A comedic " precursor " to this concept occurred in an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which Terry Jones began performing a striptease while giving a fast-paced rundown of economic news.

* Niccolò Machiavelli: First systematic analyses of: ( 1 ) how consent of a populace is negotiated between and among rulers rather than simply a naturalistic ( or theological ) given of the structure of society ; ( 2 ) precursor to the concept of ideology in articulating the epistemological structure of commands and law.

Although no model or workable device was ever made, it is often seen as a link to the concept of punched paper for player piano rolls ( 1880s ), as well as Herman Hollerith's punch card tabulator ( used in the 1890 United States census ), a distant precursor of the modern computer.

Collini was the curator of the " Naturalienkabinett ", or nature cabinet ( a precursor to the modern concept of the natural history museum ), in the palace of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria at Mannheim.

Tribunes, the only true representatives of the people, had the authority to enforce the right of provoco ad populum, which was a theoretical guarantee of due process, and a precursor to the common law concept of habeas corpus.

The pioneer system using this concept was IBM's CP-40, the first ( 1967 ) version of IBM's CP / CMS ( 1967 – 1972 ) and the precursor to IBM's VM family ( 1972 – present ).

Throughout the 1930s, support for the concept grew in the League of Nations, the precursor of the United Nations.

The concept of gravitas was eventually replaced by Jean Buridan's impetus, a precursor to momentum.

The " dream cars " which American automobile manufacturers exhibited at the fair included Cadillac's introduction of its V-16 limousine ; Nash's exhibit had a variation on the vertical ( i. e., paternoster ) parking garage — all the cars were new Nashes ; Lincoln presented its rear-engined " concept car " precursor to the Lincoln-Zephyr, which went on the market in 1936 with a front engine ; Pierce-Arrow presented its modernistic Pierce Silver Arrow for which it used the byline " Suddenly it's 1940!

In contrast to the model based on functional morphology described earlier, in the Epitheliozoa concept the ventral and dorsal cell layers of the Placozoa are homologs of endoderm and ectoderm, the two basic embryonic cell layers of the eumetazoans — the digestive gastrodermis in the Cnidaria or the gut epithelium in the bilaterally symmetrical Bilateria may have developed from endoderm, whereas ectoderm is, among other things, the precursor to the external skin layer ( epidermis ).

A precursor to the concept of coherence was however present in that the units of mass and length were related to each other through the physical properties of water, the gram having been designed as being the mass of one cubic centimeter of water at its freezing point.

In anthropological discourse, mana as a generalized concept is often understood as a precursor to formal religion.

TU Delft was a precursor of Open design concept.

An early precursor of the concept appears in Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: " During many ages, the prediction, as it is usual, contributed to its own accomplishment " ( chapter I, part II ).

The Berline Bulle concept was roomy small car that could be considered as a precursor for the C3.

The W window system is a windowing system and precursor in name and concept to the modern X window system.

It was created out of York County and was a precursor to the later concept of a regional municipality, being formed of smaller municipalities but having more responsibilities than a county or district.

Complete nationalisation had been considered, and the 1921 Act is sometimes considered as a precursor to that, but the concept was rejected ; nationalisation was subsequently carried out after World War II, under the Transport Act 1947.

In the work al-Jāḥiẓ speculates on the influence of environment on animals, a concept considered by some to be a precursor to evolution.

A precursor to that concept had been a proposal by two advisors to German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Michael Mertes and Norbert J. Prill, published as early as July 1989.

The novel was a bestseller in Japan, and its time-loop concept has been referenced as a precursor of Harold Ramis ' comedy-drama Groundhog Day ( 1993 ).

The concept of a dual-purpose handgun / rifle cartridge has been popular since the Old West, with cartridges like the. 44-40 Winchester, whose " High-Speed " rifle loadings were precursor magnum loads.

The name " shell " for a command line interpreter and the concept of making the shell a user program outside of the operating system kernel were introduced in Unix's precursor Multics.

The geosyncline hypothesis is an obsolete concept involving vertical crustal movement that has been replaced by plate tectonics to explain crustal movement and geologic features.

The geosyncline concept was first developed by the American geologists James Hall and James Dwight Dana in the mid-19th century during the classic studies of the Appalachian Mountains.

The initial concept was known as AppleBus, envisioning a system controlled by the host Macintosh polling " dumb " devices in a fashion similar to the modern Universal Serial Bus.

The initial paper describing the concept listed possible uses as a memory, a delay line, and an imaging device.

The above three-level database architecture also relates to and being motivated by the concept of data independence which has been described for long time as a desired database property and was one of the major initial driving forces of the Relational model.

An initial concept design called the City of Light Development, envisioned by Hisham N. Ashkouri, for the development and the implementation of a privately based investment enterprise has been proposed for a multi-function commercial, historic and cultural development within the limits of the Old City of Kabul, along the southern side of the Kabul River and along Jade Meywand Avenue.

Hutton's theory led him to conclude that reliance on Bruiel's initial sketch resulted in many later scholars erroneously claiming that " The Sorcerer " was evidence that the concept of a Horned God dated back to Paleolithic times

An initial concept design called the City of Light Development, envisioned by Dr. Hisham N. Ashkouri, for the development and the implementation of a privately based investment enterprise has been proposed for multi-function commercial, historic and cultural development within the limits of the Old City of Kabul, along the southern side of the Kabul River and along Jade Meywand Avenue, revitalizing some of the most commercial and historic districts in the City.

There, Hall and Jordan collaborated on the parameters of the initial image, proportion and visualization of the " light-weight sports " concept.

Observations of this phenomenon provided the initial motivation for the concept of what is now known as frequency probability.

The combination of high initial cost and lower maintenance cost pushed producers into building these techniques into the basic concept of a series, influencing all the artistic choices.

After a selection process by General Medaris and Dr. Arthur Rudolph, the Martin Company ( later Martin Marietta after a merger in 1961 ) was awarded a CPFF ( cost-plus-fixed-fee ) contract for research, development, and initial production of the Pershing system under the technical supervision and concept control of the government.

Curry is best known for his work in combinatory logic ; while the initial concept of combinatory logic was based on a single paper by Moses Schönfinkel, much of the development was done by Curry.

The central concept behind range encoding is this: given a large-enough range of integers, and a probability estimation for the symbols, the initial range can easily be divided into sub-ranges whose sizes are proportional to the probability of the symbol they represent.

The initial concept was suggested by J. B. S.

Steinway won the case on appeal in 1975, forcing their competitor to use only the name " Grotrian " in the U. S. The case set a precedent and established the concept of " initial interest confusion ", in which consumers might be initially attracted to a similarly named but lesser-known brand because of the stronger brand's good reputation.

Broad step in logo design process would be formulating concept, doing initial sketch, finalizing the logo concept, deciding the theme colors and format.

The concept of a Glass House set in a landscape with views as its real “ walls ” had been developed by many authors in the German Glasarchitektur drawings of the 1920s, and already sketched in initial form by Johnson's mentor Mies.

The massive structure of information available in a wiki, or an open source software project such as the FreeBSD kernel could be compared to a termite nest ; one initial user leaves a seed of an idea ( a mudball ) which attracts other users who then build upon and modify this initial concept, eventually constructing an elaborate structure of connected thoughts.

This type of model allows early assessment of how a potential user interacts with various elements, motions, and actions of a concept which define the initial use scenario and overall user experience.

The plot of City Lights gradually grew from this initial concept.

Weller's initial concept for the wave was for it to travel vertically, from the bottom of the stands to the top, within the UW student section.

" While the Concept of Zion is rarely associated with the Jewish concept of Zionism, some members of the Community of Christ from Maine, intrigued by the doctrine of Zion, established a refugee center near Tel Aviv during the initial return of the Jewish diaspora to Israel in the early 1900s.