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survey and squadron
More peaceful operation carried out by the squadron included survey flights, casualty evacuation and carrying mail, while the squadron carried out a long-distance return trip from Aden to Cairo and back in 1932.
The sites were so remote that the RCAF had to form up its first all-helicopter squadron in order to provide flight support for the survey teams.
All attempts at communication fail, and the Bugs ambush the survey squadron, with a great loss of material and human life.
Galactica discovers Kobol, but when it sends a survey team to its surface, their Colonial Raptor is shot down by a squadron of Cylon Raiders dispatched by a Basestar orbiting the planet.
In addition to exploration, the naval squadron was tasked with the duties to survey both the newly found areas and survey other areas previously discovered, but about which there was insufficient knowledge.

survey and travels
Although the film does show that Lawrence could speak and read Arabic, could quote the Quran, and was reasonably knowledgeable about the region, it barely mentions his archaeological travels from 1911 to 1914 in Syria and Arabia, and ignores his espionage work, including a pre-war topographical survey of the Sinai Peninsula and his attempts to negotiate the release of British prisoners at Kut in Mesopotamia in 1916.
Houghton's report of 1841 which resulted from his survey was eighty-eight pages in length and he spent more than twenty-seven pages discussing the copper and copper ore he witnessed in his travels.
* William Matthew Flinders Petrie travels to Egypt and conducts a survey of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

survey and through
For 10 years Sponsor has issued an annual survey of the size and characteristics of the Negro market and of successful techniques for reaching this market through radio.
Beginning around 1960, the philosopher and historian of ideas Max Fisch ( 1900 – 1995 ) emerged as an authority on Peirce ; Fisch ( 1986 ) includes many of his relevant articles, including a wide-ranging survey ( Fisch 1986: 422 – 48 ) of the impact of Peirce's thought through 1983.
He planned to dig a canal through the Isthmus in Greece and sent a chief centurion to survey the work.
By 1798 Thompson had completed a survey of from Grand Portage, through Lake Winnipeg, to the headwaters of the Assiniboine and Mississippi Rivers, as well as two sides of Lake Superior.
These included denying surveyors sent by the province the ability to survey any land in the Grants, not just land owned through the Wentworth grants.
St. Laurent was ranked # 4 on a survey of the first 20 prime ministers ( through Jean Chrétien ) of Canada done by Canadian historians, and used by J. L. Granatstein and Norman Hillmer in their book Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders.
a skeptical survey of the field through history
A survey from the 1830s stated that the canal would be long and would generally follow the San Juan River from the Atlantic to Lake Nicaragua, then go through a series of locks and tunnels from the lake to the Pacific.
The 1974 book in which deMause included essays of nine professional historians, The History of Childhood, offers a survey of the treatment of children through history.
Bennett was ranked # 12 by a survey of Canadian historians out of the then 20 Prime Ministers of Canada through Jean Chrétien.
Judah undertook to survey and plan a way through what was one of the chief obstacles of a central route to California: a way over the high and rugged Sierra Nevada mountains.
Lewis M. Clement, Chief Assistant Engineer and Superintendent of TrackFrom January or February 1861 until July, Judah and Strong led a 10-person expedition to survey the route for the railroad over the Sierra Nevada, through Clipper Gap, Emigrant Gap, Donner Pass, and south to Truckee.
:: Without undertaking to survey the intricacies of the ripeness doctrine it is fair to say that its basic rationale is to prevent the courts, through avoidance of premature adjudication, from entangling themselves in abstract disagreements over administrative policies, and also to protect the agencies from judicial interference until an administrative decision has been formalized and its effects felt in a concrete way by the challenging parties.
Three weeks later the French explorer Nicolas Baudin sailed through the strait from east to west and was the first to properly survey the coast to the west.
An advance survey team progressed through dense wilderness at approximately 3 kilometres a month.
The second half of the record lists his service to private enterprise through the introduction of epochal ideas, such as quality control and market survey techniques.
Andrew Ellicott continued the survey with his brothers Benjamin and Joseph Ellicott and other assistants through 1791 and 1792.
But in 1673, the Duke of York had commissioned a survey line of his territory ( called the Transpeninsular Line ) that ran across the widest part of the peninsula through Fenwick Island, about 15 miles south of Cape Henlopin.
Maskelyne proposed measuring the gravitational force deflection induced by the pull of a nearby mountain upon a plumb-bob in 1772 and sent Mason ( who had returned to England ) on a site survey through central England and Scotland to find a suitable location during the summer of 1773.
Typography: An encyclopedic survey of type design and techniques through history.
Madison County is bounded by beginning at a point on Big Black River, where the same crosses the center line in township twelve, range three, east ; thence east to the old Choctaw boundary line ; thence north on said boundary line to the center line of township twelve, range five, east ; thence through the center of said township twelve, range five, east, to the range line between townships five and six, east ; thence south on said range line to Pearl River ; thence down said river, with its meanderings, to the line between townships six and seven, north ; thence west on said township line to the basis meridian of the Choctaw survey ; thence north on said meridian line to the line between townships seven and eight, north ; thence west on said township line to the line between ranges two and three, west ; thence north on said range line to Big Black River ; thence up said river, with its meanderings, to the beginning.
In England, the condition of scheduled monuments is also reported through the Heritage at Risk survey.
The first vehicular track was constructed through the region during an expedition and survey in 1954, it ran from Gibb River Station to Kalumburu.
A road survey was conducted near Loch McNess in 1862 and later in 1865 a stock route was built through the area that was later used by drovers.
Norman Zacour in the survey A History of the Crusades ( 1962 ) generally follows Munro's conclusions, and adds that there was a psychological instability of the age, concluding the Children's Crusade " remains one of a series of social explosions, through which medieval men and women — and children too — found release ".

survey and previously
2009 compared transcriptional profiles using short-oligonucleotide microarrays ( Affymetrix Porcine GeneChip ) to survey differentially expressed genes between parthenotes ( 2 maternal genomes ) and control fetuses ( 1 maternal, 1 paternal genome ) An intriguing study surveying the transcriptome of murine brain tissues revealed over 1300 imprinted gene loci ( approximately 10-fold more than previously reported ) by Illumina RNA-sequencing ( RNA-Seq ) technology from F1 hybrids resulting from reciprocal crosses.
The General Survey Act of 1824, allowed a survey that established the western border of Arkansas Territory well inside the present state of Oklahoma, where the Choctaw and Cherokee tribes had previously begun to settle.
Meanwhile, the Enterprise is en route to Vega Colony to drop off wounded crew members when it receives a distress call from the survey vessel SS Columbia, lost 18 years previously.
Essentially, previously existing survey systems were " grandfathered " in.
It is likely that John Priddy – previously the engineer for the Stroudwater scheme – carried out the survey, but others were soon involved including Sir Edward Littleton, who was part of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.
* USC & GS Baton Rouge ( 1875 ), previously USCS Baton Rouge, a survey ship in commission in the United States Coast Survey from 1875 to 1878 and in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1878 to 1880
In 1983, HMAS Moresby, a Royal Australian Navy survey ship, surveyed the area where Muirfield was damaged, and charted in detail this previously unsuspected hazard to navigation, the Muirfield Seamount.
One such opinion, given in 2006 based on a geological survey, suggested that the ice shelf had collapsed previously, perhaps suddenly, which could well happen again.
* NOAAS Mount Mitchell ( S 222 ), a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration survey ship in commission from 1970 to 1995 which had previously served in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey as USC & GS Mount Mitchell from 1968 to 1970
On Tuesday, June 19, 2007, following a meeting of the Annapolis Group, which represents over 100 liberal arts colleges, Sarah Lawrence announced that it would join others who had previously signed the letter to college presidents asking them not to participate in the " reputation survey " section of the U. S. News and World Report survey ( this section comprises 25 % of the ranking ).
During a routine survey of Narragansett Bay in 2004, the NOAA ship, The Rude, discovered a previously unknown wreck.
Dimboola is located in Shire of Hindmarsh in the Wimmera region of Western Victoria, Australia, 334 kilometres north-west of Melbourne. Situated on the Wimmera River in the State of Victoria, the town of Dimboola was previously known as ' Nine Creeks '. Following a survey conducted in late 1862 by contractor Frederick Smith of Ararat, a plan for a township in the County of Dimboola was proposed.
The world ’ s first 4D survey using nodes was acquired over the Atlantis field in 2009, with the nodes being placed by a ROV in a water depth of 1300-2200m to within 30m of where they were previously placed in 2005.
The objective was to deliver supplies to Kamchatka, and survey previously unexplored islands along what is now the northwestern coast of Alaska.
A survey of species richness and geographical range size did not show the decrease in range size from temperate regions to the tropics that had been previously assumed ; although that pattern was largely true in the northern hemisphere, it did not appear to apply in the southern hemisphere.
A survey of the site by the RAF and English Heritage has attempted to record and interpret what was previously so secret that no plans from the period exist.
The Bank was previously recognised as a customer service leader in third party surveys, but the 2010 CHOICE consumer survey shows customer satisfaction is on par with the other " big four ", lagging behind small credit providers.
However, rather than maintain the loss of accreditation, the panel instead placed the medical education program on probationary accreditation, pending the LCME's consideration of the results of a full survey visit to take place as previously scheduled on January 29 – February 1, 2012.
Also, Bumpattabumpah was previously named ' Phxux Xauan ' but was changed because a survey revealed that less than 12 % of the population were able to pronounce it.
( The interferometer had previously been used for the 2C survey, published in 1955.
In 2001 an application to further extend the Bayston Hill quarry was turned down after a detailed survey identified six previously unknown historical sites of archaeological importance that would be destroyed by the proposed extension.
) An archaeological field survey is the primary tool for discovering information about previously uninvestigated areas.
Intensive survey is the more costly, timely, and ultimately informative of the two approaches, although extensive survey can provide important information about previously unknown areas.

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