that same species ( for example by laser-induced fluorescence ) after a known time delay.

* Dimethyl adipate, a precursor for Adipic acid

DARPA has been responsible for funding the development of many technologies which have had a major effect on the world, including computer networking, as well as NLS, which was both the first hypertext system, and an important precursor to the contemporary ubiquitous graphical user interface.

Another Scandinavian people, the Rus ' people, would go on to found Kievan Rus ', an early state which was a precursor for the modern country of Russia.

Major trans-shipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and cannabis and transit point for South American cocaine destined for Western Europe ; limited producer of precursor chemicals, particularly for amphetamines and methamphetamines

Due to her inventions of words for her lyrics and a constructed script, many conlangers look upon her as a medieval precursor.

This version was the precursor to the multimedia features available in Windows 3. 1 and later, and was part of Microsoft's specification for the Multimedia PC.

In 1957, Shearer played the precursor to the Eddie Haskell character in the pilot episode for the television series Leave It to Beaver, but his parents decided not to let him continue in the role so that he could have a normal childhood.

He saw the industrialisation process as the logical dialectical progression of feudal economic modes, necessary for the full development of capitalism, which he saw as in itself a necessary precursor to the development of socialism and eventually communism.

Andrew Koch, for instance, sees Stirner as a thinker who transcends the Hegelian tradition he is usually placed in, arguing that his work is a precursor poststructuralist ideas about the foundations of knowledge and truth.

The Lollard movement was a precursor to the Protestant Reformation ( for this reason, Wycliffe is sometimes called " The Morning Star of the Reformation ").

These included the Disarmament Commission, the Health Organization, the International Labour Organization ( ILO ), the Mandates Commission, the International Commission on Intellectual Cooperation ( precursor to UNESCO ), the Permanent Central Opium Board, the Commission for Refugees, and the Slavery Commission.

It is also a precursor for many drugs including heroin ( 3, 6-diacetylmorphine ), hydromorphone ( dihydromorphinone ), and oxymorphone ( 14-hydroxydihydromorphinone ).

The Netherlands ' postwar customs union with Belgium and Luxembourg ( the Benelux group ) paved the way for the formation of the European Community ( precursor to the EU ), of which the Netherlands was a founding member.

Arachidonic acid is the precursor substrate for cyclooxygenase leading to the production of prostaglandins F, D & E.

Androstenedione is a substance of weak androgenic activity which serves predominantly as a precursor for more potent androgens such as testosterone as well as estrogen.