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Sojourner and was
It was next day that Sojourner came and sat beside him and took his hand.
Enterprise was the first to be produced in high-definition ; the first to be broadcast in HDTV, beginning on October 15, 2003, midway into the third season ; the first to be filmed on digital video ( season 4 ); and the first science fiction television or movie production in history to use video footage taken on another planet ( the Sojourner rover approaching the Yogi Rock, taken by the Mars Pathfinder lander and used in the opening credits ).
Sojourner Truth (; – November 26, 1883 ) was the self-given name, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist.
Sojourner, like other public speakers, often adapted her speeches to how the audience was responding to her.
Sojourner was received with loud cheers instead of hisses, now that she had a better-formed reputation established.
Sojourner argued that because the push for equal rights had led to black men winning new rights, now was the best time to give black women the rights they deserve too.
For the final session of Sojourner ’ s speech, the center of her attention was mainly on women ’ s right to vote.
Sojourner admits to the audience that she had once hated white people, but she says once she met her final master, Jesus, she was filled with love for everyone.
Sojourner Truth was a slave in Port Ewen on Schryver St. and owned by Martinus Schryver from 1808-1810 until he sold her.
Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree on the Hardenburg farm in Rifton in what was then Swartekill hamlet.
Mars Pathfinder was launched in December 1996 and released the first rover on Mars, named Sojourner, in July 1997.
* Sojourner, a robotic rover that was part of the Mars Pathfinder mission
Some members owned slaves — the most famous of whom was Sojourner Truth -- and the church was not supportive of abolitionism.
Floyd's next opera was The Sojourner and Mollie Sinclair, which was a comedy regarding the Scottish settlers of the Carolinas.
Prior to mission cancellation, cost overruns and technical problems caused the Lander design to be rescoped, and the planned large Athena rover was replaced by a small rover duplicating the Sojourner which was a part of the Mars Pathfinder mission.
Although her career was short, it set the stage for the African-American women speakers who followed ; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman, among others.
At the same time, Sojourner Truth appeared at a polling booth in Battle Creek, Michigan, demanding a ballot ; she was turned away.
One notable unit was a colored unit, known as the 102nd United States Colored Troops, which included two sons of Sojourner Truth and Josiah Henson ( the man Harriet Beecher Stowe used as the model for Uncle Tom ).
'" Still, two race riots during her childhood — in 1942 when the Sojourner Truth housing project was desegregated, and one the following year on Belle Isle — made up what Shabazz later called the " psychological background for my formative years ".
In 1975 the Yesler Branch — earlier in danger of closing — was renamed as the Douglass-Truth Branch, honoring Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth.

Sojourner and go
On June 1, 1843, Truth changed her name to Sojourner Truth and told her friends, " The Spirit calls me, and I must go.

Sojourner and .
It served as the α-source in the alpha particle X-ray spectrometers installed on the Sojourner, Mars, Mars 96, Athena, Spirit and Opportunity rovers as well as the Mars Science Laboratory to analyze the composition and structure of the rocks on the surface of Mars and the Moon.
The people featured as cards in the set are: René Descartes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, Mary Wollstonecraft, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Sojourner Truth, Karl Marx, Sitting Bull, Rosa Luxemburg, Peter Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Bertrand Russell, Michel Foucault, and Avram Noam Chomsky.
The opening credits of this series feature real images of the Sojourner rover on Mars, being the first Star Trek production featuring real footage filmed on another world.
* 1883 – Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist ( b. 1797 )
Truth started dictating her memoirs to her friend Olive Gilbert, and in 1850 William Lloyd Garrison privately published her book, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave.
In her speech, Sojourner speaks out for women ’ s rights.
In the second sessions of Sojourner ’ s speech, she utilized a story from the Bible to help strengthen her argument for equal rights for women.
Sojourner told her audience that she owned her own house, as did other women, and must therefore pay taxes.
Sojourner argues that if these women were able to perform such tasks, then they should be allowed to vote because surely voting is easier than building roads.
Sojourner recounts how her mother told her to pray to God that she may have good masters and mistresses.
That last part of Sojourner ’ s speech brings in her main focus.
Sojourner announces that this is not any better for those colored people than it is for the members of her audience.
* NASA's spacecraft Pathfinder lands on Mars and deploys a small roving vehicle, Sojourner, which analyzes the planet's geology and atmosphere.
She is commemorated together with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, and Sojourner Truth in the calendar of saints of the Episcopal Church on July 20.
The rad-hard version of the 8085 has been in on-board instrument data processors for several NASA and ESA space physics missions in the 1990s and early 2000s, including CRRES, Polar, FAST, Cluster, HESSI, the Sojourner Mars Rover, and THEMIS.
* Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings bought property in Van Hornesville to obtain background for her novel, The Sojourner and spent time there every year up to her death.

was and easily
They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.
Henrietta could easily identify herself with Jo March, although Jo was not the eldest sister.
The position of the new camp was admirably selected and well fortified, its easily defensible nature being one good reason why Howe did not attack it.
The earlier New Haven development was public housing, so it easily leaped over the problems met in a private venture.
Hastening to the attic, the temperature of which was easily hotter than the Gold Coast, you proceeded to mask the windows with a fancy wool coverlet, some khaki pants, and the like, and to ransack the innumerable boxes and barrels stored there.
The bone of the vertebral bodies, ribs, and sternum was soft and was easily compressed.
After these treatments the conjugate did not stain healthy or crown gall sweet clover tissues or stained them a very faint green which was easily distinguishable from the bright yellow-green specific staining.
The Istiqlal found that the spontaneous solidarity of the independence struggle was not easily transposed to the more concrete, precise problems of internal politics.
Men, trees, automobiles, houses, and so on -- objects continually confronted in everyday life -- had each its characteristic blot-appearance and became easily recognizable, at the very beginning of tracing, by an inference as to what each was.
An animal with distinct coloration, or other marks easily distinguished and remembered by the owner and his riders, was sometimes used as a `` marker ''.
A sense of self-certainty and the freedom to experiment with different roles, or confidence in one's own unique behavior as an alternative to peer-group conformity, is more easily developed during adolescence if, during early childhood, the individual was permitted to exercise initiative and encouraged to develop some autonomy.
Their territory lay to the north, near the sources of the Alabama, the Tombigbee, the Tennessee, and Cumberland rivers, and was easily accessible to traders among the near-by Cherokees.
From the standpoint of the army of duffers, however, this was easily the most heartening exhibition they had had since Ben Hogan fell upon evil ways during his heyday and scored an 11 in the Texas open.
The committee decided it was important to support upper case 64-character alphabets, and chose to pattern ASCII so it could be reduced easily to a usable 64-character set of graphic codes.
Karpov was on record saying that he believed Spassky would easily beat him and win the Candidates ' cycle to face Fischer, and that he ( Karpov ) would win the following Candidates ' cycle in 1977.
The resin's most popular use was, however, for ornamentation — easily cut and polished, it could be transformed into beautiful jewelry.
Ahab himself was not a wicked person, but he was easily influenced by his wife, and this led to his destruction.
On his arrival at Ephesus a three months ' truce was concluded with Tissaphernes, the satrap of Lydia and Caria, but negotiations conducted during that time proved fruitless, and on its termination Agesilaus raided Phrygia, where he easily won immense booty from the satrap Pharnabazus ; Tissaphernes could offer no assistance, as he had concentrated his troops in Caria.
Claudius had a reputation that he was easily controlled by his wives and freedmen.
With the party split, Whig nominee Zachary Taylor was easily victorious, and carried Tennessee as well.
The color memory was also available in the " normal " TRS-80 and CP / M text modes, which meant that existing TRS-80 and CP / M software could be easily modified to add color.
Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race ; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea ; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in Odyssey book 10 as Keeper of the Winds who gives Odysseus a tightly closed bag full of the captured winds so he could sail easily home to Ithaca on the gentle West Wind.

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