First of all, if the Earth did move, then one ought to be able to observe the shifting of the fixed stars due to stellar parallax.

He served for twenty-five years ( 1835 – 60 ) as First Assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, and published numerous articles, particularly on stellar and planetary motion, stellar parallax, and the dimensions and shapes of the planets.

First, there were those Congolese ( among them Joseph Kasavubu ) who favored splitting the country into small independent states, Balkanizing it.

U. S. Marines of the First Marine Division and later soldiers of the U. S. Army's 81st Infantry Division, fought to capture an airstrip on the small coral island.

The transformation from the stalemate of the First World War into tremendous initial operational and strategic success in the Second, was partly the employment of a relatively small number of mechanised divisions, most importantly the Panzer divisions, and the support of an exceptionally powerful air force.

First attested in English in the mid-15th century, the word carat came from Middle French carat, in turn from Italian carato, which came from Arabic qīrāṭ ( قيراط ), which came from Greek kerátion ( κεράτιον ) meaning carob seed ( literally " small horn ")

First small inside rooms framing, then later, whole walls were prefabricated and carried to the construction site.

The Latin population of the kingdom was always small ; although a steady stream of settlers and new crusaders continually arrived, most of the original crusaders who fought in the First Crusade simply went home.

First, the band was arrested and then released at Edmonton International Airport for wearing their spiked stage wardrobe ( considered " dangerous weapons ") through Customs and for Neil arriving with a small carry-on filled with porn magazines ( considered " indecent material "); both were staged PR stunts.

He established the small publishing house Spring Ast LIX in 1997, whose publications include: Braes Woodland Diary-the First Ten Years by Ann Chapman.

First a small layer of coarse concrete, the rudus, then a little layer of fine concrete, the nucleus, went onto the pavement or statumen.

First, fuel should be burned in a small combustion chamber, instead of building the entire propellant container to withstand the high pressures.

First we learn of Stuart's birth to a family in New York City and how the family adapts, socially and structurally, to having such a small son.

First, because of the nature of the modern state and " the amount and variety of resources " available even for small states, the state mode of terrorism claims vastly more victims than does terrorism by non-state actors.

First published in a small mimeographed edition in May 1944 as Philosophical Fragments, the text would wait another three years before achieving book form when it was published with its definitive title, Dialectic of Enlightenment, by the Amsterdam publisher Querido Verlag.

In a similar vein is First Blood ( 1982 ) which features John Rambo ( Sylvester Stallone in an iconic role ), as a Vietnam vet who comes into conflict with a small town police department.

Contributing factors include the following: First, the first officer's predisposition to overreact to wake turbulence ; second, the training provided by American Airlines that could have encouraged pilots to make large flight control inputs ; third, the first officer likely did not understand an airplane's response to large rudder inputs at high airspeeds or the mechanism by which the rudder rolls a transport-category airplane ; finally, light rudder pedal forces and small pedal displacement of the A300-600 rudder pedal system increased the airplane's susceptibility to a rudder misuse.

* In the film First Knight, Lyonnesse is the home of Guinevere, a small land situated between Camelot and Malagant's territory.

Today known as First United Methodist Church, this congregation built a small log church building in 1820 ; it was London's first church and orphanage.

Old Bloomsbury ’ s development was inevitably impacted on, along with just about everything else in modernist culture, by the First World War: indeed, " the small world of Bloomsbury was later said by some on its outskirts to have been irretrivably shattered ", though in fact its friendships " survived the upheavals and dislocations of war, in many ways were even strengthened by them ".

First, people became sedentary living in small villages and concurrently, new food sources were discovered and domesticated, such as cereal grains, peas and lentils, as well as goats.

First introduced in 1987, it was noted for its integrated development environment, small size, fast compile speed, comprehensive manuals and low price.

Although he considered his small stature ( 1. 61 m ) and light weight an advantage to becoming an aviator, and he tried every means of securing service as a flyer, during the First World War Ravel was not allowed to enlist as a pilot because of his age and weak health.

The College tower can be climbed, and is accessed via a small door on First Court.

In the 2000s, Aykroyd's film appearances have tended to be small character parts in big-budget productions, such as a signals analyst in Pearl Harbor and a neurologist in 50 First Dates.

By the time of the Long March, numerous small units had been organized into three unified groups, the First Red Army ( 紅一方面軍 / 红一方面军 / Hóng Yī Fāngmiàn Jūn ), the Second Red Army ( 紅二方面軍 / 红二方面军 / Hóng Èr Fāngmiàn Jūn ) and the Fourth Red Army ( 紅四方面軍 / 红四方面军 / Hóng Sì Fāngmiàn Jūn ).

Since this process does not involve any heat transfer or work, the First Law of Thermodynamics then implies that the net internal energy change of the system is zero.

However, when, under manager Jack Kirwan, the club got promoted to the top flight of Dutch football for the first time in 1911 ( then the Eerste Klasse or ' First Class ', later named the Eredivisie ), Ajax were forced to change their colours because Sparta Rotterdam already had exactly the same outfit.

The change in Athenian foreign policy, which was consequent upon the ostracism of Cimon in 461, led to what is sometimes called the First Peloponnesian War, in which the brunt of the fighting fell upon Corinth and Aegina.

In 1918, his art was to change dramatically as a direct consequence of Germany's economic, political and military collapse at the end of the First World War.

First, he logically separates the Platonic world of constant change from the formally knowable world of fixed physical objects.

While the First World War was still underway, a number of governments and groups had already started developing plans to change the way international relations were carried out to try to prevent another such conflict.

First, learning is manifested by a change in behavior.

** First 19 US models were made already in spring of 1993, months before when normal model year change occurs in July / August.

While actual malice standard applies to public officials and public figures, in Philadelphia Newspapers v. Hepps,, the Court found that, with regard to private individuals, the First Amendment does " not necessarily force any change in at least some features of the common-law landscape.

" First of March I began to pray, ' Oh Lord, if you ain't never going to change that man's heart, kill him, Lord, and take him out of the way.

First, a minor change was made to game play that now allows everyone to take at least one turn before the Doctor Lucky pawn determines turn order.

* First, costs and benefits associated with environmental change are distributed unequally.

The idea of a uniquely Canadian monarch has been proffered as an alternative, either one descended from the present queen or coming from a First Nations royal house ; however, there has been no popular or official support for such a change.

The change from First quarter loss to Second quarter profit becomes Percentage change in loss by-200 % to turn a profit of 100.

First, the moving plates change the effective velocity and angle of impact of the shaped charge jet, reducing the angle of incidence and increasing the effective jet velocity versus the plate element.

On December 25, 1941, the First Meeting of Fifth Conference of the Highest Executive Authority of the National Government of the Republic of China voted to change Fudan University ( Chongqing ) to a public university with Wu Nanxuan as its president.

These records of the First International Polar Year offer a rare glimpse of the circumpolar Arctic environment as it existed in the past and hold the potential to improve our understanding of historical climate variability and environmental change in the Arctic.

First a change to Lycoming County was rejected, next the name Susquehanna County was struck down as was Muncy County, before the legislature revisited and settled on Lycoming County for Lycoming Creek, the stream that was the center of the pre-Revolutionary border dispute.

On June 13, 1848, a bill was offered to the First Wisconsin Legislature, to change the name of the community from Seven Mile Creek to Lamartine.

Recently, however, several scholars have argued that this change in position, radical though it seemed, made sense, as Bonaparte became First Consul, moved away from Jacobinism, and made France a more conservative state, consistent with Paul ’ s view of the world.

In 1936, almost 18 years after the end of the First World War, there was a major change in the Command structure of the RAF.

At the same time, Barras is seen as a supporter of the change, one left aside by the First Consul when the latter reshaped the government of France.

Following a crew change, it departed Montreal as Flight 143 for the return trip to Edmonton via Ottawa, with Captain Robert ( Bob ) Pearson and First Officer Maurice Quintal at the controls.