Using this measurement and the latitudes of the two cities they could calculate the distance between the North Pole and the Equator in classical French units of length and hence produce the first prototype metre which was defined as being one ten millionth of that distance.

Important dates in the history of New York's 3-1-1 service include December 20, 2005, when it received its record high of 240, 000 calls, due to the first day of the 2005 New York City transit strike, and June 20, 2007, when it received its 50 millionth call.

In 2006, the company recorded a minimal profit and transported its first annual millionth passenger since the late 1980s.

In the late 1960s, NRL researched low-temperature physics, achieving for the first time a temperature within one millionth of a degree of absolute zero in 1967.

In 2000, it introduced the first 8-port router with SNMP and QoS, and in 2001 it shipped its millionth cable / DSL router.

On December 8, 2004, the airport received its first annual millionth passenger.

It was her first Top 40 chart hit in her native Canada, and the 50 millionth song purchased from the iTunes Store.

In 1990 the provision of compulsory registration was brought to the whole of England and Wales, the ten millionth title was registered and for the first time, the Land Register was opened to public inspection.

Cable television first became available in the United States in 1948, with subscription services in 1949.

Bach, joined him in London, and the friendship between him and Abel led, in 1764 or 1765, to the establishment of the famous Bach-Abel concerts, England's first subscription concerts.

Later problems occurred when ONdigital began to sell ' ONprepaid ', a set-top box bundle sold in high street stores and supermarkets at a price that included-in theory-the set-top box on loan and the first year's subscription package.

With the support of its new proprietor, the paper was able to widen its readership through subscription drives and advertising, reaching a circulation of 30, 000 in 1986, exceeding the circulation of the New Statesman for the first time.

This branding came after the successful launch of its first satellite, EchoStar I in December 1995 and marked the beginning of the company offering subscription television services.

In his first subscription week he led the world premiere of John Adams ' On the Transmigration of Souls commissioned in memory of those who died on September 11, 2001.

These telephone-based subscription services were the first examples of electrical / electronic broadcasting and offered a wide variety of programming.

The first library began as a subscription library in 1904 and was located in city hall.

The founder of Eldon, George Weeks, was the first person to have a subscription to Eldon Advertiser.

The early schools in Elkland, as in other places throughout the county, were supported by subscription, and until the building of the first school house in 1827, were taught in any house that could be secured for the purpose.

In 1915 the first water system was built by private subscription.

In November 1988 Sub Pop released " Love Buzz ", the debut single by Aberdeen, Washington band Nirvana, as the first entry in the Sub Pop Singles Club, a subscription service that would allow subscribers to receive singles by the label on a monthly basis by mail.

The first subscription only EP, Hypnotists in Paris, was recorded with the Section Quartet and a Christmas collection Cold Dark Night, Magic for Everyone, Old Tin Pan, and Days of the One Night Stands followed, with the full length album Cameras in the Sky being released in early 2010.

Download-only EP, the first release from the Long Play digital subscription program introduced by Sam Phillips in 2009.

The library in Campfield, Manchester was the first library to operate a free lending library without subscription in 1852.

In 1779 Frederick Haldimand, the Governor of Québec City, founded the first subscription library in Canada.

However, even though “ Haldimand's library, like other subscription libraries, appealed primarily to an urban elite ”, it was the nation ’ s first step towards the public library as it is known today.

Luce purchased the rights to the name from the publishers of the first Life but sold its subscription list and features to another magazine ; there was no editorial continuity between the two publications.

The subscription list to the first volume ( 1754 ) contains the names of twenty-two English and fifteen Irish bishops, and the work is dedicated to the hierarchy.

Burning Man 2006 was covered extensively for television for the first time by subscription television channel Current TV which handed out cameras to participants and broadcast daily updates via satellite from the dry lake.

For his lampooning of Norwich society, the young Borrow earned the humiliation of having Norwich public subscription library burn his first publication.

In 1729 Dodsley published his first work, Servitude: a Poem written by a Footman, with a preface and postscript ascribed to Daniel Defoe ; and a collection of short poems, A Muse in Livery, or the Footman's Miscellany, was published by subscription in 1732, Dodsley's patrons comprising many persons of high rank.

Unlike more conventional libraries, the subscription library was exclusive to a hundred or so subscribers ( e. g., the first on the list of subscribers was the Duke of Newcastle ).

The first true school built in Cranwell opened in 1850 by public subscription and provided facilities for up to 35 children.

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.