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Printed for 244 years, the Britannica was the longest-running in-print encyclopaedia in the English language. It was first published between 1768 and 1771 in Edinburgh, Scotland, in three volumes. The encyclopaedia grew in size; the second edition was 10 volumes, [2] and by its fourth edition (1801–1810), it had expanded to 20 volumes. [3]
This quarter system was adopted by the oldest universities in the English-speaking world (Oxford, founded circa 1096, [1] and Cambridge, founded circa 1209 [2]). Over time, Cambridge dropped Trinity Term and renamed Hilary Term to Lent Term, and Oxford also dropped the original Trinity Term and renamed Easter Term as Trinity Term, thus establishing the three-term academic "quarter" year widely ...
One in five to six years has a 53rd week which is usually appended to the last quarter. It is then 98 days instead of 91 days long, which complicates comparisons. In the Chinese calendar, the quarters are traditionally associated with the 4 seasons of the year: Spring: 1st to 3rd month; Summer: 4th to 6th month; Autumn: 7th to 9th month
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Georgia controlled the ball for 9:22 of the fourth quarter, covering 72 yards in 16 plays, but couldn't quite punch in the ball, and had to settle for a go-ahead field goal to put the score at 16-13.
Bishop took initial letters of words from periodical titles, thereby using a code, which helped him arranging the collected publications. In 1953 [ 1 ] he published his documentation system, originally designed as a four-letter CODEN system; volume and page numbers have been added, in order to cite and locate exactly an article in a magazine. [ 2 ]
While sudden cardiac death among young athletes is still relatively rare — an estimated 1 in 50,000 to 1 in 80,000 experience it — researchers have supported having AEDs near playing fields ...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced on Friday that she is jumping into the race to be the top Democrat on the influential House Oversight Committee.