4: 3-11 ) who subsequently sent it back after retaining it for seven months ( 1 Sam.

At the age of seven, he was sent to the monastery of Monkwearmouth by his family to be educated by Benedict Biscop and later by Ceolfrith.

Because of this poverty, Chaplin was sent to a workhouse at seven years old.

At the age of five, Deng was sent to a traditional Chinese-style private primary school, followed by a more modern primary school at the age of seven.

Minos required that seven Athenian youths and seven maidens, drawn by lots, be sent every seventh or ninth year ( some accounts say every year ) to be devoured by the Minotaur.

Every year ( or every nine years in some sources ) he made King Aegeus pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to Daedalus ' creation, the labyrinth, to be eaten by the Minotaur.

There is a tradition that Mary Magdalene led so chaste a life that the devil thought she might be the one who was to bear Christ into the world, and for that reason he sent the seven demons to trouble her.

He sent out emissaries to seven sites who were all to ask the oracles on the same day what the king was doing at that very moment.

They sent pianos to both Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven, and were the first firm to build pianos with a range of more than five octaves: five octaves and a fifth during the 1790s, six octaves by 1810 ( Beethoven used the extra notes in his later works ), and seven octaves by 1820.

In a gesture calculated to rewrite history and erase seven decades of national shame, Franco declared Solano López a national hero " sin ejemplar " ( without precedent ) because he had stood up to foreign threats, and sent a team to Cerro Corá to find his unmarked grave.

Flaherty was one of seven children born to prospector Robert Henry Flaherty ( an Irish Protestant ) and Susan Klockner ( a German Roman Catholic ); he was sent to Upper Canada College in Toronto for his education.

At the age of seven, he was sent to study science, history, literature, theology, and military tactics in the schools of the Topkapı Palace in Constantinople.

On 29 April 1992, a twenty five year old Captain Valentine Strasser lead a group of seven junior officers in the Sierra Leone army that that included Lieutenant Sahr Sandy, Sergeant Solomon Musa, Lieutenant Tom Nyuma, Captain Julius Maada Bio and Captain Komba Mondeh came all the way from their military baracks in Kailahun District and launched a military coup in Freetown, which sent president Momoh into exile in Guinea and the young soldiers established the National Provisional Ruling Council ( NPRC ) with Strasser as its chairman and Head of State of the country.

According to Herodotus ( 4. 149-165 ), following a drought of seven years, Thera sent out colonists who founded a number of cities in northern Africa, including Cyrene.

The Chinese princess Jincheng Gongzhu (: zh: 金城公主 ) (?- 739 ), the " real daughter " of the king of Yong, and an adoptive daughter of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang ( r. 705-710 ), was sent to Tibet in 710 where, according to most sources, she married Mes-ag-tshoms, who would have been only six or seven years old at the time.

His retribution was that, at the end of every Great Year ( seven solar years ), the seven most courageous youths and the seven most beautiful maidens were to board a boat and be sent as tribute to Crete, never to be seen again.

He then demanded that, at nine-year intervals, seven Athenian boys and seven Athenian girls were to be sent to Crete to be devoured by the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster that lived in the Labyrinth created by Daedalus.

The third of four children, Pujol was sent at age seven to the Valldemia boarding school run by the Marist Brothers in Mataró, twenty miles from Barcelona and remained there for the next four years.

Arafat's first visit to Jerusalem came when his father, unable to raise seven children alone, sent him and his brother Fathi to their mother's family in the Moroccan Quarter of the Old City.

At age eight Balzac was sent to the Oratorian grammar school in Vendôme, where he studied for seven years.

The British ships rolled at anchor, sent out picket boats and waited for orders from London.

In 1099, a Byzantine fleet of 10 ships were sent to assist the Crusaders in capturing Laodicea and other coastal towns as far as Tripoli.

His fleet of 25 galleys was met by the Genoese ships sent by Visconti, led by Biagio Assereto.

The Persians followed up their victory by sending a fleet to re-establish their control over Cyprus, and 200 ships were sent out to counter them under Cimon, who returned from ostracism in 451 BC.

The Alerte was sent ahead, passing close to the leading British ships and then steering sharply to the west over the shoal in the hope that the ships of the line might follow and become grounded.

The messenger was a staff officer sent by the Governor of Alexandria General Jean Baptiste Kléber, and the report had been hastily written by Admiral Ganteaume, who had subsequently rejoined Villeneuve's ships at sea.

There are many variations of this theory, but perhaps the most prevalent is that the cavalry was re-embarked on the ships, and was to be sent by sea to attack ( undefended ) Athens in the rear, whilst the rest of the Persians pinned down the Athenian army at Marathon.

Eventually, Antony sent the ships on the northern part of the formation to attack.

He sent Gaius Sosius down to the south to spread the remaining ships out to the south.

In November of that year, after having secured Malacca and learning of the Bandas ' location, Albuquerque sent an expedition of three ships led by his good friend António de Abreu to find them.

In response the pope sent five ships full of reinforcements, weapons and supplies.

Brazil, with its vast territory, was the major destination of African slaves, receiving 38. 5 % of all slaves sent by ships across the Atlantic Ocean.

Although the U. S. Air Force sent fighters such as the F-16 to theater in Desert Shield, they had to carry bombs with them as no stores were in place for sustained operations whereas the carriers arrived on scene with full magazines and had support ships to allow them to conduct strikes indefinitely.

Dartmouth sent numerous ships to join the English fleet that attacked the Armada, including the Roebuck, Crescent and Hart.

* Failing to ensure that signals sent to his ships were handled properly and received by the intended ships.

In 653 Kōtoku sent an embassy to the court of the Tang Dynasty in China, but some of the ships were lost en route.

Another way was used to keep this clandestine correspondence flowing: letters were sent in merchant ships between London and Amsterdam or Rotterdam, with outward bound letters often put on board below Gravesend, as this would be after the final customs clearance.

Hernán Cortés, however, in 1524, got word of Olid's insurrection and sent his cousin, Francisco de las Casas, along with several ships to Honduras to remove Olid and claim the area for Cortés.

Las Casa returned fire and sent boarding parties which captured Olid's ships.

When some of Tiberius's ships were carried to Britain in a storm during his campaigns in Germany in 16 AD, they were sent back by local rulers, telling tall tales of monsters.

Most of the voyages sent out by Henry consisted of one or two ships that navigated by following the coast, stopping at night to tie up along some shore.

Messengers were sent to " Scythia ", where " a number " of warriors were selected, and, with sixteen ships, the messengers returned.

Chapter 11 begins with the return of the messengers sent to Germania, bringing with them eighteen ships full of " the best soldiers they could get.