British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777 ; Cook named the islands the ' Hervey Islands ' to honour a British Lord of the Admiralty ; Half a century later the Baltic German Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern published the Atlas de l ' Ocean Pacifique, in which he renamed the islands the Cook Islands to honour Cook.

Half a century later Rav Saadia Gaon, also of Sura, composed a siddur, in which the rubrical matter is in Arabic.

Half a century later, it was described as " a poor land " and " largely uncultivated ".

Half a century later, during the 1850s, Carl von Siebold showed through a series of experiments that Echinococcus cysts do cause adult tapeworms in dogs.

The American Staffordshire Terrier was the product of 19th century interbreeding between bulldogs and terriers that produced the " bull-and-terrier dog ," " Half and Half ," and at times " pit dog " or " pit bullterrier ," the last named becoming the " Staffordshire Bull Terrier " in England.

Half of the Christians in Al-Andalus are reported to have converted to Islam by the 10th century, with more than 80 % by the 11th century.

Half a century later real city walls were built complete with 7 gates and 23 watchtowers.

In the mid and late 20th century, the Wheatley Heights area ( Half Hollow Hills School District ) developed as a separate community ( due to class and racial dynamics ) but is still served by the Wyandanch Fire Department and the US Postal Service.

Half a century later, the number of speakers is reportedly under 300 ( according to Ethnologue ).

Half pedaling — a technique involving a partial depression of the damper pedal — is also often used to simulate the shorter sustain of the early nineteenth century pedal.

' Half a century later there was little improvement.

Half a century later, the father-and-son team of Harold Babcock and Horace Babcock showed that the solar surface is magnetized even outside of sunspots ; that this weaker magnetic field is to first order a dipole ; and that this dipole also undergoes polarity reversals with the same period as the sunspot cycle ( see graph below ).

Half a century later, writing in his 1972 autobiography, The Making of a Radical, Scott Nearing described himself as a pacifist, a socialist, and a vegetarian.

Half a century later, in 1961, the union ceased to be part of the Commonwealth of Nations and became the Republic of South Africa.

Half a century after his death, his work was dismissed as a " parody of philosophy ", and the historian Richard Hofstadter called him " the metaphysician of the homemade intellectual, and the prophet of the cracker-barrel agnostic.

Half dollar coins saw heavy use, particularly in the first half of the twentieth century.

Near the town's All Saints ' Parish Church stands the doorway and site of the seventeenth century Three Half Moons Inn, where the Earl of Derwentwater stayed with his followers in 1715 prior to marching into a heavy defeat at the Battle of Preston.

Half a mile to the south, Whitton Tower is an exceptionally well-preserved 14th century pele tower.

Half a century later, four of these – The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, The Palm Beach Story and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek – were chosen by the American Film Institute as being among the 100 funniest American films.

The Half Moon Public House on Half Moon Lane was built in 1896 ( although a tavern has existed on the site since at the 17th century ) and was Grade II * listed in 1998.

Half of the house was below street level when the level of Fourth Avenue had been graded up at the end of the nineteenth century.

Half a century earlier, Marsden Hartley had made his escape to the same island.

A development of the earlier 2-BIL units, the 2-HAL units ( 2-car Half Lavatory stock ) were so-called because only one car in each unit had a lavatory.

Half Magic and Magic by the Lake take place in the 1920s, earlier than Eager's other novels.

Davis ' much earlier 1947 composition, " Half Nelson ", was named after bebop jazz bassist Nelson Boyd.

Her earlier film work after graduating Harvard in 1969 was 30 films for Sesame Street, freelancing as a camerawoman and numerous documentaries-notably The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir, a doc about the first delegation to China after Nixon in 1973, a cross section of US women headed by Shirley Maclaine, nominated for an Academy Award and released theatrically and on PBS.

Half way through the story the Demon Empire's master, Barao, is released from his statue prison and intends to finish what he started twelve thousand years earlier.

Half an hour after he finished his round, Player holed out at the 18th green with a 69 and a three-round total of 206, four strokes ahead of Palmer.

In episode 73, season 4, entitled Working for Caligula of Two and a Half Men, the character of Berta said " I'm working for Caligula ," while picking up after Charlie who has resumed his hedonistic lifestyle after his brother Alan moved out.

Half an hour after the election results, the SPD chairman Franz Müntefering announced that the chancellor would clear the way for new federal elections.

: Half an hour after his head was cut off.

: Half an hour after, his head was cut off.

In round 14 against Brisbane, playing back in his customary Centre Half Forward position, Carey became only the second player, after Leigh Matthews, to record 5 plus goals and 20 plus disposals in a game for the 30th time in his career.

Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.

This is especially evident in songs like " The Unattainable Earth " ( which was named after one of Miłosz ' books ), " Safety Net ", " Pictures of the Gone World ", " Divine Instant ", and " Half Light, Epoch, and Phase ".

Real growth in the area came after World War II with the construction of numerous subdivisions, eventually leading to the incorporation of Half Moon Bay in 1959.

The town made history in December 1999, when it agreed to rename ( proclaim ) itself as Half. com, Oregon ( albeit temporarily: for a year ) after the e-commerce company as a publicity stunt and became the first city in the United States to rename itself for a dot-com company.

Halfway earned a place in the history of the dot-com era in December 1999, when it received and accepted an offer to rename itself as Half. com, Oregon after the e-commerce start-up for one year in exchange for $ 110, 000, 20 computers for the school, and other financial subsidies, and became the first city in the world to rename itself as a dot com.

His most prominent role was that of ARP Warden William Hodges in Dad's Army, which he played in both the original television series and the radio adaptations, as well as the radio sequel It Sticks Out Half a Mile, set after the war.

He also met Herman Chin Loy, who after working at his cousin Leslie Kong's Beverley's record shop, had set up his own Aquarius store in Half Way Tree.

* The 1985 film Half of life is named after a poem of Hölderlin and deals with the secret relationship between Hölderlin and Susette Gontard.

It looked as though Gielgud would retire from the stage after appearing in Half Life at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1978, but he made a successful comeback in 1988 in Hugh Whitemore's play The Best of Friends as museum curator Sydney Cockerell.

In 2011 the Nine Network announced a new " Home of Comedy " line-up with comedy shows such as Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory and other American sitcoms along with the launch of a live comedy show Ben Elton Live From Planet Earth which was cancelled after only three episodes due to low ratings.

The album CSI: Ambleside, by Birkenhead based band Half Man Half Biscuit, is named after the town.

Half an hour after the king gave the order, they attacked the enemy.

Dubroff, her father, and her flight instructor arrived in Cheyenne the evening before the accident, after a long day of flying from their Half Moon Bay, California departure point.

* The Smiths song " Half A Person " is thought to be titled after the quote, " Caliban is half a person at the best of times.

The Half Guinea gold coin of the Kingdom of England and later of Great Britain was first produced in 1669, some years after the Guinea entered circulation.

Froot Loops is also often mentioned on the television sitcom Two and a Half Men as Jake's favorite cereal, after Frankenberry.