Various models on which the Biggles character might have been based have been suggested – including rugby player and WWI flying ace Cyril Lowe, fighter pilot Albert Ball, and air commodore Arthur Bigsworth – in fact Johns himself stated that the character was a composite of many individuals in the RFC ( including himself ) but does not represent a single person.

With the end of WWI came the end to serious development of sonar in the US, a fact that was to be fatal in the early days of World War II.

The fact that genes were split or interrupted by introns was discovered independently in 1977 by Phillip Allen Sharp and Richard J. Roberts, for which they shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1993.

Her father's name was Pietro Del Duce and when she discovered that fact she interrupted searches about this man because she did not want to be " Duce's daughter!

The game's popularity in the armed forces stems from its simplicity compared to Bridge and Euchre and the fact that it can be more easily interrupted than Poker, all of which were also popular military card games.

This collection of objects, and a phone message from a tailor reminding the occupant that ' the cassock was ready to be tried on ', along with the fact of the Pope's impending visit, was enough for the chief inspector to infer that an assassination plot had been interrupted.

In a review of the eighth through tenth volumes of the manga, ANN lambasted the fact the fights were frequently " interrupted by long-winded ( and sometimes redundant ) explanations of strategies and special techniques ", but praised the visual presentation of the fights, noting that " the fights are staged with a clear eye for geography, movement and the human form, and are bursting with so much visual energy that not even the flashbacks and tedious explanations can dampen them ".

The rationale for this legal action lay in the fact that the U. S. Mail was transported by rail — transport which was interrupted when trains including Pullman cars were stopped in their tracks.

The Court of Cassation ruled that certain acts that before would not have been considered to be interrupting prescription, but in fact interrupted prescription.

Hope then spent most of the summer of 1984 trapped in a loveless marriage to Larry, but was successfully able to keep the marriage from being consummated by claiming that she was pregnant with Bo's child ( Hope was in fact still a virgin at this point as her and Bo's previous attempts to make love had been interrupted ), while meeting Bo in secret and reaffirming that her love was for him.

Together with Alba, it was the main Angevine possession in northern Italy ; their rule ( in fact interrupted by periods under Saluzzo, Savoy, the Visconti of Milan ) ended in 1382 when Cuneo was acquired by the Duchy of Savoy.

The process of lawmaking by common-law courts — applying legal principles to novel fact situations — is not interrupted by forbidding them from applying new legal principles to new factual situations, after all.

PWA wrestler " Rockstar " Robbie Gillmore then interrupted Jake and attempted to make an alliance based upon the fact that Robbie wears an 80s style shirt featuring a cobra.

This oration was interrupted frequently by applause, but it did not change the fact of Gowen's removal from his presidency.

In the season thirteen episode " The Blunder Years ", when the family is trying to find out why Homer cannot stop screaming after he is hypnotized, Homer flashes back to his greatest moment: jumping the Springfield Gorge, only to be interrupted by Lisa saying " Everyone's sick of that memory ," referring to the fact that the scene has been referenced so many times.

This decrease comes despite the fact that an important component of the government stimulus package was to support the completion of ongoing construction projects.

In the case of doubling the cube, the impossibility of the construction originates from the fact that the compass and straightedge method involve first-and second-order equations, while doubling a cube requires the solution of a third-order equation.

In fact, the model of any theory containing PA obtained by the systematic construction of the arithmetical model existence theorem, is always non-standard with a non-equivalent provability predicate and a non-equivalent way to interpret its own construction, so that this construction is non-recursive ( as recursive definitions would be unambiguous ).

However, an attempt to convert this interesting geometrical construction into a bona-fide model of reality founders on a number of issues, including the fact that the fermions must be introduced in an artificial way ( in nonsupersymmetric models ).

The last event mentioned in his Histories seems to be the construction of the Via Domitia in southern France in 118 BC, which suggests the writings of Pseudo-Lucian may have some grounding in fact when he states, " fell from his horse while riding up from the country, fell ill as a result and died at the age of eighty-two ".

It is difficult to truly define the Korean sword, due to the fact that many swords exist in Korea that have no distinct relation in style and construction.

Again, one needs to check that this construction does not depend on the particular chart φ chosen, and in fact it does not.

Ideon's article also mentioned the fact that Meri himself had shown concern for the condition of the then Soviet-era construction ( in one memorable case Meri, having arrived from Japan, led the group of journalists that were expecting him, to the airport's toilets to do the interview there, in order to point out the shoddy condition of the facilities ).

* Framing ( social sciences ) or Framing effect ( psychology ), terminology used in communication theory, sociology, and other disciplines where it relates to the construction and presentation of a fact or issue " framed " from a particular perspective

In fact, this curve was added in 1877, 26 years after the railway's construction, to circumvent a steep gradient that lasted for 15 km, and interfered with the railway's functionality.

None of these theories refer back to the actual stonework, and it is only when you have done so, as John James did exhaustively in 1969, that you realize that the construction process was in fact simple and logical.

In this gloomy situation and due to a weakened local economy, fishing took on great importance, a fact testified by the construction of structures such as the fish market and the lighthouse.

In fact the process of the construction of identities and reinforcing them is also a part of political movements.

A main contributor to Flatwoods ' growth was the fact that nearby Ashland had developed much of its available land prior to 1960, with little new construction possible within its corporation limits.

The construction of Twelve Oaks Mall in the 1970s made the city a major shopping destination in the Detroit metropolitan area and is often credited with ushering in an era of growth that lasted for 40 years ( although, in fact, the community had been growing rapidly since the 1950s ).

Neither effort that year resulted in the question being put on the ballot, and in fact, voters in the interim had approved the construction of an addition to the courthouse in Warren.

Other amenities included Olympic-sized public pools, parks, " greenbelts ", baseball fields and playgrounds, and a shopping center located in Tullytown borough that was considered large and modern at the time of its construction ( and in fact was the largest east of the Mississippi ).

This is sometimes known as reconstruction archaeology or reconstructional archaeology ; however, reconstruction implies an exact replica of the past, when it is in fact just a construction of one person's idea of the past ; the more archaeologically correct term is a working construction of the past.

After the Interstate program was announced and due to the fact that Wisconsin was not able to obtain some right-of-way land north of Elkhorn, construction was stopped.

This construction is in fact used when constructing a line perpendicular to a given line at a given point: drawing an arbitrary circle whose center is that point, it intersects the line in two more points, and the perpendicular to be constructed is the one bisecting the segment defined by these two points.

A multiple-tower cable-stayed bridge may appear similar to a suspension bridge, but in fact is very different in principle and in the method of construction.

While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

This sentence would have most of the characteristics of a question, but it has some of the characteristics of a statement because the questioner has conveyed the fact that he has no faith in his own timepiece or the one attached to his car.

There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.

But he was `` afraid of the future -- he would in fact welcome a way back to social integration, a functional art of some kind ''.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

some Jews have in fact been all things to all men.

In this domain the simple fact of coexistence in the same local, national, and world community is enough to guarantee that we cannot refrain from having some effect, large or small, upon Gentile-Jewish relations.

It is even true that some among them use the sheer fact of conformity -- `` everyone does it '' -- as a criterion for conduct.

Finally, there is the undeniable fact that some of the finest American fiction is being written by Jews, but it is not Jewish fiction ; ;

Of course, some of the credit for the sale boost must be given to improvement in the weather and to the fact that Easter comes more than two weeks earlier than in 1960.

It bulks under a veil of thin, new grass, like some embarrassing fact of physicalness, and I think Mrs. Pastern set out the statuary to soften its meaning.

Some distribution costs are kept up by competitive pressure, some by the fact that the customers have come to expect certain niceties and flourishes.

It is an amazing fact that in some species this will happen while the summer is still in full swing, for instance, in August.

The fact that there can not be any limit points of the set except in closed intervals follows from the argument used in Lemma 1, namely, that near any tangent point in the C-plane the curves C and Af are analytic, and therefore the difference between them must be a monotone function in some neighborhood on either side of the tangent point.

In fact, they went so far as to caution the writer that if he attempted to design a section exclusively for married students there should be, at the beginning, some `` hindsight '' study ; ;

Perhaps this was related to the fact that all were in on it to some extent.

In fact, some -- Anzilotti is the principle example -- went so far as to say that all international law could be traced to the single legal norm, Pacta sunt Servanda.

The states and the Nation's Capital all have some desegregation, in fact some dating back to 1954 ; ;

And this fact may explain some of the disagreements among the experts as to the more rational formulas for the apportionment of total costs among different units of service.

In fact, some sensitives rule this out, preferring to consider their expression as strictly extra-sensory perception ( ESP ), on this side of the `` veil ''.

But the fact remains that in most restaurants, including some of the best of Paris and Bordeaux and Dijon, the bottle is frankly and simply brought from the cellar to the table when ordered, and all the conditioning or preparation it ever receives takes place while the chef is preparing the meal.