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.

TVA management objected vehemently to Allen's proposal, stating that it violated provisions of the TVA Self-Financing Act of 1959 which required all of the agency's power operations to be self-financing and unsubsidized, and would further dissuade new large customers from moving into its service area as opposed to adjoining areas where they would not be subject to such a scheme.

Following the death of Prince Albert in 1861, the architect David Bryce put forward a proposal for a keep as a memorial, although Queen Victoria objected, and the scheme was not pursued.

Maldon objected and the scheme came to nothing.

Maldon again objected on commercial grounds, and the scheme was dropped.

Wintour at first objected to his cousin's scheme, but Catesby, who said that " the nature of the disease required so sharp a remedy ", won him over.

Wakefield pushed the scheme with his usual energy ; apparently, the government did not object in principle but they strenuously objected to Wakefield having any part of it.

There, French car maker Peugeot objected to Porsche using any three digit number where the middle number was 0, asserting ownership of the naming rights in key markets, and having already sold many models with that scheme.

The scheme was abandoned in the face of vigorous opposition, especially from the government who objected to the idea of a railway passing through Regent's Park.

A number of organisations have objected to the scheme.

In addition they objected to the impact on the Combe Haven valley, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, which would be cut in two by the scheme.

Among his best-known plays are Le Mercure galant, the title of which was changed to La Comédie sans titre (" Play without a title ") ( 1683 ) when the publisher of the literary review of the same name objected ( see " Mercure de France "); La Princesse de Clêves ( 1676 ), an unsuccessful play which, when refurbished with fresh names by its author, succeeded as Germanicus ; Esope à la ville ( 1690 ); and Esope à la cour ( 1701 ). His lack of dramatic instinct could hardly be better indicated than by the scheme of his Esope, which allows the fabulist to come on the stage in each scene and recite a fable.

The doctrine is one of the so-called Five points of Calvinism that were defined at the Synod of Dort during the Quinquarticular Controversy with the Arminian Remonstrants, who objected to the general predestinarian scheme of Calvinism.

Although the BMA agreed in principle with the establishment of the NHS, the BMA objected to the administration methods and the lack of consultation and negotiation with doctors regarding the scheme and the effects that the NHS would have on doctors ' lives.

He faced fire from insurance groups who feared the loss of business and profits, from insurance agents who feared the loss of commissions, from anti-tax persons who objected to financing the scheme through gasoline taxes, from oil companies that did not want higher prices to reduce demand, from consumer groups that had strongly supported " true no-fault " insurance in years past but ( in Tobias's view ) had caved to the influence of personal injury attorneys, and from personal injury attorneys who feared a substantial loss of income if no-fault were enacted.

He may even alter the pattern by applying a scheme of random numbers.

The number of people acting as one body by this scheme gives a surprisingly large army of 55,987 men.

No attempt is made by Ptolemy to weld into a single scheme ( a-la-Aristotle ), these independent predicting-machines.

An amateur decorator might try her hand at a pair during the long winter evenings, and, by picking up her living room color scheme, add a decorative do-it-yourself note to the room.

it is only after he has involved her emotions in his scheme that he uses her given name, placing himself by implication in the position of a solicitous father.

In this tangle of conflicting claims, the patent-sharing scheme adopted by the A.L.A.M. at its founding proved to be the best device for avoiding or mitigating the burdens of incessant litigation.

The breach created by the Selden patent doomed his proposal, but Hanch did not abandon his scheme.

In this scheme, people would be represented in government by a party or organization that defended the interests of their particular occupation or industry, not a particular ideology.

Inorganic qualitative analysis generally refers to a systematic scheme to confirm the presence of certain, usually aqueous, ions or elements by performing a series of reactions that eliminate ranges of possibilities and then confirms suspected ions with a confirming test.

Supported by the prestige of being the only general who had proved capable of defeating the French, he promptly initiated a far-reaching scheme of reform, which replaced the obsolete methods of the 18th century.

A similar scheme ( multiphase cooling ) can be by a multistage evaporative cooler.

Each episode features a few interstitial scenes in which they view videos in this manner, their commentary improvised by Judge, with the rest of the episode depicting them embarking on some scheme or adventure.

The Kitemark can be used to indicate certification by BSI, but only where a Kitemark scheme has been set up around a particular standard.

The Heinrich Walter classification scheme, developed by Heinrich Walter, a German ecologist, differs from both the Whittaker and Holdridge schemes because it takes into account the seasonality of temperature and precipitation.

In this scheme each chemical substance is identifiable by a number known as its CAS registry number.

The hermeneutic method held by an individual or church will greatly affect their interpretation of the book of Revelation, and consequently their eschatological scheme.

The deficiencies of valence bond theory became apparent when hypervalent molecules ( e. g. PF < sub > 5 </ sub >) were explained without the use of d orbitals that were crucial to the bonding hybridisation scheme proposed for such molecules by Pauling.