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It was neither a very reliable nor popular firearm, but it enabled a form of " automatic " fire long before the advent of the machine gun.
The calendars are similar to and may have developed from advent calendars, which are popular during the Christmas period.
The distinction between the spiritual and the religious became more common in the popular mind during the late 20th century with the rise of secularism and the advent of the New Age movement.
Phage therapy, the use of bacteriophages to combat bacterial diseases, was a popular research topic before the advent of antibiotics and has recently seen renewed interest.
Structured VLSI design had been popular in the early 1980s, but lost its popularity later because of the advent of placement and routing tools wasting a lot of area by routing, which is tolerated because of the progress of Moore's Law.
With the advent of many people favoring cremation in North America, there has been a new classification of a funeral establishment that has started to become popular, these are classified as a " Transfer Service ", they can provide the basic needs to have someone either cremated or buried without a funeral service.
It consisted of performances of material that was popular in theatrical revue before the advent of Beyond the Fringe.
Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century, with the advent of Modern and Postmodern art forms, distinctions between what is generally regarded as the fine arts and the low arts have started to fade, as contemporary high art continues to challenge these concepts by mixing with popular culture.
One phenomenon that has resulted from the Taiwanization movement is the advent of Taike subculture, in which young people consciously adopt the wardrobe, language and cuisine to emphasize the uniqueness of popular, groundroots Taiwanese culture, which in previous times had often been seen as provincial and brutally suppressed by Chiang Kai-shek.
Even after the advent of commercial television and radio, the CBC has remained one of the main elements in Canadian popular culture through its obligation to produce Canadian television and radio programming.
The city population continued to multiply during the 20th century, booming in the 1940s and ' 50s with the advent of air conditioning and through the 1970s as the town became a popular retirement destination for Americans from midwestern cities, reaching 238, 647 in the 1980 census.
Traditional pop or classic pop or standards music consists of Western ( and particularly American ) popular music that wholly predates the advent of rock and roll in the mid-1950s, as well as later music in the same styles.
Casein paint has been used since ancient Egyptian times as a form of tempera paint, and was widely used by commercial illustrators as the material of choice until the late 1960s when, with the advent of acrylic paint, casein became less popular.
After the introduction of Dolby B noise reduction for cassettes in the early 1970s, and the advent of new tape coatings that greatly improved the high-frequency response, the Compact Cassette finally became a respectable and increasingly popular medium for listening to music, both on the road and at home.
" robots. txt " was then popularized with the advent of AltaVista, and other popular search engines, in the following years.
Following the advent of the automobile, Canute became a popular stop along U. S. Route 66 and a large number of tourist businesses including gasoline service stations, motels and restaurants.
With the advent of the internet, clubs using online technology such as roleplay via chat or email ( PBeM ) became popular.
With the advent of the internet, light and affordable digital cameras, radio control and microelectronics, kite aerial photography has become increasingly popular.
The term " single " came into popular use with the advent of vinyl records in the early 1950s.
The music itself was common prior to the coining of the label, and was the most popular format along with pop vocalists, before the advent of rock and roll.
Since the advent of printing, the sale of reproductions of pious works has been a major element of popular Christian culture.
With the advent of popular broadcast television, producers realized they needed more than live television programming.
This scheme was far more popular and was carried over after the advent of early smokeless powder cartridges such as the. 30-30 Winchester and. 22 Long ; or a relative power, such as. 44 Special and. 44 Magnum.
With the advent of the 1990s fabric known as Lycra, these bikinis first emerged and became most popular on the beaches of Europe, including Saint Tropez, Marabella, Mykonos and Ibiza.

advent and use
The advent of the germ theory and advances in bacteriology brought a new level of sophistication to the theoretical use of bio-agents in war.
It was the predecessor to the International Telegraph Alphabet No. 2 ( ITA2 ), the teleprinter code in use until the advent of ASCII.
With the advent of sound technology, Chaplin immediately adopted the use of a synchronised soundtrack — composed by himself — for City Lights ( 1931 ).
The use of a Polaroid camera was standard but has since been replaced by the advent of digital cameras.
This troublesome device was superseded by thermionic diodes by the 1920s, but after high purity semiconductor materials became available, the crystal detector returned to dominant use with the advent of inexpensive fixed-germanium diodes in the 1950s.
To make space for modern topics, valuable material of historic use regularly had to be discarded, at least before the advent of digital encyclopedias.
Before the advent of government-funded public schools, the primary mode of education for those of the lower classes was the charity school, pioneered during the 19th century by Protestant organizations and adapted for use by the Roman Catholic Church and governmental bodies.
The advent of much more powerful and easy to use corned powder changed this procedure, but serpentine was used with older guns into the seventeenth century.
While most modern IDEs are graphical, IDEs in use before the advent of windowing systems ( such as Microsoft Windows or X Window System ( X11 )) were text-based, using function keys or hotkeys to perform various tasks ( Turbo Pascal is a common example ).
The advent of polyphony brought about fantasias: complex, intricate pieces with much use of imitative counterpoint.
In particular, medieval fortifications became progressively stronger — for example, the advent of the concentric castle from the period of the Crusades — and more dangerous to attackers — witness the increasing use of machicolations and murder-holes, as well the preparation of hot or incendiary substances.
For example, before the advent of low-cost integrated circuits, chains of multivibrators found use as frequency dividers.
Despite the advent of file-sharing technologies such as BitTorrent, as well as the increased use of blogs, formal discussion forums, and social networking sites, coupled with a growing number of service providers blocking access to Usenet ( see main article ), newsgroups continue to be widely used.
With the advent of limited overs cricket promoting more adventurous batting styles and the use of ever heavier bats this style of bowling has declined, although some off-spinners will still use this tactic when the pitch is offering very little or no turn.
Eventually, the advent of mass-production techniques and semi-synthetic penicillins resolved the supply issues, so this use of probenecid declined.
The advent of DVDs and their use of anamorphic presentation, coupled with the increasing popularity of widescreen televisions and computer monitors, have rendered pan and scan less important.
* Water-activated stamp — for many years, water-activated stamps were the only type available, so this term entered into use with the advent of self-adhesive stamps.
Although the Chinese invented gunpowder, and firearms had been in continual use in Chinese warfare since as far back as the Song Dynasty, the advent of modern weaponry resulting from the European Industrial Revolution had rendered China's traditionally trained and equipped army and navy obsolete.
In particular, medieval fortifications became progressively stronger — for example, the advent of the concentric castle from the period of the Crusades — and more dangerous to attackers — witness the increasing use of machicolations and murder-holes, as well the preparation of hot or incendiary substances.
The use of silver in photography has rapidly declined, due to the lower demand for consumer color film from the advent of digital technology ; since 2007, of the 907 million ounces of silver in supply, just 117. 6 million ounces ( 13 %) were consumed by the photographic sector, about 50 % of the amount used in photography in 1998.
The advent of the XML profile has made SGML suitable for widespread application for small-scale, general-purpose use.
Spears were one of the most common personal weapons used in the Stone Age, and they remained in use as important military and hunting implements until the advent of firearms.
With the advent of the 20th century, things such as motion pictures, automobiles, and aeroplanes were coming into use.

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