Miss Sally May Saabye, ( Miss Rhode Island 1960 ) says that within a short time -- on June 17th -- her reign will come to an end.

At the end of the 17th century, new scientific concepts in astronomy ( such as heliocentrism ) called astrology into question, and subsequent controlled studies failed to confirm its predictive value.

The English word " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.

At the end of the 17th century, the margraves ' palace at Ansbach was rebuilt in Baroque style.

With the establishment of a German state in Prussia, and the eradication or flight of much of the Baltic Prussian population in the 13th century, the remaining Prussians began to be assimilated, and by the end of the 17th century, the Prussian language had become extinct.

At the end of the 17th century, English country dances were taken up by French dancers ; hybrid choreographies exist from this period using the steps from French court dance in English dances.

Vietnam's settlement of the Mekong Delta led to its annexation of that area at the end of the 17th century.

The name cello is an abbreviation of the Italian violoncello, which means " little violone ", referring to the violone (" big viol "), the lowest-pitched instrument of the viol family, the group of string instruments that went out of fashion around the end of the 17th century in most countries except France, where they survived another half-century or so before the louder violin family came into greater favour in that country too.

Near the end of the 17th century, John Phillips, a nephew of poet John Milton, published what is considered by Putnam the worst English translated version.

At the end of the 17th century ( 1697 ) the Shihabs succeeded the Ma ' ans in the feudal leadership of Druze southern Lebanon, although they reportedly professed Sunni Islam, they showed sympathy with Druzism, the religion of the majority of their subjects.

Ruthenian, the mixed Belarusian-Ukrainian literary language with Church Slavonic substratum and Polish adstratum, was an official language in Belarus and Ukraine until the end of the 17th century.

Stories of kites were first brought to Europe by Marco Polo towards the end of the 13th century, and kites were brought back by sailors from Japan and Malaysia in the 16th and 17th centuries.

By the end of the Roman Empire, having undergone Christian attack and repression, Epicureanism had all but died out, and would be resurrected in the 17th century by the atomist Pierre Gassendi, who adapted it to the Christian doctrine.

This harp originated in Italy in the 16th century as a low headed instrument, and towards the end of 17th century it arrived in Wales where it developed a high head and larger size.

The Russian Empire began to expand into Asia from the 17th century, eventually taking control of all of Siberia and most of Central Asia by the end of the 19th century.

The winter festival went underground with the Protestant Reformation and ensuing years, but re-emerged near the end of the 17th century.

Founded near the end of the 17th century, the village was known as Takau () in the Hoklo language spoken by most of the early immigrants.

Towards the end of the 17th century, the number of students hovered around 100.

The Saadi Dynasty controlled Gao, Timbouctou, Djene, and related trade routes with much difficulty from the downfall of the Songhai at the Battle of Tondibi ( 13 March, 1591 ) to around the end of the 17th century.

When European colonial powers began to send ships along the West coast of Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Senegal River was often postulated to be seaward end of the Niger.

The French Navy won some important victories near the end of the 17th century but a focus upon land forces led to the French Navy's relative neglect, which allowed the Royal Navy to emerge with an ever-growing advantage in size and quality, especially in tactics and experience, from 1695.

The Crimean Khanate continued to invade Eastern Europe in a series of slave raids, and remained a significant power in Eastern Europe and a threat to Muscovite Russia in particular until the end of the 17th century.

It started in Italy at the end of the 16th century ( with Jacopo Peri's lost Dafne, produced in Florence around 1597 ) and soon spread through the rest of Europe: Schütz in Germany, Lully in France, and Purcell in England all helped to establish their national traditions in the 17th century.

The Network Rail Power Signal Box ( PSB ) for the southern end of the East Coast Main Line is at the country end of the station.

* Byron De La Beckwith, convicted murderer of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, moved to Signal Mountain near the end of his life and once called it " A little slice of heaven " in an interview.

Near the end of the war, while serving in the U. S. Army Signal Corps, Major Jack Mullin was assigned to investigate German radio and electronics experiments.

In that event the individual alpine ( mountain valley ) glaciers from the Tetons ' east side coalesced to form a 2, 000 foot ( 610 m ) thick apron of ice that overrode and abraded Signal Mountain and the other three buttes at the south end of Jackson Hole.

Dresser began performing again in an act entitled The Danger Signal until the end of 1893.

It is a front end for Silvaco's Analog / Mixed Signal / RF IC Design Platform, and is integrated with the company's circuit simulation, layout, DRC / LVS / LPE, and parasitic extraction tools.

The receiving equipment displays a “ red alarm ” and sends the signal for “ yellow alarm ” to the far end because it has no framing, but at intermediary interfaces the equipment will report “ AIS ” or Alarm Indication Signal.

After the end of the Korean War, Griffin continued to work for the military in a civilian capacity as Chief of the Publications Division of the U. S. Army Signal Aviation Test & Support Activity at Fort Rucker, Alabama.

In 1937 the company was renamed Deutscher Verlag, affiliated with the Franz Eher Nachfolger publishing house of the Nazi Party and editing the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, as well as Das Reich and the Signal magazine from 1940 until the end of World War II.

An extension of the former Up Siding outside the old Blacktown Signal Box it's now known as the Up Richmond line continues for a distance of 1. 681 km from the old sidings dead end to points that connect it to the Up Main just before Seven Hills and was built to alleviate congestion of up trains from Richmond proceeding to the Up Main just after the station waiting for Down Richmond trains coming off the flyover entering platform 2.

The signal box, which was built at the west end of the westbound platform in 1896, was closed on 14 November 1986 when the new Panel Signal Box at Exeter took over control of the line.

West Ryde Signal Box was a timber structure situated on the city end of platform 3.

Both signal boxes were closed on 26 November 1960 when a new ' Plymouth Panel Signal Box ' was opened on the west end of the new Platform 1 ; the West box was subsequently demolished.

This station has a level crossing at the end of the platform controlled by Furness Vale Signal Box which is situated just next to the crossing.

At first light on 11 July, the Australian 2 / 24th Battalion supported by tanks from 44th Royal Tank Regiment attacked the western end of Tel el Eisa hill ( Point 24 ).

In May 1948, after the end of the British mandate and army withdrawal, King Farouk sent the Egyptian army into Palestine, with Nasser serving in the 6th Infantry Battalion.

The film begins with a bugler playing " Taps " and an overlay of text stating that Americans have been accustomed to military victory, but cites Valley Forge and The Lost Battalion as examples of times where undermanned groups fought to the bitter end for America.

Fearing an attack on the southern end of the road bridge or the Nijmegen road, a battalion of the 34th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Landstorm Nederland, Machine Gun Battalion 47 and other Kampfgruppes headed across the river overnight.

At the time, Company A of the 4th Battalion, 64th Armored Regiment was holding the west end of the al-Jumhuria Bridge.

The British television film The Mark of Cain depicted service of a fictional British Army unit, the 1st Battalion Northdale Rifles in Operation Telic, just after the end of combat operations and in the first stages of the occupation.

*** 1st Battalion, the Black Watch ( Royal Highland Regiment ) ( detached from UK operational area from end of October 2004 to south-east of Baghdad to support 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit )

However, an error in communication caused the Fallschirmjäger Engineer Battalion to withdraw to the north bank of the river, and this allowed the Durhams to establish a position at the southern end of the bridge.

The 2nd Battalion, on the right side of the railroad, attacked the city's Severnyi Post district, meeting heavy resistance and advancing only to the Severenyi railway yard by the end of the day.

By dusk, most of the 2nd Battalion and some supporting units, including the Brigade Headquarters, numbering about 740 men, had taken the northern end of the Arnhem road bridge.

By the end of the month, the 3rd Battalion had entered Basra unopposed.

With Russia's ability to sustain the war at an end and the army demoralized, the Russian Provisional Government creates the Women's Battalion of Death in order to boost the soldiers ' morale.

Shortly after the end of the war the 3rd Battalion was disbanded while the 2nd Battalion was placed in suspended animation.

* Detailed history of the 9th Battalion, using Churchills from introduction to war's end

The last British troops to leave India following India's independence, the first Battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry, passed through the gateway on their way out in a ceremony on 28 February 1948, signalling the end of its rule.

The Special Reserve had been mobilised, with the 3rd Battalion activated at Weymouth, and all seven battalions of the Territorial Force had mobilised and raised an additional second-line battalion by the end of 1914.

On his right, the Marines of Major Meyer's 3 / 6 Battalion swept into the southern end of Belleau Wood and encountered heavy machine gun fire, sharpshooters and barbed wire.

The 7th Flieger Division did not conduct any parachute drops over Poland, however, towards the end of the campaign, 1st battalion 2nd Regiment was air-landed to capture Deblin airfield and 2nd Battalion was landed at other airfields near the Dukla Pass.

In addition, Company C was detached to the 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry, in September to " round out " that unit when it deployed to the Sinai for peacekeeping duties -- the first U. S. military force to be deployed to the Middle East since the end of World War II.

He was made 2nd Battalion Executive Officer at the end of Operation Market Garden in October 1944.

The 5th RM Battalion was originally raised for a brief period at the end of World War I ( September 1918-February 1919 ), and was again raised on 2 April 1940 following mass mobilisation and the influx of “ hostilities only ” ( HO ) marines.

Between 22 April and 29 May 1943, the Australian 2 / 7th Infantry Battalion, at the end of a long and tenuous supply line, attacked the southern extremity of Japanese lines, the Mubo area, at features known to the Allies as " The Pimple " and " Green Hill ".

By the end of the Pacific War, more than 600 members of the 2 / 22nd Battalion were dead.

Towards the end of 1967 the 198th Tank Battalion, Vietnam People's Army ( VPA ) 203rd Armored Regiment, received instructions from the North Vietnamese Ministry of Defence to reinforce the 304th Division as part of the Route 9-Khe Sanh Campaign.