Following Christopher Columbus's discovery of the Americas for Spain, the Spanish sent numerous expeditions to the region, and they began their conquest of Maya lands in the 1520s.

Following his discovery of Pluto, Tombaugh earned bachelor's and master's degrees in astronomy from the University of Kansas in 1936 and 1938.

Following the discovery, starting in the 1990s, of other Kuiper belt objects, Pluto began to be seen not as a planet orbiting alone at 40 AU, but as the largest of a group of icy bodies in that region of space.

Following the discovery of gold and silver in 1859 on the nearby Comstock Lode, Carson City's population began to rise.

Following the discovery of the islands by Columbus, the area was quickly colonised by several Western cultures ( initially Spain, then later Portugal, England, the Dutch Republic, France and Denmark ).

Following his sensational discovery, Howard Carter retired from archaeology and became a part-time agent for collectors and museums, including the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Following the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot Andrewes was asked to prepare a sermon to be presented to the king in 1606 ( Sermons Preached upon the V of November, in Lancelot Andrewes, XCVI Sermons, 3rd.

Following the discovery that many Chilean vineyards thought to be planted with Sauvignon blanc was actually Sauvignonasse, the owners of the Chilean winery Domaine Paul Bruno ( who previously worked with Château Margaux and Château Cos d ' Estournel ) invited ampelographers to comb through their vineyards to make sure that their wines were properly identified.

Following the discovery of the pion, Yukawa was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for his predictions.

Following his " discovery " by McCormick and Strachwitz, Lipscomb became an important figure in the folk music revival of the 1960s.

Following the discovery of the planet Neptune in 1846, there was considerable speculation that another planet might exist beyond its orbit.

Following the discovery of an infrared excess around Vega, other stars have been found that display a similar anomaly that is attributable to dust emission.

Following the Spanish discovery of great silver deposits at Potosí in Bolivia and in Mexico during the 16th century, international trade came to depend on coins such as the Spanish dollar, Maria Theresa thaler, and, in the 1870s, the United States Trade dollar.

Following the discovery of the Platinum group of metals which include ruthenium, palladium, osmium and iridium, a small quantity of iridium was isolated and used on the iridium-tipped gold dip pen nibs of the 1830s.

Following the discovery and naming of asteroids below 10 m in size ( e. g., 2008 TC3 ), Rubin and Grossman refined the Beech and Steel definition of meteoroid to objects between 10 µm and 1 m in diameter.

Following the discovery of a small statue of the demon Pazuzu ( an actual ancient Assyrian demigod ) and a modern-day St. Joseph medal curiously juxtaposed together at the site, a series of omens alerts him to a pending confrontation with a powerful evil, which, unknown to the reader at this point, he has battled before in an exorcism in Africa.

Following this discovery, the Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company of Calcite was founded purchasing at Calcite, the new name for Crawford's Quarry.

Following the American Civil War the county experienced an economic boom after the discovery of natural gas that fueled rapid industrial growth in the surrounding area.

Following the discovery of oil in 1928, crude oil and natural gas joined timber as leading natural resources until about 1934 when oil experienced a natural decline.

Following their discovery in 1956 a number of new pools were dug to encourage population expansion.

Following the discovery of natural gas in 1882, Paola became the first town west of the Mississippi River to use it commercially and have the town illuminated using natural gas lanterns.

Following the discovery of modern medicinal cures, including the vaccine for polio, the interest in natural healing remedies faded, and the city's tourism industry collapsed.

Following the discovery of oil nearby, the population of Baytown and the Tri-cities boomed.

Following the mid-20th century discovery of Roman trading posts in Southern India, Foucher's argument was revised in favour of Roman influence, as opposed to Greek.

Following a guide, and gratefully so, is an excellent way to see all the important places when everything is strange and new.

Following each individual brick should be a layer of adobe mortar, recommended to be at least an inch thick to make certain there is ample strength between the brick ’ s edges and also to provide a relative moisture barrier during the seasons where the arid climate does produce rain.

Following months to years of photo-degradation and oxidation in the ocean, this precursor gradually hardens, developing a dark gray or black color, a crusty and waxy texture, and a peculiar odor that is at once sweet, earthy, marine, and animalic.

Following the destructive assault of the Saxons, the survivors gather together under the leadership of Ambrosius, who is described as ;

Following screening of antibacterials against a wide range of bacteria, production of the active compounds is carried out using fermentation, usually in strongly aerobic conditions.

* 1911 – Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.

Following TNF-R1 and Fas activation in mammalian cells a balance between proapoptotic ( BAX, BID, BAK, or BAD ) and anti-apoptotic ( Bcl-Xl and Bcl-2 ) members of the Bcl-2 family is established.

Following the retirement of the F-14 by the US, the weapon's only current operator is Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force.

Following the trio, the second occurrence of the scherzo, unlike the first, plays through without any repetition, after which there is a brief reprise of the trio, and the movement ends with an abrupt coda.

Following reform in 2005, which was prompted by takeover scandals, the bank has lost exclusive antitrust authority in the credit sector, which is now shared with Italy's Antitrust Authority.

Following Desargues ' thinking, the sixteen-year-old Pascal produced, as a means of proof, a short treatise on what was called the " Mystic Hexagram ", Essai pour les coniques (" Essay on Conics ") and sent it — his first serious work of mathematics — to Père Mersenne in Paris ; it is known still today as Pascal's theorem.

Following this, the prophecy is made that someday this will all be changed, that God will indeed have pity on Israel.

Following a tryst with Wallace, Isabella exacts revenge on the now terminally ill Longshanks by telling him she is pregnant with Wallace's child, intent on ending Longshank's line and ruling in his son's place.

Following the direction of the shoal is a line of 13 large blue " ship " symbols, with two more large symbols and four smaller ones inside this line.

Following the retirement of Euan Kerr, Alan Digby is now Editor-in-Chief of both titles.

Following this reform, the entire Psalter is again generally recited each week, with the festal psalms restricted to only the highest-ranking feasts.

Following a protracted battle, the group is on the verge of defeat when Mu Bai arrives and outmaneuvers Fox.

Following at the Battle of Uhud in 625, it is said that after killing Hamzah ibn Abdu l-Muṭṭalib, his liver was consumed by Hind bint ‘ Utbah ( the wife of Abû Sufyan ibn Harb one of the commanders of the Qurayš army ) who later reportedly converted to Islam and became the mother of Muawiyah I founder of the Islamic Umayyad Caliphate.

Following the entry into force of a framework agreement between the EU and ESA there is a Space Council configuration-joint and concomitant meeting of the EU Council and of the ESA Council at ministerial level dealing with the implementation of the ESP adopted by both organizations.

Following the classical dynamics of Newton and Euler, the motion of a material body is produced by the action of externally applied forces which are assumed to be of two kinds: surface forces and body forces.

Following the batizado the new graduation, generally in the form of a cord, is given.

Following the examples of Vitruvius and the five books of the Regole generali d ' architettura by Sebastiano Serlio, published from 1537 onwards, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola produced an architecture rule book that was more practical than the previous two books, which were more philosophical in nature, his Cinque ordini di erchitettura ( The Five Orders of Architecture ) from 1562 ; the book is considered " one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written ", despite having no text apart from the notes and the introduction.

Following the real staff is a lengthy list of pun-filled fictional staffers and sponsors such as statistician Marge Innovera (" margin of error "), customer care representative Haywood Jabuzoff (" Hey, would you buzz off "), meteorologist Claudio Vernight (" cloudy overnight "), optometric firm C. F.

* Following a single or rouge, play resumes with the non-scoring team scrimmaging from its own 35-yard line, unless the single is awarded on a missed field goal, in which case the non-scoring team scrimmages from either the 35-yard line or the yard line from which the field goal was attempted, whichever is greater.