Mr. Mattocks, who had a record of transit-related offenses, was convicted of a felony, possession of a forged instrument, and sentenced to two to four years in prison.
He has represented a subway-obsessed man named Darius McCollum, who has a long record of impersonating transit employees and stealing the odd train.
The recording of the transit is seen by many as the birth of modern astronomy in Britain.
The first known observations and recording of a transit of Venus were made in 1639 by the English astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and his friend and correspondent William Crabtree.
The intricate tale of two African-American couples -- two brothers married to two sisters -- becomes a chronicle of the varieties of black experience over much of the last century and a record of lives in transit.
His mission was to observe and record the transit of Venus, the planet's passage across the disk of the sun, in 1769; to look for a large, unknown (and nonexistent, as he showed) continent in the South Pacific; and to chart the coastlines as he went.
Pynchon reimagined them as a sort of Bouvard and Pécuchet, traveling together to South Africa to record the Transit of Venus, then to the American colonies to pin down the Mason-Dixon line.
Second, even in a worst-case scenario, not all would be lost, since we could easily adopt control measures employed by Alexandre-Gui Pingré, who was sent to Rodrigues Island in 1761 to observe and record the Transit of Venus.
Although transits of planets across the Sun are rare (only Mercury and Venus orbit the Sun closer than us, and so can transit the Sun's disc) amateur astronomers can observe, record and image other kinds of transit, which are very much more frequent.
Such a map, if pieced together an all but impossible task would account for every arrival and departure, a visual record of the passengers in transit.
A review of transit authority records by The Washington Post found that months before the smoke incident, Metro knew that train controllers were poorly served by computer software that dates to 2002.
