Parallely, there were also several attempts to explain the climate change by the influence of astronomical forces ( the most comprehensive of them was the theory by James Croll in ' 60-ties of XIX century ).

Other astronomical theories were advanced by Joseph Adhemar, James Croll and others, but verification was difficult due to the absence of reliably dated evidence and doubts as to exactly which periods were important.

James Croll ( 2 January 1821 – 15 December 1890 ) was a 19th century Scottish scientist who developed a theory of climate change based on changes in the Earth's orbit.

James Croll was born in 1821 on the farm of Little Whitefield, near Wolfhill in Perthshire, Scotland

Adhemar's theory was further developed and greatly modified, first by James Croll and later by Milutin Milanković.

It was commanded by a corsair whose surname was Croll.

A $ 200, 000 yearling in 1971 ( a significant price for the early 1970s ), " Mr. P ", as he came to be known, was trained by Jimmy Croll, a Hall of Fame member who went on to train Holy Bull.

David Arnold Croll, PC, QC ( born Davud Avrum Croll March 12, 1900 – June 11, 1991 ) was a Canadian politician.

Croll was born in a shtetl in Russia's Pale of Settlement and was brought to Canada with his family as a young boy, at which point his name was anglicized.

The popular Croll was seen as the only Liberal who could defeat him.

After Croll was nominated, Buck instead ran in a neighbouring riding, leaving Sam Carr to be the LPP's candidate.

Despite being regarded as one of the most talented Liberal MPs and, until 1950, the only Liberal MP from Toronto, Croll was never summoned to the Canadian Cabinet where he would have become the first Jewish federal cabinet minister.

Louis St. Laurent admitted to Croll that this was due to anti-Semitism in Quebec and within quarters of the Liberal Party.

Croll was the author of the influential 1971 " Report of the Special Senate Committee on Poverty " which began with the words " the poor do not choose poverty.

It was then purchased by Denys Croll, an Irish school teacher working in Australia.

Croll subsequently offered to donate the medal to the AWM in the early 1960s but was turned down as it was initially felt that it did not belong in their collection because " Whirlpool wasn't Australian ".

Tartu College was built in 1970, two years after its sister building, the David A. Croll Apartments ( originally Rochdale College ), was built in 1968 across the street.

Using formulae for orbital variations developed by Leverrier ( which had led to the discovery of Neptune ), Croll developed a theory of the effects of variations of the Earth's orbit on climate cycles.

Croll won a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly ( MLA ) for Windsor in the 1934 election that brought the Liberals to power under the leadership of Mitchell Hepburn.

Two pro-labour MPPs, David Croll and Arthur Roebuck, had resigned from Hepburn's cabinet in 1937 to protect to his anti-labour actions during a UAW strike in Oshawa, Ontario.

Croll became a lawyer as a young man and then entered politics serving as mayor of Windsor, Ontario from 1931 to 1934 during the worst days of the Great Depression.

* William Martin Croll, former U. S. Congressman from Pennsylvania.

In 1968 Bruno Dressler asked Fernand Petzl, who worked as a metals machinist, to build a rope-ascending tool, today known as the Petzl Croll, that he had developed by adapting the Jumar to pit caving.

* Warren A. Croll, Jr. ( born 1920 ), retired Hall of Fame Thoroughbred race horse trainer.

Milanković also studied the works of Joseph Adhemar and James Croll, whose pioneering theories on the astronomical origins of ice ages were formally rejected by their contemporaries.

* Croll, M. ( 1970 ).

*" The History of Landmines " by Mike Croll published in Great Britain in 1998 by Leo Cooper, Pen & Sword Books Ltd. ISBN 0-85052-628-0

From 1864, Croll corresponded with Sir Charles Lyell, on links between ice ages and variations in the Earth's orbit.

Croll further argued that the accumulation of snow would change the pattern of trade winds, leading to the deflection of warming currents like the Gulf Stream, and finally a self-sustaining ice age.

* 1896: posthumous publication of Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll, With Memoir of His Life and Work, edited by J. C. Irons

* March 12-David Croll, politician ( d. 1991 )

After placing second to David Croll in the Toronto riding of Spadina in the 1945 federal election, he won election to the Canadian House of Commons in a 1950 by-election in the nearby riding of Broadview.

* Warren A. Croll, Jr. ( 1994 )

The Liberal government named the first minister of municipal affairs, David A. Croll, and introduced a draft bill to amalgamate the City and the built-up suburbs.

* December-Oswald Croll, German iatrochemist ( born c. 1563 )

* Osborne, D. W. and Croll, M. G.

The company was headquartered in Brisbane, California in the Dakin Building in the early-1990s and subsequently in Alameda, California until it was bought in late 2003 by CompUSA.

The exterior of Vincent Freeman's house was shot at the CLA Building on the campus of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona ( Cal Poly Pomona ).

* Team Disney Building, Burbank, California, 1986

The cast of the skeleton is in the collection of the University of California Museum of Paleontology and on display at the Valley Life Sciences Building on the UC Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California.

* Daughters of the American Revolution ( 1968 ) — " The Oldest Building in Southern California of Brick, Stone and Mortar "

* The Building Program of Herod the Great, By Duane W. Roller, Published by University of California Press 1998, ISBN 0-520-20934-6

The opera house / theatre was recently renovated by California Progress, Inc., along with the adjacent Finke Building, to save this historical landmark.

As a tribute to Roy, an animation building at the Walt Disney Studios, in Burbank, California, was re-dedicated as the " Roy E. Disney Animation Building " on May 7, 2010.

Dakin Building, Brisbane, California using porcelain panels

More recent noteworthy examples include The Dakin Building in Brisbane, California, and the Gulf Building in Houston, Texas, which when constructed in 1929 had a porcelain logo on its exterior.

* The Building Program of Herod the Great, By Duane W. Roller, Published by University of California Press 1998, ISBN 0-520-20934-6

Additionally, Erickson is also known for numerous futuristic designs such as the Fresno City Hall and the Biological Sciences Building at the University of California, Irvine.

In July 2009, the California Building Standards Commission ( CBSC ) approved the addition of Chapter 16A " Non-potable Water Reuse Systems " to the 2007 California Plumbing Code.

For example, the Dakin Building, California was designed with its entrance ramp on a large hinge to allow settlement of the building built on piles over bay mud.

The actual location for the exterior shots of the office was the Newhall Building at 260 California Street in San Francisco.

Image: Sun America Building Helipad. jpg | A helipad atop the SunAmerica Center in Century City, California, USA

AMBER ( an acronym for Assisted Model Building with Energy Refinement ) is a family of force fields for molecular dynamics of biomolecules originally developed by the late Peter Kollman's group at the University of California, San Francisco.

In North America, the largest Chapter in the world is located at 1342 Naglee Ave. ; the headquarters of the English Grand Lodge for the Americas owns the Rosicrucian Park in San Jose, California, founded in 1927, which includes the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, the fifth planetarium built in the USA ( and the first to have a US-built star projector, built by Dr. Harvey Spencer Lewis ), the Rosicrucian Peace Garden, Rosicrucian Research Library, Grand Temple, Administration Building, Fountain Plaza and Gardens.

In the spring of 2005, McDonald joined a larger protest against California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed budget cuts at the California State Capitol Building.

* The Building of the University, An Inaugural Address, Delivered at Oakland, Nov. 7th, 1872, Daniel C. Gilman, President of the University of California

* Pythias Lodge Building ( San Diego, California ), NRHP-listed

According to the Los Angeles Times, Baca, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, directed Caucus funds from its PAC BOLDPAC ( Building Our Leadership Diversity ) to the unsuccessful California campaigns of his sons, Joe Baca, Jr. and Jeremy Baca.