Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

For four of the six ( the anaconda and the amethystine python cannot be included for lack of data ) there is also a correlation between size at maturity and maximum length, the boa constrictor being the smallest and the Indian python the next in size at the former stage.

To proceed from one stage to the next a sufficient number of feed states must be investigated to allow for interpolation ; ;

If we consider a process in which the outcome of one stage is known before passage to the next, then the principle of optimality shows that the policy in subsequent stages should be optimal with respect to the outcome of the first.

The discussion of the optimal policy when the outcome of one stage is not known before passing to the next is a very much more difficult matter.

The next stage ahead is that of making it thoroughly at home in the local community.

In the next stage, the scientists asked the participants some questions about type and frequency of their altruistic or helping behaviours.

At next stage, universe was created.

After transfers were completed, the crew would sleep before jettisoning the empty lunar module ascent stage the next day, when it was to be crashed intentionally into the lunar surface.

The next day, after final checks were completed, the expended LM ascent stage was jettisoned.

The crew's next task, after jettisoning the Lunar Module ascent stage, was to release a sub-satellite into lunar orbit from the CSM's Scientific Instrument Bay.

Across the street was Tammany Hall, and next to it Tony Pastor's, where stars of the stage were born.

Often the passage from one world or stage to the next is impelled by inner forces, a process of germination or gestation from earlier, embryonic forms.

* Signal conditioning, manipulating an analog signal in such a way that it meets the requirements of the next stage

The alien technology that accelerated the evolution of ape-like hominids at the start of the story has now advanced Bowman to the next stage of human evolution.

Thus, the eight items of the path are not to be understood as stages, in which each stage is completed before moving on to the next.

Banks would play in ten of the next 12 internationals as England tried to qualify for the 1972 European Championships but lost yet again to West Germany prior to the finals stage.

* Multi-cache: This variation consists of multiple discoveries of one or more intermediate points containing the coordinates for the next stage ; the final stage contains the log book and trade items.

The European Commission had some difficulty funding the project's next stage, after several allegedly " per annum " sales projection graphs for the project were exposed in November 2001 as " cumulative " projections ( which for each year projected, necessarily included all previous years of sales ).

Some of the complicated processors use a pipeline of instruction registers where each stage of the pipeline does part of the decoding, preparation or execution and then passes it to the next stage for its step.

Following his performance of Richard III on May 12, the Boston Transcript < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > review the next day called Booth " the most promising young actor on the American stage ".

But Orton, still on an absolute high, proceeded over the next ten months to revise The Ruffian on the Stair and The Erpingham Camp for the stage as a double called Crimes of Passion ; wrote Funeral Games ; wrote the screenplay Up Against It for the Beatles ; and worked on What the Butler Saw.

Between 9, 500 and 9, 100 BP, during the transgression of Ancylus Lake, the next freshwater stage of the Baltic, Ladoga certainly became part of it, even if they hadn't been connected immediately before.

Conversely, some of the Allied infantry who had just dealt a crushing defeat to the French at the Battle of Waterloo fully expected to have to fight again the next day ( at the Battle of Wavre ).

On one hand, it was next to impossible for them to overthrow Hitler and the party ; on the other, the Allied demand for an unconditional surrender meant no opportunity for a compromise peace, which left the people no option ( in their eyes ) other than continuing the military struggle.

The German pleads for his life and Miller decides to let him walk away, blindfolded, and surrender himself to the next Allied patrol.

The building of the museum, along with the clock tower next to it, is one of the few buildings of the port and arsenal which survived Allied bombardments during World War II.

For the next two years, the Bulgarian army fought a defensive war against the Allied army based in Greece.

During World War II, Camp Atlanta was established next to the town as an Allied prisoner-of-war camp for German P. O. W. s.

The next year, he was again drafted into the Army when Allied troops were approaching Dresden.

The next day, through miscommunication and the failure of Allied commanders to grasp the situation, Maleme airfield in western Crete fell to the Germans, enabling them to fly in reinforcements and overwhelm the defenders.

However, with the loss of Denain the Allied position began to unravel, and over the next few months the French recovered most of the towns they had lost in the region in previous years.

Some small resupply efforts would be made from Allied airfields in Europe over the next two days but to little effect.

The Allied armies succeeded in conquering the southern part of Italy but by early October had come up against the Volturno Line, the first of two lines ( the next being the Barbara Line ) used to delay the Allied advance to buy time to prepare the most formidable defensive positions which formed the Winter Line.

Heated discussions then took place over the next phase of Allied strategy.

However, what happened next completely caught the Allied staffs by surprise.

The next month Allied planes attacked Iraqi SAM sites in the South.

This was the anchor for the Axis positions, which opposed the Allied forces during the next allied attack — Operation Battleaxe on 15 June.

Over the next days, a stalemate emerged, with the Allies unable to block the retreat route and the Germans unable to clear the area of the Allied forces.

The attacks were thus distributed in such a way as to maintain uncertainty as to where the next move of the Allied land forces would be, in order to pin down Axis aircraft and prevent them being ordered to Sicily.

By December 1942, with Allied forces advancing through Tunisia the North African campaign was coming to a close ; with victory in North Africa imminent, discussions began among the Allies regarding the nature of their next objective.

After the Axis powers were defeated in North Africa, the Allied armies ' next logical objective was to cross the Mediterranean, landing in either the south of France, the Balkans, Sicily or Italy.

The next day, another sweep of 20 Ki-27s of the 70th Sentai was met by 10 Allied fighters ( eight P-40s and two Hawker Hurricanes ).

Over the next few days the house was thoroughly looted and stripped, apparently by Allied soldiers.

During the next two days, the Allied fleet attacked the coastal defences, as the Vichy French tried to prevent them.

The next day General Porter called together all section chiefs of the Fifteenth and outlined the mission of the Fifteenth and explained its assignment to Twelfth Army Group and Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force ( SHAEF ).