Early in June 1899, while home on leave, he had a chance encounter in a London street with Clements Markham ( now knighted and RGS President ), and learned for the first time of an impending Antarctic expedition under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society.

His second most recognizable painting after Nighthawks is another urban painting, Early Sunday Morning ( originally called Seventh Avenue Shops ), which shows an empty street scene in sharp side light, with a fire hydrant and a barber pole as stand-ins for human figures.

* Early 1980's: Sipson Farm's farm buildings were demolished and replaced by a street called Russell Gardens.

Early achievements included a railroad station, the 9th Street bridge, a passenger boat that navigated the Allegheny River, a street car line that ran to Natrona via the West Penn Railways, the Kensington Dispatch newspaper, a fire department, hotel, opera house, and a local chapter of the YMCA.

Early settlers such as Andrew Morriss and David Kirkpatrick are memorialized with street names in the town.

Early street protests were most notable in Boston.

Early thriller film Safety Last ( 1923 ) was most remembered for its thrilling climax – where the character hangs from the clock's minute-hand, dangerously dangling above the street as the clock pulls off.

Early in his military career, Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie, lived in a house in Gettysburg that was across the street from the college.

Early guides tended to be freewheeling — for example, advising travelers on motorbiking through Southeast Asia in the late 1960s and financing travel in Europe by singing in the street.

Early series street lights were equipped with isolation transformers.

Early in his administration, Morrison supported the construction of a suburban-style black neighborhood named Pontchartrain Park, built public housing for low-income blacks, and spent money on street and infrastructure improvements in black neighborhoods.

Early in his career, he performed as a street comedian with a suitcase and stand, traveling the college circuit, and performing impromptu skits for gathering crowds.

* Early afternoon host Jack Spector, " Look out street, here I come!

Bear Stearns was also known for one of the most widely read market intelligence pieces on the street, known as the " Early Look at the Market-Bear Stearns Morning View.

Early street names consisted of both numbers and the names of western states ; however Utah eventually became Broadway and Oregon became Santa Monica Boulevard.

Early members of the group often proselytized on street corners for hours, and Clarence 13X's assistants led classes about the group's teachings, strictly enforcing study habits.

A long street running from south to north leads to the Temple of Apollo Hylates, which was built in the Late Classical or Early Hellenistic period on the ruins of the Archaic temple.

Early in the series, Sir Roderick suspects Bertie of suffering from a mental disability, borne by the discovery of twenty-three cats ( three in the television series ) in Bertie's bedroom as well as the presence of a goldfish and his own top hat which had been snatched from him in the street.

Early residences outside of the forts, still mostly wood structures, were built along the modern street grid on early lots sold to settlers, but have all been demolished over time.

Early real estate development in Hong Kong follows urban street pattern.

Early street planning of Sai Ying Pun

Early in his career, Williams built a reputation for an unorthodox, " street " style of play.

Early street lights were generally candles, oil, and similar consumable liquid or solid lighting sources with wicks.

Challenge Early College is across the street from Houston ISD's Pin Oak Middle School, which is in the city of Bellaire.

) Early railways in the United Kingdom were laid out with very gentle gradients, such as 0. 05 % ( 1 in 2000 ), because the early locomotives ( and their brakes ) were so feeble.

Early railways ( c. 1840s ) experimented with continuous bearing railtrack, in which the rail was supported along its length, with examples including Brunel's Baulk road on the Great Western Railway, as well as use on the Newcastle and North Shields Railway, on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway to a design by John Hawkshaw, and elsewhere.

Early tramways and railways were laid out with very gentle grades because locomotive and horse haulage were so low in tractive effort.

Early Ganz turbogenerators in a power plant for electric railways, 1906

Early railways, before continuous brakes, had the communication chain or cord from the carriages connected to a " brake whistle " on the engine.

Early in 1845 he spoke at length in support of a petition from the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Company, attacking predatory pricing by railways.

Early sessions dealt with issues of land, labour, railways, public works, immigration, education and gold discoveries.

Early the next morning, a Mexican telephoned Pels that Celso Chavez, one of the posse members, was surrounded by ten Mexicans at his father's home on the upper Vermejo.

and on Christmas Day, 1890, Hardy wrote: `` While thinking of resuming ' the viewless Wings Of Poesy before dawn this morning, new horizons seemed to open, and worrying pettinesses to disappear '' ( Early Life, p. 302 ).

It may seem strange that a poet should come to full fruition in his seventies, but we have it on Hardy's own authority that `` he was a child till he was sixteen, a youth till he was five-and-twenty, and a young man till he was nearly fifty '' ( Early Life, p. 42 ).

" After repeated calls on Grant to defend Washington, Sheridan was appointed and the threat from Early was dispatched.

The relative scarcity of fossil evidence prevents precise dating, but the most recent molecular study, based on multilocus sequence typing, suggest a Late Carboniferous – Early Permian origin of extant amphibians.

Early human settlements are believed to have been established on Achill around 3000 BC.

The current consensus, based on terminology defined by the Pecos Classification, suggests their emergence around the 12th century BCE, during the archaeologically designated Early Basketmaker II Era.

* An Early Population Explosion on the Colorado Plateau

His work in Early Modern European History focuses on the history of education, the history of the book and the history of reading.

A special burial ground for infants, a tophetAgelarakis A., “ The Amathous ( tophet ) cremations in Cyprus ”, In D. Christou on “ Human Cremations at the Western Necropolis of Amathous ” < Cremations in Bronze and Early Iron Age >, Proceedings of Int.

Early evidence of their use in Britain includes: an equal hour horary quadrant from 1396, in England, a 1445 inscription on the tower of Heathfield Church, Sussex ; a 1448 inscription on a wooden lych-gate of Bray Church, Berkshire ; and a 1487 inscription on the belfry door at Piddletrenthide church, Dorset ; and in Scotland a 1470 inscription on the tomb of the first Earl of Huntly in Elgin Cathedral.

Acts tells the story of the Apostolic Age of the Early Christian church, with particular emphasis on the ministry of the Twelve Apostles and of Paul of Tarsus.

Early evidence of such practices appears as markings on bones and cave walls, which show that lunar cycles were being noted as early as 25, 000 years ago ; the first step towards recording the Moon ’ s influence upon tides and rivers, and towards organizing a communal calendar.

Early in the war, the Germans began to create makeshift assault guns by mounting their infantry support weapons on the bed of a truck or on obsolete tanks with the turret removed.

Early on, the Soviets built the KV-2, a variant of the KV-1 heavy tank with a short-barreled 152 mm howitzer mounted in an oversized turret.

For much of artillery's history during the Middle Ages and the Early modern period, artillery pieces on land were moved with the assistance of horse teams.

Early ammeters were laboratory instruments which relied on the Earth's magnetic field for operation.

Early research on the role of antioxidants in biology focused on their use in preventing the oxidation of unsaturated fats, which is the cause of rancidity.

Early board games represented a battle between two armies, and most current board games are still based on defeating opposing players in terms of counters, winning position or accrual of points ( often expressed as in-game currency ).

" Early episodes with the controversial content intact are rare, and are traded on homemade video recordings made from the original broadcasts.