Despite a brief spell at a traditional preparatory school at the age of seven for one year, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá received no formal education.

After a brief spell of Burgundian rule, Luxembourg fell into the hands of the Habsburgs in 1477.

After a brief spell as Budapesterstraße in the late 1920s ( although this name was not widely recognised ), on 6 February 1930 it was renamed Ebertstraße after Friedrich Ebert ( 1871 – 1925 ), first President of Weimar Germany.

James, the Chevalier de Johnstone, acted as Murray's Aide de Camp during the campaign and, for a brief spell, the Young Pretender's.

During his brief spell with Svornost, he met the writer and leading radical, Karel Sabina, who would later provide libretti for Smetana's first two operas.

The Maldives has remained an independent nation throughout its recorded history, save for a brief spell of Portuguese occupation in the mid-16th century.

He also had a brief spell with Glapwell and one appearance for Stocksbridge Park Steels in the Northern Premier League First Division.

Her education was spotty, consisting of a short stint at a " dame school ", some home schooling under the " capable, slightly impatient, somewhat sporadic " instruction of Albion Bradbury ( her stepfather ), a brief spell at the district school, a year as a boarder at the Gorham Female Seminary, a winter term at Morison Academy in Baltimore, Maryland, and a few months ' stay at Abbot Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where she graduated with the class of 1873.

Towards the end of his career, he also had a brief loan spell at Norwich City.

Jimmy Wallington became the show's announcer for most of its life with Allen as the feature ( he succeeded George Burns and Gracie Allen sidekick Harry Von Zell ), though for a brief spell during its second season the announcer was budding radio personality and future television legend Arthur Godfrey.

After a brief spell under Gaulish rule, it was taken over by Romans in the 3rd century BC.

After a brief spell touring with Paul Young's Q Tips they began performing on a regular basis with Elvis Costello.

The message was clear and it was from God ; in a passage of Kitab al-Mubashshirāt Ibn ‘ Arabī admits that one evening in Mecca he experienced a brief spell of despondency on the face of his disciples, he thought of leaving all counselling, abandon men to their fate and to devote his future efforts to himself alone as those who truly enter the Path are rare.

The 1963 Bugs Bunny short Transylvania 6-5000 features a brief, silent cameo appearance from Witch Hazel ( or a character very similar to her ), as Bugs transforms Count Bloodcount, the cartoon's vampire antagonist, into her through the use of a magic spell.

Having left the station towards the end of 2007 for a brief spell, Boyd returned to the station in mid-2008 with a similar format.

In April 2005, 44 years after his brief spell at AC Milan, he called for their Milan rivals Inter to be banned from European competitions for three years due to rioting by their fans during the European Cup quarter-final between AC Milan and Inter at the San Siro.

Drummer Murray Briggs, who played on several of the band's 7 " records, as well as the Fuaim Catha LP, now plays in Scottish indie pop band Aberfeldy along with brother Riley, who had a brief spell as Oi Polloi's guitarist in the 1990s.

Following the expiration of his contract at Barcelona, Larsson returned to his hometown club of Helsingborg, and joined Manchester United on a brief loan spell between January and March 2007.

Having struggled with injuries for two years, Davids returned to competitive football during a brief spell with Crystal Palace before retiring at the age of 37.

Later she ran a restaurant for two years before a brief spell in Paris as a Moulin Rouge style cabaret performer.

He combined his role at the Stadium of Light with the job as manager of the England U21 for a brief spell in 1999.

Reid also had a brief spell as manager of the England under-21 team in this season.

After a brief spell as a professional wrestler ( performing under the name " The Masked Executioner "), and as a debt collector for Trojan Records, he worked as a DJ on local radio and ran his own sound system.

Only a brief scene during the closing credits hints that this may be untrue: Elaine Marley idly wonders if Guybrush has fallen prey to some evil spell of LeChuck's, and we see " Chucky " has red eyes with an evil glow.

However, he initially tried to be too aggressive and, according to Wisden, " he had a brief spell of comparative failure, due to a little overeagerness and overconfidence ".

For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

A brief list of the great detective's little idiosyncrasies would provide Dr. Freud with ample food for thought.

In the fairly brief but hectic history of Florida, the developers of waterfront land have too often wound up with both their land and ours.

She concluded by asking for a brief interview -- `` to settle with you where '' -- and she threw in a tribute to his `` gentle manners '' and `` the wild originality of your countenance ''.

This brief resume hardly does the book justice, but I heartily recommend it to all those who are engages with the major problems of our time.

Woodward, for example, has emphasized the `` need for a broad spectrum of services, including very brief services in connection with critical situations ''.

In a brief chapter dealing with `` Various Other Diagnoses '', he quotes isolated passages from some writers whose views seem to corroborate his own, and finds it `` most remarkable that a critical view of twentieth-century society was already held by a number of thinkers living in the nineteenth.

We have a brief glimpse of the Tsar's public personality, the `` official Boris '', but our real focus is on the excitement of the crowd -- a significant contrast with its halfhearted acclamation in the opening scene, its bitter resentment and fury in the final act.

Hartsfield has been mayor of Atlanta, with exception of one brief interlude, since 1937.

The impact with the utility pole caused a brief power failure in the immediate area of the accident.

There also came a brief contretemps with the sound mixers who made the mistake of being overheard during a quiet moment near the conclusion of `` Do It Again '', and she made the tart observation that `` I never saw so much moving about in an audience ''.

Leaving Cathy with them, Myra had gone out to the Coast for a supposedly brief visit ; ;

When he was made a vice president only a year after the new sales job, a leading business magazine ran his photograph with a brief biography in a series on national business leaders of the future.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.

Some of these have explored and offered accounts of Christie's disappearance in 1926, including the 1979 film Agatha ( with Vanessa Redgrave, where she sneaks away to plan revenge against her husband ) and the Doctor Who episode " The Unicorn and the Wasp " ( with Fenella Woolgar, her disappearance being the result of her suffering a temporary breakdown due to a brief psychic link being formed between her and an alien ).

Leonard J. Farwell, a fellow boarder at the Kirkwood House, awoke Johnson with news of Lincoln's having been shot at Ford's Theater ; Johnson rushed to the President's deathbed for a brief time, commenting, " They shall suffer for this.

( Hume 1974: 355-356 ) He also argues in brief against the idea that causes are mere occasions of the will of some god ( s ), a view associated with the philosopher Nicolas Malebranche.

The American Psychiatric Association has recommended sustained treatment in conjunction with AA's program, or similar community resources, for chronic alcoholics unresponsive to brief treatment.

Camelot was a hit nonetheless, with a poignant coda ; immediately following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, his widow told Life magazine that JFK's administration reminded her of the " one brief shining moment " of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot.

Southern Interior valleys have shorter winters with brief bouts of cold.

In addition, in the USA, a major monthly magazine, Computer Shopper, carried a list of BBSes along with a brief abstract of each of their offerings.

A new development section is played before the recapitulation is repeated, and the scherzo concludes with a brief codetta.