Visiting advocates of metrication also claim that they use metric units for many things internally with exceptions such as old petrol pumps in Myanmar, calibrated in British Imperial gallons.

Visiting the U. S. for the first time in 1987, Raisa irked Reagan with lectures on subjects ranging from architecture to socialism, reportedly prompting the American President's wife to quip, " Who does that dame think she is?

Theft is an offence against property for the purposes of section 3 of the Visiting Forces Act 1952.

On stage he received extensive critical acclaim for his performances in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Harold Pinter's The Caretaker at the National Theatre ; and Pinter's The Homecoming and Miller's The Price in the West End, also appearing in Visiting Mr. Green in 2007 and 2008.

Visiting a synagogue, he was so struck by some of the cadences and progressions of the music that thirty years later he could recall them for use in his serious opera, Ivanhoe.

Visiting the city, he found it full of hard well-burnt bricks, and, " convinced that there was a grand quarry for the ballast I wanted ", the city of Brahminabad was reduced to ballast.

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Visiting foreigners of princely rank were bidding for his goodwill.

The diverse range of buildings of Venturi's early career offered surprising alternatives to then current architectural practice, with " impure " forms ( such as the North Penn Visiting Nurses Headquarters ), apparently casual asymmetries ( as at the Vanna Venturi House ), and pop-style supergraphics and geometries ( for instance, the Lieb House ).

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Toledo was named a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University from 2006 to 2009, and in 2007-2008 was a Payne Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a CDDRL ( Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law ) Visiting Scholar.

John M. Barry, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, the Center for Bioenvironmental Research of Tulane and Xavier Universities, New Orleans, Louisiana, concluded that Haskell County was the location of the first outbreak of the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed between 21 and 100 million people.

He retired in 1982 but stayed as Visiting Professor at The New School for Social Research in Manhattan between 1984 – 97.

* Jim Barnes-Oklahoma Poet Laureate for 2009 and 2010 and author of nine books of poetry, including On a Wing of the Sun, The Sawdust War, Paris, The American Book of the Dead, and Visiting Picasso.

Visiting the studio during rehearsal for the special, actor Tony Curtis suggested to Jewison that he should direct a feature film.

Believing the post to be " the first professorship of its kind in the country ," Harvard President Drew G. Faust called it “ an important milestone .” Funded by a $ 1. 5 million gift from the members and supporters of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus, the F. O. Matthiessen Visiting Professorship of Gender and Sexuality is named for a mid-20th century gay Harvard American studies scholar and literary critic who chaired the undergraduate program in history and literature.

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The Conference on Everything gives students an opportunity to present their own research as well as featuring talks from distinguished speakers including Dr Salah Al-Shaikhly, the Iraqi ambassador to the United Kingdom ; Micheal Green, Lucasian Professor and pioneer of string theory ; Julian Huppert, scientist and MP for Cambridge ; David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, and Nicholas Bingham, Senior Investigator at Imperial College London and Visiting Professor of Mathematics at the London School of Economics.

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Visiting Shinto shrines to pray for family blessings in the coming year, dressing in a kimono, hanging special decorations, eating noodles on New Year's Eve, and playing a poetry card game are among these practices.

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Visiting Lagos, Nigeria, in 1976 for the Festival of African Culture ( FESTAC ), Gil met fellow musicians Fela Kuti and Stevie Wonder.

Visiting Hill Top every chance she got, Potter ’ s books written during this period ( such as The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, about the local shop in Near Sawrey and The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, a wood mouse ) reflect her increasing participation in village life and her delight in country living.

Visiting Earth every thousand years in groups called " Hosts ", the group are revealed to have been responsible for the creation of both the Eternals and the Deviants over a million years ago, but not the Human race ; they are also responsible, through genetic manipulation, for the existence of superpowers in mutants.

Master Teachers are faculty who return every year, whereas Visiting Scholars typically come with backgrounds in various fields outside education, and develop their teaching skills over the course of a year or two.

These include recipients of the very successful Shivdasani Visiting Fellowship, which helps Indian scholars come to Oxford every term.

Visiting “ Fushi ” is also an ultimate holiday of the lifetime, which ensures that every minute of your stay here is worth a lifetime.

His compositional posts were extended when he was invited for six months as a Visiting Professor of Composition at Boston University in the United States, where there were also special concerts given of his works.

In Visiting the Sick ( 1806 ), James Gillray caricatured Fox's last months.

Norman is an active Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology where he spends two months a year teaching.

In 1993, Robinson was awarded the NASA / Space Club Low Memorial Engineering Fellowship, and was assigned for 15 months to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) as Visiting Engineer in the Man Vehicle Laboratory ( MVL ).

; Visiting Professorships: Enable distinguished academics based overseas to spend up to ten months at a UK university, primarily in order to enhance the skills of academic staff or the student body within the host institution.

In June 2008, he was appointed as Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at St Catherine's College, Oxford, succeeding Patrick Stewart in the post.

Through 1996 – 2002 Gould was Vincent Astor Visiting Research Professor of Biology at New York University.

He has not neglected to work in French productions either — e. g., Les Visiteurs ( 1993 ) ( which was later remade in English as Just Visiting in 2001 ), The Crimson Rivers ( 2000 ) and Jet Lag ( Décalage horaire ) by Danièle Thompson ( 2002 ), which was also a box-office success in France.

Two of his most successful paintings, Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa ( 1804 ) and Battle of Abukir ( 1806 ) focus on the Emperor, as he was by then, but include many Egyptian figures, as does the less effective Napoleon at the Battle of the Pyramids ( 1810 ).

Besides teaching at Purdue, she was also appointed Knapp Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin's School of Engineering, and taught at other universities including the Newark College of Engineering, Bryn Mawr College, and Rutgers University.

From 1999 to 2004 he was Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as serving as Distinguished Visiting Professor at The John Marshall Law School from 2000 until 2002.

Visiting his client at her hotel, he learns her real name is Brigid O ' Shaughnessy, she never had a sister, and Thursby was an acquaintance who had betrayed her.

In the 1992 – 93 academic year, Khan was a Visiting Artist in the Ethnomusicology department at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States.

Only Visiting This Planet, which was " Initially coordinated by George Martin ", and was produced by The Triumvirate of British producers Rod Edwards, Roger Hand, and Jon Miller, often ranked as Norman's best album, " mixed his Christian message with strong political themes ", and " was meant to reach the flower children disillusioned by the government and the church " with its " abrasive, urban reality of the gospel ".

Hailed by both critics and fans as one of his best albums, it was praised as " a superb new album which sees a return to the form he showed to full effect on those classics like ' Only Visiting This Planet ' and ' So Long Ago the Garden ' back in the mid seventies " with 13 new " songs are cleverly arranged and produced, with plenty of pertinent lyrical imagery and the sly wit of yore amongst the electric guitar solos and breezy ( sampled?

Intended to be a pre-release to Behind the Curtain, the as yet unreleased first album in Norman's Second Trilogy, first mentioned in 1983, Tourniquet was described by Dougie Adam as " perhaps Larry's deepest, most articulate album ever ... even more hard hitting than ' Only Visiting This Planet ' or ' Stranded in Babylon '".

From 1995 to 1996, he was a Visiting Professor of International Relations at the University of Kyoto.