Khaki-colored uniforms were used officially by British troops for the first time during the Abyssinian campaign of 1867 – 68, when Indian troops traveled to Ethiopia ( Abyssinia ) under the command of general Sir Robert Napier to release some British captives and to " persuade the Abyssinian King Theodore, forcibly if necessary, to mend his ways ".

Another scheme was proposed by William Napier and William Hope ( VC ) in January 1862, in response to requests from the Metropolitan Board for imaginative ways to generate a profit from the large quantities of sewage which had been conveyed away from London by Joseph Bazalgette's sewer system.

My Shameful parted ways with Mark Napier in spring of 2007, due to Mark being unstable and unreliable to play ashow, a new drummer was found in Jürgen Fröhling.

Scottish mathematician and physicist John Napier noted multiplication and division of numbers could be performed by addition and subtraction, respectively, of logarithms of those numbers.

Napier's bones is an abacus created by John Napier for calculation of products and quotients of numbers that was based on Arab mathematics and lattice multiplication used by Matrakci Nasuh in the Umdet-ul Hisab and Fibonacci writing in the Liber Abaci.

Binary notation had not yet been standardized, and Napier used what he called location numerals to represent binary numbers.

Napier used his non-standard representation of binary numbers to explain his techniques to do arithmetic.

Opposed-piston engines put two pistons working at opposite ends of the same cylinder and this has been extended into triangular arrangements such as the Napier Deltic.

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.

Three quarters into the recording of the album Alex Napier was replaced by Nigel Olsson, recommended to Byron by Elton John.

Napier expanded into marine engines and launches.

Napier Bell managed The Yardbirds and John's Children and was going to slot Bolan into The Yardbirds but settled for John's Children instead because of Bolan's writing ability, in early 1967.

Henry Briggs ( February 1561 – 26 January 1630 ) was an English mathematician notable for changing the original logarithms invented by John Napier into common ( base 10 ) logarithms, which are sometimes known as Briggsian logarithms in his honour.

But in the meantime Lisbon fell into the hands of the Duke of Terceira, who had left Oporto earlier in the Liberal fleet commanded by Charles John Napier, disembarked in the Algarve and marched across the Alentejo to defeat the Miguelist General Teles Jordão ( seizing the city on July 24 ).

In October 1866 one group of Hau Hau attempted to invade Napier in a desultory fashion: they moved into the area in a threatening manner but did little more than camp on the outskirts of the settlement.

By daylight she swam about with creatures of her reef world but after sunset would go to a stream that ran into the bay where the city of Napier now exists.

Having been appointed as consulting engineer to the Punjab resident and Council of Regency, in 1848 Napier was again called into action, to direct the siege of Multan.

Research into JCSP for robotics environments and JCSP for mobile environments is an active area of research at Napier University Edinburgh.

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.

* Napier Commission ( 1883 – 84 ), formally the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Condition of Crofters and Cottars in the Highlands and Islands ....

He was the son of Henry Sturt, great-grandson of Humphrey Sturt by his wife Diana ( through which marriage Crichel House in Dorset came into the Sturt family ), daughter of Sir Nathaniel Napier, 3rd Baronet, and the Honourable Catherine, daughter of the third Baron of the 1642 creation.

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.

While he was at Guernsey his brother Charles had conquered Sindh, and the attacks made on the policy of that conquest brought William Napier again into the field of literature.

This is a term used to describe this second level of obstruction which prevents women in managerial positions from receiving foreign management assignments, projects, and experiences that is becoming increasingly more important for promotion into the upper-level managerial positions as documented by Insch, McIntyre, and Napier.

Following some success in the local Alley Playhouse, Napier moved back to Florida where he continued to teach as well as act in community theater, eventually moving into Clearwater's Little Theatre as its live-in caretaker.

Lord Napier was the chairman of the Napier Commission ( the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Condition of Crofters and Cottars in the Highlands and Islands ) which was appointed in 1883 and reported in 1884.

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

At the Napier Road underpass, M-14 crosses into Wayne County.

Those driving into Orchard Road may enter from the west via Napier Road.

The English Electric company, which had absorbed the engine-maker Napier & Son into its vast empire at the instruction of the Ministry of Aircraft Production in 1942, was ( among many interests ) a major builder of diesel and electric locomotives.

It runs for a total of 164 kilometers southeast from the Kaweka Range, Kaimanawa Range and Ruahine Range and then east before emptying into Hawke Bay 10 kilometres south of Napier, near the town of Clive ( drainage area 2, 000 square kilometers above Tutaekuri River confluence ).

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

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.

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 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 ).

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 ).

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 ".