Although an explanation for the phenomenon was not provided until 1919, duralumin was one of the first " age hardening " alloys to be used, and was soon followed by many others.

* Giuseppe Barzilai goes back for explanation to the first verse of the prayer attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah, the literal rendering of which is “ O, with thy mighty right hand deliver the unhappy ,” forming from the initial and final letters of the words the word Abrakd ( pronounced Abrakad ), with the meaning “ the host of the winged ones ,” i. e., angels.

The vision in first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus ( 9: 1 ) concerning seventy weeks, or seventy " sevens ", apportioned for the history of the Israelites and of Jerusalem ( 9: 24 ) This consists of a meditation on the prediction in Jeremiah that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years, a lengthy prayer by Daniel in which he pleads for God to restore Jerusalem and its temple, and an angelic explanation which focuses on a longer time period-" seventy sevens "-and a future restoration and destruction of city and temple by a coming ruler.

" The ' most comprehensive explanation ' of the origin of the Balfour Declaration the Foreign Office was able to provide was contained in a small ' unofficial ' note of Jan 1923 affirming that: little is known of how the policy represented by the Declaration was first given form.

These arguments, and a discussion of the distinctions between absolute and relative time, space, place and motion, appear in a Scholium at the very beginning of Newton's work, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy ( 1687 ), which established the foundations of classical mechanics and introduced his law of universal gravitation, which yielded the first quantitatively adequate dynamical explanation of planetary motion.

In 1997 Skulan and DePaolo presented the first evidence of change in seawater < sup > 44 </ sup > Ca /< sup > 40 </ sup > Ca over geologic time, along with a theoretical explanation of these changes.

Walter Heitler and Fritz London are credited with the first successful quantum mechanical explanation of a chemical bond, specifically that of molecular hydrogen, in 1927.

In what he called " first philosophy " or metaphysics, Aristotle did intend a theological correspondence between the prime mover and deity ( presumably Zeus ); functionally, however, he provided an explanation for the apparent motion of the " fixed stars " ( now understood as the daily rotation of the Earth ).

The first explanation is that the ancestral game was introduced to Britain from France during the reign of Charles II of England, and was played under the name of paille-maille or pall mall, derived ultimately from Latin words for " ball and mallet ".

Georg Wissowa proposed the explanation that it might be because the first slaves of the Romans must have been Latins of the neighbouring tribes.

However, this explanation has been criticized that the brain would not be able to store information without a sensory input first.

Pauling first proposed the concept of electronegativity in 1932 as an explanation of the fact that the covalent bond between two different atoms ( A – B ) is stronger than would be expected by taking the average of the strengths of the A – A and B – B bonds.

The first explanation, that an effect propagated instantly, across a distance, is in conflict with the theory of relativity.

A few days after their first meeting, she disappears without any explanation, although Mildred tells Montag ( and Captain Beatty confirms ) that Clarisse was hit by a speeding car and that her family left following her death.

The first is that the epistle often uses a demonstrative pronoun at the beginning of a sentence, then a particle or conjunction, followed by an explanation or definition of the demonstrative at the end of the sentence, a stylistic technique which is not used in the gospel.

Mary Shelley's novel, though clearly influenced by the Gothic tradition, is often considered the first science fiction novel, despite the omission in the novel of any scientific explanation of the monster's animation and the focus instead on the moral issues and consequences of such a creation.

Behe maintains that the complexity of light sensitivity at the molecular level and the minute biochemical reactions required for those first “ simple patches of photoreceptor ” still defies explanation.

The second factor in such an analysis ( such as Eysenck's T-factor ) is the second best explanation for the spread of the data, which is, by definition, drawn at right angles to the first factor.

A general description of historical Picts is given by one of the children when they first take that name, and a somewhat more detailed explanation is given later by a parent in a letter.

Pauli looked for an explanation for these numbers, which were at first only empirical.

The effect is named after Christian Doppler, who offered the first known physical explanation for the phenomenon in 1842.

Cuprate superconductors can have much higher critical temperatures: YBa < sub > 2 </ sub > Cu < sub > 3 </ sub > O < sub > 7 </ sub >, one of the first cuprate superconductors to be discovered, has a critical temperature of 92 K, and mercury-based cuprates have been found with critical temperatures in excess of 130 K. The explanation for these high critical temperatures remains unknown.

A unified explanation of these phenomena required a theory of solid state physics which developed greatly in the first half of the 20th Century.

No clear etymology can be found for the name of the chamber ; the most common explanation, dating to the later 16th century, is ' because at the first all the roofe thereof was decked with images of starres gilted '.

He is credited with giving the first modern explanation of atmospheric pressure.

2010 saw the show's first lesbian storyline as Sophie Webster develops an attraction towards her best friend Sian Powers.

The attraction between a magnet and ferromagnetic material is " the quality of magnetism first apparent to the ancient world, and to us today ".

Thales also made advancements in 580 BC by suggesting that water is the basic element, experimenting with magnets and attraction to rubbed amber, and formulating the first cosmologies.

According to Strabo ( 1. 1. 9 ), Seleucus was the first to state that the tides are due to the attraction of the Moon, and that the height of the tides depends on the Moon's position relative to the Sun.

It was the most popular tourist attraction in 2000, second was the London Eye ; third was Alton Towers, which had been first in 1999.

The scientific work of the observatory was relocated elsewhere in stages in the first half of the 20th century, and the Greenwich site is now maintained as a tourist attraction.

Due to the overwhelming popularity of their first ever race, the club plans to organize more races in the near future over different seasons, and aims to make it a major tourist attraction throughout Donegal.

On these two aspects, Hooke stated in 1674: " Now what these several degrees gravitational attraction are I have not yet experimentally verified " ( indicating that he did not yet know what law the gravitation might follow ); and as to his whole proposal: " This I only hint at present ", " having my self many other things in hand which I would first compleat, and therefore cannot so well attend it " ( i. e., " prosecuting this Inquiry ").

On these two aspects, Hooke stated in 1674: " Now what these several degrees gravitational attraction are I have not yet experimentally verified " ( indicating that he did not yet know what law the gravitation might follow ); and as to his whole proposal: " This I only hint at present ", " having my self many other things in hand which I would first compleat, and therefore cannot so well attend it " ( i. e. " prosecuting this Inquiry ").

This ambiguity, probably caused by long branch attraction, seems to confirm that the first pigeons evolved in the Australasian region, and that the " Treronidae " and allied forms ( crowned and pheasant pigeons, for example ) represent the earliest radiation of the group.

He was the first to explain the tides using the attraction of the moon.

Hatfield House is a popular tourist attraction because it has so many objects associated with Queen Elizabeth, including some gloves and a pair of silk stockings that are believed to have been the first ones in England.

used attraction, alignment and avoidance and extended this with a number of traits of real starlings: first, birds fly according to fixed wing aerodynamics, while rolling when turning ( thus losing lift ), second they coordinate with a limited number of interaction neighbours of 7 ( like in real starlings ), third, they try to stay above a sleeping site ( like starlings do at dawn ) and when they happen to move outwards the sleeping site, they return to it by turning, fourth, they move at relative fixed speed.

He created Santa's Candy Castle, the first tourist attraction in Santa Claus, Indiana, which is also purported to be the first themed attraction in the United States.

The Westermarck effect, or reverse sexual imprinting, is a hypothetical psychological effect through which people who live in close domestic proximity during the first few years of their lives become desensitized to later sexual attraction.

The phenomenon of reverse sexual imprinting ( when two people live in close domestic proximity during the first few years in the life of either one, both are desensitized to later close sexual attraction ), now known as the Westermarck effect, was first formally described by him in his book The History of Human Marriage ( 1891 ).

" Idaho Falls is the first city of its size to house the popular attraction.

The Rotolactor was the first rotary milking parlor and a popular tourist attraction.

East Carolina Motor Speedway opened its first season in 1989 with the thoughts of having a much needed attraction for racing fans throughout Eastern North Carolina.

This second mine ( often called, erroneously, Plymouth's first coal mine ) achieved national fame as a kind of tourist attraction.

By the 1740s Windsor Castle had become an early tourist attraction ; wealthier visitors who could afford to pay the castle keeper could enter, see curiosities such as the castle's narwhal horn, and by the 1750s buy the first guidebooks.