In the United States, farmland was typically divided as such, and the phrase " the back 40 " would refer to the 40 acre parcel to the back of the farm.

An iconic event in the Berkeley Sixties scene was a conflict over a parcel of University property south of the contiguous campus site that came to be called " People's Park.

A " hove " was a parcel of land that might be given in leasehold to private persons such as farmers by the local lord.

Darwin was hard at work on his " big book " on Natural Selection, when on 18 June 1858 he received a parcel from Wallace, who stayed on the Maluku Islands ( Ternate and Gilolo ).

In recognition of John D. Rockefeller, Jr .' s efforts to establish and then expand Grand Teton National Park, a parcel of land between Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks was added to the National Park Service in 1972.

A large parcel of land in Bloomsbury near the British Museum was acquired from the Duke of Bedford and Charles Holden was appointed architect with the instruction to create a building " not to suggest a passing fashion inappropriate to buildings which will house an institution of so permanent a character as a University.

According to a 2002 book by the popular writers James Moseley and Karl Pflock, in early 1957, Jessup was contacted by the Office of Naval Research ( ONR ) in Washington, D. C., and was asked to study the contents of a parcel that it had received.

Strictly Personal was the result, contained in its enigmatically-addressed parcel sleeve.

Waterloo was built on land that was part of a parcel of assigned in 1784 to the Iroquois alliance that made up the League of Six Nations.

When William Henry Harrison sold this parcel to his brother Carter Bassett Harrison in the mid-1790s, the parcel was referred to as Brown's Quarter, which was the same name given to the parcel on which some of Sherwood Forest now lies.

The Sketchpad program was part and parcel of Sutherland's Ph. D. thesis at MIT.

The most recent land acquisition for the Fort was a parcel of less than along the Rosemont Avenue fence in 1962, completing the present.

The National Cancer Research and Development Center ( now the National Cancer Institute-Frederick ) was established in 1971 on a parcel in Area A ceded by the installation.

The British detective writer R. Austin Freeman's first Thorndyke novel The Red Thumb-Mark was published in 1907 and features a bloody fingerprint left on a piece of paper together with a parcel of diamonds inside a safe-box.

The parcel on which it was built is steep, stretching from the Strand down to the Embankment along Beaufort Street.

Eglin Air Force Base evolved from the 1933 creation of the Valparaiso Airport, when an arrowhead-shaped parcel of was cleared for use as an airdrome.

Although there were only a few houses and a gas station on the one-mile ( 1. 6 km )- square parcel of land when it was subdivided to build inexpensive houses for agricultural workers, Surprise has experienced tremendous growth in the years since .< ref >

When the Auheimer Mark ( a communally held parcel of land to which belonged several villages ) was divided up in 1786, Weiskirchen received a share of the forest.

When the Rödermark ( a communally held parcel of land to which belonged several villages ) was divided up in 1818, Nieder-Roden received a share of the forest.

Generally, the court is supposed to order a partition sale only if the land cannot be physically divided, although this determination often rests on whether the economic value of the divided pieces is less in the aggregate than the value of the parcel as a single piece.

About 15 years after his death, Hiden's daughter Woodroof divided one parcel into a residential area.

CAX is divided into two parcels, with the larger parcel situated along the banks of the York River.

By the mid-1850s, legislator Horace Hawes had a big parcel between Whipple and Woodside roads, with a house on the site of Sequoia High School.

Carol Beach traces its roots to 1924, the year that Edith Rockefeller McCormick of Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of John D. Rockefeller and daughter-in-law of reaper inventor Cyrus McCormick, purchased a land parcel to found a new community which soon adopted the name " Chiwaukee " ( the area is nearly equidistant between Chicago and Milwaukee, Wisconsin ).

The individual size of a parcel generally ranges between 50 and 400 square metres, and often the plots include a shed for tools and shelter.

Because energy is needed to overcome the molecular forces of attraction between water particles, the process of transition from a parcel of water to a parcel of vapor requires the input of energy causing a drop in temperature in its surroundings.

The temperature change that occurs within the air parcel reflects the adjusting balance between potential energy and kinetic energy of the molecules of gas that comprise the moving air mass.

Although not directly contiguous with the main Crawley site, the University does own almost every parcel of land between them and has long term plans to expand the two sites towards each other.

It was also in 1913, in January, that the Post Office introduced domestic parcel post service ( a belated development, given that international parcel post service between the United States and other countries began in 1887 ).

Below is the counter-clockwise Brayton cycle consisting of four processes for a refrigerator when a parcel of gas is followed between two plates of a stack.

* The new One Beacon development at parcel 9, between Beacon st and Brookline Ave., including a 23 story apartment complex and mixed use development.

If there is end-to-end encryption between the sender and the recipient, then not even the last intermediary can view the original message ; this is similar to a game of ' pass the parcel '.

In 1949, the city of Tampa bought a 720 acre grassy parcel between the airport and West Tampa from the federal government with the idea of eventually building a community sports complex.

This first patent encompassed the coast between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers, as well as an irregular parcel of land between the headwaters of the two rivers.

The foreclosure process as applied to residential mortgage loans is a bank or other secured creditor selling or repossessing a parcel of real property ( immovable property ) after the owner has failed to comply with an agreement between the lender and borrower called a " mortgage " or " deed of trust.

In 1843, John Surratt purchased from his adoptive father of land straddling the D. C ./ Maryland border, a parcel named " Foxhall " ( approximately the area between Wheeler Road and Owens Road today ).

The land formerly home to the farm is now the Country Club Estates development, a small parcel of the farm was preserved on a plot of land between Hollybrook Drive and Cedarbrook Lane.

The ( mostly ) solid body rotation is probably due to the long time which each parcel of air remains in the vortex — allowing friction between the inner parcels and outer parcels to have a notable effect.

The University purchased the parcel, located between I-95 and Parker Avenue just north of Southern Boulevard, for $ 3. 1 million from Palm Beach County.

On a sounding diagram, CAPE is the positive area above the LFC, the area between the parcel's virtual temperature line and the environmental virtual temperature line where the ascending parcel is warmer than the environment.

The Fishkill Ridge Conservation Area, owned by the environmental organization Scenic Hudson but managed by NYSOPRHP, bridges the gap between that central tract and the northern tract, a trail-less parcel on Sour Mountain at the Highlands ' northern end, reaching almost to Interstate 84 at the bottom of the slope.

The method of surveying a field or other parcel of land with Gunter's chain is to first determine corners and other significant locations, and then to measure the distance between them, taking two points at a time.