Characters have occasionally cited that the only reason Stark has English as its ancestor is because America was technologically predominant at the beginning of the space age and in particular, when the IF was created.

Skylark DuQuesne was first serialized in IF Worlds of Science Fiction beginning in June 1965 before being published in 1966 by Pyramid Books.

It was scoring 10 of these in the final season that prompted Degerfors IF to sign him for the beginning of the 1996 season.

Odd chips can be awarded in several ways, agreed upon before the beginning of the game.

In the beginning of the book, Odd Thomas is silently approached by the ghost of a young girl brutally raped and murdered, and through his unique ability to understand the dead, is psychically led to her killer, a former schoolmate named Harlo Landerson.

In the beginning of a very few books ( such as Odd Thomas ), Koontz quotes from The Book of Counted Joys.

`` Damn you, Adams '' -- Jess was beginning to recover from his initial shock.

Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;

One beatnik got the woman he was living with so involved in drugs and self-analysis and all-night sessions of sex that she was beginning to crack up.

But with the renewal of interference in 1954 ( as with its beginning in 1835 ), the improvement was impaired.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

Paula says that even though Carl's letters usually began, `` Dear Miss Steichen '', there was an understanding from the beginning that they would become husband and wife.

`` I thought the entire report was going to be confidential from beginning to end.

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

His gray hair was thin, his face beginning to attract a swarm of wrinkles.

Greece was one of the highlights of our trip, but beginning in Greece and continuing around the world throughout Southeast Asia the treatment of animals was horrifying, ranging from callous indifference to active cruelty.

But a few days after Fred's return he began hemorrhaging and that was the beginning of early and complete disintegration.

There was a finality in the rhythm of the prayer -- it was the end of a life, the end of hope, and the wondering if there would ever be another beginning.

Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.

That is, there was no trace of Anglo-Saxons in Britain as early as the late third century, to which time the archaeological evidence for the erection of the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

At the end of World War 2,, free Europe was ready for a new beginning.

His sandy hair was already beginning to thin and recede at the sides, and Abel looked quickly away.

He was beginning to see he was too mad to sleep.

By the end of the century the Roman Catholic Church was beginning to make itself felt, mainly through such institutions as hospitals but also through its attitude towards organized labour.

With the beginning of the slow decline of the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th century, and as a result of the expansionist policies of Czarist Russia in the Caucasus, many Muslim nations and groups in that region, mainly Circassians, Tatars, Azeris, Lezgis, Chechens, and several Turkic groups left their ancestral homelands and settled in Anatolia.

The Voortrekkers were those Boers ( mainly from the eastern Cape ) who left the Cape en masse in a series of large scale migrations later called the Great Trek beginning in 1835 as a result of British colonialism and constant border wars.

It was created in Brazil mainly by descendants of African slaves with Brazilian native influences, probably beginning in the 16th century.

From the beginning of World War I the German Empire had seen Eastern Europe — mainly Russia — as a major source of vital products and raw materials for sustaining the capacity of the nation, both during the war and after.

In Norway and Sweden, this 4 minute geographical mile was mainly used at sea ( sjømil ), up to the beginning of the 20th century.

The Muslim conquest in the Indian subcontinent mainly took place from the 12th century onwards, though earlier Muslim conquests made limited inroads into the region, beginning during the period of the ascendancy of the Rajput Kingdoms in North India, although Sindh and Multan were captured in 8th century ..

Impressionism in music was a movement in European classical music, mainly in France, which appeared in the late nineteenth century and continued into the beginning of the twentieth century.

This work deals mainly with language, beginning with the reflection on artistic expression in The Structure of Behavior-which contains a passage on El Greco ( p. 203ff ) that prefigures the remarks that he develops in " Cézanne's Doubt " ( 1945 ) and follows the discussion in Phenomenology of Perception.

For Davis, his departure from Parker's group marked the beginning of a period in which he worked mainly as a freelancer and as a sideman in some of the most important combos on the New York jazz scene.

* Stage VI: After completion of above: Recovery of appetite (" the chucks "), and normal bowel function, beginning of transition to post-acute and chronic symptoms that are mainly psychological but that may also include increased sensitivity to pain, hypertension, colitis or other gastrointestinal afflictions related to motility, and problems with weight control in either direction.

Prior to the emergence of quantum mechanics as a separate theory, the mathematics used in physics consisted mainly of formal mathematical analysis, beginning with calculus ; and, increasing in complexity up to differential geometry and partial differential equations.

In the beginning the Red Brigades were mainly active in Reggio Emilia, and in large factories in Milan, ( such as Sit-Siemens, Pirelli and Magneti Marelli ) and in Turin ( Fiat ).

The term surjective and the related terms injective and bijective were introduced by Nicolas Bourbaki, a group of mainly French 20th-century mathematicians who wrote a series of books presenting an exposition of modern advanced mathematics, beginning in 1935.

The modern formalized form is mainly an amalgam of French street fighting techniques from the beginning of the 19th century.

Its use was mainly restricted to Northern France, where it was a mode of public transportation until the beginning of the 20th century.

The evening out of fertility rates at the beginning of the 20th century was mainly a result of a few big changes: forms of birth control became available, and people's attitude towards sex altered ( Bradlaw and Besant published ‘ Fruits of Philosophy ’, which is a publication about birth control.

Having left Virgin, relations between XTC and their former label improved and Andy Partridge released a series of albums of demos of his songs ( mainly from the Virgin years ) under the title of Fuzzy Warbles beginning in 2002, on a new label imprint APE.

* 1212 — The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in Iberia sees the beginning of a rapid Christian reconquest of the southern half of the Iberian peninsula, mainly from 1230 – 1248, with the defeat of Moorish forces.

Since the beginning of the transition, foreign donors have funded no less than ten urban transport plans and studies for Tirana, prepared mainly by foreign consultants ( in some cases invited by the City, in others hired directly by the donor organization ).

Note, however, that they lost most of their genetic diversity thousands of years ago ( see the beginning of this article ), and yet seem to have only been in decline in the last century or so, suggesting factors other than genetics are mainly responsible.

Nicolas Bourbaki is the collective pseudonym under which a group of ( mainly French ) 20th-century mathematicians wrote a series of books presenting an exposition of modern advanced mathematics, beginning in 1935.

Manufacturers had entered works cars in rallies, and in their forerunner and cousin events, from the very beginning: the 1894 Paris-Rouen was mainly a competition between them, while the Thousand Mile Trial of 1900 had more trade than private entries.

The spread of Islam into West Africa, beginning with ancient Ghana in the 9th century, was mainly the result of the commercial activities of North African Muslims.

Girls mainly wore blouse, tunic dress and pinafore later progressing towards the beginning of the 20th century to gymslips.