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The early monthly numbers were not as successful as Dickens ' previous work and only sold about twenty thousand copies each ( compared to forty to fifty thousand for the monthly numbers of the Pickwick Papers and Nicholas Nickleby and sixty to seventy thousand for the weekly issues of Barnaby Rudge and The Old Curiosity Shop ) causing a break between Dickens and his publishers Chapman and Hall when they invoked a penalty clause in his contract requiring him to pay back money they had lent him to cover their costs.
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Towards the early 1990s, the BBS industry became so popular that it spawned three monthly magazines, Boardwatch, BBS Magazine, and in Asia and Australia, Chips ' n Bits Magazine which devoted extensive coverage of the software and technology innovations and people behind them, and listings to US and worldwide BBSes.
ECMWF's monthly and seasonal forecasts provide early predictions of events such as heat waves, cold spells and droughts, as well as their impacts on sectors such as agriculture, energy and health.
Using the 2008 " out of scale " pay grades this amounts to a monthly pay of € 20, 963, which fits the € 19, 000 quoted to the press in early 2008.
" In 1985, Stewart Alsop began publishing his influential monthly Vaporlist, a list of companies he felt announced their products too early, hoping to dissuade them from the practice.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he wrote a monthly book review for Gentlemen's Quarterly.
In the early decades of the 20th century, comics were not stand-alone publications, but were published in newspapers and weekly or monthly magazines as episodes or gags.
The first nudge towards modern comic books happened in 1934 when Hungarian Paul Winckler ( who had previously been distributing comics to the monthly magazines via his Opera Mundi bureau ) made a deal with King Features Syndicate to create the Journal de Mickey, a weekly 8-page early " comic-book ".
Following two successful sequels, the monthly Robin ongoing series began in 1993 and ended in early 2009, which also helped Robin's transition from sidekick to a superhero in his own right.
The park fell into hard times in the early 1990s when a tornado literally bent their Ferris wheel in half, and with the rides removed, the park served as grounds for a monthly arts and crafts exposition.
McGraw's Sacred Harp Publishing company is located in Bremen, as is the Holly Springs Primitive Baptist church, where he leads monthly singing schools and an annual all-day singing held in early June.
Sterling ratepayers are the owners of this utility and reap the benefits of exceptional service and an early payment discount on their monthly bills.
In addition to the various sub-imprints and formats, Vertigo was also an early adopter of hardcover collections of monthly comics, as well as hardcover OGNs ( original graphic novels ).
Gayville Hall, known for its family atmosphere, was started in 2001 and presents two-hour music shows on Saturdays from March through early December each year, including the recurring " Hay Country Jamboree ," a monthly " extravaganza " of old-time popular songs, country, bluegrass and humor.
Earlier newspapers for the community were the weekly Suburban Times ( 1970s ), published by Dave Sclair ( who, starting in 1970, also published Western Flyer ); and, in the 1980s, the Lakewood Press, published by Grace T. Eubanks and later Dane S. Claussen, which launched the University Place Press as a monthly and then biweekly before it folded in early 1989.
Though Maria Duce's membership probably did not much exceed one hundred, its monthly journal Fiat enjoyed a fairly wide circulation in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
An early example of Townshend's writing came in August 1970 with the first of nine instalments of " The Pete Townshend Page ", a monthly column written by Townshend for the British music paper Melody Maker.
In addition, Scholars receive a monthly maintenance stipend to cover accommodation and living expenses .< ref > Although all scholars become affiliated with a residential college while at Oxford, they also enjoy access to Rhodes House, an early 20th century mansion with numerous public rooms, gardens, a library, study areas, and other facilities.
Netflix introduced the monthly subscription concept in September 1999, then dropped the single-rental model in early 2000.
In accordance with CORE's constitution and bylaws, in the early and mid-1960s, chapters were organized on a model similar to that of a democratic trade union, with monthly membership meetings, elected and usually unpaid officers, and numerous committees of volunteers.
The early program was managed by the IACP, prior to FBI involvement, done through a monthly report.
In addition to captured documents ( a copy of Resolution 13, for example, was captured by early October ), observations of enemy logistical operations were also quite clear: in October the number of trucks observed heading south through Laos on the Hồ Chí Minh Trail jumped from the previous monthly average of 480 to 1, 116.
As early as August 1862, Cardinal Wiseman publicly censured the Review ; and when in 1864, after Döllinger's appeal at the Munich Congress for a less hostile attitude towards historical criticism, the pope issued a declaration that the opinions of Catholic writers were subject to the authority of the Roman congregations, Acton felt that there was only one way of reconciling his literary conscience with his ecclesiastical loyalty, and he stopped the publication of his monthly periodical.
The general public remained in the dark about shape charge warheads ( i. e. they even believed that it was a new super secret explosive ) until early 1945 when the US Army co-operated with the US monthly publication Popular Science on a large and detailed article on the subject.
The political climate was largely shaped by the then-recent and costly California electricity crisis of the early 2000s ( decade ), in which many saw their monthly energy bills triple in cost.
This was intended to keep the base fare low and phase out the previous fare system consisting of transfers, as well as day, weekly, monthly, and annual passes, which occurred in early 2008.
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The blooms of Ribes and of the willow and sloe are the places where large numbers of our early insects will assemble: honeybees, bumblebees, and other wild bees, and also various kinds of flies.
While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.
Whilst it may not have been as popular as the Spectrum, Commodore 64 or Amstrad CPC, it did sell in sufficient numbers to ensure that new software was being produced right up until the early 1990s.
In West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean early copper zinc alloys are now known in small numbers from a number of third Millennium BC sites in the Aegean, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Kalmykia, Turkmenistan and Georgia and from 2nd Millennium BC sites in West India, Uzbekistan, Iran, Syria, Iraq and Israel.
Some early digital computers used an electrical model of the common decimal ( base ten ) numeral system to represent numbers internally.
With French support, a reorganization of the armed forces was initiated early in 1991 with the goal of reducing its numbers and making its ethnic composition reflective of the country as a whole.
By the early twentieth century, both parties were winning increasing numbers of seats in Congress.
Its prominence outside China is due to the great numbers of early emigrants from Guangdong.
In early 2009 the company attracted further criticism for continuing plans to build the 162 in China while laying off large numbers of workers in the USA.
As CND did not have a national membership until 1966, the strength of public support in its early days can be estimated only from the numbers of those attending demonstrations or expressing approval in opinion polls.
Ironically, the rise of infantry in the early 16th century coincided with the " golden age " of heavy cavalry ; a French or Spanish army at the beginning of the century could have up to half its numbers made up of various kinds of light and heavy cavalry, whereas in earlier medieval and later 17th century armies the proportion of cavalry was seldom more than a quarter.
Following these early undertakings, the first census to attempt completely covering all citizens ( including women and children who had previously been listed only as numbers ) of Denmark-Norway was taken in 1769.
Due to their large size, lanthanides, actinides, and early transition metals tend to have high coordination numbers.
The LCDs were an early form using the Dynamic Scattering Mode DSM with the numbers appearing as bright against a dark background.
* the removal of the indented serifs on the front and back jersey numbers in the early 1980s ( seen currently on the throwback jersey )
As a result, during the early months of these campaigns, Axis air forces destroyed large numbers of Red Air Force aircraft on the ground and in one-sided dogfights.
American fallout shelters in the early 1960s were sometimes funded in conjunction with funding for other federal programs, such as urban renewal projects of the Federal Housing Authority, examples being Barrington Plaza, and other development projects of Los Angeles County Civil Defense and Disaster Commissioner, Louis Lesser, and were designed for large numbers of citizens.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, due to financial constraints and a lack of serviceable equipment, the navy temporarily shrank from about 1, 200 personnel to around 850, but the numbers soon rose.
Major construction projects, such as the dockyard in the late 1890s and early 20th century brought large numbers of workers from Great Britain.
His missionary activity there is described in Galatians, and subsequent early Christianity which reveals the Gauls as quickly friendly toward the new religion adopting it in large numbers.
From 1892 Scottish universities could admit and graduate women and the numbers of women at Scottish universities steadily increased until the early 20th century.
Limited usage of ship numbers goes back even earlier, most notably to the " Jeffersonian Gunboats " of the early 1800s and the " Tinclad " river gunboats of the Civil War Mississippi Squadron.
More substantial in numbers in Zimbabwe were the makers of the Ziwa and Gokomere ceramic wares, of the fourth century A. D. Their early Iron Age ceramic tradition belonged to the highlands facies of the eastern stream, which moved inland to Malawi and Zimbabwe.
In 2011 evidence was uncovered in neighbouring East Timor, showing that 42, 000 years ago these early settlers had high-level maritime skills, and by implication the technology needed to make ocean crossings to reach Australia and other islands, as they were catching and consuming large numbers of big deep sea fish such as tuna.
As early as Shaka's reign small numbers of firearms, often obsolete muskets and rifles, were obtained by the Zulus from Europeans by trade.
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