Among the first 101 elements in the periodic table, only francium is less stable.

Among twenty enlistees was Joseph Behm, the first of the class to die in battle.

Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).

Among their children, four lived to maturity: Henry, born in 952 ; Bruno, born 953 ; Matilda, the first Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg, born about 954 ; and Otto II, later Holy Roman Emperor, born 955.

Among the tournaments in this series is the venerable All-England Championships, first held in 1900, which was once considered the unofficial world championships of the sport.

Among the pieces he played was his own first composition, written two years previously: a short piece called " The Course of the Danube " ( de Toth 1999 ).

In 1992 Capercaillie recorded " A Prince Among Islands ", the first Scottish Gaelic language record to reach the UK top 40.

Among the many petty local republics that were formed during the first year of the Greek Revolution, prior to the creation of a unified Provisional Government at the First National Assembly at Epidaurus, were:

Among the first Modern religious buildings in America, it includes a sunken terrace and a 900-person sanctuary.

Among the first generals to recognize that artillery was not being used to its full potential, Napoleon often massed his cannon into batteries, and introduced several changes into the French artillery, improving it significantly, and making it among the finest in Europe.

Among the first manufacturers of modern cornets were Parisian Jean Asté in 1828.

Among the first desktop LCD computer monitors was the Eizo L66 in the mid-1990s, the Apple Studio Display in 1998, and the Apple Cinema Display in 1999.

Among the many political documentaries produced in the early 1970s was " Chile: A Special Report ," public television's first in-depth expository look of the September 1973 overthrow of the Salvador Allende government in Chile by military leaders under Augusto Pinochet, produced by documentarians Ari Martinez and José Garcia.

Among the more notable moments in the rivalry was the Giants ' defeat of Dallas in the 2007 playoffs en route to their victory in Super Bowl XLII and winning the first regular season game played at Cowboys Stadium in 2009.

Among his first published works were poetry, as well as writings on law and administration.

* Among the first awards of the Distinguished Service Medal for service in World War I, were those to the Commanding Officers of the Allied Armies:

The first encyclopedias in vernacular language were translations or abridgements of works in Latin. Among them the most famous is Li livre dou Trésor, written in French by

Among the more than two dozen exhibitors who attended the first meeting held in New York on April 25, 1917, were Frederick Dahnken of the Turner and Dahnken Circuit in San Francisco, Harry O. Schwalbe of Philadelphia, Samuel Roxy Rothafel of New York, Earl H. Hulsey of Dallas and Nathan H. Gordon of Boston.

Among the first high-profile experts were John Benson, Alex Patton and Ron Shandler.

Among sighted individuals, FRD usually first appears in the teens or early twenties.

Among his leading films was It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), which became the first film to win all five top Oscars, including Best Picture.

Among the first investigations of ferromagnetism are the pioneering works of Aleksandr Stoletov on measurement of the magnetic permeability of ferromagnetics, known as the Stoletov curve.

Among the gnostics, gnosis was first and foremost a matter of self-knowledge, which was considered the path leading to the goal of enlightenment as the hidden knowledge of the various pre-Judeo-Christian pagan Mystery-Religions.

Among the first venues for what would soon be called " Off-Off-Broadway " ( a term supposedly coined by critic Jerry Tallmer of the Village Voice ) were coffeehouses in Greenwich Village, in particular, the Caffe Cino at 31 Cornelia Street, operated by the eccentric Joe Cino, who early on took a liking to actors and playwrights and agreed to let them stage plays there without bothering to read the plays first, or to even find out much about the content.

Among the many severe measures taken by the First Emperor, Shih Huang-ti, in his efforts to insure the continuation of this hard-won national unity, was the burning of the books in 213 B.C., with the expressed intention of removing possible sources for divergent thinking ; ;

Among the sixty-nine items in these three books, twenty-four deal with physics, seventeen with psychology, eleven with logic and metaphysics, and six with questions of fate and providence.

Among the minority, in Trent, that showed opposition to these books ' inclusion were Cardinals Seripando and Cajetan, the latter an opponent of Luther at Augsburg.

Among Orthodox, the term is understood to mean that they were compiled separately from the primary canon, as explained in 2 Esdras, where Esdras is instructed to keep certain books separate and hidden.

Among them were editions of Chaucer, Plutarch, two books in Italian, and folio editions of Cicero and Plato.

Among books on the list considered to be the Great American Novel were: Moby-Dick, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, The Catcher in the Rye, Invisible Man and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Among the books found in his library ( as evidenced in Lovecraft's Library by S. T. Joshi ) was " The Seven Who Were Hanged " by Leonid Andreyev and " A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder " by James De Mille.

Among other accomplishments of the Great Assembly, the last books of the Bible were written at this time and the canon sealed.

Among her awards are an ABBY Honor award for books in the Mitford series, set in the fictional community of Mitford, North Carolina.

Among Agricola's other theoretical works is Musica instrumentalis deudsch ( 1529 ), a study of musical instruments, and one of the most important works in early organology ; and one of the earliest books on the Rudiments of music.

Among the books he authored are Guilty Men ( an attack on Neville Chamberlain and others for the policy of appeasement ), a biography of Jonathan Swift ( The Pen and the Sword, 1957 ) and a biography of Aneurin Bevan.

" Among fans of the nearly forty year old books, this film was mostly disappointing.

Among the rejected Lake translation: " not genuine " writings must be reckoned also the Acts of Paul, and the so-called Shepherd, and the Apocalypse of Peter, and in addition to these the extant epistle of Barnabas, and the so-called Teachings of the Apostles ; and besides, as I said, the Apocalypse of John, if it seem proper, which some, as I said, reject, but which others class with the accepted books.

Among these groups are comic book fandom, media fandom, the Society for Creative Anachronism, gaming, and furry fandom, sometimes referred to collectively as " fringe fandoms " with the implication that the original fandom centered on science fiction texts ( magazines and later books and fanzines ) is the " true " or " core " fandom.

Among leading language-usage commentators, Garner's Modern American Usage acknowledges that " website " is the standard form, but Bill Walsh, of The Washington Post, argues for using " Web site " in his books and on his website ( however, The Washington Post itself uses " website ").

Among his early books was Contes à Ninon, published in 1864.

In the 1980s, Seymour began a career as a writer of self-help and inspirational books, including Jane Seymour's Guide to Romantic Living ( 1986 ), Two at a Time: Having Twins ( 2002 ), Remarkable Changes ( 2003 ), and Among Angels ( 2010 ).

* Among the treasures of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica in Amsterdam are books on the Gnosis and the Corpus Hermeticum as published in Florence in 1471.

Among the books accompanying him as he traveled were, Adam Smith's " The Wealth of Nations ", Voltaire's " Letters ", and when he wrote the Bolivian Constitution, Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws.

Among his best-known books is The Carpetbaggers – loosely based on a composite of Howard Hughes, Bill Lear, Harry Cohn, and Louis B. Mayer –

Among the humor books, Beat, Beat, Beat was a 1959 Signet paperback of cartoons by Phi Beta Kappa Princeton graduate William F. Brown, who looked down on the movement from his position in the TV department of the Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn advertising agency.

Among the books written by Bossuet during this period are three classics.

Among the wisest of the Noldor were Rúmil, creator of the first writing system and author of many epic books of lore.

§ Among the rejected books by both the Judaic and Catholic canons was found the Book of Enoch, the Manual of Discipline or " Rule of the Community " ( 1QS ) and " The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness ".

Among the most famous anti-Tom books are The Sword and the Distaff by William Gilmore Simms, Aunt Phillis's Cabin by Mary Henderson Eastman, and The Planter's Northern Bride by Caroline Lee Hentz, with the last author having been a close personal friend of Stowe's when the two lived in Cincinnati.