At the age of ten, he was apprenticed to the famous sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, designer of the doors of the Florence Baptistery, whose workshop was the premier centre for Florentine art at the time.

At the outbreak of the First World War the German authorities regarded the position of their premier Colony with considerable equanimity although it was inevitably cut off from outside communication.

At the Federation Convention, Western Australian premier and future federal cabinet member, John Forrest, summarised the prevailing feeling:

At the time, it was America's premier museum devoted exclusively to modern art, and the first of its kind in Manhattan to exhibit European modernism.

At the southern edge of the county, The Meadow, a farm originally established in 1810, became a premier facility for breeding, raising and training Thoroughbred race horses.

At the time it was Northern Ireland ’ s premier sporting event, regularly attracting crowds in excess of a quarter of a million people.

At the time of his lifetime ban, he was considered one of the premier pitchers in the American League.

At the time of his death, he was the oldest living former provincial premier.

At his campaign launch he responded to his critics by saying " I made mistakes before I was in politics, I made mistakes when I was in politics, I made mistakes as premier ...

At Oxford, he befriended Tony Blair, who would become a British prime minister, and Geoff Gallop, later to be a premier of Western Australia.

At the intercolonial conference held at Sydney in November 1883 James Service, the Victorian premier, thought that Australia was ready for a real federal government, but Griffith, who was not prepared to go so far, moved and carried a resolution providing that a federal council should be formed to deal with the defence of Australasia, matters relating to the islands and Australia, quarantine, the prevention of the influx of criminals, and other matters of common interest to the various colonies.

At over fourteen years, Kosygin spent the longest time in office, and became the only premier to head more than two government cabinets ; he died shortly after his resignation in 1980.

At the time of his retirement, he was the longest-serving state premier in the country.

* At the University of Waterloo, a building constructed during the early 1980s to house computer research was named after the former premier.

At the time it was Northern Ireland ’ s premier sporting event, regularly attracting crowds in excess of a quarter of a million people.

At the start of 1956, the Tories were led by former Ontario premier George A.

At the time, the premier counts in the region were the counts of Arles and those of Avignon.

At 20, Holland was keeping a busy schedule in school, studios and Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, London ’ s premier jazz club, where he often played in bands that supported such touring American jazz saxophonists as Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster and Joe Henderson.

At the age of 67, MacLean retired as premier on 17 November 1981 and did not run in the 1982 provincial election.

At one point the longest-running sporting event in Hawaii, it had been considered a premier venue to launch professional careers in the National Football League.

At the same time, he and the premier agreed on the principles of electoral and land reform to be carried out in a future Romania, as the Conservatives appeared destined to lose appeal.

At that time, it was considered the premier marathon in the United States, if not the world.

At night, horse drawn carriages and live music add to the atmosphere of one of the premier entertainment areas in St. Louis.

At this point, its premier close support Korps was deployed in the Crimea, taking part in the siege of Sevastopol.

At twelve minutes after five on the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, San Francisco was shaken by a severe earthquake.

At last he found it in the paper of April 2.

At the 23rd Congress ( 29 March – 8 April 1966 ) the survival ratio was 79. 4 percent, it decreased to 76. 5 percent at the 24th Congress ( 30 March – 9 April 1971 ), increased to 83. 4 percent at the 25th Congress ( 24 February – 5 March 1976 ) and at its peak, at the 26th Congress ( 23 February – 3 March 1981 ), it reached 89 percent.

At Indiana University in 1999 he organized such a symposium, and in April 2000, he organized a larger symposium entitled " Spiritual Robots " at Stanford University, in which he moderated a panel consisting of Ray Kurzweil, Hans Moravec, Kevin Kelly, Ralph Merkle, Bill Joy, Frank Drake, John Holland and John Koza.

At an extraordinary Congress in Brussels held on 30 April 2004 the day before the enlargement of the European Union, the ELDR Party incorporated itself under Belgian law and later became a European political party.

At her funeral on 28 April, the coffin was taken to Westminster Abbey on a hearse drawn by four horses hung with black velvet.

At the arrangement of editor Max Eastman, the American magazine Reader's Digest also published an abridged version in April 1945, enabling The Road to Serfdom to reach a far wider audience than academics.

At 5 a. m. on the foggy morning of 12 April 2, 000-3, 000 German soldiers from the Brigade von Tshirsky attacked the city from the north-west, supported via the Helsinki-Turku railway.

At his inauguration, Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States of America on April 30, 1789, on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City.

At the end of April 2005, they celebrated the decommissioning of the Obrigheim nuclear power station.

At the same time, a series of deaths left the Greek political scene in disarray: Kondylis died in February, Venizelos in March, Demertzis in April and Tsaldaris in May.

In April 2007 former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet released his memoir titled At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA.

At the end of April the Romans captured the fortress of Pirisabora, which guarded the canal approach from the Euphrates to Ctesiphon on the Tigris.

At the April 2008 " Toward a Science of Consciousness " Conference held in Tucson, Arizona, Marcel Kuijsten ( Executive Director and Founder of the Julian Jaynes Society ) and Brian J. McVeigh ( University of Arizona ) hosted a workshop devoted to Jaynesian psychology.

At the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters, NAB Show, on 11 April 2010, EditShare announced that they plan to transform Lightworks into Lightworks Open Source.

At the age of seventy, Webster published his dictionary in 1828, registering the copyright on April 14.

At the Presidium of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in April, Dubček announced a political programme of " socialism with a human face ".

At the Jülich Institute of Neurosciences and Biophysics, the world's largest PET / MRI device began operation in April 2009: a 9. 4-tesla magnetic resonance tomograph ( MRT ) combined with a positron emission tomograph ( PET ).

At the time of his 200th win in April, Martínez had the highest winning percentage of any 200-game winner in modern baseball history ( he eventually slipped. 003 behind Whitey Ford ).

At the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the PLAN, 52 vessels were shown in manoeuvres off Qingdao in April 2009 including previously unseen nuclear submarines.

At the April 1974 elections, the DP increased its majority in the Legislative Assembly by three seats, gaining all but two of the fifteen seats with only 52 % of the popular vote.

At approximately 9: 40 AM Eastern Daylight Time on April 27, 2012 Enterprise took off from Dulles International Airport en-route to a fly-by over the Hudson River, New York's JFK International Airport, the Statue of Liberty, the George Washington and Verrazano-Narrows Bridges, and several other landmarks in the city ; in an approximately 45-minute " final tour ".

At a neighborhood coffee shop near a carnival, he meets and becomes friends with a female midget named Clarice ( April Kent ), who is proportionately his equal, with him being slightly taller.