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Old Faithful was named in 1870 during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition and was the first geyser in the park to receive a name.
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Old Catholics often refer to the Church Father St. Vincent of Lerins and his saying: " We must hold fast to that faith which has been believed everywhere, always, and by all the Faithful.
* 1870 – Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.
* September 18 – Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.
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J. Audubon Woodlore is the park ranger of Brownstone National Park ( a play on Yellowstone National Park ), one of the features of which is a geyser named " Old Fateful " ( a play on Old Faithful ).
A longer look showed him that the drawing was actually the Old Faithful geyser.
Old Faithful is a cone geyser located in Wyoming, in Yellowstone National Park in the United States.
The geyser, as well as the nearby Old Faithful Inn, is part of the Old Faithful Historic District.
The first geyser they saw was Old Faithful.
In the early days of the park, Old Faithful was often used as a laundry:
Old Faithful is not the tallest or largest geyser in the park ; that title belongs to the less predictable Steamboat Geyser.
These disruptions have made the earlier mathematical relationship inaccurate, but have in fact made Old Faithful more predictable.
With a margin of error of 10 minutes, Old Faithful will erupt 65 minutes after an eruption lasting less than 2. 5 minutes or 91 minutes after an eruption lasting more than 2. 5 minutes.
The reliability of Old Faithful can be attributed to the fact that it is not connected to any other thermal features of the Upper Geyser Basin.
Between 1983 and 1994, four probes containing temperature and pressure measurement devices and video equipment were lowered into Old Faithful.
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All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.
The first news stories had it that this blaze was started by a bolt of lightning, as though Miriam could call down fire from heaven like a prophet of the Old Testament.
It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.
In Boston, Edwin Booth was winding up a performance of A New Way To Pay Old Debts.
The readers of the Providence Daily Post, however, learned that it was generally conceded that `` Old Brown '' had a fair trial.
The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
He said that drawings of the Dreadnought and printed details about the ship were found reproduced in an undeveloped roll of film taken from Lonsdale when he was arrested with the two civil servants outside the Old Vic theater Saturday afternoon, Jan. 7.
It was during `` Old Music '' at the St. James Theater that Hollywood's Louis B. Mayer spotted her.
At one time I became disturbed in the faith in which I had grown up by the apparent inroads being made upon both Old and New Testaments by a `` Higher Criticism '' of the Bible, to refute which I felt the need of a better knowledge of Hebrew and of archaeology, for it seemed to me that to pull out some of the props of our faith was to weaken the entire structure.
Although the primary mathematical properties of the middle number at the center of the Lo Shu, and the interrelation of all the other numbers to it, might seem enough to account for the deep fascination which the Lo Shu held for the Old Chinese philosophers, this was actually only a beginning of wonders.
One of those delightful surprise additions, which so frequently occur in jazz programs, was an excellent stint at the drums by the great Joe Jones, drumming to `` Old Man River '', which seems to have been elected the favorite solo for the boys on the batterie at this year's concerts.
The Old Man was unimportant.
but here he was just Signore or the Old Man.
Sameness for the Old Man was framed in by a wall of ginkgo trees which divided these quarters from the city.
The Glagolitic alphabet was the initial script of the liturgical language Old Church Slavonic and became, together with the Greek uncial script, the basis of the Cyrillic script.
" This was borrowed into Arabic as al-tub ( الط ّ وب al " the " + tub " brick ") " brick ," which was assimilated into Old Spanish as adobe, still with the meaning " mud brick.
In Old Babylonian astronomy, Ea was the ruler of the southernmost quarter of the Sun's path, the " Way of Ea ", corresponding to the period of 45 days on either side of winter solstice.
The vernacular name daisy, widely applied to members of this family, is derived from its Old English meaning, dægesege, from dæges eage meaning " day's eye ," and this was because the petals ( of Bellis perennis ) open at dawn and close at dusk.
Around 500 BCE, following the Achaemenid conquest of Mesopotamia under Darius I, Old Aramaic was adopted by the conquerors as the " vehicle for written communication between the different regions of the vast empire with its different peoples and languages.
Imperial Aramaic was highly standardised ; its orthography was based more on historical roots than any spoken dialect and was inevitably influenced by Old Persian.
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His other alma mater, the Royal Polytechnic Institution ( now the University of Westminster ) has named one of its student halls of residence Alexander Fleming House, which is near to Old Street.
A benign transcendent entity ( known as a " Power ") named " Old One " contacts Relay, seeking information about the Blight and the humans who released it.
Green Archaeoastronomy is named after the cover of the book Archaeoastronomy in the Old World.
This Grand Old Lady of football stands was formerly named after the street which runs alongside it, hence Stevenage Road Stand.
In 1825 a manuscript listing a vocabulary of the Baltic Old Prussian language, named the Elbing-Prussian Dictionary (), or more commonly in English just Elbing Vocabulary, was found among some manuscripts from a merchant's house.
Historical names for February include the Old English terms Solmonath ( mud month ) and Kale-monath ( named for cabbage ) as well as Charlemagne's designation Hornung.
The Egyptians gave the giraffe its own hieroglyph, named ' sr ' in Old Egyptian and ' mmy ' in later periods.
Other biblical scholars have argued that rather than being connected with Heth, son of Canaan, instead the Anatolian land of Hatti was mentioned in Old Testament literature and apocrypha as " Kittim " ( Chittim ), a people said to be named for a son of Javan.
In the south was the British ( Brythonic ) Kingdom of Strathclyde, descendants of the peoples of the Roman influenced kingdoms of " The Old North ", often named Alt Clut, the Brythonic name for their capital at Dumbarton Rock.
Sometime in the second half of the tenth century a monk named Aldred added an Anglo-Saxon ( Old English ) gloss to the Latin text, producing the earliest surviving Old English copies of the Gospels.
However, following Manchester United's first league title in 1908 and the FA Cup a year later, it was decided that Bank Street was too restrictive for Davies ' ambition ; in February 1909, six weeks before the club's first FA Cup title, Old Trafford was named as the home of Manchester United, following the purchase of land for around £ 60, 000.
The name Mecklenburg derives from a castle named " Mikilenburg " ( Old Saxon: " big castle ", thus the Grecised name variant Megalopolis used in Medieval Latin sources ), located between the cities of Schwerin and Wismar.
In the Iliad the Old Man of the Sea is the father of Nereids, though Nereus is not directly named.
Other individuals named Obadiah in the Old Testament are listed as:
It is traditionally served in a short, round, tumbler-like glass, which is called an Old Fashioned glass, named after the drink.
Hoping to control the government through a more malleable military man, the " Old Liberal " cabinet named War Minister Higinio Moríñigo president.
It was first invented, he believes, before the Trojan war, by a Sidonian thinker named Moschus or Mochus, who is identical with the Moses of the Old Testament.
Indeed, one of the leaders of the Old Prussian rebellion of 1260-1274 against the Teutonic order was named Glande.
Sambia is named after the Sambians, an extinct tribe of Old Prussians.
In the Old English Rune Poem, the rune that is otherwise named for Tiw in the other rune poems ( Abecedarium Nordmanicum, Old Norwegian Rune Rhyme, Old Icelandic Rune Poem ), is called tir, meaning " glory ".
It is named after the town of Wicklow, which derives from the Old Norse name Víkingalág or Wykynlo.
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