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Bradley and explained
It was discovered in 1725 and later explained by the third Astronomer Royal, James Bradley, who attributed it to the finite speed of light and the motion of Earth in its orbit around the Sun.
The nutation of the axis of the Earth was discovered in 1728 by the British astronomer James Bradley, but this nutation was not explained in detail until 20 years later.
Bradley Allardyce spent three years in Maidstone Prison with Reggie and explained, " I was sitting in my cell with Reg and it was one of those nights where we turned the lights down low and put some nice music on and sometimes he would reminisce.
General Omar Bradley later explained how the local population welcomed the soldiers with open arms.
He further explained that he worships at Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church, one of the handful of joint Christian-Jewish congregations in the United States.
Bradley explained that all available ammunition and reinforcements would go to First Army, since two armies could not be simultaneously supplied.
When an older Slam Bradley re-appeared in Detective Comics, it was explained that the Metropolis character was Slam Bradley Jr.

Bradley and effect
This established the existence of the phenomenon of aberration beyond all doubt, and also allowed Bradley to formulate a set of rules that would allow the calculation of the effect on any given star at a specified date.
In a final twist, Bradley later went on to discover the existence of the nutation of the Earth's axis – the effect that he had originally considered to be the cause of aberration.
During the Reagan presidency, when Kemp was able to effect tax cutting, a leading United States Senate tax-cutting proponent was Democrat Bill Bradley, a former basketball star.
The sedative eventually takes effect and she falls asleep on a bench, where Joe Bradley ( Peck ), an expatriate American reporter working for the Rome Daily American, finds her.
* Bradley effect
This established the existence of the phenomenon of aberration of light, and also allowed Bradley to formulate a set of rules that would allow the calculation of the effect on any given star at a specified date.
He wrote specifically ( and since his opinion was joined by Justice Joseph P. Bradley, the decision of the Court in this respect was unanimous ) that he agreed that " the act is unconstitutional, so far as it attempts to prescribe to the judiciary the effect to be given to an act of pardon or amnesty by the President.
Others blame the respondents for not giving candid answers ( e. g., the Bradley effect, the Shy Tory Factor ); these can be more controversial.
In American political parlance, this phenomenon is often referred to as the Bradley effect.
The discrepancy between the polling numbers and the election's ultimate results would come to be termed the " Bradley effect ", which refers to a hypothesized tendency of white voters to tell interviewers or pollsters that they are undecided or likely to vote for a black candidate, but then actually vote for his opponent.
The racial dynamics that appeared to underlie his narrow and unexpected loss in 1982 gave rise to the political term " the Bradley effect.
* Bradley effect
Mayor Thomas Bradley signs bills into effect July 2.

Bradley and context
This is not to suggest that Bradley was a lesbian, but more that the Renunciate characters of Magda and Jaelle offered the author an opportunity to explore the world of women-centred communities within a patriarchal context, and that lesbianism was a part of this.

Bradley and theory
Bradley eventually developed the explanation of aberration in about September 1728 and his theory was presented to the Royal Society in mid January the next year.
In his essay " Hegel's Theory of Tragedy ," A. C. Bradley first introduced the English-speaking world to Hegel's theory, which Bradley called the " tragic collision ", and contrasted against the Aristotelian notions of the " tragic hero " and his or her " hamartia " in subsequent analyses of the Aeschylus ' Oresteia trilogy and of Sophocles ' Antigone.
Bradley develops a theory about Hamlet's moral agony relating to a conflict between " traditional " and " critical " conscience: " The conventional moral ideas of his time, which he shared with the Ghost, told him plainly that he ought to avenge his father ; but a deeper conscience in him, which was in advance of his time, contended with these explicit conventional ideas.

Bradley and light
The discovery of the aberration of light in 1725 by James Bradley was one of the most important in astronomy.
* The English astronomer James Bradley uses stellar aberration ( first observed in 1725 ) to calculate the speed of light and observes nutation of the Earth's axis.
Gamma Draconis was the same star James Bradley used in 1725 in discovering the aberration of light.
* 1728 — James Bradley discovers the aberration of starlight and uses it to determine that the speed of light is about 283, 000 km / s
The new headquarters have been designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios as Architect and Atelier One as Structural Engineer, and incorporates light shelves to distribute natural daylight around the 200 workstations, and concrete panels to absorb daytime heat, to provide the thermal mass that the lightweight wooden structure would otherwise lack.
In the ensuing media frenzy, it came to light that Miss Bradley was actually Mrs. Otis Rogers, having secretly wed the young law student more than a year prior.
Units involved in this call-up included: 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment ( Air Assault ); 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment ( Air Assault ); 2d Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment ; 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment ( Mechanized ); 44th Engineer Battalion ; 2nd Forward Support Battalion ; Company A, 102nd Military Intelligence Battalion ; Company B, 122nd Signal Battalion, elements of the 2d Battalion, 72nd Armor Regiment, a team from the 509th Personnel Services Battalion, and B Battery 5th Battalion 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment ( Deployed as a combination of mechanized infantry and light infantry with two platoons of Bradley Fighting Vehicles and 1 platoon of armored HMMWVs ).
In the Iraq War, the Bradley proved somewhat vulnerable to improvised explosive device ( IED ) and rocket propelled grenade ( RPG ) attacks, but casualties were lightthe doctrine being to allow the crew to escape at the expense of the vehicle.
Its frontal and side armour is not effective against the most recent. 50-calibre SLAP light anti-armour projectile and the 25 mm cannon of the US M2 Bradley MICV or the British GKN Warrior IFV 30 RARDEN.
Bradley was a driving force behind the construction of Los Angeles ' light rail network.
* James Bradley uses stellar aberration ( first observed in 1725 ) to calculate the speed of light to be approximately 301 000 km / s.
On January 29, 2011, professional boxer Timothy Bradley defended his WBO light welterweight title in a unification fight against WBC champion Devon Alexander.
This is primarily due to two things: ( 1 ) wear and tear on the tower unit, which tended to experience technical faults with the light bulbs and carousel after prolonged use, and, ( 2 ) the fact that the game went out of print shortly after release due to a lawsuit brought against Milton Bradley for intellectual property theft.
: 1727 – James Bradley measures stellar aberration for the first time, proving ( again ) that light has a finite speed as well as that the Earth is moving.
In 1728, while unsuccessfully attempting to measure the parallax of this star, James Bradley discovered the aberration of light resulting from the movement of the Earth.
Bradley Walsh ( born 4 June 1960 ) is an English light entertainer, television actor, comedian and former professional footballer.

Bradley and by
U. S. Army soldiers wearing ballistic vest s, accompanied by an armoured M3 Bradley.
It was totally unexpected, and it was only by extraordinary perseverance and perspicacity that Bradley was able to explain it in 1727.
On December 17, however, Bradley observed that the star was moving southwards, a motion further shown by observations on the 20th.
Observations of such a star were made difficult by the limited field of view of Bradley and Molyneux's telescope, and the lack of suitable stars of sufficient brightness.
The mission insignia was designed by Houston artist Skip Bradley.
In his book Flyboys: A True Story of Courage, James Bradley details several instances of cannibalism of World War II Allied prisoners by their Japanese captors.
Other views of God affirmed by members of the Conservative movement include Kabbalistic mysticism ; Hasidic panentheism ( neo-Hasidism, Jewish Renewal ); limited theism ( as in Harold Kushner's When Bad Things Happen to Good People ); and organic thinking in the fashion of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, also known as process theology ( such as Rabbis Max Kaddushin, William E. Kaufman, or Bradley Shavit Artson ).
In 1927 Dunn's widow, Mrs. George Pross ( Dunn had died in 1922 ), sold the team to a syndicate headed by Alva Bradley.
Carlos Mármol eventually replaced Gregg as closer and the team stayed in the race, but they were distracted by Bradley, whose poor hitting and even poorer attitude became a major issue.
Bradley complained about being heckled, booed and " hated " by bleacher fans and expressed his overall unhappiness in Chicago, eventually leading to a season ending suspension.
Milton Bradley was traded to Seattle in the off-season, and was replaced by Marlon Byrd and Xavier Nady as Lou Piniella entered his fourth season with the team.
Some writers of the " realist " strain of modern Arthurian fiction have attempted a more sensible Camelot ; inspired by Alcock's Cadbury-Camelot excavation, writers Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mary Stewart, and Catherine Christian place their Camelots in that city and describe it accordingly.
That single, " Guitar Blues ", was fairly progressive, including as it did, a clarinet solo by Nashville dance band musician Dutch McMillan with Owen Bradley on piano.
The principal candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2000, Al Gore and Bill Bradley, both endorsed military service by open gays and lesbians, provoking opposition from high-ranking retired military officers.
Scholars such as Goswin König and A. C. Bradley have estimated approximate dates of undated works of Shakespeare by studying the frequency of enjambment.
* The Game of Life, a board game originally created by the Milton Bradley company
Like Berkeley Bradley thought that nothing can be known to exist unless it is known by a mind.
*" Jewel ", song by Bradley Joseph on the 1997 album Rapture
He had a total of fifteen Carson children: five by Lucy Bradley, his first wife, and ten by Kit Carson's mother, Rebecca Robinson.
Bradley attempted to explain reality by postulating metaphysical entities that did not have any empirical basis.

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