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He became notable as one of very few who wrote an account of his experiences, titled, in the manner of the time, Thirty Years from Home, or a Voice from the Main Deck ; Being the Experience of Samuel Leech, Who Was Six Years in the British and American Navies: Was Captured in the British Frigate Macedonian: Afterwards Entered the American Navy, and Was Taken in the United States Brig Syren, by the British Ship Medway.
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He made notable contributions to knowledge on concussion and secondary nerve degeneration and became a doyen of neuropathology.
They had at least two sons, one of whom, Nithard, became a notable figure in the mid-9th century.
The city of Alcobaça became notable after the first king of Portugal, Afonso Henriques, decided to build there a church to celebrate the Conquest of Santarém, to the Moors, in 1147.
A town that only became notable in the 12th century when it became the site for the construction of Portugal's largest church.
He is notable for having had 24 sons, several of whom became rulers of the Durrani territories.
Although he still wore a standard British officer's cap on arrival in the desert, he briefly wore an Australian broad-brimmed hat before switching to wearing the black beret ( with the badge of the Royal Tank Regiment next to the British General Officer's badge ) for which he became notable.
They also adopted two sons, John and Richard, the latter of whom became a notable filmmaker, author, and psychologist.
Alston became staff artist at the Office of War Information and Public Relations in 1940, creating drawings of notable African Americans.
Doom is notable for the weapons arsenal available to the marine, which became prototypical for first-person shooters.
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.
Wöhler had several students who became notable chemists.
He became notable as a transhumanist with the book Are You a Transhuman?
Breech-loading became more or less a universal standard for the reloading of most hand-held firearms and continues to be so with some notable exceptions ( such as mortars ).
Through nudism, Gardner made a number of notable friends, including James Laver ( 1899 – 1975 ), who became the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Cottie Arthur Burland ( 1905 – 1983 ), who was the Curator of the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum.
After the 3rd century, Juris prudentia became a more bureaucratic activity, with few notable authors.
It became the most important city around the Øresund, with the German Hanseatic League frequenting it as a marketplace, notable for its flourishing herring fishing.
Mercantilism became prominent in Central Europe and Scandinavia after the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ), with Christina of Sweden, Jacob Kettler of Courland, Christian IV of Denmark being notable proponents.
Singer was perhaps the most publicly notable scholarly proponent of " cult " brainwashing theories, and she became the focal point of the relative demise of those same theories within her discipline.
Her influence on her husband became particularly notable ; her presence at rallies, luncheons, and receptions increased his confidence.
Later, it became the abode of Hel, a goddess daughter of Loki, and the afterlife for her subjects, those who did not die a heroic or notable death.
While the composition of epic poetry, and of long poems generally, became less common in the west after the early 20th century, some notable epics have continued to be written.
Several Puerto Ricans became notable commanders, five have been awarded the Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration in the United States, also several Puerto Ricans have attained the rank of General or Admiral, which requires a Presidential nomination and Senate confirmation.
" The tour became notable for the band's in-jokes, such as playing their entire set list in alphabetical order.
Recently virtual providers became active in the Slovak market, the most notable of them being Tesco Mobile ( associated with Tesco Stores ) and FunFón ( a virtual operator associated with a popular FM radio station ).
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Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.
He had his voice under control again: no one became aware that he was terrified by what had just happened to him.
Then he became involved in a ruckus remarkably similar to the one in Plymouth.
But Curtis poured over $1 million into it and in time it again became one of the most popular weeklies of the country.
After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.
The only one who would have him was his cripple, the strange unhappy woman who became his wife.
Eventually such incidents became more sporadic, and more sharply demarcated from her day-after-day behavior, and in one particular session, after several minutes of such behavior -- which, as usual, went on without any accompanying words from her -- she asked, eagerly, `` Did you see Granny ''??
This meant, concretely, that the patient could not read at all without making writing-like movements of the head or body, became easily confused by `` hasher marks '' inserted between hand-written words and thus confused the mark for one of the letters, and could recognize a simple straight line or a curved one only by tracing it.
When it became obvious that he could stay inside no longer, taking a thousand to one chance Gonzales rushed outside, square against the muzzle of a Winchester.
His problem then became one of restraining the American fighters who wanted to clean out the Vermejo by force immediately.
In 1846 Matthew B. Goodwin, jeweler and watchmaker, became the town's first telegrapher in a dwelling he built for himself and his business `` two doors north of the Equinox House '' or `` one door north of the Bank, Manchester, Vermont ''.
In lieu of the amanuensis to the blind or illiterate bard, one may conceive of a man who heard a vast store of oral poetry recited, and became intimately familiar with the established aids to poetizing, and himself wrote his own compositions or his edition of the compositions of the past.
Later, he became one of the central spirits of the Army Language Program and the language school of Washington's Foreign Service Institute.
Another Yankee became so disgusted as to state: `` I wish to God one half of our officers were knocked in the head by slinging them against ( the other half ) ''.
Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.
But at this the one too-large cat suddenly became two cats, stretching.
He merely became victimized by a form of athletics that respects no one and aggravates all.
But after that 12 at Los Angeles he became one of the boys, a bigger hero than he ever had been before.
At one time I became disturbed in the faith in which I had grown up by the apparent inroads being made upon both Old and New Testaments by a `` Higher Criticism '' of the Bible, to refute which I felt the need of a better knowledge of Hebrew and of archaeology, for it seemed to me that to pull out some of the props of our faith was to weaken the entire structure.
As a youth he became one of Finney's band of evangelists and gave himself to winning young men.
Bob Carroll may not bear quite as close a physical resemblance to LaGuardia as Tom Bosley does, but I was amazed at the way he became more and more Fiorello as the evening progressed, until one had to catch one's self up and remember that this wasn't really LaGuardia come back among us again.
As he grew into his teens, he willingly took responsibility for all chores expected of him as one of the boys in the household and became an adept axeman in his work building rail fences.
Stanton was one of many conservative Democrats ( he supported Breckenridge in the 1860 election ) who became anti-slavery Republicans under Lincoln's leadership.
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