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 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 its many high-profile programs is the award-winning global news program The World, which PRI co-produces with the BBC and WGBH Boston.

Among his most high-profile cases include defending Australian drug trafficker Kevin Barlow who was executed in Malaysia in 1986.

Among the high-profile guests conducting Davis's company were Carlos Kleiber for performances of Der Rosenkavalier ( 1974 ), Elektra ( 1977 ), La bohème ( 1979 ) and Otello ( 1980 ), and Abbado conducting Un ballo in maschera ( 1975 ), starring Plácido Domingo and Katia Ricciarelli.

Among the freed inmates, there are numerous high-profile villains, such as the Joker ( who trapped Arkham's administrator Jeremiah Arkham ), the Scarecrow, and Poison Ivy as well as many less known villains, such as the Mad Hatter, The Ventriloquist, Firefly, Cavalier, The Film Freak and Mr. Zsasz.

Among other high-profile lawyers, Grover Cleveland served as a member of the firm during the interval between his two non-consecutive presidential terms.

Among his most high-profile successes was the capture of Karl Silberbauer, the SD officer responsible for the arrest of Anne Frank.

Among experts and the general public, there is a debate as to how specific years of the 21st century should be pronounced in English.

Among the professors, besides lawyers, experts in German Studies and historians were especially common, due to the fact that under the sway of restoration politics, academic meetings in such disciplines, e. g. the Germanisten-Tage of 1846 and 1847, were often the only occasions where national themes could be discussed freely.

Among the civil witnesses, the experts in handwriting occupied the longest time before the court.

Among cuisine experts, it is widely believe that the authentic Minang rendang ( Padang rendang ) is the most delicious version, it has rich, succulent and unparalleled taste — quite different than rendang from other Malay realm.

Among these are the extensive human resources that facilitate collaboration among experts who possess widely different skills ; the resources to perform clinical research that is closely integrated with laboratory work ; and relatively stable funding which permits investments in long-term, and even risky, projects.

Among the dead are almost all of the United Kingdoms senior Northern Ireland intelligence experts.

Among current faculty members, 38 have been designated as “ Chang JIang Scholars ” by the Ministry of Education ; 25 have been honored by National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars ; 15 have been recognized as national experts who have made outstanding contributions to the nation.

Among the passengers were almost all the United Kingdom's senior Northern Ireland intelligence experts.

" Among pharmacologists, he is considered to be one of the world's top experts on psychedelics.

Among the outstanding members of the Hearst cabinet whom he successfully opposed for a time were the great Arthur Brisbane, Bradford Merrill, S.S. Carvalho, and Colonel Van Hamm.

Among the visitors arriving every now and then there were, of course, women.

Among some recent imports were seat covers for one series of dining room chairs on which were depicted salad plates overflowing with tomatoes and greens and another set on which a pineapple was worked in naturalistic color.

Among the musicals, Camelot came from T. H. White's The Once And Future King, and novels were the sources of the less than momentous Tenderloin and Do Re Mi.

Among foreign countries responding were Germany, Canada, Brazil and India.

Among primitive peoples the sanctions and dictates of religion were more binding than any of the other controls exercised by the group ; ;

Among this latter group there were also differences in the amount and kind of information necessary before a shift in reaction occurred.

Among them were a number of newsmen, including Henry Raymont, of United Press International, and Robert Berrellez, of Associated Press.

Among his gangland buddies, he said, were Joseph ( Joey ) Glimco, a mob labor racketeer, and four gang gambling chiefs, Gus ( Slim ) Alex, Ralph Pierce, Joe ( Caesar ) DiVarco, and Jimmy ( Monk ) Allegretti.

Among the witnesses were Ed J. Lee, director of McCormick Place ; ;

Among the other artists, whose paintings were discussed were Boucher, Courbet, Fra Angelico.

Among the particular gems in this collection is the impudent opening song of `` The Garrick Gaieties '', an impressive forecast of the wit and melody that were to come from Rodgers and Hart in the years that followed ; ;

Among the other solo ballet dancers of the evening, Elisabeth Carroll and Ivan Allen were particularly impressive in their roles in `` The Duel '', a work that depends so much upon the precision and incisiveness of the two principal combatants.

Among the important novelists of the 1980s were Rachid Mimouni, later vice-president of Amnesty International, and Tahar Djaout, murdered by an Islamist group in 1993 for his secularist views.

Among major industrial centers closed to curtail pollution were the Nairit Chemical Plant, the Alaverdy Metallurgical Plant, and the Vanadzor Chemical Combine.

Among his pupils were many of the dominant intellectuals of the Carolingian era.

Among subsequent possessors were Scott's son-in-law, John Gibson Lockhart, J. R. Hope Scott, Q. C., and his daughter ( Scott's great-granddaughter ), the Hon.

Among the economic development institutions established in East Africa were companies such as the Diamond Jubilee Investment Trust ( now Diamond Trust of Kenya ) and the Jubilee Insurance Company, which are quoted on the Nairobi Stock Exchange and have become major players in national development.

Among the victims of Messalina's intrigues were Agrippina's surviving sister Livilla, who was charged with having adultery with Seneca the Younger.

Among Ammonius ' other pupils there were Herennius and Cassius Longinus.

Among his major accomplishments were the 1940 proof, of the Riemann hypothesis for zeta-functions of curves over finite fields, and his subsequent laying of proper foundations for algebraic geometry to support that result ( from 1942 to 1946, most intensively ).

" Among the Oxford Group practices AA retained were informal gatherings, a " changed-life " developed through " stages ", and working with others for no material gain.

Among Canova's English pupils were sculptors Sir Richard Westmacott and John Gibson.