* English mathematician Henry Briggs goes to Edinburgh to show John Napier his efficient method of finding logarithms by the continued extraction of square roots ( unfortunately, Napier dies in April, 1617 ).

Kinsey goes to Las Vegas on the track of Laurence's ex-secretary, Sharon Napier, who apparently had a mysterious hold over Laurence, but Sharon is shot minutes before Kinsey arrives on the scene to interview her, and Kinsey has to get out fast before she is caught in a compromising situation.

He has various misadventures in prison ( especially when trying to escape, e. g., when he attempts to fashion a gun out of soap and his scheme is revealed when the gun goes limp ) until he is sent to the electric chair by the prison warden ( Charles Napier ).

This event was instrumental in the creation of the Napier Commission, which reported in 1884 on the situation in the Highlands and disturbances continued until the passing of the 1886 Crofters ' Act.

The town was later annexed to British India when Sindh was annexed by Major-General Charles James Napier at the Battle of Miani on 17 February 1843.

Several major Māori tracks were known, such as the western coastal track was used along the whole length of the North Island, and the track on the East Coast, which however left the coast near Castlepoint and rejoined it near Napier.

William Oughtred and others developed the slide rule in the 17th century based on the emerging work on logarithms by John Napier.

Starting with the Fairey Gyrodyne, this type of aircraft later evolved into the much larger twin-engined Fairey Rotodyne, that used tipjets to power the rotor on take-off and landing but which then used two Napier Eland turboprops driving conventional propellers mounted on substantial wings to provide propulsion, the wings serving to unload the rotor during horizontal flight.

* February 3 – Hawke's Bay earthquake: Much of the New Zealand city of Napier is destroyed in an earthquake measuring 7. 9 on the Richter scale.

Days later, on November 11, 1972, Berry Oakley died from head injuries he received in another motorcycle accident near Napier Avenue and Inverness Street, only three blocks from the site of Duane's accident the previous year.

William Napier writes: " The Spaniards came on at a trot, and Sebastiani directed Paris, with a regiment of light cavalry and the Polish lancers, to turn and fall upon the right flank of the approaching squadrons, which being executed with great vigor, especially by the Poles, caused considerable confusion, with the Spanish general endeavored to remedy by closing to the assailed flank.

Major Munro, " the Napier of those times ", scattered the united armies on the hard-fought field of Buxar.

Napier ( ; ) is a New Zealand city with a seaport, located in Hawke's Bay on the eastern coast of the North Island.

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The 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, also known as the Napier earthquake, occurred in New Zealand at 10: 47 am on Tuesday 3 February 1931, killing 256 and devastating the Hawke's Bay region.

Recognising the value of publicity gained from auto racing, which no other British marque did, in spring, Edge entered an 8 hp ( 6 kW ) Napier in the Thousand Miles ( 1, 600 km ) Trial of the Automobile Club on behalf of Edward Kennard ; driven by Edge, with Kennard along, on a circuit from Newbury to Edinburgh and back, she won her class, being one of only thirty-five finishers ( of sixty-four starters ) and one of just twelve to average the requisite 12 mph ( 19 km / h ) in England and 10 mph ( 16 km / h ) in Scotland.

Napier quickly started work on newer designs, building on experience gained on the X style 16-cylinder, 1, 000 hp ( 746 kW ) Cub, used in the Blackburn Cubaroo single-engined bomber of the 1920s, and the resulting later 16-cylinder Rapier and 24-cylinder Dagger were both air-cooled H-block designs.

Napier also worked on diesel aircraft engines.

Today Napier Turbochargers is a wholly self-owned company employing around 160 people, having previously been owned by Siemens Power Generation, specifically Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery Ltd being based on the same site in Lincoln when it bought the neighbouring Alstom Power Turbines in March 2003 ; Alstom ( former GEC-Alsthom ) had owned the company since GEC bought English Electric in the late 1960s.

Postwar, Continental bodies gained popularity, at least in Britain, as Belgium's D ' Ieteren Fréres became most associated with the company: their landaulette, on a chassis, was priced in Britain at ₤ 900, between Napier and Rolls-Royce.

The class which completed the course at Cochran Field was now split up, half were posted to Napier Field, Dothan, Alabama, to train on single engine planes, and the remainder were posted to twin-engine schools.

Like Cochran, Napier Field was a large permanent Air Corps Base and most of us were quite content to stay on the camp when we had time off.

Susan J. Napier argues, in her book Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation, that anime increasingly " exists at a nexus point in global culture … an amorphous new media territory that crosses and intermingles national boundaries ".

While producing the first logarithmic tables Napier needed to perform many multiplications, and it was at this point that he designed Napier's bones, an abacus-like device used for multiplication and division.

For establishing the Sialkot cantonment, the British Commander-in-Chief, Sir Lord Napier, surveyed and selected the area between the seasonal streams, Bher Nala and Palkhu Nala, from the point of view of defence.

Edinburgh Napier University opened its doors to students as Napier Technical College in 1964, taking its name from John Napier, the inventor of logarithms and the decimal point, who was born in 1550 in the medieval tower house of Merchiston Castle ( the site of the University's Merchiston campus ).

Until the freeway is complete, US 31 follows a stretch of Napier Avenue, which was upgraded in conjunction with the St. Joseph Valley Parkway opening to that point, westward to I-94.

Mount Napier the highest point on the Western District Plains is found south of Hamilton.

Napier, who had been long-retired at this point and very frail when this special was recorded, died on August 8 after being checked into a hospital two months earlier.

Pitiscus is sometimes credited with inventing the decimal point, the symbol separating integers from decimal fractions, which appears in his trigonometrical tables and was subsequently accepted by John Napier in his logarithmic papers ( 1614 and 1619 ).

Except for the Antikythera mechanism, an " out of the time " astronomical device, development of computing tools arrived in the beginning of the 17th century: Geometric-military compass by Galileo, Logarithms and Napier Bones by Napier, slide rule by Edmund Gunter.

It was decided to place a planned town here, its streets and avenues were laid out, and the new town named for Sir Charles Napier, a military leader during the " Battle of Meeanee " fought in the province of Sindh, India.

In the early years, Napier covered almost exclusively an oblong group of hills ( the Scinde Island ) which was nearly entirely surrounded by the ocean, but from which ran out two single spits, one to the north and one to the south.

Napier volunteered to return to the Iberian Peninsula in 1810 to fight again against Napoleon in Portugal-notably in the Battle of the Côa, where he had two horses shot out from under him, in the Battle of Bussaco, in the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro, and in the Battle of Badajoz ( 1812 ) ( the second siege of Badajoz ) in Castile, Spain, in which he was a lieutenant colonel in the 102nd regiment.

Susan J. Napier has described the popularity of the ideal magical girlfriend, for example, Belldandy and Ai to be a backlash against the " yellow cab " social phenomenon, where some Japanese women were seeking out sexual relationships with non-Japanese men.

Air New Zealand cancelled some flights in and out of Rotorua, Taupo, Gisborne, Napier, Wanganui and Palmerston North due to the risk of volcanic ash clogging the engines on their aircraft serving those airports.

Napier showed ways to convert numbers into and out of abbreviated form which are identical to modern techniques to convert numbers into the binary numeral system and we will not repeat them here.

He had become friends with Montague Napier ( of Napier & Son ), another keen cyclist, and in 1898 asked Napier to carry out some improvements to his Panhard.

For the 1902 Gordon Bennett, Edge's Napier was the sole British entrant ; with his cousin, Cecil Edge, as riding mechanic, he won, at an average 31. 8 mph ( 51. 2 km / h ) ( though by default, since the French entrants all fell out ).

Taylor captained New Zealand for the first time in an ODI against Australia in Napier on 3 March 2010, when Daniel Vettori dropped out of the side less than 30 minutes before the start with a neck ache.

In the Power Rangers continuity, Conner has an identical twin brother called Eric ( also played by Napier ) who was once a student at the Wind Ninja Academy ( as seen in the finale of Power Rangers Ninja Storm ), but later " flunked out ".