Sunlight in space at the top of Earth's atmosphere at a power of 1366 watts / m < sup > 2 </ sup > is composed ( by total energy ) of about 50 % infrared light, 40 % visible light, and 10 % ultraviolet light.

The major finding of satellite observations is that TSI varies in phase with the solar magnetic activity cycle with an amplitude of about 0. 1 % and an average value of about 1366 W / m < sup > 2 </ sup > ( the " solar constant ").

Somerton took over from Ilchester as the county town in the late thirteenth century, but it declined in importance and the status of county town transferred to Taunton about 1366.

Ballet flowered in Italy during the next hundred years, and about 1550 was carried to France when the Italian princess, Catherine De Medicis, married the King of France.

Lapa was about forty years old when she prematurely gave birth to twin daughters, Catherine and Giovanna.

In her memoir about her parents, With a Daughter's Eye, Mary Catherine Bateson implies that the relationship between Benedict and Mead was partly sexual.

His legitimization of his children by Catherine, and rumors that he was about to crown his new wife Empress, ending the morganatic status of his second marriage, caused great tension with the entire extended Romanov family.

United States Ambassador to Iraq | U. S. Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie | April Catherine Glaspie meets Saddam for an emergency meeting. As Iraq-Kuwait relations rapidly deteriorated, Saddam was receiving conflicting information about how the U. S. would respond to the prospects of an invasion.

When it became clear to Henry that the Tudor dynasty was at risk, he consulted his chief minister Cardinal Thomas Wolsey about the possibility of divorcing Catherine.

William Forrest, author of a contemporary poem about Catherine of Aragon, complimented Anne's " passing excellent " skill as a dancer.

The marriage of Catherine and Henry took place in 1509, but eventually he became dubious about its validity, due to Catherine's inability to provide an heir being seen as a sign of God's displeasure.

After much debate about what kind of person should be President, the European Council agreed on a low-key personality and chose Herman Van Rompuy while foreign policy-novice Catherine Ashton became High Representative.

While Isabella and James spend time together, Catherine becomes acquainted with John, a vain and crude young gentleman who incessantly tells fantastical stories about himself.

John Thorpe, who knows little about literature, tells Catherine that he likes The Monk ( an over-the-top tale of lurid Gothic horror ):

("... Catherine, who had by nature nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country ...").

* Brighton, Catherine, Keep Your Eye on the Kid: The Early Years of Buster Keaton ( 2008 ) Roaring Brook Press ( An illustrated children's book about Keaton's career )

* In Suddenly Last Summer ( 1959 adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play ), a wealthy woman named Violet Venable ( Katharine Hepburn ) wants her niece Catherine Holly ( Elizabeth Taylor ) lobotomized to silence her talk about Violet's son Sebastian's homosexuality.

In 2005, Deneuve published her diary A l ' ombre de moi-meme (" In My Own Shadow ", published in English as Close Up and Personal: The Private Diaries of Catherine Deneuve ); in it she writes about her experiences shooting the films Indochine and Dancer in the Dark.

On 23 June 1661, a marriage treaty was signed, Catherine's dowry securing to England Tangier ( in North Africa ) and the Seven islands of Bombay ( the latter having a major influence on the development of the British Empire in India ), together with trading privileges in Brazil and the East Indies, religious and commercial freedom in Portugal and two million Portuguese crowns ( about £ 300, 000 ); while Portugal obtained military and naval support against Spain and liberty of worship for Catherine.

For example, about a third of The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory is recounted from Anne's point of view, covering the period of Henry VIII's marriages to her and to her successor Catherine Howard.

Catherine and Harriet both were leaders in the mid-19th century in talking about domestic science.

He had, moreover, had no part in the divorce of Catherine of Aragon or in the humiliation of Mary during Henry's reign, and he made no scruple about conforming to the Catholic reaction.

On July 24, 1981, Wyler gave an interview with his daughter, Catherine, for Directed by William Wyler, a PBS documentary about his life and career.

Willis will also join Vince Vaughn and Catherine Zeta-Jones in Lay the Favorite, directed by Stephen Frears, about a Las Vegas cocktail waitress who becomes an elite professional gambler.

* Philippa Gregory, The Constant Princess, a story about the young Catherine of Aragon and her early life in England

Since little is known about autism, and almost nothing has been written for the layman, we'd like to share one experienced mother's comments.

`` To give up these notions required a revolution in thought '', Mr. Clark said in reminiscing about the abrupt changes in ideas he experienced when he began reading `` Organic Gardening '' And `` Modern Nutrition '' in a search for help with his problems.

Considerably more candid than Petrie about Alfonso the private man, and about the miseries the royal family experienced because of their hemophiliac children.

Beck wrote a book about the alleged event in 1967, in which he argued that the creatures were mystical beings from another dimension, claiming that he had experienced psychic premonitions and visions his entire life of which the apemen were only one component.

There was much speculation and fear about the prospect of a Labour government, and comparatively little about a Liberal government, even though it could have plausibly presented an experienced team of ministers compared to Labour's almost complete lack of experience, as well as offering a middle ground that could get support from both Conservatives and Labour in crucial Commons divisions.

A number of verses in the epistle contain possible clues about the reasons Christians experienced opposition.

An investigation into the matter revealed that Keller may have experienced a case of cryptomnesia, which was that she had Canby's story read to her but forgot about it, while the memory remained in her subconscious.

A 2006 study showed a large portion of adults who experienced sibling incest abuse have distorted or disturbed beliefs ( such as that the act was " normal ") both about their own experience and the subject of sexual abuse in general.

Believed to consist of about 7, 000 individuals, the force has received training from experienced Palestinian and Syrian instructors.

Ellis believed that many women who professed love for other women changed their feelings about such relationships after they had experienced marriage and a " practical life ".

Examples of gossip about undesired behaviour that could surface in the skits for comic effect were querulous neighbours, adulterous affairs, planters mistreating workers, domestic disputes or abuse, crooked politicians and any form of stealing or cheating experienced in the society.

The term is sometimes used in a more general sense to refer to any information about past events that people who experienced them tell anybody else, but professional historians usually consider this to be oral tradition.

Rather than telling the love stories of Odysseus and Aeneas, Ovid chooses to tell love stories about the monsters that those heroes experienced.

** This could be any position in which the speaker — whether an acknowledged expert on the subject, or an acquaintance of a person who experienced the matter in question — knows about the topic.

At about nine years Steiner experienced seeing the spirit of an aunt who had died in a far-off town asking him to help her ; neither he nor his family knew of the woman's death at this time.

A highly-skilled and experienced navigator can determine position to an accuracy of about.

During the 1950s, Tirana experienced rapid industrial growth and the population increased to about 137, 000.

As Gagarin continued his descent, he experienced about 8 g ( Gagarin's own report states " over 10 g ") during reentry but remained conscious.

After this interaction, the Irish experienced Viking forces for about 40 years.

More geographically correct were Icelandic texts from about the same time, which presented a clear picture of the northern countries as experienced by Norse explorers: north of Iceland a vast, barren plain ( which we now know to be the Polar ice-cap ) extended from Biarmeland ( northern Russia ) east of the White Sea, to Greenland, then further west and south were, in succession, Helluland, Markland and Vinland.

Ono remained outspoken in her support of feminism, and openly bitter about the racism she had experienced from rock fans, especially in the United Kingdom.

In France, however, Cubism experienced a decline from about 1925.