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.

First, the State Department is unique among government agencies for its lack of public supporters.

First, there were those Congolese ( among them Joseph Kasavubu ) who favored splitting the country into small independent states, Balkanizing it.

To be sure, when this is pointed out, a common response among certain churchmen is to fulminate about `` the little flock '' and `` the great crowd '' and to take solace from Paul's castigation of the `` wisdom of the wise '' in the opening chapter of First Corinthians.

Aristotle was well known among medieval Muslim intellectuals and revered as المعلم الأول-" The First Teacher ".

The inside walls of the monument list the names of 660 people, among which are 558 French generals of the First French Empire ; the names of those who died in battle are underlined.

First basemen, with 34 winners, have won the most MVPs among infielders, followed by second basemen ( 16 ), third basemen ( 15 ), and shortstops ( 14 ).

However, early church documents, such as those of the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) had always listed the Pope of Rome first among the Ancient Patriarchs ( first four, and later five: Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem — collectively referred to as the Pentarchy ).

First among them is the risk associated with portraying the king's ancestor as a murderer and conspirator in the plot to overthrow a rightful king, as well as the author's desire to flatter a powerful patron.

Church members believe that Joseph Smith was called to be a modern-day prophet through, among other events, a First Vision | visitation from God the Father and Jesus | Jesus Christ.

First used in China, cannon were among the earliest forms of gunpowder artillery, and over time replaced siege engines — among other forms of aging weaponry — on the battlefield.

This is also when what is called the Laurentian tradition started among Archaic Indians, existing First Nations peoples of the time.

First, the conceptual level is designed, which defines the over-all picture / view of the database, and reflects all the real-world elements ( entities ) the database intends to model, as well as the relationships among them.

First synthesized in 1874, DDT's insecticidal properties were not discovered until 1939, and it was used with great success in the second half of World War II to control malaria and typhus among civilians and troops.

First published in the System V Application Binary Interface specification, and later in the Tool Interface Standard, it was quickly accepted among different vendors of Unix systems.

In July 1936, stockholders of First National Pictures, Inc. ( primarily Warner Bros .) voted to dissolve the corporation and distribute its assets among the stockholders, in line with a new tax law which provided for tax-free consolidations between corporations.

There is near consensus among historians and Christian theologians that Paul is the author of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, typically classifying its authorship as " undisputed " ( see Authorship of the Pauline Epistles ).

The outbreak of the First World War was precipitated by a series of struggles among the Great Powers.

) This instigated the Crimean War in 1854 and began a tenser period of minor clashes among the globe-spanning empires of Europe that set the stage for the First World War.

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.

Also, First ( I ), second ( II ) and third ( III ) places among gold medalists are indicated where appropriate.

In Canada, from oral histories, there is evidence of a tradition of an ancient stick and ball game played among the Mi ' kmaq First Nation in Eastern Canada.

Author Matteo Bandello wrote that she was " supreme among women ", and the diplomat Niccolò da Correggio entitled her " The First Lady of the world ".

His years at Liverpool were among the club's most successful periods, as he won six Football League First Divisions, two FA Cups, four League Cups, seven FA Charity Shields, three European Cups and one UEFA Super Cup.

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

Mama tried to talk to them and keep them quiet while she tidied up the sitting room before the First Family returned.

First, it could locate the enemy infantry, learn what they were doing, and hold them until the heavy foot columns could come up and take over.

First, Arlene had put them through some rapid somersaults.

The First Lady appointed a Fine Arts Advisory Committee for the White House, to locate authentic pieces as well as to arrange ways to acquire them.

In the First Test ( the first played at Edgbaston ), after scoring 376 England bowled out Australia for 36 ( Wilfred Rhodes 7 / 17 ) and reduced them to 46 – 2 when they followed on.

Hence the fatalistic strain of the poems, and the earlier settings, foreshadowed responses to the universal bereavement of the First World War and became assimilated into them.

Athanasius ' first problem lay with the Meletians, who had failed to abide by the terms of the decision made at the First Council of Nicaea which had hoped to reunite them with the Church.

First, the player must turn their back to their opponents, restricting their view of them and the court.

First stating " I'm sure they exist ", she later went on to say, chuckling, " Well, I'm a romantic, so I always wanted them to exist ", and finally: " You know, why isn't there a body?

First drawn to fungi because of their colours and evanescence in nature and her delight in painting them, her interest deepened after meeting Charles McIntosh, a revered naturalist and mycologist during a summer holiday in Perthshire in 1892.

During the First World War the German army used horses for logistics, 1. 4 million of them, in the 1939 – 45 war it used 2. 7 million horses.

Most of the original societies were fully terminating, where they would be dissolved when all members had a house: the last of them, First Salisbury, was wound up in March 1980.

The developments that led to the First Balkan War did not go unnoticed by the Great Powers, but although there was an official consensus between the European Powers over the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire, which led to a stern warning to the Balkan states, unofficially each of them took a different diplomatic approach due to their conflicting interests in the area.

There was no shortage of recruits, many of them unemployed First World War army veterans, and by November 1921 about 9, 500 men had joined.

Though the unified reign of the First Qin Emperor lasted only 12 years, he managed to subdue great parts of what constitutes the core of the Han Chinese homeland and to unite them under a tightly centralized Legalist government seated at Xianyang ( close to modern Xi ' an ).

First would be to film all the shots for a particular scene together, and all shots of consecutive scenes together ( if the scenes take place together, with no break between them in the film's timeline ).

He also introduced the church to a full accounting of his First Vision, in which two heavenly " personages " ( LDS interpret them to be God the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ ) appeared to him at age 14.

First, large areas of the image may be empty of primitives ; rasterization will ignore these areas, but pixel-by-pixel rendering must pass through them.

" These are likely the same Cathari mentioned in Canon 8 of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, which states "... f those called Cathari come over the Catholic faith, let them first make profession that they are willing to communicate full communion with the twice-married, and grant pardon to those who have lapsed ..."

First, that the " sword shall never depart from your house " ( 2 Samuel 12: 10 ) second, that " Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight.