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The country was now full of Gazettes and Samuel C. Atkinson and Charles Alexander, who had just taken over Franklin's old paper, desired a more distinctive name.
He had sat beside Alexander Brandel at the rostrum of a congress of Zionists.
City Controller Alexander Hemphill charged Tuesday that the bids on the Frankford Elevated repair project were rigged to the advantage of a private contracting company which had `` an inside track '' with the city.
The aimless milling about of what had been a well-trained, well-organized crew struck Alexander with horror.
Alexander guessed that they had planned confusion and turmoil, thinking it the ideal climate in which to begin battle and bloodshed.
And Alexander sobbed like a girl for the dreams he had had, and he felt no shame.
`` I thought '', Midshipman Rogers had told Alexander, `` that Spencer was teaching him geometry ''.
As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.
Along with his sister Laodice VI, the youngster Alexander was " discovered " by Heracleides, a former minister of Antiochus IV and brother of Timarchus, an usurper in Media who had been executed by the reigning king Demetrius I Soter.
The states of Thessaly, which had previously acknowledged the authority of Jason of Pherae, were not so willing to submit to Alexander the tyrant, ( especially the old family of the Aleuadae of Larissa, who had most reason to fear him ).
Alexander withdrew to Pherae whilst the Macedonian King placed a garrison in Larissa, as well as in Crannon, which had also come over to him.
But once the bulk of the Macedonian army had retired, the states of Thessaly feared the return and vengeance of Alexander, and so sent for aid to Thebes, whose policy it was to put a check on any neighbor who might otherwise become too formidable.
Thebe, Alexander's wife and cousin ( or half-sister, as the daughter of Jason of Pherae ), concealed her three brothers in the house during the day, had the dog removed when Alexander had gone to rest, and, having covered the steps of the ladder with wool, brought up the young men to her husband's chamber.
Other accounts have it that Alexander had taken Thebe's youngest brother as his eromenos and tied him up.
Though he was destined to be a strongly counter-reforming emperor, Alexander had little prospect of succeeding to the throne during the first two decades of his life, as he had an elder brother, Nicolas, who seemed of robust constitution.
While he was heir-apparent — 1865 to 1881 — Alexander did not play a prominent part in public affairs, but allowed it to become known that he had ideas which did not coincide with the principles of the existing government.
Alexander had at least one illegitimate child, Máel Coluim mac Alaxandair, who was later to be involved in a revolt against David I in the 1130s.
Both immediately resigned from their respective offices and Alexander had difficulty in forming a new cabinet.
In spite of this, it had been agreed with the Serbian Government that Prince Mirko of Montenegro, who was married to Natalija Konstantinovic, the granddaughter of Princess Anka Obrenovic, an aunt of King Milan, would be proclaimed Crown Prince of Serbia in the event that the marriage of King Alexander and Queen Draga was childless .< ref name =" njeg ">

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His elder brother, Tom, was already a physician and suggested to his younger sibling that he follow the same career, and so in 1903, the younger Alexander enrolled at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in Paddington.
Baslieus, a title which had long been used for Alexander the Great was already in common usage as the Greek word for the Roman emperor, but its definition and sense was " King " in Greek, essentially equivalent with the Latin Rex.
Primitive respirator examples were used by miners and introduced by Alexander von Humboldt already in 1799, when he worked as a mining engineer in Prussia ; long before that there was a Plague doctor's bird beak shaped mask / face piece filled with herbs.
He was especially devoted to the order founded by William X of Aquitaine and added numerous privileges to those they had already received from Alexander IV and Urban IV.
* King Alexander III of Macedonia crosses the Dardanelles, leaving Antipater, who has already faithfully served his father, Philip II, as his deputy in Greece with over 13, 000 men.
Typically, individuals appointed as federal viceroy were already a peer, either by inheriting the title, such as the Duke of Devonshire, or by prior elevation by the sovereign in their own right, as was the case with the Viscount Alexander of Tunis.
By the close of 1868, Mussorgsky had already started and abandoned two important opera projects — the antique, exotic, romantic tragedy Salammbô, written under the influence of Alexander Serov's Judith, and the contemporary, Russian, anti-romantic farce Marriage, influenced by Alexander Dargomyzhsky's The Stone Guest.
When the treaty arranging the marriage of Margaret and Eric was signed at Roxburgh on 25 July 1281, Alexander III's younger son David had already died in June 1281, leaving the King of Scots with only one legitimate son, Alexander.
William Russell, Alexander Majors and William Waddell were the three founders of the Pony Express and were already in the freighting business in the late 1850s with more than 4, 000 men, 3, 500 wagons and some 40, 000 oxen.
Several other artists and their teams of assistants were already at work on different rooms, many painting over recently completed paintings commissioned by Julius's loathed predecessor, Alexander VI, whose contributions, and arms, Julius was determined to efface from the palace.
Appointed in 1868, Price had already recommended to the university that the Press needed an efficient executive officer to exercise " vigilant superintendence " of the business, including its dealings with Alexander Macmillan, who became the publisher for Oxford's printing in 1863 and in 1866 helped Price to create the Clarendon Press series of cheap, elementary schoolbooks – perhaps the first time that Oxford used the Clarendon imprint.
Departments of the Batavian RepublicThis already applied at the top: the constitution contained an age-requirement for the members of the Uitvoerend Bewind, which favored the election of staid Patriot regents, and discriminated against the more talented " young Turks " that were appointed Agents, like Jacobus Spoors, Gerrit Jan Pijman, and Isaac Jan Alexander Gogel.
It was already the capital of the Sogdian satrapy under the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia when Alexander the Great conquered it in 329 BC.
An acrimonious sitting of parliament in March 1425 precipitated the arrest of Murdoch, Isabella, his wife, and his son Alexanderof Albany's other sons Walter was already in prison and James, his youngest, also known as James the Fat, escaped into the Lennox.
A panoramic pavilion had been built there at the time of the visit of Alexander I but it had already vanished by the 1850s.
He rallied the Bulgarian army, now deprived of its Russian officers, to resist the Serbian invasion, and after a victory at Slivnitza ( 19 November ), which Alexander had little to do with, having arrived in Slivnitsa after the battle ( incidentally initiated by a volunteer of the rank of private ) was already over, pursued King Milan of Serbia into Serbian territory as far as Pirot, which he captured ( 27 November ).
General Harold Alexander arrived in Tunisia in late February to take charge of the new 15th Army Group headquarters, which had been created to take overall control of both the Eighth Army and the Allied forces already fighting in Tunisia.
He had already during his father's lifetime distinguished himself by defeating Alexander II of Epirus at Derdia and so saving Macedonia On his accession he had to face a coalition of enemies which included the two great leagues.
While there he learns that Antonia had already written to Alexander about the divorce-leaving Alexander quite shaken.
The timing proves that Alexander was already thinking that he was of a more than human nature when he entered Greece: after all, the people of Didyma and Erythrae can never have known that Alexander was recognized as the son of Ra and wanted to be called ' son of Zeus '.
However, when Wilhelmina was born, William had already outlived two of them and only the childless Prince Alexander and the King's uncle Prince Frederick of the Netherlands were alive, so under the Semi-Salic system of inheritance that was in place in the Netherlands until 1887, she was third in line to the throne from birth.

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When Alexander died in 1124, the crown passed to Margaret's fourth son David I, who had spent most of his life as an English baron.
Alexander Stewart states that this popular feel was passed along from " New Orleans — through James Brown's music, to the popular music of the 1970s.
Polgár was playing an endgame of knight against knight and two connected passed pawns of Alexander Grischuk, but she was able to eliminate both pawns.
Alexander Stewart states that the popular feel was passed along from " New Orleans — through James Brown's music, to the popular music of the 1970s ," adding: " The singular style of rhythm & blues that emerged from New Orleans in the years after World War II played an important role in the development of funk.
Eventually the Persians took control of Syria as part of their general control of Southwest Asia ; this control transferred to the Macedonians after Alexander the Great's conquests ( after whose death hegemony of Syria passed from the Antigonids and subsequently the Seleucids ) and from thence to the Romans and the Byzantines.
After driving Alexander out, he passed into Macedon and arbitrated between two claimants to the throne.
This tax had been proposed by United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, passed by Congress, and signed into law by President Washington in 1791.
He was educated under Alexander Morrison at Scotch College, Melbourne, where he passed the matriculation examination when only 14 years of age.
This extends to the widespread impression, created by statements such as that by U. S. Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee ( in regards to a recently passed measure making English the " official " language of the U. S .), that English is " part of our blood.
Alexander Stewart states that the popular feel was passed along from " New Orleans — through James Brown's music, to the popular music of the 1970s ," adding: " The singular style of rhythm & blues that emerged from New Orleans in the years after World War II played an important role in the development of funk.
Although Wyden was ultimately passed over in favor of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, he took advantage of the interim to reintroduce his Healthy Americans Act, with additional co-sponsorship from Republican Senators led by Tennessee's Lamar Alexander and Utah's Bob Bennett as well as from fellow Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley.
" After Froude finished his work, ownership of the manuscript material was passed to Mrs. Alexander Carlyle, who quickly authorised alternative biographical volumes by Charles Eliot Norton that excised the offensive material.
After his death the Osterman titles and estates passed to his nephew, Alexander Ivanovich Tolstoy, chancellor of the Russian military orders.
If Heracles was Alexander ’ s illegitimate child, then it also raises the pointed question as to why he, as Alexander ’ s only living son at the time of his death, was not immediately drawn into the succession disputes, and why he was passed over in favour of Philip Arrhidaeus-himself illegitimate-who was only a son of Alexander ’ s father Philip, and thus a more distant claimant than Heracles.
He later passed the crown onto Alexander and Cassima.
At a later period, Paphlagonia passed under the control of the Macedonian kings, and after the death of Alexander the Great, it was assigned, together with Cappadocia and Mysia, to Eumenes.
In 1291 it passed by marriage to Sir Alexander Freville and in 1423 similarly passed to Thomas Ferrers of Groby.
When Princess Arthur of Connaught died, the Dukedom of Fife passed to her nephew, James George Alexander Bannerman Carnegie, Lord Carnegie, the only son of her late sister Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk.
They passed the West Road River where Alexander Mackenzie ( explorer ) had turned west and on the first of June ran the rapids of the Cottonwood Canyon ( Fraser River ) where a canoe became stranded and had to be pulled out of the canyon with a rope.
Outraged by this turn of events, wrote Dr. Alexander, the delegates unanimously passed the following resolutions at about 2: 00 a. m. on May 20:
Alexander then committed the government of Caria to Ada ; and she, in turn, formally adopted Alexander as her son, ensuring that the rule of Caria passed unconditionally to him upon her eventual death.

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