I was a Rich Man's Plaything ( 1947 ) is considered the initial standard bearer of " pop art " and first to display the word " pop ".

As the band became the flag bearer for the local scene, a larger independent label, Slash Records, signed the band to issue its first LP.

In this city, on the evening of 22 May 1844, he first declared his mission as the bearer of a new divine revelation.

General Ulysses S. Grant announced he was a Republican and was unanimously nominated on the first ballot as the party's standard bearer at the Republican convention in Chicago, Illinois, held on May 20-21, 1868.

He ruled circa and was the first bearer of one of the Seven Rings, although the latter was not widely known until the end of the Third Age.

The first known bearer of the name was Theodoric I, son of Alaric I, king of the Visigoths ( d. 451 ).

I was a Rich Man's Plaything ( 1947 ) is considered the initial standard bearer of " pop art " and first to display the word " pop ".

* The alcoholic drink was served by women or alekeepers ( ealu bora " ale bearer "), the first round usually poured by the lady of the house.

According to the painting done by Aetion, of Alexander's first wedding, Hephaestion was his torch bearer ( best man ), showing by this not only his friendship, but also his support for Alexander's policies, as Alexander's choice of an Asian bride had not been a popular one.

When banknotes were first introduced, they were, in effect, a promise to pay the bearer in coins, but gradually became a substitute for the coins and a form of money in their own right.

As Eleanor of Aquitaine ( 1122 ?/ 1124 ?- 1204 ) was the first high profile bearer of the name and as she was the daughter of Aénor de Châtellerault it has been suggested that the name Eleanor originated with Eleanor of Aquitaine, the postulation being that Eleanor of Aquitaine was named Aénor after her mother but referred to as Aliénor that name representing " Alia-Aénor " i. e. the other Aénor.

An Aztec then lights the torch of the first relay bearer, thus initiating the Pan American Games torch relay that will carry the flame to the host city's main stadium, where it plays an important role in the opening ceremony.

* Una, the first bearer ( fictitious )

In the Napoleonic era, the French first empire replaced the coronets of traditional (' royal ') heraldry with a rigorously standardized system ( as other respects of ' Napoleonic ' coats of arms ) of toques, reflecting the rank of the bearer.

The first known bearer of the name was Al-Mansur, second Abbasid caliph and the founder of Baghdad.

The practice of " Schedule Chicken " often results in contagious schedules slips due to the inter-team dependencies and is difficult to identify and resolve, as it is in the best interest of each team not to be the first bearer of bad news.

It was the owner of this lodge, Edward III's shield bearer, Thomas Cheyne, who first gave his name to the village and his descendant, Sir John Cheyne, who built Chenies Manor House in around 1460 on the site.

The first known bearer of the name was one Numerius Julius Caesar ( born before 300 BC ), who might have been conspicuous for having a fine head of hair ( alternatively, given the Roman sense of humour and Julius Caesar's own receding hairline, it could be that the family branch was conspicuous for going bald ).

As a prominent member of the former Hungarian intellectual establishment and the bearer of an aristocratic name, he was banished from Hungarian cultural life since the 1940s as being too liberal, first by the right-wing pro-Nazi governments, later by the communist regime.

The M252 uses a crew of five enlisted personnel to operate: the squad leader, the gunner, the assistant gunner, the first ammunition bearer, and the second ammunition bearer.

# The first ammunition bearer stands to the right rear of the mortar.

Paolozzi's I was a Rich Man's Plaything ( 1947 ) is considered the first standard bearer of Pop Art and first to display the word " pop ".

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.

If the first item in the operand is omitted, the symbolic name IOCSIXF will be assigned.

( The common misconception that he was Dutch and that his first name was Hendrik stem from Dutch documents of his third voyage.

It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.

When he finally got the coughing under control, he realized that Pete ( all he gave was his first name ) was still waiting for an answer -- he didn't even seem to wink as he continued to stare.

She could have found out my first name, of course -- that wouldn't be difficult.

The first part of its name refers to Atlas of Greek mythology, making the Atlantic the " Sea of Atlas ".

The name was first used in the English language in 1768 by R. Edwin in a colorful description of a large snake found in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ), most likely a reticulated python, Python reticulatus.

The oldest known name for Anatolia, " Land of the Hatti " was found for the first time on Mesopotamic cuneiform tablets from the period of the Akkadian dynasty ( 2350 – 2150 BC ).

The Osmanli ruler Osman I was the first Turkish ruler who minted coins in his own name in 1320s, for it bears the legend " Minted by Osman son of Ertugul ".

The name " abjad " ( ) is derived from pronouncing the first letters of the Arabic alphabet in order.

The first element of the actinides, actinium gave the group its name, much as lanthanum had done for the lanthanides.

Ammonius asks Plutarch what he, being a Boeotian, has to say for Cadmus, the Phoenician who reputedly settled in Thebes and introduced the alphabet to Greece, placing alpha first because it is the Phoenician name for ox — which, unlike Hesiod, the Phoenicians considered not the second or third, but the first of all necessities.

Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

Minerva is also the first name of Professor McGonagall, Harry Potter's Head of House, and a very wise witch of Hogwarts, always concerned with the safety of her students.

* Åsa ( disambiguation ), female first name in Sweden

Aventinus, whose name was real name is Johann or Johannes Turmair ( Aventinus being the Latin name of his birthplace ) wrote the Annals of Bavaria, a valuable record of the early history of Germany and the first major written work on the subject.