On his death in 1873, Johns Hopkins, a Quaker entrepreneur and childless bachelor, bequeathed $ 7 million ( Between $ 140 million to $ 1. 6 billion in 2011 dollars, by varying estimates ) to fund a hospital and university in Baltimore, Maryland.

On the foreign policy front, the major events were various speeches delivered by representatives of West European Marxist-Leninist parties, particularly the Italian, Spanish, and French, all of which expressed in varying ways ideological differences with the Soviet Union.

On the other hand, chestnuts behave similarly to seeds in that they produce very little ethylene, and their respiration rate is low, varying between 5 and 20 mg /( kg · h ) depending on the temperature.

On stage, she had roles of varying importance in Frank Wedekind's Pandora's Box, William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as George Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah and Misalliance.

On high-performance engines, the camshaft is movable and the cams have a varying height, so by axially moving the camshaft in relation with the engine RPM, also the valve lift varies.

On non-rocky coasts, coastal erosion results in dramatic ( or non-dramatic ) rock formations in areas where the coastline contains rock layers or fracture zones with varying resistance to erosion.

On September 28, 2009, the new logo is used across Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite, along with the rebranded TeenNick, Nick Jr. and Nicktoons ( formerly The N, Noggin and Nicktoons Network, respectively ) channels in varying versions customized for brand unification and refreshment purposes ; a new logo for Nickelodeon Productions also began being used in end credit tags on all Nickelodeon shows, even on episodes aired before the new logo took effect ( end credit tags of programs airing on TeenNick, Nick Jr. and some shows on Nicktoons only use the current Nickelodeon Productions logo and variants for their respective channel's original programming on episodes of series made after the rebrand ).

On a Trammed Canvas the design is professionally stitched onto the canvas by hand using horizontal stitches of varying lengths of wool of the appropriate colours.

On every route there are four controls in addition to the starting and finishing controls, and these are open for periods varying from seven to four hours.

On the other hand, heroin users are at a much greater risk of death from a misjudged dose due to varying drug purity, individual tolerances, and influence-affected judgment.

On the other hand, iron sulfide concretions, which either are composed of or contain either pyrrhotite or smythite, will be magnetic to varying degrees ( Hoffmann, 1993 ).

On the other hand, a camera with no adjustment for light may register the apple as having varying color.

* Scottish devolution referendum, 1997, Two questions: On whether there should be a Scottish Parliament ( yes ); On whether a Scottish Parliament should have tax varying powers ( yes )

On the belly was glued a third lath, varying in shape but often narrow with parallel sides and splayed ends.

On the other hand, speakers of closely related languages can often communicate with each other to a fair degree ; thus there are varying degrees of mutual intelligibility, and often other criteria are also used.

On September 2, 1968, while diving in three fathoms ( 5. 5 meters ) of water off the northwest coast of North Bimini island, J. Manson Valentine encountered an extensive " pavement " of what later was found to be noticeably rounded stones of varying size and thickness.

On account of the fact that collectors and copyists used varying recensions, sometimes the same passage occurs two or three times in different parts of the Sefer Ḥasidim.

On the right side ( from ionic to covalent ) should be compounds with varying difference in electronegativity, in the covalent corner compounds with equal electronegativity such as Cl < sub > 2 </ sub > ( chlorine ), in the ionic corner compounds with large electronegativity difference such as NaCl ( table salt ).

On the template of a black horse, which has a coat rich in eumelanin, the effect is that of complete conversion to varying shades of silver.

On some models, the incline of sloping roller ramps beneath the pedal-links can be adjusted to produce varying pedal motion paths.

On Windows NT-based systems, privileges are delegated in varying degrees.

On the eve of Israel's independence in 1948, there were, by varying estimates, 100, 000-150, 000 Jews in Iran with relatively few Persian Jews residing outside the country.

On a file composed of varying length records a maximum record length is defined to determine the size of the length metadata associated with each record.

On the morning of Stanley's return, however, her strength left her.

On the strength of these performances, Earnhardt took the No. 3 GM Goodwrench Chevrolet Monte Carlo to 2nd in the standings.

But on the strength of containing an alternate mix of his most popular single " Egypt, Egypt ", 1984's On the Nile was moderately successful.

On June 1, 2004, the peacekeeping mission was passed to MINUSTAH and comprised a 7, 000 strength force led by Brazil and backed by Argentina, Chile, Jordan, Morocco, Nepal, Peru, Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka, and Uruguay.

On the strength of his years of study in Mecca, Ibn Battuta was appointed a qadi, or judge, by the sultan.

On the strength of his knowledge and experience of Franco's Spain, he was put in charge of the subsection which dealt with Spain and Portugal.

On 8 August 1972, Rines ' Raytheon DE-725C sonar unit, operating at a frequency of 200 kHz and anchored at a depth of, identified a moving target ( or targets ) estimated by echo strength to be in length.

On the strength of a passage in The Illiad, it has been suggested that the palace was the site of a dancing-ground made for Ariadne by the craftsman Daedalus, where young men and women, of the age of those sent to Crete as prey for the Minotaur, would dance together.

On the strength of their work on The Frost Report and other programmes, Cleese and Chapman had been offered a show by the BBC, but Cleese was reluctant to do a two-man show for various reasons, among them Chapman's reputedly difficult personality.

On December 7 the gas supply in the attitude control system was exhausted, and on December 10 and 11 a total of 83 micrometeoroid hits were recorded which caused perturbation of the attitude and degradation of the signal strength.

On the strength of this tradition, Dante placed this pope in Hell.

Indeed, such was the perceived threat of the Ottoman Empire under the reign of Suleiman that ambassador Busbecq warned of Europe's imminent conquest: " On Turks ' side are the resources of a mighty empire, strength unimpaired, habituation to victory, endurance of toil, unity, discipline, frugality and watchfulness ... Can we doubt what the result will be ?... When the Turks have settled with Persia, they will fly at our throats supported by the might of the whole East ; how unprepared we are I dare not say.

On the surface of the Earth, the acceleration due to gravity ( the " strength of gravity ") is approximately constant ; this means that the ratio of the weight force of a motionless object on the surface of the Earth to its mass is almost independent of its location, so that an object's weight force can stand as a proxy for its mass, and vice versa.

On his arrival at Naples Paisiello was reinstated in his former appointments by Joseph Bonaparte and Joachim Murat, but he had taxed his genius beyond its strength, and was unable to meet the demands now made upon it for new ideas.

On the strength of his father's political machine, Daley ran for and won a seat in the Illinois Senate, serving from 1972 to 1980.

On November 8, Lincoln won by over 400, 000 popular votes on the strength of the soldier vote and following battlefield successes at Atlanta.

On the other hand, ordinal utility captures only ranking and not strength of preferences.

On the strength of these three releases, the annual Quigley poll revealed Tracy was MGM's biggest money-making star of 1944.

On the strength of the two movies, Tracy polled as one of the nation's top stars once again.

On 3 March 1541, the French Ambassador, Charles de Marillac, reported in a letter that the King was now said to be lamenting that " under pretext of some slight offences which he had committed, they had brought several accusations against him, on the strength of which he had put to death the most faithful servant he ever had.

On the strength of this he was invited by the BBC to take part in a programme for the armed forces, Ack-Ack, Beer-Beer ( the title taken from the then-current phonetic alphabet ), which he compered.

On a number of occasions in the Chronicles of Narnia, Aslan uses his breath to give strength to characters, demonstrating his benevolent power or bringing life.

On 4 September he recalled Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt from retirement, in which condition he had been since Hitler had dismissed him as Wehrmacht Commander-in-Chief West on 2 July, and reinstated him in his former command, replacing Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model, who had taken command just 18 days previously and would henceforth command only Army Group B. Rundstedt immediately began to plan a defence against what Wehrmacht intelligence judged to be 60 Allied divisions at full strength, although Eisenhower in fact possessed only 49 divisions.

On the strength of " The Distance ", Fashion Nugget was certified gold on December 9, 1996 and platinum on April 10, 1997.