The British Museum has refused to return these artefacts, stating that the " restitutionist premise, that whatever was made in a country must return to an original geographical site, would empty both the British Museum and the other great museums of the world ".

In the years following the Revolution, Concord's central geographical location made it a logical choice for the state capital, particularly after Samuel Blodget in 1807 opened a canal and lock system to allow vessels passage around the Amoskeag Falls downriver, connecting Concord with Boston by way of the Middlesex Canal.

" The Levant thus constitutes a narrow corridor whose geographical setting made it a constant area of contention between more powerful entities ".

It is the work of the famous geographer William Morris Davis who not only made important contributions to the establishment of discipline in his country, but revolutionized the field to develop geographical cycle theory which he proposed as a paradigm for Geography in general, although in actually served as a paradigm for Physical Geography.

The geographical position of Dacia Felix ( another name for the Roman province of Dacia ) made it difficult to defend against the barbarians, and during 240 AD-256 AD, under the attacks of the Carpi and the Goths, Dacia was lost.

The tracks were narrow gauge, which offered advantages in terms of costs and ease of construction given the geographical features of the route, but made the railway incompatible with the Italian network.

As Christopher Fyfe notes, " The delimitation was made almost entirely in geographical terms — rivers, watersheds, parallels — not political.

Finally, the Qin empire had a geographical advantage due to its fertility and strategic situation, protected by mountains that made the state a natural stronghold.

He made important contributions to the field of cartography, where he was among the first to use geographical coordinates.

Bodega y Quadra wrote, however, that it was Vancouver who made the suggestion of combining their names to designate some geographical feature.

In January 1909 he and three companions made a southern march which established a record Farthest South latitude at 88 ° 23 ′ S, 97 geographical miles ( 112 statute miles, 190 km ) from the South Pole, by far the closest convergence in exploration history up to that time.

The physical nature of Gondor is most prominently illustrated by the maps for The Lord of the Rings and Unfinished Tales made by Christopher Tolkien on the basis of his father's sketches, and can be supplemented by several geographical accounts such as The Rivers and Beacon-Hills of Gondor and Cirion and Eorl.

The latter's music " made for a stark geographical anomaly, since its eclectic, avant-garde folk-metal was the sort of thing one would expect to emerge from Scandinavia -- not Portland, Oregon.

This data does not only include information about the time, duration, originator and recipient of the call, but also the identification of the base station where the call was made from, which equals its approximate geographical location.

In 1982, by decision of Pope John Paul II, the Catholic Church made it into a personal prelature — that is, the jurisdiction of its own bishop covers the persons in Opus Dei wherever they are, rather than geographical dioceses.

It is administered by its own board of trustees made up of citizens living in its geographical district who are elected by voters in the district.

The same act named John Williams of Taney County, James Williams of Barry County, and Chesley Cannifex of Greene County as commissioners to locate the seat of justice within five miles ( 8 km ) of the new geographical center of the county and made the temporary seat at the home of John Reed, one and one half miles east of the present site of downtown Neosho.

After the King's War, the establishment of new settlements was made possible by peace treaties with the local Indian tribes and, in 1692, by geographical and jurisdictional agreements between the provinces of Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Teaneck's location at the crossroads of river, road, train and other geographical features has made it a site of many momentous events across the centuries.

Freed from the geographical constraints of the mountains, the Reds made rapid progress, capturing Chelyabinsk on July 25 and forcing the White forces to the north and south to fall back to avoid being isolated.

The high population density ( in an area of about 10 km / 6 mi radius ) was made possible by the geographical position, favourable climate and economic conditions and by the defensive positions that were of great importance at that time.

At one stage Holland and Zeeland, whose geographical position made them unassailable except by water, were hard pressed to retain territory.

The substantial influence of bosančica on medieval Bosnia has unfortunately made it a target of controversial debates and propaganda throughout the history which has led to the tendency of some Croat and Serb philologists and paleographers to deny the exclusivity of association of the script with medieval Bosnian state, and associate it to Croatian and Serbian cultural provenience, despite its geographical origin and the historical prevalence of usage.

Mie Prefecture measures from north to south, and from east to west, and is made up of 5 distinct geographical areas.

Its geographical location made it an important trading hub and by the beginning of the 20th century, it was an important port.

Teleki and von Höhnel made numerous observations on the climate, flora and fauna of the territories visited and collected more than 400 ethnographical objects, most of them from Maasai and Kikuyu tribes.

After a dinner party for which she had come down to New York, Mrs. Lewis and Casanova arrived to see them off, and Elinor Wylie made tart observations that indicated that Lewis had been less discreet than he had promised to be about the real nature of their separation.

Radio observations of the moon have been made over the range of wave lengths from 4.3 mm to 75 cm, and the results are summarized in Table 1.

In the observations at 4.3 mm ( Coates, 1959 ), the diameter of the antenna beam, 6'.7, was small enough to allow resolution of some of the larger features of the lunar surface, and contour diagrams have been made of the lunar brightness distribution at three lunar phases.

Very recently, observations have been made at 8-mm wave length with a reflector 22 meters in diameter with a resultant beam width of only about 2' ( Amenitskii, Noskova, and Salomonovich, 1960 ).

Qualitative observations were made and high-speed motion pictures were taken to study flow phenomena in the arc at various mass flow velocities.

School principals and guidance workers made ratings of the various neighborhoods and the research team made independent observations of houses and dwelling areas.

It is probable that the first collection of astronomical observations and terrestrial omens was made for a library established by Sargon.

More recent observations made in the laboratory of antibiosis between micro-organisms led to the discovery of natural antibacterials produced by microorganisms.

Under the title of Reconnaissances magnetiques he published in 1890 an account of the magnetic observations made by him in the course of several journeys to the Red Sea and the Levant.

The instrument was set up in November 1725, and observations on γ Draconis were made on the 3rd, 5th, 11th, and 12 December.

The discovery and elucidation of aberration is now regarded as a classic case of the application of scientific method, in which observations are made to test a theory, but unexpected results are sometimes obtained that in turn lead to new discoveries.

At Nuremberg in 1733, he published a collection of 316 observations of the aurora borealis made by himself and others over the period 1716 – 1732.

He made observations of eclipses and various astronomical objects and published catalogues of carefully determined magnitudes for some 300 stars using his own photometric system ( mean error = 0. 4 mag ).

Although observations of some aerodynamic effects such as wind resistance ( e. g. drag ) were recorded by Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei, very little effort was made to develop a rigorous quantitative theory of air flow prior to the 17th century.

In 2006 and 2007, J. D. Monnier and his coworkers produced an image of Altair's surface from 2006 infrared observations made with the MIRC instrument on the CHARA array interferometer ; this was the first time the surface of any main-sequence star, apart from the Sun, had been imaged.

After then, the rules would need to be modified from observations made since the invention of the calendar.

Two other satellites made observations at the time of the impact: the Ulysses spacecraft, primarily designed for solar observations, was pointed towards Jupiter from its location 2. 6 AU away, and the distant Voyager 2 probe, some 44 AU from Jupiter and on its way out of the Solar System following its encounter with Neptune in 1989, was programmed to look for radio emission in the 1 – 390 kHz range.

*" Evaluation of the WWII German ID tag system "-Article on the weak points of WWII era German ID tags based on observations made during the recovery of missing soldiers.

Descriptive statistics provides simple summaries about the sample and about the observations that have been made.

Several qualitative observations can be made of diffraction in general:

The first botanical observations of the island were made by Hume in 1883, when the coconut plantations had been in operation for a full century.

After Zwicky's initial observations, the first indication that the mass to light ratio was anything other than unity came from measurements made by Horace Babcock.

It examines ethics not from a top-down a priori perspective but rather observations of actual choices made by moral agents in practice.