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Keep the direct sun from reaching the house and you've won the first battle.
The sequence of events leading to his important discovery still remains ambiguous but it seems that one of the advanced students at the university related that the first direct event that led to the publication of Oersted's discovery occurred during a private lecture made before a group of other advanced students in the spring of 1820.
The child with high anxiety may first direct his anxiety-released energy toward achievement, but because his distress severely reduces the abilities of discrimination and memorization of complex symbols, the child may fail in his initial attempts to master the problem.
The first is the traditional " direct " appeal in which the appellant files an appeal with the next higher court of review.
Several robot cities have been planned for the country: the first will be built in 2009 at a cost of 500 billion won, of which 50 billion is direct government investment.
* 1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office.
The language of the poem is typically direct and concise and comprises short sentences-the first line is in fact a model of condensed meaning, comprising an exhortation (" Let's drink!
Progressive measures taken during his kingship include: representatives of the commons, besides the nobility and clergy, were involved in governance ; the end of preventive arrests such that henceforward all arrests had to be first presented to a judge to determine the detention measure ; and fiscal innovation, such as negotiating extraordinary taxes with the mercantile classes and direct taxation of the Church, rather than debasement of the coinage.
Despite this limited franchise, Athenian democracy was certainly the first — and perhaps the best — example of a working direct democracy.
The first major application was the relative version of Serre's theorem showing that the cohomology of a coherent sheaf on a complete variety is finite dimensional ; Grothendieck's theorem shows that the higher direct images of coherent sheaves under a proper map are coherent ; this reduces to Serre's theorem over a one-point space.
Ar., lxiv, and De Syn., xviii ), St Athanasius does not recall from memory being a first hand witness to the onset of the great persecution by the Tetrarchy of Diocletian and Maximian in February 303, for in referring to the events of this period he makes no direct appeal to his own personal recollections, but falls back on tradition.
The first of the mandates allocated to each Land go to the candidates who have won direct mandates in that Land.
The Bastarnae first came into direct conflict with Rome as a result of expansion into the lower Danube region by the proconsuls ( governors ) of Macedonia in the period 75-72 BC.
In the trial of Jesus before the Sanhedrin and Pilate, it might appear from the narratives of Matthew and Luke that Jesus at first refused a direct reply to the high priest's question: " Art thou the Christ?
The party's Roh Tae-woo became the first president who was elected through direct election.
Comet Shoemaker – Levy 9 ( formally designated D / 1993 F2 ) was a comet that broke apart and collided with Jupiter in July 1994, providing the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial collision of Solar System objects.
For the first time since 1912, the territory has direct representation.
Centromeres were first defined as genetic loci that direct the behaviour of chromosomes.
For the first time this placed the Maritime manufacturers in direct competition with those of Central Canada.
" Their doctrines have numerous resemblances to those of the Bogomils and the earlier Paulicians as well as the Manicheans and the Christian Gnostics of the first few centuries AD, although, as many scholars, most notably Mark Pegg, have pointed out, it would be erroneous to extrapolate direct, historical connections based on theoretical similarities perceived by modern scholars.
The Lab is best known for their work on what would today be known as " interactivity ", and their machines were among the first where operators had direct control over programs running in real-time.
* 1970 – The first ever general election on the basis of direct adult franchise is held in Pakistan for 313 National Assembly seats.
" Das Fräulein von Scuderi ", an 1819 short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which Mlle de Scudery establishes the innocence of the police's favorite suspect in the murder of a jeweller, is sometimes cited as the first detective story and a direct influence on Edgar Allan Poe's " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ".
The second part of Cervantes ' Don Quixote, finished as a direct result of the Avellaneda book, has come to be regarded by some literary critics as superior to the first part, because of its greater depth of characterization, its discussions, mostly between Quixote and Sancho, on diverse subjects, and its philosophical insights.
* 1986: The Fiat Croma was the first passenger car in the world to have a direct injection turbodiesel engine in ( 1986 ).

first and Arabic
The name " abjad " ( ) is derived from pronouncing the first letters of the Arabic alphabet in order.
He was a cultivated patron of literature and art, and it was in his time that the first printing press authorized to use the Arabic or Turkish languages was set up in Constantinople, operated by Ibrahim Muteferrika ( while the printing press had been introduced to Constantinople in 1480, all works published before 1729 were in Greek, Armenian, or Hebrew ).
Hence, from the point of view of the reader, numerals in Western texts are written with the highest power of the base first whereas numerals in Arabic texts are written with the lowest power of the base first.
) In central Europe, the King of Hungary Ladislaus the Posthumous, started the use of Arabic numerals, which appear for the first time in a royal document of 1456.
One of the first written references is from an anonymous 13th-century North Africa / Andalusian cookbook, Kitāb al-tabǐkh fǐ al-Maghrib ( North Africa ) wa ' l-Andalus ( Arabic ) " The cookbook of the Maghreb and Al-Andalus ", with a recipe for couscous that was ' known all over the world '.
The term ' Covenant-breaker ' or, in Arabic ' naqid al-mithaq ' Naqidu ' l-mithaq, was first used by ` Abdu ' l-Bahá to describe the partisans of his brother Mírzá Muhammad ` Alí, who challenged his leadership.
The first automatic gate operators were later created in 1206 by the Arabic inventor, Al-Jazari.
* Miguel de Cervantes claims that all chapters but the first in Don Quixote are translated from an Arabic manuscript by Cide Hamete Benengeli, parodying a plot device of chivalry books.
In the Abbasid period ( after 750 AD ) Arab Muslims began to be interested in Greek scientific and medical texts for the first time, and had some of Galen's texts translated into Arabic, often by Syrian Christian scholars ( see below ).
After 750 AD, Muslims had these Syrian Christians make the first translations of Galen into Arabic.
The first major translator of Galen into Arabic was the Syrian Christian Hunayn ibn Ishaq.
It was written in transliterated Arabic ( using Hebrew letters ) and was one of the first commentaries of its kind.
Edward Cave, who edited The Gentleman's Magazine under the pen name " Sylvanus Urban ," was the first to use the term " magazine ," on the analogy of a military storehouse of varied materiel, ultimately derived from the Arabic makhazin (" storehouses ") by way of the French language.
His theory was first applied by medieval Arabic geographers who extended the Roman mile to 1. 04 nautical miles.
The first true nebula, as distinct from a star cluster, was mentioned by the Arabic / Muslim astronomer, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, in his Book of Fixed Stars ( 964 ).
He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism.
* 2004 – The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U. S. presidential election.
Arabic language poets used rhyme extensively from the first development of literary Arabic in the sixth century, as in their long, rhyming qasidas.
It was first translated from Arabic into Latin by Plato of Tivoli ( Tiburtinus ) in 1138, while he was in Spain.
The Prophecies Of Karma, published in 2011, is advertised as the first work of science fiction by an Arabic author, the Libanese writer Nael Gharzeddine.
Other famous Arabic star catalogues include Alfraganus ' A compendium of the science of stars ( 850 ) which corrected Ptolemy's Almagest ; and Azophi's Book of Fixed Stars ( 964 ) which described observations of the stars, their positions, magnitudes, brightness and colour, drawings for each constellation, and the first descriptions of Andromeda Galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Sufis have spanned several continents and cultures over a millennium, at first expressed through Arabic, then through Persian, Turkish and a dozen other languages.
Cyril's mastery of theology and command of both Arabic and Hebrew made him eligible for his first state mission.

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