At the age of 25, he was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences, France's most elite scientific society, for an essay on street lighting and in recognition of his earlier research.

At the front there said to be approximately 300 elite knights, commanded by general Clermont and accompanied by German mercenary pikemen.

At the top were the elite Europeans who owned plantations.

At the forefront of opposition among the educated elite was L ' Union Patriotique ,, which established ties with opponents of the occupation in the US itself, in particular the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ).

At the same time, the PDPA imprisoned, tortured or murdered thousands of members of the traditional elite, the religious establishment, and the intelligentsia.

At the elite level, competitors run down a runway ( usually coated with the same rubberized surface as running tracks, crumb rubber also vulcanized rubber ) and jump as far as they can from a wooden board 20 cm or 8 inches wide that is built flush with the runway into a pit filled with finely ground gravel or sand.

At that point, Colonel Ulrich Wegener, Genscher's senior aide and later the founder of the elite German counter-terrorist unit GSG 9, said " I'm sure this will blow the whole affair!

At all times the President travels with an armed security detail which is provided by the SDU ( Special Detective Unit-an elite wing of the Irish police force ).

At five past midnight ( CET ) on 18 October, the plane was stormed in a seven-minute assault by the GSG 9, an elite unit of the German federal police.

At the peak of its power Sparta subdued many of the key Greek states and even managed to overpower the elite Athenian navy.

At the time China faced the Qiang tribes in the northwest, and thus Dong Zhuo controlled a large army with elite training.

At the elite and professional level, courses must be looped and each lap must be between 1750 m and 2000 m in length.

At first the ruling elite was primarily Norse, but it was rapidly Slavicized by the mid-century.

At the beginning of the story, O's lover, René, brings her to the château of Roissy, where she is trained to serve the men of an elite group.

At this early stage there is no evidence that the Danish Church was able to create a stable administration that Harald could use to exercise more effective control over his kingdom, but it may have contributed to the development of a centralising political and religious ideology among the social elite which sustained and enhanced an increasingly powerful kingship.

At the beginning of the dynasty, government posts were disproportionately held by two elite social groups: a founding elite who had ties with the founding emperor and a semi-hereditary professional elite who used long-held clan status, family connections and marriage alliances to secure appointments.

At 10, he and his brother were taken to Saint Petersburg to study at the elite Peterschule ( St. Peter's School ).

* At Phrada, in Drangiana, Philotas, Parmenion's son and commander of the elite Macedonian companion cavalry, is implicated in an alleged plot against Alexander's life.

At the main ford near Oldbridge, William's infantry led by the elite Dutch Blue Guards forced their way across the river, using their superior firepower to slowly drive back the enemy foot-soldiers, but were pinned down when the Jacobite cavalry counter-attacked.

At the battle of Baideng, he was ambushed reputedly by 300, 000 elite Xiongnu cavalry.

At its most extreme definition, SRA involved a worldwide conspiracy involving the wealthy and powerful of the world elite in which children were abducted or bred for sacrifices, pornography and prostitution.

At the international elite level of competition, the composition of the routine is decided by the gymnast and his or her coaches.

At Natchez and other cities, although the local newspapers and veterans played a role in the maintenance of the Lost Cause, elite women particularly were important, especially in establishing memorials, such as the Civil War Monument dedicated on Memorial Day 1890, and cemeteries.

* Hellfest Vol III: Official Video Documentary Filmed Live At Hellfest 2003 In Syracuse, ( 2 discs ) ( released July 13, 2004 ): Featuring live performances from Anti-Flag, Thursday, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Norma Jean, Lamb of God, Murder By Death, Walls of Jericho, The Bled, Terror, From Autumn to Ashes, CKY, Comeback Kid, My Chemical Romance, Full Blown Chaos, The Locust, Biohazard, Unearth, Bleeding Through, Bouncing Souls and more.

At the FIDE Congress in 1961, GM Milan Vidmar said that the regulations " made it possible to award international titles to players without sufficient merit ".

Jazz pioneers such as John Coltrane — who recorded a composition entitled ' India ' during the November 1961 sessions for his album Live At The Village Vanguard ( the track was not released until 1963 on Coltrane's album Impressions )— also embraced this fusion.

At the time of independence, the Dutch retained control over the western half of New Guinea, and permitted steps toward self-government and a declaration of independence on 1 December 1961.

At the 1961 election the Menzies government narrowly retained government with 62 of 122 seats and a two-party vote of 49. 5 percent.

At the age of 61, Khomeini found the arena of leadership open following the deaths of Ayatollah Sayyed Husayn Borujerdi ( 1961 ), the leading, although quiescent, Shi ' ah religious leader ; and Ayatollah Abol-Ghasem Kashani ( 1962 ), an activist cleric.

In 1961, Milligan co-wrote two episodes of the popular sitcom Sykes and A ..., co-starring Sykes and Hattie Jacques, and the one-off " Spike Milligan Offers A Series Of Unrelated Incidents At Market Value ".

At the beginning of 1961, Nehru appointed General

At 5: 30 am Moscow time, on the morning of April 12, 1961, both Gagarin and his backup Titov were woken.

At the beginning of 1961, it fell to Richard Nixon to preside over this process, which officially announced the election of his 1960 opponent, John F. Kennedy.

At the 1961 conference, a 32-year old Russian Orthodox Bishop named Aleksey Ridiger was sent as delegate to the assembly, and then appointed to the WCC's central committee.

At the 1961 Governor's Conference on Business, Industry, Education and Agriculture in Columbia, S. C., he declared, " Today, in our complex society, education is the cornerstone upon which economic development must be built -- and prosperity assured.

At the start of 1961, U. S. President John F. Kennedy saw Brandt as the wave of the future in West Germany and was hoping he would replace Konrad Adenauer as chancellor following elections later in the year.

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1961.

At both the 34th Academy Awards ( 1961 ) and the 80th Academy Awards ( 2007 ), Best Director was presented to a co-directing team, rather than to an individual director.

* 1961: At the Five Spot, Vol.

* 1961: At the Five Spot, Vol.

* Etta James recorded the song in 1961 on her debut album At Last !.

# At the End of the Day, 1961 – 1963 ( 1973 ) ISBN 0-333-12413-8

At some point in 1961 he wrote his first all-original melody, loosely based on a Dion and the Belmonts version of " When You Wish Upon a Star ".

At the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961, Zindel Grynszpan recounted the events of their deportation from Hannover on the night of 27 October 1938: “ Then they took us in police trucks, in prisoners ’ lorries, about 20 men in each truck, and they took us to the railway station.

At Jimmy's first appearance at the Eagles International Convention in 1961, judge Bob Hansen inquired about his fee for performing.

At Fairchild AFB, support facilities, including a liquid oxygen plant, were completed by January 1961.

At least part of the vehement criticism was due to the confusion in the public's mind between Taylor's book and another book published in 1961, Der Erzwungene Krieg ( The Forced War ) by the American historian David Hoggan.

At first the DC-4 was used, but from 1961 the airline started using the 96-seat Douglas DC-6, reaching seven aircraft in 1967.

L ' Année dernière à Marienbad ( released in the USA as Last Year At Marienbad and in the UK as Last Year in Marienbad ) is a 1961 French film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet.