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.

During the Prohibition Era, Capone controlled large portions of the Chicago underworld, which provided The Outfit with an estimated US $ 100 million per year in revenue.

The gleaming expanse of ice is similar to the Arctic, with wind-driven pack ice and ridges up to 15 m. Offshore of the landfast ice, the ice remains very dynamic all year, and it is relatively easily moved around by winds and therefore forms pack ice, made up of large piles and ridges pushed against the landfast ice and shores.

:* Baltimore has a large Bastille Day celebration each year at Petit Louis in the Roland Park area of Baltimore City.

Its trade deficit has been increasing at a large rate since 1997 ( See chart ) and increased by 49. 8 billion dollars between 2005 and 2006, setting a record high of 817. 3 billion dollars, up from 767. 5 billion dollars the previous year.

The music of Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, Brittany, Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias ( Spain ) and Portugal are also considered Celtic music, the tradition being particularly strong in Brittany, where Celtic festivals large and small take place throughout the year, and in Wales, where the ancient eisteddfod tradition has been revived and flourishes.

A subarctic climate has little precipitation, and monthly temperatures which are above for one to three months of the year, with permafrost in large parts of the area due to the cold winters.

A large variety of birds includes eagles ( can be seen in Lasithi ), swallows ( throughout Crete but throughout the year in the south of the island ), pelicans ( along the coast ), and cranes ( including Gavdos and Gavdopoula ).

The following year, Constantius clashed with Magnentius in Pannonia with a large army.

In its original permanent dispositions, it gave the President of the Republic a large amount of power ; however, some of these dispositions, such as the power of dissolving the Lower Chamber of Congress and serving eight year terms with possibility of reelection, were modified or eliminated after 1990, when the country regained its democracy and the Congress was reestablished.

For instance, to save time spent buying and decorating a Christmas tree every year, the house has a large ( yet unapparent ) closet adjacent to the living room where the tree can be stored from year to year.

Whereas his father and brother had concentrated consular power largely in the hands of the Flavian family, Domitian admitted a surprisingly large number of provincials and potential opponents to the consulship, allowing them to head the official calendar by opening the year as an ordinary consul.

The most famous of these sites is La Hougue Bie, a 6, 000 year old neolithic site that sits inside a large mound ; later a chapel was built on the top of the mound.

Digital media playback of hi-resolution 2K files has at least a 20 year history with early RAIDs feeding custom frame buffer systems with large memories.

The reference to Passover twice in the same year might refer to the geographical diversity that existed at that time in the Jewish calendar, due in large measure to the breakdown of communications in the Empire.

As in the previous year, the large trade deficit was offset by foreign aid and family remittances.

Fifth Monarchists believed that the timing of the events of the Interregnum were significant because the calendar year 1666 loomed large on the near horizon.

Just outside the town, parallel to the Nevis Range Gondola, there is a large downhill mountain bike track which attracts thousands of visitors every year, including international competitors and fans.

The 1st United States Congress voted to pay Washington a salary of $ 25, 000 a year — a large sum in 1789.

Apparently, Battra had been waiting around for many years for a large meteorite that would hit the Earth in the year 1999, destroying it.

An unsuccessful attack on Pityus was followed in the second year by another which sacked by Pityus and Trapezus and ravaged large area in the Pontus.

In the third year a much larger force devastated large areas of Bithynia and the Propontis, including the cities of Chalcedon, Nicomedia, Nicaea, Apamea, Cius and Prusa.

Scheduled amortization payments of an average US $ 223. 2 million per year, however, guaranteed that Honduras's gross funding requirements would remain large indefinitely.

As the total number of incepting bachelors in 1629 was, according to Masson ( Life, 1:218 ) and n, two hundred fifty-nine, the twenty-four names listed in the ordo senioritatis for that year constitute slightly less than one tenth of the total number of bachelors who then incepted.

The editorial was based on a news association dispatch which said that the telegraphers had secured an agreement whereby they were guaranteed 40 hours' pay per week whether they worked or not and that a reduction in their number was limited to 2 per cent per year.

These expenditures are estimated to be $12.1 billion, an increase of $187 million over 1960, reflecting additional longevity pay of career personnel, more dependents, an increased number of men drawing proficiency pay, and social security tax increases ( effective for the full year in 1961 compared with only 6 months in 1960 ).

Although there were no startling developments in shotgun design this year, a number of new models and variations of existing models did hit the market.

You might try providing standard vacation time off but make the vacation pay depend on the number of hours worked in the previous year.

It is planned to double the number of teams and to make use of improved equipment in a second demographic inquiry in 1960, so that the inquiry can be carried through in one year and the results published more expeditiously.

After 1895 the number increases, and in the next thirty years there is only one year for which there is no dated poem -- 1903, when Hardy was at work on The Dynasts.

In college libraries, 57 per cent of the total number of books are owned by 124 of 1,509 institutions surveyed last year by the U.S. Office of Education.

No less than twenty-two nations have already achieved independence since World War 2,, and the number is growing by the year.

He said that on his tour the preceding year a considerable number of hours would have been available to him on Japanese radio networks, but that he had then lacked the funds to contract for them.

One Nepōhualtzintzin ( 91 ) represented the number of days that a season of the year lasts, two Nepōhualtzitzin ( 182 ) is the number of days of the corn's cycle, from its sowing to its harvest, three Nepōhualtzintzin ( 273 ) is the number of days of a baby's gestation, and four Nepōhualtzintzin ( 364 ) completed a cycle and approximate a year ( 1 days short ).

Since independence from Portugal in 1975, a number of Angolan students continued to be admitted every year at high schools, polytechnical institutes, and universities in Portugal, Brazil and Cuba through bilateral agreements ; in general, these students belong to the Angolan elites.

Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Yojimbo ( 1961 ).

During January – February 2007, Armenia ’ s trade with Russia and other former Soviet republics was $ 205. 6 million ( double the amount from the same period the previous year ), making them the country ’ s number one trading partner.

After describing the manifestation of the Gospel in the Ogdoad and Hebdomad, he adds that the Basilidians have a long account of the innumerable creations and powers in the several ' stages ' of the upper world ( diastemata ), in which they speak of 365 heavens and say that " their great archon " is Abrasax, because his name contains the number 365, the number of the days in the year ; i. e. the sum of the numbers denoted by the Greek letters in ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ according to the rules of isopsephy is 365:

He designates Abrasax more distinctly as " the power above all, and First Principle ," " the cause and first archetype " of all things ; and mentions that the Basilidians referred to 365 as the number of parts ( mele ) in the human body, as well as of days in the year.

In the year 883, though there is some debate over the year, King Alfred, because of his support and his donation of alms to Rome, received a number of gifts from the Pope Marinus.

He was killed in the Battle of Karbala the same year, an event still mourned by Muslims on the Day of Ashura.

Each numbered year is designated either H for Hijra or AH for the Latin anno Hegirae ( in the year of the Hijra ), hence, Muslims typically call their calendar the Hijri calendar.

In 2003, the percentage of Muslims in the Kashmir Valley was 95 % and those of Hindus 4 %; the same year, in Jammu, the percentage of Hindus was 66 % and those of Muslims 30 %.

In his last year, unhappy at the partition of India, Gandhi worked to stop the carnage between Muslims on the one hand and Hindus and Sikhs that raged in the border area between India and Pakistan.

Instead, however, they were blocked by the Quraysh, after which both Muslims and Meccans entered into the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah, whereby the Quraysh promised to cease fighting Muslims and promised that Muslims would be allowed into the city to perform the pilgrimage the following year.

Other rationales assume such rights were every person's birthright ( Muslim or non-Muslim ), and the imposition of jizya on non-Muslims similar to the imposition of zakat ( one of the Five Pillars of Islam, an obligatory wealth tax paid on certain assets which are not used productively for a period of a year ) on Muslims.

The year 722 saw the first Asturian victory against the Muslims.

After expelling the Muslims from Narbonne in 759 and driving their forces back over the Pyrenees, the Carolingian king Pepin the Short conquered Aquitaine in a ruthless eight year war.

Muslims may also fast on other special days of the year, and to make up for missed days of fasting.

Vegetarianism has been practiced by some influential Muslims including the Iraqi theologian, female mystic and poet Râbi ‘ ah al -‘ Adawîyah of Basrah, who died in the year 801, and the Sri Lankan sufi master Bawa Muhaiyaddeen who established The Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship of North America in Philadelphia.

Muslims believe the Quran to be verbally revealed through angel Jibrīl ( Gabriel ) from God to Muhammad gradually over a period of approximately 23 years beginning on 22 December 609 CE, when Muhammad was 40, and concluding in 632 CE, the year of his death.

As a punishment, the king issues an order of expulsion of the Muslims from his realm leading numerous people into exile in Andalusia and North Africa in the subsequent year.

By 700 CE, or the 92nd lunar year after the Hijra, the Arab Muslims dominated North Africa.

Abu Sufyan sought to exterminate the adherents of the new religion by waging another battle with Muslims based in Medina only a year after the Battle of Badr.

Muslims remained in peace in Medina for approximately a year before the Quraish raised an army to attack them.

Tiberias, or Tabariyyah in Arab transcription, was conquered by ( the Arab commander ) Shurahbil in the " year 13 " ( 634 CE ) by capitulation ; one half of the houses and churches were to belong to the Muslims, the other half to the Christians.

After the invasion of the Iberian peninsula by the Muslims in the year 711, they arrived in these lands just a year later, in 712.

" Muslims are also encouraged on this day to forgive and forget any differences with others or animosities that may have occurred during the year.

In Cape Town, hundreds of Muslims will gather at Green Point in the evening of the last day of Ramadan each year for the sighting of the moon.

The hostilities between the Najdi tribes and the Muslims escalated when Musaylima ( d. 12 / 633 ), a Najdi from the Banu Hanifah tribe, tried to defeat the caliphate by claiming to be a Prophet and sending troops to destroy the Muslim army in the year 12 / 633.