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Because of Fahrenheit's surprise critical and commercial success, Karma was temporarily put on hiatus to focus production on Heavy Rain ( an extension of the Fahrenheit formula ).

However, Fahrenheit's interest in natural science led him to begin studies and experimentation in that field.

According to Fahrenheit's 1724 article, he determined his scale by reference to three fixed points of temperature.

It is because of the scale's redefinition that normal body temperature today is taken as 98. 6 degrees, whereas it was 96 degrees on Fahrenheit's original scale.

Memorial plaque at Fahrenheit's burial site in The Hague.

Charles developed several useful inventions, including a valve to let hydrogen out of the balloon and other devices, such as the hydrometer and reflecting goniometer, and improved the Gravesand heliostat and Fahrenheit's aerometer.

Fahrenheit's scale is still in use, alongside the Celsius scale and the Kelvin scale.

On her bureau lay a small, brass ornament of simple design and faded engraving -- an object which, Pamela believed now, had been the property of her great-grandfather, Major Hiram Munroe Culver.

Each boy opened his small mouth wide and rocked back and forth on the bench in the way his grandfather and great-grandfather had studied and prayed in the ghettos of Europe.

Although his paternal great-grandfather had been a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church, and his pious mother did have him baptised, he was an atheist in later life.

In Esther 2: 5 – 6, either Mordecai or his great-grandfather Kish is identified as having been exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar in 597 BCE: " Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah.

#** Prince Louis Napoléon Murat ( Paris, December 22, 1851-Paris, September 22, 1912 ), married in Odessa, 23 November, 1873 Eudoxia Mikhailovna Somova ( Kharkov, February 17, 1850-Nice, May 6, 1924 ), related to Orest Somov, and had issue now extinct in male line ( great-grandfather of actor René Auberjonois )

Domitian's great-grandfather, Titus Flavius Petro, had served as a centurion under Pompey during Caesar's civil war.

His great-grandfather Charles Blair was a wealthy country gentleman in Dorset who married Lady Mary Fane, daughter of Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland, and had income as an absentee landlord of slave plantations in Jamaica.

Washington's ancestors were from Sulgrave, England ; his great-grandfather, John Washington, had immigrated to Virginia in 1657.

His great-grandfather Richard Sterne had been the Master of the college as well as the Archbishop of York.

Use of the house had been offered to Jackson by its owner, Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Tilghman Moore, commander of the 4th Virginia Infantry and a great-grandfather of Mary Tyler Moore.

Mitchell's maternal great-grandfather, Philip Fitzgerald, emigrated from Ireland, and eventually settled on a slaveholding plantation near Jonesboro, Georgia, where he had one son and seven daughters with his wife, Elenor.

Wine merchant Friedrich Karl Christian Huth, whose great-grandfather had been kellermeister ( cellar-master ) to King Friedrich II back in 1769, had founded the firm in 1871 and taken over the former building in Potsdamer Straße on 23 March 1877.

In Ireland, kings were expected to come from among those who had a great-grandfather who had been king.

Suleiman soon made preparations for the conquest of Belgrade from the Kingdom of Hungary — something his great-grandfather Mehmed II had failed to achieve.

As the historian Lord Kinross notes, " Not only was he a great military campaigner, a man of the sword, as his father and great-grandfather had been before him.

Part of a line of Southern planter elite on his father's side, Morgan was a nephew of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and his great-grandfather John Wesley Hunt had been the first millionaire west of the Allegheny Mountains.

His great-grandfather, Arundel Elias Disney, had emigrated from Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland where he was born in 1801.

Both his grandfather and great-grandfather carried the title of Hajji, which indicates they had made the pilgrimage to Mecca.

Repeated occasions of dynastic strife in Georgia combined with the efforts of regional successors of the Great Seljuq Empire, such as the Ildenizid atabegs of Azerbaijan, Shirvanshahs, and the Ahlatshahs, had slowed down the dynamic of the Georgians achieved during the reigns of Tamar's great-grandfather, David IV, and her father, George III.

Durkheim was born in Épinal in Lorraine, coming from a long line of devout French Jews ; his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had been rabbis.

His great-grandfather was a coal miner, and his grandfather had been employed in the iron trade.

John M. Patton, a great-grandfather, was a lawyer and politician who had served as acting governor of Virginia.

According to a family tree prepared in Jerusalem after World War II, Wittgenstein's paternal great-grandfather was Moses Meier, a Jewish land agent who lived with his wife, Brendel Simon, in Bad Laasphe in the Principality of Wittgenstein, Westphalia.

George Washington Baines, a prominent Baptist clergyman in three states and the maternal great-grandfather of U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, lived in Salado in his last years.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's great-grandfather, the mason Franz Mozart, lived in the Fuggerei between 1681 and 1694, and is commemorated today by a stone plaque.

Lee Petty, Adam's great-grandfather, and 3-time NASCAR Champion, lived to see his debut, but died just three days later.

His great-grandfather, Michael Regan ( who changed later the spelling of his name ), was baptised in the village in 1829 and lived there until his emigration to London not later than 1851 and ultimately the United States in 1857.

His family had lived in England since his great-grandfather Louis Philippe, King of the French abdicated and was exiled from France in 1848.

He lived to be a great-grandfather.

Addy's ancestors have lived in York at least since 1910 when his great-grandfather was living there.

The label's number of points did not necessarily mean anything, although the label of three points was supposed to represent the heir during the lifetime of his father ; five points, during the lifetime of his grandfather ; seven points, while the great-grandfather still lived, etc.

His great-grandfather, Gabriel DeVeber, had been a British army officer who was rewarded for his service in the American Revolution with land in New Brunswick, where his descendants had lived since.

His great-grandfather, Michel Bouvier ( 1792 – 1874 ), was a French cabinetmaker who left France in 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon ; he settled in Philadelphia, where he opened a cabinet making or furniture shop, making fine furniture for the likes of Stephen Girard and Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother who lived for a time on his estate, Point Breeze in Bordentown, New Jersey.

According to Landnámabók, Hrómundr Gripsson was the paternal great-grandfather of Ingolfr Arnarson, and this means that he would have lived in Norway in the first half of the 8th century.