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After what seemed several seconds, the open mouth grew dark inside then blood began to ooze from it.
After that, it requires several minutes of concentrated work, including six separate and deliberate actions by a minimum of three men sitting at three separate stations in a bomber, each with another man beside him to help, for an armed bomb to be released.
After the judge moved all the dogs individually, she selected several from the group and placed them in the center of the ring.
After promoting Frost's appearance at the Inauguration, he persuaded the poet to return several months later to give a reading to a select audience of Cabinet members, members of Congress, and other Washington notables gathered in the State Department auditorium.
After a White House huddle between the President and top lieutenants, the Defense Department reacted sharply to a cry from the pro-Western government of Laos that several battalions of Communist troops had invaded Laos from North Viet Nam.
After a hiatus of several centuries, formal commentary by Eustratius and Michael of Ephesus reappears in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, apparently sponsored by Anna Comnena
After making a series of westerns and comedies, Dwan directed fellow Canadian Mary Pickford in several very successful movies as well as her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, notably in the acclaimed 1922 Robin Hood.
His teacher was his mother, who supervised him for several years until she became terminally ill. After Hillside, he was educated at Eton College.
After the sun sets and the temperature drops, the warm wall will then continue to transfer heat to the interior for several hours due to the time lag effect.
After 1180 BC, the Hittite empire disintegrated into several independent " Neo-Hittite " states, subsequent to losing much territory to the Middle Assyrian Empire and being finally overrun by the Phrygians, another Indo-European people who are believed to have migrated from The Balkans.
After several revisions, for example, he deemed the essay " Psyche " ( Alcott's account of how he educated his daughters ) unpublishable.
After describing the manifestation of the Gospel in the Ogdoad and Hebdomad, he adds that the Basilidians have a long account of the innumerable creations and powers in the several ' stages ' of the upper world ( diastemata ), in which they speak of 365 heavens and say that " their great archon " is Abrasax, because his name contains the number 365, the number of the days in the year ; i. e. the sum of the numbers denoted by the Greek letters in ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ according to the rules of isopsephy is 365:
After several years of outdoor trading, the curbstone brokers moved indoors in 1921 to a building on Greenwich Street in Lower Manhattan.
After Roman times, Einhard mentions that in 765 – 6 Pippin the Younger spent both Christmas and Easter at Aquis villa (""), which must have been sufficiently equipped to support the royal household for several months.
After several days of competition, Odysseus and Ajax are tied for the ownership of the magical armor which was forged on Mount Olympus by the god Hephaestus.
After several victories he was at last completely defeated ( 307 BC ) and fled secretly to Sicily.
After the team had developed a method of purifying penicillin to an effective first stable form in 1940, several clinical trials ensued, and their amazing success inspired the team to develop methods for mass production and mass distribution in 1945.
After several hours of analysis, however, mission controllers determined that the malfunction could be worked around and Young and Duke could proceed with the landing.
After three hours and six minutes, Young and Duke returned to the LM, where they completed several experiments and offloaded the rover.
After leaving school at 17, Ayckbourn's career took several temporary jobs in various places before starting a temporary job at the Scarborough Library Theatre, where he was introduced to the artistic director, Stephen Joseph.
After several applications, his enrollment in the École des Beaux-Arts was accepted in 1885, and he studied there under Jean-Léon Gérôme and Alexandre Cabanel.
After several hundred years of Tabernacle worship without instrumental music, King David introduced musical instruments into Temple worship based upon a commandment from God.
After several decades of being the battlefield where the Kingdom of Castile and the Crown of Aragón clashed, Alicante became a major Mediterranean trading station exporting rice, wine, olive oil, oranges and wool.
After being in America for several years, Nin had forgotten how to speak Spanish, but retained her French and became fluent in English.
After several publishers had turned it down, he published it at his own expense in 1896.

After and misadventures
After the success of travelogues based on voyages to the South Seas and stories based on misadventures in the merchant marine and navy, Melville's popularity declined dramatically.
After several misadventures, and escaping from Pontius Pilate, the fugitive winds up in a lineup of would-be mystics and prophets who harangue the passing crowd in a plaza.
After they leave, Christina and Courtney go on a series of misadventures including an exploding toilet, a glory hole discovery, and a motorcyclist who is led to believe Christina is giving Courtney oral sex.
After several misadventures, including being accosted by his oldest friends, he finds himself attending the Fresh Start club, an undead-rights group led by Reg Shoe.
After getting chased out of his own house by his father ( who hasn't realized the dog is actually his older son ), Wilby has a series of misadventures, as he constantly switches back and forth between human and dog forms.
After several misadventures, all initiated by the devious Shadow, Tom ends up in Bedlam, a psychiatric hospital south of London.
After turning down the role of Gilligan in Gilligan's Island, and rejecting an offer to replace Don Knotts on The Andy Griffith Show, Van Dyke accepted the lead role of attorney David Crabtree in the short-lived sitcom My Mother the Car ( 1965 ), the misadventures of a man whose deceased mother Gladys ( voiced by Ann Sothern ) is reincarnated as a restored antique car.
After exploring the terrain and having a few misadventures in which the expedition narrowly misses being killed by dinosaurs, Challenger, Summerlee, and Roxton are captured by a race of ape-men.
After various misadventures, she finds Lucinda at the wedding and tries to presuade her to take back her gift.
After some minor misadventures, Yorick is reunited with Ampersand.
After his first day's misadventures, Hirata decides to purchase an ancient, bright red Citroën DS to make the journey.
After a surprisingly successful reign ( given the misadventures of his youth ), Theodore Svetoslav died in early 1322, and was succeeded by his son George Terter II.
After trying to secure roles in myriad productions he finally finds employment as an extra, and what follows is his misadventures as he becomes involved with shady business men, producers and mobsters, all of whom are fixated with show business.
After a few messy misadventures that never leave the playpen, Shmulik flees ; the book concludes, " And Shmulikipod walked, and walked, and walked, and walked ...."

After and São
After a period of transitional government, São Tomé and Príncipe achieved independence on July 12, 1975, choosing as its first president the MLSTP Secretary General Manuel Pinto da Costa.
After the Battle of São Mamede, the first capital of Portugal was Guimarães from which the first king ruled.
After some initial difficulties, Palestra Italia played its first game in the town of Votorantim ( São Paulo State ) – beating Savoy 2 – 0 with goals from Bianco and Alegretti to win the Savoy Cup.
After beating São Paulo Athletic on November 1, 1905 for the Taça Álvares Penteado, the team's captain Jorge Mesquita and other players left the club and joined Associação Atlética das Palmeiras.
After the competition, influential midfielder Raí left the club, but São Paulo won the Intercontinental Cup again, beating Fabio Capello's A. C. Milan 3 – 2.
After being eliminated from the Copa Libertadores in 2007, São Paulo won the Brazilian title for the second year in a row, fifteen points ahead of second-placed Santos.
After stopping in The Bronx to change clothes and pick up a set of keys to a Montreal bank safe deposit box containing US $ 20, 000, Abagnale caught a train to Montreal's Dorval airport to purchase a ticket to São Paulo, Brazil, a country with which the U. S. had no extradition treaty.
After his mother's death his father remarried Arminda da Conceição da Silva Camacho dos Reis (– Silves, São Bartolomeu de Messines, 10 October 1935 ) and they had another son, Eduardo Coelho do Amaral dos Reis ( Sátão, Águas Boas, 11 September 1932 –), unmarried and without issue.
After a somewhat itinerant childhood, Salgado initially trained as an economist, earning a master ’ s degree in economics from the University of São Paulo in Brazil.
After the Portuguese Restoration War, during the reign of King John IV, the Counsel of War determined that the demolition of the monastery ruins, and the use of their rocks to build a coastal defense would help protect the coastal settlements ; the Fort of São João Baptista das Berlengas was constructed from the remnants of the monastery ruins.
After the abolition of slavery in 1888, waves of people from Germany, Italy, Spain and other European countries emigrated to São Paulo in order to " bleach the race ," as Luso-Brazilian authorities feared Brazil's black population would grow far more than other groups.
After the defeat of São Paulo in the Revolution of 1932, the state found itself before the necessity of forming a new elite capable of contributing to the improvement of institutions, government and improvement of the country.
After that, he rewarded the donors with the title of patrons, celebrating each new acquisition with banquets, speeches and even student parades in the streets of São Paulo, as happened at the arrival of Van Gogh's The Student.
After that, he tried his luck with Barcelona's biggest rival in futsal, Corinthians, where he moved on to professional football and quickly became a favourite of the fans — and was therefore nicknamed " O Rei do Parque " ( King of the Park ) ( after the club's home ground, Parque São Jorge ).
After finishing his residency in Rio, he moved to São Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina and soon after to Florianópolis in the same state.
After release, Mascarenhas continued his career in the army and was put under arrest for a second time in 1932 when he proclaimed his support for a military and civil uprising against Vargas in São Paulo during 1932.
After playing with a succession of São Paulo club sides from 1910 onwards, Friedenreich made his debut with the national team in 1914.
After a string of fights against lesser opponents, he retired, having beaten the Mexican Octavio Gomez by a unanimous but controversial decision ( 120 x 110 by judge Antonio Di, 119 x 115 by judge Adriano Carollo and 117 x 116 by judge Américo Vieira ) in São Paulo on October 8 of 1976.
After finishing his primary studies in his home city, Peçanha went on to study at the Law Schools of São Paulo and Recife, where he earned his degree.
After 1850, in search of new land for occupation and colonization, pioneers from São Paulo and Minas Gerais began to explore the vast region between the Serra de Botucatu, Tietê River, Paranapanema River and Paraná River, until then inhabited by Kaingang indigenous groups.
After running for governor of São Paulo and losing to Mário Covas of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party ( PSDB ) in 1998, she was elected mayor of the state capital, São Paulo, in 2000.
After the creation of the bishopric of Miranda do Douro, the local Church of São Martinho fell within the authority of that church, until the diocese was extinguished and the clergy transferred to thein Bragnaça.
After the 14th century, as the management of rural territories necessitated an administrative authority, eight municipalities were established in the region, which extended into the 19th century: Paçô ; Nagosa e Castelo ; Sever e Alvite ; Pêra e Peravelha ; Ariz e Peva ; and Moimenta ( then known as Moimenta de São João Baptista de Leomil ), were formed at the expense of Leomil.
After holding professorships at the University of São Paulo ( 1946 – 47 ), the University of Nancy ( 1948 – 1952 ) and the University of Michigan ( 1952 – 53 ), he joined the Department of Mathematics at Northwestern University in 1953, before returning to France as a founding member of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques.

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