There is ongoing discussion among academics over the nature of the Nimrud lens, a piece of quartz unearthed by Austen Henry Layard in 1850, in the Nimrud palace complex in northern Iraq.

In pointing to how conditioned sexual behavior can persist over time, one may cite how, in 2004, when quails were trained to copulate with a piece of terry cloth, their conditioning was sustained through ongoing repetition.

Rather than receiving a single payment for a piece of manufactured equipment, many manufacturers are now receiving a steady stream of revenue for ongoing contracts.

The traffic reports cover strange traffic accidents, such as a piece of pie blocking the road and coverage of an ongoing crash that has been in progress south of Newcastle upon Tyne for several weeks ; police marksmen to shoot speeding drivers in the chin ; as well as general traffic reports including a claim that workers have finished cobbling the M25.

While Clark was absent from 1998 to 2007 to pursue ongoing solo projects, Priest and Miller continued the band as a five piece joined by the vocalist David Bassey ; keyboardist Chris Hallam, and bassist Nick Abnett.

In July, the Great Fear of aristocratic reprisal against the ongoing French Revolution struck France, arriving in the Barcelonnette area on 31 July 1789 ( when the news of the storming of the Bastille first reached the town ) before spreading towards Digne.

One of Tramiel's first acts after forming Atari Corp. was to fire most of Atari's remaining staff, and to cancel almost all ongoing projects, in order to review their continued viability.

Their official status in Israel was an ongoing issue for many years, but in May 1990, the issue was resolved with the issuing of first B / 1 visas, and a year later, issuing of temporary residency.

Debate about the Asian origin of the Huns has been ongoing since the 18th century when Joseph de Guignes first suggested that the Huns should be identified as the Xiong-nu of Chinese sources.

This was the first ongoing homosexual publication in the world.

The company later released a second three-issue miniseries, continuing the story of the first, but the series didn't gain enough sales to warrant an ongoing series.

As Carthage was under siege and engaged in a difficult civil war, they begrudgingly accepted the loss of these islands and the subsequent Roman conditions for ongoing peace, which also increased the war indemnity levied against Carthage after the first Punic War.

The first ongoing music scene that was assigned the punk label appeared in New York City between 1974 and 1976.

After the first couple of seasons all three shows changed their story format to that of a pure soap opera with interwoven ongoing narratives that ran over several episodes.

The episodes ended the ongoing Temporal Cold War arc, which proved very unpopular among the show's viewers during the first three seasons.

* 1988 – Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U. S. history due to ongoing fires.

* Semiconductor material ( date first used ): the metalloids germanium ( 1947 ) and silicon ( 1954 )— in amorphous, polycrystalline and monocrystalline form ; the compounds gallium arsenide ( 1966 ) and silicon carbide ( 1997 ), the alloy silicon-germanium ( 1989 ), the allotrope of carbon graphene ( research ongoing since 2004 ), etc .— see Semiconductor material

The DRI first appeared in XFree86 version 4. 0 and became standard in X11R6. 7 and later and this work is ongoing.

* Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy in Burma wins a majority of seats in the first free elections in 30 years in 1990, yet the Burmese military junta refuses to relinquish power, beginning an ongoing peaceful struggle throughout the 1990s to the present by Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters to demand the end of military rule in Burma.

* February 18 – The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11.

* A series of American comic format reprints started in 1983 by Eagle Comics with the first issue of an ongoing monthly Judge Dredd title.

* Lancaster County Prison, Lancaster, Pennsylvania is first constructed in response to the seven violent years preceding of the ongoing Cresap's War in the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute and war.

* The first direct, ongoing payment by a fast-food industry leader to farm workers in its supply chain to address substandard farm-labor wages ( nearly doubling the percentage of the final retail price that goes to the workers who pick the produce ).

In 2004 the United States Postal Service announced plans to introduce first day digital colour postmarks to be used to cancel some first day covers for commemorative stamps in 2005 and this practice has continued into 2006 and is currently ongoing as of 2012.

There has been ongoing research into the Transcendental Meditation technique since studies first conducted at UCLA and Harvard University in the early 1970s, with over 340 peer-reviewed studies published.

While at first he agreed with the ideas of the revolution, his view was changed by the ongoing violence.

The bank was first located in Enugu, but due to the ongoing war, the bank was relocated several times.

At first, the show's " street scenes "— the action taking place on its set — consisted of character-driven interactions and were not written as ongoing stories.

In September, 2010 Radio New Zealand began airing its first ongoing soap opera: You Me Now which won the Best New Drama Award in the 2011 New Zealand Radio Awards.

In 1517, it was believed that all of the money that Tetzel was trying to raise was for the ongoing reconstruction of St. Peter's Basilica, though half the money went towards helping the Archbishop of Mainz, Albert of Brandenburg, under whose authority Tetzel was operating, to pay off the debts he had incurred in securing the agreement of the Pope to his acquisition of the Archbishopric.

Investment in the telecom industry is one of the clearest signs that Somalia's economy has continued to grow despite the ongoing civil strife in parts of the southern half of the country.

For every chemical element, many radioisotopes that do not occur in nature ( due to short half lives or the lack of an ongoing natural production mechanism ), have been produced artificially.

Solano County has several inactive cinnabar mines including the Hastings Mine and St. John's Mine, both of which are subject to ongoing environmental monitoring ; these mines were worked in the first half of the twentieth century.

For decades the major industry of the town was coal mining, but as mines closed throughout the latter half of the twentieth century the area has had ongoing economic difficulty.

The Dragons are portrayed as very large creatures ; the largest described in the series, the gold queen dragon Ramoth, was described as being about forty-five feet ( as large as the largest Tyrannosaurus rex ever found ) or thirteen and one half meters ( as large as a jet plane – dragon size is an ongoing debate among fans ) in length.

* Transportation Photographs An ongoing digital collection of photographs depicting various modes of transportation in the Pacific Northwest region and Western United States during the first half of the 20th century.

* University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections — Transportation Photographs An ongoing digital collection of photographs depicting various modes of transportation in the Pacific Northwest region and Western United States during the first half of the 20th century.

The first half of the book relates Rupert's most dramatic incidents as Kensingtowe, including an ongoing " war " with his Housemaster, the so-called " Carpet Slippers ", receiving beatings and punishments, learning to do what is right, and his greatest hour-winning the school relay swimming race, only to be disqualified, then made a prefect on account of his maturity in dealing with the disappointment.

With nearly half of STL ’ s employees, the Aerospace Corporation was formed in June 1960, which headed the Atlas conversion for Mercury, Titan conversion for Gemini, and provides ongoing systems engineering support for the US government.

In January 1922, the city reacted to complaints about the ongoing replacement of Fifth Avenue's mansions by apartment buildings by restricting the height of future structures to, about half the height of a ten-story apartment building.

* University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Transportation Photographs An ongoing digital collection of photographs depicting various modes of transportation in the Pacific Northwest region and Western United States during the first half of the 20th century.

* In July 2005, the university purchased the Belgrave Centre, thus releasing Nottingham Law School from its ongoing rental commitment along with the added benefit of providing rental income from the Government Office of the East Midlands, which had a tenancy agreement until 2010 for approximately half of the building.

* University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Transportation Photographs An ongoing digital collection of photographs depicting various modes of transportation in the Pacific Northwest region and Western United States during the first half of the 20th century.

In the second half of the 1950s Bristol was selected to build several test rocket airframes for CARDE's ongoing research into high-power solid fuel propellants.

Pacific temperate rain forests have been subject to ongoing large-scale industrial logging since the end of the Second World War, cutting over half of their total area.

The game is a change from the previous game in the series, Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, in that at least half the missions are part of an ongoing story arc, and one is a direct sequel to the final mission of the previous game.

The conclave has been the procedure for choosing the pope for more than half of the time the church has been in existence, and is the oldest ongoing method for choosing the leader of an institution.

An ongoing restoration programme for the railway's unique collection of rolling stock and locomotives is now in place ; this has seen most recently two saloon-type coaches completely rebuilt and back in traffic and is to be following by at least a further three coaches being restored, one of which has been out of traffic for nearly half a century

In 1985, the rights for League football came up again, but an ongoing wrangle between the TV companies, Football League's TV Negotiating Committee and a rebel group of clubs led by Oxford United chairman Robert Maxwell meant the first half of the 1985-86 season was not televised at all ; some clubs even tried negotiating individually with their local BBC and ITV regions.

The first episode was actually broadcast on 8 October 1936, some three and a half weeks before the official opening of the service on 2 November, as part of the ongoing test transmissions in the run-up to the launch date.

Growing out of Study Sections that were formed in the club's early days, today the club has fifteen ongoing member-led fora, each of which meets frequently to host speakers and engage in discussion on topics including the arts, bay gourmet ( food and wine ), Asia-Pacific affairs, business and leadership, environment and natural resources, grownups ( second half of life issues ), health and medicine, humanities, international relations, LGBT issues, the Middle East, personal growth, psychology, and science and technology.

This resulted in the adoption of the Rome Declaration on World Food Security in which member states stated to " pledge our political will and our common and national commitment to achieving food security for all and to an ongoing effort to eradicate hunger in all countries, with an immediate view to reducing the number of undernourished people to half their present level no later than 2015.

Throughout the later half of the 20th century, many different sectors of Colombian public and political opinion, both outside and inside the Colombian Conservative Party and the Colombian Liberal Party, had developed an increasing desire to extensively reform the nation's aging 1886 constitution into a more modern document, according to the changing needs and realities of the citizens and their context, as well as a way to curve ongoing violence.