At about the age of twelve I became a Spencerian liberal, and I have always considered myself a liberal of some kind even though the definition has changed repeatedly since Spencer became a reactionary.

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

At the age of twelve he was sent to the Haxius School in Geneva,

At the free end of the body is a mouth opening surrounded by one to twelve thin, mobile tentacles.

At twelve he was working 3½ acres ( 14, 000 m² ) of garden using a horse and cart for his three-times-a-week deliveries to grocery stores in Pittsburgh.

At the age of twelve, Hedwig married Henry I the Bearded, son and heir of the Piast duke Bolesław I the Tall of Silesia.

At his mother's funeral, Harry, then twelve years old, accompanied his father, brother, paternal grandfather, and maternal uncle in walking behind the funeral cortège from Kensington Palace to Westminster Abbey.

At twelve, Audubon went to military school and became a cabin boy.

At age twelve, Moon joined his local Sea Cadet Corps band as a bugle player but traded his position to be a drummer.

At the age of twelve his father died, and he had to start working as a miner.

At the time there were twelve tribes on Nauru: Deiboe, Eamwidamit, Eamwidara, Eamwit, Eamgum, Eano, Emeo, Eoraru, Irutsi, Iruwa, Iwi and Ranibok.

At the age of twelve he proceeded to Nantes where his uncle, Guillaime-François Laennec, worked in the faculty of medicine at the university.

At age twelve, Bradbury began writing traditional horror stories and said he tried to imitate Poe until he was about eighteen.

At age 20, Cobb became the youngest player to win a batting championship and held this record until 1955 when fellow Detroit Tiger Al Kaline won the batting title when he was twelve days younger than Cobb had been.

At Athens " in Plato's time ," notes Kenneth Dorter " there was a discrepancy in the list of the twelve chief gods, as to whether Hestia or Dionysus was included with the other eleven.

* November 28 – At Gresham College in London, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray meet after a lecture by Wren and decide to found " a College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning " ( later known as the Royal Society ).

At the time John was the only apostle present at the crucifixtion, despite being the youngest of all twelve apostles.

At the age of twelve he entered the University of Heidelberg, which he left in the

At the time of her marriage, Isabella was probably about twelve and was described by Geoffrey of Paris as " the beauty of beauties ... in the kingdom if not in all Europe.

At ten or twelve months the first ring appears ; at twenty months to two years the second ; at thirty to thirty-two months the third ring, at forty to forty-six months the fourth ring, at fifty four to sixty months the fifth ring, and so on.

At the age of twelve Stevenson accidentally killed Ruth Merwin, a 16-year-old friend, while demonstrating drill technique with a rifle, inadvertently left loaded, during a party at the Stevenson home.

At the age of 50 Collins appeared in a twelve page photo layout for Playboy magazine shot by George Hurrell.

At the age of fourteen he was playing the organ at Harlem's Lincoln Theater and within twelve months he had composed his first rag.

At the end of the project in 1943, South Carolina had twelve publicly funded county libraries, one regional library, and a funded state library agency.

At the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

At the pool's far end was the little cabana Joyce had mentioned, and on the water's surface floated scattered lavender patches of limp-looking lather.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

At the same time, all suggestions that some sort of societal responsibility existed for the welfare of the people within the territorial state was strongly resisted.

At the heart of all of this was the square, which one such traveler declared to be `` as spacious, as pleasant and aromatick a Market as any in the Universe ''.

At the moment he was excited about his son's having received the Prix De Rome in archaeology and was looking forward to being present this summer at the excavation of an Etruscan tomb.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.

At Stettin the university-educated artist, who had studied German, was chosen to serve as interpreter and clerk in the office of the Stalag commander.

At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.

At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:

At this, the students let out a yell, knowing full well the actual frontier was beyond the town of Kehl.

At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.

At headquarters -- sufficiently far from the firing line to make you forget occasionally that you were in a war -- Lewis found that the Commander in Chief's only desk was his knees ( and his only comb, his fingers ).

At this moment Mando came hurrying up to announce that the problem was solved and all Norton had to do was to sign a sheaf of papers.

At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.

At the trial which took place later, the Pomham matter was completely omitted.

At Camp Taylor in Kentucky a barracks was built in an hour and a half from timber that had been standing in Mississippi forests one week before.

At the end of World War 2,, free Europe was ready for a new beginning.