The name Odaiba comes from a series of six island fortresses constructed in 1853 by Egawa Hidetatsu for the Tokugawa shogunate in order to protect Edo from attack by sea, the primary threat being Commodore Matthew Perry's Black Ships which had arrived in the same year.

In the late 1760s Harunobu thus became one of the primary producers of images of bijinga ( pictures of beautiful women ) and kabuki actors of Edo, and of similar and related subjects for the Edo print connoisseur market.

Inokashira Pond ( 井の頭池 ) and the, established during the Edo period, are the primary sources of the Kanda River.

Musical composition embodying angst as a primary theme have primarily come from European Jewish composers such as Gustav Mahler and Alban Berg, written during the period of great persecution of the Jewish people shortly before and during the period of Nazi activity in Europe.

The primary function of the breasts — as mammary glands — is the feeding and the nourishing of an infant child with breast milk during the maternal lactation period.

Proxima, the tertiary star, is a red dwarf of magnitude 11. 0 ; it is almost 2 degrees away from the primary and secondary and has a period of approximately one million years.

The primary and secondary have a period of 80 years and will be closest to each other as seen from Earth in 2037 and 2038.

The primary and secondary are both blue-white hued stars of magnitude 2. 9 ; their period is 85 years.

The Roman army adopted the technology for their troops in the form of the lorica hamata which was used as a primary form of armour through the Imperial period.

A country at " peak danger ", with commodities comprising 32 % of gross domestic product, has a 22 % risk of falling into civil war in a given five-year period, while a country with no primary commodity exports has a 1 % risk.

French was inherited from the colonial period and is the primary language of instruction.

The primary industry throughout the island's colonial period consisted of coconut plantations producing copra and / or coconut oil, until closure of the plantations and relocation of the inhabitants in October 1971.

Dartford Priory was established long after the primary period of monastic foundation in England had ended.

The system, 197 light-years away, has a primary of magnitude 5. 4 that is itself a binary star ; its components are of magnitude 6. 0 and 6. 3 and have a period of 101 years.

The components of the primary are becoming closer together and will not be divisible in amateur telescopes beginning in 2015. δ Equ is a binary star with an orbital period of 5. 7 years, which at one time was the shortest known orbital period for an optical binary.

The primary driver of fighter innovation, right up to the period of rapid re-armament in the late 1930s, were not military budgets, but civilian aircraft racing.

While the historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles is disputed by critics, the Acts of the Apostles is the major primary source of information for this period.

The original Jeep vehicle that first appeared as the prototype Bantam BRC became the primary light four-wheel-drive vehicle of the United States Army and Allies during World War II, as well as the postwar period.

The primary sites of research for this period have been cave dwellings at Hagio ( n ) Galas, in the north, and a settlement and accompanying necropolis in modern-day Emporeio at the far south of the island.

His new interests would lie in more fundamental issues of social sciences ; his works from this latter period are of primary interest to modern scholars.

It is the only primary narrative source for much of its period.

" Native Americans, during the transitional period of Africans becoming the primary race enslaved, were enslaved at the same time and shared a common experience of enslavement.

In some narcissists, the ' period of primary narcissism which subjectively did not need any objects and was entirely independent ... may be retained or regressively regained ..." omnipotent " behavior '.

In the climate of English thought in the period following Isaac Newton's major contributions to physics, there was much discussion of a distinction between primary qualities and secondary qualities.

First released in 1997, REBOL was designed over a 20 year period by Carl Sassenrath, the architect and primary developer of AmigaOS, based on his study of denotational semantics and using concepts from the programming languages Lisp, Forth, Logo, and Self.

Legal scholar Kenji Yoshino argues that the history of conversion therapy can be divided broadly into three phases: an early Freudian period, a period of mainstream approval of conversion therapy during a time when the mental health establishment became the " primary superintendent " of sexuality, and a post-Stonewall period wherein the mainstream medical profession disavowed conversion therapy.

The primary subplot involves a young man in a white suit ( Koji Yakusho ) and his lover ( Fukumi Kuroda ), who find erotically inventive ways to use food.

After the primary, Missouri Governor Kit Bond appointed Ashcroft to the office of State Auditor, which Bond had vacated when he became Governor.

For the most part the Executive Committee has appointed senior managers at LLNL as the primary officers of LLNS.

He was appointed as chairman of the Military Affairs Committee, the primary agenda item there being the reorganization and reduction of the armed forces to put them on a peacetime footing.

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter appointed a Federal Reserve chief Paul Volcker who made inflation fighting his primary objective, and restricted the money supply ( in accordance with the Friedman rule ) to tame inflation in the economy.

In 1724 the primary political rival of Walpole and Townshend in the Cabinet, Lord Carteret, was dismissed from the post of Southern Secretary and once again appointed to the lesser office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

According to primary sources, Musa was appointed deputy of the king before him, who had reportedly embarked on an expedition to explore the limits of the Atlantic ocean, and never returned.

He was appointed professor in architecture academy, and for 25 years, he taught in primary schools, secondary schools and at the university level.

In 1693, shortly after the establishment of the University of Halle, he was appointed primary professor of medicine and natural philosophy.

He was elected to the United States Senate in 1972, defeating appointed U. S. Senator David H. Gambrell in the Democratic primary and U. S. Rep. Fletcher Thompson in the general election.

In 1989, President George H. W. Bush appointed him Deputy Secretary of State ( the Department's second-ranking position ); he also served as the President's primary advisor for affairs relating to the quickly disintegrating Yugoslavia.

* Harlem Désir ( appointed on 30 June 2011, acting during Martine Aubry's candidacy in the French Socialist Party presidential primary, 2011 )

The lack of visibility with her constituents may have been the primary reason that she lost the 1944 election. Roosevelt then appointed her to the Employees ' Compensation Commission, and in 1946 President Harry Truman gave her a post on the Employees ' Compensation Appeals Board, where she served until suffering a stroke in January 1950.

This involves appointing a Melrosian who has lived in the town for most of his life ; and a queen and her court are appointed from the local primary school, Melrose Grammar School.

Ishiwara was appointed to the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff in 1935 as Chief of Operations, which gave him primary responsibility for articulating his vision for Japan's future.

In November 2004, Aiken was appointed a U. S. Fund for UNICEF National Ambassador, with a mission to help ensure that children everywhere are afforded a primary education.

In 1976, he was appointed Chairman of the Illinois Citizens for Reagan, in which capacity he made numerous speaking engagements throughout the midwest on behalf of the conservative California governor's unsuccessful GOP primary bid for the Presidential nomination.

She was also responsible for international affairs at the Lord Chancellor's Department and was appointed by Prime Minister Tony Blair as the UK Alternate Representative to the European Convention and was given primary responsibility for the negotiations in relation to the Charter of Rights which were successfully concluded in 2003.

In 1948, Broughton was elected to the United States Senate, after defeating William B. Umstead, the appointed incumbent, in the Democratic primary.

Alley's father was a teacher, and Rewi attended primary school at Amberley ; then Wharenui School in Christchurch, where his father was appointed headmaster in 1905 ; and finally Christchurch Boys ' High School.

In 1917, Rowell, a supporter of conscription during World War I left the Ontario legislature and broke with Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberal Party of Canada to join the national Unionist government of Sir Robert Borden as a result of the Conscription Crisis of 1917 and was appointed to Borden's government as President of the Privy Council of Canada in October 1917 and was also made vice-chairman of the government's War Committee giving him primary responsibility for organizing the war effort and enforcing conscription.

Since 1972, almost all have appointed delegates by primary election results, although some, notably Iowa, use caucuses, and others combine the primary with caucuses or with delegates elected at a state convention.

He was later appointed to serve as a United States Senator for the state of North Carolina ( after the death of Lee S. Overman ) between 1930 and 1932, but lost his seat in the Democratic primary runoff to Robert R. Reynolds.

The more liberal Hill, who had also once been the appointed secretary of state, had defeated Briscoe in the primary.