* October 12 – To mark the 400th anniversary Columbus Day holiday, the " Pledge of Allegiance " is first recited in unison by students in U. S. public schools.

The Hopi and Pueblo Revolt was the first time that diverse Pueblo groups had worked in unison to drive out the Spanish colonists.

Thus, variation 3 is a canon at the unison, variation 6 is a canon at the second ( the second entry begins the interval of a second above the first ), variation 9 is a canon at the third, and so on until variation 27, which is a canon at the ninth.

The first of the regular canons, this is a canon at the unison: the follower begins on the same note as the leader, a bar later.

The first type " is largely stepwise in motion with many repeated note figures ," is frequently in minor key, and is " primarily sung in unison.

The process is repeated, so that the second pianist plays the third note as the first pianist is playing the first, then the fourth, and so on until the process has gone full circle, and the two pianists are playing in perfect unison again.

After a few repetitions, the pianist then takes out the first 4 notes of the melody and the first pianist fades in unison.

Less frequently the pipe will be used to play the first sung note of the song, especially where the song begins in unison or with a solo.

The first movement, which is in sonata form, begins with a four-note motif played in unison which occurs throughout the movement.

The finale, like the first movement, is in sonata form and is dominated by a figure which opens the movement in unison.

Thus, the two instruments gradually shift out of unison, creating first a slight echo as one instrument plays a little behind the other, then a doubling with each note heard twice, then a complex ringing effect, and eventually coming back through doubling and echo into unison.

What first attracted Stravinsky to Herman was the five trumpet unison on " Caldonia ," which mirrored the new music of Gillespie ... First it had been Hefti's solo on Herman's " Woodchopper's Ball ", then it became the property of the whole section, and finally, in this set form, it was made part of arrangement of " Caldonia.

The rhythmic intensity is increased at one point through the use of unison bariolage in the first violin part.

For example, when televising the proceedings of the Canadian House of Commons was first proposed in the 1970s, Wayne and Shuster responded with " Question Time ", a sketch which depicted Question Period as a Las Vegas-style musical revue, with the Speaker of the House and members of parliament all performing a synchronized song-and-dance routine, slapping their desks in unison, and " debating " the issues by trading vaudeville-inspired quips and puns.

Both the boot and shoe and the hosiery industry eagerly took to the new system of working and for the first time people began to be regulated by time, as the factory needed villagers to work in unison.

Students were obliged to sing the song in unison every morning at the very beginning of the first class of the day.

In these cases the composition often began and ended on a unison, the added voice keeping to the initial tone until the first part has reached a fifth or fourth, from where both voices proceeded in parallel harmony, with the reverse process at the end.

This label was created during the first recorded hypercane, as an extension of the famous chaos theory meme: if a butterfly can create a storm by flapping its wings, a hypercane can only be the consequence of an armada of butterflies working in unison.

It is of the first importance to the perpetuity of this great Union that the hearts of the people and the action of their constituted authorities should be in unison in giving a faithful support to the constitution of the United States.

He was a major contributor to the cabaret's events: he notably carved the grotesque masks worn by performers on stilts, gave " hissing concerts " and, in unison with Huelsenbeck and Tzara, improvised some of the first ( and mostly onomatopoeic ) " simultaneous poems " to be read on stage.

The piece with few exceptions consists of unison quindicesima melodies beginning first in the lowest tessitura of the piano then the highest.

A call to the police had been placed from here a couple of minutes after nine P.M., and the first police car had arrived two or three minutes after that -- 10 minutes ago now.

Why, in the first place, call himself a liberal if he is against laissez-faire and favors an authoritarian central government with womb-to-tomb controls over everybody??

The first news stories had it that this blaze was started by a bolt of lightning, as though Miriam could call down fire from heaven like a prophet of the Old Testament.

If Barnett doesn't call a special session in 1961, it will be the first year in the last decade that the Legislature has not met in regular or special session.

As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.

Ajax at first gets the better of the encounter, wounding Hector with his spear and knocking him down with a large stone, but Hector fights on until the heralds, acting at the direction of Zeus, call a draw: the action ends without a winner and with the two combatants exchanging gifts, Ajax giving Hector a purple sash and Hector giving Ajax a sharp sword.

For this reason, the C programming language specifies that array indices always begin at 0 ; and many programmers will call that element " zeroth " rather than " first ".

However, due to the shortage of time, whoever – the prime minister, the defense minister or the home minister – can be reached first will take the call.

* William Hope Hodgson's 1912 novel The Night Land features the first example of what we now would call an arcology, though the future Earthlings depicted — millions of years into the future, in fact — have different reasons for building their metallic pyramid.

* 1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, though it took ten years for the DynaTAC 8000X to become the first such phone to be commercially released.

Martin Cooper ( inventor ) | Dr. Martin Cooper of Motorola, made the first private handheld mobile phone call on a larger prototype model in 1973.

In the U. S., current plans call for the existing USAF bomber fleet to remain in service until the mid-to-late 2020s, with the first possible replacements becoming operational in 2018.

Former Pittsburgh Pirate manager Lloyd McClendon is jokingly referred to as having " stolen first " in a June 26, 2001 game – after disputing a call at first base, he yanked the base out of the ground and left the field with it, delaying the game.

The Lions decided " to get their retaliation in first " with the infamous " 99 call ".

The auction starts with the dealer and proceeds clockwise with each player, having first evaluated their hand, making a call in order.

The auction continues until there are three consecutive passes not including the dealer's first call.

At first he did not call himself bishop, but eventually submitted to the usage by the denomination.

Plants are the fundamental base of nearly all food chains because they use the energy from the sun and nutrients from the soil and atmosphere, converting them into a form that can be consumed and utilized by animals ; this is what ecologists call the first trophic level.

Haley made a succession of bizarre, mostly monologue late-night phone calls to friends and relatives in which he seemed incoherently drunk or ill. Haley's first wife has been quoted as saying, " He would call and ramble and dwell on the past, his mind was really warped.

:" For this city he ordained, as the first among our people, the abbot Hiltin, whom he wanted to call John.

ITU prefixes: Letter combinations available for use in Canada as the first two letters of a television or radio station's call sign are CF, CG, CH, CI, CJ, CK, CY, CZ, VA, VB, VC, VD, VE, VF, VG, VO, VX, VY, XJ, XK, XL, XM, XN and XO.

Costa Rica was among the first to call for a postponement of the May 22 elections in Peru when international observer missions found electoral machinery not prepared for the vote count.

We will call the first the furnace and the second the refrigerator .” Carnot then explains how we can obtain motive power, i. e. “ work ”, by carrying a certain quantity of heat from body A to body B.