* It lasted for only about seventeen minutes ( during the period from 3 to about 20 minutes from the beginning of space expansion ).

Kiki Vandeweghe of UCLA was drafted by the Mavs with the 11th pick of the 1980 NBA Draft, but Vandeweghe refused to play for the expansion Mavericks and staged a holdout that lasted a month into the team's inaugural season.

Rome's war against the Gallic tribes lasted from 58 BC to 50 BC and culminated in the decisive Battle of Alesia in 52 BC, in which a complete Roman victory resulted in the expansion of the Roman Republic over the whole of Gaul ( mainly present day France and Belgium ).

The Commercial Revolution was a period of European economic expansion, colonialism, and mercantilism which lasted from approximately the 16th century until the early 18th century.

Although the first structure was completed in 1160, major reconstruction and expansion lasted until 1511, and repair and restoration projects continue to the present day.

After over a century of European ( French, Portuguese ...) incursions and attempts at conquest, the island was conquered on April 29, 1483, after a campaign that lasted 5 years, by the Kingdom of Castile, with the support of Queen Isabella I, a conquest which turned out to be an important step towards the expansion of the unified Spain.

The expansion across the Carpathians was stopped by the invasion of the Mongols that lasted from March 31, 1241 to April, 1242.

It appears that this northern expansion of the Dacian language as far as the Vistula river lasted until AD 170 – 180 when the Hasdings, a Germanic tribe, expelled a Dacian group from this region, according to Schütte ( 1917 ) and Childe ( 1930 ).

The Middle Ages lasted until the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the rise of nation-states, the division of Western Christianity in the Reformation, the rise of humanism in the Italian Renaissance, and the beginnings of European overseas expansion which allowed for the Columbian Exchange.

Through a government that made investments to modernize Ontario, Drew laid the basis for the province's post-war industrial expansion and for a Progressive Conservative dynasty that lasted 42 years and saw six successive Progressive Conservative premiers.

He began the period of eastern expansion of Venice that lasted for the better part of 500 years.

In 1969, he had the distinction of managing his second team in Kansas City, this time with the expansion Kansas City Royals, but lasted only one season with the 100-loss club before being fired again.

The result was strong industry expansion that lasted through the early 1960s.

Then starting with the French expansion into Algeria came the beginning of New Imperialism, which lasted until World War I.

Buying and rebuilding the palace for himself meant for the doge affirming his political and military role: he actually represented the continuity of the military successes of that period, lasted 30 years, and was the promoter of the Venetian expansion on mainland.

However, a subsequent time expansion to 90 minutes in 1979 was less successful though the expanded show lasted for one and a half years.

The agreement marked the greatest geographical expansion of the Commonwealth, which lasted until the Commonwealth conceded the loss of Livonia in 1629.

Nonetheless, the Stingers achieved enough stability that they the only one of the WHA's five expansion teams that lasted through the end of the league.

The company began an expansion and modernization program that lasted through 1951.

Kiki Vandeweghe of UCLA was drafted by the Mavs with the 11th pick of the 1980 NBA Draft, but Vandeweghe refused to play for the expansion Mavericks and staged a holdout that lasted a month into the team's inaugural season.

With our growth came expansion into new fields of service.

He argued before and during his election that the eventual extinction of slavery would result from preventing its expansion into new U. S. territory.

Transatlantic travel played a major role in the expansion of Western civilization into the Americas.

The Phrygian expansion into south east Anatolia was eventually halted by the Assyrians, who controlled that region.

To settle the dispute over slavery expansion, Abolitionists and proslavery elements sent their partisans into Kansas, both using ballots and bullets.

Lincoln led the new Republican Party in developing their platform calling slavery a national evil, and insisting Congress end slavery expansion into the territories.

The Southern political defense of slavery transformed into widespread expansion of local militias for armed defense of their " peculiar " domestic institution.

Specifically, in quantum mechanics, the state of an atom, i. e. an eigenstate of the atomic Hamiltonian, is approximated by an expansion ( see configuration interaction expansion and basis set ) into linear combinations of anti-symmetrized products ( Slater determinants ) of one-electron functions.

Lane and Alcott collaborated on a major expansion of their educational theories into a Utopian society.

As this expansion into current languages ( mainly Italian and French ) and current topics continued, the press took on another role and made perhaps even more important contributions.

What started out as mere retribution, eventually evolved into full-fledged campaigns of expansion with religious crusader motives.

The addressing system allowed for expansion to 255 nodes in a LAN, and using " bridges " ( which came to be known as routers ) one could interconnect LANs into larger collections.

Thus, on January 16, 1997, the Diamondbacks were officially voted into the National League while their expansion counterparts in Tampa Bay were voted into the American League.

Some of the ethnic influences could be found in the nation from after the American Civil War and into the History of United States continental expansion during most of the 19th century.

* Pecos Bill is an American cowboy, apocryphally immortalized in numerous tall tales of the Old West during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona.

After its initial expansion from a singularity, the Universe cooled sufficiently to allow energy to be converted into various subatomic particles, including protons, neutrons, and electrons.

Approximately 10 < sup >− 37 </ sup > seconds into the expansion, a phase transition caused a cosmic inflation, during which the Universe grew exponentially.

A few minutes into the expansion, when the temperature was about a billion ( one thousand million ; 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >; SI prefix giga -) kelvin and the density was about that of air, neutrons combined with protons to form the Universe's deuterium and helium nuclei in a process called Big Bang nucleosynthesis.

In 1931 Lemaître went further and suggested that the evident expansion of the universe, if projected back in time, meant that the further in the past the smaller the universe was, until at some finite time in the past all the mass of the Universe was concentrated into a single point, a " primeval atom " where and when the fabric of time and space came into existence.

The Peucini branch of the Bastarnae first came into conflict with the Romans in the 1st century BC, when they resisted, ultimately unsuccessfully, Roman expansion into Moesia, the region on the southern bank of the Danube.

The Bastarnae first came into direct conflict with Rome as a result of expansion into the lower Danube region by the proconsuls ( governors ) of Macedonia in the period 75-72 BC.