Some of his proposals were adopted, specifically the extension of the Cumberland Road into Ohio with surveys for its continuation west to St. Louis ; the beginning of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the construction of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and the Louisville and Portland Canal around the falls of the Ohio ; the connection of the Great Lakes to the Ohio River system in Ohio and Indiana ; and the enlargement and rebuilding of the Dismal Swamp Canal in North Carolina.

He was at one time simultaneously the curator of experiments of the Royal Society and a member of its council, Gresham Professor of Geometry and a Surveyor to the City of London after the Great Fire of London, in which capacity he appears to have performed more than half of all the surveys after the fire.

Benton pushed appropriations through Congress for national surveys of the Oregon Trail ( 1842 ), the Oregon Territory ( 1844 ), the Great Basin, and Sierra Mountains to California ( 1845 ).

Harrisson was instrumental in the organization of pioneering surveys of the Great Crested Grebe.

But many of the control points for the earlier surveys still survive as valued historical features in the landscape, such as the concrete triangulation pillars set up for retriangulation of Great Britain ( 1936 – 1962 ), or the triangulation points set up for the Struve Geodetic Arc ( 1816 – 1855 ), now scheduled as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

On the long journeys between he conducted surveys of the Great Barrier Reef.

Postage stamps and postal history of Great Britain surveys postal history from the United Kingdom and the postage stamps issued by that country and its various historical territories until the present day.

Bradbury was a productive academic writer as well as a successful teacher ; an expert on the modern novel, he published books on Evelyn Waugh, Saul Bellow and E. M. Forster, as well as editions of such modern classics as F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and a number of surveys and handbooks of modern fiction, both British and American.

The Great Wall, a vast supercluster of galaxies over 500 million light-years wide, provides a dramatic example of a large-scale structure that redshift surveys can detect.

In 1765 he appears as a Deputy Quartermaster-General, Surveyor-General of Coasts, and Engineer-Director of military surveys in Great Britain, and in that capacity he visited Ireland in 1766 and Gibraltar in 1768.

These surveys were made for the most part using the new Ramsden theodolite which Roy had commissioned from Jesse Ramsden, and were the start of the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain.

The Great Wall, a vast conglomeration of galaxies over 500 million light-years wide, provides a dramatic example of a large-scale structure that redshift surveys can detect.

During his service in the Corps, Smith conducted surveys of the Great Lakes, the states of Texas, Arizona, and Florida, as well as much of Mexico.

In Great Britain surveys show about 40 % support a united Ireland.

He produced general surveys of ancient Greek, Roman and Israelite history as well as biographies of giants such as Julius Caesar, Herod the Great, Cleopatra, Nero, Jesus, St. Peter and St. Paul.

He served against the Florida Indians, on the Great Lakes, the Mediterranean, the Pacific, and on various coast surveys.

Later soil surveys clearly indicated a second, smaller horse ( the " Foal ") overlapping and adjacent to the " Great Horse ", possibly identifiable with a figure seen by Celia Fiennes some thirty years after Dugdale: " a red horse cut on some of the hills about Vale, and the Earth all looking red the horse lookes so as that of the white horse vale ".

# The Promise Fulfilled and the Promise Broken surveys life, prosperity, and politics in the 1920s, leading to the Great Depression and the rise of the New Deal.

File: 1793 Faden Wall Map of India-Geographicus-India-faden-1793. jpg | 1793 map of the Indian peninsula and Ceylon, " compiled chiefly from papers communicated by the late Sir Archibald Campbell, the surveys of Col. Kelly, Capt.

Demographic surveys conducted in China in 1998 found a population that was mostly female and elderly.

To date, epidemics caused by rotavirus B have been confined to mainland China, and surveys indicate a lack of immunity to this species in the United States.

The force is responsible for enforcing laws and order within China ’ s territorial waters, exclusive economic zones ( EEZ ), and shores, protect maritime environment, natural resources, navigation aids and other facilities, and carry out maritime surveys.

Recent surveys indicate that elsewhere in the world, including Japan and Europe, public interest in science and technology is lower than in the United States, with China a notable exception.

The number of species of birds in Hong Kong is one third of that in China while the number of butterflies species is also one sixth of the total butterfly species in China according to surveys reported.

The most recent surveys put the total number of Chinese Buddhists at a growing 18 % to 20 % of the total population, or around 300 million people, thus making China the country with the most Buddhist adherents in the world, followed by Japan.

After considerable site evaluation surveys, Argentina and China were dropped and the other two sites were shortlisted ( with New Zealand joining the Australian bid, and 8 other African countries joining the South African bid ):

In surveys from Canada, China, England, Japan and Nigeria, 20 to 60 % of individuals reported having experienced SP at least once in their lifetime.

WMH surveys were done in Africa ( Nigeria, South Africa ), the Americas ( Colombia, Mexico, U. S. A ), Asia and the Pacific ( Japan, New Zealand, Beijing and Shanghai in the Peoples Republic of China ), Europe ( Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Ukraine ), and the middle east ( Israel, Lebanon ).

Its approach is mostly based on living condition surveys in areas previously excluded from social science research, such as Haiti, China and Iraq.

Due to this official promotion, the 24-form is most likely the t ' ai chi-form with the most practitioners in China and the world over ( though no surveys have been performed ).

* In October 2007 two surveys were conducted to estimate the number of Christians in China.

Power research surveys are conducted using local languages in India, Japan, China, Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, South Africa ( mail intercept only ), Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France and Brazil.

In 2001, field studies were carried out in eight protected areas encompassing in five provinces of south-central China using camera traps, GPS technology and extensive sign surveys.

It is a history of human thought covering over 5000 years of philosophy, learning, and belief systems that surveys the key historical trends and breakthroughs connecting the globalizing human landscape of the 20th century all the way back to the scattered roots of human civilization in India, Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, Greece, and Rome.

In addition, early settler's records, soil surveys, and tribal histories indicate that deliberate burning was widely practiced by the First Nations people of these areas.

Resistivity and magnetometry surveys undertaken during the 1980s revealed four magnetic anomalies within the centre of the circle, possibly representing " pits related in some way to local ground surface undulations and the presence of localised burning.

Inventory and evaluate wildlife habitat resources in cooperation with other Federal agencies and with the States in which National Forests and Grasslands are located, as a basis for orderly development of wildlife habitat improvement and coordination programs, including ( A ) big-game, gamebird, and small-game habitat surveys and investigations on the 186 million acres of National Forests and Grasslands, ( B ) fishery habitat surveys and investigations on the 81,000 miles of National Forest fishing streams and nearly 3 million acres of lakes and impoundments, and ( C ) participation in planning, inspection, and control phases of all habitat improvement, land and water use projects conducted on National Forest lands by States, other Federal agencies, and private groups to assure that projects will benefit wildlife and be in harmony with other resource values.

he, who surveys it all from highest heaven,

In recent surveys of historians, Eisenhower often is ranked in the top 10 among all U. S. Presidents.

These surveys require the use of sample weights ( see below ) to produce proper estimates across all racial and ethnic groups.

Recent surveys by the Barna Group, a Christian research nonprofit organization, have found that a quarter of U. S. Christians, including 10 percent of all born-again Christians, embrace the idea.

It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments.

Citing surveys showing that the large majority of people in high leadership positions are members of the wealthy upper class, critics of pluralism claim that the state serves the interests of the upper class rather than equitably serving the interests of all social groups.

In surveys of presidential scholars, Taft is usually ranked near the middle of lists of all American Presidents.

* It can be applied to some characterization of the distribution of the maxima of incomes, like in some surveys done in virtually all the National Offices of Statistics

The Survey of India is responsible for all topographic control, surveys and mapping of India.

Whenever Allfather sits in that seat, he surveys all lands.

Steel rings on notepads, steel capped boots and steel springs in overall eyelets can all cause unnecessary noise in surveys.

This measurement, which earned the General the Copley medal of the Royal Society, was the origin of all subsequent surveys of the United Kingdom, and still forms the basis of the Ordnance Survey maps today.

However, recent surveys have revealed a disturbing decline of nearly all mammal species throughout Kakadu, including once common and widespread species such as northern tart bats.

Old historical spots have long disappeared and all that remains are parish lines, township lines, and section lines ( all used in land surveys ).

The exact application of a toponym, its specific language, its pronunciation, and its origins and meaning are all important facts to be recorded during name surveys.

* The Catalina Sky Survey ( CSS ) is one of NASA ´ s four funded surveys to carry out a 1998 U. S. Congress mandate to find and catalog by the end of 2008, at least 90 percent of all near-Earth objects ( NEOs ) larger than 1 kilometer across.

Public surveys rarely encompass all crime, rarely procure statistics useful for local crime prevention, often ignore offences against children, and do not count offenders brought before the criminal justice system.

In addition to conducting about 350 active surveys on virtually all aspects of Canadian life, Statistics Canada undertakes a country-wide census every five years on the first and sixth year of each decade.

In 2008, La Trobe was operating with a $ 1. 46 million dollar surplus but has highlighted that by 2010 it will " review, and where appropriate, restructure all academic, administrative and committee structures " to deal with diminished student intakes, falling entrance marks, below-par scores on student satisfaction surveys and a decreasing proportion of national research funding.

In Britain it is amber-listed with an unfavourable conservation status ; it all but disappeared from former lowland breeding areas in the south and east between surveys in 1968-72 and 1988 – 91, remaining common only in upland areas of the north and west where low-intensity livestock rearing is the main land use.

:" He, the first origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or did not, He who surveys it all from his highest heaven, he verily knows it, or perhaps even he does not "