First a raft is built first, then eggs are laid in the centre, and then a foam cap is placed.

In the narrower sense environmental activists that align themselves with Earth First or Road Protestors would commonly be labelled activists, whilst a local community fighting to stop their park or green being sold off or built on would fit the broader application, due to their using similar means to similarly conservative ends.

Admiralty House is a moderately proportioned mansion to the south of the Ripley Building, built in the late 18th century as the residence of the First Lord of the Admiralty, serving that purpose until 1964.

Past the bend are The Apthorp and the First Baptist Church in the City of New York ( 1891 ), built for a Baptist congregation in New York since 1762.

First known as Hi-Catoctin, Camp David was originally built as a camp for federal government agents and their families, by the WPA, starting in 1935, opening in 1938.

TCL was a partnership comprising First Group, Bombardier Transportation ( the builders of the system's trams ), Sir Robert McAlpine and Amey Construction Ltd ( who built the system ), and Royal Bank of Scotland and 3i ( who arranged the finances ).

The Central Pacific Railroad ( CPRR ) is the former name of the railroad network built between California and Utah, USA that formed part of the " First Transcontinental Railroad " in North America.

* 1930: First US diesel-power passenger car ( Cummins powered Packard ) built in Columbus, Indiana ( USA )

When the First Transcontinental Railroad was proposed in the 1850s, Atchison called for it to be built along the central route ( from St. Louis through Missouri, Kansas, and Utah ), rather the southern route ( from New Orleans through Texas and New Mexico ).

Britain was required to scrap most of her vast First World War fleet ( only two new, oddly-shaped, battleships, Rodney and Nelson were built at this time, known colloquially as the ' Cherry Tree Class ' as they had been ' cut down by Washington ').

The First Digital Cinema Network enabling digital delivery directly to the theaters was built by Digital Cinema Solutions in 2002.

With a $ 10 million dollar investment, Paramount built their own chain of first-run movie theaters after a secret plan to merge with First National failed.

Wallerscote was built in 1926, its construction delayed by the First World War, and became one of the largest factories devoted to a single product ( soda ash ) in the world.

Tisha B ' Av is a fast day that commemorates two of the saddest events in Jewish history that both occurred on the ninth of Av — the destruction in 586 BCE of the First Temple, originally built by King Solomon, and destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.

IV, describes Solomon's Temple, also known as the First Temple, at the time the Ark of the Covenant was first moved into the newly built temple:

First Baptist Church in America | The congregation founded by Roger Williams ( theologian ) | Roger Williams in 1638 built this Providence, Rhode Island | Providence historic church in 1776

* First pound lock in Europe reportedly built in Vreeswijk, Netherlands in 1373

* 486 BC: First part of the Grand Canal of China is built

* First ziggurats built in Sumer.

The First Transcontinental Railroad ( known originally as the " Pacific Railroad " and later as the " Overland Route ") was a railroad line built in the United States of America between 1863 and 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and the Union Pacific Railroad that connected its statutory Eastern terminus at Council Bluffs, Iowa / Omaha, Nebraska ( via Ogden, Utah, and Sacramento, California ) with the Pacific Ocean at Oakland, California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco.

Large areas of Europe had previously been united by empires built on force, such as the Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Frankish Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, the First French Empire and Nazi Germany.

First the Ottomans attacked the newly built fort of St. Elmo and after a whole month of fighting the fort was in rubble and the soldiers kept fighting until the Turks ended their lives.

Today known as First United Methodist Church, this congregation built a small log church building in 1820 ; it was London's first church and orphanage.

First primary school was opened in 1820, and first Roman Catholic church of St. Alexander was built in the 1870s.

Lloyd George strongly supported this, writing to Reginald McKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, " the emphatic pledges given by all of us at the last general election to reduce the gigantic expenditure on armaments built up by the recklessness of our predecessors.

A decade and a half later, the Polish anthropology student, Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), was beginning what he expected to be a brief period of fieldwork in the old model, collecting lists of cultural items, when the outbreak of the First World War stranded him in New Guinea.

* William Hallett Greene ( 1884 )), First black graduate of City College and first black member of the U. S. Army Signal Corps

The Foreign Legion's First Battalion ( Lieutenant-Colonel Donnier ) was sent to Tonkin in the autumn of 1883, during the period of undeclared hostilities that preceded the Sino – French War ( August 1884 to April 1885 ), and formed part of the attack column that stormed the western gate of Son Tay on 16 December.

* 1884 – Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States and humanitarian ( d. 1962 )

* November 7 – Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States ( b. 1884 )

First published 1884 by Harper & Brothers.

After the First Anglo-Boer War, Gladstone's government restored the Transvaal's independence in 1884 by signing of the London Convention.

His grave is located in the cemetery of the Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, with the inscription " First Settler Here 1884.

In 1884, four men robbed the First National Bank of Bowie and allegedly left with over $ 10, 000 in gold coins.

* Germany's First Bid for Colonies 1884 – 1885: a Move in Bismarck's European Policy, 1938.

The " Voltaire " was at the Academy of 1883 ; it was followed, in 1884, by the " Marriage de convenance ", perhaps the most popular of all Orchardson's pictures ; in 1885, by " The Salon of Madame Récamier "; in 1886, by " After ", the sequel to the " Marriage de convenance ", and " A Tender Chord ", one of his most exquisite productions ; in 1887, by " The First Cloud "; in 1888, by " Her Mother's Voice "; and in 1889, by " The Young Duke ", a canvas on which he returned to much the same pictorial scheme as that of the " Voltaire ".

Germany's First Bid For Colonies, 1884 – 1885: A Move in Bismarck's European Policy ( New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc. – the Norton Library, 1970 ), p. 17 – 31: Chapter 1.

Cross ) at the First International Forestry Exhibition ( 1884 ).

In a short period of time, there was the Anglo-Zulu War, chronic troubles with the Basutos ( which prompted the Cape to relinquish control of Basutoland to the imperial authorities ) as well as a series of conflicts with the Xhosa which were followed by the First Boer War of 1881 and the Bechuanaland disturbances of 1884.

* Eleanor Roosevelt ( 1884 – 1962 ), First Lady of U. S. President Franklin Roosevelt

Also in 1884, Belyayev rented out a hall and hired an orchestra to play Glazunov's First Symphony plus an orchestral suite Glazunov had just composed.

" The first important visual representation of the First Vision was painted by the Danish convert C. C. A. Christensen sometime between 1869 and 1878, and George Manwaring, inspired by the artist, wrote a hymn about the First Vision ( later renamed " Oh, How Lovely Was the Morning ") first published in 1884.

The arboretum is the realization of the dream of William Douglas Cook ( 1884 – 1967 ), who started planting trees on his farm shortly after the First World War.

It was a protectorate from 1884 until 1914 when it fell to Australian forces following the outbreak of the First World War.

First opened by the East London Railway on 10 April 1876, it was first served by the Metropolitan District Railway and Metropolitan Railway on 1 October 1884.

First planting in the United States occurred April 11, 1884 into the Baldwin River, one mile east of Baldwin, MI.

* 1884 – First International Ornithological Congress held in Vienna, with Gustav Radde as President

First introduced to North America in 1884, an estimated 50 kilograms per square metre of hyacinth once choked Florida's waterways, although the problem there has since been mitigated.

* Grant, Alexander, The Story of the University of Edinburgh During its First 300 Years, vol. 2, ( London, Longmans, Green & Co, 1884 )