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Harding arrived on July 3, gave a speech to the community at the Marion County Fairgrounds on July 4, and left the following morning for other speaking commitments.
Although Harding desired to run for a second term in office, he may have been aware of his own health decline ; he gave up drinking, sold his " life-work ", the Marion Star, in part to regain $ 170, 000 previous investment losses, and had the U. S. Attorney General Harry Daugherty make a new will.
It was Tarleton who gave Marion his nom de guerre when, after unsuccessfully pursuing Marion's troops for over 26 miles through a swamp, he gave up and swore " s for this damned old fox, the Devil himself could not catch him.
Dr. Marion L. Burton, president of the University of Minnesota, gave the address.
Cook named the smaller island after Prince Edward, the fourth son of King George III, and to the larger gave the name of Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne.
She gave the baby girl, whom she called Marion, up for adoption but never forgot her.
She adopted his three children and eventually gave birth to three daughters by him: Persia Andromeda, Pallas Antigone, and Aza Marion.

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Urban VII's short passage in office gave rise to the world's first known public smoking ban, as he threatened to excommunicate anyone who " took tobacco in the porchway of or inside a church, whether it be by chewing it, smoking it with a pipe or sniffing it in powdered form through the nose ".
On 16 August 1944, he gave the world's first demonstration of a fully electronic colour television display.
New Zealand's highly productive agriculture gave it probably the world's highest standard of living, with fewer at the rich and poor ends of the scale.
Richmond emerged from the smoldering rubble of the Civil War as an economic powerhouse, with iron front buildings and massive brick factories. Canal traffic peaked in the 1860s and slowly gave way to railroads, allowing Richmond to become a major railroad crossroads, eventually including the site of the world's first triple railroad crossing.
Finally, on 9 April 1806, Sophia gave birth to a son, christened Isambard Kingdom, who was destined to be one of the world's greatest engineers.
While this fair wasn't officially a BIE-sanctioned world's fair, it gave many attendees their first interaction with computer equipment.
This gave him a backstory in which he was a young shepherd who becomes the Champion, one of the world's first superheroes in ancient Canaan, over 5, 000 years ago.
His house ( in Gateshead, England ) was the first in the world lit by a lightbulb, and the world's first electric-light illumination in a public building was for a lecture Swan gave in 1880.
When Maria gave birth to a son ( John, a famous production designer ) in 1948, Dietrich was dubbed " the world's most glamorous grandmother ".
The electronics division of entertainer Bing Crosby's production company, Bing Crosby Enterprises ( BCE ), gave the world's first demonstration of a videotape recording in Los Angeles on November 11, 1951.
In 1922, the orchestra gave the world's first radio broadcast of a symphony orchestra concert with Gabrilowitsch conducting and guest artist Artur Schnabel at the piano.
The 1920s also gave rise to one of the most popular mystery authors of all time, Agatha Christie, whose works include Murder on the Orient Express ( 1934 ), Death on the Nile ( 1937 ), and the world's best-selling mystery And Then There Were None ( 1939 ).
In 1997, Shinozuka gave testimony on the activities of Unit 731 on behalf of 180 Chinese who are suing the Japanese government for compensation and an apology for deaths of family members they say were killed in experiments at the world's first biological warfare laboratory.
The 1991 show was also Crufts centenary year and as part of the celebrations to mark the occasion, the Guinness Book of Records gave official recognition of the event's status as the world's largest dog show, with 22, 973 dogs being exhibited that year.
Seventeen years later, the North Carolina General Assembly passed a resolution which repudiated the Connecticut statement and gave " no credence " to the assertion that Whitehead was first to fly, citing " leading aviation historians and the world's largest aviation museum " who determined there was " no historic fact, documentation, record or research to support the claim ".
It was said of both Blackmore and Low that they " frequently gave public aid and comfort to anti-Semitism " In 1945, Solon Low alleged there was a conspiracy of Jewish bankers behind the world's problems, and in 1947, Norman Jaques, the Socred Member of Parliament for Wetaskiwin, even read excerpts of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion into the parliamentary Hansard.
In its summary of the 1939 season, Wisden noted the development of Hutton into a more exciting batsman to watch, observing that he " gave further evidence of being one of the world's greatest batsmen ".
While being generally recognized as the world's first 9a ( 5. 14d ), Güllich actually gave the route a UIAA grade of XI.
Tiersen played almost all the instruments both in the studio and in concert, and this gave him a theatrical appeal as a one-man show, which allowed him to perform, among others, at the 1996 edition of the Avignon Festival, the oldest extant festival in France and one of the world's greatest.
This gave it the distinction, along with Manchester's corresponding Liverpool Road station that opened on the same day, of being the world's first two dedicated intercity passenger railway stations.
These developments required the re-design of both the guns and their mountings, manufactured by Armstrongs, which gave them a competitive advantage, ultimately helping the company expand into shipbuilding, locomotives, tanks and aircraft to become one of the world's largest armament firms by 1914.
The merger gave " K " Line a solid foundation to advance dynamically into the future both as one of the world's largest shipping lines in terms of fleet size and as a well-balanced, integrated organization.
The Guinness Book of World Records also gave him the title of the tallest actor, the largest toe, and having the world's largest feet not caused by Elephantiasis – size 29½.
Edelca also built and administers Guri ( currently the world's second biggest dam, in terms of the capacity of hydroelectric generation ) and gave origin to the Guri reservoir, the second biggest lake in Venezuela.

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Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??
When 1 ml of conjugate was passed through a column ( Af ), the first and second milliliter fractions collected were the most specific and gave no nonspecific staining in some experiments, and very little in others.
This subject was one who gave an arm-elevation on the second trial in the naive state but not in the first.
Then in 1875, apparently in response to the nationalizing influence of the Civil War, Congress first gave the lower federal courts general authority -- concurrently with state tribunals -- to decide cases involving federal-right questions.
Dickens suggests the economic evils of such a society on the first page of his novel in the description of Pip's five little dead brothers `` who gave up trying to get a living exceedingly early in that universal struggle '', who seemed to have `` all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence ''.
I used the alias of Robert C. Richards, gave the first three letters and the first and last figure of the license number on the agency heap, but a couple of phony numbers in between.
When he finally got the coughing under control, he realized that Pete ( all he gave was his first name ) was still waiting for an answer -- he didn't even seem to wink as he continued to stare.
The Secretary of State himself, in his first speech, gave some idea of the tremendous march of events inside and outside the United States that has preoccupied the new administration in the past four months.
Jim Landis' 380-foot home run over left in the first inning gave the Sox a 1-0 lead, but Harmon Killebrew came back in the bottom of the first with his second homer in two days with the walking Bob Allison aboard.
Tonight at 8 o'clock the Cardinals, who gave the Pirates as much trouble as anyone did in 1960, breaking even with them, will get their first 1961 shot at baseball's world champions.
It is not simply giving a repetition of the program it gave during its New York engagement earlier this season, but has brought back many of the numbers that were on the bill when it paid us its first visit and won everybody's heart.
The first element of the actinides, actinium gave the group its name, much as lanthanum had done for the lanthanides.
A draw in the final Test gave England victory in an Ashes series for the first time in 18 years and their first Ashes victory at home since 1985.
André-Marie Ampère took his first regular job in 1799 as a mathematics teacher, which gave him the financial security to marry Carron and father his first child, Jean-Jacques, the next year.
Praetor Anicius Probus first gave him a place in the council and then in about 372 made him consular prefect or " Governor " of Liguria and Emilia, with headquarters at Milan, which was then ( beside Rome ) the second capital in Italy.
( c. 4 ), who likewise follows Hippolytus's Compendium, adds some further particulars ; that ' Abraxas ' gave birth to Mind ( nous ), the first in the series of primary powers enumerated likewise by Irenaeus and Epiphanius ; that the world, as well as the 365 heavens, was created in honour of ' Abraxas ;' and that Christ was sent not by the Maker of the world but by ' Abraxas.
She then committed suicide by stabbing herself with the same sword she gave Aeneas when they first met.
In 1926, the Aga Khan gave a cup ( the Aga Khan Trophy ) to be awarded to the winners of an international team show jumping competition held at the annual horse show of the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin, Ireland every first week in August.
According to an interview she gave to an Egyptian journalist, her first name was Yvonne, though she is referred to as Yvette in most published references.
This gave him access to a disciplined corps of workers, who also may have served as his first soldiers.
Du Bois ' Black Reconstruction, first published in 1935, historians have noted African American contributions during Reconstruction to founding what were often the first systems of public education and welfare institutions in the South, gave muted praise for Republican efforts to extend suffrage and provide other social institutions, and excoriated Johnson for opposing the extension of basic rights to freedmen.

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