From early family portraits, painted before he entered the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the chronology extends to a group of paintings executed in his last year ( 1951 ) and still part of his estate.

From the early 1830s, Lincoln was a steadfast Whig and professed to friends in 1861 to be, " an old line Whig, a disciple of Henry Clay ".

From its beginnings in the early 19th century through the early 20th century, anthropology in the United States was influenced by the presence of Native American societies.

From the early 16th century, Aachen lost power.

From early in life, the notorious rivalry led to several outbreaks of civil war.

From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers from all over German-occupied Europe.

From the late 17th to the early 20th century Western aesthetics underwent a slow revolution into what is often called modernism.

From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, following the creation of the state of Israel, most of these Jews fled their countries of birth and are now mostly concentrated in Israel.

From the early Middle Ages until after the Second Vatican Council the sacrament was administered, within the Latin Church, only when death was approaching and, in practice, bodily recovery was not ordinarily looked for, giving rise, as mentioned above to the name " Extreme Unction " ( i. e. final anointing ).

From the very early stages of his reign, Abd ar-Rahman showed a firm resolve to quash the rebels of Al-Andalus, consolidate centralized power, and reestablish internal order within the emirate.

From the early 1940s to the late 1950s, there were scores of Sunday strip-style magazine ads for Cream of Wheat using the Abner characters, and in the 1950s, Fearless Fosdick became a spokesman for Wildroot Cream-Oil hair tonic in a series of daily strip-style print ads.

From a political point of view, there is a trade-off between Bulgaria's economic growth and the stability required for early accession to the monetary union.

The band and their producer Mike Thorne had gone back into the studio in early 1985 to record a new single, " Run From Love ".

From a bibliographical point of view some of the early printed Breviaries are among the rarest of literary curiosities, being merely local.

From early 20th century Shanghainese, many English words are borrowed, such as 高尔夫 ／ 高爾夫 gāoěrfū " golf " and the above-mentioned 沙发 ／ 沙發 shāfā " sofa ".

From the early 1970s, David Bowie has used cut-ups to create some of his lyrics.

From around 1840 to 1860, laissez-faire advocates of the Manchester School and writers in The Economist were confident that their early victories would lead to a period of expanding economic and personal liberty and world peace but would face reversals as government intervention and activity continued to expand from the 1850s.

From the late 1950s until the early 1970s, Charlton remained a mainstay of the Second Division before relegation to the Third Division in 1972 caused the team's support to drop, and even a promotion in 1975 back to the second division did little to re-invigorate the team's support and finances.

From the beginning of Communist rule in 1949, until the 1980s, when China was in the early years of economic reform, the focus was largely on peasant life, as interpreted via the officially sanctioned Marxist theory of class struggle.

According to critic Geoffrey Blum, the process that saw its beginnings in 1942's Pirate Gold first bore its full fruit in 1950's ' Vacation Time ,' which he describes as ' a visual primer for reading comics and understanding ... the form ...." From the early 1950s Barks undertook the quarterly adventures of Uncle Scrooge and the duck clan in Scrooge's own title.

From an early stage, the rebels received decisive financial and military support from the United States government, initially supplemented by the Argentine dictatorship of the time.

From 320 × 200 during the early ' 80s, to 800 × 600 during the late ' 90s.

From a rural village in the early Middle Ages Delft developed to a city, that in the 13th century ( 1246 ) received its charter.

From the early 1980s the DFLP was seen as the most pro-Soviet and pro-Chinese of the PLO member organisations.

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 beginning of his career, Patchen has adopted an anti-intellectual approach to poetry.

From the dated poems we can venture certain conclusions about Hardy's career in poetry, always remembering that conclusions based on a fraction of the whole must remain tentative.

From 1852 onwards, Disraeli's career would also be marked by his often intense rivalry with William Ewart Gladstone, who eventually rose to become leader of the Liberal Party.

* Call of Samuel or Youth of Samuel ( 1 Samuel 1-7 ): From Samuel's birth his career as Judge and prophet over Israel.

In 1982, shortly before Clannad became internationally renowned for " Theme From Harry's Game ", producer and manager Nicky Ryan left the group and Enya joined him to start her own solo career.

From the age of ten Eugene had been brought up for a career in the church ; a personal choice of the King, basing the decision on the young Prince's poor physique and bearing.

From the beginning to the end of his career at the New Yorker, he frequently provided what the magazine calls " Newsbreaks " ( short, witty comments on oddly worded printed items from many sources ) under various categories such as " Block That Metaphor.

From the Renaissance to the 19th century in Western culture, epitaphs for notable people became increasingly lengthy and pompous descriptions of their family origins, career, virtues and immediate family, often in Latin.

His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity.

Sinatra also forged a highly successful career as a film actor, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity, a nomination for Best Actor for The Man with the Golden Arm, and critical acclaim for his performance in The Manchurian Candidate.

From 1966 till the end of her career she taught at Boston College.

From quite early in his career, he sought a better way to organise society, and wrote a number of Utopian novels.

From this point on Holt dedicated himself single-mindedly to a career in politics and he reportedly had few outside interests, apart from his well-known passion for sport and the sea.

From Libanius, John acquired the skills for a career in rhetoric, as well as a love of the Greek language and literature.

His theatre career took off in January 1965, playing Rodolfo in Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge in an Off-Broadway revival.

From considering an academic career, Marx turned to journalism.

From 1994 to 1997, a long sequence of retirements and injuries hurt the team badly, and Tom Kelly spent the remainder of his managerial career attempting to rebuild the Twins.

Barbara Tuchman, in her book The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, offers a vivid narrative of Julius II's career.

From an early age, he was destined for an ecclesiastical career.

Writing in " Eine Mitteilung an meine Freunde " (" A Communication to my Friends ") in 1851, Wagner claimed that Der fliegende Holländer represented a new start for him: " From here begins my career as poet, and my farewell to the mere concoctor of opera-texts.

From the commencement of his political career, Hitler put his struggle against " enemies of the state " in medical rhetoric.

From 1917 through 1919, Ellington launched his musical career, painting commercial signs by day and playing piano by night.

From the very early days of his career Eastwood was frustrated by directors ' insistence that scenes be re-shot multiple times and perfected, and when he began directing in 1970, he made a conscious attempt to avoid any aspects of directing he had been indifferent to as an actor.