The turn of the century, or to be more precise, the two decades preceeding and following it, marks a great change in the history of early English scholarship.

Several were born in the early decades and persisted throughout the century.

* Artist Robert Henri came to Achill on a regular basis in the early decades of the 20th century.

Base stealing was popular in the game's early decades, with speedsters such as Ty Cobb and Clyde Milan stealing nearly 100 bases in a season.

Controversy has arisen over various sexual interpretations made regarding the content of Batman comics in the early decades.

For several decades from the 1970s to early 2000s, the focus in designing high performance general purpose CPUs was largely on achieving high ILP through technologies such as pipelining, caches, superscalar execution, out-of-order execution, etc.

In the early decades of the 20th century, all Sunday comics received a full page, and daily strips were generally the width of the page.

The books that were influential in the early development of computational quantum chemistry include Linus Pauling and E. Bright Wilson's 1935 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics – with Applications to Chemistry, Eyring, Walter and Kimball's 1944 Quantum Chemistry, Heitler's 1945 Elementary Wave Mechanics – with Applications to Quantum Chemistry, and later Coulson's 1952 textbook Valence, each of which served as primary references for chemists in the decades to follow.

As early as 1886 he saw that logical operations could be carried out by electrical switching circuits ; the same idea as was used decades later to produce digital computers.

In the early decades of the 20th century, churches sprang up in communities around the world, though in the last several decades of that century, there was a marked decline in membership, except in Africa, where there has been growth.

In spite of its early meteoric rise, church membership has declined sharply over the past eight decades, according to the church's former treasurer, J. Edward Odegaard.

The movement was extinguished in the early decades of the thirteenth century by the Albigensian Crusade, when the Cathars were persecuted and massacred and the Inquisition was set up to finish the job.

In the succeeding decades, for some congregations and their leaders, co-operative work through missionary societies and the adoption of instrumental music in church worship was straying too far from their conception of the early church.

In the early decades of the 19th century, it became clear to the British that the major threat to their interests in India would not come from the fragmented Afghan empire, the Iranians, or the French, but from the Russians, who had already begun a steady advance southward from the Caucasus.

Eugenics was widely popular in the early decades of the 20th century.

As a social movement, eugenics reached its greatest popularity in the early decades of the 20th century.

This early date, only a few decades after the departure of the Romans, also suggests that more of Roman civilization may have survived into Anglo-Saxon rule in Kent, than in other areas.

Several decades after Pearson's work with early versions of meta-analysis, Glass published the first application of modern meta-analytic techniques and triggered their broad application across the social and biomedical sciences.

One strong theme amongst folk scholars in the early decades of the 20th century was regionalism.

The option to play the ball with the foot was preserved, however, for several decades, although by early in the 20th Century it was restricted to kicking the ball forward.

Outside the scope of media, railway enthusiasts are another early fandom with its roots in the late 19th century that began to gain in popularity and increasingly organize in the first decades of the early 20th century.

Fort Collins gained a reputation as a very conservative city in the twentieth century, with a prohibition of alcoholic beverages, a contentious political issue in the town's early decades, being retained from the late 1890s until student activism helped bring it to an end in 1969.

He was one of the early members of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, and remained active in it for many decades.

As early as 1858, Le Fort claimed an alveolar distribution of the bronchial arteries in human beings.

He fired the first shot in defense of Fort Sumter, the opening battle of the war, and had a pivotal role in the early fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg.

The early British capital of the Colony of Nova Scotia ( sometimes referred to as the 14th Colony ) was established at Annapolis Royal, where Fort Anne was constructed.

He is best known as one of the founders of the U. S. state of Vermont, and for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga early in the American Revolutionary War.

" Fort Collins continues to grow in population at a measured pace, with competition from other development in northern Colorado, debate over future growth patterns and town and gown relations emerging as dominant local issues in the early 21st century.

Following basic training at Fort Monmouth, he was assigned to the old Paramount studios in Astoria, Queens ( where he had directed three films in the early 1930s ), although he was permitted to lodge at the St. Regis Hotel in Manhattan.

By the early 1980s, the Bakkers had built Heritage USA in Fort Mill, South Carolina, ( south of Charlotte ), then the third most successful theme park in the US, and a satellite system to distribute their network 24 hours a day across the country.

The family relocated in early 1858 to Fort Riley, where they remained for three years.

Originally displayed within a temple, the stele was probably moved during the early Christian or medieval period and eventually used as building material in the construction of Fort Julien near the town of Rashid ( Rosetta ) in the Nile Delta.

The great Maginot Line was bypassed and battles that would have taken weeks of siege could now be avoided with the careful application of air power ( such as the German paratrooper capture of Fort Eben-Emael, Belgium, early in World War II ).

His early years saw him receive a cultured, broad education and he distinguished himself in the martial arts and as a military commander while leading his father's armies in numerous campaigns against Mewar ( 1615 ), the Deccan Sultanates ( 1617 and 1621 ), Kangra Fort ( 1618 ).

* Fort Washington, Cincinnati, Ohio, is built to protect early U. S. settlements in the Northwest Territory.

In the early 1980s the M551A1 was fitted with a visual modification kit to resemble Warsaw Pact vehicles at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California.

Leaving Fort Le Boeuf early on December 16, Washington and his party arrived in Williamsburg on January 16, 1754.

The ROC should not be confused with the Orthodox Church in America ( OCA ), a self-governing part of the Russian Orthodox Church that traces its existence in North America from the time of the Russian Orthodox missionaries in Alaska in the late 18th century and the Russian settlement at Fort Ross on the Pacific coast in California in the early 19th century.

She spent her early childhood in Fort Wayne, near the St. Mary's River.

In early 1811, the supply ship Tonquin left supplies and men to establish Fort Astoria ( Oregon ) at the mouth of the Columbia River and Fort Okanogan ( Washington ) at the confluence of the Okanogan and Columbia Rivers.

Europeans came to the Delaware Valley in the early 17th century, with the first settlements founded by the Dutch, who in 1623 built Fort Nassau on the Delaware River opposite the Schuylkill River in what is now Brooklawn, New Jersey.

Other historic sites include homes for Edgar Allan Poe, Betsy Ross, and Thaddeus Kosciuszko, early government buildings like the First and Second Banks of the United States, Fort Mifflin, and the Gloria Dei ( Old Swedes ') Church.

The forts situated to the north and east of Verdun ( e. g. Fort Douaumont, Fort Vaux, Moulainville ) had been thoroughly hardened during the early 1900s with very thick steel-reinforced concrete tops resting on a sand cushion.

Area settled by the Dutch in 1660After some early trading expeditions, the first Dutch settlement in the Americas was founded in 1615: Fort Nassau, on Castle Island in the Hudson, near present-day Albany.

Later in his Fort Thomas service, Rose served as company cook which entailed coming in early for the one weekend / month meeting so that he could get out early enough to participate in local Reds games.