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A species of Paranthropus, such as Paranthropus robustus, with its crested skull and bipedal gait, was suggested by primatologist John Napier and anthropologist Gordon Strasenburg as a possible candidate for Bigfoot's identity, despite the fact that fossils of Paranthropus are found only in Africa.
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.
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.
This design was used in the Junkers Jumo 205 diesel aircraft engine, using two crankshafts at either end of a single bank of cylinders, and most remarkably in the Napier Deltic diesel engines.
John Napier of Merchiston ( 1550 – 4 April 1617 ) – also signed as Neper, Nepair – named Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer and astrologer.
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.
The speed of the film is important because, as Napier writes, " if the movie was filmed at 24 frame / s then the creature's walk cannot be distinguished from a normal human walk.
Others ( including primatologist John Napier, who published before Dahinden and Krantz ) have expressed a different opinion, contending it was " likely that Patterson would have used 24 frame / s " because it " is best suited to TV transmission ," while conceding that " this is entirely speculative.
The Chinese Viceroy ordered the Canton offices where Napier was staying to be blockaded and the inhabitants including Napier to be held hostages.
Lord Napier, a broken and humiliated man, was allowed to return to Macao by land and not by ship as requested.
This was a large two-seat, two-bay amphibious biplane powered by a 450 hp Napier Lion engine.
The Pike was a large three-seater reconnaissance float-biplane powered by a 471 hp Napier Lion.
A new segment of the freeway was completed in August 2003, running from Berrien Springs north to Napier Avenue east of Benton Harbor.
Cunard's major backer was Robert Napier, who was the Royal Navy's supplier of steam engines.
It appears that Robert Napier was responsible for this feature.
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.
Napier was eventually legally ousted after it was realized that he did not legitimately own the land.
However, the monarch suddenly changed his attitude towards Rassam and he, too, was to become Tewodros ' prisoner and was held for two years until English and Indian troops under Robert Napier in the 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia resolved the standoff by defeating the warlord and his army.

Napier and resident
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.

Napier and Pacific
* Pacific Coast Highway-route going around the north-east coast of the North Island, joining Auckland and Napier

Napier and California
Napier suffered a stroke in 1987, hospitalized since June 1988, and had been gravely ill for several days, before his death of pneumonia on August 8, 1988, in the Berkeley East Convalescent Hospital in Santa Monica, California.
( 1968 ), the film is notable for the first appearance of actor ( and Meyer regular ) Charles Napier playing Harry Thompson, a California border sheriff and marijuana smuggler who makes a reappearance in 1975's Supervixens.
Jack Napier ( born in Inglewood, California, United States ) is an American pornographic actor and director.

Napier and survived
Only a few buildings in the central Napier area survived.
He was survived by his widow, two sons, Colonel Napier George Sturt, R. E.
Napier is survived by his second wife, Dee, and their young children, Hunter and Meghan, as well as by his son, Chuck, from a previous marriage, which had ended in divorce.

Napier and by
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.
Although some contributors were again recruited through friendships of the chief editors, notably Macvey Napier, others were attracted by the Britannica's reputation.
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.
* Nemesis, a 1998 thriller novel by Bill Napier
William Oughtred and others developed the slide rule in the 17th century based on the emerging work on logarithms by John Napier.
* April 13 – The Napier Expedition ends with the suicide of Tewodros and the capture of Magdala by the British-Indian task force.
* 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 ).
Ported types are represented by the opposed piston design in which there are two pistons in each cylinder, working in opposite directions such as the Junkers Jumo and Napier Deltic.
Garrard County is in the 6th Congressional District, represented by US Rep. Ben Chandler ; in the 22nd State Senatorial District represented by State Senator Tom Buford and in the 36th State Legislative District represented by State Representative Lonnie Napier.

Napier and daughters
Lord Napier had two sons and five daughters.
* Lady Louisa Conolly ( 1743 – 1821 ), wife of Tom Conolly and her sister Sarah Napier ( 1745 – 1826 ), wife of George Napier, both daughters of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond.
He married, first, Margaret, daughter and heiress of George Savile of Wakefield in Yorkshire, by whom he had no issue ; and secondly, Mary, daughter of Sir Robert Napier, bart., of Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire, and sister of Richard Napier the astrologer, by whom he had seven sons and six daughters.

Napier and Bissell
Forster is the stepson of actor Whit Bissell, step-grandson of actor Alan Napier, who portrayed Alfred the Butler in the Batman television series ( 1966 – 1968 ), and the great-great-great-grandson of author Charles Dickens.

Napier and East
Charles Dickens ' godfather ran his sailmaking business from Church Row ( Newell Street );< ref >< cite > East London history accessed 28 March 2007 </ ref > and James McNeill Whistler and Charles Napier Hemy < cite > The Barge Builders in The Burlington Magazine, Vol.
Legends from the East Coast of the North Island tell of his explorations in Tūranga-nui ( Gisborne ), Māhia, Wairoa, Ahuriri ( Napier ), Heretaunga ( near Hastings ) and Pōrangahau.
The highway continues along Princess Street to Main Street East, where it continues eastwards as it exits Palmerston North and Ashhurst as Napier Road.
Charles Sturt was born in Bengal, British India, the eldest son ( of thirteen children ) of Thomas Lenox Napier Sturt, a judge under the British East India Company.
However, under his leadership the administration clashed with the policies of the directors of the British East India Company, and Napier was accordingly removed from office and returned home in disgust.
In December 1833, upon the ending of British East India Company's monopoly on trade in the Far East, Lord Napier was appointed by Lord Palmerston, the foreign secretary and a family friend of Napier, the first Chief Superintendent of Trade at Canton ( now Guangzhou ), in China.
For example, Bachelor of Science degrees in herbal medicine are offered at Universities such as University of East London, Middlesex University, University of Central Lancashire, University of Westminster, University of Lincoln and Napier University in Edinburgh at the present.
In 1854, however, many dissatisfied voters in Canada West turned to the more radical Clear Grit faction, and in order to stay in power traditional reformers in Canada East, led by Augustin-Norbert Morin, entered a coalition with Allan Napier MacNab's conservatives in Canada West.
The first houses in the Croxteth estate were in fact built in the immediate postwar period to house skilled workers from Slough and Rugby who had been brought in to the English Electric and Napier factories on the East Lancs Road ), and families from the dockland inner-city areas who had lost their homes through bombing and slum demolition.
He moved from Waipukurau, a rural community, to the East Coast of the North Island, and ultimately settled in Napier.
Neeson's election represented a notable geographic shift as his three predecessors ( Alderdice, John Cushnahan and Oliver Napier ) had all had political bases in the strip incorporating the East Belfast and North Down constituencies, whereas Neeson's political base was in County Antrim, to the north of Belfast.
Morin served as Joint Premier of the Province of Canada from Canada East along with his counterparts from Canada West Francis Hincks ( from October 28, 1851 to September 11, 1854 ), and with Allan Napier MacNab ( from that date until January 27, 1855 ).
While serving in the Azores, Napier had come to know members of the exiled Portuguese liberals, who had offered him command of the small fleet serving Dom Pedro, which largely consisted of a few old men-o '- war and some East Indiamen purchased from the British.
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.
The Battery is based at Napier House Grove Park in South East London, near Blackheath and Bromley.
Eleven groups bidded for franchises, with the successful bids being announced on 7 April 2004 as Auckland City FC, Canterbury United, Napier City Rovers, Otago United, Team Wellington, Waikato FC, Waitakere United and YoungHeart Manawatu, with Olé Madrids, East Auckland and Team Bay of Plenty being excluded.

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