There were claw-footed loo tables, and bedsteads and chairs resting on feet where the claws clutched a ball ; certain tall secretaires, whose glass doors were sashed and latticed, were a nearly universal article ; and there were charming light chairs of satin wood and marquetry — for satin wood had come in with the last as mahogany had with the first quarter of the century, and it would be difficult to imagine woods capable of producing more beauty than the creamy richness of the one or the wine-dark depths of the other, especially when ornamented, as frequently was the case, with medallions painted by Angelica Kauffmann and by Giovanni Cipriani.

Consequently, the narrative is regarded as secondary to the need to reference the relation of each event to other events, and as such is continually interrupted by long tables of dates, so markedly that Krumbacher described it as being " rather a great historical list with added explanations, than a universal history.

In 1818 Laplace proposed that the Académie des Sciences in Paris set up a prize to be awarded to whoever succeeded in constructing lunar tables based solely on the law of universal gravity.

Features ( as of 2009 ) include a navigation system with voice recognition, power sunroof, upgraded leather upholstery, rear-view camera, rear-seat DVD entertainment system, 26-speaker premium sound system, 8-disc CD changer, 18-way power front seats, 16-way power rear seats, heated and cooled cup holders, rear-seat tables, outside-temperature indicator, universal garage door opener, power tilt / telescopic heated wood and leather-wrapped steering wheel with radio, climate, and navigation controls, power open / close trunk lid, power closing doors, wireless headphones, iPod adapter, refrigerator, and air conditioning with 5-zone climate controls.

The history of computing is longer than the history of computing hardware and modern computing technology and includes the history of methods intended for pen and paper or for chalk and slate, with or without the aid of tables.

Here alone is preserved a summary of the writings of the Phoenician priest Sanchuniathon of which the accuracy has been shown by the mythological accounts found on the Ugaritic tables, here alone is the account from Diodorus Siculus's sixth book of Euhemerus ' wondrous voyage to the island of Panchaea where Euhemerus purports to have found his true history of the gods, and here almost alone is preserved writings of the neo-Platonist philosopher Atticus along with so much else.

The tables, history and ongoing discussion is maintained by SIX Interbank Clearing.

It must be added that his original topographic list cannot be reconstructed: the long tables with numbers were transmitted to posterity through copies containing many scribal errors, and people have always been adding or improving the topographic data: this is a testimony to the persistent popularity of this influential work in the history of cartography.

Pausanias shares his source with Castor of Rhodes, who used the king-list in compiling tables of history ; the common source was convincingly identified by F. Jacoby as a lost Sicyonica by the late 4th-century poet Menaechmus of Sicyon.

The library's collection consists of over 250, 000 books, two dozen public computers, a wide array of multimedia options, a large youth services area with a vivid mural depicting Westfield history, and multiple tables and carrels for studying.

Customers see much of the town's history preserved on the walls and under glass on the tables.

The term was also used throughout Greek history in a more general sense, ranging from " club leader " to " master of the tables " at syssitia.

He now devoted himself to the improvement of the planetary theory, publishing in 1759 corrected edition of Edmond Halley's tables, with a history of Halley's Comet whose return in that year he had helped Alexis Clairaut to calculate.

We know of at least one " keeper of the books " who was employed to oversee the thousands of tablets on Sumerian and Babylonian materials, including literary texts, history, omens, astronomical calculations, mathematical tables, grammatical and linguistic tables, and dictionaries, and commercial records and laws.

The work consists of two parts, the first giving the history, arranged according to years, the other containing chronological tables, full of inaccuracies.

Between 1825 and 1827 he produced diverse sketches, chronological tables, etc., of modern history.

Other features removed included the Expanded view of the Message Archives, which allowed users to read messages in chronological order from top to bottom ; the message history grid on the Home page, a table which showed the number of messages posted by month and year ( this was useful for prospective members wanting an idea of a group's activity level ); automatic quoting of the original message in replies posted via the group's website ; the option of viewing ASCII art, computer programs and tables in messages as plain text in a fixed-width font ; the ability for ordinary members ( non-moderators ) to view the HTML source code of a message ( helpful to members and moderators in tracking trolling attempts ); and compatibility with any browser not supporting advanced JavaScript, including browsers in mobile phones, PDAs and the like.

Because of the size and weight of the dollar coins, they circulated minimally throughout their history, except in the West ( especially at casinos in the early-to-mid-20th century, where they were commonly used both at the tables and at slot machines.

The history of computing is longer than the history of computing hardware and modern computing technology and includes the history of methods intended for pen and paper or for chalk and slate, with or without the aid of tables.

* Pierre Magnol publishes Prodromus historiae generalis plantarum, in quo familiae plantarum per tabulas disponuntur (" Precursor to a general history of plants, in which the families of plants are arranged in tables ") in Montpellier, the first example of a natural classification of plant families based on morphological characteristics.

A few masterly strokes reproduced the leading features of each age and the characters of its illustrious men ; accurate chronological tables set forth the most interesting events in the history of each sovereign and the names of the great men who flourished during his reign ; and interspersed throughout the work are occasional chapters on the social and civil state of the country at the close of each era in its history.

This time scale is expressed in the form of tables of differences UTC-UTC ( k ) ( equivalent to TAI-TAI ( k )) for each participating institution k. ( The same circular also gives tables of TAI-TA ( k ), for the various unsynchronised atomic time scales.

There is a wide variety of representations possible and one can express a given Turing machine program as a sequence of machine tables ( see more at finite state machine, state transition table and control table ), as flowcharts ( see more at state diagram ), or as a form of rudimentary machine code or assembly code called " sets of quadruples " ( see more at Turing machine ).

Under the heading of " materials ," his class examines the relations between different kinds of writing surfaces ( including stone, wax, parchment, paper, walls, textiles, the body, and the heart ), writing implements ( including styluses, pens, pencils, needles, and brushes ), and material forms ( including scrolls, erasable tables, codices, broadsides and printed forms and books ).

In his Rudolphine Tables ( 1627 ), Johannes Kepler used a prototype of year zero which he labeled Christi ( Christ ) between years labeled Ante Christum ( Before Christ ) and Post Christum ( After Christ ) on the mean motion tables for the Sun, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury.

* Chord ( peer-to-peer ), a peer-to-peer protocol and algorithm for distributed hash tables ( DHT )

Geoffroy's name is best known in connection with these tables of " affinities " ( tables des rapports ), which were first presented to the French Academy in 1718 and 1720, as shown below:

The relational model solved this by splitting the data into a series of normalized tables ( or relations ), with optional elements being moved out of the main table to where they would take up room only if needed.

ET, in turn, can now be seen ( in light of modern results ) as close to the average mean solar time between 1750 and 1890 ( centered on 1820 ), because that was the period during which the observations on which Newcomb's tables were based were performed.

ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Standards Organization, which delineates currency designators, country codes ( alpha and numeric ), and references to minor units in three tables:

It renders complex pages, has partial HTML 4. 0 support ( including tables and frames and support for multiple character sets such as UTF-8 ), supports color and monochrome terminals and allows horizontal scrolling.

The book is divided into three parts reflecting this: the first on chess ( a game purely of abstract strategy ), the second on dice ( with outcomes controlled strictly by chance ), and the last on tables ( combining elements of both ).

For example, the personal pronouns in English can be organized into tables, using the categories of person ( first, second, third ), number ( singular vs. plural ), gender ( masculine, feminine, neuter ), and case ( subjective, objective, and possessive ).

While most of these provided access to the most basic of amenities ( like picnic tables, playgrounds, toilet facilities and supplies ), fewer than a quarter offered cottages in the pre-Depression era, and the vast majority required travellers bring their own tents.

However, some versions of nominalism hold that some particulars are abstract entities ( e. g. numbers ), while others are concrete entities — entities that do exist in space and time ( e. g. tables, chairs ).

Based on the tables by Anton Felkel and Jurij Vega, Adrien-Marie Legendre conjectured in 1797 or 1798 that π ( a ) is approximated by the function a /( A ln ( a ) + B ), where A and B are unspecified constants.

In a practice known as static routing ( or non-adaptive routing ), small networks may use manually configured routing tables.

Tycho Brahe developed the Rudolfine tables ( finished by Kepler, after Brahe's death ), the first comprehensive table of data of the movements of the planets.

These include project ( the process of eliminating some of the columns ), restrict ( the process of eliminating some of the rows ), union ( a way of combining two tables with similar structures ), difference ( which lists the rows in one table that are not found in the other ), intersect ( which lists the rows found in both tables ), and product ( mentioned above, which combines each row of one table with each row of the other ).

There are sixteen pages of arcaded canon tables, where parallel passages of the four Evangelists are laid out ( Backhouse 1981, 41 ; Backhouse 2004 ).

* Les essais de Michel seigneur de Montaigne: nouvelle édition exactement purgée des défauts des precedentes, selon le vray original, et enrichie & augmentée aux marges du nom des autheurs qui y sont citez, & de la version de leurs passages, avec des observations très importantes & necessaires pour le soulagement du lecteur, ensemble la vie de l ' auteur, & deux tables, l ' une des chapitres, & l ' autre des principales matières, de beaucoup plus ample & plus utile que celles des dernieres éditions / Estienne ; de Jars de Gournay

It comprises additional supplements: introductions, bibliographies, biographical summaries, detailed tables of contents and hagiographic passages.