`` I suppose it has to do with the property '', Mark had said over the telephone when they had discussed their receipt of the letters.

`` I imagine the old girl hasn't missed us much '', Mark added, his eyes on the road.

Howard Aiken, who built the quickly-obsoleted electromechanical calculator, the Harvard Mark I, between 1937 and 1945, praised Babbage's work likely as a way of enhancing his own stature, but knew nothing of the Analytical Engine's architecture during the construction of the Mark I, and considered his visit to the constructed portion of the Analytical Engine " the greatest disappointment of my life ".

The Mark I showed no influence from the Analytical Engine and lacked the Analytical Engine's most prescient architectural feature, conditional branching.

By comparison the Harvard Mark I could perform the same task in just six seconds.

* 1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator ( known best as the Harvard Mark I ).

A British Mark I " male " tank, 1916

Tank or " landship " development, originally conducted by the British Navy under the auspices of the Landships Committee was sponsored by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill and proceeded through a number of prototypes culminating in the Mark I tank prototype, named Mother.

The first tank to engage in battle was designated D1, a British Mark I, during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette ( part of the Somme Offensive ) on 15 September 1916.

Samuel Clemens ( Mark Twain ) is also known to have spread the story while lecturing, personalizing it by adding " I have a higher and greater standard of principle.

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The words, " Today I have begotten you ," are omitted from the canonical Gospel of Mark, however, and it is therefore generally believed to have less adoptionist tendencies than the Gospel of the Hebrews.

British Mark I tank during the First World War.

" Although his answer is given merely as su eipas ( thou hast said it ), the Gospel of Mark states the answer as ego eimi ( I am ) and there are instances from Jewish literature in which the expression, " thou hast said it ", is equivalent to " you are right ".

The so-called Harvard architecture of the Harvard Mark I, which was completed before EDVAC, also utilized a stored-program design using punched paper tape rather than electronic memory.

Tube computers like EDVAC tended to average eight hours between failures, whereas relay computers like the ( slower, but earlier ) Harvard Mark I failed very rarely.

When reports of this reached the Apostolic Throne of Saint Mark, Pope Saint Cyril I of Alexandria acted quickly to correct this breach with orthodoxy, requesting that Nestorius repent.

Mark Anderson, president of Strategic News Service, a research firm based in Friday Harbor, Wash. was quoted as saying The kind of goals he had sounded good to shareholders -- like being a $ 50 billion company by the year 2000, or to beat I. B. M.

* Sieg, Wilfried, and Ravaglia, Mark, 2005, " Grundlagen der Mathematik " in Grattan-Guinness, I., ed., Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics.

Bluegrass bassist Mark Schatz, who teaches slap bass in his Intermediate Bluegrass Bass DVD acknowledges that slap bass "... has not been stylistically very predominant in the music I have recorded.

Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.

Krasne visited the National 9 / 11 Memorial on the very same day as the Kings parade and placed his Stanley Cup Champions cap between their names and tweeted ; " As a kings fan in NYC, I couldn't let Mark Bavis or Ace Bailey miss the festivities.

She read everything else she could get her hands on, including an article ( she thinks it was in the Atlantic Monthly ) by Mark Twain on `` White Slavery ''.

Then there was Mark Howe and there was Henry Dwight Sedgwick, an accomplished man of letters who wrote in the spirit of Montaigne and produced in the end a formidable body of work.

He replied, `` My first choice would be Mark Howe ''.

Mark Arnold-Foster writes: `` People are leaving ( West Berlin ) because they think it is dying.

There she extracted two limp vellum sheets and wrote off the letters, one to Abel, one to Mark.

To Mark: `` Please give my regards to Myra ''.

What had once been a widespread family -- at one time, she knew, there were enough Packards to populate an entire county -- had now narrowed down to the two boys, Abel and Mark.

The brothers drove down together in Mark's small red sports car, Mark at the wheel.

What bad grace, what incredible selfishness he and Mark had shown.

He and Mark were the last of the family, and there lay the Cape Ann property which had seemed to have no end, stretching from horizon to horizon, in those golden days of summer.

Mark held the wheel loosely, but his fingers curved around it in a purposeful way and the deliberate set of his body spoke plainly of the figure he'd make in the years to come.

Mark easily looked years older than himself, settled, his world comfortably categorized.

`` She didn't mention bringing Myra '', Mark said, maneuvering the car into the next lane.

'' Mark asked, and Abel lifted his eyes from the double lines in the middle of the road, the twin white ribbons which the car swallowed rapidly as it ascended the crest of the hill and came down.

Mark stopped the car and switched off the lights and they sat looking at the water, which, there being no moon out, at first could be distinguished from the sky only by an absence of stars.

Mark and center-punch all the holes required for screws to hold this assembly together.

In Missouri ( which we are including in our general Midwest region ) you can glance into Mark Twain's birthplace at Hannibal, see the landmarks of his life and writings and visualize where Huck Finn hatched his boyish mischief.

Mark row on which first stitches have been bound off for armhole by drawing a contrasting colored thread through it.

Vice-president is Louis Berkman and the secretary-treasurer is Mark Ritter.

Telegraphers at the Depot at this time were Aaron C. Burr and Mark Manley of `` Burr and Manley '', dealers in lumber and dry goods.

On Wednesday evening, November 23, 1859, in Warren, Rev. Mark Trafton of New Bedford, gave a `` Mission of Sympathy '' lecture in which he favorably viewed the Harper's Ferry insurrection.

By 1926, when the mighty Yanks were at their mightiest, only a few of these were left but they still shone brightest, even beside able and agile rookies like Tony Lazzeri ( who managed never to have one of his epileptic fits on the field ), Mark Koenig, Lou Gehrig, George Pipgras, and gray-thatched Earl Combs.

-- The statewide meeting of war mothers Tuesday in Salem will hear a greeting from Gov. Mark Hatfield.