An early attempt to understand memory can be found in Aristotle ’ s major treatise, On the Soul, in which he compares the human mind to a blank slate.

On some TVs that do not properly blank the vertical retrace, dotted white lines additionally appear near the top of the picture.

On the 1970s Match Game, Gene Rayburn occasionally mentioned another German version of the show titled " Schnick Schnack " ( literally " Something, Anything " as there is no German word for blank.

On entering the cockpit, Captain Pearson saw what he was expecting to see: blank fuel gauges and a tagged circuit breaker.

On a blank space in his copy of The New York Times, he recorded the diagram found in Figure 1, and the equations derived below.

On 1 December 1976, a van version of the Reliant Kitten was announced, sharing the profile of the Kitten Estate but with blank panels in place of the windows behind the B-pillar.

On blank film the artist can draw, paint, stamp, or even glue or tape objects.

On one was written a prayer that God would send an angel to inscribe on the blank sheet the name of him whom He wished to be the patriarch.

On June 11, 1915 he resigned from the Central Committee over what he saw as the majority's willingness to give the government a blank check during World War I.

On the inner sleeve, all of the paintings were revealed, but one remains blank: " Promenade ".

On a blank disk, all of these files will be allocated one after the other.

On at least one singles chart for the period, ( TOP 20 POPS ) the song's No. 2 slot is represented with a blank line.

On 13 June 1981, she and her mount were startled by a youth who fired blank rounds from a revolver.

On Usenet, the common method for obscuring spoiler information is to precede it with many blank lines known as ' spoiler space ' – traditionally enough to push the information in question on to the next screen of a 25-line terminal.

On Sunday I will cast a blank protest vote.

On September 22, 1998, at around 8am, Latifi was shot at point blank range outside his apartment in Dushanbe.

On one side is colorful graffiti written during the separation of East and West Berlin, while the other side is blank concrete revealing a few bullet holes, evidence of the confinement of East Berliners.

On 26 September 1917 at Zonnebeke, Belgium, Sergeant Dwyer, in charge of a Vickers machine-gun during an advance, rushed his gun forward to within 30 yards of an enemy machine-gun, fired point blank at it and killed the crew.

On the TV series Firefly, a cast bronze pistol was used, but for the film Serenity, a more detailed replica was created which had moving action and a blank pistol hidden inside, so that it could be fired in close-ups.

On June 11, 2008 the organization's website was suspended and replaced with a redirect to a blank page.

On Danzig's album, Danzig 4, after the twelfth song, there are numerous blank tracks, until reaching the 66th track, the monotone chant, " Invocation ", or on Bowling for Soup's Drunk Enough to Dance, Track 28, " Belgium ".

On 29 April 2005, Mexico withdrew its candidate, which allowed Chile's Insulza to be elected in the next special session as Secretary General, with 31 votes, two abstentions and one vote left blank.

On several occasions, episodes were cut off abruptly to unplanned commercial breaks and blank screens, and some airings were accidentally ones that had already been shown on The Vault's run of the show.

On the US release DVD most of the Vietnam War era popular music was replaced by instrumental bits to cover the blank spots of music.

On the street outside, Hieronymus envisions a holocaust of the vanities of this world, such a burning of artistic and erotic productions as his namesake actually brought to pass in Florence, and prophetically he issues his curse: `` Gladius Dei super terram cito et velociter ''.

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

On 11 December 1885, after a speech by Lord Aberdeen, Lady Aberdeen unveiled a bronze statue and plaque of Alexander Selkirk outside a house on the site of Selkirk's original home on the Main Street of Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.

(“ I've Got You to Lean On ”) A mob quickly forms outside the hotel, and Hapgood and Fay, still disguised, take refuge under the rock.

On August 24, 2010, a statue of Selig, commissioned by Brewers owner Mark Attanasio and designed by artist Brian Maughan, was unveiled outside Miller Park in Milwaukee.

On 30 November 1988, a bronze statue of Clement Attlee was unveiled by Harold Wilson ( the next Labour prime minister after Attlee ) outside Limehouse Library in his former constituency.

On April 4, 1999, the Rockies made history as they played their Opening Day game against the defending National League champion San Diego Padres at Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico – marking the first time Major League Baseball opened the regular season outside the United States or Canada.

On the top of the vent on the outside of the cannon is a flat circular space called the vent field where the charge is lit.

On October 4, 2011, military and police squads used force late at night to disperse hundreds of angry Coptic demonstrators and their supporters who were attempting to stage a sit-in outside the Maspero TV headquarters in downtown Cairo to protest attacks on a Christian church in Upper Egypt.

On 20 November 284, the army of the east gathered on a hill outside Nicomedia.

On each of the last three of these missions, astronauts also performed deep-space EVAs on the return to Earth, to retrieve film canisters from the outside of the spacecraft.

On the average, their workweek outside the home was several hours shorter than men's because a greater portion of them were employed only part-time or worked in the service sector, where hours were shorter than they were in manufacturing.

On 9 April 1626 Bacon died of pneumonia while at Arundel mansion at Highgate outside London.

On 25 May 1944, he managed to evade the Germans after the Raid on Drvar ( Operation Rösselsprung ), an airborne assault outside his Drvar headquarters in Bosnia.

On 4 January 1970, Moon was involved in a car-pedestrian death outside the Red Lion pub in Hatfield, Hertfordshire.

On April 25 in a house speech that biographer William Nisbet Chambers called “ long, passionate, historical, polemical ,” Benton attacked the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which he “ had stood upon ... above thirty years, and intended to stand upon it to the end -- solitary and alone, if need be ; but preferring company .” The speech was distributed afterwards as a pamphlet when opposition to the act moved outside the walls of congress.

On 25 June 1673, while preparing to storm the city, captain-lieutenant Charles de Batz de Castelmore, also known as the comte d ' Artagnan, was killed by a musket shot outside Tongerse Poort.

The ERP guerrillas and their supporting network of militants came under heavy attack in April 1976, and the Montoneros were forced to come to their assistance with money, weapons and safe houses. On 21 June 1976, the Labour Relations Manager of Swift ( an American food processing company ), Osvaldo Raúl Trinidad is shot and killed outside his home in the La Plata suburb of Buenos Aires after coming under fire from a car load of masked peronist guerrillas.

On 26 April 1976, Montoneros guerrillas killed Colonel Abel Héctor Elías Cavagnaro outside his home in Tucumán province.

On 4 January 1977, Montoneros guerrillas shot and killed Private Guillermo Félix Dimitri of the 10th Mechanized Infantry Brigade on a drive-by shooting while he was on roadblock duty outside the Chrysler factory in the San Justo suburb of Buenos Aires.

On 2 December 1956, outside Satara, India, the car in which Baba was being driven went out of control and a second serious automobile accident occurred.

On 15 October 1999 ( almost a year before the Sydney 2000 Games ), a memorial plaque was unveiled in one of the large light towers ( Tower 14 ) outside the Sydney Olympic Stadium.

On February 7, Henry Smith's stepson, William Butler, was lynched outside Paris.

On his return, he spent the remainder of his life on his farm of sixty-two acres outside the city, called the Great Bouwerie, beyond which stretched the woods and swamps of the village of Haarlem.

On the home straight, Ritola sprinted from the outside but Nurmi increased his pace to keep his rival a metre behind.