* In the film and book City of Ember, the principal city is either the last or one of several underground cities used to escape a devastating war.

This ray, named by Abbe a principal ray ( not to be confused with the principal rays of the Gaussian theory ), passes through the center of the entrance pupil before the first refraction, and the center of the exit pupil after the last refraction.

According to one of the principal texts of Hindu philosophy, the Tattwa Kaumudi authored by Vacaspati in the 9th century A. D., the Creator used akasha ( ether ), the most " subtle " element, to create the other four traditional elements ; each element created is in turn used to create the next element, each less subtle than the last.

The film was a success, and The New York Times Bosley Crowther singled its star out for praise: " It is Mr. Cagney's performance, controlled to the last detail, that gives life and strong, heroic stature to the principal figure in the film.

* The second dates to the Battle of Flodden in 1513 (" a landmark in the history of archery, as the last battle on English soil to be fought with the longbow as the principal weapon ...").

The Whig canon and the neo-Harringtonians, John Milton, James Harrington and Sidney, Trenchard, Gordon and Bolingbroke, together with the Greek, Roman, and Renaissance masters of the tradition as far as Montesquieu, formed the authoritative literature of this culture ; and its values and concepts were those with which we have grown familiar: a civic and patriot ideal in which the personality was founded in property, perfected in citizenship but perpetually threatened by corruption ; government figuring paradoxically as the principal source of corruption and operating through such means as patronage, faction, standing armies ( opposed to the ideal of the militia ), established churches ( opposed to the Puritan and deist modes of American religion ) and the promotion of a monied interest — though the formulation of this last concept was somewhat hindered by the keen desire for readily available paper credit common in colonies of settlement.

* November 14 – Leonard Bernstein, substituting at the last minute for ailing principal conductor Bruno Walter, directs the New York Philharmonic in its regular Sunday afternoon broadcast concert over CBS Radio.

* Centro: ( Downtown ) is located on the 7th District and comprises the center of La Paz and principal avenues of the city, like Arce Avenue, July 16 Avenue ( also known as " Prado Avenue "), Mariscal Santa Cruz Avenue and Camacho Avenue, this last one being the home of the headquarters of the principal banks and companies of the country.

The last moderate proposal was the Fourteenth Amendment, whose principal drafter was Representative John Bingham.

Stone switched from 12 to 14-hour shooting days in the last few weeks in order to finishing principal photography before an impending Directors Guild of America strike and finished five days ahead of schedule.

" Robert Riskin was assigned to develop the story for the screen and wrote four drafts, submitting the last on May 6, 1933, three days before principal photography began.

In 1904 at the age of just fourteen Nijinsky was selected by the great choreographer Marius Petipa to dance a principal role in what proved to be the choreographer's last ballet, La Romance d ' un Bouton de rose et d ' un Papillon.

It was the last region in the Canadian High Arctic to be depopulated during the " Little Ice Age ," attesting to its general economic importance as part of the Smith Sound culture sphere of which it was occasionally a part and sometimes the principal settlement component.

Tissaphernes, who once again had recourse to subtle diplomacy, was beaten by Agesilaus II on the Pactolus near Sardis in 395 BC ; and at last the king yielded to the representations of Pharnabazus, strongly supported by the chiliarch ( vizier ) Tithraustes and by the queen-mother Parysatis, who hated Tissaphernes as the principal cause of the death of her favourite son Cyrus.

The film's last surviving principal cast member, de Havilland remembered every detail of her casting as well as filming.

In the last few years, these properties have been purchased by new owners who sought to and did demolish them in order build small, ornate homes worth much more, many being valued to amounts on the order of as much as a few million dollars, a peculiar outgrowth of the unlimited-in-value homestead exemption for principal residences from forced sale provided to homesteaders under the Florida Constitution.

Mount Holyoke College graduate Sarah Chapin, the last principal of girls at Williston Seminary, became the town's first high school principal in 1864.

Rosalie was named for Rosalie La Flesche, a daughter of Joseph La Flesche, the last principal chief of the Omaha tribe selected by traditional means in the nineteenth century, and the only chief of part-European ancestry.

Stc XV by Warren of 1912 filled in the last gap of the quadrangle ; the ground floor and basement is the principal Junior Common Room.

The principal ceremonial occasion in the College year is the Service of Valediction, which takes place on the afternoon of the last day of Full Term in Trinity ( always a Saturday ).

The principal crop among those orchardists was apples, because they were less likely to be damaged during shipment and the fact that they could last for long periods of time when stored properly.

In 1468 the last significant acquisition of Scottish territory occurred when James III married Margaret of Denmark, receiving the Orkney Islands and the Shetland Islands in payment of her dowry.

Robert West, a pioneer of genetic studies in stuttering, has suggested that the presence of stuttering is connected to the fact that articulated speech is the last major acquisition in human evolution.

Groove Virtual Office 3. 1 was the last version before Microsoft's acquisition of Groove Networks.

The acquisition of Lorraine ( effective in 1766 at Stanislaus ' death ) was to be the last territorial expansion of France on the continent before the French Revolution.

He directed almost every penny he could spare, after procuring the bare necessaries of existence, to the acquisition of philological, as well as scientific and philosophical tomes-and with an income that never till the last few years, we believe, exceeding £ 50, collected a library of rare and profound works, valued, by competent judges at from £ 1300 to £ 1500.

After its acquisition by UPT, ABC at last had the means to offer a full-time television network service on the scale of CBS and NBC.

Also, the team at last acquired a top-flight goaltender with the acquisition of Tom Barrasso from Buffalo.

Entering the 2002 – 03 season, the team knew it would be memorable for at least two reasons, as David Robinson announced that it would be his last in the NBA and the Spurs would begin play at their new arena, the SBC Center, named after telecommunications giant SBC, whose corporate headquarters were located in San Antonio ( SBC became AT & T after its acquisition of its former parent company ).

A note was added by the Times newspaper that Jowett Cars had run into difficulties last year ( 1953 ) after the acquisition of the motor body suppliers Fisher and Ludlow by BMC completed in September 1953.

The site was re-opened on a number of occasions for gold or other metals but with little success, and prior to the site's acquisition in 1984 the last survey was in the early 1970s for copper.

The purchase was the last major territorial acquisition in the contiguous United States, adding a large area to the United States.

The acquisition moved Fairchild to a position as the second largest power MOSFET supplier in the world, representing a 20 percent share of this $ 3 billion market that grew 40 percent last year.

The takeover achieved 90 % acceptance on 17 June 2005, and 100 % ownership was announced on 2 August 2005, achieved through compulsory acquisition of the last 10 % of the shares.

In 1996, Bruno Bonnell's Infogrames embarked on an acquisition campaign that would last seven years and cost more than $ 500 million ; the objective was to become the world's leading interactive entertainment publisher.

Samoa was the last German colonial acquisition in the Pacific basin, received following the Tripartite Convention signed at Washington on 2 December 1899 with ratifications exchanged on 16 February 1900.

The 1994 Cup Winners ' Cup proved to be George Graham's last trophy at the club ; the following February he was sacked after nearly nine years in charge, after it was discovered he had accepted an illegal £ 425, 000 payment from Norwegian agent Rune Hauge following Arsenal's 1992 acquisition of John Jensen and Pål Lydersen, two of Hauge's clients.

Riley chose this last nickname on one of the extremely rare occasions he watched the news ; he normally goes to great lengths to avoid the acquisition of knowledge.

Another rule that does not allow a credit for the acquisition cost of existing buildings, unless they were last placed in service more than 10 years ago, no longer applies if the building was substantially financed pursuant to a large number of federal or state programs.

Its stock price doubled three times and three stock splits of 2: 1 occurred roughly every 90 days during the last half of 1999 through early 2000, making millionaires of many employees who were stock option holders, and further enabling JDS Uniphase to go on an acquisition and merger binge.

Its last major acquisition was the small temple of Ellesiya, which the Egyptian government presented to Italy for her assistance during the Nubian monument salvage campaign in the 1960s.

Due to the acquisition of Primark ( not the clothing retailer ) and buyout of ILX Systems, Thomson Financial had seen growth over the last four years and had seen improvement in the core product Thomson ONE.

The acquisition of the Nawab of Awadh's lands by the British East India Company brought the region of Gorakhpur into the close proximity of the raja of Palpa – the last remaining independent town within the Gorkhali heartlands.

In the last quarter prior to acquisition ( ending 31 December 2003 ), NetScreen reported $ 81 million in revenue, and Juniper reported net revenue of $ 207 million.

For example, the launch of the Rover 75 was humorously described by the then BMW owners as " Rover's Last Chance Saloon ", and Cerberus ' 2007 acquisition of Chrysler has been called that car manufacturer's " last chance saloon ".