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In the time of Augustus, who considered himself under the special protection of Apollo and was even said to be his son, his worship developed and he became one of the chief gods of Rome.
However, Quigley's role ended in 1988 when it became public through the memoirs of former chief of staff, Donald Regan.
It became the chief town of the Hirpini after Beneventum had become a Roman colony.
The Sikhs became particularly troublesome, and after several unsuccessful efforts to subdue them, Zaman Shah made the mistake of appointing a forceful young Sikh chief, Ranjit Singh, as his governor in the Punjab.
Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel passed over Disraeli when putting together his government in 1841 and Disraeli, hurt, gradually became a sharp critic of Peel's government, often deliberately adopting positions contrary to those of his nominal chief.
In 1994, Olson became chief investigative counsel for the U. S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Sayed Noorullah Emad, who was then a young Muslim in the university of Kabul became General Secretary of the party and, later, its deputy chief.
Of these, Sterling became the movement's chief ideologue, thanks to his fanzine Cheap Truth.
Çevik Bir became the Turkish army's deputy chief of general staff shortly after the Somali operation and played a vital role in establishing a Turkish-Israeli entente against the emerging fundamentalism in the Middle East.
Marconi's station at Marconi Towers, on the outskirts of Glace Bay, became the chief communication center for the Royal Canadian Navy in World War I through to the early years of World War II.
The word caddie comes from the gascon Occitan capdèth or capdet, meaning chief then younger boy ( became cadet in French and refers to the Cadets de Gascogne: the captains serving in the French army in the 15th century who were the youngest sons of the aristocratic families of Gascony ).
His chief temple at Nippur was known as Ekur, signifying ' House of the mountain ', and such was the sanctity acquired by this edifice that Babylonian and Assyrian rulers, down to the latest days, vied with one another in embellishing and restoring Enlil's seat of worship, and the name Ekur became the designation of a temple in general.
Rodrigo Díaz was educated in the royal court of Castile and became the alférez, the chief general, of Alfonso VI, and his most valuable asset in the fight against the Moors.
One of these offices was princeps senatus, (" first man of the Senate ") and became shortened into Augustus ' chief honorific, Princeps ( usually translated as " first citizen ") form which the modern English word and title prince is descended.
Because the 16th Earl held land from the Crown by knight service, after his father's death on 3 August 1562, Oxford became a royal ward of the 29-year-old Queen, and was placed in the household of Sir William Cecil, her Secretary of State and chief advisor.
The Dauphin became King Charles V of France in 1364, with Taillevent as his chief cook.
Clyne became chief minister until Eric Gairy was elected in a by-election and took the role in August 1961.
The EU mission's spokesman in Guinea-Bissau said the EU had to suspend its programme when the mastermind of the mutiny, General Antonio Indjai, became army chief of staff.
Stephenson became famous, and was offered the position of chief engineer for a wide variety of other railways.
The Gestapo became known as Amt IV (" Department or Office IV ") with Heinrich Müller as its chief.
In 1942 Ernst Kaltenbrunner became the RSHA chief after Heydrich was assassinated in Prague.
Ulbricht became deputy prime minister in 1949 and secretary ( chief executive ) of the Socialist Unity ( Communist ) party in 1950.
Half-kidnapped into staying, he became chief judge and married into the royal family of Omar I.
The chief engineer during the construction of Sarkel was Petronas Kamateros ( Πετρωνᾶς Καματηρός ) who later became the governor of Cherson.
Angleton, later chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's ( CIA ) counter-intelligence staff, became suspicious of Philby when he failed to pass on information relating to a British agent executed by the Gestapo in Germany.

became and flying
High speed and high altitude flying became a means of evading detection and attack.
When surface to air missiles became capable of hitting high flying aircraft bombers, bombers used flight at low altitude to evade radar detection.
During the siege, on 8 February 1913, the Russian pilot N. de Sackoff, flying for the Greeks, became the first pilot ever shot down in combat, when his biplane was hit by ground fire following a bomb run on the walls of Fort Bizani.
After the US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bernard claimed, the Atlanteans became concerned that radioactive air might flow into the world's interior, and so some emerged in their flying saucers in an act of self-defense.
After its first flight in April 1983, Challenger quickly became the workhorse of NASA's Space Shuttle fleet, flying far more missions per year than Columbia.
In the latter continent, there was talk of the Union Jack flying from " Cairo to Cape Town ", which only became a reality at the end of World War I.
When it became clear that Soviet missiles could successfully bring down high flying aircraft, the V bomber force changed to low-level attack methods.
Grissom occasionally spent time at a local airport in Bedford, Indiana where he first became interested in flying.
TOW became the most widely used anti-tank guided missile in the world, and was mounted on numerous light, armoured and flying vehicles.
After an eventual sharing of technological information, Moon technology became standard issue on Tracy's police force, including air cars, flying cylindrical vehicles.
The USAAF airfield, Fort Bell ( later, US Air Force Base Kindley Field, and, later still, US Naval Air Station Bermuda ) was on St. David's Island, while the Naval Operations Base, a Naval Air Station for maritime patrol flying boats, ( which became the Naval Air Station Annex after US Naval air operations relocated to ) was at the western end of the island in the Great Sound.
Hawker Pacific Aerospace's history began in 1912 with Harry Hawker asking Thomas Sopwith for flying lessons .</ br > Within a few years Hawker became Sopwith's top test pilot.
The structural parts of the building ceased to be its solid walls, and became a stone skeleton comprising clustered columns, pointed ribbed vaults and flying buttresses.
Britain ’ s first airborne assault took place on February 10, 1941, when ' X ' Troop, No 11 Special Air Service Battalion ( which was formed from No 2 Commando and subsequently became 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment ) dropped into southern Italy from converted Whitley bombers flying from Malta and demolished a span of the aqueduct near Tragino in a daring night raid named Operation Colossus.
LeMay became known for his massive incendiary attacks against Japanese cities during the war using hundreds of planes flying at low altitudes.
He stated that he became " born again " and that he had a vision from God while flying with Stapleton in his jet.
Burcham sold burglar alarms of his own design to finance flying lessons from the O ' Donnell School of Aviation in Long Beach, California, where he became chief instructor.
Hadfield was raised on a corn farm in southern Ontario and became interested in flying at a young age — from his own words in the interview to STRF. RU, he came to the idea of being astronaut when he was nine on the day of Apollo moon landing, which he had seen on TV then.
Production started with the Sikorsky S-51, which became the Dragonfly, flying for the first time in 1948, and entering service with the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force in 1953.
In 2010 Richard Branson became patron of the UK's Gordon Bennett 2010 gas balloon race, which has 16 hydrogen balloons flying across Europe.
By attaching these blades to rockets they became very unstable towards the end of their flight causing the blades to spin around like flying scythes, cutting down all in their path.
Sawyer AFB KC-135A ( AF Serial No. 61-0313 ) became famous throughout the SAC community as " the glider " when it ran out of fuel on a short final approach prior to landing at its home base after flying practice approaches at nearby Kincheloe AFB to complete requalification training.
The 474th FBG became a second flying component of the 312th FBW, its mission to be a training organization.
Upon the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War that August, Chennault became Chiang Kai-shek's chief air adviser, helping to train Chinese Air Force bomber and fighter pilots, sometimes flying scouting missions in an export Curtiss H-75 fighter, and organizing the " International Squadron " of mercenary pilots.
To avoid confusing the two areas of Wright Field, the south end of the former Patterson Field portion was designated " Area A ", the original Wright Field became " Area B ", and the north end of Patterson Field, including the flying field, " Area C ."

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