He seemed very pleased with himself, as though some intricate scheme was working out exactly as he had planned.

Historical records indicate that Copernicus was unaware of the fundamental aspects of his so-called ' revolution ', unaware perhaps of its historical importance, he rested content with having produced a simpler scheme for prediction.

One item in this unhappy scheme was to have Germany policed exclusively by its continental neighbors, among whom only the Soviet Union possessed real military strength.

The committee's final report, on December 30, 1907, stated, in part, that " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence obtainable to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.

" The project, later called the Mills Commission, concluded that " Base Ball had its origins in the United States " and " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence available to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, N. Y., in 1839.

Of great surprise to many fans was a brand new color scheme ; apparently the original colors used by the franchise since Major League Baseball awarded it to Jerry Colangelo's ownership group in 1995 were to be discontinued.

While some fans applauded the redesign, most of the reaction to the new color scheme, which included the changing of the historical purple and traditional Arizonan colors of copper and turquoise to a reddish color known as " Sedona Red " similar to that of the Phoenix Coyotes and Arizona Cardinals color schemes, was pointedly negative.

The National Cartoonists Society ( NCS ) convened an ethics hearing, and Fisher was expelled for the forgery from the same organization that he had helped found ; Fisher's scheme had backfired in spectacular fashion.

Originally Gaussian frequency-shift keying ( GFSK ) modulation was the only modulation scheme available ; subsequently, since the introduction of Bluetooth 2. 0 + EDR, π / 4-DQPSK and 8DPSK modulation may also be used between compatible devices.

Although each variant of bridge has its own particular scheme for awarding and accumulating points, all are based upon whether or not the contract for each deal was made or defeated and by how many tricks.

The scheme was abandoned when Corel's shares fell and it became clear that there was really no strategic fit.

However, it seems that the Duke ’ s favoured scheme was to return to the Moselle valley ( where Marshal Marsin had recently taken command of French forces ) and once more attempt an advance into the heart of France.

The naming scheme for " Bollywood " was inspired by " Tollywood ", the name that was used to refer to the cinema of West Bengal.

The midrashic book of Jasher argues that prior to revealing his identity, Joseph asked Benjamin to find his missing brother ( i. e. Joseph ) via astrology, using an astrolabe-like tool ; it continues by stating that Benjamin divined that the man on the throne was Joseph, so Joseph identified himself to Benjamin ( but not the other brothers ), and revealed his scheme ( as in the Torah ) to test how fraternal the other brothers were.

Rather than being written as history, the Deuteronomistic history – Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings – was intended to illustrate a theological scheme in which Israel and her leaders are judged by their obedience to the teachings and laws ( the covenant ) set down in the book of Deuteronomy.

Carl Linnaeus ( Swedish original name Carl Nilsson Linnæus, 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778 ), also known after his ennoblement as, was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature.

ASCII was introduced in 1963 and is a 7-bit encoding scheme used to encode letters, numerals, symbols, and device control codes as fixed-length codes using integers.

The scheme was not a success, however, as the Cubans either succumbed to diseases brought from Spain such as measles and smallpox, or simply refused to work, preferring to slip away into the mountains.

Improvements were made in nursing accommodation in order to recruit more nurses and reduce labour shortages which were keeping 60, 000 beds out of use, and efforts were made to reduce the imbalance “ between an excess of fever and tuberculosis ( TB ) beds and a shortage of maternity beds .” In addition, BCG vaccinations were introduced for the protection of medical students, midwives, nurses, and contacts of patients with TB, while a pension scheme was set up for employees of the newly-established NHS.

Under the Coal Industry Nationalisation ( Superannuation ) Regulations of 1950, a pension scheme for mineworkers was established.

This ' new colonialism ' was generally a failure, at times even spectacularly so ( such as the Tanganyika groundnut scheme ).

The most commonly used classification scheme was originally developed by Wladimir Köppen.

With the main aims in mind, the group launched the LocAle scheme in 2007 which was developed by Steve Westby of the Nottingham branch to help promote locally brewed beers and also help with environmental issues.

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII, ;) is a character-encoding scheme originally based on the English alphabet.

Usually, only the second and fourth line of a quatrain are rhymed ( in the scheme a, b, c, b ), which has been taken to suggest that, originally, ballads consisted of couplets ( two lines ) of rhymed verse, each of 14 syllables.

Michelangelo was originally commissioned to paint the 12 Apostles against a starry sky, but lobbied for a different and more complex scheme, representing creation, the Downfall of Man and the Promise of Salvation through the prophets and Genealogy of Christ.

Picard had originally sought to recover $ 1 Billion from the Wilpon family and Mr. Katz, but had to settle for $ 162 Million along with the admission that neither the Wilpons nor Mr. Katz had any knowledge of the Ponzi scheme.

Associating a public key with its owner is typically done by protocols implementing a public key infrastructure-these allow the validity of the association to be formally verified by reference to a trusted third party in the form of either a hierarchical certificate authority ( e. g., X. 509 ), a local trust model ( e. g. SPKI ), or a web of trust scheme ( e. g. like that originally built into PGP and GPG, and still to some extent usable with them.

The design of UTF ‑ 8 is most easily seen in the table of the scheme as originally proposed by Dave Prosser and subsequently modified by Ken Thompson ( the's are replaced by the bits of the code point ):

Hubble ’ s scheme divides regular galaxies into 3 broad classes-ellipticals, lenticulars and spirals-based on their visual appearance ( originally on photographic plates ).

The scheme of contributed essays Foss had originally brought to Milford appeared in 1927 as the Heritage of Music ( two more volumes would appear over the next thirty years ).

The ' TS ' implies that the county of Cleveland was originally to be named Teesside or that the postcoding scheme was devised for a larger County Borough of Teesside than was actually created.

Conceived in the Canal Mania period of the late 18th century, the Gloucester and Berkeley Ship Canal scheme ( as it was originally named ) was started by architect and civil engineer Robert Mylne.

The opposite color scheme, dark-on-light color scheme, was originally introduced in WYSIWYG word processors, to simulate ink on paper.

The city, originally named Kaiping (, Kāipíng ), was designed by Chinese architect Liu Bingzhong from 1252 to 1256, and Liu implemented a " profoundly Chinese scheme for the city's architecture.

The Sankey Brook Navigation, which connected St Helens with the River Mersey, is often claimed as the first modern " purely artificial " canal because although originally a scheme to make the Sankey Brook navigable, it included an entirely new artificial channel that was effectively a canal along the Sankey Brook valley.

This use of the book's universe was approved by Kipling after a direct petition of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouting movement, who had originally asked for the author's permission for the use of the Memory Game from Kim in his scheme to develop the morale and fitness of working-class youths in cities.

The finale of the symphony shows a similar range, and is given an importance in the overall scheme which was virtually unheard of previously — whereas in earlier symphonies, the finale was a quick and breezy finishing off, here it is a lengthy set of variations and fugue on a theme Beethoven had originally written for his ballet music The Creatures of Prometheus.

SUMO originally concerned itself with meta-level concepts ( general entities that do not belong to a specific problem domain ), and thereby would lead naturally to a categorization scheme for encyclopedias.

The term was originally coined in 1906 when the Danish astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung noticed that the reddest stars — classified as K and M in the Harvard scheme — could be divided into two distinct groups.

They were originally painted in ivory with a green window band and lower bodyside band, but a number of sets were refurbished and painted into a white-upper / dark blue-lower scheme with new wrap-around cab windows from 1999.

Opened in 1906, it replaced an earlier bridge, originally known as Regent Bridge but later renamed Vauxhall Bridge, built between 1809 and 1816 as part of a scheme for redeveloping the south bank of the Thames.

This scheme was originally to be built as a high-quality dual carriageway ( HQDC ), but it was re-designated motorway by Statutory Instrument on 17 July 2008.

One such scheme is the proposed £ 50m rebuilding of the Crown Centre shopping mall, which originally opened in 1985.

The Division was originally known as the ' New Zealand Division '; it only became known as 2nd New Zealand Division from June 1942, following the adoption of the ' Cascade ' deception scheme and the ' formation ' of Maadi Camp, the division's base area in Egypt, as " 6th NZ Division ".