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Among the most noted recent works, there is the writer, the swallows of Kabul and the attack of Yasmina Khadra, the oath of barbarians of Boualem Sansal, memory of the flesh of Ahlam Mosteghanemi and the last novel by Assia Djebar nowhere in my father's House.
Among the Turkmen leaders the Ottomans emerged as great power under Osman and his son Orhan I. Smyrna was conquered in 1330 AD, and the last Byzantine possession, Philadélphia ( modern Alaşehir ), fell in 1390 AD.
Among the last of his labors was the defense of the orthodoxy of his former pupil, Thomas Aquinas, whose death in 1274 grieved Albertus ( the story that he travelled to Paris in person to defend the teachings of Aquinas can not be confirmed ).
Among his best-known films are Cleopatra ; Samson and Delilah ; The Greatest Show on Earth, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ; and The Ten Commandments, which was his last and most successful film.
Among other accomplishments of the Great Assembly, the last books of the Bible were written at this time and the canon sealed.
Among the last bases to be closed were those at Kati, on 8 June 1961, Tessalit ( un base aérienne secondaire ), on 8 July 1961, Gao ( la base aérienne 163 de Gao ), on 2 August 1961, and Air Base 162 at Bamako ( la base aérienne 162 de Bamako ), on 5 September 1961.
Among his last completed works were the illustrations for Balzac's Droll Stories ( 1961 ) and for his own poem The Rhyme Of The Flying Bomb ( 1962 ), which he had written some 15 years earlier.
Among her children was the last Russian monarch, Emperor Nicholas II, whom she outlived by ten years.
Among these, Icelandic and the closely related Faroese have changed the least from Old Norse in the last thousand years, although with Danish rule of the Faroe Islands, Faroese has also been influenced by Danish.
Among players with enough at-bats to qualify for the 1979 National League Triple Crown, Smith finished the season last in batting average (. 211 ), home runs ( 0 ), and RBI ( 27 ).
Among the last things he made while he was still in Italy, at the end of the Eighties and at beginning of the Nineties, there are the so called Paperolimpiadi ( a long story about the 1988 Seoul Olympic games ) and some strip stories, the same kind of stories that he loved when he was a child.
* May 19 – Fort Parker massacre: Among those captured by Native Americans is nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker ; she later gives birth to a son named Quanah, who becomes the last chief of the Comanche.
Among his last words were, according to Plutarch, " By all means must we fly ; not with our feet, however, but with our hands.
Among his last musical activities was his championship of the soprano Magda Olivero ( 1910 -), whose performances in the title role of Adriana Lecouvreur he especially admired.
Among the works belonging to his last stay in Naples that may be mentioned is the charming opera, Le astuzie femminili.
Among the last of such splits were those that resulted in the formation of the different Apachean bands whom the later Europeans encountered: the southwestern Apache groups and the Navajo.
Among his last races were the Baja 1000 in 2004 and the 24 Hours of Daytona once again in 2005.
Among the most notable are Jumbo ( 1935 ), On Your Toes ( 1936, which included the ballet " Slaughter on Tenth Avenue ", choreographed by George Balanchine ), Babes in Arms ( 1937 ), I Married an Angel ( 1938 ), The Boys from Syracuse ( 1938 ), Pal Joey ( 1940 ), and their last original work, By Jupiter ( 1942 ).
Among those on the development team was robotics pioneer George Devol, who had spent the last part of the war developing radar countermeasures.
Among the later, non-indigenous Egyptian dynasties, the most notable example of another woman who became pharaoh was Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
Among Sunni Bahrainis the situation is often equally complicated: many of the most influential Sunni business and political families have their origins in Iran, having emigrated to the more liberal economic and social atmosphere of Bahrain over the last hundred and fifty years ; and in fact many still speak Persian in their homes.
Among the opera's early champions were Tchaikovsky, Brahms, and particularly Wagner, who commented: " Here, thank God, at last for a change is somebody with ideas in his head.
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.
Among the people buried in the cathedral, the most famous is probably Sir Edward Heath, KG, MBE ( 1916 – 2005 ), who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and as a Member of Parliament from 1950 to 2001, and who lived in the Cathedral Close for the last twenty years of his life.
Among those at the film's premiere was film critic Bosley Crowther of The New York Times, who noted that " motion history was made last night ... Fantasia dumps conventional formulas overboard and reveals the scope of films for imaginative excursion ... Fantasia ... is simply terrific.

Among and British
Among the provinces, British Columbia has been distinguished by its strong liberal views ( in stark contrast to the other provinces west of Ontario ).
Among these actions were the Seven Years ' War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the New Zealand land wars, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Fenian raids, the Irish War of Independence, its serial interventions into Afghanistan ( which were meant to maintain a friendly buffer state between British India and the Russian Empire ), and the Crimean War ( to keep the Russian Empire at a safe distance by coming to Turkey's aid ).
Among prominent Fifth Monarchists were Thomas Harrison, Christopher Feake, Vavasor Powell, John Carew, John Rogers and Robert Blackborne, Secretary of the Admiralty and later of the British East India Company.
Among the distinguished foreign officers given commissions in the 60th ( Royal Americans ) was Henri Bouquet, a Swiss citizen, whose ideas on tactics, training and man-management ( including the unofficial introduction of the rifle and ' battle-dress `) would become universal in the British Army some 150 years later.
* Among the Syriac manuscripts obtained from the Nitrian desert in Egypt, British Museum, London: important Greek texts, Add.
Some spinels are among the most famous gemstones: Among them is the Black Prince's Ruby and the ' Timur ruby ' in the British Crown Jewels, and the ' cote de Bretagne ' formerly from the French Crown jewels.
Among Protestants the strong numbers of Lutherans and Moravians point to the German past of the country, the numbers of Anglicans to the British history of Tanganyika.
Among his short stories, some of the most memorable are those dealing with the lives of Western, mostly British, colonists in the Far East.
Among other activities, Banks found time to serve as a trustee of the British Museum for 42 years.
Among Besson's awards are the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film Critics Prize, Fantasporto Audience Jury Award-Special Mention, Best Director, and Best Film, for Le Dernier Combat in 1983 ; The Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon-Best Director-Foreign Film, for La Femme Nikita, 1990 ; the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film, Nil by Mouth, 1997 ; and the Best Director Cesar Award, for The Fifth Element, 1997.
Among other accolades, it was ranked number 16 in Q Magazine's " The 50 Best British Albums Ever " in 2004, and number 11 in Rolling Stone's " The 100 Greatest Albums of All Time " as featured in their Mexican edition in 2004.
Among other demands, the mission sought increased compensation for its former Duars territories, but instead the British deducted nearly 3, 000 rupees from the annual compensation and demanded an apology for alleged plundering of British-protected lands by members of the mission.
Among the issues giving rise to tension between the Transvaal government on the one hand, and the Uitlanders and British interests on the other, were
Among these engravings are a depiction of the arrival of British troops in 1768 ( which he termed " an insolent parade ") and a famous depiction of the March 1770 Boston Massacre ( see illustration ).
Among the more challenging political dilemmas Wilson faced during his two terms in government and his two spells in Opposition before 1964 and between 1970 and 1974 was the issue of British membership of the European Community, the forerunner of the present European Union.
Among the members of the British patrol was Banastre Tarleton.
Among the most famous early independent producers are the famed songwriting-production duo Leiber & Stoller, " Wall of Sound " creator Phil Spector and British studio pioneer Joe Meek.
Among his best-known early works are the illustrations he produced for The Book of British Ballads ( 1842 ), and a frontispiece he designed for The Kentish Coronal ( 1840 ).
Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women.
Among the first pointed or " conical " bullets were those designed by Captain John Norton of the British Army in 1823.
Among these is Anna's Hummingbird, a common resident from California inland to southern Arizona and north to southwestern British Columbia.
Among very few representations of Protesilaus, a sculpture by Deinomenes is just a passing mention in Pliny's Natural History ; the outstanding surviving examples are two Roman copies of a lost mid-fifth century Greek bronze original represent Protesilaus at his defining moment, one of them in a torso the British Museum, the other at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
* 1989 British Academy Television Award, Best Single Drama: A Bed Among the Lentils ( shared with Innes Lloyd )
Among the donations were $ 1 million each by the governments of British Columbia and Ontario, the former to create a new research institute to be founded in Fox's name, and the latter an endowment given to the Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation.
Among the most controversial in British history, it systematically raised taxes on the rich, especially the landowners, to pay for the welfare programmes ( and for new battleships ).

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