The military ’ s most elite divisions, the Republican Guard and the 4th Mechanized Division, which are commanded by Bashar's brother, are exclusively Alawite.

In a disciplined bowling effort, Nazmul Hossain took two early wickets, Worcestershire collapsed to 168 ( despite Bangladesh giving up 33 wides and 6 no-balls ), and in a slow, gritty chase, the Bangladeshis-guided by Habibul Bashar's 26 not out and 43 from Javed Omar, made it to the target with 14 overs to spare.

The first few chapters of the novel, dealing with the discovery of Erewhon, are in fact based on Butler's own experiences in New Zealand where, as a young man, he worked as a sheep farmer on Mesopotamia Station for about four years ( 1860 – 1864 ) and explored parts of the interior of the South Island of which he wrote about in his A First Year in Canterbury Settlement ( 1863 ).

In 1967, Nancy Reagan was appointed by her husband to the California Arts Commission, and a year later was named Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year ; in its profile, the Times labeled her " A Model First Lady ".

In 1918, Gordon played Lola Pratt in the Broadway adaptation of Booth Tarkington's Seventeen opposite actor Gregory Kelly, who later acted with her in North American tours of Frank Craven's The First Year and Tarkington's Clarence and Tweedles.

* Notes from the First Year – an early second-wave publication in which the development of a radical line can be traced.

" The First Cut is the Deepest " earned her two American Music Awards for Best Pop / Rock Artist and Adult Contemporary Artist of the Year, respectively.

In 1882 – 1883, a German expedition for the First International Polar Year was stationed at Royal Bay on the southeast side of the island.

* First International Polar Year, an international scientific program, begins.

* Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium ( 1999 ) ISBN 0-316-55840-0

It is known by Catalan historians as " the First Bad Year ', equivalent to the Great Famine further North, an early notice of the catastrophes of the second half of the 14th century.

* A Baby's First Year ( 1954 )

A 2011 paper by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard School of Public Health, “ The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year ,” utilized Oregon ’ s 2008 decision to hold a randomized lottery for the provision of Medicaid insurance in order to measure the impact of health insurance on an individual ’ s health and well-being.

From July to October 1789, he lived in Paris, superintending the publication of his first work: Cadastre perpetuel, dedié a l ' assemblée nationale, l ' an 1789 et le premier de la liberté française (" National Cadastre, Dedicated to the National Assembly, Year 1789 and the First One of French Liberty "), which was written in 1789 and issued in 1790.

At the time, it was known as the Year of the First Consulship of Octavian and Agrippa ( or, less frequently, year 726 Ab urbe condita ).

The name Vietnam New Year is Sino-Vietnamese for Feast of the First Morning, derived from the Hán nôm characters 節 元 旦.

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sabinus and Augurinus and the First year of the decemviri ( or, less frequently, year 303 Ab urbe condita ).

Horford nearly averaged a double-double during his rookie season, and is the only unanimous selection to the All-Rookie First Team as well as being runner-up for Rookie of the Year honors.

Irving was named NBA Rookie of the Year and was unanimously voted to the NBA All-Rookie First Team.

He was named First Team All-NBA while winning Rookie of the Year honors.

The First International Polar Year was proposed by Georg Neumayer and inspired by an Austro-Hungarian naval officer, Karl Weyprecht.

Data and images from the First International Polar Year have very recently been made available for browsing and download on the Web.

These records of the First International Polar Year offer a rare glimpse of the circumpolar Arctic environment as it existed in the past and hold the potential to improve our understanding of historical climate variability and environmental change in the Arctic.

The conference suggested observing in 1932 – 1933, the fiftieth anniversary of the First International Polar Year.

* The Guy's Guide to Surviving Pregnancy, Childbirth and the First Year of Fatherhood ( book )

1 January 1912 was set as the first day of the First Year of the Republic.

The First Year of the Budget of the United States.

* Malcolm H. Murfett, The First Sea Lords: From Fisher to Mountbatten ( Westport: Praeger, 1995 ).

From 1946 through 1985, the army was divided into four numbered armies: the First Army was centered in Rio de Janeiro, the Second Army in São Paulo, the Third Army in Porto Alegre, and the Fourth Army in Recife.

From 8 April to 11 April 1942, the First Consultative Meeting of Activists of the Communist Party of Albania was held in Tirana.

From 1954 until 1959 he was the First Sea Lord, a position that had been held by his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, some forty years earlier.

From 1941 to 1958, most Warner Bros. films bore the combined trademark " A Warner Bros .- First National Picture.

From the First Intermediate Period onward Imhotep was also revered as a poet and philosopher.

As soon as the person has died the priest begins The Office After the Departure of the Soul From the Body ( also known as The First Pannikhida ).

From 1959 to 1960, Jaja Wachuku was the First Nigerian Speaker of the Nigerian Parliament-also called the " House of Representatives.

See his From Pluralist to Patriotic Politics: Putting Practice First, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-19-829688-6, a work of political philosophy ; and his Shall We Dance?

From First Nephi to the end of Omni, the book is a first person narrative of the writers ( although there are many quotations ).

From the 11th century onwards indulgences were granted: In 1064 Pope Alexander II allegedly promised the participants of an expedition against Barbastro ( Tagr al-Andalus, Aragon ) a collective indulgence 30 years before Pope Urban II called the First Crusade.

From the time of the First dynasty or before, the Egyptians mined turquoise in Sinai at two locations, now called by their Arabic names Wadi Maghareh and Serabit el-Khadim.

A Brief History of the Age of Steam: From the First Engine to the Boats and Railways ( 2007 )

From 1919 to 1931, the college moved to Interlaken Blvd, but in 1931 it returned to First Hill permanently.

From 972 to 992, it was the capital of the First Bulgarian Empire.

From the First to the Thirtieth General Assembly sessions, all General Assembly resolutions were numbered consecutively, with the resolution number followed by the session number in Roman numbers ( for example, Resolution 1514 ( XV ), which was the 1514th numbered resolution adopted by the Assembly, and was adopted at the Fifteenth Regular Session ( 1960 )).

From 1717 to 1721 Stanhope served as effective First Minister and was a useful political contact for the Pitt family until the collapse of the South Sea Bubble which engulfed the government.

From his first appearance in the Senate, Brutus aligned with the Optimates ( the conservative faction ) against the First Triumvirate of Marcus Licinius Crassus, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus and Gaius Julius Caesar.

From 1935 the First Labour Government showed a limited degree of idealism in foreign policy, for example opposing the appeasement of Germany and Japan.

* From Ratzinger to Benedict by Avery Cardinal Dulles, Article in Feb 2006 edition of First Things

Dr. John Lingard ( 5 February 1771 – 17 July 1851 ) was an English historian, the author of The History Of England, From the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of Henry VIII, an 8-volume work published in 1819.

From the end of the First Sino-Japanese War and 1903, negotiations between Russia and Japan had proved impractical.

" From Church's Thesis to the First Order Algorithm Theorem ," Tel Aviv University, June 13, 2006.

* Video of his talk " From Church's Thesis to the First Order Algorithm Theorem ," June 13, 2006.

From then, parts of Taiwan became increasingly integrated into the Qing Dynasty before it ceded the island, along with Penghu, to the Empire of Japan in 1895, following the First Sino-Japanese War.