On 1 September 1939, two divisions were raised as part of the Canadian Active Service Force ; a Third Division was raised in 1940, followed by a First Canadian ( Armoured ) Division and Fourth Canadian Division.

Simultaneously, however, another " Headquarters, First Canadian Infantry Division " was authorized as part of the Canadian Army Active Force ( the Regular forces of the Canadian military ), in October 1953.

First Army ( Active ) and Fourth Army ( Reserve on paper )

At the outbreak of the First Balkan War, Bulgaria mobilized a total of 599, 878 men ( 366, 209 in the Active Army ; 53, 927 in the supplementing units ; 53, 983 in the National Militia ; 94, 526 from the 1912 and 1913 levies ; 14, 204 volunteers ; 14, 424 in the border guards ).

* Frequently Used First Letters in European Active Devices

The town also has branches of all the major banks-AIB, Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank, National Irish Bank, Permanent TSB-and branches of First Active and EBS building societies.

In 2003 / 2004, Ulster Bank Group purchased First Active, Ireland's oldest building society, for € 887 million.

In 2009, the First Active branch network and business of several hundred thousand savers and borrowers was merged with Ulster Bank, and the brand name was retired in 2010.

* 2003: First deliveries of the Active Steering systems for passenger cars.

GMC cadets on contract are also considered to be inactive enlisted members of the Air Force Reserve serving without pay, ranging from Airman Basic ( AB, pay grade E-1 ) to Staff Sergeant ( SSgt, pay grade E-5 ) with higher grades based on prior enlisted military experience in the Active or Reserve Components or other qualifying credentials ( i. e., senior Civil Air Patrol cadets or former high school AFJROTC cadets with four years of participation enlisting at Airman First Class

In August 2012, the company added mortgages to its own product range, after briefly offering products provided by First Active in 2004.

The First Theremin Concert for Extraterrestrials was the world's first musical Active SETI broadcast, and was sent six years before NASA's Across the Universe message.

* Ace Augustine ( Strike First Records ) ( Active, signed to Red Cord Records )

First Active was founded in 1861 as the Workingman's Benefit Building Society.

Between September 2000 and December 2002 First Active sold its investments in First Active Financial in the UK to Britannic Assurance plc.

Examples included the First Active representative telling " Most people " that there's no need to keep switching mortgage companies, finding " whoever said that you need to keep switching mortgages in order to get the best deal ", and finding where it is written that it takes ages to get a decision on your mortgage.

On 5 January 2004, First Active became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group that also owns Ulster Bank.

On 26 January 2009, it was announced that First Active would cease to operate as a separate entity and its operations would be merged with those of Ulster Bank, with the loss of 750 jobs ( 550 in the Republic of Ireland and the balance in Northern Ireland ).

First it was the Nations against themselves, then it was them against the whites.

First, Wright said, he was choked by the smoke, which fortunately kept him from seeing the dreadful town.

The President was even more generous with the First Lady than he had been before the tragedy.

Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often.

But she was afraid the First Lady would not understand, because Rob Roy was a perfect angel with the First Family.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

Lieutenant Colonel James P. Brownlow, who commanded the First Brigade of Thomas' First Cavalry Division, was ordered across one of these fords.

Beloved Dr. R. F. Campbell, our First Presbyterian Church pastor, was in charge.

When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.

Perhaps Patchen was once involved in a train accident, and this passage from First Will And Testament may have been how the accident appeared to the poet when he first saw it -- if he did: ``

First of all there was the parsonage, an utterly impossible place for civilized people to live in, originally poorly conceived, apparently not repaired for years, with no plumbing or sewage, with rat-holes and rot.

First thing I knew he was in the kitchenette cooking up the breakfast and I was handing Eileen her coffeecup and she was lying there handsome as a queen among her courtiers.

When that was broken up after the First World War, its name was changed once more.

First was a 1958 cut of more than 50% on that portion of the load in excess of 40,000 lb ; ;

First, and most obvious, was the growing nationalism and the tendency to regard the state, and the individual's identification with the state, as transcending other ties of social solidarity.

First was the period of codification of existing law: the Code Napoleon in France and the peculiar codification that, in fact, resulted from Austin's restatement and ordering of the Common Law in England.

First of all, what is their evidence that the tactual apparatus was fundamentally undamaged??

* 1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.

Among these actions were the Seven Years ' War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the New Zealand land wars, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Fenian raids, the Irish War of Independence, its serial interventions into Afghanistan ( which were meant to maintain a friendly buffer state between British India and the Russian Empire ), and the Crimean War ( to keep the Russian Empire at a safe distance by coming to Turkey's aid ).

In addition to battling the armies of other European Empires ( and of its former colonies, the United States, in the American War of 1812 ), in the battle for global supremacy, the British Army fought the Chinese in the First and Second Opium Wars, and the Boxer Rebellion, Māori tribes in the first of the New Zealand Wars, Nawab Shiraj-ud-Daula's forces and British East India Company mutineers in the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the Boers in the First and Second Boer Wars, Irish Fenians in Canada during the Fenian raids and Irish separatists in the Anglo-Irish War.

Sinn Féin won 73 out of 105 seats in Ireland at the general election held in December 1918, and in January 1919 organised themselves as the First Dáil, which then declared an independent Irish Republic.

On 21 January 1994, on the 75th anniversary of the First Dáil Éireann, Continuity IRA volunteers offered a " final salute " to Tom Maguire by firing over his grave, and a public statement and a photo were published in Saoirse Irish Freedom.

The Rising was mounted by Irish republicans with the aims of ending British rule in Ireland and establishing the Irish Republic at a time when the British Empire was heavily engaged in the First World War.

In January 1919, the elected members of Sinn Féin who were not still in prison at the time, including survivors of the Rising, convened the First Dáil and established the Irish Republic.

However, the increasing militarisation of Irish politics was overshadowed soon after by the outbreak of a larger conflict — the First World War — and Ireland's involvement in the conflict.

The rebel Volunteers were a minority faction among Irish nationalists and up to 200, 000 Irishmen were serving on the British side in the First World War.

It includes some Inuit and First Nations words ( for example tabanask, a kind of sled ), preserved archaic English words no longer found in other English dialects ( for example pook, a mound of hay ), Irish language survivals like sleveen and angishore, compound words created from English words to describe things unique to Newfoundland ( for example stun breeze, a wind of at least 20 knots ( 37 km / h )), English words which have undergone a semantic shift ( for example rind, the bark of a tree ), and unique words whose origins are unknown ( for example diddies, a nightmare ).

; 1886: Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and the Liberal Party tries passing the First Irish Home Rule Bill, but the House of Commons rejects it.

in 1868 Gladstone proposed the Irish Church Resolutions to reunite the Liberal Party for government ( on the issue of disestablishment of the Church of Ireland – this would be done during Gladstone's First Government in 1869 and meant that Irish Roman Catholics did not need to pay their tithes to the Anglican Church of Ireland ).

He also passed the Second Land Act ( the First, in 1870, had entitled Irish tenants, if evicted, to compensation for improvements which they had made on their property, but had had little effect ) which gave Irish tenants the " 3Fs " – fair rent, fixity of tenure and free sale.

* April 4 – William Ewart Gladstone introduces the First Irish Home Rule Bill in the British Parliament ; it is defeated on June 8.

* August 15 – First Battle of Curlew Pass: Irish forces defeat the English.

* " Series A " Banknotes – First issued by the Irish Free State in 1928

It has also been adapted to films, The Sacrifice ( 1909 ), Love's Surprises Are Futile ( 1916 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 1917 ), Dary magów ( Poland, 1972 ), part of O. Henry's Full House ( 1952 ), The Gift of Love ( 1978 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 1958 ), Christmas Eve on Sesame Street ( 1978 ), Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas gift ( 1999 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 2004 ) and the short film for the Irish band The Script in 2010 called For the First Time.

* James Murray ( VC ) ( 1859 – 1942 ), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross during the First Boer War