Astronomers use the Julian calendar for years before 1582, including this year 0, and the Gregorian calendar for years after 1582 as exemplified by Jacques Cassini ( 1740 ), Simon Newcomb ( 1898 ) and Fred Espenak ( 2007 ).

One year later, gifts from Josephine Louise Newcomb totaling over $ 3. 6 million, led to the establishment of the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College within Tulane University.

The 1941 report ends: " The X-ray branch had as a guest Professor Rose C. L. Mooney of Newcomb College, who was prevented by the war from carrying on research in Europe under a Guggenheim Fellowship ... As the year ends, the National Defense effort is beginning to claim the services of a number of staff members.

After arriving in Maryland, Newcomb taught for two years from 1854 to 1856 ; for the first year in a country school in Massey's Cross Roads, Kent County, MD, then for a year at a school not far south in Sudlersville in Queen Anne's County, MD.

In the same year, Arp was awarded the Newcomb Cleveland Prize for his address, " The Stellar Content of Galaxies ", read before a joint session of the American Astronomical Society and AAAS Section D.

However, the mean tropical year is not suitable as a unit of measurement because it varies from year to year by a small amount, 6. 14 days according to Newcomb.

The conventional tropical year according to Simon Newcomb ( 1835-1909 ) was 365. 2422 days (= 365d.

In its first year ( 2006 – 07 ), under the leadership of founding Interim Executive Director Rebecca Mark ( Tulane Department of English ), the non-academic Newcomb College Institute hosted 104 speakers and 110 different programs for women, men and guests at Tulane.

They pointed out that astrologers have only a small knowledge of astronomy and that they often do not take into account basic features such as the precession of the equinoxes which would change the position of the sun with time ; they commented on the example of Elizabeth Teissier who claimed that " the sun ends up in the same place in the sky on the same date each year " as the basis for claims that two people with the same birthday but a number of years apart should be under the same planetary influence.

Rumsfeld pointed out that, prior to the war, armor kits were produced only in small numbers per year.

In December of that year, the First Book of Discipline was published, outlining important doctrinal issues but also establishing regulations for church government, including the creation of ten ecclesiastical districts with pointed superintendents which later became known as presbyteries.

As Verne scholar William Butcher pointed out, Verne was an early admirer of Poe and his novel Cinq semaines en ballon ( Five Weeks in a Balloon ) was published within a year of his nonfiction book Edgar Poe et ses oeuvres ( Edgar Allan Poe and his Works ).

As MAD Magazine pointed out on its cover for the March 1961 issue, this was the first " upside-up " year — i. e., one in which the numerals that form the year look the same as when the numerals are rotated upside down — since 1881.

In 1583 De Monte sent Byrd his setting of verses 1 – 4 of Psalm 136 ( Super flumina Babylonis ), including the pointed question ’ How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ?’ Byrd replied the following year with a setting of the defiant continuation, set, like de Monte's piece, in eight parts and incorporating a three-part canon by inversion.

The Senator pointed out that during the first year of the tariff the cost of living climbed higher than any other year except during the war, presenting a survey of the Department of Labor, in which all of 32 cities assessed had seen an increase in the cost of living.

For example, Jonathan Bate has pointed out that the play begins with Titus returning from a successful ten year campaign against the Goths, as if at the height of the Roman Empire, but ends with Goths invading Rome, as if at its death.

Jackson's version of the story is that he noted that the Yankees had won the pennant the year before, but lost the World Series to the Reds, and suggested that they needed one thing more to win it all, and pointed out the various ingredients in his drink.

In this context Tilak also pointed to the fact that because of RV 1. 161. 13 not the solar year but the anticlockwise movement of the precession of the equinoxes must be meant which he calls an " equinoctial year ", but he didn't refer to this in his further interpretation.

" Writer Colin Escott proclaims Jim Reeves ' " Four Walls ", recorded February 1957, to be the " first ' Nashville sound ' record ", and Chet Atkins, the RCA-based producer and guitarist most often credited with being the sound's primary artistic brainchild, pointed to his production of Don Gibson's " Oh Lonesome Me " late that same year.

Perenchio is well known for his version of the rules ( now up to twenty rules ) which vary from year to year and have some internal contradictions ( AJP pointed out that while there is a " no neoptism " rule he's aware his son was on the board of directors at the time.

The seed cones are red at pollination, then pale brown, globose and 4 – 8 mm diameter in their first year, expanding to full size in their second year, pointed ovoid-conic, green, then grey-green to yellow-brown at maturity, 3-7. 5 cm in length.

Although a subsequent letter pointed out that the farthing was still legal tender in sums up to one shilling, by 1956 it was apparent that due to inflation the farthing had outlived its usefulness, and minting ceased after that year.

In this capacity, Rutherford pointed to the $ 375, 000 per year that the provincial government received from the federal government as compensation.

Rabbi Weissmandl pointed out that if you combine the three small letters together they form the word, which in the accepted Hebrew notation for year numbers ( using Gematria ) corresponds to the Jewish year 707 Anno Mundi, which is the Jewish year that the 10 Nazi leaders were executed ( October 16, 1946 corresponds to Tishrei 21, 5707, the day known as Hoshanna Rabba, the day of severe judgments for the nations of the world, according to the Jewish calendar ).

This came as a sharp turn after more than a year of cooperating with the federal government, but McGuinty pointed to the special deals worked out by the federal government with other provinces ( Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia ) as compromising the nature of equalization.

For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.

If within one year you can make a success out of the American, you can practically name your own salary thereafter.

It was in the spring of the year when he took to his bed and Tessie and Alfred found out that they didn't know each other.

Feelers were put out last year to the City of Warwick, as reported in your newspapers, suggesting investigation of a common rubbish disposal area to service the Potowomut and Cowessett areas of Warwick along with East Greenwich.

All this was unknown to me, and yet I had dared to ask her out for the most important night of the year!!

and ( C ) to finance, for not more than three years beyond the end of said period, such activities as are required to correlate, coordinate, and round out the results of studies and research undertaken pursuant to this Act: Provided, That funds available in any one year for research and development may, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State to assure that such activities are consistent with the foreign policy objectives of the United States, be expended in cooperation with public or private agencies in foreign countries in the development of processes useful to the program in the United States: And provided further, That every such contract or agreement made with any public or private agency in a foreign country shall contain provisions effective to insure that the results or information developed in connection therewith shall be available without cost to the United States for the use of the United States throughout the world and for the use of the general public within the United States.

Between that year and the buying out of Mr. Darling's interest in 1892, a large portion of the company's precision tool business was carried out under the name of Darling, Brown & Sharpe, and to this day many old precision tools are in use still bearing that famous trademark.

I can look at furniture in one spot year in and year out and really feel for sure that's where it belongs.

One year the Department collected a file of case histories to document its argument that men in the field were paying the government's entertainment bills out of personal income.

Officials estimated the annual tax boost for the medical plan would amount to 1.5 billion dollars and that medical benefits paid out would run 1 billion or more in the first year, 1963.

Hughes said, `` This is not a plan to conquer space -- but to conserve it '', pointing out the state population has increased 125,000 each year since 1950.

The year will probably start out with segregation still the most troublesome issue.

This might be done to arouse those who have been squeezed out by the trims to exert pressure on the Legislature, so it would be more receptive to a tax proposal later in the year.

Last year, when he worked out at halfback all season, he didn't get into a single game.

Each year he invites the boys to camp out on his estate for one of their big week ends of the year.

Seven of the eight companies that turn out full lines of farm machinery say sales by their dealers since the start of August have shown gains averaging nearly 10% above last year.

Among individual dealers questioned in nearly a score of states, two out of three report their sales since August 1 show sizable gains from a year earlier, with the increases ranging from 5% to 50%.

It seems like only last year that we watched them set out up the hill hand in hand on a rainy day in their yellow raincoats to finger-paint at the grammar school.

He has indicated that he plans new moves on Berlin before the year is out.

Until late last Saturday afternoon Palmer had played seven consecutive rounds of golf at the Masters -- four last year and three this -- without ever being out of first place.

The gardens themselves are open free of charge the year round, and the 192 permanent employes make sure that not a dead or wilted flower is ever seen indoors or out by any visitor.