In the later 1890s and into first decade of the 20th century, structural changes occurred in the operation of the Pacific trading companies, with the trading companies moving from a practice of having traders resident on each island to trade with the islanders to a business operation where the supercargo ( the cargo manager of a trading ship ) would deal directly with the islanders when a ship would visit an island.

Paramount made a decision early on to use existing ship models for filming, meaning the old models — some more than a decade old — had to be refurbished, adapted, and reused.

The feudal Japanese did not set eyes on a steam-powered ship until Commodore Perry's arrival only a decade before USS Wyoming's battle.

Early the next year, almost exactly a decade after Revé's band had jumped ship to form Ritmo Oriental,.

Over the next decade, the ship was occasionally seen in hyperspace.

Over the next decade he drew a number of successful strips for The Beano and its sister comic The Dandy, including " Jonah ", a strip about a jinxed sailor who brings bad luck to every ship he sails on, written by Walter Fearne.

The next decade is marked by the development of new ship designs and refits to improve existing ships.

Within a decade, air transport replaced the sled dog team as the preferred way to ship mail.

In 1602 two women were sent to Lancaster for trial, while a decade later Isobel Roby was submitted to Sir Thomas Gerard, accused of upsetting the ship upon which Princess Anne of Denmark was arriving.

By the end of the decade, the time of hand-painted matte paintings was drawing to a close, although as late as 1997 some traditional paintings were still being made, notably Chris Evans ’ painting of the Carpathia rescue ship in James Cameron ’ s Titanic.

* April 23-Arriving at Panama the buccaneers encountered three Spanish warships, one of which commanded by Captain Peralta who had previously fought against Sir Henry Morgan's raid of Panama only a decade before, engaging in a day long battle ending after two of the Spanish ships were boarded and forcing the remaining ship to retreat.

But just a decade before Dillingham had been a 14 year-old scampering up the rigging of the tall ship Southern Cross.

Upon his arrival in Lisbon on June 26, 1536, he achieved the second world circumnavigation, or rather the third or even the fourth circumnavigation in history, considering that Magellan and some of his men had been in the regions of Malaysia and Indonesia a decade before reaching the Philippines or the route taken by other crew members of Magellan's expedition and later returned to Europe after Elcano ` s ship, who were also brought by the Portuguese from Moluccas and then released in Lisbon.

On September 20 the ship reached Ganghwa Island, which had been a site of violent confrontations between Korean forces and foreign forces in the previous decade.

The first P & O Princess Cruises purpose-built cruise ship was the Royal Princess in 1984, the largest new British passenger ship in a decade, and one of the first, if not the first, ships to completely dispense with interior cabins.

In the comic book Scarlet Traces, a sequel set a decade after the events of the story, the ship ( spelt erroneously as Thunderchild ) and its efforts are remembered.

In 1934, a new naval construction bill, the Vinson-Trammell Act was passed, providing a systematic program of ship replacement for the Navy throughout the decade and superseding the remnants of the Cruiser Act plans.

Their operating systems, called MCP ( Master Control Program — the name later borrowed by the screenwriters for Tron ), were programmed in ESPOL ( Executive Systems Programming Oriented Language, a minor extension of ALGOL ), and later in NEWP ( with further extensions to ALGOL ) almost a decade before Unix.

Like many other devices that were more fully developed in Europe during the next decade, what could be called the " atmospheric insert shot " made its first appearance in American films during the years before 1919.

The average IQ scores for many populations have been rising at an average rate of three points per decade since the early 20th century, a phenomenon called the Flynn effect.

The former term includes what is called " Religious Zionism " or the " National Religious " community, as well as what has become known over the past decade or so as haredi-leumi ( nationalist haredi ), or " Hardal ", which combines a largely haredi lifestyle with nationalist ideology.

In a 1989 review of his work, Vincent Canby of The New York Times called Jarmusch " the most adventurous and arresting film maker to surface in the American cinema in this decade ".

In the last decade, a practice called knitting graffiti or yarn bombing — the use of knitted or crocheted cloth to modify and beautify one's ( usually outdoor ) surroundings — emerged in the U. S. and spread worldwide.

" Time Out magazine called it " one of the best American films of the decade ".

The 2006 study called the fans " incredibly loyal ," noting that they filled 99. 8 percent of the seats in the stadium over the previous decade.

There, in 1912, he began the poem cycle called the Duino Elegies, which would remain unfinished for a decade because of a long-lasting creativity crisis.

During his first decade or so in power, Stevens renegotiated some of what he called " useless prefinanced schemes " contracted by his predecessors, both Albert Margai of the SLPP and Juxon-Smith of the NRC.

In the past decade more men are becoming involved in the sport and a global biannual competition called Men's Cup has been steadily growing.

After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the largest stock market crash in American history, most of the decade was consumed by an economic downfall called The Great Depression that had a traumatic effect worldwide.

This is achieved by ' rotation cropping ' ( traditionally called the ley system ) with leguminous pastures and, in the last decade, including a canola crop in the rotations has boosted wheat yields by a further 25 %.

This decade is sometimes called the Pier's " Golden Age ".

Her appointment was called " one of the most important television developments of the decade ".

This file system, now called JFS1 on AIX, had been the premier file system for AIX over the following decade and had been installed in thousands or millions of customers ' AIX systems.

In that regard it and its successors stood out among all of Apple ’ s Macintosh product offerings until 1987, when Apple adopted a unifying warm gray color they called Platinum across its entire product line, which was to last for over a decade.

Following the fall of Kaifeng, the succeeding Southern Song Dynasty continued to fight the Jin for over a decade, eventually signing the Treaty of Shaoxing in 1141, which called for the cession of all Song land north of the Huai River to the Jin and the execution of Song General Yue Fei in return for peace.

The rhythm was popularized in mainstream dance music in the United States by a 1923 tune called " The Charleston " by composer / pianist James P. Johnson which originated in the Broadway show Runnin ' Wild and became one of the most popular hits of the decade.

He spent the last decade of his long life — as he called them, his " improbable " years — continuing this work.

" Nearly a decade after George W. Bush said " misunderestimated " in a speech, Philip Hensher called the term one of his " most memorable additions to the language, and an incidentally expressive one: it may be that we rather needed a word for ' to underestimate by mistake '.

FluxHousing Co-Operatives continued to redevelop the area over the next decade, and were widened to include plans to set up a FluxIsland-a suitable island was located near Antigua, but the money to buy and develop it remained unforthcoming-and finally a performance arts centre called the FluxFarm established in New Marlborough, Massachusetts.

The feud, which lasted a decade and cost 35 lives, has been called the longest and bloodiest in Texas history.

It was settled in the 1820s by four German families, and was a small village called Newburgh a decade later.

This location is known locally simply as " the Picnic grounds ", but may also be called " the Clifford Carnival grounds ", " the Clifford Picnic grounds ", or, since they built a new station on the grounds in the last decade, " the fire house ".