With the aid of a grant of money from the King of Prussia, Agassiz crossed the Atlantic in the autumn of 1846 with the twin purposes of investigating the natural history and geology of North America and delivering a course of 12 lectures on “ The Plan of Creation as shown in the Animal Kingdom ,” by invitation from J.

During the course of the evening three others who visit the house: a stranded motorist ( Jeffrey Kramer ), a police officer ( Bill Henderson ) investigating the motorist's abandoned car, and a singing telegram girl ( Jane Wiedlin ), are all killed with the wrench, the lead pipe, and the revolver ; in the lounge, the library, and the front hall, respectively.

During the course of investigating a double murder disguised as a lovers ' suicide, Sano uncovers and foils a plot to assassinate Tsunayoshi and is rewarded by a promotion to be the Shogun's special investigator.

Ludovic Kennedy, however, showed that the confessions were fabricated and dictated to Evans by the investigating officers, and that they interrogated the accused over the course of late evening and early morning hours to his physical and emotional detriment, a man already in a highly emotional state.

Systematic theology draws on the foundational sacred texts of Christianity, while simultaneously investigating the development of Christian doctrine over the course of history, particularly through philosophy, science and ethics.

He attended the Art Academy in Valencia in the mid-1960s, then he earned a degree in architecture and a post graduate course in city planning at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitecturea, studied civil engineering at the Federal Polytechnic University of Zurich, and participated in academic research investigating The Foldability of Space Frames.

It was in the course of investigating this ring of stars, and a closely spaced group of globular clusters similar to those associated with the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy, that the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy was discovered.

After investigating the scene, Cryer told the prosecutor's office that he believed that the fire was arson, a conclusion that eventually led to Kenny Richey being convicted and sentenced to death on charges of aggravated murder with a specification alleging murder in the course of arson, aggravated arson, breaking and entering ( a greenhouse where he allegedly acquired the materials to start the fire ), and child endangerment.

In the course of investigating her disappearance, he receives another message that he will find all his friends " on the Isle of the Dead ".

In the course of investigating the mystery, the player learns new, powerful spells that must be used in novel ways.

The typical course of most of the games follows the original series ' format with the player investigating a crime with interviews of witnesses and examination of evidence.

In the course of investigating slight differences discovered by William Hyde Wollaston in the angles of the rhombohedra of the carbonates isomorphous with calc-spar, Mitscherlich observed that the angle in the case of calc-spar varied with the temperature.

It was in the course of investigating this ring of stars, and a closely spaced group of globular clusters similar to those associated with the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy, that the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy was discovered.

Alan Thétard, then one of Thomson-CSF ’ s directors, met with Schabir Shaik in Durban on 30 September 1999, during the course of which it was agreed that Thétard would give Shaik money to cover Zuma ’ s debts in exchange for Zuma ’ s protection from the commission investigating the arms deal, and ongoing support for any future Thomson-CSF deals with the South African government.

In the course of investigating potentially prohibited internet content, ACMA may seek a formal classification decision from the Classification Board, or it may make its own assessment of the content against the National Classification Code and in Guidelines.

Two former detectives, Roy Smith and Laurence Andrews, took objection to the book which claimed they had conspired to pervert the course of justice when investigating a murder in 1968 in Aspley.

All of her movements were careful and methodical, partaking of the stealth of a criminal who has plotted his felony for months in advance and knows exactly which step to take next in the course of the final execution of his crime.

The water in Thor's big swimming pool had been covered with a blanket of thick, foamy soapsuds -- fashioned, of course, from zing -- Joyce had dived from the board into the pool, then swirled and cavorted in her luxurious `` bath '' while cameras rolled.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.

There was, of course, more to the portrait of a lady you carried in your mind's eye than the sine qua non of her virtue.

I'd have been more impressed if I hadn't remembered that she'd played Hedda Gabler in her highschool dramatics course.

Of course I had to give her Eileen's address, but she never came near us.

The contributions were ahead of what she had got the previous year, and while the money, of course, was not hers, it excited her to stuff her kit with big checks.

Of course, if your pool is close to the house, your wife can always add it to her housekeeping chores ( you hope ).

Since the course, one member has lost her husband.

But just when was an unknown, and of course the longer it did not happen, the stronger her wish and belief that it might not.

Diane was needed as a material witness in the case and New York police searched three continents before they found her in their own back yard -- in a swank hotel, of course.

Of course, her benevolence was limited to those who could afford it, but then there is a limit to what one person can do.

When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??

Of course On Thursday, Haney mailed the monthly check for separate maintenance to his wife Lolly, and wished the stranger could do something about her

Anthony Steel, as the husband, is a jealous type who argues against her course and sues for divorce, labeling her action adulterous.

Of course she wasn't herself right now, but as her strength came back her spirits didn't seem to rise with it.

It wasn't just the obnoxious birds that had ruffled her own feathers, of course ; ;

They'd cleaned her up some, of course, and she'd pretty much slept off her drunk.

`` Of course '', replied Helva logically, activating her outside scanners.

Athena had an " androgynous compromise " that allowed her traits and what she stood for to be attributed to male and female rulers alike over the course of history ( such as Marie de ' Medici, Anne of Austria, Christina of Sweden, and Catherine the Great ).

" By 1972, the station had ceased operation and in January 1973 a course at Goddard was formed under the direction of Kirk Gardner to establish an FM station that would broadcast to the surrounding communities in Vermont.

In the course of giving judgment in this appeal Lord Chief Justice Goddard had mentioned a letter which had been sent in 1937 by " the president of the council " to the Institute of Chartered Surveyors recognizing the fact that there was nothing in a Bill, which the council was then promoting ( and which subsequently became the Architects Registration Act, 1938 ), to interfere with the activities of registered architects.

Of course, some scholars believe Luke ’ s work may be fulfilling more than one purpose and thus may side with more than one of the claims that are presented here.

In the course of a plot between Philip of Swabia, Boniface of Montferrat and the Doge of Venice, the Fourth Crusade was, despite papal excommunication, diverted in 1203 against Constantinople, ostensibly promoting the claims of Alexius son of the deposed emperor Isaac.

The author claims that this included not only ritual cannibalization of the livers of freshly killed prisoners, but also the cannibalization-for-sustenance of living prisoners over the course of several days, amputating limbs only as needed to keep the meat fresh.

" He quotes Charles Lyell as saying " Continents, therefore, although permanent for whole geological epochs, shift their positions entirely in the course of ages " and claims that the first to throw doubt on this was James D. Dana in 1849.

Finkelstein claims the CRT was on course to vindicate the Swiss banks before it changed tack in order to " protect the blackmailers ' reputation ".

" While he did not graduate from George Washington, his time there subsequently became important because, as George Malko puts it, " many of his researches and published conclusions have been supported by his claims to be not only a graduate engineer, but ' a member of the first United States course in formal education in what is called today nuclear physics.

The ministry also claims that such organisations as Freedom House and Human Rights Watch use the same scheme of voluntary extrapolation of " isolated facts that of course can be found in any country " into " dominant tendencies ".

While Napoleon did renounce state claims to tribal lands, he also began a process of dismantling tribal land ownership in favour of individual land ownership over the course of three generations, though this process was accelerated by later administrations.

A newspaper article from January 1927 claims an American ice-cream was named after Pavlova: " Dame Nellie Melba, of course, has found fame apart from her art in the famous sweet composed of peaches and cream, while Mme.

The seminal work in this respect is Jean Baudrillard's ( b. 1929 ) L ' échange symbolique et la mort ( 1976 ), in which Baudrillard claims that in the course of the 20th century reality has been superseded by " simulacra ", by representations of the original which — in a world where technology has developed the means to replicate each and everything, including works of art ( cf.

Over the course of the book he claims to be training mice to perform in a mouse circus, and often brings Coraline messages from them, though at first Coraline doubts he even has mice to train, and doesn't listen to what he says to be messages from the mice.

The Normandie Golf Club, which claims to be the oldest public golf course west of the Mississippi River, is adjacent to the city.

Despite Zawinul and Shorter's claims, Sportin ' Life was in effect the last proper Weather Report record, as both were finding that the refreshing nature of other projects was more satisfying and generally felt that the band had run its course.

Cinemax has also ran since 1992, an annual film festival called The Summer of 1000 Movies, in which the channel claims to run 1000 films ( many with a similar subject ) over the course of each summer.

The novel's narrator claims that John Shade's father had a waxwing named for him, Bombycilla Shadei, and in noting the name corrects the taxonomical error: '( this should be shadei, of course )'.

He claims that three distinct approaches, or readings, must all be made in order to get the most possible out of a book, but that performing these three levels of readings does not necessarily mean reading the book three times, as the experienced reader will be able to do all three in the course of reading the book just once.

While explaining in this lecture the origin of the general course with which he guides his Institute, Gurdjieff claims that he consulted with individuals who lived over two centuries, and who approached 300 years old.

: G. J. Warnock's Foreword – Having taken a course from Austin on this topic at Oxford in 1947, Sir Geoffrey Warnock ( 1923-95 ) says he put Austin's fragmentary lecture notes into sentence form, with the help of class notes from later students of the course, and claims to relate faithfully Austin's " argument " though not his exact wording.

" According to the ancient historian Sozomen, in his Ecclesiastical History, Sozomen claims that much of the rivalry was based on an ornate statue made in the honor of Eudoxia which Chrysostom condemned, “ The silver statue of the empress ... was placed upon a column of porphyry ; and the event was celebrated by loud acclamations, dancing, games, and other manifestations of public rejoicing ... John declared that these proceedings reflected dishonor on the church .” According to Sozomen, John had also condemned the empress for her grandiose style of ruling over the empire and condemned her in the church, this of course enraged the empress and John was immediately disposed of.

Most naïve subjects presented with this sort of case, claims Unger, will choose ( d ), to save the five by killing one, even if this course of action involves doing something very similar to killing the fat man, as in Thomson's case above.

His " Thirty truculent tongue-twisters ", which he claims circulated in Havana and which are reprinted in " The Color of Summer ", mock everyone from personal friends who he suggests may have spied on him to figures such as Nicolás Guillén, Alejo Carpentier, Miguel Barnet, Sarduy and of course Fidel himself.

A more recent example is the controversial Book of Veles, which claims to be an authentic written record of old Slavic religion from the 9th or 10th century CE, written in Cyrillic, whereas it cannot be proven that the Slavs had any sort of writing system before Christianisation, let alone that they used the Cyrillic alphabet ( named, of course, after St Cyril, who coined the first known writing system for Slavs when he was sent together with his brother Methodius to baptise them in the 9th century ).

In the course of the clash, O ' Keefe claims to have been involved in providing initial first aid to a seriously wounded passenger and disarming two Israeli commandos.

The ICFI came to Gelfand's aid and, in the course of the trial, made many claims about US government infiltration into the SWP as part of CoIntelPro and earlier.