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.

Mrs. Marr is the first contact a Skid Row figure talks to after he decides he wants to pick himself up.

The meeting will, however, afford a timely and convenient opportunity for the first personal contact between them and a general exchange of views on the major issues which affect the relationships between the two countries ''.

By the 1850s when they first came into sustained contact by outside groups, there were estimated 7, 000 Adamanese, divided into the following major groups:

Two astigmatic image surfaces correspond to one object plane ; and these are in contact at the axis point ; on the one lie the focal lines of the first kind, on the other those of the second.

Though Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach the Americas ( having been preceded by the Norse expedition led by Leif Ericson in the 11th century ), Columbus's voyages led to the first lasting European contact with America, inaugurating a period of European exploration and colonization of foreign lands that lasted for several centuries.

The first Conciliar document on celibacy of the Western Christian Church ( Canon 33 of the Synod of Elvira, c. AD 305 ) states that the discipline of celibacy is to refrain from the use of marriage, i. e. refrain from having carnal contact with your spouse.

It is believed that the Roman Republic first came into contact with mail fighting the Gauls in Cisalpine Gaul, now Northern Italy.

Alternatively, Prospect Relationship Management ( PRM ) solutions offer to track customer behaviour and nurture them from first contact to sale, often cutting out the active sales process altogether.

Spanish ships visited the islands in the 16th century ; the first written record of contact from Europeans with the native inhabitants of the Cook Islands came with the sighting of Pukapuka by Spanish sailor Álvaro de Mendaña in 1595 who called it San Bernardo ( Saint Bernard ).

The first European contact with chocolate came when Montezuma ( then tlatoani of Tenochtitlan ) introduced Hernán Cortés, a Spanish conquistador, to xocolatl in the 16th century.

* in Doctor Who's first series after its revival, episodes 4-5 and 11 featured the alien Slitheen family of the planet Raxicoricofallapatorius, which were said to be Calcium-based life forms, causing them to be blown up in contact with vinegar.

Malcolm Willits was the first person to learn Barks's name and address, but two brothers named John and Bill Spicer became the first fans to contact Barks after independently discovering the same information.

The Late Period extended from three thousand years ago until first contact with European settlers and was dominated by the organization of First Nations peoples into the Algonquian-influenced Abenaki Nation which existed largely in present-day interior Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, and the Mi ' kmaq Nation which inhabited all of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, eastern New Brunswick and the southern Gaspé.

They remain in continual contact for the rest of their first year.

Brewster's position as editor brought him into frequent contact with the most eminent scientific men, and he was naturally among the first to recognize the benefit that would accrue from regular communication among those in the field of science.

However, the METI factor can also be viewed as somewhat misleading since active, purposeful transmission of messages by a civilization is not required for them to receive a broadcast sent by another that is, for example, seeking first contact.

It is merely required they have capable and compatible receiver systems operational ; However, this is a variable humans cannot accurately estimate without actually making first contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial species.

In the early years, speakers of Esperanto kept in contact primarily through correspondence and periodicals, but in 1905 the first world congress of Esperanto speakers was held in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.

The first contact occurs when the Moon's disc first starts to impinge on the Sun's ; second contact is when the Moon's disc moves completely within the Sun's ; third contact when it starts to move out of the Sun's ; and fourth or last contact when it finally leaves the Sun's disc entirely.