From the 16th century he is commonly identified as member of the family of Paganelli di Montemagno, which belonged to the Pisan aristocracy, but this has not been proven and contradicts earlier testimonies that suggest he was a man of rather humble origins.

From this humble beginning, the Soviets would go on to create the first operational-level armored formations in history, the 11th and 45th Mechanized Corps, in 1932.

From there Perdiccas turned west towards Phrygia in order to humble Antigonus, who escaped with his son Demetrius to Greece, where he obtained the favour of Antipater, regent of Macedonia ( 321 BC ), and Craterus.

From humble beginnings, the black bass has become the second most specifically sought-after game fish in the United States.

From these humble dwellings quickly developed a village known as the Big Spring Community.

From there Vuk, who only held the humble title of gospodin ( lord, sir ), started to expand his realm and to create his own state.

From its humble beginnings as a family venture between a father and his two sons, the practice later became America's first integrated group practice, a model that is now standard in the United States.

From these humble beginnings the Passion Play developed very rapidly, since in the fourteenth century it was at a stage of development which could not have been reached except by repeated practice.

From these humble beginnings the game quickly became a fully regulated and codified sport.

From William Allan ( afterwards Sir William Allan and president of the Royal Scottish Academy ) and John Burnet, the engraver of Wilkie's works, we have an interesting account of his early studies, of his indomitable perseverance and power of close application, of his habit of haunting fairs and marketplaces, and transferring to his sketchbook all that struck him as characteristic and telling in figure or incident, and of his admiration for the works of Carse and David Allan, two Scottish painters of scenes from humble life.

From this education, he obtained a commission in the Austrian army, but resigned it in 1783 on finding his humble birth hindered his chances for promotion.

From these humble beginnings the college grew southward along Hampton Boulevard, turning an empty field into a sprawling campus.

From its humble beginnings, the VU has become a modern research university.

From these humble beginnings, the group has grown to become a major civil society actor, with approximately 10 million members, and chapters in 47 countries.

From humble beginnings, Hardy's contributions to House Music are considered mammoth.

From this humble beginning the force eventually grew to a force 10, 000 strong, travelingto Jiangxi and joining Mao Zedong at Jinggangshan in April 1928.

From humble beginnings the organisation was formally incorporated to provide legal support for the inaugural Conference of Australian Linux Users ( now linux. conf. au ).

From this humble house he would later buy numerous buildings and a 60, 000 acre ( 243 km² ) Ayala de Chinati Ranch ( not open to the public ), almost all carefully restored to his exacting standards ; though rumored that much of the ' preserved ' land has been sold.

From these humble beginnings the Stern Brothers became an important merchandising family in New York City.

From these humble origins and a developing reputation, White ’ s boatyard grew to become John Samuel Whites of Cowes, a flourishing tradition developed which lasted well into the 1960 ’ s with 134 White ’ s Lifeboat ’ s ordered, completed and delivered.

From their humble roots in Lyons, the Brothers today have spread across the globe, seeking to fulfill Marcellin's dream of " making Jesus known and loved ".

* BBC News Magazine-Wilfred Owen: From humble cottage to dazzling tribute

From a humble beginning, a small number of Augustinian Friars eventually became the Province of St. Thomas of Villanova and in 1842, the Province established Villanova College, today a flourishing university about twelve

From pantheist mysticism to humble Christian spirituality, from celebration of corporeality and ecstatic unity of human, non-human and the divine to meditative repose, from the ironic verse making burlesque of modern technology-driven civilization to the tender verbal music hallowing ancient Dalmatian hamlets, from the powerful expression of erotic yearning to the resignation to the fates of human condition — Ujević's poetry is a polymorphous vision of life, blend of often conflicting traditions ranging from the Mediterranean ideal of harmonious beauty and modern existentialist sensibility expressed in the verses of unmatched virtuosity and profundity.

From its origins near the city of Sarh, the middle course of the Chari makes its way through swampy terrain ; the lower Chari is joined by the Logone River near N ' Djamena.

From its origins as a musical format, CDs have grown to encompass other applications.

* From the New Deal to the New Right: race and the southern origins of modern conservatism / Joseph E Lowndes., 2008

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.

From this period we sometimes know the origins and authors of rhymes — for instance, " Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ", which combined the 18th-century French tune " Ah vous dirai-je, Maman " with a poem by English writer Jane Taylor and ' Mary Had a Little Lamb ', written by Sarah Josepha Hale of Boston in 1830.

From its origins as a language for children of all ages, standard Smalltalk syntax uses punctuation in a manner more like English than mainstream coding languages.

From a technical view, the SCE is beginning to move away from its proprietary graphical origins and is moving towards a Java application server environment.

From the late-1990s, the field has expanded to explore such wide-ranging topics as the origins and rate of change of political institutions, and the role of culture in explaining economic outcomes and developments.

From its obscure origins in the theaters of Athens 2, 500 years ago, from which there survives only a fraction of the work of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, through its singular articulations in the works of Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Racine, and Schiller, to the more recent naturalistic tragedy of Strindberg, Beckett's modernist meditations on death, loss and suffering, and Müller's postmodernist reworkings of the tragic canon, tragedy has remained an important site of cultural experimentation, negotiation, struggle, and change.

From its origins as the Kara-Irtysh ( Black Irtysh ) in the Mongolian Altay mountains in Xinjiang, China, the Irtysh flows north-west through Lake Zaysan in Kazakhstan, meeting the Ishim and Tobol rivers before merging with the Ob near Khanty-Mansiysk in western Siberia, Russia after.

From its origins as totems or the stylized depiction of natural creatures, the Chinese dragon evolved to become a mythical animal.

From its origins in 1954 as ragtag maquisards numbering in the hundreds and armed with a motley assortment of hunting rifles and discarded French, German, and American light weapons, the FLN had evolved by 1957 into a disciplined fighting force of 40, 000.

( From the known origins of Wicca, with Gardner's own Book of Shadows, the athame represents fire ; where the wand corresponds to air.

From anthropologists, primitivists are informed with a look at the origins of civilization, so as to understand what they are up against and how they got here, to help inform a change in direction.

From its 1956 origins as a summer retreat, Berkeley Lake has grown into a thriving community centered on its namesake lake.

From the 1850s to the 1900s, Westbury's population and ethnic diversity began to rise as many people of Irish, Italian and Polish origins continued to settle.

From its origins as a small port in the seventh century, Famagusta in the 1970s had become a town which now displayed the universal trends of the modern architectural movement.

From its origins near Fort Snelling, St. Anthony Falls relocated upstream at a rate of about per year until it reached its present location in the early 19th century.

From him Will learns much about the Masters ' origins and habits, and eventually the Master trusts him so much that he reveals an upcoming operation in which the Earth's atmosphere is to be replaced by the Masters ' toxic air, eventually killing off all life on Earth and enabling the Masters to assume full control of the planet.

From 1934 – 1939 Reich conducted what he called the bion experiments, seeking the origins of life, which he wrote up in Die Bione: Zur Entstehung des vegetativen Lebens ( The Bion Experiments on the Origin of Life ), published in Oslo in 1938.

From its origins in Oxford and London, the CSU spread throughout the United Kingdom, with about 60 branches established by the middle of the first decade of the 20th Century.

From its origins in the fur trade, the Hudson's Bay Company is the oldest corporation in North America and was the largest department store operator in Canada until around mid 1980's, with locations across the country.

From these modest origins, the British film company emerged in 1937 as Rank sought to consolidate his film-making interests.

From its origins as a landing place and first port of call for shipping, Gravesend gradually extended southwards and eastwards.