`` I suppose it has to do with the property '', Mark had said over the telephone when they had discussed their receipt of the letters.

`` I imagine the old girl hasn't missed us much '', Mark added, his eyes on the road.

Howard Aiken, who built the quickly-obsoleted electromechanical calculator, the Harvard Mark I, between 1937 and 1945, praised Babbage's work likely as a way of enhancing his own stature, but knew nothing of the Analytical Engine's architecture during the construction of the Mark I, and considered his visit to the constructed portion of the Analytical Engine " the greatest disappointment of my life ".

By comparison the Harvard Mark I could perform the same task in just six seconds.

* 1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator ( known best as the Harvard Mark I ).

A British Mark I " male " tank, 1916

Tank or " landship " development, originally conducted by the British Navy under the auspices of the Landships Committee was sponsored by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill and proceeded through a number of prototypes culminating in the Mark I tank prototype, named Mother.

The first tank to engage in battle was designated D1, a British Mark I, during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette ( part of the Somme Offensive ) on 15 September 1916.

Samuel Clemens ( Mark Twain ) is also known to have spread the story while lecturing, personalizing it by adding " I have a higher and greater standard of principle.

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The words, " Today I have begotten you ," are omitted from the canonical Gospel of Mark, however, and it is therefore generally believed to have less adoptionist tendencies than the Gospel of the Hebrews.

British Mark I tank during the First World War.

" Although his answer is given merely as su eipas ( thou hast said it ), the Gospel of Mark states the answer as ego eimi ( I am ) and there are instances from Jewish literature in which the expression, " thou hast said it ", is equivalent to " you are right ".

The so-called Harvard architecture of the Harvard Mark I, which was completed before EDVAC, also utilized a stored-program design using punched paper tape rather than electronic memory.

Tube computers like EDVAC tended to average eight hours between failures, whereas relay computers like the ( slower, but earlier ) Harvard Mark I failed very rarely.

When reports of this reached the Apostolic Throne of Saint Mark, Pope Saint Cyril I of Alexandria acted quickly to correct this breach with orthodoxy, requesting that Nestorius repent.

Mark Anderson, president of Strategic News Service, a research firm based in Friday Harbor, Wash. was quoted as saying The kind of goals he had sounded good to shareholders -- like being a $ 50 billion company by the year 2000, or to beat I. B. M.

* Sieg, Wilfried, and Ravaglia, Mark, 2005, " Grundlagen der Mathematik " in Grattan-Guinness, I., ed., Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics.

Bluegrass bassist Mark Schatz, who teaches slap bass in his Intermediate Bluegrass Bass DVD acknowledges that slap bass "... has not been stylistically very predominant in the music I have recorded.

Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.

Krasne visited the National 9 / 11 Memorial on the very same day as the Kings parade and placed his Stanley Cup Champions cap between their names and tweeted ; " As a kings fan in NYC, I couldn't let Mark Bavis or Ace Bailey miss the festivities.

The first postmark ( called the " Bishop Mark ") was introduced by English Postmaster General Henry Bishop in 1661 and showed only the day and month of mailing in order to prevent the delay of the mail by carriers.

The election polls showed losses for the VVD ; the former VVD deputy Prime Minister Hans Wiegel blamed a poor VVD campaign for this, caused by the heavily contested VVD leadership run-off between Mark Rutte and Rita Verdonk earlier in the year.

On September 12 he presented his findings to the management, which included Mark Shepherd: he showed them a piece of germanium with an oscilloscope attached, pressed a switch, and the oscilloscope showed a continuous sine wave, proving that his integrated circuit worked and thus that he solved the problem.

" Sir Alan Walters, whose opposition to the ERM as Mrs Thatcher's economic adviser triggered Nigel Lawson's resignation as chancellor, wrote on the buoyant state of the British economy in 2001 that " all the difficult and correct decisions that produced this happy state of affairs were taken and implemented by Norman Lamont, who thus showed himself, in his Mark 2 post ERM version, to be not only the most effective but also the bravest Chancellor since the War.

The Mark V differentiated itself from the Mark IV by having revised headlights with larger turn indicators incorporated ( which now showed to the side too ), a wider slatted grille said to be more aerodynamically efficient, a flattened roof, more glass area, slimmer C-pillars with revised vent covers, larger, slatted tail lights ( on saloon models ) and upgraded trim.

Crash tests by consumers association ( as featured by BBC's Watchdog show in 1992 ) and also by ADAC and Auto Express showed that the Mark 3 Astra protected better in crashes than most rivals of its time.

In 1987, González showed some improvement with the Gastonia Rangers, though Mark Whiten and Junior Felix were deemed better outfield prospects in the South Atlantic League.

* 1999's JLA: Year One limited series, by Mark Waid, Brian Augustyn, and Barry Kitson, included a cameo appearance by the original Blackhawk team that even showed them putting away the superhero costumes they sported for a short time in the 1960s.

He also showed good form in the 2006 World Championship, beating Anthony Hamilton 10 – 1 and Mark Selby 13 – 8 to set up a quarter-final clash with Ronnie O ' Sullivan, the first time the two had met at the Crucible.

The stern surgeon also showed a few sentimental moments after learning of the death of Dr. Mark Greene and was then driven to successfully save a young girl who had cancer.

The oldest version of the coat of arms is known from a wood carving in the city church dated from the 16th century ; it showed Saint Mary on top of the coat of arms of the Mark.

The society also showed the work of Mark Antokolski, Vasili Vereshchagin, and Andrei Ryabushkin.

Moore approached Congressman Mark Kennedy ( R-MN ) and showed Kennedy giving Moore a quizzical, confused look.

) Prior to the expansion, the notable single-game record occurred on July 1, 1982, when 9, 389 showed up for the pitching match-up of Mark Fidrych versus Dave Righetti.

* " When leaders showed courage ", review by Mark Steyn in Maclean's, January 29, 2007.

One study, initially released in January 2006 before being finalized or peer reviewed, by Mark Fleisher at Case Western Reserve University showed that prison rape was rarer than estimated.

Hoffman received the script and showed it to his partners Mark Burg and Oren Koules.

After Hoffman showed the script to his partners Mark Burg and Oren Koules, the two decided that " The Desperate " was the starting script they needed for Saw II and two months later, Bousman was flown to Toronto to direct.

Director Mark Steven Johnson showed interest in returning to direct with the " Born Again " storyline.

* The Mandragora Helix showed up again in the spin-off media, on schedule, at the end of the 20th century in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip The Mark of Mandragora ( DWM # 169-# 172 ).

A fellow worker, Alfred Reed, finding one of the sketches particularly amusing, showed the sketch to his father, German Reed, a friend of the then Punch editor, Mark Lemon in early 1867.

Accompanying Rudé in this shift was the ‘ new left ’, which according to Mark Gilderhus these liberal historians, " showed the feasibility of doing history while incorporating attitudes and viewpoints other than those associated with white male elites ".