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The first ships to bear the formal designation " torpedo boat destroyer " ( TBD ) were the Daring class of two ships and Havock class of two ships of the Royal Navy, developed in 1892 under the newly appointed Third Sea Lord Rear Admiral " Jackie " Fisher.

The first planet discovered in a system is given the designation " b " and later planets are given subsequent letters.

As part of his reorganization of the empire in 300 AD, the Emperor Diocletian separated the administration of Crete from Cyrenaica and in the latter formed the new provinces of " Upper Libya " and " Lower Libya ", using the term Libya for the first time as an administrative designation.

The first component of its taxonomic designation, Panthera, is Latin, from the Greek word for leopard, πάνθηρ, the type species for the genus.

" Mongoloid " was first used in 1868 as a racial designation to distinguish East Asians.

The AR-15 was first adopted in 1962 by the United States Air Force, ultimately receiving the designation M16.

It is a 9 mm, 18-round, double action only, semi-automatic / three-round burst capable polymer frame pistol manufactured by German arms firm Heckler & Koch GmbH ; the VP designation stands for Volkspistole (" The people's pistol "), and the designation 70 was for the year of the first edition: 1970.

In 1987, Angel Delgadillo and a group of fifteen businesspeople established the first Route 66 association in Seligman, Arizona, obtaining the first " Historic Route 66 " designation for a stretch of Arizona State Route 66 from Kingman to Seligman.

Although the website Religion Facts, without citing any source, says that Pope Siricius was the first Bishop of Rome to style himself Pope, weightier authorities say the title " Pope " was from the early 3rd century an honorific designation used for any bishop in the West.

In 1927, KTH was finally granted the right to confer its own doctorates, under the designation Teknologie doktor ( Doctor of Technology ), and the first five doctors were created in 1929.

The country's designation as Siam by Westerners likely came from Portuguese, the first Europeans to give a coherent account of the country.

The first phase, sometimes referred to as the Diarchy (" rule of two "), involved the designation of the general Maximian as co-emperor — firstly as Caesar ( junior emperor ) in 285, followed by his promotion to Augustus in 286.

It was the 1900th year of the Anno Domini or the Common Era designation, the 900th year of the 2nd millennium, and the last year of the 19th century but the first year of the 1900s.

* The Roman province of Iudaea ( plus Galilee ) becomes Syria Palaestina, the first use of the name Palestine as a designation for Judea.

That which is to be preferred is a " fitting action " ( kathêkon ), a designation Zeno first introduced.

Early examples of the foreshadowing technique of repetitive designation, now known as " Chekhov's gun ", occur in the One Thousand and One Nights, which contains " repeated references to some character or object which appears insignificant when first mentioned but which reappears later to intrude suddenly in the narrative ".

* D6, the first Citroen Dyane designation for Dyane with 602cc engine.

For example, " 1P / 1982 U1, 1986 III, 1982i " indicates that for the perihelion in 1986, Halley's Comet was the first period comet known ( designated 1P ) and this apparition was the first seen in " half-month " U ( the first half of November ) in 1982 ( giving 1P / 1982 U1 ); it was the third comet past perihelion in 1986 ( 1986 III ); and it was the ninth comet spotted in 1982 ( provisional designation 1982i ).

The first open designation of which essay belonged to whom was provided by Hamilton, who in the days before his ultimately fatal gun duel with Aaron Burr provided his lawyer with a list detailing the author of each number.

The asteroid 4769 Castalia ( ; previously known by the provisional designation 1989 PB ) was the first asteroid to be modeled by radar imaging.

A call to the police had been placed from here a couple of minutes after nine P.M., and the first police car had arrived two or three minutes after that -- 10 minutes ago now.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

Mama was now the first maid to Mrs. Coolidge, because Catherine, the previous first maid, had become ill and died.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

This has been his first encounter with mankind, and, although he has now become a legendary figure in the popular European press, it leaves him profoundly dissatisfied.

All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.

As a first step toward this goal, arrangements were worked out for comparing the scales now in use through circulation of a group of standard platinum resistance thermometers for calibration by each national laboratory.

The first Atlas ICBM's are now operational, the first two Polaris submarines are expected to be operational this calendar year, and the first Titan ICBM's next year.

The first bridge known to have been covered wholly or in part, -- and perhaps the most interesting one, connected Newbury ( now Newburyport ) with Salisbury Point.

For example, instead of putting in your driveways last ( as many builders do ) you can now save money by putting them in first.

Instead of closing the house in first ( as most builders do ) you can now cut your costs by not closing it in until you have to ( see p 121 ).

Again, I at first misconstrued this disconcertingly intense communication, and I quickly cast through my mind to account for her being able to speak, with such utter conviction, of an opinion held by my father, now several years deceased.

And suppose that the circumstances have now so changed that the feeling with which we made the remark in the first place has faded.

In these circumstances, since what was expressed by the remark when first made is, on the theory before us, simply absent, the remark now expresses nothing.

It was the collage that made the terms of this dilemma clear: the representational could be restored and preserved only on the flat and literal surface now that illusion and representation had become, for the first time, mutually exclusive alternatives.

The photograph, Figure 1 of the completed frieze, shows how, having been separated from his fellows in useless isolation for eighty years, he has now been given a hand, and by juxtaposition ( and the permission of the Committee ), given a new job, to represent the witnesses of the first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903.

Almost the first step in the corruption of Pip's values is the unworthy shame he feels when Estella cruelly remarks the coarseness of his hands: `` They had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, as vulgar appendages ''.

With these aids, and a pair of skiis substituting for wheels on the Waco, Bob Fogg made the first landing on what is now part of the Barre-Montpelier Airport on November 21, 1927.

With its coating of gold radiator paint removed -- a gaucherie of some earlier tenant -- it will now occupy its rightful place in the oval Blue Room on the first floor of the White House.

Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.

As he approached the first farmhouse, thunder sounded behind him again, closer now and louder, like a steadily advancing drum corps.