In the sixteenth century the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, an early supporter of the Copernican theory that the Earth and other planets orbit the Sun ( heliocentrism ), put forward the view that the fixed stars are similar to the Sun and are likewise accompanied by planets.

Since he was on the losing side of the long 4th-century contest between the allies and enemies of Arianism ( Eusebius was an early and vocal supporter of Arius ), posterity did not have much respect for Eusebius ' person and was neglectful in the preservation of his writings.

* 1888: Leo Tolstoy becomes an early supporter.

Conflicts included an attempt to conquer England – a cautious supporter of the Dutch – in the unsuccessful Spanish Armada, an early battle in the Anglo-Spanish War ( 1585 – 1604 ), and war with France ( 1590 – 1598 ).

Bentham was an early and staunch supporter of the utilitarian concept ( along with Hume ), an avid prison reformer, advocate for democracy, and strongly atheist.

An amateur photographer and Olympic sailor, he was an early supporter of Nazism among German industrialists, joining the SS in 1931, and never disavowing his allegiance to Hitler.

During his early presidency Kaunda was an outspoken supporter of the anti-apartheid movement and opposed white minority rule in Southern Rhodesia.

St-Laurent was an early supporter of British Prime Minister Clement Attlee's proposal to transform the British Commonwealth from a club of white dominions into a multi-racial partnership.

Lederman was an early supporter of Science Debate 2008, an initiative to get the then-candidates for president, Barack Obama and John McCain, to debate the nation's top science policy challenges.

He was an early supporter of Aaron Burr.

An early supporter was the French linguist Albert Cuny — better known for his role in the development of the laryngeal theory — who published his Recherches sur le vocalisme, le consonantisme et la formation des racines en « nostratique », ancêtre de l ' indo-européen et du chamito-sémitique (' Researches on the Vocalism, Consonantism, and Formation of Roots in " Nostratic ", Ancestor of Indo-European and Hamito-Semitic ') in 1943.

* Thomas Hill Green: Modern liberal thinker and early supporter of positive freedom.

" For example, Peter Schenkel, while remaining a supporter of SETI projects, has written that " n light of new findings and insights, it seems appropriate to put excessive euphoria to rest and to take a more down-to-earth view ... We should quietly admit that the early estimates — that there may be a million, a hundred thousand, or ten thousand advanced extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy — may no longer be tenable.

He was David Soslan, an Alan prince, to whom the 18th-century Georgian scholar Prince Vakhushti ascribes descent from the early 11th-century Georgian king George I. David, a capable military commander, became Tamar's major supporter and was instrumental in defeating the rebellious nobles rallied behind Yuri.

The first production of Lohengrin was in Weimar, Germany on 28 August 1850 at the Staatskapelle Weimar under the direction of Franz Liszt, a close friend and early supporter of Wagner.

As late as early 1968, Agnew was a strong supporter of Nelson Rockefeller, one of Nixon's opponents, but by June had switched to supporting Nixon.

Noted composer Percy Grainger was also an early admirer and supporter.

He was a protégé of Ben-Gurion and Dayan and an early supporter of the West Bank settlers during the 1970s.

An early supporter was Siegfried Sassoon, who became a lifelong friend.

Nolde was a supporter of the Nazi party from the early 1920s, having become a member of its Danish section.

He was an early and strong supporter of former National NDP Leader Jack Layton.

Francis Bacon was an English philosopher and scientist in the 17th century and an early and influential supporter of experimental science.

He was an early supporter of the socialists in Spain and visited the country in the 1930s.

William Carlos Williams was an early supporter of Siegel's poetry and defender of his views.

Brown's father became a supporter of the Oberlin Institute ( original name of Oberlin College ) in its early stage, although he was ultimately critical of the school's " Perfectionist " leanings, especially renowned in the preaching and teaching of Charles Finney and Asa Mahan.

In response they dramatically increased their efforts in SAM development, deploying the SA-1 Guild system around Moscow as early as 1955.

The origins of Norsk Data go back to the development of digital computers at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment at Kjeller, Norway, where several early computers had been designed, such as the SAM and the SAM 2, also known as the FLINK.

MGT started working their own home computer, the SAM Coupé, early on, while profits from MGT's other product financed its development.

Apaches fired the first shots of the war, destroying enemy early warning radar and SAM sites with their Hellfire missiles.

Richard E. Fuller, president of the Seattle Fine Arts Society, was the animating figure of SAM in its early years.

Software Automatic Mouth, or SAM, was a speech synthesis program for the early personal computers ; developed and sold by Don ’ t Ask Software.

The range was nominally shorter than the SA-2 Guideline missiles that the system was used against, although it was a great improvement over the early method of attacking SAM sites with rockets and bombs from F-100F Super Sabres.

Since the early 1950s, Brooks AFB has been the home for the Aerospace Medical Center, which would include the School of Aerospace Medicine ( SAM ).

František Fuka ( pronounced ) ( October 9, 1968 in Prague ) is a computer programmer and musician from the Czech Republic, well known in the ZX Spectrum and SAM Coupé communities for his work in the late 80s and early 90s as Fuxoft, especially for Tetris 2, an objective based unofficial sequel to Tetris.

It was the Poles ' early start at breaking Enigma, and the continuity of their successful efforts, that enabled the Allies to hit the ground running when World War II broke out.

The Japanese are said to have obtained an Enigma machine as early as 1937, although it is debated whether they were given it by their German ally or bought a commercial version which, except for plugboard and internal wirings, was essentially the German Army / Air Force machine.

Abwehr hand ciphers were cracked early in the war, and SD hand ciphers and Abwehr Enigma ciphers followed thereafter.

In response to protests from other senior officers that something was amiss as proven by the loss of the entire supply ship network in early 1941, in the middle of 1941 and again in the middle of 1942, Raeder ordered investigations into the security of German codes, but in both cases, it was concluded that the British were not reading German codes because the Enigma machine was considered to be unbreakable.

He then left DC to work for Disney in setting up Touchmark, before returning with those projects to Vertigo in early 1993, when he edited debut title Enigma, and later miniseries and one-shots such as Sebastian O, The Extremist, Mercy, Rogan Gosh, The Mystery Play, and Tank Girl: The Moovy.

The Mary Lincoln Enigma: Historians on America's Most Controversial First Lady ( Southern Illinois University Press ; 2012 ) 392 pages ; scholarly essays on her childhood in Kentucky, the early years of her marriage, her political relationship with her husband, and her relationship with her son Robert.

Shortly after Otis was released, Enigma Records went bankrupt, which in turn left much of Nixon's early catalog in legal limbo.

In the early 20th century, the invention of complex mechanical and electromechanical machines, such as the Enigma rotor machine, provided more sophisticated and efficient means of encryption ; and the subsequent introduction of electronics and computing has allowed elaborate schemes of still greater complexity, most of which are entirely unsuited to pen and paper.

The German Army Enigma symmetric encryption key was a mixed type early in its use ; the key was a combination of secretly distributed key schedules and a user chosen session key component for each message.

The Enigma machine was used commercially from the early 1920s and was adopted by the militaries and governments of various countries — most famously, Nazi Germany.

The Luftwaffe Enigma code was broken early in the war, unlike the German naval Enigma, which was only broken later and played no significant role in the Bismarck affair ..

In early 1942, he became the head of the Abwehr Enigma section.

In early 1940 Twinn made the first break into Enigma.

This formed the basis for early Enigma decryption by the British at Bletchley Park, northwest of London.

Only when British wartime decryption of Enigma ciphers was made public in the 1970s, did a Polish contribution begin to become known ; even then, however, the early versions published in Britain ( and some versions even to the end of the 20th century ) claimed that Polish intelligence had only been able to steal a German Enigma machine.