On the way they tried to discover all they could about Burma, and they were disturbed to find that Michael Symes's book had not presented an altogether true picture.

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

On a misty Sunday morning last month, a small band of militant anti-Communists called the Minutemen held maneuvers in a foggy field about fifteen miles east of here.

On Thursday evening we may go out of town together by some stage or mail about the distance of ten or twelve miles.

On Christmas night, they had had a disagreement about it.

On the ground floor the radiation would be about half what it is outside.

On the anniversary of her father's death she poured out with agonized tears her feelings of guilt about not having attended his funeral.

On the theory before us, such relief would be groundless, for in that suffering itself there was nothing bad at all, and hence in its nonoccurrence there would be nothing to be relieved about.

On February 17, Russell and Cook were sent to the Pena Flor community on the Vermejo to see about renting out ranches the company had purchased.

On the train Alec refreshed his memory of the Beauclerk case by reading teletype flimsies -- spot-news stories about the crime sent out by the Pearson City Star, a member of the Syndicate Press.

Of course On Thursday, Haney mailed the monthly check for separate maintenance to his wife Lolly, and wished the stranger could do something about her

On other hand, in some experiments a proportion of people do not seem to care about reputation and they do not help more even if this is conspicuous.

On Friday, April 20, 2007 Pope Benedict XVI, abolished the whole idea saying he " showed doubt about the concept of limbo ".

However, the book On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, which has long been ascribed to Aristarchus, says that he calculated the distance to the sun to be between 18 and 20 times the distance to the Moon, whereas the true ratio is about 389. 174.

Parsons released titles under his name ( Try Anything Once, On Air, The Time Machine, and A Valid Path ), while Woolfson made concept albums named Freudiana ( about Sigmund Freud's work on psychology ) and Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination ( continuing from the Alan Parsons Project's first album about Edgar Allan Poe's literature ).

On September 22, 1834, Alcott opened a school of about 30 students, mostly from wealthy families.

On the scale he used, the boiling-point of water was marked at + 73 and the melting-point of ice at 51, so that the zero of his scale was equivalent to about − 240 on the Celsius scale.

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly in space, reinforcing American fears about being left behind in a technological competition with the Soviet Union.

On the other side of the northern Black Forest were the Chatti about where Hesse is today, on the lower Main.

On the same day he admits before the nation that he " misled people " about the relationship.

On the other hand, the envoy's account of Mongol customs is fairly accurate, and his statements about Mongol Christianity and its prosperity, though perhaps exaggerated ( e. g. as to the 800 chapels on wheels in the nomadic host ), are based on fact.

The numeral system came to be known to both the Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi, whose book On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals written about 825 in Arabic, and the Arab mathematician Al-Kindi, who wrote four volumes, " On the Use of the Indian Numerals " ( Ketab fi Isti ' mal al -' Adad al-Hindi ) about 830.

On November 22, 1952, he wrote the Board, protesting this classification.

On November 22, 1859, the Providence Daily Journal stated that although Brown's `` pluck '' and honest fanaticism must be admired, any honor paid to Brown would only induce other fanatics to imitate his actions.

On 22 February 1945, " speaking from London, Agatha Christie introduced the initial broadcast of the Poirot series via shortwave.

On November 8, they won 41 – 10 over the New England Patriots, ending a streak of 22 losses at cold-weather sites.

On 22 May 2009, Dirk Scheringa announced a cooperation with Bayern Munich ; the club has first-option rights for the AZ contracted players.

On August 22, 2008, Aon announced that it had acquired London-based Benfield Group.

On 22 March 1798 Aarau was declared the capital of the Helvetic Republic.

On 22 February 896, Formosus led the king into the church, anointed and crowned him, and saluted him as Augustus.

On April 22, 1971, syndicated columnist Jack Anderson reported allegations that Capp made indecent advances to four female students when he was invited to speak at the University of Alabama in February 1968.

On 22 July 1878 ( 10 July O. S.

On August 22, 1982, Glenn Brummer stole home in the bottom of the 12th inning of a tie game, thus accomplishing a walk-off straight steal of home, one of the very few in major league history.

On 22 April 2011, French culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand officially inscribed bullfighting on a list enumerating the country's cultural heritage, a decision which Bardot is currently publicly contesting.

On November 22, 2010, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Warner Bros. had picked up the movie rights to the remake.

On January 22, 1957, Decca informed Holly his contract would not be renewed, insisting, however, that he could not record the same songs for anyone else for five years.

On July 22, 2005, Selig heard Rogers ' appeal of his suspension.

On 22 June, Nelson encountered a brig sailing from Ragusa and was told that the French had sailed eastwards from Malta on 16 June.

On the evening of 22 June, Nelson's fleet passed the French in the darkness, overtaking the slow invasion convoy without realising how close they were to their target.

On 22 February 2006, the channel was named News Channel of the Year at the Royal Television Society Television Journalism Awards for the first time in its history.

On 22 November 2007, the Nigerian Senate rejected the transfer, since the Green Tree Agreement ceding the area to Cameroon was contrary to Section 12 ( 1 ) of the 1999 Constitution.

On 22 November 2007, the Nigerian Senate passed a resolution declaring that the withdrawal from the Bakassi Peninsula was illegal.

On 22 May 2011, The Blue Angels were performing at the Lynchburg Regional Airshow in Lynchburg, Virginia, when the Diamond formation flew the Barrel Roll Break maneuver at an altitude that was lower than the required minimum altitude.

On 22 June, the temperature reached in Faya, breaking a record set in 1961 at the same location.

On 22 April and 7 May 1990, the first free multi-party elections were held in Croatia.

On October 22, 2008, the soccer team snapped a 201-game losing streak with a last-second goal against Cal Lutheran University, 1 – 0.