There was an artificial platform there and this apparent verification of Thom's long alignment hypothesis ( Kintraw was diagnosed as an accurate winter solstice site ) led him to check Thom's geometrical theories at the Cultoon stone circle in Islay, also with a positive result.

Any individual alignment could indicate a direction by chance, but he planned to show that together the distribution of alignments was non-random, showing that there was an astronomical intent to the orientation of at least some of the alignments.

The real problem actually was that the sprocket which moved the head would slip on the stepper motor shaft after repeated hammering and this would put the drive gradually out of alignment.

The original alignment system ( which grouped all characters and creatures into ' Law ', ' Neutrality ' and ' Chaos ') was derived from the novel Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson.

* Dispute over alignment of boundary with Eritrea led to the Eritrean-Ethiopian War ( 1998 – 2000 ), which was resolved by an independent boundary commission's delimitation decision in 2002.

This was intended to nominally underscore the Conservatives ' status apart from the rest of EPP, and it was hoped that with the coming enlargement of the European Union numerous newly involved right-wing parties, averse to the EPP proper for its perceived eurofederalism, would be willing to instead enter the ED subgroup, growing the overall alignment.

A revised bill with a new alignment was submitted and passed in a subsequent session.

The alignment with these countries was accompanied by a more moderate Iraqi approach to other Arab countries, such as Egypt and Jordan, which previously Iraq had perceived as hostile.

After Dejacque and others split from Proudhon due to the latter's support of individual property and an exchange economy, the relationship between the individualists, who continued in relative alignment with the philosophy of Proudhon, and the anarcho-communists was characterised by various degrees of antagonism and harmony.

Yet, this alignment was indefinite, directed more to the concept of the Left than a specific party of the Left.

As a result of the message from Rome and the ratification of the Anglo-Polish treaty, Hitler cancelled the invasion of Poland which was planned for 26 August, and instead ordered it held back until 1 September in order to give Germany some time to break up the unfavourable international alignment.

In 1997, just thirteen years after the National Stadium had opened, it was considered too small and did not have the facilities required of the time and it was demolished and a new stadium, the Millennium Stadium, was built in its place ( completed to a north-south alignment and opened in June 1999 ).

After 1996, Fraser was critical of the Howard Coalition government over foreign policy issues ( particularly Howard's alignment with the foreign policy of the Bush administration, which Fraser saw as damaging Australian relationships in Asia ).

" Carr argued that the Soviet Union's replacement of Foreign Minister Litvinov with Molotov on May 3, 1939 indicated not an irrevocable shift towards alignment with Germany, but rather was Stalin ’ s way of engaging in hard bargaining with the British and the French by appointing a proverbial hard man, namely Molotov, to the Foreign Commissariat.

The current divisional alignment was introduced in the 2004 – 05 season.

It was realised as early as 1767 that the stars in a clusters were physically related, when the English naturalist Reverend John Michell calculated that the probability of even just one group of stars like the Pleiades being the result of a chance alignment as seen from Earth was just 1 in 496, 000.

Their overwhelming popularity was due to inexpensive construction and price, although their tone and performance were limited by narrow soundboards, simple actions and string spacing that made proper hammer alignment difficult.

Prometheus ' association with fire is the key to his religious significance and to the alignment with Athena and Hephaestus that was specific to Athens and its " unique degree of cultic emphasis " on honoring technology.

Established by this point was the purposeful alignment of an " all Canadian route " -- within the rubric of national interest, the federal government refused to consider a less costly route bypassing the rugged Canadian Shield of northern Ontario by passing south through Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Players should also ensure that they learn safe and proper footwork, with the knee and foot in alignment on all lunges.

In the years 1953 – 66 the Colts played in the NFL Western Conference ( also known as division ), but were never known to have a significant rivalry with any of the other franchises in that alignment, seeing as they were the eastern-most team and the rest of the division included the Great Lakes franchises Green Bay, Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears, and after 1961, the Minnesota Vikings.

In organisms that use chromosomal crossover to exchange DNA and recombine genes, errors in alignment during meiosis can also cause mutations.

The Axis powers (,, ), also known as the Axis alliance, Axis nations, Axis countries, or just the Axis, was the alignment of nations that fought in the Second World War against the Allied forces.

Taken in totality though, this grand conjunction included the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, with the Earth also in alignment with the Sun and the Moon at the exact moment of the new moon and a solar eclipse ( eight celestial bodies in total ).

Winnipeg's Perimeter Highway ( the southern half of which, Highway 100, is officially part of the Trans-Canada ) has a mix of traffic lights and interchanges, and gives highway drivers a way of bypassing the city completely ; however, the Trans-Canada system also has an alignment which passes through the urban core of Winnipeg, incorporating Portage Avenue, Main Street / St.

In addition to the basic functionality of font, alignment, spacing, and color, the package also provides its users with professional typesetting options like kerning, curving text along a line, and ligatures.

By the 1940s, U. S. Route 9 was also designated along the present-day portion of Route 34 that was then a part of Route 4, this would later become Route 4A after U. S. Route 9 and Route 4 were moved to a new alignment between Freehold and Cheesequake.

It intersects the eastbound direction of Route 184, the former alignment of Route 440, before meeting Route 440 ( also an unsigned part of County Route 501 ) at an interchange.

U. S. Route 9 was also moved off of Route 35 onto a newly completed alignment of Route 4 between Lakewood and South Amboy.

Roof-prisms designs also require tighter tolerances as far as alignment of their optical elements ( collimation ).

From February to Mid September 2008 I-40 was moved to a new alignment south of Greensboro, which also carries the new I-85 bypass and will eventually carry Interstate 73 as well, while the old I-40 through Greensboro became a second I-40 freeway Business Loop.

He also continued to support the French Gen. Pierre Augereau's reactionary coup d ' état of 18 September 1801 in the Batavian Republic, and its new constitution, ratified by a sham election, that brought it into closer alignment with its dominant partner.

( The alignment of the players also suggests the shape of an actual shotgun ).

Route 32's alignment from Route 130 to the Turnpike was also designated to become an alignment of New Jersey Route 92, a tolled extension of the New Jersey Turnpike.

The old alignment also has ruins and abandoned tanks along its route: Bunabi Tank, Coompana Tank, Yangoonie Tank, Cundalabbie Tank, Number 2 Tank, and Mallabie Tank

Beebe is also served by Arkansas Highway 367, which is a former alignment of US 67 prior to the building of the US 67 / US 167 freeway.

The original alignment of Lincoln Highway is known as 73rd Avenue ( also called Old Lincoln Highway ) in Merrillville, while the current Lincoln Highway ( US Highway 30 ) is known as 81st Avenue.

Although this route was once served by the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton railway line, today it is only served by the A34 road, which now bypasses Newbury to the west on an alignment partially using the old rail route ( see also ' Newbury Bypass ' below ).

This can also happen when an Earth station, a satellite, and the Sun are in alignment.

For multiple sequences the last row in each column is often the consensus sequence determined by the alignment ; the consensus sequence is also often represented in graphical format with a sequence logo in which the size of each nucleotide or amino acid letter corresponds to its degree of conservation.

The Smith – Waterman algorithm is a general local alignment method also based on dynamic programming.