At Emerson's request, Alcott helped arrange Thoreau's funeral, which was held at First Parish Sanctuary in Concord, despite Thoreau having disavowed membership in the church when he was in his early twenties.

At the request of Young and Duke, the moonwalk was extended by ten minutes.

At the request of Christian II of Denmark, Dürer went to Brussels to paint the King's portrait.

At his own request Nehemiah is sent to Jerusalem as governor of Yehud, the official Persian name for Judah.

At the same time, Athens's greatest runner, Pheidippides ( or Philippides in some accounts ) had been sent to Sparta to request that the Spartan army march to the aid of Athens.

At the request of his Poznań University professor, Zdzisław Krygowski, on arriving at Göttingen Rejewski laid flowers on Gauss's grave.

At the request of the Huguenots at Metz, he pleaded its cause at the court of King Louis XIV, urging that it should be excepted in the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, but his efforts were unsuccessful, and he joined his father in Berlin.

At the request of the government of Southern Rhodesia, Doke investigated the range of dialect diversity among the languages of the country and made recommendations for Unified Shona.

At the request of the king, he wrote a letter to Pope Boniface on the debated subject of " The Three Chapters ".

At Chiang's request Yan visited Li in order to convince Li not to withdraw from public life.

At the request of then Lt .- Gov.

At the request of the U. S. Air Force he began formalizing his Process Maturity Framework to aid the U. S. Department of Defense in evaluating the capability of software contractors as part of awarding contracts.

At the request of Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris invented the Domain Name System in 1983 and wrote the first implementation.

At Atchison's request, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which embodied this idea, in November 1853.

[...] At my request the publishers are removing what they believe would be considered objectionable, and are placing asterisks to show where omissions have been made.

At the request of Giulietta Masina, trumpeter Mauro Maur played the " Improvviso dell ' Angelo " by Nino Rota during the funeral ceremony.

At the request of emperor Zeno, Theodoric the Great conquered all of Italy beginning in 488.

At North's request, the board disbanded the ICE in 2001.

At the request of Michèle, Papa Doc's widow Simone was expelled from Haiti.

At GM headquarters ’ request, Holden was then reorganised and recapitalised, separating the engine and car manufacturing divisions in the process.

At the request of Azam, Paul Broca, and others, the French Academy of Science, who had examined Mesmerism in 1784, examined Braid's writings shortly after his demise.

At Jackson's request, the United States Congress opened a fierce debate on an Indian Removal Bill.

At his request he was billed as " J. B. Wilkes ", a pseudonym meant to avoid comparison with other members of his famous thespian family.

At the request of Madame d ' Epinay, who was anxious to protect her privacy, however, the police ordered him to stop, and the Confessions was only partially published in 1782, four years after his death.

At the request of his father, Adolf Lorenz, he began a premedical curriculum in 1922 at Columbia University, but he returned to Vienna in 1923 to continue his studies at the University of Vienna.

At the marriage of Alexander to Margaret of England in 1251, Henry III of England seized the opportunity to demand from his son-in-law homage for the Scottish kingdom, but Alexander did not comply.

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 that moment, the nominal ruler of al-Andalus, emir Yusuf ibn ' Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri ( another member of the Fihrid family, and a favorite of the old Arab settlers ( baladiyun ), mostly of south Arabian or ' Yemenite ' tribal stock ) was locked in a contest with his vizier ( and son-in-law ) al-Sumayl ibn Hatim al-Qilabi, the head of the new settlers ( shamiyum, the Syrian junds or military regiments, mostly of north Arabian Qaysid tribes, which had arrived only in 742 ).

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 beginning of the 12th century, a local mullah had a dream in which the 7th century Ali bin Abi Talib, cousin and son-in-law of Islam's prophet Muhammad, appeared to reveal that he had been secretly buried near the city of Balkh.

At the same time, the Bohemian estates deposed him as King of Bohemia and replaced him with Frederick V, Elector Palatine, a leading Calvinist and son-in-law of King of England.

At the height of its popularity, the hotel played host to such guests as Senators Thomas Kearns ( Utah ), Henry G. Davis ( West Virginia ), his son-in-law, Senator Stephen Benton Elkins ( West Virginia ), and Camden ( West Virginia ).

At the death of Leo, Zeno, who was a " barbarian " of Isaurian stock, but at the same time son-in-law of Leo, ascended to Emperor, after a short reign of his own son Leo II ( 474 ).

At Lacock, as elsewhere, they were named for individuals " whose recognition in this way advertised the family's affinities ": the best chamber was " the duke's chamber ", probably signifying John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, whom Sharington had served, while " Lady Thynne's chamber ", identified it with the wife of Sir John Thynne of Longleat, and " Mr Mildmay's chamber " was reserved for Sharington's son-in-law Anthony Mildmay of Apethorpe in Northamptonshire.

At the same time however, Theoktistos had been pressing Michael Rangabe to claim the Imperial throne for himself – given Staurakios ’ injuries, and his being the son-in-law of the slain Nikephoros, Theoktistos believed he was best placed to deal with the imminent Bulgar threat.

At the Restoration, Whalley, with his son-in-law, General William Goffe, escaped to North America, and landed at Boston on 27 July 1660, where they were well received by Governor John Endecott and visited by the principal persons of the town.

At his christening on 4 August 1942 at the Private Chapel of Windsor Castle, his godparents were: King George VI ( his paternal uncle ); the Queen of the Netherlands ( for whom her son-in-law Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands stood proxy ); the King of Norway ( his granduncle ); the President of the United States of America ( for whom the Duke of Kent stood proxy ) ; the Crown Princess of Greece ( who was not present ); the Duke of Gloucester ( his paternal uncle, who was absent ); the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven ( his grandfather King George V's cousin ); and the Lady Patricia Ramsay ( his grandfather King George V's cousin ).

At the beginning of the 13th century, Philip of Swabia, a Hohenstaufen, and his son-in-law Otto of Brunswick, a Welf, were rivals for the imperial throne.

At the death of Isabella in 1504, Ferdinand is alleged to have proposed to her to keep the throne from his son-in-law, but she refused.

At age 98, she moved from Iowa to Ohio in order to live with her daughter and son-in-law.

At the age of 70, Fusajiro finally retired, leaving his son-in-law Sekiryo Kaneda ( whose name had changed to Sekiryo Yamauchi ).

At the beginning of the reign of her son-in-law, Claudius, Lepida was given in marriage to Appius Junius Silanus, consul in AD 28.

At the State Conservatorium he studied under composer Josef Suk, the son-in-law of Antonín Dvořák.

At the request of her son-in-law Akshay Kumar, she voiced the character of Devi, the mother of the title character of an elephant ( voiced by Kumar ) in the animated movie Jumbo ( 2008 ).

At the same time, he lost a great amount of capital, which was confiscated when his son-in-law, the Hanover court Jew Isaac Behrends, went bankrupt and Lehmann was accused of having illegally held back jewels and money from the estate for him ( the allegation was never verified ).

At the head of the Lombard school were Monti and his son-in-law Count Giulio Perticari.

At the age of 76, Abbott died in 1913 at the Toronto home of his son-in-law Frederick Langdon Hubbard, son of his black municipal reformer and long-time friend William Peyton Hubbard.