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 most likely producers of detectable radio line spectra are the light diatomic hydrides OH and CH ; ;

Among the tracks he recorded was an early version of " That'll Be The Day ", which took its title from a line that John Wayne's character says repeatedly in the 1956 film The Searchers.

* Among other rule changes in 2007, kickoffs were moved from the 35-yard line back five yards to the 30-yard line, matching a change that the NFL had made in 1994.

Among the disadvantages: temperament could not be re-set without bending the tangents ; and playing required a further refinement of touch, since notes sharing a single string played in quick succession needed to be slightly separated to avoid a disagreeable deadening of the sound, potentially disturbing a legato line.

Among other things, 25 % of the population lived below the poverty line, life expectancy had fallen, birthrates were low, and the GDP was halved.

Among other things, the ship of the line Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( launched in 1795 ) was named after the philosopher.

Among major structural elements used in poetry are the line, the stanza or verse paragraph, and larger combinations of stanzas or lines such as cantos.

Among the many scholars who have since pursued Burke's line of thought, James Boyd White sees rhetoric as a broader domain of social experience in his notion of constitutive rhetoric.

Among other things, line numbers, comments and names of local variables are discarded during packing, so that, unlike the typical interpreted BASICs of the time, comments and intelligible variable names incur no runtime cost and were therefore not a ' burden ' programmers learned to avoid to maximize runtime execution time or memory efficiency.

Note: Among subscribers to the public switched telephone network ( s ), the term " private line " is often used to mean a one-party switched telephone line, as opposed to a party line.

The title, taken from the first line of the document ( as is customary with significant Catholic documents ), is Latin for " Among the Wonderful ".

Among the Kronstorf works is the vocal piece Asperges ( WAB 4 ), which the young teacher's assistant, out of line of his position, signed with " Anton Bruckner m. p. ria.

Among others these tweaks will have the effect of modifying Euclid's second postulate from the statement that line segments can be extended indefinitely to the statement that lines are unbounded.

Among other things, he supported the 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan, because it was in line with the UN Security Council's decision and because only military centers were to be targeted.

Among its uses in popular culture, the line " to you from failing hands we throw the torch, be yours to hold it high " has served as a motto for the Montreal Canadiens hockey club since 1940.

Among the people who studied there were Bob de Moor, Jacques Martin, Roger Leloup, and Edgar P. Jacobs, all of whom exhibit the easily recognizable Belgian clean line style, often opposed to the " Marcinelle school "- style, mostly proposed by authors from the Spirou magazine, such as Franquin, Peyo and Morris.

Among the pioneer railroads was the Texas and Pacific which stretched its steel ribbons across the vastness of the State of Texas to the Arkansas line.

Among loudspeaker enclosure designs exist include sealed cabinets ( acoustic suspension ), ported cabinets ( bass-reflex ), transmission line, infinite baffle, horn loaded, and aperiodic.

Among the companies using Knight's technology were Avions Voisin, Daimler ( 1909 – 1930s ) including their V12 Double Six, Panhard ( 1911 – 39 ), Mercedes ( 1909 – 24 ), Willys ( as the Willys-Knight, plus the associated Falcon-Knight ), Stearns, Mors, Peugeot, and Belgium's Minerva company that was forced to stop its sleeve-valve line of engines as a result of the limitations imposed on them by the winners of WWII, some thirty companies in all.

Among the troops of the line, many were not that lucky.

Among the earliest published proposals for television was one by Maurice Le Blanc in 1880 for a color system, including the first mentions in television literature of line and frame scanning, although he gave no practical details.