In the autumn of 1959, the British Broadcasting Corporation presented a series of talks by four scientists competent in cosmology.

Replicas of the urn are often held aloft by victorious teams as a symbol of their victory in an Ashes series, but the actual urn has never been presented or displayed as a trophy in this way.

Since the 1998 – 99 Ashes series, a Waterford Crystal representation of the Ashes urn has been presented to the winners of an Ashes series as the official trophy of that series.

As it took many years for the name " The Ashes " to be given to the ongoing series between England and Australia, there was no concept of there being a representation of the ashes being presented to the winners.

It entailed the recruitment of clerical scholars from Mercia, Wales and abroad to enhance the tenor of the court and of the episcopacy ; the establishment of a court school to educate his own children, the sons of his nobles, and intellectually promising boys of lesser birth ; an attempt to require literacy in those who held offices of authority ; a series of translations into the vernacular of Latin works the king deemed " most necessary for all men to know "; the compilation of a chronicle detailing the rise of Alfred's kingdom and house ; and the issuance of a law code that presented the West Saxons as a new people of Israel and their king as a just and divinely inspired law-giver.

Before leaving Whorf presented the paper " Stem series in Maya " at the Linguistic Society of America conference, in which he argued that in the Mayan languages syllables carry symbolic content.

Watterson opposed the structure publishers imposed on Sunday newspaper cartoons: the standard cartoon starts with a large, wide rectangle featuring the cartoon's logo or a throwaway panel tangential to the main area so that newspapers pressed for space can remove the top third of the cartoon if they wish ; the rest of the strip is presented in a series of rectangles of different widths.

Another significant difference is that the character of Prince Edmund presented in the pilot is much closer to the intelligent, conniving Blackadder of the later series than the snivelling, weak buffoon of the original.

Also, slides ( or valves ) are used to change the length of the tubing, thus changing the harmonic series presented by the instrument to the player.

Charles most notably presented the cult TV hit Robot Wars on BBC2 ( 1998 – 2003 ) and Channel 5 ( 2003 – 2004 ), from series 2 until its conclusion at series 7, which included two Extreme series and numerous ' specials '.

In 2008, he presented a reality TV talent show-themed television series produced by the BBC entitled Maestro, starring eight celebrities who are " famous amateurs with a passion for classical music.

For instance, suppose one has a filter which, when presented with an impulse in a time series:

They presented the idea to Bright, with whom they had previously worked, and together they pitched a seven-page treatment of the series to NBC.

During the 2006-2007 season CMT aired a series of reruns and TV Land also recognized the series with an award presented by k. d.

In the 1950s, Lacan's structuralist theories about Hamlet were first presented in a series of seminars given in Paris and later published in " Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in Hamlet ".

The magazine's editor, Ray Palmer, ran a series of stories by Richard Sharpe Shaver supposedly claimed as factual, though presented in the context of fiction.

A BBC history series What the Romans Did for Us, written and presented by Adam Hart-Davis and first broadcast in 2000, takes its title from John Cleese's rhetorical question " What have the Romans ever done for us?

In the same period, the TNT Network presented a television movie on Geronimo, as well as two others on Native American historical figures, and a six-part documentary series on Native history, all within a 14-month period.

In 2009 We Shall Remain ( 2009 ), a television documentary by Ric Burns and part of the American Experience series, presented a five-episode series " from a Native American perspective ".

In its first series it was a single-game cup, played each year at minor-league Cooper Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, was staged just days before the start of each new Major League Baseball season.

Emergence myths commonly describe the creation of people and / or supernatural beings as a staged ascent or metamorphosis from nascent forms through a series of subterranean worlds to arrive at their current place and form.

The series was staged as the Formula 3000 European Championship in 1985, as the Formula 3000 Intercontinental Championship in 1986 and 1987 and then as the Formula 3000 International Championship from 1988 to 2004.

The play is a series of scenes and songs, and was first staged at public swimming pool in Brooklyn.

In the 1950s, the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party denounced the Constitution and Muñoz Marín support as a sham, and staged a series of uprisings in 1950, known as the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s, of which the most notable were the ones in Jayuya, Utuado and San Juan, plus the attack on Blair House, and the United States House of Representatives in 1954.

The London Royal National Theatre staged a major, two-part adaptation of the series in 2003 – 2004, and New Line Cinema released a film based on Northern Lights, titled The Golden Compass, in 2007.

The first World Cup series was staged in 1980 and the first World Championships took place in 1986 in Tignes, France.

The first World Cup series was staged in 1980 and the first World Championships took place in 1986 in Tignes, France.

To bolster his claims, pressure owners to pay him off and to assuage those who had bought lots from him in earnest, Streeter staged a series of " invasions ", when he would lead a small group of squatters carrying shacks to the lake shore to quickly set up settlements.

Peter Waite's Rochester Pottery staged a series of solo painting shows.

The competition was to represent a new high profile sponsored race series, which was staged at Oulton Park, Cheshire, on 3 – 5 April 2010.

In the 1967 – 68 season, with a new home court in the form of The Spectrum to defend their championship, once again the 76ers made it back to the NBA Playoffs and in the rematch of the previous year's semifinals, the 76ers held a 3 – 1 series lead over the Celtics, before the Celtics staged a dramatic come back to beat the Sixers in seven games.

Play-offs are used to decide the premiers of the National Rugby League ( NRL ) in Australasia, where they are known as finals ( also as semi finals or semis )-as in Australian rules football, the participating teams only come from within a single division, and the tournament is staged as single matches rather than series.

His association with Amnesty continued throughout the 1980s and beyond and he was a pioneering participant in many of Amnesty's Human Rights Concerts – a series of music events and tours staged by the US Section of Amnesty International between 1986 and 1998.

Fluxus staged a series of festivals in Paris, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, London and New York, with avant-garde performances often spilling out into the street.

One of the plays that was staged, the short comedy of manners A Respectable Wedding, was retranslated by Bremner, who also penned the title to the series.

In the early 1930s, before Dannay and Lee's identity as the authors had been made public, " Ellery Queen " and " Barnaby Ross " staged a series of public debates in which one cousin impersonated Queen and the other impersonated Ross, both of them wearing masks to preserve their anonymity.

In 1992, Charles Saatchi staged a series of exhibitions of Young British Art, the first show included works by Sarah Lucas, Rachel Whiteread and Damien Hirst.

Between 1808 and 1810 Moore appeared each year with the Kilkenny Players in a charitable series of performances in Kilkenny staged by a mixture of the Irish elite and professional actors.

There is a performing arts series staged at Convocation Hall ( one of the largest concert halls east of Montreal ) during the school year.

The ESP system consists of a number of components that turn a staged series of centrifugal pumps to increase the pressure of the well fluid and push it to the surface.

Garrison received national attention for a series of vice raids in the French Quarter, staged sometimes on a nightly basis.

Marshalling vast armies aided by their impressive machines ( some of the old Thran Empire, some newly made ) the brothers staged a series of battles.

* In the March 2012 series revival premiere, celebrity host Justin Bieber attempted to punk professional skateboarder Rob Dyrdek by creating a staged argument between a man and woman near his table at a restaurant.

* In the Alex Rider series, a crash is staged on the Westway.