" On 10 April he contacted Macvey Napier, editor of the Edinburgh Review, who quickly accepted the offer.

This airport was established at the former Army airbase at Napier Field in 1965, after a push to move the airport was started in the early 1950s by then-Mayor Richmond C. McClintock.

Deciding to attack the only market not yet wrapped up by the larger vendors, Napier started the design of a number of turboprop designs which saw some use, notably in helicopters.

The British General Napier also started to march his army back towards Bombay.

Lord Napier arrived in early January 1868 and the expedition started from the advance camp at Senafe at the beginning of February.

In 1843 the 10th Regiment was sent to Sindh to reinforce Sir Charles James Napier: it started with a strength of fourteen European officers and one thousand native officers and sepoys.

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

By January 2007, the faulty power unit was removed from 55 022, put into storage and replaced by an ex-marine Napier Deltic engine modified for rail use ; work was complete by Royal Scots Greys dedicated team in August 2007.

The mosaic and stained glass were the work of the one-armed Australian muralist Napier Waller, who had lost his right arm at Bullecourt during World War I and learned to write and create his works with his left arm.

Susan Napier has identified this morphing and metamorphosis as a factor which marks the work as postmodern ; " a genre which suggests that identity is in constant fluctuation.

The nihilistic nature of the work is felt by Napier to tie into a wider theme present in Japanese literature of the time.

Though in a wheelchair and visibly tired, Napier was lucid with fond memories of his work on the show.

Napier was educated at St. Malachy's College, Belfast and the Queen's University of Belfast before starting work as a solicitor.

When Napier stepped down as leader in 1984 he received many plaudits for his work.

There is evidence that Bürgi arrived at his invention as early as 1588, six years before Napier began work on the same idea.

In the 1935 elections, he was returned with a comfortable majority, perhaps assisted by his work in response to the Napier earthquake.

He had charge of the embassy during his chief's two visits to the Crimea in 1855, but left the East to work under Lord Napier at Washington in 1857.

Napier goes on to point out that many Japanese commentators refer to anime with the term " mukokuseki ", meaning " stateless ".

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.

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 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.

Early in the First World War, Napier was contracted to build engines from other companies ' designs: initially a V12 Royal Aircraft Factory model and then Sunbeam Arabs.

Along with every other engine company in the post-war era, Napier turned to jet engine designs.

Today Napier is no longer in the engine business, with the ending of the Deltic sales in the 1960s they had no new modern designs to offer.

In 1883 representations to the Napier Commission suggested the building of a replacement, but it was 1901 before the Congested Districts Board provided an engineer to enable one to be completed the following year.

The first known ' Aotea ' meeting house was established approximately 15 generations ago ( from 2010 ) followed by the building of a marae at Makirikiri near Dannevirke at about the same time as the first Nordic settlers arrived from Napier and Hawkes Bay.

Bonython Hall, ( the great hall of the University ), the Mitchell Building, the Elder Hall, the Napier building and the Ligertwood building, form the North Terrace street frontage of the campus.

City of Footscray building, located corner of Napier and Hyde Street in Footscray

The Annoyance Theatre was founded by Mick Napier, as Metraform in 1987 and changed its name to the Annoyance after moving into a new building in 1989.

Craiglockhart Hydropathic, now a part of Edinburgh Napier University and known as Craiglockhart Campus, is a building with surrounding grounds in Craiglockhart, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Sir Charles Napier Senior, father to the more famous Sir Charles Napier, whose house, Merchistoun Hall ( named after his former home in Falkirk, Scotland ), is now a Grade II listed building and serves as the village's major community centre.

After the war this the building served as a convent and then a theological school, before passing to the then Napier College.

The new building, opened in December 1968, sat on the former site of Lanier Senior, though it faced Napier Avenue, with side entrances from Holt.

In the case of Central, the recently-built Lanier Senior building on Napier became known as " Lanier B ", while the Junior High on Hendley was renamed " Lanier A "; the two shared duty as Central High School.