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, 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 a century earlier, after a gale had pushed them South from the entrance of the Strait of Magellan, the crew of the Spanish navigator Francisco de Hoces thought they saw a land's end and possibly inferred this passage in 1525.

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 an hour later it ( or another one ), was seen back in Chicago.

The surname Stark was later used in King's novel The Dark Half, in which an author's malevolent pseudonym, " George Stark ", comes to life.

Half an hour later, German radio broadcast the news of the rescue, to which the Stammheim inmates listened on their radios.

Hancock's Half Hour later transferred to TV and was phenomenally successful throughout the 1950s, running concurrently on radio and television until 1960.

This premise was later used, slightly modified, in the novel Logan's Run and adaptations of the novel as well as an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (" Half a Life ").

Half an hour later, the second attack killed two British Airmen and injured another, who had spent a few hours in a Dutch disco, around fifty kilometers from the border shared with Germany.

Its written history began in 1609 when Henry Hudson, on his third voyage to the New World, sailed down what was later named The North River on the Half Moon and weighed anchor in Weehawken Cove.

It grew out of Jacob Conklin's 1610 settlement of the Half Way Hollow Hills, later Wheatley Heights.

Gielgud quickly rose to the status of being one of the top directors for Binkie Beaumont's H. M. Tennent, Ltd. production company in London's West End Theatre and later on Broadway, his productions including Lady Windermere's Fan ( 1945 ), The Glass Menagerie ( 1948 ), The Heiress ( 1949 ), his own adaptation of The Cherry Orchard ( 1954 ), The Potting Shed ( 1958 ), Five Finger Exercise ( 1959 ), Peter Ustinov's comedy Half Way Up a Tree ( 1967 ), and Private Lives ( 1972 ).

From 2001 to 2003, Bonaduce co-hosted The Other Half, a daytime talk show positioned as a complementary show to The View, on which he starred with Mario Lopez, Dick Clark, and cosmetic surgeon Dr. Jan Adams ( who was later replaced by actor Dorian Gregory ).

Half of the tracks later appeared on the band's forth studio album, Death and Progress.

Half a dozen later students / assistants are known as " the Little Six ": Victor Chin, Y Y Chin, Jon Gaines, Natasha Gorky, Wolfe Lowenthal, and Ken VanSickle.

Half brother of Souvanna Phouma, Prince Souphanouvong, a staunch communist and the leader of the Pathet Lao, was supported by Kaysone Phomvihane ( later Prime Minister and President of the LPDR ) and the North Vietnamese.

New gold coins, the Noble, Half Noble, and the Quarter Noble were introduced, followed later by the silver Groat or fourpence which became very popular and eventually superseded the penny in importance, together with the Half Groat which was also popular.

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.

He was to continue both writing partnerships for the rest of his career in several hit series including It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi-de-Hi !, ' Allo ' Allo!

He has been writing and drawing “ The Better Half ” since 1982.

Among many of the motivations for writing Half the Sky Kristof explained to Jane Wales of the World Affairs Council of Northern California that the idea for the book was sparked by the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the author of the popular and critically acclaimed novels Purple Hibiscus ( 2003 ) and Half of a Yellow Sun ( 2006 ), commented in a 2006 interview, " Chinua Achebe will always be important to me because his work influenced not so much my style as my writing philosophy: reading him emboldened me, gave me permission to write about the things I knew well.

While writing the album they released three limited edition EPs, Six Of One ,... Half A Dozen Of The Other and The Joy Of Six.

Andrew Phelps, writing for Nieman Journalism Lab, stated, " Half of people think Gawker is diluting its high-quality material with Chinese goats ; the other half think Gawker should stick to Chinese goats and stop trying to do real journalism.