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 organizations, such as the American Association of Variable Star Observers and Center for Backyard Astrophysics, exist to help coordinate these contributions.

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 the buildings on the Brown campus from its founding 18th century period through the 20th century offer fine representation of the Georgian style of American colonial era architecture.

Several major North American drainage basins and many minor ones share a common border with the Columbia River's drainage basin.

Several liberals, including Adam Smith and Richard Cobden, argued that the free exchange of goods between nations could lead to world peace, a view recognised by such modern American political scientists as Dahl, Doyle, Russet, and O ' Neil.

Several Amerindians | American Indian-style drums for sale at the National Museum of the American Indian.

Several books after the middle of the 20th century contributed to the rise of American environmentalism ( as distinct from the longer-established conservation movement ), especially among college and university students and the more literate public.

Several countries charged Italian studios with exceeding the boundaries of acceptability with their late-1970s Nazi exploitation films, inspired by American movies such as Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS.

Several years later he emigrated to Ohio and became an American citizen in 1944.

Several American and Danish military bases are located in Greenland, including the US Thule Air Base.

Several hundred more were probably caught by American and European whalemen in the Sea of Okhotsk from the 1840s to the early 20th century.

Several times since 1995, the American Shakespeare Center has mounted repertories that included both Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, with the same actors performing the same roles in each ; in their 2001 and 2009 seasons the two plays were " directed, designed, and rehearsed together to make the most out of the shared scenes and situations ".

His critically acclaimed book Lyrics on Several Occasions of 1959, an amalgam of autobiography and annotated anthology, is an important source for studying the art of the lyricist in the golden age of American popular song.

Several American football players have followed Kemp to Congress: Steve Largent, J. C. Watts, and Heath Shuler.

Several songs from the album received regular airplay on major North American rock stations, with Hatfield's song " My Sister " becoming the biggest hit of her career, with a # 1 placing on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, and the video becoming an MTV staple.

Several key events occurred, which raised public awareness of the New Age subculture: the production of the musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ( 1967 ) with its opening song " Aquarius " and its memorable line " This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius "; publication of Linda Goodman's best-selling astrology books Sun Signs ( 1968 ) and Love Signs ( 1978 ); the release of Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb ( 1983 ), later adapted into a television mini-series with the same name ( 1987 ); and the " Harmonic Convergence " planetary alignment on August 16 and 17, 1987, organized by José Argüelles at Sedona in the U. S. state of Arizona.

Several features of the American justice system tend to promote plea bargaining.

Several times since 1995, the American Shakespeare Center has mounted repertories that included both Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, with the same actors performing the same roles in each ; in their 2001 and 2009 seasons the two plays were " directed, designed, and rehearsed together to make the most out of the shared scenes and situations ".

Several notable American craft brewers use his equipment: Geary's Brewing, Shipyard, and Middle Ages Brewing Company to name a few.

Several months later, when Tesla had finished the work and asked to be paid, he said that Edison replied, " When you become a full-fledged American you will appreciate an American joke.

Several of these Forty-Eighters went on to become Civil War soldiers, the great majority in the Union Army, and American politicians.

** Several Soviet surface-to-air missiles shoot down an American Lockheed U-2 spy plane.

Several of these were written by academics – to the delight of The New York Times, which published a selection of the more trusting reviews.

Several barrister members have gone on to be highly important, including Edward Marshall-Hall, and legal academics have also been members, such as Sir John Baker.

Several prominent academics like Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Addison Gayle, Jr., established a new “ Black Aesthetic ” that “ placed the sources of contemporary black literature and culture in the communal music and oral folk tradition .” This new respect coupled with a growing Black Feminism led by Mary Helen Washington, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and others would create the space for the rediscovery of Hurston.

Several distinguished academics, including Nobel Prize winners, are Taiwanese Americans.

Several academics opposed to Wilson's sociobiology created the Sociobiology Study Group to counter his ideas.

Several public traditionalists are academics and write for such publications as Modern Age ( periodical ), Humanitas ( journal ), The University Bookman, The Intercollegiate Review, and Touchstone Magazine.

Several academics have drawn attention to the ways that the contents of the space opera myths reflect themes of the 1950s Cold War culture in which they were constructed.

Several academics on campuses around the U. S. also reviewed this year ’ s report.

Several years of her life have been spent in the homeland, and she had written to friends to alert them of our coming.

Several conventions have been held in recent months in hotels on a nonsegregated basis.

Several dentists and patients with special dental problems have experimented with the device.

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 financial institutions, both banks and insurance companies, have been sounded out.

Several days after the companies had received the questionnaire, members of the research team contacted the presidents of eleven of these companies in person or by phone to discuss any ambiguities or difficulties the addressees might have experienced in completing the questionnaire.

Several signers affixed their names, it was learned, after being told that no tax increase would be possible without consent of the General Assembly and that a provision could be included in the charter to have the town take over the Johnston Sanitary District sewer system.

( 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 of these double entries have been collected by Ben Bagley and Michael McWhinney, along with Rodgers and Hart songs that disappeared permanently en route to New York and others that reached Broadway but have not become part of the constantly heard Rodgers and Hart repertory, in a delightfully refreshing album, Rodgers And Hart Revisited ( Spruce Records, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York ).

Several robot cities have been planned for the country: the first will be built in 2009 at a cost of 500 billion won, of which 50 billion is direct government investment.

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 AFI Alums have received both national and international recognition.

Several unusual applications, such as a nuclear battery or fuel for space ships with nuclear propulsion, have been proposed for the isotope < sup > 242m </ sup > Am, but they are as yet hindered by the scarcity and high price of this nuclear isomer.

Several biographical programs have been made, such as the 2004 BBC television programme entitled Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, in which she is portrayed by Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, and Bonnie Wright.

Several additional candidates for written ASL have appeared in over the years, including Sutton SignWriting, Sign Script, ASL-phabet, and Si5s.

Several genres of fiction have been confused as alternate histories.

Several volcanoes on offshore islands have records of historic activity.

Several of Ambrose's works have recently been published in the bilingual Latin-German Fontes Christiani series ( currently edited by Brepols ).

Several religious brotherhoods which have sprung up in and around Milan at various times since the 14th century have been called Ambrosians.

Several saints and six popes have borne this name, including the only English pope, Adrian IV, and the only Dutch pope, Adrian VI.

Several alternatives to the human sacrifice have been presented in Greek mythology.

Several other princes have borne the name Alexander: