Sturdy and strong after more than a century of continuous use, the old covered, wooden bridge that spans the Tygartis Valley River at Philippi will have a distinctive part in the week-long observance of the first land battle of the Civil War at its home site, May 28th to June 3rd.

Net private transfers decreased in 2009, but saw a continuous increase during the first six months of 2010.

Probably the first linear and continuous assembly process of post-Renaissance times were the Portsmouth Block Mills built between 1801 and 1803.

The challenge to the assumption that beauty was central to art and aesthetics, thought to be original, is actually continuous with older aesthetic theory ; Aristotle was the first in the Western tradition to classify " beauty " into types as in his theory of drama, and Kant made a distinction between beauty and the sublime.

When working with weeks rather than months, a continuous format is sometimes more convenient, where no blank cells are inserted to ensure that the first day of a new month begins on a fresh row.

The first of these two methods is more commonly encountered in practice because many industrial systems have many continuous systems components, including mechanical, fluid, biological and analog electrical components, with a few digital controllers.

In 1947, he claims to have become the first DJ to use twin turntables for continuous play, and in 1958 became a radio DJ at Radio Luxembourg.

In 1933, the Britannica became the first encyclopaedia to adopt " continuous revision ", in which the encyclopaedia is continually reprinted and every article updated on a schedule.

Duddell didn't further develop his invention, but in 1902 Danish physicists Valdemar Poulsen and P. O. Pederson were able to increase the frequency produced into the radio range, inventing the Poulsen arc radio transmitter, the first continuous wave radio transmitter, which was used through the 1920s.

Thus, it was not until two centuries had passed that in 1872 Karl Weierstrass presented the first definition of a function with a graph that would today be considered fractal, having the non-intuitive property of being everywhere continuous but nowhere differentiable.

Functors were first considered in algebraic topology, where algebraic objects ( like the fundamental group ) are associated to topological spaces, and algebraic homomorphisms are associated to continuous maps.

While this theory, first propounded by Ernst von Dobschütz and Rudolf Bultmann, is not universally accepted, Amos Wilder writes that, " it is at least clear that there are considerable and sometimes continuous elements in the epistle whose style distinguishes them from that of the author both with respect to poetic structure and syntactic usage.

It is eponymous for the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover — George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United Kingdom, and George IV of the United Kingdom — who reigned in continuous succession from August 1714 to June 1830.

It is an estimate of the probability distribution of a continuous variable and was first introduced by Karl Pearson.

A simple converse is that if u and v have continuous first partial derivatives and satisfy the Cauchy – Riemann equations, then ƒ is holomorphic.

A more satisfying converse, which is much harder to prove, is the Looman – Menchoff theorem: if ƒ is continuous, u and v have first partial derivatives ( but not necessarily continuous ), and they satisfy the Cauchy – Riemann equations, then ƒ is holomorphic.

If one identifies C with R < sup > 2 </ sup >, then the holomorphic functions coincide with those functions of two real variables with continuous first derivatives which solve the Cauchy-Riemann equations, a set of two partial differential equations.

The Medtronic REAL-Time System is the first to link a continuous monitor with an insulin pump system.

* 2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.

Although today Sophus Lie is rightfully recognized as the creator of the theory of continuous groups, a major stride in the development of their structure theory, which was to have a profound influence on subsequent development of mathematics, was made by Wilhelm Killing, who in 1888 published the first paper in a series entitled

Another innovation was the continuous dampening system first introduced by Dahlgren instead of the old method which is still used on older presses ( conventional dampening ), which are rollers covered with molleton ( cloth ) which absorbs the water.

For the first time in the Indian Subcontinent, a continuous sequence of dwelling-sites has been established from 7000 BCE to 500 BCE, ( as a result of the ) explorations in Pirak from 1968 to 1974 ; in Mehrgarh from 1975 to 1985 ; and of Nausharo from 1985 to 1996.

The liquid water was heated to induce evaporation, sparks were fired between the electrodes to simulate lightning through the atmosphere and water vapor, and then the atmosphere was cooled again so that the water could condense and trickle back into the first flask in a continuous cycle.

When Robert Hooke discovered Hooke's law in 1660, he first published it in anagram form, ceiiinosssttuv, for ut tensio, sic vis ( Latin: as the tension, so the force ).

There are only two specific exercises practiced separately ; the first is lying semi-supine ; resting in this way uses " mechanical advantage " as a means of releasing cumulative muscular tension.

The working of the Cypriot state was fraught with difficulty from the very early days after independence in 1960, and intercommunal tension and occasionally violence was, regrettably, a feature of the first decade of Cypriot independence.

During the first half of the 20th century, these opposing factions among the Christian Churches coexisted but with growing discomfort and tension.

The first four fingers of each hand are used to pluck the strings ; the little fingers are too short and cannot reach the correct position without distorting the position of the other fingers, although on some folk harps with light tension, closely spaced strings, they may occasionally be used.

The first incident occurred on 21 February 1973, during a period of tension led to the Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War in October that year, when Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by Israeli F-4 jets over the Sinai Peninsula.

Even with secure knots, slippage may occur when the knot is first put under real tension.

" However within this line of thought " The tension between anti-vanguardism and vanguardism has frequently resolved itself in two diametrically opposed ways: the first involved a drift towards the party ; the second saw a move towards the idea of complete proletarian spontaneity ... The first course is exemplified most clearly in Gramsci and Lukacs ... The second course is illustrated in the tendency, developing from the Dutch and German far-lefts, which inclined towards the complete eradication of the party form.

Felt, which was first introduced by Henri Pape in 1826, was a more consistent material, permitting wider dynamic ranges as hammer weights and string tension increased.

The tension between the two regions finally peaked when the first printing press arrived in Panama in 1820.

Finally, in 431 BC, this tension erupted into the Peloponnesian War, the first of a series of conflicts which would tear Greece apart for the next century ; an unforeseen, if indirect, legacy of Themistocles's.

The metals must in the first place be ductile and strong in tension, the quality on which the utility of wire principally depends.

The philosophical concept of nature or natures as a way of understanding archai ( first principles of knowledge ) brought about a peculiar tension between reasoning on the one hand, and tradition or faith on the other.

* is the first published independent test showing the Scholander bomb actually does measure the tension in the xylem.

William and Mary refused the first, and unsuccessfully opposed the latter, both of which caused tension between the two sisters.

His second marriage caused severe tension between Lloyd George and his children by his first wife.

As well as describing the progression of a self-defense response, the strength principles also describe the progression a WingTsun student must follow over years of training: first, form training and a great deal of punching to learn to be relaxed in a fight and to ( counter intuitively ) punch without tension ; second, countless hours of chi sao training to be able to yield to — and exploit — the attacker's strength ; finally, strength training specific to WT to increase punching and striking power.

Given the tense nature of racial tension in America during the time of the film's production, Poitier felt he was " under close observation by both " Tracy and Hepburn during their first dinner meetings prior to production.

" Semper Fidelis "' s first strain begins with a very simple V-I progression, creating a wave-like sense of tension and relief.

Richelieu's foreign policy of struggle against the Habsburgs, who surrounded France on two fronts, inevitably created tension between himself and Anne, who remained childless for another sixteen years, while Louis depended ever more on Richelieu, who was his first minister from 1624.

Smith had begun his solo career while still in Heatmiser, and the success of his first two releases created distance and tension with his band.

Overcoming these pins involves reverse picking ( the process of first setting all pins above the shear line and gradually reducing tension.

The sessions were marked with tension and division: first there was a fire at the studios they were using, then after quickly re-locating to Pinder's home studio a landslide following torrential rains effectively marooned them inevitably causing tensions to rise ( with Pinder then dropping out before completion ).