He was gifted with animal magnetism and a potent allure for women of any race.

it was the clerks who caused the mischief and who made him say that the ruling passion of their race was covetousness and that in dealing with them he never knew whether he had to do with a Frenchman or with a devil.

On matters of race he was similarly inflexible: `` Most of the modern Latin races seem to have inherited the rigidity of the Roman mind ''.

To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.

The situation already was bad because the Legislature moved the governor's race forward a few months, causing the campaigning to get started earlier than usual.

How could the rich, for whom life was made so simple, ever understand the subterfuges, the lies, the frauds, the errors, sins and even crimes to which the poor were driven in their efforts to overcome the great advantages the rich had in the race of life??

He was happy enough to take the convertible and race up the hill to the Blevins', thinking that they might give him a drink.

Lou Gehrig was given the nickname Buster, and he ran Ruth a close race in home runs.

When the crowd was asked whether it wanted to wait one more term to make the race, it voted no -- and there were no dissents.

Since 1949, the only National League club that got off to a hot start and made a runaway of the race was the '55 Dodger team.

Emory University's Board of Trustees announced Friday that it was prepared to accept students of any race as soon as the state's tax laws made such a step possible.

And even as she, having indeed a husband, Adam, but being nevertheless as yet a virgin, having become disobedient, was made the cause of death, both to herself and to the entire human race ; ;

Though the reference to race was stricken by the association in 1950, being an agent of such `` detrimental '' influences still appears as the cardinal sin realtors see themselves committed to avoid.

A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

For example, Boas studied immigrant children to demonstrate that biological race was not immutable, and that human conduct and behavior resulted from nurture, rather than nature.

The first organized race was on April 28, 1887 by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède, Monsieur Fossier.

It was won by Georges Bouton of the De Dion-Bouton Company, in a car he had constructed with Albert, the Comte de Dion, but as he was the only competitor to show up it is rather difficult to call it a race.

" To fill out the schedule, most types of racing events were invented here, including the first hill climb ( Nice – La Turbie ) and a sprint that was, in spirit, the first drag race.

According to Gregory of Tours ' account, Alaric was intimidated by Clovis into surrendering Syagrius to Clovis ; Gregory then adds that " the Goths are a timorous race.

In 1839, Johnson entered the race for re-election to his House seat, initially as a Whig ; when another Whig entry arose, to enhance his position in the campaign, he ran as a Democrat and was elected to his second, non-consecutive term in the Tennessee House.

Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race ; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea ; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in Odyssey book 10 as Keeper of the Winds who gives Odysseus a tightly closed bag full of the captured winds so he could sail easily home to Ithaca on the gentle West Wind.

" Johnston took the-vril suffix from Bulwer-Lytton's then-popular " lost race " novel The Coming Race ( 1870 ), whose plot revolves around a superior race of people, the Vril-ya, who derive their powers from an electromagnetic substance named " Vril.

Childress ' second-year Busch Series driver Kevin Harvick was named as Earnhardt's replacement driver, beginning with the race following Earnhardt's death held at the North Carolina Speedway.

After the death of Aegimius, his two sons, Pamphylus and Dymas, voluntarily submitted to Hyllus ( who was, according to the Dorian tradition in Herodotus V. 72, really an Achaean ), who thus became ruler of the Dorians, the three branches of that race being named after these three heroes.

The Greeks are also given credit with spreading the story of a mythological race of women warriors named Amazons.

* Marathon, Greece, after which the distance race was named

* In Mass Effect ( 2007 ), an expedition launched by the European Space Agency discovers an ancient cache of advanced technology leftover from an alien race known as the Protheans ( The capitol of Mars is called " Lowell city " probably named after Percival Lowell who fueled the believe in possibility of alien structures on Mars ).

It is named after the fictional Star Trek race by the original authors, Katherine Freese and Matthew Lewis.

A race introduced in the episode " The Jihad ", represented by a character named M3 Green, is named the Nasat in the Starfleet Corps of Engineers e-book novellas.

The madison is a team event in track cycling, named after the first Madison Square Garden in New York, and known as the " American race " in French ( course à l ' américaine ) and in Italian and Spanish as Americana.

The Zora appear to be an extinct race in The Wind Waker ; a sage named is encountered in spirit.

In Madison races ( named after six-day races at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York and known as the American ), the team's relief rider rests above the Stayer ’ s line by riding slowly until his or her teammate comes around the track and throws him or her back into the race.

She was the unwilling object of affection to a Troyjan ( an alien race whose people have no noses ) prince named Trauma.

In Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn Ireland's " ninth appellation it received likewise from the sons of Milesius, who named it Scotia, from their mother's name, Scota, who was the daughter of Pharaoh Nectanebo I, king of Egypt ; or perhaps from themselves, they being originally of the Scythian race.

* In Jim Butcher's Codex Alera the leader of the Canim, a race of large anthropomorphic wolves, is named Varg.

Former Maryland Governor Oden Bowie named the then mile and one-half ( 2. 41 km ) race in honor of the colt Preakness from Milton Holbrook Sanford's Preakness Stables in Preakness, Wayne Township, New Jersey, who won the Dinner Party Stakes on the day Pimlico opened ( October 25, 1870 ).

The first Belmont Stakes was held at Jerome Park Racetrack in The Bronx, built in 1866 by stock market speculator Leonard Jerome ( 1817 – 1891 ) and financed by August Belmont, Sr. ( 1816 – 1890 ), for whom the race was named.

He was named " the Deathless " as he lived to a far greater age than any other dwarf, and he was revered by all dwarves as the eldest of their race.

The race features a nag named Beetlebaum, who begins at long odds, runs the race a distant last — and yet suddenly emerges as the winner.

A new race was planned, and it was decided that it should be named after either the host of the party, the 12th Earl of Derby, or one of his guests, Sir Charles Bunbury.

A valley descending southwest from Jerusalem to the Valley of Elah below, it is an ancient route from the coastal plain to the Judean Hills, probably named after the legendary race of giants.

Turcotte's career ended in 1978 following a tumble from his horse ( named Flag of Leyte Gulf ) at the start of a race at Belmont Park that left him a paraplegic.

After the Olympics, the Park was converted into racing facilities named Seoul Race Park and the first race was held on September 1, 1989.