From 1184 to 1186, the Hohenstaufen empire under Frederick I Barbarossa reached its peak in the Reichsfest ( imperial celebrations ) held at Mainz and the marriage of his son Henry in Milan to the Norman princess Constance of Sicily.

From 827 to 1071 it was under Arab rule during the Emirate of Sicily when it first became a capital.

From 1820 to 1848 all Sicily was shaken by upheavals, which culminated on January 12, 1848, with a popular insurrection, the first one in Europe that year, led by Giuseppe La Masa.

From that year onwards, Palermo followed the history of Italy as the administrative centre of Sicily.

From there, a combination of the unhealthy Italian summer and the effects of his year long absence from Germany meant he was forced to put off his planned campaign against the Normans of Sicily.

From this Spanish line comes the royal line of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ( 1734 – 1806 and 1815 – 1860, and Sicily only in 1806 – 1816 ), the Bourbon of the Two Sicilies family, and the Bourbon rulers of the Duchy of Parma.

From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Mafia in Sicily.

From early 1816, she and Pergami went on a cruise around the Mediterranean, visiting Napoleon's former palace on Elba, and Sicily, where Pergami obtained the Order of Malta and a barony.

From 1036 to 1040, Harald joined the Byzantines in an expedition to Sicily in George Maniakes's ( the sagas ' " Gyrgir ") attempt to reconquer the island from the Muslims, who had established a Sicilian emirate on the island.

From the end of the 3rd century BC, Demeter's temple at Enna, in Sicily, was acknowledged as Ceres ' oldest, most authoritative cult centre, and Libera was recognised as Proserpina, Roman equivalent to Demeter's daughter Persephone.

* " From Rome to Sicily: Plane or Train?

From Sicily he made his way to Tuscany where he was assigned to a convent of the order, but he met with difficulty on account of his sickly appearance.

The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times: From the beginning of Greek settlement to the beginning of Athenian intervention.

From here the Canadians played no further part in the battle for Sicily, which went on for another ten days, and were withdrawn into reserve for a well-earned rest.

From the third millennium BC on, comb-impressed Beaker ware, as well as other Beaker material in Ozieri or sub-Ozieri contexts, has been found, demonstrating continuing relationships with the western Mediterranean ; it appears likely that Sardinia was the intermediary that brought Beaker materials to Tuscany and Sicily.

From 1556 the dynasty's lands in the Low Countries, the east of France, Italy, Sardinia, and Sicily were retained by the Spanish Habsburgs.

From Agrigento the party headed for Licata, where they sailed for Malta and Valletta returning on 2 June, to Syracuse, Sicily.

From 218 BCE to 395 CE, Malta was under Roman political control, initially as a praetorship of Sicily.

From there it went to Sicily before returning to France as part of the invasion of Northern Europe.

From their base in Kairouan the Aghlabids conquered Sicily, beginning in 827 and establishing the Emirate of Sicily, which lasted until it was displaced by the Normans, effecting lasting changes in Sicilian culture.

From the 12th century however, the title was increasingly, although again not officially, used for powerful foreign sovereigns, such as the kings of France or Sicily, the tsars of the restored Bulgarian Empire, the Latin emperors and the emperors of Trebizond.

From 1806 to 1811 he was stationed on Sicily.

From 1912 to 1914 an entire tour along the perimeter of Sicily was done, with a single lap of, lengthened to from 1948 to 1950.

From 1986 to 1987, Sixx kept a daily diary of his heroin addiction and eventually entered rehab in January 1988.

From 1996 through 2001, Downey was arrested numerous times on drug-related charges including cocaine, heroin and marijuana and went several times through drug treatment programs unsuccessfully, explaining in 1999 to a judge: " It's like I've got a shotgun in my mouth with my finger on the trigger, and I like the taste of the gun metal.

From 1975 to 1984, he was one of the main ringleaders of a US $ 1. 65 billion dollar heroin trafficking operation, known as the Pizza Connection, that imported heroin from the Middle East and distributed the drugs through U. S. mid-western pizzeria store fronts.

From his £ 450, 000 mansion, he supervised a heroin pipeline from Thailand, through England, to Canada.

From this moment begins the dark and sad stage of the band, heroin is becoming strong in Iosu and Jualma, increasingly tested least whenever they are called less to play, the reluctance and fatigue is done with them.

After this prison term, Manigault quit heroin and started the " Walk Away From Drugs " tournament for kids in Harlem to prevent them from making the same mistakes he had made.

From the back of the barn it was a simple matter to reach Black's house without using the street.

From the way the wound in his head was itching, Dan knew that it would heal.

From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

From the convulsive quivers of the man's shoulders it was plain he had resumed the weeping.

From high in the tree, the whole block lay within range of the eye, but the ground was almost nowhere visible.

From being a hated tyrant and madman he was now the symbol of all that was noblest and best in the history of Sweden.

From the night of August 30 to the morning of September 2 there was no Union cavalry east of the Macon railway to disclose to Sherman that he was missing the greatest opportunity of his career.

From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.

From his first bout with the canny Woodruff, Pike had learned that it was better not to attack him directly, so, harping on the theme that the cost of printing was too high, he condemned the governor for permitting such a state of affairs to exist.

From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.

From the east to the west coast of the Korean peninsula was a strip of land in which fear-filled men were at that same moment furtively crawling through the night, sitting in sweaty anticipation of any movement or sound, or shouting amidst confused rifle flashes and muzzle blasts.

From the outside it was an ordinary enough house of the gentry.

From there on, each Junior was going to be judged individually.

From proud pool-owners to perpetual hosts and handymen was a short step -- no more than the change from city clothes to trunks.

From what I was able to gauge in a swift, greedy glance, the figure inside the coral-colored boucle dress was stupefying.

From these dosage isopleths it can be seen that an area of over 34,000 square miles was covered.