`` 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.

Detroit Free Press music critic Mark Stryker concludes that the work of Billy Strayhorn and Ellington in Anatomy of a Murder, the trial court drama film directed by Otto Preminger in 1959, is " indispensable,.

On September 10, 1960, he hit a ball left-handed that cleared the right-field roof at Tiger Stadium in Detroit and, based on where it was found, was estimated years later by historian Mark Gallagher to have traveled 643 feet ( 196 m ).

* " Excelsior ", the characteristic sign-off of Detroit radio personality Mark Scott

After starting the year at 10-3 for the last-place Detroit Tigers and making his first All-Star Game appearance, he was traded to the Cincinnati Reds for C. J. Nitkowski, Mark Lewis, and minor leaguer Dave Tuttle.

* Mark Woodyard MLB Detroit Tigers.

Colleen was one of the founders of the Detroit Junior Red Wings and represented both Gordie and Mark financially during their careers.

Detroit Free Press music critic Mark Stryker concludes that the work of Strayhorn and Ellington in Anatomy of a Murder is " indispensable,.

Magazine, Brian Compton listed the 10 best captains of all-time since Steve Yzerman was first named captain of the Detroit Red Wings in 1986 ; Koivu was included in the article in the 10th place, behind the likes of Mark Messier and Mario Lemieux.

Fantasound never expanded beyond the initial roadshow engagements in New York, Los Angeles ( where the automatic Mark X system was used ), Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Baltimore, Washington, Minneapolis, Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Cleveland.

The thirteen-station Detroit People Mover is a fully automated system, using the same ICTS Mark I trains as Toronto and Vancouver.

The Mark II used a diesel version of the engine and the Mark IV a GMC ' Detroit ' diesel ; these were the majority of those used in the desert campaigns.

* Mark Fidrych 1974, former Detroit Tiger

* Mark Aguirre, Forward, NBA 1982-1994 ( Dallas, Detroit )

In 2008 Uriel Jones, Ray Monette, Dennis Coffey, Robert Jones and Bob Babbitt accompanied other notable Detroit session musicians including Larry Fratangelo, Dennis Sheridan, Edward Gooch, John Trudell, George Benson, Mark Burger, David Jennings, Spider Webb, and Rob Pipho where they appeared on the Carl Dixon Bandtraxs project which featured a Dennis Coffey / Carl Dixon production of 4 brand new songs.

* Mark Brown ( linebacker, born 1961 ), American football linebacker for the Miami Dolphins and Detroit Lions

Despite excelling in the minors, York found it difficult to crack a deep Detroit lineup and, after playing only nineteen games over three seasons for the Red Wings, he was traded to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim April 5, 1995 along with Mike Sillinger in exchange for Stu Grimson, Mark Ferner, and a draft pick.

** Mark Fidrych ( Detroit AL, P )

Bass Brothers is the professional name for the team of Mark and Jeff Bass, the Detroit producers responsible for grooming megastar Eminem in his early days and collaborating on much of his subsequent music.

Despite this, Mark was third in the rookie standings with three top six finishes in the U. S. 500, Detroit Grand Prix, and Michigan International Speedway races.

* Mark Wilson ( radio broadcaster ) ( born c. 1960 ), Detroit sports radio broadcaster

Hailing from Detroit and later from Grand Rapids, Michigan, the group is named for their shared surname, and included sister Bunny and the brothers Mark ( or " Marty "), Randy, Eldra ( or " El "), and James. Younger siblings Chico, Darell, and Carol " Peaches " DeBarge are also singers ( though they were not with the group ), with El later becoming a solo star in his own right.

The Corona Mark II would be one of the few sensible options for families transitioning from larger American Detroit cars in the midst of the oil crisis.

On January 11,, he was traded to the Detroit Tigers with pitchers Nate Robertson and Rob Henkel for pitchers Mark Redman and Jerrod Fuell.