Orlean ( portrayed by Meryl Streep in an Oscar-nominated role ) was, in effect, made into a fictional character ; the movie portrayed her as becoming Laroche's lover and partner in a drug production operation, in which orchids were processed into a fictional psychoactive substance.

After she mastered taxiing around the airfield, she lifted off and flew .. De Laroche's flight is often cited as the first by a woman in a powered heavier-than-air craft.

Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week is held annually during the week including March 8, which marks the anniversary of Raymonde de Laroche's pilot licence and International Women ’ s Day, and aims to foster diversity in aviation by celebrating women ’ s history, raising awareness of aviation ’ s opportunities among girls and women, and shaping the future by introducing girls and women to aviation through industry-wide collaboration.

In Laroche's Catalog of Hittite Texts, the corpus of Hittite cuneiform texts with Luwian insertions runs from CTH 757-773, mostly comprising rituals.

This confederacy is mentioned only in the fragmentary tablets making up Laroche's CTH 142 / 85.

After the outbreak of World War II in 1939, American communists argued that the United States should not get involved in the war on the side of the United Kingdom, since the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of nonaggression meant that the Soviet Union was at peace with Germany.

Both sides agreed that the IRA's allegiance was to the ( elected ) Dáil of the Irish Republic, but the anti-Treaty side argued that the decision of the Dáil to accept the Treaty ( and set aside the Irish Republic ) meant that the IRA no longer owed that body its allegiance.

Ribbentrop argued that the Soviets and Germans shared a common enemy in the form of the British Empire, and as such, it was in the best interests of the Kremlin to enter the war on the Axis side.

While the name would offend neither side of this debate, it can be argued that prior to 1981 the SDR was a debt security and so a form of credit.

Recognition of any unilateral declaration of independence would likely be of central importance ; though US officials have indicated that they might support such a move, European nations have argued against unilateral moves by either side.

At the Labour Party's 1963 annual conference, Wilson made possibly his best-remembered speech, on the implications of scientific and technological change, in which he argued that " the Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or for outdated measures on either side of industry ".

It then is argued that angle β > α, so side >.

While most historians consider the low English casualty figures to be improbably low, Rogers has argued that they are consistent with reports of casualties on the winning side in other medieval battles.

In Japan, especially within conservative media outlets ( the most vocal ones being Sankei Shimbun and Bungei Shunju ), it is argued that countries which oppose commercial whaling altogether should not be in the IWC at all and allege that the anti-whaling side has subverted the purpose of the IWC by exploiting the ( lack of ) membership requirements.

Watson argued for the nurture side of the nature-nurture debate, claiming that the world would benefit from extinguishing pregnancies for twenty years while enough data was gathered to ensure an efficient child-rearing process.

As the county seat and earliest settlement on the Illinois side, Rock Island argued that it should annex Moline ; Moline, being more prosperous and better known nationally, wanted to keep its name.

The subject of the song is argued by some ; one side says the lyrics are not a continuation of the Melissa story but a tribute by the band to their past, while the other side sees it as the end of the Melissa story.

Among the arguments against its construction, opponents argued that it wasn't a genuine Wright building, that the costs were too steep for the tax payers to bear and that the construction would adversely affect the environment, specifically destroying the view of Lake Monona from street level on the south side of the Capitol Square.

On the conservative side, Burke argued that this understanding encouraged caution and avoidance of radical change.

Lenin argued that if such organisations gained power, they would demonstrate that they were not really on the side of the working class, thus workers would become disillusioned and come over to supporting the Communist Party.

Daniel Webster argued the side of the College in the Dartmouth College Case, describing the Charter this way: " A charter of more liberal sentiments, of wiser provisions, drawn with more care, or in a better spirit, could not be expected at any time or from any other source.

Writing in the ' The Guardian ', however, Hilary defended the film's depiction of events and her sister's personality, arguing that it accurately portrayed her darker side, the " MS side "; and in The New Yorker she argued that detractors simply " want to look only at the pieces of Jackie's life they ready to accept ".

Some of the members argued that the offensive represented an opportunity to defeat the North Vietnamese on American terms while others pointed out that neither side could win militarily, that North Vietnam could match any troop increase, that the bombing of the North be halted, and that a change in strategy was required that would seek not victory, but the staying power required to reach a negotiated settlement.

Therefore, either side can be argued, but given the fact that " cataphract " was used for more than a millennium by various cultures, it stands to reason that different types of fully armored cavalry in the armies of different nations were assigned this name by Greek and Roman scholars not familiar with the native terms for such cavalry.

When Tuor came, carrying Ulmo's warning of the danger to Gondolin, Maeglin sat at Turgon's side and argued against Tuor.

* John W. Davis 1892, 1895L — 1924 Democratic nominee for U. S. President, U. S. Ambassador to Britain, U. S. Solicitor General, argued more cases before the U. S. Supreme Court than anyone else in the 20th century ( including, on the losing side, Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 ).

On the opposing side, others have argued that prayer has no place in a classroom where impressionable students are continually subject to influence by the majority.

Between 1922 and 1934, Armstrong found himself embroiled in a patent war, between himself, RCA, and Westinghouse on one side, and De Forest and AT & T on the other.

Edison, however, never attempted to patent these instruments on the other side of the Atlantic, since they relied so greatly on previous experiments and innovations from Britain and Europe.

Mullis took Cetus ' side in the case, and Khorana refused to testify for DuPont ; the jury upheld Mullis's patent in 1991.

The original patent went to the Breese side of the family after the death of Samuel Morse.

Joe Keaton owned a traveling show with Harry Houdini called the " Mohawk Indian Medicine Company ", which performed on stage and sold patent medicine on the side.

By 1808, Abijah Smith secured a patent for coal lands on the east side of the creek.

In 1805, Hezekiah Roberts, Sr. obtained a patent for of land, called Lot 49, on the west side of Coal Creek, which he sold to William Currie ( who gave the place the name Curry Hill ).

Builders on the north side of the Place Louis XV, as it then was named, between rue de Mondovi and rue Saint-Florentin, had been constrained by letters patent in 1757 and 1758 to follow a single façade plan.

The most common such abnormality is patent foramen ovale, occurring in about 25 % of the adult population, but here the defect functions as a valve which is normally closed, because pressure is slightly higher in the left side of the heart.

On the projector side, William Shaw adapted an Australian patent for film transport called the " rolling loop " by adding a compressed air " puffer " to accelerate the film, and put a cylindrical lens in the projector's " aperture block ".

The first land patent was issued to Sergeant Patrick Mealey on March 18, 1797 for a plot on the west side of Royal York Road on Lake Ontario.

In his patent, two films were projected side by side on screen.

" Nelson King's new improved patent remedied flaws in the Henry rifle by incorporating a loading gate on the side of the frame and integrating a round sealed magazine which was covered by a fore stock.

In September 1762, New York caught New Hampshire surveyors working on the east side of Champlain, provoking the former colony's government to reiterate its claim to the area, citing both its own patent and the New Hampshire letters patent of 1741.

A typical patent infringement case in the US costs 1-3 million dollars in legal fees for each side.

Transferring to the technical side, he developed a square motion wool-comber and a device for making genappe yarns, which he did patent along with Samuel Lister ( later Lord Masham ).

The patent describes Burt's machine as having a set of typeface characters that were arranged on the under side of a set of parts that had a lever pivoted to swing vertically and horizontally.

Mitsubishi Motors pioneered the design in the modern era with its " Silent Shaft " Astron engines in 1975, with balance shafts located low on the side of the engine block and driven by chains from the oil pump, and they subsequently licensed the patent to Fiat, Saab and Porsche.

The authors argue that the establishment of the CAFC has led to judicial " tunnel vision "; because the judges of the CAFC are only asked to rule on matters of intellectual property, they come to value the current patent system too highly, and tend to side disproportionately with patent-holders.

Langstroth's patent of 5 October 1852 adopted between the side bars of a frame and hive wall, and also reserved rights to use the distance between top-bars and inner cover, the latter of which represents a gap larger than optimal.

Prinsep proposed building a patent ship at Telok Saga which is on the north side of the island.