The series You Asked For It ( 1950 – 1959 ), in which viewer requests dictated content, was an antecedent of today's audience-participation reality TV elements, in which viewers cast votes to help determine the course of events.

Priene ( Ancient Greek: Πριήνη, Priēnē ) was an ancient Greek city of Ionia ( and member of the Ionian League ) at the base of an escarpment of Mycale, about north of the then course of the Maeander ( now called the Büyük Menderes or " Big Maeander ") River, from today's Aydin, from today's Söke and from ancient Miletus.

The first competitions held by Christiania SK were different from today's ski jumping in that the ski jump formed part of a course that included a 4 km stretch of cross country skiing ( see Nordic combined ).

The depictions of Japanese and Germans are quite stereotypical by today's standards, but were par for the course in wartime U. S.

In the course of the same year Hōjō Tokiyuki, son of last regent Takatoki, tried to re-establish the shogunate by force and defeated Tadayoshi in Musashi, in today's Kanagawa prefecture.

Among the land that he purchased, of course, was all the land that constitutes today's village of Pelham.

He originated a bank, the Banco de San Carlos-which is the precursor of today's Bank of Spain, a company to trade with the South American colonies and with Asia through the Philippine Islands-the Real Compañia de Filipinas, and an agricultural and hydraulic project known as the Canal de Cabarrus which is the origin of today's Canal de Isabel II, supplying the water to the city of Madrid, in the northeast of the Madrid Community-in the course of the Jarama and within the municipal boundaries of the towns of Torrelaguna, Patones, Torremocha del Jarama, Uceda and Caraquiz.

The most common designs in today's production include sponge-stamped dots, abstract florals, speckles, windmills, and, of course, the famoous " peacock's eye.

Taibo's shrine was set up in today's Meicun and the original wood structure was destroyed during the wars over the course of history.

Ryder ’ s administration was marked with numerous innovations to the Cal Poly curriculum, including a college preparatory course, auto mechanics, and a printing course, which was a precursor to today's journalism and graphic communications departments.

There was a non profit ' British Restaurant ' at the top end of the Windsor Arcade in the town centre and run by the urban district council, where families made homeless by the bombing or any occasional visitor could buy a simple but wholesome three course meal for ninepence ( approx 4p in today's money, but £ 2. 50 when adjusted for inflation to 2009 ).

He, with six other members of his class, attended the first course for new Marine officers at the School of Application, which was the prototype for today's Basic School.

The level of technology found in these books is of course " low-tech " by today's standards with no commercial home computers or miniaturized electronics, but the technology depicted in the books ( home-built computers, scuba, ham radio, helicopters, remotely radio-controlled devices ) was, at the time, typical of the cutting edge of technology during the post-WWII, pre-Internet era.

With that first race, the Chicago Marathon began an annual run of epic races that continued until the early 1920s on a revised course that largely resembles today's marathon route.

In the opening round, McGurn carded a 13-over-par 83 on course No. 4 ( today's North Course ).

Blockage of the Eel's channel by outwash from the canyon and a decline in the volume of meltwater forced the upper Eel to change course into the canyon, creating today's Cedar Creek.

As the lower course of the Don approaches the lower course of the Volga near today's Volgograd, the idea of connecting the two rivers by an artificial waterway goes back a long way in history.

From today's vantage point, the Taika Reform is seen as a coherent system in which a great many inherently dissonant factors have been harmonized, but the changes unfolded in a series of successive steps over the course of many years.

In the early 1970s he taught the first color course at the Cooper Union in New York City where many of today's renowned color photographers studied with him.

In today's German Federal Defence Forces (), almost every soldier or sailor ( military recruit / cadet ) successfully passing the 12 week basic military training course is promoted to Gefreiter.

He tried defiance and openly flaunted his devotion to his half sister, but he soon saw, as did she, that this course if persisted in would involve them in a common ruin.

Since faculty see themselves as self-employed professionals rather than as employees, enthusiasm in a common enterprise is proportionate to the sense of ownership they have in it by virtue of sharing in the decisions that govern its course.

Likewise, Oscar Wilde wrote, " We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the language " ( The Canterville Ghost, 1888 ).

In common usage among many Protestant churches, an " anthem " often refers to any short sacred choral work presented during the course of a worship service.

However, it is more common in the field of conservation today that the training required to become a practicing conservator comes from a recognized university course in conservation.

It is quite common for borzoi at play to course ( i. e., run down ) another dog, seize it by the neck and hold it immobile.

The Northwest Ordinance, which was approved by the Congress of the Confederation in 1787, guaranteed " judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law.

" Nathan Dane, the primary author of the Northwest Ordinance, viewed this provision as a default mechanism in the event that federal or territorial statutes were silent about a particular matter ; he wrote that if " a statute makes an offence, and is silent as to the mode of trial, it shall be by jury, according to the course of the common law.

The use of mail as battlefield armour was common during the Iron Age and the Middle Ages, becoming less common over the course of the 16th and 17th centuries.

: May 3, 1860: " Mr. Darwin has written a work which will constitute an era in geology & natural history to show that ... the descendants of common parents may become in the course of ages so unlike each other as to be entitled to rank as a distinct species, from each other or from some of their progenitors ".

Over the course of the 20th century it became increasingly common for first ladies to select specific causes to promote, usually ones that are not politically divisive.

Consequently, a common practice is to model " sampling " as a multiplication by the Dirac comb function, which of course is only " possible " in a purely mathematical sense .</ ref >

They should not be territorially aggressive to other domestic dogs but are born with specialized skills and it is common for hounds at play to course another dog.

Socrates uses the parable of the ship to illustrate this point: the unjust city is like a ship in open ocean, crewed by a powerful but drunken captain ( the common people ), a group of untrustworthy advisors who try to manipulate the captain into giving them power over the ship's course ( the politicians ), and a navigator ( the philosopher ) who is the only one who knows how to get the ship to port.

In the more common weft knitting, the wales are perpendicular to the course of the yarn.

Many people in cultures which have notation still learn by ear and ear training, often through a musicianship course at a music conservatory or college, is common practice among those who use notation extensively.

If all of the properties of a course can be precisely defined in a common format, the content can be serialized into a standard format such as XML and loaded into other systems.

This strategy is made possible by the common descent of all living organisms, and the conservation of metabolic and developmental pathways and genetic material over the course of evolution.

The pattern of headers and stretchers employed gives rise to different bonds such as the common bond ( with every sixth course composed of headers ), the English bond, and the Flemish bond ( with alternating stretcher and header bricks present on every course ).

Perjury operates in American law as an inherited principle of the common law of England, which defined the act as the " willful and corrupt giving, upon a lawful oath, or in any form allowed by law to be substituted for an oath, in a judicial proceeding or course of justice, of a false testimony material to the issue or matter of inquiry.

( Of course, as sovereign nations, each is free to withdraw from the arrangement, using their respective process for constitutional amendment, and no longer be united through common allegiance to the Crown.

It is of course possible, and indeed common, for the account in terms of equilibrium states of a system to describe cycles composed of indefinitely many equilibrium states.

Some other common flavors in Thai food come from ginger, galangal, tamarind, turmeric, garlic, soy beans, shallots, white and black peppercorn, kaffir lime and, of course, chilies.