The company's second title, New Comics # 1 ( cover date December 1934 ), appeared in a size close to what would become comic books ' standard during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books, with slightly larger dimensions than today's.

However, these mechanisms evolved for dealing with the small group politics that characterized the ancestral environment and not the much larger political structures in today's world.

The extreme north of Norway, Sweden and Finland, as well as the most North-Western part of Russia, is home to the region's original inhabitants, the today's minority of Sami, who originally inhabited a much larger area, before the expansion of the Scandinavians northward.

The first unit on the market, the MZ-1 was relatively large and unpocketable, but following model, MZ-R2, and subsequent MD Walkmans are quite compact, with today's MiniDisc Walkmans not much larger than the discs themselves.

In the South of France it had evolved into jeu provençal or boule lyonnaise, similar to today's pétanque, except that the field was larger and players ran three steps before throwing the ball.

For its first thirty years, the RMAC was considered a major conference equivalent to today's Division I, before 7 larger members left and formed the Mountain States Conference ( also called the Skyline Conference ).

It was by far the largest town in the English Midlands when today's much larger city of Birmingham was still in its infancy.

In 1770, the mines employed about 4, 000 workers, and the town was the second largest in Norway, after Bergen ( and thus larger than today's capital, Oslo ).

On either side of this marketplace, considerably larger than the present square, was on its eastern side Koggabron ( named after, cogs, a type of medieval merchant vessel ) and today superseded by Skeppsbron, and on its western side was Kornhamn (" Corn Harbour ") receiving the ships from Lake Mälaren, located near today's Kornhamnstorg.

But this was not enough to prevent the additional front mass of the larger engines causing roll steer, resulting in relatively unsophisticated handling by today's standards, especially on rough roads.

The Town of York quickly outgrew the small original blocks and the street grid was extended to the west as the New Town with larger blocks varying in width between today's Jarvis Street and Peter Street.

Rebetiko probably originated in the music of the larger Greek cities, most of them coastal, in today's Greece and Asia Minor.

In addition to the extant subspecies listed below, there are two Pleistocene populations known from fossils ; they were distinct ( generally larger ) birds and probably the direct ancestors of some of today's Common Moorhens: The stout and long-winged paleosubspecies G. c. brodkorbi is known from the Ichetucknee River deposits in Florida ; it was originally described as a distinct species.

In addition to the nominate form, there are Pleistocene populations known from fossils ; they were distinct ( generally larger ) birds and probably the direct ancestors of some of today's Common Moorhens: The stout and long-winged paleosubspecies G. c. brodkorbi is known from the Ichetucknee River deposits in Florida ; it was originally described as a distinct species.

Also in the mid 1950 a US firm built a " snowmobile the arctic area of Alaska that had the drive train reversed of today's snowmobiles with two front wheels -- the larger one behind the smaller one -- with tires drove an endless loop track.

Approximately four times larger than today's cathedral, this church was one of Constantine's great imperial foundations, ranking with other major churches at Rome, Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem.

Before 1914, the German Empire was much larger than today's Germany, comprising Alsace-Lorraine and the Eastern provinces.

Due to the changes to health care in today's society and the increasing need for counseling and medication maintenance, pharmacists have taken on a larger role as clinicians.

The cheapest ones are just paddle controllers with a larger wheel, but most today's examples employ force feedback to simulate the tactile feedback a real driver feels from a steering wheel.

It is known, from oral investigations, that one of the first civil parishes created on the island of Pico was dedicated to the apostle Mathew, and which extended along the southern coast in an area considerably larger than today's limits.

Rebetiko probably originated in the music of the larger Greek cities, most of them coastal, in today's Greece and Asia Minor.

They can achieve excellent results when the lens is stopped down but, as with any 3-elements lens, the results will be soft by today's standards at larger apertures.

For this reason, the original portion of today's larger main building is referred to as the Ayer Wing.

In fact, while the climate of widespread moral uncertainty can in some way be explained by the multiplicity and gravity of today's social problems, and these can sometimes mitigate the subjective responsibility of individuals, it is no less true that we are confronted by an even larger reality, which can be described as a veritable structure of sin.

The original electrocardiograph primarily indicates irregularities in the heartbeat, but today's techniques allow exact measurements of the flow of blood through the aorta, dimensioning of the heart and its chambers, and a much more detailed study of each heartbeat.

of his championship of many of the progressive social measures which adorn our statute books today, and of his cooperation in times of adversity with Presidents of both of our major parties in helping to pilot the Ship of State through the shoals of today's stormy international seas.

By trying to be both a serious survey of a bygone era and a showcase for today's artists, the program turned out to be a not-quite-perfect example of either.

Mammals came to occupy almost every available niche ( both marine and terrestrial ), and some also grew very large, attaining sizes not seen in most of today's mammals.

However, due to circumstances of today's Israeli-Palestinian conflict, full normalization of relations between these two countries is still halted and sometimes fought against in both countries.

Eventually, both velar consonants and developed palatalized allophones before front vowels ; consequently in today's Romance languages, ⟨ c ⟩ and ⟨ g ⟩ have different sound values depending on context.

From then on until the early 1950s, both national and international competitions involved a changing variety of exercises gathered under the rubric, gymnastics, that would seem strange to today's audiences and that included for example, synchronized team floor calisthenics, rope climbing, high jumping, running, and horizontal ladder.

Hip hop exposure has since grown in both India, and the world, with it becoming ever popular with today's younger generation.

The Yuan rulers whom Polo served, as well as the preceding Jin and Liao Empires controlled territories both north and south of today's wall, and would have no reasons to maintain any fortifications that may have remained there from the earlier dynasties.

Some researchers have explored the benefits of enabling virtual communities to self-organize and introduce incentives for resource sharing and cooperation, arguing that the social aspect missing from today's P2P systems should be seen both as a goal and a means for self-organized virtual communities to be built and fostered.

Pankration, as practiced in historical antiquity, was an athletic event that combined techniques of both boxing ( pygmē / pygmachia – πυγμή / πυγμαχία ) and wrestling ( palē – πάλη ), as well as additional elements, such as the use of strikes with the lower extremities, to create a broad fighting sport very similar to today's mixed martial arts competitions.

Romanticism followed a path that led to the expansion of formal structures for a composition set down or at least created in their general outlines in earlier periods, and the end result is that the pieces are " understood " to be more passionate and expressive, both by 19th century and today's audiences.

This plot of land was located on both sides of the railroad station, roughly bounded by today's Sixth Street on the west, Aspen Street on the south, Willow Avenue on the east, and Takoma Avenue on the north.

This allows them to understand both the design functions as well as the building requirements needed to design and build today's infrastructures.

A number of locations, both upstream and downstream of today's Khabarovsk, have been proposed since Richard Maack, one of the first Russian scholars to visit the region, identified Achansk in 1859 with the ruins on Cape Kyrma, which is located on the southern ( Chinese ) shore of the Amur, upstream of Khabarovsk.

He created both the Alpha and Beta tests ancestors to today's ASVAB, a multiple choice test, administered by the United States Military Entrance Processing Command, used to determine qualification for enlistment in the United States armed forces.

The reality is that while a form of modernized hymns do exist in today's churches and do have an impact on church recruitment, there also exists both within and outside these churches a form of music ( Christian rock ) that has only one element in common with previous religious genres: its worship of God.

In 1994 both together with the two Ämter Rastow and Stralendorf from the district Schwerin-Land were merged to the today's district of Ludwigslust.

Although no physical traces of the street railway remain in Highland Springs, old brick streetcar barns are extant both in Richmond, in the Church Hill area, and in Sandston at Seven Pines, where an unusual street configuration is attributed to the turning path of the old trolley cars at today's U. S. Route 60.

While both Michelangelo and a painting of the Swiss Guard bearing Pope Julius II on a litter ( by Raphael ) are often cited as inspiration for the Swiss Guard uniform, the actual uniforms worn by those soldiers are of the style which appears by today's standards as a large skirt, a common style in uniforms during the Renaissance.

Futures is an interdisciplinary field, studying yesterday's and today's changes, and aggregating and analyzing both lay and professional strategies, and opinions with respect to tomorrow.

Messages ( both sync and async ) were passed using a proprietary form of " tagged data " ( a similar concept to today's XML ).

The Challand designs of 1897 and the American Brown of 1901 are both recognisable as forerunners of today's recumbents.

After pioneering efforts in World War II by both the Luftwaffe with the Fritz X, and the USAAF with the Azon controlled-trajectory bombs, today's smart bombs have largely reduced the need for dedicated attack platforms.

Audiences come to autobiography for direct connection and great stories, both sometimes hard to find in today's theatre.

In today's culture, Levy writes, the idea of a woman participating in a wet T-shirt contest or being comfortable watching explicit pornography has become a symbol of feminist strength ; she says that she was surprised at how many people, both men and women, working for programs such as Girls Gone Wild told her that this new " raunchy " culture marked not the downfall of feminism but its triumph, because it proved that U. S. women have become strong enough to express their sexuality publicly.