A passage in Muhtasar kitab al-buldan illustrates the division of Islamic society into strata: " First are the rulers, whom their deserts has placed in the foremost rank ; second are the viziers, distinguished by wisdom and understanding ; third are the wealthy upper classes, lifted by their possessions ; fourth are the middle classes who are attached to the upper three by culture ( ta ' addub ); the remainder are the lowest classes that are filthy refuse, a torrent of scum, none of whom thinks of anything but food and sleep.

* First Baptist church in upper Georgia at Fishing Creek, 1783.

The opening of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov bears a close resemblance to the first theme of Balakirev's Second Overture, while Borodin's In the Steppes of Central Asia begins with a dominant pedal extending over 90 bars in the upper register of the violins, a device Balakirev used in his First Overture.

First published in 1936, shortly after his death, Day's book is a picture of New York upper middle class family life in the 1890s.

First, the sign of the left-hand side is positive since either all three of the ratios are positive, the case where O is inside the triangle ( upper diagram ), or one is positive and the other two are negative, the case O is outside the triangle ( lower diagram shows one case ).

First, they have nasal passages that attach to the upper bill called naricorns.

First, they have nasal passages that attach to the upper bill called naricorns.

The notion of Middle Schools was mooted by the Plowden Report of 1967 which proposed a change to a three-tier model including First schools for children aged between 5 and 8, Middle Schools for 8 – 12 year-olds, and then upper or high schools for 12 – 16 year-olds.

First, they have nasal passages that attach to the upper bill called naricorns ; however, nostrils on albatrosses are on the sides of the bill, as opposed to the rest of the order, including fulmars, which have nostrils on top of the upper bill.

In a fractional rig, tensioning the permanent backstay will have two effects: First, the forestay is tensioned ( controls sag in headsail ) and second, the mast bend is increased, particularly in the upper one-half to one-third of the mast.

Australia had the upper hand in the First Test, but failed to force a victory.

First Air Force assumed responsibility for the ADC 21st, 33d, 34th, 35th, and 36th Air Divisions, primarily located in the northeast and upper Midwest regions of the United States.

The upper Green also once held the First Methodist Church.

* Första kammaren abolished upper chamber in the Swedish parliament, which also means First Chamber.

His early experiences under the First Venezuelan Republic and in New Granada convinced him that divisions among republicans, augmented by federal forms of government, only allowed Spanish American royalists to eventually gain the upper hand.

* First upper deck home run: Tony Perez, August 11, 1970.

As of the 2010 election, the upper house consists of eight Labor, seven Liberal, two Green, two Family First, two No Pokies and one Dignity for Disability.

* Nieuport 28-biplane fighter of late First World War-first biplane Nieuport fighter with full size upper and lower wings.

Adrian Van Vliet, who was pastor of the German Presbyterian Church, now known as the First Presbyterian Church of Dubuque, in 1852 to train ministers to serve the influx of immigrants to the upper midwest.

They are named after the protagonist, George Sherston ; a young Englishman of the upper middle-class, living immediately before and during the First World War.

* First phase of terminal expansion ( upper level hold room and two additional loading bridges ).

First, the university cemetery sits on a hill that once overlooked the field before the upper decks were constructed.

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

This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.

According to the E. J. Erickson the Greek Navy also played a crucial, albeit indirect role, in the Thracian campaign by neutralizing no less than three Thracian Corps ( see First Balkan War, the Bulgarian theater of operations ), a significant portion of the Ottoman Army there, in the all-important opening round of the war.

President William Howard Taft devoted a considerable portion of his First Annual Message to Congress ( December 7, 1909 ) to the Liberian question, noting the close historical ties between the two countries that gave an opening for a wider intervention:

First one pulls out a portion of the middle of the stack and places it back on top of the deck ; one then performs a regular cut described earlier.

The first two of his Meditations on First Philosophy, those that formulate the famous methodic doubt, are the portion of Descartes writings that most influenced modern thinking.

Seattle University ( SU ) is a Jesuit Catholic university located in the First Hill neighbourhood and Squire Park portion of the Central District of Seattle, Washington, USA.

Segment XX of the Fasti triumphales, a portion recording triumphs during the First Punic War

On Monday and Wednesday of the Fourth Week, a Veneration of the Cross takes place at the First Hour ( repeating a portion of the service from the All-Night Vigil of the previous Sunday ).

A portion of the eastern South Slavs assimilated most of them, before the Bulgar élite incorporated this peoples into the First Bulgarian Empire.

He reportedly began an unfinished Vietnam War novel, a portion of which appeared as the story First Base in his short story collection Declarations of War.

First Conon moved up to Caria with a small portion of the fleet, where he was for a time blockaded but then rescued by Pharnabazus and Tissaphernes.

First coming to Nottoway in the 1850s, railroad construction and associated industries eventually came to represent a major portion of business in the area.

First included in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, most of the county was removed from the reservation for 26 years after a 1910 act of the US Congress which " authorized and directed the Secretary of Interior to sell and dispose of all that portion of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, in the State of South Dakota, lying and being in Bennett County and described as follows: "... except for such portions therof as have been or may be hereafter allotted to Indians or otherwise reserved, and except lands classified as timber lands: Provided ,..." The lands were allotted and Bennett County was opened for settlement.

The historic district covers an area of about, roughly bounded on the east by Grove Street, Fountain Street, Route 12, Route 205, and South Chestnut Street ; on the south by Third Street ; on the west by South Walnut Street, a westward extension of First Street, and the Quinebaug River ; and on the north by the extension of the east-west portion of North Chestnut Street.

On the state level, Charlemont is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as part of the First Berkshire district, which includes the northern portion of Berkshire County as well as several towns in northwest Franklin County.

On the state level, Hawley is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as part of the First Berkshire district, which includes the northern portion of Berkshire County as well as several towns in northwest Franklin County.

On the state level, Heath is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as part of the First Berkshire district, which includes the northern portion of Berkshire County as well as several towns in northwest Franklin County.

On the state level, Monroe is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as part of the First Berkshire district, which includes the northern portion of Berkshire County as well as several towns in northwest Franklin County.

On the state level, Rowe is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as part of the First Berkshire district, which includes the northern portion of Berkshire County as well as several towns in northwest Franklin County.

While much of Bridgewater has relatively flat terrain, the northeastern portion of the township is very hilly, with the First Ridge of the Watchung Mountains ( sometimes known as the First Watchung Mountain ) passing through the township.

In addition to these schools, a small portion of Missouri City is also served by Dulles Middle School, First Colony Middle School, Clements High School and Dulles High School, all in Sugar Land.

As head of the railroad company that built the western portion of the " First Transcontinental Railroad " over the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, Nevada, and Utah, Stanford presided at the ceremonial driving of " Last Spike " in Promontory, Utah on May 10, 1869.