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* 1918 – Malbone Street Wreck: the worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 deaths.
Shot noise is produced by electrons in transit across a discontinuity, which occurs in all detectors.
** Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in world history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 dead.
* December 6 – The last transit of the planet Venus until 2004 occurs.
* March 21 – A syzygy of planets occurs as Mercury transits the Sun as seen from Venus, and Mercury and Venus both transit the Sun as seen from Saturn.
* June 6 – A transit of Venus occurs, and is observed from 120 locations around the Earth.
* June 5 – 6 – The century's second and last solar transit of Venus occurs.
* A transit is the astronomical event that occurs when one celestial body appears to move across the face of another celestial body, hiding a small part of it, as seen by an observer at some particular vantage point.
* A transit occurs when a celestial body crosses the meridian due to the Earth's rotation, about halfway between rising and setting.
A transit occurs when an apparently smaller body passes in front of an apparently larger one.
In pilotage and position fixing, a transit, in British English, or range, in American English, occurs when an observer and two fixed reference points form a straight line.
A void-of-Course Moon occurs when the moon in transit makes its final major aspect before it changes from one sign of the zodiac to the next.
But as more suburbanization occurs, central business districts decline, and people acquire more wealth a successful rail transit system might become harder to achieve in the future.
If the planet passes directly in front of the sun, a solar transit occurs.

transit and when
A seventh landing mission, the 1970 Apollo 13 flight, failed in transit to the Moon when an oxygen tank explosion disabled the command spacecraft's propulsion and life support, forcing the crew to use the Lunar Module as a " lifeboat " for these functions to return to Earth safely.
as a transit route to Chad, when attacking N ' Djamena.
Such doors are popular in public transit stations, as it has a large capacity, and when the door is opened, traffic passing in both directions keeps the door open.
But what happens when we keep decreasing the intensity of the beam, so that only one photon is in transit at any time?
Integrity is violated when a message is actively modified in transit.
It is the second largest metro system in the world in terms of route miles, after the Shanghai Metro and part of the largest system in terms of route miles when taken together with the Docklands Light Railway. The light metro lines in London are operated by the Docklands Light Railway, whereas the Shanghai Metro is a group of four companies which operate heavy rail rapid transit and light metro lines.
Until 3 July 2011, when Arriva took over bus operations, there were approximately 500 buses in public transit service in Malta, most of them privately owned by the bus drivers themselves, and operated to a unified timetable set by the transport authority.
San Marino's hope to escape further involvement was shattered on 27 July 1944 when Major Gunther, commander of the German forces in Forlì, delivered a letter from German headquarters in Ferrara to San Marino's government declaring that the country's sovereignty could not be respected if, in view of military requirements, the necessity of transit of troops and vehicles arose.
When Mercury passes in front of the Sun, it is a transit of Mercury, and when Venus passes in front of the Sun, it is a transit of Venus.
* Navigational transit, when a navigator observes two fixed reference points in line
Rail transit was re-introduced when TRAX, a light rail system, opened in 1999.
Large quantities of undelivered goods were in Britain or in transit when Lend-Lease terminated on 2 September 1945.
Wheat bran, is minimally fermented and binds water and when added to the diet increases fecal weight in a predictable linear manner and decreases intestinal transit time.
* First contact, the moment in astronomical transit when the apparent positions of the two bodies first touch
The city was largely developed in the early 5th century BC, when it was selected to serve as the port city of classical Athens and was transformed into a prototype harbour, concentrating all the import and transit trade of Athens.
First, it plugs uncomplicatedly into lurking anxieties -- in this case the ones we brush aside when we daily surrender ourselves to mass transit in a world where the loonies are everywhere ".
It is also said that when in transit, the crew of the ship encountered a problem and the ship went down with the bell and was never to be found again.
This LZ is used when weather or other constraints prevent transit to more distant and remote training LZ ’ s.
On 1 March 2012, KL Monorail was integrated with the Ampang Line light rail transit when the " paid-up " or restricted areas of the Hang Tuah monorail and LRT stations, and also at the Titiwangsa monorail and LRT stations, were physically linked up, allowing transfers without the need to buy new tickets for the first time since the system became operational.
This is an important consideration when trying to build a rail transit system into a built-up urban environment, such as Toronto.
Ostend became a transit harbour to England in 1846 when the first ferry sailed to Dover.
On December 9, 2010, the U. S. Federal Government passed the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010 in order to improve Continuity of Operations and ensure essential Federal functions are maintained during emergency situations ; to promote management effectiveness when telework is used to achieve reductions in organizational and transit costs and environmental impacts ; and to enhance the work-life balance of workers.
The city suffered several invasions, by the Magyars in 925-926, when the cathedral was destroyed, and by the Saracens ( 940 and 954 ), but afterwards it flourished thanks to its location, where the roads from several major Alpine transit routes come together and continue down the Rhine river.
When an article is posted, the process is much the same as when a transit server receives news, but with additional checks.

transit and Venus
In 1766, the Royal Society engaged Cook to travel to the Pacific Ocean to observe and record the transit of Venus across the Sun.
In 1874 – 1875, British, German and U. S. expeditions visited Kerguelen to observe the transit of Venus.
Nevil Maskelyne and Robert Waddington set up an observatory in 1761 to observe the transit of Venus, following a suggestion first made by Halley.
The scientists of this group observed the transit of Venus and recorded waves produced by the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa.
* November 24 – Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus.
* April 13 – James Cook arrives in Tahiti on the ship HM Bark Endeavour, preparing to observe the transit of the planet Venus, which takes place on June 3.
) A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in the historical past.
An observation of a transit of Venus requires a huge range of auxiliary beliefs, such as those that describe the optics of telescopes, the mechanics of the telescope mount, and an understanding of celestial mechanics, all of which must be justified separately.
An observation of a transit of Venus is justified by its being coherent with our beliefs about optics, telescope mounts and celestial mechanics.
* Edmond Halley observes the transit of Venus.
The voyage then progressed to Tahiti ( where the transit of Venus was observed, the overt purpose of the mission ), to New Zealand and to the east coast of Australia, where Cook mapped the coastline and made landfall at Botany Bay and at Endeavour River ( near modern Cooktown ) in Queensland, where they spent almost seven weeks ashore while the ship was repaired after becoming holed on the Great Barrier Reef.
In 1758 Maskelyne was admitted to the Royal Society, which in 1761 despatched him to the island of St. Helena to observe the transit of Venus.
The astronomical measurements taken of the transit of Venus by a number of countries since 1639 resulted in a progressively more accurate definition of the AU.
* 1716 – Edmond Halley suggests a high-precision measurement of the Sun-Earth distance by timing the transit of Venus
* 1761-Joseph-Nicolas Delisle 62 observing station network for observing the transit of Venus
* 1769-Short reflectors used at 63 station network for transit of Venus

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