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led and Mantovani
For example: the similarity of southern continent geological formations had led Roberto Mantovani to conjecture in 1889 and 1909 that all the continents had once been joined into a supercontinent ( now known as Pangaea ); Wegener noted the similarity of Mantovani's and his own maps of the former positions of the southern continents.
The success of this concert led, the following year, to a second concert at Lighthouse in Poole, with the Mantovani Orchestra, which she again co-presented.
A non governmental organisation, United Pro-Tietê Nucleus, led by Mário Mantovani, became the voice, canalising the public pressure for a cleaner river.

led and propose
This led the government to propose reconstruction of the Armenian Atomic Power Station at Metsamor, which was closed after the 1988 earthquake because of its location in an earthquake-prone area and which had the same safety problems as reactors listed as dangerous in Bulgaria, Russia, and Slovakia.
:" Heuristic evidence and other considerations led Church 1936 to propose the following thesis.
Gandy's curiosity about, and analysis of, " cellular automata ", " Conway's game of life ", " parallelism " and " crystalline automata " led him to propose four " principles ( or constraints ) ... which it is argued, any machine must satisfy.
Tillohash's strong intuition about the soundpatterns of his language led Sapir to propose that the phoneme is not just an abstraction existing at the structural level of language, but that it in fact has psychological reality for speakers.
By the 1920s Lewis Fry Richardson's interest in weather prediction led him to propose human computers and numerical analysis to model the weather ; to this day, the most powerful computers on Earth are needed to adequately model its weather using the Navier – Stokes equations.
Analysis of mitochondrial DNA, ecology, behaviour, morphology, geographic distribution and parasites of the North Island Brown Kiwi has led scientists to propose that the Brown Kiwi is three distinct species.
Careful study of the actual numerical values of these proportions led Dalton to propose his law of multiple proportions.
Classifying these particles led him to propose that a quantum number called strangeness would be conserved by the strong and the elementary interactions, but not by the weak interactions.
His desire to observe the southern heavens led him to propose, in 1750, an astronomical expedition to the Cape of Good Hope.
" High Concept " pictures such as Saturday Night Fever and Grease hit big, hit hard and hit fast all over the world, and Diller's television background led him to propose one of his longest-standing ideas to the board: Paramount Television Service, a fourth commercial network.
Searching for Llywarch's kingdom has led some historians to propose that, as was common in later Brythonic kingdoms, Rheged may well have been divided between sons, resulting in northern and southern successor states.
The provision provoked a storm of controversy which within a year led Senator Hatch to propose, and Congress to pass, an amendment to delete from the statute all reference to secular humanism.
Perplexed by the creature, Home kept changing his mind about its classification, first thinking it was a kind of fish, then thinking it might have some kind of affinity with the duck-billed platypus ( only recently known to science ); finally in 1819 he reasoned it might be a kind of intermediate form between salamanders and lizards, which led him to propose naming it Proteo-Saurus.
German anxiety that the British would exploit their victory at Messines by advancing to the Bassevillebeek ( Tower Hamlets ) spur beyond the north end of Messines Ridge, led Crown Prince Rupprecht on 9 June to propose a withdrawal to the Flandern Line in the area east of Messines ; construction of defences in the area began but on 13 June Colonel von Lossberg arrived as the new Chief of Staff of Fourth Army.
These findings led them to propose the paradox of intensification, which states " Ceteris paribus, urban intensification which increases population density will reduce per capita car use, with benefits to the global environment, but will also increase concentrations of motor traffic, worsening the local environment in those locations where it occurs ".
The friendly meeting between Quadra and Vancouver led the former to propose that the island be named after both: " Quadra and Vancouver Island ", which became the original name.
The announcement led some members of the Idaho legislature to propose legislation changing the state license plate, which currently reads " Famous Potatoes ".
No single text provides the precise content of the painting, however, which has led scholars to propose many sources and interpretations.
and in London, a space crisis led Harriet Harman to propose reopening old graves for " double-decker " burials .< ref >
The exhibition was a great success and led Prince Albert, the Prince Consort, to propose the creation of Albertopolis, a permanent series of facilities in the area for the enlightenment of the public.
In the early days the channel operated on a £ 40 million budget ( plus £ 10 million share of overheads ), which led Sam Chisholm to propose to Murdoch the station be closed, but Rupert was " pleased with its achievements ... there were overriding reasons of prestige and politics for keeping it ... the final hurdle of the Broadcasting Bill had still to be overcome and the case for the acceptability of Sky would collapse if suddenly there was no news channel.
Borden reached out to these Liberals to propose a coalition government, to be led by him and to include Conservatives and pro-conscription Liberals.
In particular, such a conclusion formerly led linguists to propose the so-called Ural – Altaic language family which would ( in the largest scope ever proposed ) include Uralic and Turkic languages as well as Mongolian, Korean and Japanese.
His observations led him to propose a theory about how these and similar behaviors, called operants, come about.

led and Expanding
Expanding population led to Komae being upgraded to the status of a town in 1952, and to a city on October 1, 1970.
Expanding sales of photovoltaic solar energy products led the company to create Kyocera Solar Corp. in Japan in 1996, and Kyocera Solar, Inc. in the U. S. in 1999.

led and Earth
The theory asserts that all currently living organisms on Earth share a common genetic heritage with each being the descendant from a single original species, though the suggestion of substantial horizontal gene transfer during early evolution has led to questions about monophyly of life.
The popularity of Doom led to the development of a sequel, Doom II: Hell on Earth ( 1994 ), as well as expansion packs and alternate versions based on the same game engine, including The Ultimate Doom ( 1995 ), Final Doom ( 1996 ), and Doom 64 ( 1997 ).
These advances led to the development of a layered model of the Earth, with a crust and lithosphere on top, the mantle below ( separated within itself by seismic discontinuities at 410 and 660 kilometers ), and the outer core and inner core below that.
These images have led to a much more detailed view of the interior of the Earth, and have replaced the simplified layered model with a much more dynamic model.
To explain stellar aberration in the context of an aether-based theory of light was regarded as more problematic, because it requires that the aether be stationary even as the Earth moves through it — precisely the problem that led Newton to reject a wave model in the first place.
Such views have also led many pagans to revere the planet Earth as Mother Earth, who is often referred to as Gaia after the ancient Greek goddess of the Earth.
Within these chapters it is revealed that all persons can attain Buddhahood in this lifetime and Shakyamuni transfers the essence of the sutra to the Bodhisattvas of the Earth led by Bodhisattva Superior Practices ( Jogyo ), entrusting them with the propagation of the essence of the sutra in the Latter Day of the Law.
In 1931, Nicholson and Mayall calculated its mass, based on its supposed effect on the gas giants, as roughly that of the Earth, while in 1949, measurements of Pluto's diameter led to the conclusion that it was midway in size between Mercury and Mars and that its mass was most probably about 0. 1 Earth mass.
Torres gave birth to their daughter Miral Paris during the events that led to Voyager < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s return to the Alpha Quadrant and Earth.
The growth of other disciplines, such as geophysics, in the 20th century led to the development of the theory of plate tectonics in the 1960s, which has had a similar effect on the Earth sciences as the theory of evolution had on biology.
For the calculation of ephemerides, TDB was officially recommended to replace ET, but deficiencies were found in the definition of TDB ( though not affecting T < sub > eph </ sub >), and these led to the IAU defining and recommending further time scales, Barycentric Coordinate Time ( TCB ) for use in the solar system as a whole, and Geocentric Coordinate Time ( TCG ) for use in the vicinity of the Earth.
The Greatest Show on Earth was the first film that director Steven Spielberg saw and he credits it as one of the major inspirations that led him into a film career.
One of the substances discovered in the tail by spectroscopic analysis was the toxic gas cyanogen, which led astronomer Camille Flammarion to claim that, when Earth passed through the tail, the gas " would impregnate the atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet.
* In the future world of Marvel Comics ' Killraven ( 1973 ), the Martian Masters who orchestrated the invasion in The War of the Worlds returned to Earth a century later and conquered it ; they were overthrown by rebels led by the psychic human Jonathan Raven, alias Killraven.
A mission to Earth is launched, consisting of five Martians, led by Dop ( Tommy Kirk ).
* In the Fallout series of video games, the bulk of the Sino-American war takes place in the 2070s, and its climax, the Great War that starts the Apocalypse, two hours of nuclear war that led to the devastation of Earth, takes place on October 23, 2077.
This problem led Philolaus to develop the idea of a Counter-Earth, a second, flat Earth, identical but opposite to ours in every way.
This has led to the suggestion that the Chicxulub impact was one of several that occurred almost simultaneously, perhaps due to a disrupted comet impacting the Earth in a similar manner to the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter in 1994.
This led physicist Richard A. Muller to suggest that these extinctions could be due to a hypothetical companion star to the Sun called Nemesis periodically disrupting the orbits of comets in the Oort cloud, and leading to a large increase in the number of comets reaching the inner solar system where they might hit Earth.
The snow in the region is often coined the " Greatest Snow on Earth " for its soft, powdery texture, and led to Salt Lake City winning the bid for the 2002 Winter Olympics.

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