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There was the day Uncle Izaak had, in an unexpected grandiose gesture, handed over the pretty sloop to Abel for keeps, on condition that he never fail to let his brother accompany him whenever younger the boy wished.
There is no prize awarded for mathematics, but see Abel Prize.
Abel left the Wings for Chicago following the season, and his spot on the roster was replaced by Alex Delvecchio.
Epinephrine was chosen as the generic name in the United States because John Abel, who prepared extracts from the adrenal glands in 1897, used that name for his extracts.
The theory of field extensions ( including Galois theory ) involves the roots of polynomials with coefficients in a field ; among other results, this theory leads to impossibility proofs for the classical problems of angle trisection and squaring the circle with a compass and straightedge, as well as a proof of the Abel – Ruffini theorem on the algebraic insolubility of quintic equations.
* 1962 – Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
In 1765 he returned to Berlin, only to leave again in 1767 to work for three years as a dramaturg and adviser at the Hamburg National Theatre ( the Hamburgische Entreprise ), whose main backer was Abel Seyler.
The exchange was for Soviet KGB Colonel Vilyam Fisher ( aka Rudolf Abel ), who had been caught by the FBI and jailed for espionage.
Toward the end of his life he wrote a letter for general circulation pointing out that Abel, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Moses and David were all keepers of sheep or cattle and therefore that a learned education should not be seen as a necessary qualification for ministry.
Another hypothesis for the origin of the term dates back to 1907, " when John Brandtjen convinced two young machinists from Oslo, Norway named Abel and Eneval Kluge to service and install presses for his fledgling printing equipment firm " ( see external link, history of the Kluge Platen Press ).
Later, it was discovered that this symphony was actually the work of Abel, copied by the boy Mozart — evidently for study purposes — while he was visiting London in 1764.
The Abel Prize is named for him.
In early 1823, Niels Abel published his first article in " Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne ", Norway's first scientific journal, which had been co-founded by Professor Hansteen.
Abel published several articles, but the journal soon realized that this was not material for the common reader.
After returning from Copenhagen, Abel applied for a government scholarship in order to visit top mathematicians in Germany and France ; but instead, he was granted 200 speciedaler yearly for two years, to stay in Cristiania and study German and French.
Abel had sent most of his work to Berlin to be published in Crelles Journal, but he had saved what he regarded his most important work for the French Academy of Sciences, a theorem on addition of algebraic differentials.
All this time, Crelle had been searching for a new job for Abel in Berlin, and had actually managed to have him appointed a professor at a university.
Abel gave a proof of the binomial theorem valid for all numbers, extending Euler's result which had held only for rationals.

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Abel Poupin, a tall man with sunken cheeks and deep-set eyes, got to his feet.
There she extracted two limp vellum sheets and wrote off the letters, one to Abel, one to Mark.
To Abel: `` I am afraid there is not much to amuse small children here.
What had once been a widespread family -- at one time, she knew, there were enough Packards to populate an entire county -- had now narrowed down to the two boys, Abel and Mark.
Abel sat and regarded the farm country which, spreading out from both sides of the road, rolled greenly up to where the silent white houses and long barns and silos nested into the tilled fields.
Abel moved and adjusted his long legs.
Not until the words had been spoken did Abel suddenly see the old house and the insistent sea, and feel his contrition blotted out in one shameful moment of covetousness.
Now Abel turned his head to look at his brother.
His sandy hair was already beginning to thin and recede at the sides, and Abel looked quickly away.
He gave Abel a quick glance and moved closer to the wheel, hugging it to him, and Abel caught this briefest of allusions to guilt.
'' Mark asked, and Abel lifted his eyes from the double lines in the middle of the road, the twin white ribbons which the car swallowed rapidly as it ascended the crest of the hill and came down.
`` The Starbird, '' Abel said.
Being the Harbor's sole doctor, Abel was also its Medical Examiner.
Doc Abel was busy up front with some of his live patients.
I told Moore I was going to eat, get some forms filled out by Doc Abel.
* 1925 – Abel Muzorewa, African politician, Prime Minister of Republic of Zimbabwe Rhodesia ( d. 2010 )
They are named after Niels Henrik Abel.
* White, David Manning, and Robert H. Abel, eds.
The best known composers from this period are Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven ; other notable names include Luigi Boccherini, Muzio Clementi, Antonio Soler, Antonio Salieri, François Joseph Gossec, Johann Stamitz, Carl Friedrich Abel, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and Christoph Willibald Gluck.
In 1996 Michel Brunet had unearthed a hominid jaw which he named Australopithecus bahrelghazali, and unofficially dubbed Abel.

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Haykal later claimed his bid was ignored by Newsweek's bankers, Allen & Co.
In 1873 Ysleta made a bid to become county seat, but the elections were ignored or inconclusive until 1878 after the Salt War period.

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The question, however, cannot be ignored for long.
But in any event, full credit should be given to the Cost Section for its express and overt recognition of a vital distinction too often ignored in utility-cost analyses: namely, that between a cost allocation designed to reflect the actual behavior of costs in response to changes in rates of output of different classes of utility service ; ;
Congress never enacted the resolution or even debated it, the national papers ignored it, and it resulted in a loss of political support for Lincoln in his district.
Indeed, the International Committee for Weights and Measures ( CIPM ) notes that " its definition applies only within a spatial extent sufficiently small that the effects of the non-uniformity of the gravitational field can be ignored.
* 1981 – Ronald Reagan fires 11, 359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
Two other uncommon sources were promoted by Alexander: Anselm of Canterbury, whose writings had been ignored for almost a century gained an important advocate in Alexander and he used Anselm's works extensively in his teaching on Christology and soteriology ; and, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, whom Alexander used in his examination of the theology of Orders and ecclesiastical structures.
In baseball statistics, on-base percentage ( OBP ; sometimes referred to as on-base average / OBA, as the statistic is rarely presented as a true percentage ) is a measure of how often a batter reaches base for any reason other than a fielding error, fielder's choice, dropped / uncaught third strike, fielder's obstruction, or catcher's interference ( the latter two are ignored as either times-on-base ( TOB ) or plate appearances in calculating OBP ).
However, for backward compatibility with early HTML authors and browsers that ignored this restriction, raw characters and numeric character references in the 80 – 9F range are interpreted by some browsers as representing the characters mapped to bytes 80 – 9F in the Windows-1252 encoding.
Road construction and maintenance were ignored by a financially hard-pressed government, while insurgents regularly destroyed bridges and rendered some routes unsafe for travel.
Throughout these proceedings, Roman legate Hilary repeatedly called for the reading of Leo's Tome of Leo's letter to the council, but was ignored.
* Very common initial words, such as The in English, are often ignored for sorting purposes.
When the angular velocity of this co-rotating frame is not constant, that is, for non-circular orbits, other fictitious forces — the Coriolis force and the Euler force — will arise, but can be ignored since they will cancel each other, yielding a net zero acceleration transverse to the moving radial vector, as required by the starting assumption that the vector co-rotates with the planet.
Once captured, he was humiliated by Hernando Pizarro and his requests for appeals to the King were ignored.
The resolution ignored the wishes of Eritreans for independence, but guaranteed the population some democratic rights and a measure of autonomy.
The controversy prompted one local politician to call for locals to boycott the performances, but this was largely ignored and the premiere was sold out.
The phrase " many-worlds " is due to Bryce DeWitt, who was responsible for the wider popularisation of Everett's theory, which had been largely ignored for the first decade after publication.
The official scapegoat for the disaster was Geoffrey de Rancon, who had made the decision to continue, and it was suggested that he be hanged ( a suggestion which the King ignored ).
The FSTA filed an amicus curiae in support of CBC, also arguing that if MLBAM won the lawsuit it would have a dramatic impact on the industry, which was largely ignored by the major sports leagues for years while a number of smaller entrepreneurs grew it into a multi-billion dollar industry, and a ruling could allow the MLBAM to have a monopoly over the industry.
Pope Benedict XVI said of both Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier: " not only their history which was interwoven for many years from Paris and Rome, but a unique desire — a unique passion, it could be said — moved and sustained them through different human events: the passion to give to God-Trinity a glory always greater and to work for the proclamation of the Gospel of Christ to the peoples who had been ignored.
Hayek continued his research on monetary and capital theory, revising his theories of the relations between credit cycles and capital structure in Profits, Interest and Investment ( 1939 ) and The Pure Theory of Capital ( 1941 ), but his reputation as an economic theorist had by then fallen so much that those works were largely ignored, except for scathing critiques by Nicholas Kaldor.
He ignored recent advice from his doctor Marcus de Laune Faunce not to play tennis or swim until the shoulder healed and reportedly obtained a prescription for morphine from another doctor.
It was ignored by the AI research community for some years, but later became very influential e. g. indirectly through the work of Sloman and Picard on emotions.

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