The antenna patterns and the power gain at the peak of the beam were both measured ( Mayer, McCullough, and Sloanaker, 1958 ), so that the absolute power sensitivity of the antenna beam over the solid angle of the moon was known.

At 100 Amp the 360 cycle ripple was less than 0.5 V ( peak to peak ) with a resistive load.

The nest itself, the structure that in some cases housed about 2,000 individuals when the season was at its peak, is now rapidly destroyed by the scavenging larvae of certain beetles and moths.

One of the few Inca sites the Spanish never found in their conquest was Machu Picchu, which lay hidden on a peak on the eastern edge of the Andes where they descend to the Amazon.

At its peak, the Electron was the third best selling micro in the United Kingdom, and total lifetime game sales for the Electron exceeded those of the BBC Micro.

It was commissioned in 1806 after the victory at Austerlitz by Emperor Napoleon at the peak of his fortunes.

The slate quarries on Craigmore which operated from the 1820s to the 1950s are now defunct ; at its peak this was a major industry.

At its peak, Li ' l Abner was read daily by 70 million Americans ( the U. S. population at the time was only 180 million ), with adult readers far outnumbering children.

In 1948, Capp reached a creative peak with the introduction of the Shmoos, lovable and innocent fantasy creatures who reproduced at amazing speed and brought so many benefits that, ironically, the world economy was endangered.

During the 17th century, English emigration to the British colonies in North America was at its peak, and the new settlers took the English language with them.

According to the FidoNet Nodelist, BBSes reached their peak usage around 1996, which was the same period that the World Wide Web suddenly became mainstream.

At its peak in the 16th through the 18th centuries, the Ottoman Empire had wrested control of the entire Black Sea area, which was for the time an " Ottoman lake ", on which Russian warships were prohibited.

Christina kept custody of the children as Andersson was then at the peak of his Hep Stars ' success.

For these and other reasons, BCG was therefore given to time with the peak incidence of pulmonary disease.

At its peak, the Getan kingdom reportedly was able to muster 200, 000 warriors.

At the peak of the Cretaceous transgression, one-third of Earth's present land area was submerged.

At its peak, roughly corresponding to the Middle Ages, it was the richest and largest European city, exerting a powerful cultural pull and dominating economic life in the Mediterranean.

However, as this was also the period during which the power and terror of the commander of the Praetorian Guard, Sejanus, was at its peak, Claudius chose to downplay this possibility.

At the time the fourth service was being considered, a movement in Wales lobbied for the creation of dedicated service that would air Welsh-language programmes, then only catered for at ' off peak ' times on BBC Wales and HTV.

The peak and statue can be accessed via a narrow road or by the 3. 8 kilometre ( 2. 4 mi ) Corcovado Rack Railway which was opened in 1884 and refurbished in 1980.

In ancient Greece, the Acropolis ( literally: " peak of the city "), placed on a commanding eminence, was important in the life of the people, serving as a refuge and stronghold in peril and containing military and food supplies, the shrine of the god and a royal palace.

At the 23rd Congress ( 29 March – 8 April 1966 ) the survival ratio was 79. 4 percent, it decreased to 76. 5 percent at the 24th Congress ( 30 March – 9 April 1971 ), increased to 83. 4 percent at the 25th Congress ( 24 February – 5 March 1976 ) and at its peak, at the 26th Congress ( 23 February – 3 March 1981 ), it reached 89 percent.

* 1806 – Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains ( it is later named Pikes Peak ).

For example, Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir, whose rule is considered to have marked the peak of power for Moorish Al-Andalus Iberia, married Abda, daughter of Sancho Garcés II of Navarra, who bore him a son, named Abd al-Rahman, and commonly known in pejorative sense as Sanchuelo ( Little Sancho, in Arabic: Shanjoul ).

Nevis was named " Nuestra Señora de las Nieves ", or " Our Lady of the Snows ", because the wreath of white clouds that usually covers the top of its volcanic peak reminded the Spaniards of the ancient Catholic miracle Our Lady of the Snows.

* November 15 – Pike expedition: During his second exploratory expedition, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains ( later named Pikes Peak in his honor ).

The peak was discovered in 1871 and originally named Mount Kaufmann after Konstantin Kaufman, the first Governor-General of Turkestan.

The second highest peak of the range is in Mongolian part named Khüiten Peak.

The area around Traralgon was first settled by Europeans in the 1840s soon after being explored by Count Paweł Strzelecki on his return from the Snowy Mountains where he named Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.

The pilots moved upriver and built the settlement they named Pilottown, which reached its peak of population in the 19th century.

Innes National Park was named after William Innes, who discovered commercial quantities of gypsum in the early 1900s and founded the mining town of Inneston in 1913, which had a population of around 500 at its peak.

The highest peak of the mountain is actually named Legges Tor, but the term Ben Lomond is more commonly used.

New York State named Goodman Mountain, a 2, 176-foot peak in the Adirondack Mountain town of Tupper Lake, NY, in Goodman's memory.

Some weeks later he named the peak after his brother, Sir Augustus Charles Gregory ( 1819 – 1905 ).

The park is named for one of the main features, Peak Charles, which is an ancient granite peak with an elevation of

One of the subpeaks of New Hampshire's Mount Adams ( whose main peak is named for her husband ) is named in her honor.

In 1872, after a scientist discovered a European snail ( Helix aspersa ) living on a small mountain, Rufus King Porter the founder of what is now unincorporated Spring Valley, California named the peak Mt.

Notable features of the Metacomet ridge in Guilford include Totoket Mountain ; its most notable peak, Bluff Head ; and two eastern high points on the Totoket Mountain ridge named East Sugarloaf and West Sugarloaf.

The peak is known for its beauty and is named for a perceived resemblance to a Native American chief's profile while napping.

East St. Louis was named an All-America City in 1959, having retained prosperity through the decade as its population reached a peak of 82, 295 residents.

Map of Polk County, North Carolina with Municipal and Township labelsIn 1839 a post office was established at the base of Tryon peak, both named after Governor Tryon.

It also extends 5 – 6 miles to the north, where it is called Sage Hill and then rises a bit higher at Radar Hill, named for an old World War II Radar base installed at the peak.

* Mount Kosciuszko Inc. Webpage of Australia's Mount Kosciuszko Association ( named for Australia's highest mountain peak ).

John Calhoun Johnson, Sierra explorer and founder of " Johnson's Cutoff " ( now U. S. Route 50 ), was the first white man to see Meeks Bay and from a peak above the lake he named Fallen Leaf Lake after his Indian guide.

When the Alabama was finally sunk off the coast of Normandy by the USS Kearsarge in 1864, prospectors sympathetic to the North named a mining district, a mountain pass, a mountain peak, and a town after the Kearsarge.

Meteor showers are named after the nearest bright star with a Greek or Roman letter assigned that is close to the radiant position at the peak of the shower, whereby the declension of the Latin possessive form is replaced by " id " or " ids ".