After a short residence in Venice, he went to Rome in 1625 with an introduction from the Duke of Mantua to the late pope's nephew, Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi, who employed him for a time in the restoration of ancient statues.

* Morgan, Edmund S. Benjamin Franklin ( 2003 ) the best short introduction excerpt and text search, interpretation by leading scholar

In 1913, inspired by the introduction of women into Olympic swimming, designer Carl Jantzen made the first functional two-piece swimwear, a close-fitting one-piece with shorts on the bottom and short sleeves on top .< ref name = heritage >

Each episode opened ( and closed ) with a short spoken introduction ( delivered by Morris ) describing, in surreal, broken language, various bizarre feelings and situations, set to ambient music interspersed with short clips of other songs.

* Definition and Meaning, a very short introduction by Garth Kemerling ( 2001 ).

Being good: A short introduction to ethics.

* Wal Suchting, Marx: An Introduction includes a good short introduction

Although the spoken introduction to the short piece of music is quite clear, the piano playing is largely inaudible due to heavy surface noise.

* Machiavelli on the Net, a Machiavelli webliography with a short introduction.

There was a short period during the introduction of printing where parchment and paper were used interchangeably: although most copies of the Gutenberg Bible are on paper, some were printed on parchment.

Several processes were introduced and used for a short time between Niépce's first image and the introduction of the collodion process in 1848.

There is no consensus on a precise starting point of the New Wave-Adam Roberts refers to Alfred Bester as having singlehandedly invented the genre, and in the introduction to a collection of Leigh Brackett's short fiction, Michael Moorcock referred to her as one of the genre's " true godmothers ".

As a concentrated form of narrative prose fiction, the short story has been theorised through the traditional elements of dramatic structure: exposition ( the introduction of setting, situation and main characters ), complication ( the event that introduces the conflict ), rising action, crisis ( the decisive moment for the protagonist and his commitment to a course of action ), climax ( the point of highest interest in terms of the conflict and the point with the most action ) and resolution ( the point when the conflict is resolved ).

* Our Restless Tides: NOAA's practical & short introduction to tides.

The short dialogue Terentius et delusor was probably written to be performed as an introduction to a Terentian performance in the 9th century ( possibly earlier ).

* Okasha, Samir (), " Philosophy of science: A very short introduction ", Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

The term " Microcomputer " came into popular use after the introduction of the minicomputer, although Isaac Asimov used the term microcomputer in his short story " The Dying Night " as early as 1956 ( published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in July that year ).

Tales of Beatnik Glory: Volumes I and II, by Ed Sanders, is, as its name suggests, a collection of short stories, and a definitive introduction to the beatnik scene as lived by its participants.

An arrangement's first chorus is sometimes preceded by an introduction, which may be as short as a few measures or may extend to chorus of its own.

In the introduction to the 1967 edition of the book, Elliot Schaffer notes that in his short lifetime James Hunt is said to have treated over 1, 700 cases of speech impediment, firstly in his father's practise and later at his own institute, Ore House near Hastings, which he set up with the aid a doctorate he had purchased in 1856 from the University of Giessen in Germany.

Only one extremely short letter – EA 223 ( EA-el Amarna ) is written from Endaruta of Akšapa, and it is a one sentence topic: a short 3-sentence formal-Prostration formula | formulaic introduction ... " Whatever the king ( i. e. pharaoh ), my lord, orders, I shall prepare.

In the short term, the introduction of live sound recording caused major difficulties in production.

His introduction to his new adversary came with the sixth Oswald short The Ocean Hop ( September 8, 1927 ).

Although progress has been made in America's system of libraries it still falls short of what is required if we are to maintain the standards that are needed for an informed America.

They have three pairs of external red feathery gills, a blunt head with two rudimentary eyes, a lateral line system and a short tail with fins.

Adiabatic processes can occur if the container of the system has thermally-insulated walls or the process happens in an extremely short time, so that there is no opportunity for significant heat exchange.

This new system would not have to conform to any existing preconceptions, and was designed to be worthy of the Mac-a system that was user-installable, had zero-configuration, and no fixed network addresses-in short, a true plug-and-play network.

Thus, Walsh modified the vertical passing scheme he had learned during his time with the Raiders, designing a horizontal passing system that relied on quick, short throws-often spreading the ball across the entire width of the field.

0 km-There are no railways in Cape Verde, although there was a short overhead conveyor system for salt from the open salt lake on Sal to the port at Pedro de Lume and a short stretch of rail track to the pier at Santa Maria used for a similar purpose.

In short, it established an autocratic system under a republican veneer.

The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu — a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus of Lovecraft's famous short story The Call of Cthulhu ( first published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928 )— to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors.

Urukagina ( reigned c. 2380 BC – 2360 BC, short chronology ) had an early code that has not survived ; a later king, Ur-Nammu, left the earliest extant written law-system, the Code of Ur-Nammu ( c. 2100-2050 BC ), which prescribed a formal system of penalties for specific cases in 57 articles.

Several countries have used a system which is known as short form / long form.

Many cacti have a short growing season and a long dormancy and are able to react quickly to any rainfall, helped by an extensive but relatively shallow root system.

If the frame contains areas where nothing has moved, the system simply issues a short command that copies that part of the previous frame, bit-for-bit, into the next one.

There, as in other natural sciences and engineering disciplines, the evolution rule of dynamical systems is given implicitly by a relation that gives the state of the system only a short time into the future.

The nervous system sends information very quickly, and responses are generally short lived.

Three common models are ( a ) callers whose call-attempts are rejected go away and never come back, ( b ) callers whose call-attempts are rejected try again within a fairly short space of time, and ( c ) the system allows users to wait in queue until a circuit becomes available.

In 1926, Hollywood studio Warner Bros. introduced the " Vitaphone " system, producing short films of live entertainment acts and public figures and adding recorded sound effects and orchestral scores to some of its major features.

Trace decay theory explains memories that are stored in both short term and long term memory system.

In a short time, however, he developed decided ability as a ruler ; on entering upon his inheritance he divided the duchy into governmental districts, took measures to suppress the robber-knights, and regulated the judicial system by defining and readjusting the jurisdiction of the various law courts.

In this sense, the term has no real positive connotations, except for the idea that the hacker is capable of doing modifications that allow a system to work in the short term, and so has some sort of marketable skills.

" Hedge fund managers may hold a large number of investment positions for short durations and are likely to have a particularly comprehensive risk management system in place.

To the extent that an institutional system of social control falls short of these requirements, Fuller argues, we are less inclined to recognise it as a system of law, or to give it our respect.

Turbochargers get red hot during operation and the oil that is cooling them only survives as its residence time in the system is very short i. e. high flow rate.