The first large scale work where Platus was the chief source was Thomas Heywood's The Silver Age ( 1613 ).

To the sky studies he added notes, often on the back of the sketches, of the prevailing weather conditions, direction of light, and time of day, believing that the sky was " the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment " in a landscape painting.

1948 Hudson fire chief car in about 1: 16 scale.

The first Jin capital, Shangjing, located on the Ashi River not far from modern Harbin, was originally not much more than the city of tents, but in 1124 the second Jin emperor Wuqimai starting a major construction project, having his Chinese chief architect, Lu Yanlun, build a new city at this site, emulating, on a smaller scale, the Northern Song capital Bianjing ( Kaifeng ).

While her husband was chief entomologist in the U. S. Department of Agriculture from 1879 to 1881, she prepared the drawings for his 1880 Report of the Entomologist on citrus scale insects.

Since 1936 he was chief of the bureau and responsible for large scale production of SB.

* The shield of Arms: Delta Upsilon bears for arms or a balanced scale proper on a chief azure seven mullets of the first, four and three.

Digital's former chief executive Samantha Lewis, who also produced and / or directed DP films, has claimed that " many technology brands used the adult industry DP, in particular, to test new markets " because of " the sheer scale of the industry ".

Coconut is the town ’ s chief product, with rice, corn, root-crops produced on a minor scale.

The chief industry is the manufacture of linen and linen handkerchiefs, which is also carried on in the neighboring communes on a large scale.

However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.

Of all the causes of defection, that connected with arrears of tribute and vessels, and with failure of service, was the chief ; for the Athenians were very severe and exacting, and made themselves offensive by applying the screw of necessity to men who were not used to and in fact not disposed for any continuous labor.

The term epískopos was not from the earliest times clearly distinguished from the term presbýteros (" elder ", " senior ", nowadays used to signify a priest ), but the term was already clearly used in the sense of the order or office of bishop, distinct from that of priest in the writings of Ignatius of Antioch ( died c. 108 ), and sources from the middle of the 2nd century undoubtedly set forth that all the chief centres of Christianity recognized and had the office of bishop, using a form of organization that remained universal until the Protestant Reformation.

Since its inception Beechcraft has resided in Wichita, Kansas, also the home of chief competitor Cessna, the birthplace of Learjet and of Stearman, whose trainers were used in large numbers during WW2.

While many cities ( as in Gaul ) had a double-headed chief magistracy, often another title was used, such as Duumvir or native styles such as Meddix, but Consul was used in some.

Originally the term " Bronze Age " meant that either copper or bronze was being used as the chief hard substance for the manufacture of tools and weapons.

The latte stone was used as a part of the raised foundation for a magalahi ( matao chief ) house, although they may have also been used for canoe sheds.

One often cited example, though perhaps not Luther's chief concern, is a condemnation of the selling of indulgences ; another prominent point within the 95 Theses is Luther's disagreement both with the way in which the higher clergy, especially the pope, used and abused power, and with the very idea of the pope.

Though " president " and various monarchic titles are most commonly used for heads of state, in some nationalistic regimes ( usually republics ), the leader adopts, formally or de facto, a unique style simply meaning " leader " in the national language, such as Nazi Germany's single party chief and head of state and government, Adolf Hitler Führer ( see that article for equivalents ).

Friedrich Gaus, chief of the Foreign Office's legal division, testified at Nuremberg that: " He used to say that everything the Foreign Office lost in the way of terrain under Neurath he wanted to win back and, with all his passion, he fought for this aim in a manner which can only be understood by somebody who actually saw it ".

There are no authenticated accounts of how maple syrup production and consumption began, but various legends exist ; one of the most popular involves maple sap being used in place of water to cook venison served to a chief.

The term has also been used more narrowly, however, to refer only to religions outside the very large group of so-called Axial Age faiths that encompass both the Abrahamic religions and the chief Indian religions.

In Christianity, the title became a personal name, and " Satan " changed from an accuser appointed by God to test men's faith to the chief of the rebellious fallen angels (" the devil " in Christianity, " Shaitan " in Arabic, the term used by Arab Christians and Muslims ).

Fluxes are used in smelting for several purposes, chief among them catalyzing the desired reactions and chemically binding to unwanted impurities or reaction products.

The chief fleet communications code system used by the Imperial Japanese Navy was called JN-25 by the Americans.

: Argent on a Cross Azure and open book proper, clasps Gold, between four Stars of eight points Or, on a chief Gules a Lion passant Guardant also Or, together with this motto " Sidere mens eadem mutato " to be borne and used forever herafter by the said University of Sydney on their Common Seal, Shields or otherwise according to the Law of Arms.

#: This act established that the chief of the Militia Bureau ( later the National Guard Bureau ) would be a National Guard officer, that National Guard officers would be assigned to the general staff and that the divisions, as used by the Guard in World War I, would be reorganized.

* The deer plays a large role in Scottish Gaelic poetry ( fiadh ) of the Highlands of Scotland, where it is seen as a noble creature, and ofter used as a flattering simile or metaphor when used in comparison to a famous warrior, hero or chief.

The chief complaint against DeCSS ( and similar programs ) is that once the unencrypted source video is available in digital form, it can be copied without degradation, so DeCSS can be used for copyright infringement.

The English had become used to the king ruling in council, with the advice of his chief men, but Harthacnut had ruled autocratically in Denmark and he was not willing to change, particularly as he did not fully trust the leading earls.

Its chief significance is perhaps that its author, Eric S. Raymond, used it as a model to discuss his theories of open source software development in a widely read and influential essay on software development methodologies, The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

For example in the late 18th century, chief William Cleveland had a large " slave town " on the mainland opposite the Banana Islands, whose inhabitants " were employed in cultivating extensive rice fields, described as being some of the largest in Africa at the time ...."

They are part of the Magallanes y Antártica Chilena Region, the capital and chief town of which is Punta Arenas, situated on the mainland across the strait.

Because of its proximity to mainland Europe, Ramsgate was a chief embarkation point both during the Napoleonic Wars and for the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940.

William, the 4th Earl of Ross, was present with his clan at the Battle of Bannockburn ( 1314 ), and almost a century later ( 1412 ) the castle of Dingwall, the chief seat on the mainland of Donald, Lord of the Isles, was captured after the disastrous fight at Harlaw in Aberdeenshire, which Donald had provoked when his claim to the earldom was rejected.

The chief cash crop of Yomitan is the chrysanthemum, which, unlike in mainland Japan, can be grown in Okinawa during the winter months with the aid of artificial light at night.

This political philosophy of raison d ' état was made as the chief political philosophy ( with its accompanied rationality ) in mainland Europe.

Only a few monarchies ( most notably Japan and Sweden ) have amended their constitutions so that the monarch is no longer even the nominal chief executive.

Unlike most constitutional monarchies, the Emperor is not even the nominal chief executive explicitly in the Constitution of Japan, but has duties " in matters of state ", which are closely regulated.

The few exceptions where the head of state is not even the nominal chief executive-and where supreme executive authority is according to the constitution explicitly vested in a cabinet-include the Czech Republic, Ireland, Japan and Sweden.

The Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union, also known as the Nazi – Soviet Pact and the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact ( after its chief architects, Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop ) was a non-aggression pact, signed in Moscow in the late hours of 23 August 1939, at the height of the Nomonhan fighting in the far east between the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan.

* Commander in chief of the Japan Self-Defense Forces.

* March 30 – A police officer tries to assassinate Takaji Kunimatsu, chief of the National Police Agency of Japan.

* Taira no Kiyomori becomes the first samurai to be appointed Daijo Daijin, chief minister of the government of Japan .</ onlyinclude >

They soon became the chief form of public transportation in Japan.

* Organic synthesis in Japan: past, present, and future: in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan / editor in chief, Ryoji Noyori ( 1992 )

* Janus Henricus Donker Curtius, ( 1813 – 1879 ), the last Dutch chief of Dejima, Japan

Casey served as General of the Army Douglas MacArthur's chief engineer during the Battle of Bataan, in the jungles and mountains of New Guinea and the Philippines, and during the occupation of Japan.

Later in 1945 he was chief of staff to the British Mission to Japan.

Wood has traditionally been used as the chief material in Japan, along with traditional Japanese architecture.

He was appointed as the first chief of the Bureau of Patents which was a department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, and helped organized the patent system in Japan.

In 1921, Hiranuma became chief of the Supreme Court of Japan.

Japanese lawmakers endorsed the acting Bank of Japan chief as its governor April 9, 2008, Masaaki Shirakawa, ending a power vacuum at the central bank's helm by approving the government's third candidate for the job.

Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell announced that Perle was “ making remarks as if he were an official inside the U. S government .” In countries like Germany, France, Britain, and Japan, people perceived him as a government authority whose knowledge and clout on U. S policy appeared legitimate.

Toshio Tamogami, who was the Japan Air Self-Defense Force chief of staff, was sacked by the Japanese government in 2008 for taking this position.

Following assignments in Japan and as station chief in Uruguay, Hunt was given the assignment of forging Cuban exile leaders in the United States into a broadly representative government-in-exile that would, after the Bay of Pigs Invasion, form a provisional government to take over Cuba.

* Ranald MacDonald, a half-Chinook, born in Fort Astoria, Oregon, to Archibald McDonald, a Scottish Hudson's Bay Company fur trader, and Raven, chief Concomly's daughter, was the first Westerner to teach English in Japan, in 1847 – 1848, including educating Einosuke Moriyama, one of the chief interpreters that would later handle the negotiations between Commodore Perry and the Tokugawa Shogunate

was a daimyō during late-Edo period Japan, who later served as chief senior councilor ( Rōjū ) in service to the Tokugawa Shogunate.

In Japan, Okakura, along with Fenollosa, is credited with " saving " Nihonga, or painting done with traditional Japanese technique, as it was threatened with replacement by Western-style painting, or " Yōga ", whose chief advocate was artist Kuroda Seiki.

Among the visitors was Jikaku Daishi ( 慈覺大師 ), the posthumous name of Ennin ( 圓仁, 792-862 AD ), the third chief priest of Enryaku-ji ( 延暦寺 ), the center of Buddhism in Japan.