We visited the Okamoto home -- where for the first time I saw the famous tea ceremony.

Late in the 18th century the first wave of Romantics such as Goethe and Turner came to admire the scenery ; Wordsworth visited the area in 1790, writing of his experiences in The Prelude.

In July 1971, the Apollo 16 astronauts visited Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada for geology training exercises, the first time U. S. astronauts ever did so.

His attempt was at first unsuccessful ; but, after the deposition of Demaratus, he visited the island a second time, accompanied by his new colleague Leotychides, seized ten of the leading citizens and deposited them at Athens as hostages.

The first Antarctic land discovered was the island of South Georgia, visited by the English merchant Anthony de la Roché in 1675.

The first group arrived in 1898 and throughout late 1898 to early 1899 Western Bahá ’ ís sporadically visited ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

A church was erected in 326, when Helena, the mother of the first Byzantine emperor, Constantine, visited Bethlehem.

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert first visited Scotland in 1842, five years after her accession and two years after their marriage.

The first written accounts of Banda are in Suma Oriental, a book written by the Portuguese apothecary Tomé Pires who was based in Malacca from 1512 to 1515 but visited Banda several times.

This was the period when Spanish and Portuguese adventurers and missionaries first visited the country.

Giovanni Caboto ( John Cabot ) reportedly visited the island in 1497 to become the first Renaissance European explorer to visit present-day Canada.

However, historians are unclear as to whether Cabot first visited Newfoundland or Cape Breton Island.

According to myth, the Comoros islands were first visited by Phoenician sailors.

Portuguese explorers first visited the archipelago in 1505.

In 357 he visited Rome for the first and only time in his life.

Pope John Paul II visited Chicago in 1979 during his first trip ever to the United States after being elected to the Papacy in 1978.

Spanish ships visited the islands in the 16th century ; the first written record of contact from Europeans with the native inhabitants of the Cook Islands came with the sighting of Pukapuka by Spanish sailor Álvaro de Mendaña in 1595 who called it San Bernardo ( Saint Bernard ).

The Cook Islands was not the only island group visited by the traders, but Penrhyn Atoll was their first port of call and it has been estimated that three-quarters of the population was taken to Callao, Peru.

The now Arizona Cardinals, back when they were in St. Louis, were one of the first teams to try doing this trick when the Cowboys visited the Cardinals at Busch Stadium.

West Cornwall, around Mount's Bay, was traditionally thought to have been visited by metal traders from the eastern Mediterranean During the first millennium BC trade became more organised, first with the Phoenicians, who settled Gades ( Cadiz ) around 1100 BC, and later with the Greeks, who had settled Massilia ( Marseilles ) and Narbo ( Narbonne ) around 600 BC.

The Dutch visited Australia's northern coastline in the 1600s, and created the first European maps of the area.

In 1914 the island was visited by the German light cruiser SMS Emden half-way through its historic commerce raiding cruise during the first months of World War I.

In 1933, Thomas visited London for probably the first time.

* Highest Confluence: in Kuba, Tibet, China at 19, 143 feet ( 5, 835 m ), first visited by Greg Michaels and Robert Whitfield on May 29, 2005.

Rather than face this ordeal, Alexei fled to Vienna and placed himself under the protection of his brother-in-law, the emperor Charles VI, who sent him for safety first to the Tirolean fortress of Ehrenberg ( near Reutte ), and finally to the castle of Sant ' Elmo at Naples.

Upon returning to Vienna following his success in Paris, Salieri met and befriended Lorenzo Da Ponte and had his first professional encounters with Mozart.

He also wrote songs, including his Seven Early Songs ( Sieben Frühe Lieder ), three of which were Berg's first publicly performed work in a concert that featured the music of Schoenberg's pupils in Vienna that year.

In addition he was a patron of the young Ludwig van Beethoven, who was born in Bonn in 1770 ; the elector financed the composer's first journey to Vienna.

The Ninth Symphony was premiered on 7 May 1824 in the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna, along with the Consecration of the House Overture and the first three parts of the Missa Solemnis.

He first saw action against the Ottoman Turks at the Siege of Vienna in 1683 and the subsequent War of the Holy League, before serving in the Nine Years ' War, fighting alongside his cousin, the Duke of Savoy.

* 1903 – Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna.

His first wife was, from 1919, confined in the Vienna mental hospital Am Steinhof, and three years after his death was murdered under the Nazi euthanasia laws.

Some establishments have given name to a particular meal or beverage, as is the case with the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, United States where the Waldorf Salad was first created or the Hotel Sacher in Vienna, Austria, home of the Sachertorte.

The harmonica first appeared in Vienna, where harmonicas with chambers were sold before 1824 ( see also Anton Reinlein and Anton Haeckl ).

:< BLOCKQUOTE > For almost a thousand years, from the first Moorish landing in Spain to the second Turkish siege of Vienna, Europe was under constant threat from Islam.

The first cities to be made Jew-free are Berlin, Vienna and Prague.

Shira Schoenberg observes that " The first mention of mourners saying Kaddish at the end of the service is in a thirteenth century halakhic writing by Isaac Ben Moses of Vienna and called the Or Zarua literally, " Light is Sown ".

His first Soviet controller was the Hungarian Arnold Deutsch ( code-name Otto ), who came to London from Vienna to study at London University.

Frustrated with politics, Weber resumed teaching during this time, first at the University of Vienna, then, after 1919, at the University of Munich.

* 1809 – On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling ( near Vienna ), Napoleon is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.

The unsuccessful siege ( the Turks managed to capture the Isle of Gozo together with Fort Saint Elmo on the main island of Malta, but failed elsewhere and retreated ) was the second and last defeat experienced by Suleiman the Magnificent ( who died a year later, in 1566 ) after the likewise inconclusive first Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1529.

This marked the first time in over five years and 133 races that Nurmi had been defeated at a distance over 1, 000 m. In 1927, Finnish officials barred him from international competition for refusing to run against Eklöf at the Finland-Sweden international, cancelling the Peltzer rematch scheduled for Vienna.

The first Romanian grammar was published in Vienna in 1780.

In the first two years of Rudolf's life, the family moved twice, first to Mödling, near Vienna, and then, through the promotion of his father to stationmaster, to Pottschach, located in the foothills of the eastern Austrian Alps in Lower Austria.

The term Serbo-Croatian was first used by Jacob Grimm in 1824, popularized by the Vienna philologist Jernej Kopitar in the following decades, and accepted by Zagrebian grammarians in 1854 and 1859.

* 1791 – The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.