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Lunar and Society
Darwin was also a founding member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a discussion group of pioneering industrialists and natural philosophers.
Category: Members of the Lunar Society
Another means for the spread of innovation was by the network of informal philosophical societies, like the Lunar Society of Birmingham, in which members met to discuss ' natural philosophy ' ( i. e. science ) and often its application to manufacturing.
The Lunar Society flourished from 1765 to 1809, and it has been said of them, " They were, if you like, the revolutionary committee of that most far reaching of all the eighteenth century revolutions, the Industrial Revolution ".
He was a member of the Royal Society of Arts, and an associate of some of the members of the Lunar Society.
Category: Associates of the Lunar Society
He was an important member of the Lunar Society, and was a much sought-after conversationalist and companion, always interested in expanding his horizons.
He was an active member of the Lunar Society often held at Erasmus Darwin House and is remembered on the Moonstones in Birmingham.
Category: Members of the Lunar Society
Soho House in Handsworth, West Midlands | Handsworth, Birmingham, a regular venue for meetings of the Lunar Society
The Lunar Society of Birmingham was a dinner club and informal learned society of prominent figures in the Midlands Enlightenment, including industrialists, natural philosophers and intellectuals, who met regularly between 1765 and 1813 in Birmingham, England.
At first called the Lunar Circle, " Lunar Society " became the formal name by 1775.
Matthew BoultonThe Lunar Society evolved through various degrees of organisation over a period of up to fifty years, but was only ever an informal group.
Historians therefore disagree on what qualifies as membership of the Lunar Society, who can be considered to have been members, and even when the society can be said to have existed.
Despite this uncertainty, fourteen individuals have been identified as having verifiably attended Lunar Society meetings regularly over a long period during its most productive eras: these are Matthew Boulton, Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Day, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Samuel Galton, Jr., James Keir, Joseph Priestley, William Small, Jonathan Stokes, James Watt, Josiah Wedgwood, John Whitehurst and William Withering.
This lack of a defined membership has led some historians to criticise a Lunar Society " legend ", leading people to " confuse it and its efforts with the general growth of intellectual and economic activities in the provinces of eighteenth century Britain ".
Erasmus Darwin in 1770The origins of the Lunar Society lie in a pattern of friendships that emerged in the late 1750s.
By 1768 the core group of nine individuals who would form the nucleus of the Lunar Society had come together with Small at their heart.
The botanist and physician Jonathan Stokes, who had known William Withering as a child, moved to Stourbridge and started attending Lunar Society meetings from 1783.
Most significantly, Erasmus Darwin moved to Derby in 1781, but although he complained of being " cut off from the milk of science ", he continued to attend Lunar Society meetings at least until 1788.
Regular meetings are recorded into the nineteenth century-eight in 1800, five or six before August 1801 and at least one in 1802, while as late as 1809 Leonard Horner was describing " the remnant of the Lunar Society " as being " very interesting ".
In more recent times a new Lunar Society was formed in Birmingham, England, by a group led by Dame Rachel Waterhouse.
In Italy, the Lunar Society Italia was formed to communicate science and astronomy.

Lunar and included
Data from Lunar Orbiter missions III, IV and V were included in the global mosaic.
The typical formula included maraging steel ( HY-140 ) for structure, pressure-fed engines using N2O4 / UDMH, later LOX / RP-1, with pintle injectors scaled up from TRW's Lunar Module Descent Engine ( LMDE ).
The classic Dinky die-cast range of vehicles featured robust yet finely finished products and included Straker's futuristic gull-winged gas turbine car, the SHADO mobile and the missile-bearing Lunar Interceptor ( though the Interceptor was released in a lurid metallic green finish unlike the original's white ).
A text-only version of Lunar Lander, written in BASIC, was included with the eight-inch floppy operating system diskettes for the Datapoint 2200 series in the early 1980s.
The American release was renowned for its elaborate packaging, which included two bonus disks: a " Making of Lunar " disk and the soundtrack for the game.
Also included was a cloth map of the Lunar world and a hard back manual with an excerpt from the official guide book.
The American version was given gracious special packaging courtesy of Working Designs which included two bonus disks: a " Making of Lunar 2 " disk and the soundtrack for the game.
Also included was a hard-back manual with an excerpt from the official guide book and an Omake box containing a map of the Lunar 2 world, character mini-standees, and a full-size replica of Lucia's pendant in a cloth pouch.
The famous Lunar Society included Erasmus Darwin, Matthew Boulton, Joseph Priestley and Josiah Wedgwood with Benjamin Franklin corresponding from America.
In 1999, a similar expanded game was released on the PlayStation as Lords of Lunar, a secret game included on the Making of disc of Lunar: The Silver Star Story.
Not included in the ALSEP but deployed by Irwin as well were the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment ( LRRR ) and the solar wind composition experiment.
This mythological view of " the luck of the lucks " also belongs to the 22d Manzil ( Arabic Lunar Mansion ), which included the two stars Bunda ( ξ Aqr ) and c Cap.
A few of the included games, such as Lunar Lander, exhibit some flicker.

Lunar and industrialists
Through this connection Small was elected to the Lunar Society, a prestigious club of scientists and industrialists.
The Lunar Society was a discussion club, of a number of prominent industrialists and scientists, who met regularly in the latter half of the 18th century in Birmingham, England.
1765: The Lunar Society begins life as a dinner club and informal learned society of prominent figures in the Midlands Enlightenment, including industrialists, natural philosophers and intellectuals, who meet regularly until 1813 in Birmingham.

Lunar and such
Cults of Terror focused on the worship of evil gods and adversaries, such as Vivamort, a vampire cult, and Lunar and Chaos cults.
Many leading scientists including Newton and Huygens doubted that such a clock could ever be built and had more optimism for astronomical observations ( such as the Method of Lunar Distances ).
It was also noted in one issue that he has an interest in Japanese anime and manga as well, with titles such as Sailor Lunar, Dragon Tall 33, Tech Robo, and Tragic Knight Sayearth.
There are several other methods of celestial navigation which will also provide position finding using sextant observations, such as the " Noon Sight ", and the more archaic " Lunar Distance " method.
Red envelopes are mainly presented at social and family gatherings such as weddings or on holidays such as the Lunar New Year.
For non-Chinese Filipinos, ang pao is an easily recognizable symbol of the Lunar New Year holiday and in some places, the envelopes are also appropriated by non-Chinese in giving monetary gifts on other occasions such as Christmas and birthdays.
Improvements in technology since then have resulted in greater use of the smaller arrays, by sites such as the Côte d ' Azur Observatory in Grasse, France ; and the Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation ( APOLLO ) at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico.
AnimeSuki and Lunar Anime complied, and shortly after, other fansub groups such as Solar and Shining Fansubs followed suit.
While in modern Chinese culture, such limitations for females no longer exist, the day, which also marks the end of Lunar New Year celebrations, is still lightly observed in some Chinese regions.
She was created via alchemy from a Lunar Flower, and as such needs water and sunlight to survive.
Within the game's history, they were very tightly bound to the First Age Solars ; each Lunar Exaltation is bound to a singular corresponding Solar one in such a way that that Lunar instantly feels a connection to the Lawgiver, though how they act upon this bond depends on the inclinations of the Exalts involved.
The rioters burned not only the homes and chapels of Dissenters, but also the homes of people they associated with Dissenters, such as members of the scientific Lunar Society.
Various other small tents and stages also exist, such as the Solar Stage, Lunar Stage, Sonic Stage, and the Cinema tent.
By the second half of the century the town's leading thinkers – particularly members of the Lunar Society of Birmingham such as Joseph Priestley, James Keir, Matthew Boulton, James Watt, William Withering and Erasmus Darwin – had become widely-influential participants in the Republic of Letters, the free circulation of ideas and information among the developing pan-European and trans-Atlantic intellectual elite.
Although the exceptional historic influence of the Lunar Society of Birmingham has made it much the best-known, the contemporary William Hutton described hundreds of such associations in Birmingham with thousands of members, and the German visitor Philipp Nemnich commented late in the century that " the inhabitants of Birmingham are fonder of associations in clubs than almost any other place I know ".
On the 18th of the eighth month in the Lunar calendar every year, there are activities such as Chinese operas and gatherings in the open area of the temple, to celebrate the birthday of Hau Wong.
He created several games patterned after actual arcade games, such as Super Nova ( Asteroids ), Attack Force ( Targ ), Cosmic Fighter ( Astro Fighter ), Galaxy Invasion ( Galaxian ), Meteor Mission II ( Lunar Rescue ), Robot Attack ( Berzerk ), and Defense Command ( Missile Command ).
An alloy used for liquid rocket thruster nozzles, such as in the main engine of the Apollo Lunar Modules, is C103, which consists of 89 % niobium, 10 % hafnium and 1 % titanium.

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