Norden's first partner was the journalist Nancy Spain ; after her death in 1964 she was succeeded by journalist Anne Scott-James, and then in 1979 by writer and historian Antonia Fraser.

Muir and Norden's first joint venture was the radio show Take it from Here, which they scripted from 1948 to 1959.

The print versions of Norden's careful drawings for his Voyage d ' Egypte et de Nubie, 1755 are the first to clearly show that the nose was missing.

In Norden's version of the system, the bombardier first looked up the expected time it would take for the bombs to fall from the current altitude.

The first instalment of Norden's chorographical project was published in 1593 as the Speculum Britanniae: the First Parte: an Historicall, & Chorographicall Discription of Middlesex.

By 1937, Orland Esval had introduced a new AC-powered electrical gyroscope that spun at 30, 000 RPM, compared to the Norden's 7, 200, which dramatically improved the performance of the inertial platform.

When they heard of the new contract, Norden's Barth called a meeting with the Army and Navy at their factory in New York City.

In England Frisius's method was included in the growing number of books on surveying which appeared from the middle of the century onwards, including William Cunningham's Cosmographical Glasse ( 1559 ), Valentine Leigh's Treatise of Measuring All Kinds of Lands ( 1562 ), William Bourne's Rules of Navigation ( 1571 ), Thomas Digges's Geometrical Practise named Pantometria ( 1571 ), and John Norden's Surveyor's Dialogue ( 1607 ).

The character Piggy states that the new name consisted of three parts ; " Cam " taken from the original name of Cambridgetown, " ber " which means ' river ', because there are many rivers in the area, and " ley " because it is a common ending for English town names in the area ( as in neighbouring Frimley ); although the name was actually derived from the " Cam " stream which runs through the town ( mainly underground ), " Amber " Hill which was marked on John Norden's map of the area in 1607 and " ley " usually meaning a clearing in the woodland.

The Norden's reputation was further enhanced after the war, when it was repeatedly pressed into service over the following decades.

At the Navy, Norden worked on a catapult system for a proposed flying bomb that was never fully developed, but this work introduced various Navy personnel to Norden's expertise with gyro stabilization.

The AFCE was another reason for the Norden's accuracy, as it ensured the aircraft quickly followed the correct course and kept it on that course much more accurately than the pilots could.

Also, a new building was constructed under Van Norden's tenure, Gillett Memorial Hall.

The unstable part of the wall was that around the site of the circular tower shown on Norden's plan of 1617.

The success of both Clark's and Norden's efforts led to imitators on virtually all American and Australian TV networks, as well as scores of home video releases ; many American productions are aired to fill gaps in prime time schedules.

St Albans also had a legend, recorded in John Norden's Speculum Britanniae ( 1596 ) that a ruined marble tomb of Mandeville ( represented cross-legged and in armour, with sword and shield ) once stood in the abbey ; this may be true of " Mangevilayn " or it may be a mere myth.

Mentioned on John Norden's 1594 map, is what is now the Eastern / Point mud flats of Canvey Island.

Worse, Norden's factories were having serious problems keeping up with demand for the Navy alone, and in January 1936, the Navy suspended all shipments to the Army.

Even then, it did not feature the autopilot linkage of the Norden, and would thus find it difficult to match the Norden's performance in anything but smooth air.

When a report stated that the Norden's results were three to four times as good as their own bombsights, the Air Ministry decided to sweeten the pot again, and suggested they offer information on radar in exchange.

Many factors have been put forth to explain the Norden's poor real-world performance.

Paul Smith, who produced Norden's show It'll be Alright on the Night, later co-founded Celador Productions.

London: Andrew Melrose, 1953 ; reissued in 1969 by Adams & Dart, London ISBN 0-238-78941-1 ( includes an informative introduction, pp. 15 – 73, four minor works of Carew, and Norden's maps )

Norden's map of 1607 shows a market house in the location of the present guildhall: the main part of it is raised on wooden pillars to allow the space beneath to be used as a covered corn market.

Voyage d ' Egypte et de Nubie ( 1755 ) records Frederic Louis Norden's extensive documentation and drawings of his voyage though Egypt in 1737-1738.

A very often-used extract from this book is Norden's drawing of the Great Sphinx of Giza.

A rough attempt was made to characterize the vertical profile of the cloud by taking samples from outside the windows on the first, ninth, and fifteenth floors of a Government office building.

Here no attempt is made, first to determine out-of-pocket or marginal costs and then to superimpose on these costs `` reasonably distributed '' residues of total costs.

Often it is thin and fragile and gives way readily to the male organ at the first attempt at intercourse.

This first attempt at an amendment failed to pass, falling short of the required two-thirds majority on June 15, 1864, in the House of Representatives.

Von Strahlenberg's classification was the first attempt at classification of a large number of languages some of which are Altaic.

The first volume, Lautlehre (' Phonology '), contained the first comprehensive attempt to identify regular correspondences between the sound systems of the Altaic language families.

* Two People ( 1931 ) ( Inside jacket claims this is Milne's first attempt at a novel.

Babbage's first attempt at a mechanical computing device, the Difference Engine, was a special-purpose calculator designed to tabulate logarithms and trigonometric functions by evaluating finite differences to create approximating polynomials.

* 1958 – Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails.

Elena Lourie ( 1975 ) suggested instead that it was Alfonso's attempt to neutralize the papacy's interest in a disputed succession — Aragon had been a fief of the Papacy since 1068 — and to fend off Urraca's son from her first marriage, Alfonso VII of Castile, for the Papacy would be bound to press the terms of such a pious testament.

After a first unsuccessful attempt at colonisation in 497 BC by the Milesian Tyrant Histiaeus, the Athenians founded a first colony at Ennea-Hodoi (‘ Nine Ways ’) in 465, but these first ten thousand colonists were massacred by the Thracians.

As his first attempt, Andriskos travelled to Syria to request military help from Demetrius Soter of Syria.

There he repaired the evils of the Albigensian war and made a first attempt at administrative centralization, thus preparing the way for union with the crown.

* 1620 – The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England on its first attempt to reach North America.

The first member of the league to attempt to secede was the island of Naxos in c. 471 BC.

The first serious attempt to land an expansion team for the Phoenix area was mounted by Elyse Doherty and Martin Stone, owner of the Phoenix Firebirds, the city's triple-A minor league baseball team and the top affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.

The first two acts were successfully premièred in Zürich in 1937, but for personal reasons Helene Berg subsequently imposed a ban on any attempt to " complete " the final act, which Berg had in fact completed in particell ( short score ) format.

However, perhaps the first organised attempt to conserve cultural patrimony was the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in the UK, influenced by the writings of John Ruskin the society was founded by William Morris and Philip Webb in 1877.

His attempt was at first unsuccessful ; but, after the deposition of Demaratus, he visited the island a second time, accompanied by his new colleague Leotychides, seized ten of the leading citizens and deposited them at Athens as hostages.

This was the first attempt to measure the intensity of starlight with a tool other than the human eye.

This bodyguard function was often executed by the leader's most loyal warriors, and was extremely effective throughout most of early human history, leading assassins to attempt stealthy means, such as poison ( which risk was answered by having another person taste the leader's food first ).