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Several ' professional amateurs ' were being paid for their sampling trips and microscopic explorations by philanthropists, to keep them amused on the Sunday afternoon ( e. g., the diatom specialist A. Grunow, being paid by ( among others ) a Belgian industrialist ).
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Several to-be professional game designers started their careers making Doom WADs as a hobby, among them Tim Willits, who later became the lead designer at id Software.
Several other cantons – Vaud, Neuchâtel, Zürich and Ticino – provide for courts composed of both professional judges and laymen ( Schöffengerichte / tribunaux d ' échevins ).
Several documentaries have been produced looking at professional wrestling, most notably, Beyond the Mat directed by Barry W. Blaustein, and Wrestling with Shadows featuring wrestler Bret Hart and directed by Paul Jay.
Several of the nation's professional schools are also located in Yaounde ( Ecole Normal Superieur for teachers, Ecole Militaire InterArmes du Cameroun ) as well as various schools for engineers, nurses and diplomats ).
Several successful professional athletes hail from Montgomery, including Pro Football Hall of Famer Bart Starr and two-time Olympic gold medalist in track and field Alonzo Babers.
Several years earlier, he had been instrumental in trying to develop the PLA into a well-equipped, professional fighting force, as opposed to Mao's belief that soldiers who were revolutionary enough could overcome any obstacle.
Several of Wiedoefts siblings also became professional musicians, the most famous being West coast bandleader Herb Wiedoeft ( 1886 – 1928 ).
Several professional actors started their stage experience there with David Warner perhaps the best known.
Several prominent Presbyterian officers, mainly expatriate Scottish professional soldiers, refused to serve in the New Model Army on religious grounds.
Several other players ( 16 total ) received the title of Jun-Meijin ( half-Meijin ), which is considered to equal an 8 dan professional grade and listed as such below.
Several professional natural-history illustrators accompanied expeditions in the early 19th century, including Ferdinand Bauer ( who travelled with Matthew Flinders ), and Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, who travelled with a French expedition led by Nicolas Baudin.
Several famous passengers were among the dead, including former world boxing champion Carlos Cruz, his wife and nineteen-month-old son, who were flying to Paris for a bout against Roger Zami ; the wife, daughter and sister of Imbert Barreras, a Dominican Army Brigade General who participated in the plot to kill the dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina in Santo Domingo, on May 30, 1961 ; Juan Ramón Loubriel, who had participated in three professional sports leagues in Puerto Rico ( basketball, volleyball and association football ); the then-girlfriend of astrologer Walter Mercado, and most of the members of Puerto Rico's women's national volleyball team, who were returning home after a friendly game against the Dominican Republic's women's national team.
Several new professional organizations ( such as the Society of Broadcast Engineers, SBE ) were founded shortly thereafter by IRE and AIEE members who opposed the merger.
Several well-attended NFL exhibition games were held at Phillips Field near downtown, but the venue was too small to support a professional football franchise.
Several other data storage device recording systems were introduced, notably XDCAM from Sony, and as of 2009, it remains to be seen what will become the predominant method of camera media for professional use in the 2010s.
Several UB football stars from the 1950s and early 1960s went on to play professional football, including quarterback John Stofa with the American Football League's Miami Dolphins and Cincinnati Bengals, and defensive lineman Gerry Philbin with the AFL's New York Jets.
Several games between bad teams, particularly poor in play quality, have been jocularly referred to as Toilet Bowls or, in professional football, as Draft Bowls.
Several sportsmen's battalions were formed, including three battalions of footballers ( 17th and 23rd ( Service ) Bn Middlesex Regiment ) and 16th ( 2nd Edinburgh ) ( Service ) Bn Lothian Regiment Royal Scots, the last-mentioned battalion containing the entire first and reserve team players, several boardroom and staff members and sizeable contingent of supporters of Scottish professional club Heart of Midlothian F. C.
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Several amateurs also worked alongside from other civil services and they were assisted by professional botanists such as Joseph Dalton Hooker ( 1817 – 1911 ), John Gerard Koenig ( 1728 – 1785 ), Robert Wight ( 1796 – 1872 ), Nathaniel Wallich ( 1786 – 1854 ) and William Roxburgh ( 1751 – 1815 ), the Father of Indian Botany.
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Several germanium resistors have been thermally cycled from 300 to 4.2 Af and their resistances have been found to be reproducible within 1/3 millidegree when temperatures were derived from a vapor pressure thermometer whose tubing is jacketed through most of the liquid helium.
Several efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.
Several years ago headlines were made by a small radio transmitter capsule which could be swallowed by the patient and which would then radio internal pressure data to external receivers.
Several New England realtors were invited to participate in a small colloquium of property lawyers, political scientists, economists, social psychologists, social ethicists and theologians.
( Several times recently I have wondered whether shows were being staged for the sake of the script or just to entertain the audience with the spectacle of scenery being shifted right in front of their eyes.
Several times it came near breaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of thunder from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fine an aggregation as has come along in the jazz business since John Hammond found Count Basie working in a Kansas City trap.
Several photographs and charts of galaxies help the non-scientist keep up with the discussion, and the smooth language indicates the contributors were determined to avoid the jargon that seems to work its way into almost every field.
Several of the dialects have been influenced by contact with non-Germanic linguistic groups, such as the dialect of Carinthia, where in the past many speakers were bilingual with Slovene, and the dialect of Vienna, which has been influenced by immigration during the Austro-Hungarian period, particularly from what is today the Czech Republic.
Several later books were original in Europe, and at least one novel has only ever appeared in Italian, no English version yet published.
Several editions featuring Newton's first three stanzas and the verse previously included by Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom's Cabin were published by Excell between 1900 and 1910, and his version of " Amazing Grace " became the standard form of the song in American churches.
Several of Alexander's works were published in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495 – 1498 ; his De Fato and De Anima were printed along with the works of Themistius at Venice ( 1534 ); the former work, which has been translated into Latin by Grotius and also by Schulthess, was edited by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1824 ; and his commentaries on the Metaphysica by H. Bonitz, Berlin, 1847.
Several people who spoke to Selkirk after his rescue ( such as Captain Rogers and the journalist Steele ) were impressed by the tranquillity of mind and vigour of the body that Selkirk had attained while on the island.
Several changes were made in regard to the myth, most notably that Perseus did not marry Andromeda after he rescued her from the sea monster.
Several stars in the southern part of Antlia were a portion of " Dong ' ou ", which represented an area in southern China.
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