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 his favourite targets were socialist leaders such as Hermann Müller and Carl Severing, and the Jewish Berlin Police President, Bernhard Weiß ( 1880 – 1951 ), whom he subjected to a relentless campaign of Jew-baiting in the hope of provoking a crackdown he could then exploit.

Among the most important functions of glial cells are to support neurons and hold them in place ; to supply nutrients to neurons ; to insulate neurons electrically ; to destroy pathogens and remove dead neurons ; and to provide guidance cues directing the axons of neurons to their targets.

Among these targets, the GPe does not send axons outside the system.

Among his targets were the Thatcher government, the monarchy, and the famine relief project Band Aid.

Among his favorite targets are Angel, Xander, Giles, and ( to a lesser extent ) Buffy.

A. C. Grayling in his book Among the Dead Cities makes the point that as the Area Bombing Directive issued to the RAF on 14 February 1942, focused on the " morale of the enemy civil population ", Lübeck, with its many timbered medieval buildings, was chosen because the RAF " Air Staff were eager to experiment with a bombing technique using a high proportion of incendiaries " to help them carry out the directive – the RAF were well aware that the technique was effective against cities and not against industrial targets because cities such as Coventry had been subject to such attacks by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz.

Among the committee's targets were the American Civil Liberties Union and Communist Party presidential candidate William Z.

Among the favorite targets of In Fact was the National Association of Manufacturers.

Among his targets were pin-ups, including Bettie Page, and the magazines that featured them.

Among the targets of Juliá's charity work were initiatives directed towards youth.

Among her special targets was U. S. Secretary of Interior Carl Schurz, whom she once called " the most adroit liar I ever knew.

Among the targets were U. S. and Israeli Embassies, British and Australian High Commissions, the Singapore American School, and commercial buildings housing US firms.

Among the paper's other targets were mayor George E. Leach, Hennepin County attorney and future three-term governor Floyd B. Olson, and the members of the grand jury of Hennepin County, who the paper claimed were either incompetent or willfully failing to investigate and prosecute known criminal activity.

Among the samurai class, adult men were ( by definition ) not permitted to take the wakashū role ; only preadult boys ( or, later, lower-class men ) were considered legitimate targets of homosexual desire.

Among the first targets of the genocide were Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana and 10 Belgian members of 2nd Commando Battalion, the Paracommando Regiment operating as part of UNAMIR.

Among other things, the revised act called for participation in international carbon markets and the fulfillment of Kyoto targets.

Among other tasks, he participated in selecting targets for U. S. bombardment.

Among superguns, the Paris Gun only fired on civilian targets, while Big Bertha was, though famous for shelling Paris from over 40 kilometers away, primarily responsible for smashing the Belgian forts near Liege during World War I in 1914 as part of the Schlieffen Plan.

Among the overexpressed targets, the members of the epidermal growth factor receptor ( EGFR ) family, transmembrane proteins with an extracellular receptor domain regulating an intracellular tyrosine kinase, Of these, HER2 / neu ( also known as Erb-B2 ) was the first to be developed.

Among the secondary targets of the satire was the former Archbishop of Split, Marco Antonio de Dominis, who was caricatured as the Fat Bishop ( played by William Rowley ).

Among other targets that were severely damaged or destroyed were the nearby town of Denzingen, the castle, and a munitions train that was in the train station.

Among his targets Nelson includes parodies of famous Minnesota residents like Prince and Garrison Keillor, as well as the attitudes and quirks of Minnesotans in general.

Among the specialised equipment used in reconnaissance by the regiment is the Australian Man-portable Surveillance and Target Acquisition Radar ( AMSTAR ) system which is able to detect and recognise moving targets including personnel, vehicles, watercraft and low flying helicopters.

Among the main targets for the German air force and artillery were churches, hospitals, water plant and power plants.