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 staff was Isham G. Harris, the Governor of Tennessee, who had ceased to make any real effort to function as governor after learning that Abraham Lincoln had appointed Andrew Johnson as military governor of Tennessee.

Among Bulwer-Lytton's lesser-known contributions to literature is the fact that it was he who convinced Charles Dickens to revise the ending of Great Expectations to make it more palatable to the reading public.

Among animals, fungi, and Choanozoa, which make up a group called the opisthokonts, there is a single posterior flagellum.

Among other things, the authenticity of this passage would help make sense of the later reference in Josephus Antiquities of the Jews Book 20, Chapter 9, 1 where Josephus refers to the stoning of " James the brother of Jesus ".

Among the qualities that make Leonardo's work unique are the innovative techniques that he used in laying on the paint, his detailed knowledge of anatomy, light, botany and geology, his interest in physiognomy and the way in which humans register emotion in expression and gesture, his innovative use of the human form in figurative composition, and his use of the subtle gradation of tone.

Among the many practical functions of imagination are the ability to project possible futures ( or histories ), to " see " things from another's perspective, and to change the way something is perceived, including to make decisions to respond to, or enact, what is imagined.

Among the thousands who auditioned but didn't make the cut were future vocalist / songwriter Paul Williams and future actress Candice Bergen.

Among the issues which can make the distinction difficult is variable rates of evolution among the theories and methodologies of science in response to new data.

Among Sephardic Jews food is served to the visitors and it is considered a mitzvah to make a blessing on the food in the merit of the deceased.

Among the defeated bills was one allowing merchant ships to arm themselves, and another allowing the US government to make direct arms sales to the allies.

Among the Azande, for example, in order to question an oracle a man must have both the physical oracle ( poison, or a washboard, for example ) and knowledge of the words and the rites needed to make the object function.

Among the numerous communes that make up Grenoble are the city's largest suburbs, Saint-Martin-d ' Hères, Échirolles, and Fontaine, each with a population exceeding 20, 000.

Among many, perhaps most, African-Americans in the antebellum period up to today, Turner's legacy takes on a heroic status as someone willing to make slave-owners pay for the hardships that they enacted upon the millions of children, women and men they enslaved.

Among the extant members of Apis, the more basal species make single, exposed combs, while the more recently evolved species nest in cavities and have multiple combs, which has greatly facilitated their domestication.

Among double reed players, advanced and professional players typically make their own reeds, while beginners and students often buy reeds either from their teachers or from commercial sources.

Among the other results, probes of the series became the first man-made devices to enter the atmosphere of another planet ( Venera 4 on October 18, 1967 ), to make a soft landing on another planet ( Venera 7 on December 15, 1970 ), to return images from the planetary surface ( Venera 9 on June 8, 1975 ), and to perform high-resolution radar mapping studies of Venus ( Venera 15 on June 2, 1983 ).

Among those that followed David to Hebron to make him king were 50, 000 fully armed men of Zebulun with no double heart ( I Chronicles 12: 33 ), who brought with them, as sign of their hearty allegiance, bounteous supplies of meat and drink to celebrate the accession of their new ruler ( I Chronicles 12: 41 ).

Among the most important are those that grant him authority over virtually all appointments and removals of public officials, and even popular elected ones ; empower him to promulgate the laws passed by Congress ; direct him to engage in diplomatic relations ; and empower him to command, to deploy, and to make appointments in, the armed forces.

Among the latter ( i. e. the anthropological versions ), one can make a further distinction between the weak versions, more plausible, and the strong ones, irreparably ideological.

Among other things, so that he would not be on the cross for more than a few hours before the Sabbath arrived when it was required by law that Jews be taken down, so that one of his supporters, who was on hand, would give him water ( to quench his thirst ) that was actually laced with a drug to make him unconscious, and so that Joseph of Arimathea, a well-connected supporter, would collect him off the cross while still alive ( but appearing dead ) so that he could be secretly nursed back to health.

Among those who can lay claim to fame, and who have either been born or lived in Beckenham or have had some important contribution to make to the town, there are show business people such as Bob Monkhouse ( 1928 – 2003 ); Julie Andrews ( 1935-); David Bowie ( 1947-), who lived at 42 Southend Road, Beckenham from 1969 – 1973 ; Peter Frampton ( 1950-); Wende Snijders ( 1978-), the Dutch singer ; and the actors Maurice Denham ( 1909 – 2002 ), and Simon Ward ( 1941 – 2012 ).

Among the most prominent of the Governor's appointees are the 24 secretaries and heads of departments that make up the Governor's Cabinet, also known as the Executive Council.

Among the largest communities in Fresno are the six neighborhoods that make up the Fort Bend MUD # 23 area.

Among the regrettable high-tech weapons systems he gave the green light to: the MX missile ( still no basing system ), the TV-guided Maverick missile ( fighter pilots become sitting ducks when they launch them ), the F-18 fighter ( costs more, performs worse than the planes it replaced ), the Aquila Remotely Piloted Vehicle drone ( worse than the Israeli version, 16 times as expensive ), the DIVAD gun ( no amount of money could make it work ), and the Apache helicopter ( the Pentagon recently grounded the entire fleet ).

" Among other criticisms, Sontag opposed the lack of beauty in Arbus's work and its failure to make the viewer feel compassionate about Arbus's subjects.