Even the first wave of homesickness had passed, although there were moments when Captain Heard pointed out on his compass the direction of Bradford that she felt a little twinge at her heart.

The radio emission of a planet was first detected in 1955, when Burke and Franklin ( 1955 ) identified the origin of interference-like radio noise on their records at about 15 meters wave length as emission from Jupiter.

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

Generally the first salvo of a tsunami is a rather sharp swell, not different enough from an ordinary wave to alarm casual observers.

Many of them paid for their curiosity with their lives, for some minutes later the first giant wave roared over the shore.

Just as they reached the shore, the first huge wave crashed upon them.

The waves are separated by intervals of 15 minutes to an hour or more ( because of their great length ), and this has often lulled people into thinking after the first great wave has crashed that it is all over.

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

Many scholars consider modern anthropology as an outgrowth of the Age of Enlightenment, a period when Europeans attempted to study human behavior systematically, the known varieties of which had been increasing since the fifteenth century as a result of the first European colonization wave.

Late in the 18th century the first wave of Romantics such as Goethe and Turner came to admire the scenery ; Wordsworth visited the area in 1790, writing of his experiences in The Prelude.

Acoustics looks first at the pressure levels and frequencies in the sound wave.

The first of the Australian gold rushes, in the 1850s, began a large wave of immigration, with approximately two per cent of the population of the United Kingdom emigrating to the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria.

Vox format files are similar to wave files except that the vox files contain no information about the file itself so the codec sample rate and number of channels must first be specified in order to play a vox file.

President Bill Clinton ( center ), first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton ( right ) and their daughter Chelsea Clinton ( left ) wave to watchers at a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day, January 20, 1997.

This move surprised Bibulus and the first wave of ships managed to run the blockade easily.

The first wave of the Government Code and Cypher School ( GC & CS ) moved to Bletchley Park on 15 August 1939.

This so-called " first wave " included bands such as Venom, Bathory, Hellhammer and Celtic Frost.

The first wave of black metal refers to those bands during the 1980s who influenced the black metal sound and formed a prototype for the genre.

Influenced by the sounds and style of no wave and noise rock bands, Love convinced Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon to produce Hole's first studio album.

Crime wave first attested in 1893 in American English.

The first large wave of permanent English-speaking settlement in Canada, and linguistically the most important, was the influx of Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution, chiefly from the Mid-Atlantic States – as such, Canadian English is believed by some scholars to have derived from northern American English.

" Ponet's treatise comes first in a new wave of anti-monarchical writings … It has never been assessed at its true importance, for it antedates by several years those more brilliantly expressed but less radical Huguenot writings which have usually been taken to represent the Tyrannicide-theories of the Reformation ".

In quantum theory ( see first quantization ) the energy of the photons is thus directly proportional to the frequency of the EMR wave.

The speed of light and other EMR predicted by Maxwell's equations did not appear unless the equations were modified in a way first suggested by FitzGerald and Lorentz ( see history of special relativity ), or else otherwise it would depend on the speed of observer relative to the " medium " ( called luminiferous aether ) which supposedly " carried " the electromagnetic wave ( in a manner analogous to the way air carries sound waves ).

South Asia has the world's largest English-speaking population with a certain percentage of people who speak English as their first or second language, although most speakers of Indian English, Pakistani English etc.

The Commonwealth of England formed the first republic in the English-speaking world.

The use of D. purpurea extract containing cardiac glycosides for the treatment of heart conditions was first described in the English-speaking medical literature by William Withering, in 1785, which is considered the beginning of modern therapeutics. It is used to increase cardiac contractility ( it is a positive inotrope ) and as an antiarrhythmic agent to control the heart rate, particularly in the irregular ( and often fast ) atrial fibrillation.

However, true detective fiction is more often considered in the English-speaking world to have begun in 1841 with the publication of " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " itself, featuring " the first fictional detective, the eccentric and brilliant C. Auguste Dupin ".

Walt Disney, who had previously been in the short cartoon business, stepped into feature films with the first English-speaking animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ; released by RKO Pictures in 1937.

* 1852 – Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital providing in-patient beds specifically for children in the English-speaking world, is founded in London.

The draft presented to the Council on 8 March drew no serious criticism, but a group of 35 English-speaking bishops, who feared that the opening phrase of the first chapter, " Sancta romana catholica Ecclesia " ( the holy Roman Catholic Church ), might be construed as favouring the Anglican Branch Theory, later succeeded in having an additional adjective inserted, so that the final text read: " Sancta catholica apostolica romana Ecclesia " ( the holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church ).

The establishment of the first permanent English-speaking colony in North America in 1607 was a major step towards the globalisation of the language.

Although the koala is not a bear, English-speaking settlers from the late 18th century first called it koala bear due to its similarity in appearance to bears.

Following his role in Mephisto, Brandauer appeared in his first English-speaking role in playing Maximillian Largo in Never Say Never Again ( 1983 ), a remake of the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball.

In some English-speaking countries in the Northern Hemisphere, August 1 is Lammas Day ( Anglo-Saxon hlaf-mas, " loaf-mass "), the festival of the wheat harvest, and is the first harvest festival of the year.

* 1652 – Rhode Island passes the first law in English-speaking North America making slavery illegal.

As a result, for the first time the English-speaking population of Canada West surpassed the French-speaking population of Canada East, tilting the representative balance of power.

Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, United Kingdom, which was the first paediatric hospital in the English-speaking world.

The English-speaking world waited until 1852 for its first paediatric hospital, the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, some fifty years after the founding of its namesake in Paris.

In most English-speaking countries, the national episcopal conference decided to put the new translation into use from the first Sunday of Advent ( 27 November ) 2011.

* 1836 – Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.

Although most lodges throughout the English-speaking world do not confer the Scottish Rite versions of the first three degrees, there are a handful of lodges in New Orleans and in several other major cities that have traditionally conferred the Scottish Rite version of these degrees.

To sell his regulator in English-speaking countries Cousteau coined the Aqua-Lung label, which was first licensed to the U. S. Divers company ( the American division of Air Liquide in the USA ) and later sold alongside with La Spirotechnique and U. S. Divers to finally constitute the name of the company itself, Aqua-Lung / La Spirotechnique, nowadays sited in Carros, near Nice.

The first outbreak in English-speaking North America occurred in New York in 1668.

** John Henry Newman founds the first Oratory in the English-speaking world when he establishes the Birmingham Oratory at ' Maryvale ', Old Oscott, England.

* November 5, 1824 – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( the first technological university in the English-speaking world ) is founded in Troy, New York.

* November 5 – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( the first technological university in the English-speaking world ) is founded in Troy, New York.