This later bore on a dispute during the 1920s, known as the Great Litigation in CS circles, pivoting on whether the CSBD could remove trustees of the Christian Science Publishing Society or whether the CSPS trustees were established independently.

There are also numerous standing stones dating from prehistoric times, including six stone circles on Machrie Moor, Arran and other examples on Great Cumbrae and Bute.

* Great Circle Distance Graphical tool for drawing great circles over maps.

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In addition to the basic message of salvation, the lyrics often reflected the expectation of the imminent Second Coming of Christ prominent in evangelical circles at the time, reflected and heightened by the publication of The Late, Great Planet Earth.

In urban circles of Western Europe, beards were out of fashion after the early 17th century ; to such an extent that, in 1698, Peter the Great of Russia ordered men to shave off their beards, and in 1705 levied a tax on beards in order to bring Russian society more in line with contemporary Western Europe.

Election expenses and losses at play in fashionable circles had shattered his fortune, and he could not secure payment of the salary as Rear-Admiral of Great Britain.

In the Tepantitla and Tetitla murals, for example, the Great Goddess wears a frame headdress that includes the face of a green bird, generally identified as an owl or quetzal, and a rectangular nosepiece adorned with three circles below which hang three or five fangs.

The three largest stone circles in Britain Avebury, the Great Circle at Stanton Drew stone circles and the Ring of Brodgar, are each in a henge.

In some Republican circles, the election after the 1964 Civil Rights act was termed, " The Great Betrayal ".

In the song, Boitano skates through circles in the 1988 Olympic Winter Games while blindfolded, fights grizzly bears ( in the Alps ) with his magical fire breath, saves fair maidens, travels through time to the year 3010, fights an evil robot king, saves the human race ( again ), and builds the Great Pyramids while beating up Kublai Khan, because he " doesn't take shit from anybody ".

Great circles have curvature, which implies zero geodesic curvature, thus they are geodesics.

The largest stone circle in Britain is at Avebury, the second largest stone circle is the Great Circle at Stanton Drew stone circles, and the Ring of Brodgar contains the third largest stone circle in Britain.

" Henges and stone circles, ritual and archaeoastronomy: archaeological research in Ireland and Great Britain.

Great circles are special cases of the concept of a geodesic.

Great circles divide the sphere in two equal hemispheres and all great circles intersect each other.

The term " standard works " is modernly used in LDS circles as shorthand for " canonical scripture " and applies only to the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price.

Published during the Vietnam War and during an upsurge of revolutionary Marxist sentiment in Western universities and intellectual circles, The Great Terror received a hostile reception.

Recent analysis suggests that many non-local artifacts occur exclusively or primarily within council circles, implying the structures were occupied by political and / or ritual leaders of the Great Bend aspect peoples.

Being a gentleman, he mingled in aristocratic circles, while also coming under the influence and then leading the evangelical renewal movement thriving at the time ( the European Continental counterpart to the Second Great Awakening ), known in the Netherlands as the Réveil.

Great circles transform to lines via gnomonic projection

Already in Dutch circles he was the reputed volksverrader, traitor of his own people, and now his views spread throughout Great Britain and its Global Empire.

Traveling through the South -- over 16,000 miles -- with two Great Danes, an Afghan, and a Persian kitten, we've worked up a regular routine for acceptance at motels.

Along the 127-mile route through Great Smoky Mountains National Park you can photograph the breath-taking peaks, gorges and valleys which come into view at every turn.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

Alexander the Great traced his ancestry ( through his mother ) to Aeacus.

Persian King Darius I the Great, in an attempt to subdue the Scythian horsemen who roamed across the north of the Black Sea, crossed through the Bosphorus, then marched towards the Danube River.

The administrators of these servers gained sufficient influence in the otherwise anarchic Usenet community to be able to push through controversial changes, for instance the Great Renaming of Usenet newsgroups during the 1980s.

Over the next 25 years, through the Great Depression and the rise of Adolf Hitler, he stayed on the job.

Large marine vessels may also enter Bras d ' Or Lake through the Great Bras d ' Or channel whereas small craft have the additional use of the Little Bras d ' Or channel or St. Peters Canal.

As with Chronicle, The List was compiled during the reign of Alfred the Great, and both the List and the Chronicle are influenced by the desire of their writers to use a single line of descent to trace the lineage of the Kings of Wessex through Cerdic to Gewis, a descendant of Woden and the legendary ancestor of the West Saxons.

These include from the time of the Great Chicago Fire to about 1900, what became known as the Chicago Literary Renaissance in the 1910s and early 1920s, and the period of the Great Depression through the 1940s.

Egypt is identified in the Bible as the place of refuge that the Holy Family sought in its flight from Judea: " When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod the Great, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt I called My Son " ( Matthew 2: 12 – 23 ).

Often such faiths hold out the possibility of divine retribution as well, where the divinity will unexpectedly bring evil-doers to justice through the conventional workings of the world ; from the subtle redressing of minor personal wrongs, to such large-scale havoc as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah or the biblical Great Flood.

The famed sailing ship Le Griffon reached the mouth of the Detroit River in mid-August 1679 on its maiden voyage through the Great Lakes.

The Vespers which begins Lazarus Saturday officially brings Great Lent to a close, although the fast continues through the following week.

Two related developments were the U. S. Communist Party's interest in folk music as a way to reach and influence Americans, and politically active prominent folk musicians and scholars seeing communism as a possible better system, through the lens of the Great Depression.

Fort William is the northern end of the West Highland Way, a long distance route which runs 95 miles through the Scottish Highlands to Milngavie, on the outskirts of Glasgow, and the start / end point of the Great Glen Way, which runs between Fort William and Inverness.

The Great Lakes, sometimes disambiguated as the Laurentian Great Lakes, are a collection of freshwater lakes located in northeastern North America, on the Canada – United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes Waterway.

When not breeding, the auks spent their time foraging in the waters of the North Atlantic, ranging as far south as northern Spain through Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Norway, Ireland, and Great Britain.

In 1851, the route of the Great North Road ( now the A1000 ) was altered to avoid cutting through the grounds of Hatfield House.

On March 11, 1969, the Great Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America ( OCA ) solemnly proclaimed the Act of the Universal Church Canonization of the Staretz Herman to Sainthood in the Orthodox Church in America: " Taking into consideration the long and undisputed witness of the grace of God, appearing through the servant of God, the Staretz Herman of Alaska.

There have been Irish settlers in New Brunswick since at least the late 18th century, but during the peak of the Great Irish Famine ( 1845 – 1847 ), thousands of Irish emigrated through Partridge Island in the port of Saint John.

In 1842, a General Strike involving cotton workers and colliers was organised through the Chartist movement which stopped production across Great Britain.