I want to make clear what I consider the one technical development in the first wave of significant post-war arts.

The X3 committee also addressed how ASCII should be transmitted ( least significant bit first ), and how it should be recorded on perforated tape.

Alpha, both as a symbol and term, is used to refer to or describe a variety of things, including the first or most significant occurrence of something.

He won the 1971 Alekhine Memorial in Moscow ( equal with Leonid Stein ), ahead of a star-studded field, for his first significant adult victory.

Press coverage of the event first aroused significant American interest in the automobile.

* 1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China.

Developed in the late 19th century, stockless anchors represented the first significant departure in anchor design in centuries.

Though the resolution is historically significant, Hideaki Uemura, professor at Keisen University in Tokyo and a specialist in indigenous peoples ' rights, commented that the motion is " weak in the sense of recognizing historical facts " as the Ainu were " forced " to become Japanese in the first place.

Under the leadership of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III, the first half of the 20th century was a period of significant development for the Ismā ' īlī community.

The works of this poetess are significant, because although they start out using the third person, they shift to the first person voice of the poet herself, and they mark a significant development in the use of cuneiform.

Many individuals who have made significant contributions to Acadia University, including the first president John Pryor, were members of the First Baptist Church Halifax congregation.

The first significant reference to the influence of Aelian in the 16th century is a letter to Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange from his cousin William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg on December 8, 1594.

Of significant note is that it was the first new game for the system whose game card has an authentic " curved lip " plastic shell.

As the first Franciscan to hold a chair at the University of Paris, Alexander had many significant disciples.

The original Athlon ( now called Athlon Classic ) was the first seventh-generation x86 processor and, in a first, retained the initial performance lead it had over Intel's competing processors for a significant period of time.

Housman's poetry, especially A Shropshire Lad, provided texts for a significant number of British, and in particular English, composers in the first half of the 20th century.

They cite his defense of the Christology described in the first chapter of the Gospel of John and his significant theological works ( C. S.

The film is ultimately significant insofar as it displays the first enunciation of De Palma's style in all its major traits – voyeurism, guilt, and a hyper-consciousness of the medium are all on full display, not just as hallmarks, but built into this formal, material apparatus itself.

Isaiah's first significant acts as a prophet occurred when Judah, under king Ahaz, faced invasion from Israel and Aram Damascus ( Syria ) after refusing to join them in a revolt against Assyria, the dominant imperial power of the age.

One significant enhancement in biological weapon development was the first use of anthrax.

One of the first and throughout its history one of the most significant treatises of the common law, Bracton ’ s De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae ( On the Laws and Customs of England ), was heavily influenced by the division of the law in Justinian ’ s Institutes.

Marconi's contributions to Cape Breton Island were also quite significant as he used the island's geography to his advantage in transmitting the first North American trans-Atlantic radio message from a station constructed at Table Head in Glace Bay to a receiving station at Poldhu in Cornwall, England.

In late Neolithic times, the Yellow River valley began to establish itself as a center of Yangshao culture ( 5000 BC to 3000 BC ), and the first villages were founded ; the most archaeologically significant of these was found at Banpo, Xi ' an.

After a first unsuccessful attempt at colonisation in 497 BC by the Milesian Tyrant Histiaeus, the Athenians founded a first colony at Ennea-Hodoi (‘ Nine Ways ’) in 465, but these first ten thousand colonists were massacred by the Thracians.

The earliest form of Australian English was first spoken by the children of the colonists born into the colony of New South Wales.

* 1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race ; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea ; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in Odyssey book 10 as Keeper of the Winds who gives Odysseus a tightly closed bag full of the captured winds so he could sail easily home to Ithaca on the gentle West Wind.

There, settlers built Jamestown, Virginia, England's first permanent colony, and like many other explorers before, they set out to find treasure.

Phillip assigned a convict, James Ruse, land at Rose Hill ( now Parramatta ) to establish proper farming, and when Ruse succeeded he received the first land grant in the colony.

The first party to successfully cross the Blue Mountains just outside Sydney was led by Gregory Blaxland in 1813, 25 years after the colony was established.

Félix Éboué in a contemporary World War II cartoonDuring World War II, Chad was the first French colony to rejoin the Allies ( August 26, 1940 ), after the defeat of France by Germany.

Numerous subsequent Spanish expeditions followed, eventually leading to the first Spanish colony, Villa Bruselas in Costa Rica in 1524.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

In its first century the main economic activity in the colony was the production and processing of sugarcane.

In 1727 the first French commander, M. Le Grand, took charge of the island and established a rudimentary government thus making Dominica formally a colony of France.

This was the first Spanish colony in the New World.

Three of them ( later to be known as Liberty, Black Tom and Ellis ) were given the name Oyster Islands by the settlers of New Netherland, the first European colony in the Mid-Atlantic states.

This was the first of many such protest in the colony.

Exports of sugar, hardwood, Cayenne pepper and other spices brought a certain prosperity to the colony for the first time.

At first, only those freed prisoners who could raise the fare for their return passage to France were able to go home, so French Guiana was haunted after the official closing of the prisons by numerous freed convicts leading an aimless existence in the colony.

* 1733 – Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah ( known as Georgia Day ).

* 1621 – Myles Standish is appointed as first commander of Plymouth colony.

* 1690 – The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.

The city's first population boom came in 1872, with the establishment of an agricultural colony.

Guinea became the first French African colony to gain independence, on 2 October 1958, at the cost of the immediate cessation of all French assistance.

As with the other Portuguese territories in mainland Africa ( Portuguese Angola and Portuguese Mozambique ), Portugal exercised control over the coastal areas of Portuguese Guinea when first laying claim to the whole region as a colony.