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At and death
At nightfall he had been able to sneak down a hillside and into the jungle, reeking of death.
At the order of the Dowager Electress, the Hanoverian agents, supported by the Whig leaders, demanded that a writ of summons be issued which would call the Duke to England to sit in Parliament, thus further insuring the Succession by establishing a Hanoverian Prince in England before the Queen's death.
At his death Fred and Ralph, my husband, were named executors of the estate under the terms of the will.
At a reception for new members of Congress, Oregon Democrat Maurine Neuberger, taking the Senate seat held by her husband Richard until his death last March, got a brotherly buss from Democratic Elder Statesman Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the U.N..
At the nadir of that circuit is death.
" At his death, Doubleday left many letters and papers, none of which describe baseball, or give any suggestion that he considered himself a prominent person in the evolution of the game.
At the time of his death on July 11, 1957, his family members were in Versoix.
At noon on 24 June, the temporal dignitaries — the 126 members of both the Senate and magistrates that comprised the court — declared Alexei guilty and sentenced him to death.
At this time Johnson built a larger home in Greeneville ( Eliza had given birth to another son and his mother had moved in with them following the death of his stepfather.
At the Siege of Bayonne in October 1131, three years before his death, he published a will leaving his kingdom to three autonomous religious orders based in Palestine and politically largely independent on the pope, the Knights Templars, the Hospitallers, and the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, whose influences might have been expected to cancel one another out.
At last, led to the Hippodrome of Constantinople, he was hung up by the feet between two pillars, and two Latin soldiers competed as to whose sword would penetrate his body more deeply, and finally his body, according to the representation of his death, was torn apart.
At the news of the emperor's death, his son and co-emperor John was murdered by his own troops in Thrace.
At Rome, he wrote in Latin a history of the Roman empire from the accession of Nerva ( 96 ) to the death of Valens at the Battle of Adrianople ( 378 ), in effect writing a continuation of the history of Tacitus.
At the height of the French Revolution, he was accused by Jean-Paul Marat of selling adulterated tobacco, and of other crimes and was eventually guillotined a year after Marat's death.
At the time, only the dress rehearsal and opening night performance were held, and the play was not revived until after Jarry's death.
At his death, his last $ 30, 000, 000 was given to foundations, charities, and to pensioners.
At the very beginning of the book Erich Maria Remarque says " This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it.
At the time of his death, Bosschaert commanded a thousand amateur painters for the production of one floral painting.
At Abbahu's death the mourning was so great that it was said, " Even the statues of Cæsarea shed tears " ( Mo ' ed Katan 25b ; Yer.
At the time of Lerner's death, he had just begun to write lyrics for The Phantom of the Opera, and was replaced by Charles Hart.
At the time of his death he was married to actress Liz Robertson, who was 36 years his junior.
At his death, the duchy passed to his son-in-law John Sigismund, Margrave of Brandenburg, combining the two territories under a single dynasty and forming Brandenburg-Prussia.
At the time of his death he was working on a translation of the Gospel of St. John into English.
At the time of his death, he was one of the most acclaimed scientists in Europe.
At Young's death in 1877, he was followed by other powerful members, who continued the practice of polygamy despite opposition by the United States Congress.

At and Benin
At the end of the 19th century, the Kingdom of Benin had managed to retain its independence and the Oba exercised a monopoly over trade which the British found irksome.
At about 1485, following the Portuguese involvement in the area, the city proper began to be referred to as " Benin " while the expanding group of tributary states became known as the " Benin Empire ".
At the end of Diplomatic Immunity it is Benin whom Miles contacts to say that he has recovered the stolen haut embryos and is returning them to Cetaganda.
At the end of the 19th century, the Kingdom of Benin had managed to retain its independence and the Oba exercised a monopoly over trade which the British found irksome.
At the last legislative elections in Benin, on March 30, 2003, the party was a member of the Presidential Movement, the alliance of supporters of Mathieu Kérékou, who had won the 2001 presidential elections.

At and Empire
" At the end, he succeeded in obtaining from Theodosius a promise that the sentence should be completely revoked, with the very natural consequence that thereafter the prospect of immunity thus afforded occasioned spoliations of synagogues all over the Empire.
At that point the deposed emperor was ransomed by Michael I of Epirus, who sent him to Asia Minor, where Alexios ' son-in-law Theodore I Laskaris of the Empire of Nicaea was holding his own against the Latins.
At this point, the Austro-Hungarian Empire stepped in, threatening to join the war on Serbia's side if the Bulgarian troops did not retreat.
At its peak in the 16th through the 18th centuries, the Ottoman Empire had wrested control of the entire Black Sea area, which was for the time an " Ottoman lake ", on which Russian warships were prohibited.
At its core, the term " Balkans " are States that have been shaped by membership of Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire.
At the western entrance to the Augustaeum was the Milion, a vaulted monument from which distances were measured across the Eastern Roman Empire.
At the turn of the 1st century AD, a kind of folded parchment notebook called pugillares membranei in Latin became commonly used for writing in the Roman Empire.
At the end of the 19th century, slavery in the Brazilian Empire was already doomed for many reasons, among them the ever increasing number of slave's escapes and the frequent raids by quilombo militias on properties which still adopted slavery.
" At the event ceremony, director John Ford announced that Capra had also received the Order of British Empire ( OBE ) on the recommendation of Winston Churchill.
At the time, the Concordat of Worms was proclaimed as a great victory for Henry V inside the Holy Roman Empire.
At its height, the British Empire covered a quarter of the Earth's land area and comprised a quarter of its population.
At the Battle of Vienna ( 1683 ), the Army of the Holy Roman Empire, led by the Polish King John III Sobieski, decisively defeated a large Turkish army, ending the western colonial Ottoman advance and leading to the eventual dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire in Europe.
At the same time, there was a process of " Romanization " of the Germanic and Hunnic tribes settled on both sides of the limes ( the fortified frontier of the Empire along the Rhine and Danube rivers ).
At the least, fifteen per cent of all Hungarian personal arms bear a severed Turk's head, referring to their wars against the Ottoman Empire.
At about 565 AD, the Hephthalite Empire was overthrown by a combined force consisting of western Turks and Sassanids.
At the time, the Byzantine Empire was experiencing a major military and cultural revival ; despite its later decline, its culture would have a continuous influence on the development of Russia in its formative centuries.
At the end of the First World War, the Allied powers were confronted with the question of the disposal of the former German colonies in Africa and the Pacific, and the several non-Turkish provinces of the Ottoman Empire.
At this period the area divided from the Jireček Line was populated from people of Thraco-Roman or Illyro-Roman origins, as well from Hellenized citizens of the Byzantine Empire and Byzantine Greeks.
At the end of the 10th century, much of what is now Republic of Macedonia became the political and cultural center of the First Bulgarian Empire under Tsar Samuil ; while the Byzantine emperor Basil II came to rule the eastern part of the empire ( what is now Bulgaria ), including the then capital Preslav, in 972.
At the time, China had fallen victim to the expansionist policies of the Empire of Japan, who had conquered large areas of Chinese-controlled territory, namely Taiwan, Korea and South Manchuria.
At a later period there are the accounts of two western European travelers to Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
* 308 – At Carnuntum, Emperor emeritus Diocletian confers with Galerius, Augustus of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former Augustus of the West, in an attempt to restore order to the Roman Empire.
* 1917 – World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for the German Empire.

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