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In 1 AD, Confucius was given his first posthumous name, the " Laudably Declarable Lord Ni " ( 褒成宣尼公 ).
Philip of Valois, the late king's first cousin acted as regent, pending the birth of the king's posthumous child, which proved to be a girl.
Cináed mac Ailpín ( Modern Gaelic: Coinneach mac Ailpein ), commonly Anglicised as Kenneth MacAlpin and known in most modern regnal lists as Kenneth I ( 810-13 February 858 ) was king of the Picts and, according to national myth, first king of Scots, earning him the posthumous nickname of An Ferbasach, " The Conqueror ".
The theory of errors may be traced back to Roger Cotes's Opera Miscellanea ( posthumous, 1722 ), but a memoir prepared by Thomas Simpson in 1755 ( printed 1756 ) first applied the theory to the discussion of errors of observation.
According to one story that first appeared in a 1475 posthumous biography and was subsequently embellished and popularized by Pierre-Simon Laplace, Callixtus III excommunicated the 1456 apparition of Halley's Comet, believing it to be an ill omen for the Christian defenders of Belgrade from the besieging armies of the Ottoman Empire.
In 1944, four nurses serving in World War II – First Lieutenant Mary Roberts, Second Lieutenant Elaine Roe, Second Lieutenant Rita Virginia Rourke, and Second Lieutenant Ellen Ainsworth ( posthumous ) – became the first women recipients of the Silver Star, all cited for their bravery in successfully evacuating the 33rd Field Hospital at Anzio, Italy on February 10.
The first of these releases came in 1976 when Beserkley compiled a posthumous LP from the first two demo sessions produced by Cale and Mason ; issued on Beserkley's Home of the Hits subsidiary, the album was simply titled The Modern Lovers and included celebrated tracks such as " Roadrunner ", " She Cracked ", and " Pablo Picasso ".
* Confucius is given his first royal title ( posthumous name ) of Lord Baochengxun Ni.
In 2008, the first posthumous album by Jennings, Waylon Forever was released.
Thoreau's friend Ellery Channing published his first biography, Thoreau the Poet-Naturalist, in 1873, and Channing and another friend Harrison Blake edited some poems, essays, and journal entries for posthumous publication in the 1890s.
* Tales of Conan ( 1955 ) ( with Robert E. Howard )-collection containing the first of de Camp's " posthumous collaborations " with Howard, marking the beginning of his successful promotion of Howard's " Conan the Barbarian " character
Such cases were common in Chinese history, i. e., the first emperor of a new dynasty often accorded posthumous imperial titles to his father or sometimes even further paternal ancestors.
This category is notable for giving Walt Disney 12 of his 22 Academy Awards, including a posthumous 1968 award, and also 10 of the first 12 awards awarded in the category.
Brooke's most famous collection of poetry, containing all five sonnets, 1914 & Other Poems, was first published in May 1915 and, in testament to his popularity, ran to 11 further impressions that year and by June 1918 had reached its 24th impression ; a process undoubtedly fuelled through posthumous interest.
It was his first work in prose, which was written in Morocco in 1922 but remained unpublished until this posthumous collaboration.
In 1976, Peter Finch was awarded a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the American satire Network, becoming the first Australian to win an Oscar for best actor.
The first posthumous album release was entitled 7 Park Avenue, named after the address of Badfinger's band residence in Golders Green.
In the century's first decade, poetry still had a large audience ; volumes of verse published in that time included Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts, Christina Rossetti's posthumous Poetical Works, Ernest Dowson's Poems, George Meredith's Last Poems, Robert Service's Ballads of a Cheechako and John Masefield's Ballads and Poems.
The first person named posthumously was said to be Ji Chang, named by his son Ji Fa of Zhou, as the " Civil King ", though earlier and perhaps mythological rulers such as Emperor Yao are considered to have posthumous names.
To combine an emperor's temple name and posthumous name, place temple first.
Starting with Emperor Xiaowen of Han ( more commonly " Emperor Wen "), every single Han emperor, except the first one of the Eastern Han Dynasty, has the character of " filial " ( 孝 xiào ) at the beginning of his posthumous names.
It was the first posthumous pardon in the state's history.
The book's title came to be synonymous with probability theory, and accordingly the phrase was used in Thomas Bayes ' famous posthumous paper An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances, wherein a version of Bayes ' theorem was first introduced.
Albert Victor's posthumous reputation became so bad that in 1964 Philip Magnus called his death a " merciful act of providence ", supporting the theory that his death removed an unsuitable heir to the throne and replaced him with the reliable and sober George V. In 1972, Michael Harrison was the first modern author to re-assess Albert Victor and portray him in a more sympathetic light.

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School ( 1904 ) Sanskriti ... The School ( 2004 ) and Sophia Girls ' School ( 1918 / 1935 ) & College ( 1942 ), Rashtriya Military School Ajmer ( Since 2010-Established in 1930 as King George ’ s Royal Indian Military School ), and the historic Ajmer Music College, founded in 1942, the first accredited institution in Rajputana for teaching Hindustani classical music.
He entered the Kriegsakademie ( also cited as " The German War School ," the " Military Academy in Berlin ," and the " Prussian Military Academy ") in Berlin in 1801 ( age 21 ), studied the writings of the philosopher Immanuel Kant, and won the regard of General Gerhard von Scharnhorst, the future first chief of staff of the new Prussian Army ( appointed 1809 ).
In the first month and half after the October Revolution ( 1917 ), the duty of " extinguishing the resistance of exploiters " was assigned to the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee ( or VRK ).
* 1751 – The Theresian Military Academy is founded as the first Military Academy in the world.
He met Prime Minister Qarase, Finance Minister Ratu Jone Kubuabola, and Military Commander Commodore Frank Bainimarama on the first day of his visit ; meetings with Foreign Minister Tavola and House of Representatives Speaker Ratu Epeli Nailatikau were held later.
* 2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests.
A military dictatorship, led by then-Lt. Col. Lansana Conté and styling itself the Military Committee of National Recovery ( CMRN ), took control of Guinea in April 1984, shortly after the death of independent Guinea's first president, Sékou Touré.
Military efforts after the Partitions were first based on Polish alliances with post-revolutionary France.
* 1977 – Military coup in Pakistan: Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, is overthrown.
* 1877 – Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
General Liu Jingsong, commander of the Lanzhou Military Region, led China's first military delegation to Kenya in December 1996 ; Major General Nick Leshan, commander of the Kenyan air force, paid a return visit in 1997.
Lu Han, a Kuomintang official in Nanjing, who was originally from Yunnan, was contacted by the VNQDD, and the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee and Military made direct contact with VNQDD for the first time, the party was reestablished in Nanjing with KMT help.
During the early days of the Soviet Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army as People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs.
* former German New Guinea became the Territory of New Guinea ( Australia / United Kingdom ) from 17 December 1920 under a ( at first Military ) Administrator ; after ( wartime ) Japanese / U. S. military commands from 8 December 1946 under UN mandate as North East New Guinea ( under Australia, as administrative unit ), until it became part of present Papua New Guinea at independence in 1975
Beria was taken first to the Moscow guardhouse ( Hauptwachte ) and then to the bunker of the headquarters of Moscow Military District.
The reverse of the medal has the motto taken from the Great Seal of the United States, "" (" He Has Favored Our Undertakings ") and the date "" ( 1782 ) which is the date of America's first decoration, the Badge of Military Merit, now known as the Purple Heart.
* 1917 – The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
He was held for twelve months in different concentration camps suffering severe torture: first at the Tacna Regiment, then at the Military Academy ; later he was sent for eight months to a political prison on Dawson Island and from there he was transferred to the basement of the Air Force War Academy, and finally to the concentration camp of Ritoque, until international diplomatic pressure, especially from Diego Arria, then Governor of the city of Caracas in Venezuela, resulted in the sudden release of Letelier on the condition that he immediately leave Chile.
But due to the massive post-World War II demobilization of the U. S. armed forces, Kenney's position at the UN Military Staff Committee in New York, and Kenney's unhappiness with being assigned to SAC, for the first two years of its existence, there was some lack of urgency.
This confirmed for the first time to the U. S. Military ( naval intelligence ) and Americans that American POW's were being tortured in North Vietnam.
Later, Sondheim attended the New York Military Academy and George School, a private Quaker preparatory school in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he wrote his first musical (" By George !").
* John Browning finalizes the design for the M1919 Browning machine gun (. 30 caliber ), the first widely distributed and practical air cooled medium machine gun introduced to the United States Military.

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