Ever Onward

The observations and comments of Sir William Crookes (as noted above) over 107 years ago about the lanthanides is even more appropriate to these lanthanide/actinide tomes. This is especially noteworthy because only two members of the actinide series of elements were then known (Th and U) and the concept of such a series was not to develop for about 50 years. But we hope that the material presented in these three lanthanide/actinide volumes will shed light on some of the mysteries of yesterday, but as surely as we begin to understand them, new ones will arise to continue to haunt us as we move forward and ever onward. 

Ever since Saxon times the unit of weight in Britain has been the pound, but that pound has varied considerably in value from time to time. In 1533 Henry vm instituted the pound Troy as the legal unit. This had been introduced from the French city of Troyes towards the close of the reign of Edward hi (d. 1377) and was apparently widely known and used even before it became official. The standard Troy pound appears to have been renewed from time to time and that used from 1758 onwards was destroyed in the fire at the House of Commons in 1834, having been housed there along with the standard yard. 

Sean Connery did not eome from the same stable of British actors who would later become international film stars from the late 1950 s and the 1960 s, such as Albert Finney, Peter O Toole, Alan Bates and Tom Courtney. They came from a British Theatre wMeh had eertainly gone tMough a renaissance with the Angiy Young Man plays, particularly those staged at the Royal Court Theatre. Eaeh of these actors would become headline actors in international films fiom the early sixties onwards, whether in David Lean s epic pictures such as Lawrence of Arabia and Dr. ZMvago or in transatlantic successes such as Far From the Madding Crowd or Tom Jones. None of these actors, however, were ever really... 

The perception of the cycle shown came from Walter A. Shewhart. I called it in Japan in 1950 and onward the Shewhart cycle. It went into immediate use in Japan under the name of the Deming Cycle, so it has been called ever since. 

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