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Just six weeks after Dandy Brandon's arrival at the mansion, the little surgeon and his svelte young wife gave their annual open house and ball, to which only New Orleans' oldest and wealthiest families were invited.

Dr. H. V. Hilprecht, Professor of Assyrian at the University of Pennsylvania, dreamed that a Babylonian priest, associated with the king Kurigalzu, ( 1300 B.C. ) escorted him to the treasure chamber of the temple of Bel, gave him six novel points of information about a certain broken relic, and corrected an error in its identification.

Callimachus then tells how Artemis visited Pan, the god of the forest, who gave her seven bitches and six dogs.

On December 13, 2001, George W. Bush gave Russia notice of the United States ' withdrawal from the treaty, in accordance with the clause that required six months ' notice before terminating the pact — the first time in recent history that the United States has withdrawn from a major international arms treaty.

On 22 March 1884, he gave Gilbert and Sullivan contractual notice that a new opera would be required in six months ' time.

Its importance was such that it also gave its name to one of the six Rapes or administrative districts of Sussex.

Within twenty seconds " Mr. T " gave the six foot five competitor a bloody nose, and later a bloody mouth.

A £ 1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.

Some six islanders gave their lives during World War II.

He also extended the franchise to agricultural labourers and others in the 1884 Reform Act, which gave the counties the same franchise as the boroughs — adult male householders and £ 10 lodgers — and added about six million to the total number who could vote in parliamentary elections.

A Typex machine without rotors was captured by German forces during the Battle of France and more than one German cryptanalytic section proposed attempting to crack Typex ; however, the B-Dienst codebreaking organization gave up on it after six weeks, when further time and personnel for such attempts was refused.

For example, a 1901 medical book published for home health use gave the following two " Simple Remedy Formulas " for DYSENTERRY: ( 1 ) Thin boiled starch, 2 ounces ; Laudanum, 20 drops ; " Use as an injection every six to twelve hours "; ( 2 ) Tincture rhubarb, 1 ounce ; Laudanum 4 drachms ; " Dose: One teaspoonful every three hours.

A letter to the editor of the Morning Chronicle of 2 January 1819 states that " On the 19th of November, as the servants belonging to the West Mains of Dunsinane-house, were employed in carrying away stones from the excavation made among the ruins that point out the site of Macbeth's castle here, part of the ground they stood on suddenly gave way, and sunk down about six feet, discovering a regularly built vault, about six feet long and four wide.

By the time he was twenty, Mozart was able to write concerto ritornelli that gave the orchestra admirable opportunity for asserting its character in an exposition with some five or six sharply contrasted themes, before the soloist enters to elaborate on the material.

But a special jury convicted him, and the Parsi judge D. D. Davar gave him the controversial sentence of six years ' transportation and a Rs 1, 000 fine.

On 22 March 1884, Carte gave Gilbert and Sullivan contractual notice that a new opera would be required in six months ' time.

She eventually was crowned queen on 4 March 1330 at Westminster Abbey when she was almost six months pregnant ; and she gave birth to her first son, Edward, the following June just nine days before her sixteenth birthday.

The attribution gave rise to an apocryphal story in which Charles II, who was over six feet tall, complained about the low ceilings.

In 1880, when Ernest was six, Henry Shackleton gave up his life as a landowner to study medicine at Trinity College, Dublin, moving his family into the city.

( 1969 was also the year that Jack Buck divorced his first wife Alyce Larson-who he had married in 1948 and had six children with-and married his second wife, Carole Lintzenich, who gave birth to their son Joe Buck in the same year ).

The Ministry of Home Affairs finally gave approval to the enrolment of women as members of the RUC on 16 April 1943. with the first six recruits starting on 15 November.

Rodat wrote the script with Mel Gibson in mind for Benjamin Martin, and gave the Martin character six children to signal this preference to studio executives.

Charles ' recording is very commonly played at major sporting and entertainment events, such as the Super Bowl, and WrestleMania 2 ; Charles gave a live performance of the song prior to Super Bowl XXXV, the last Super Bowl played before the September 11 terrorist attacks, as well as during Game 2 of the 2001 World Series after the attacks.

The Paige / Dickson duet " I Know Him So Well " became a major UK # 1 hit, and Murray Head's " One Night in Bangkok " gave Andersson / Ulvaeus a US # 3 hit.

A major revision of the FRCP in 1966 radically transformed Rule 23, made the opt-out class action the standard option, and gave birth to the modern class action.

It alleged that Americas Watch gave too much credence to alleged Contra abuses and systematically tried to discredit Nicaraguan human rights groups such as the Permanent Commission on Human Rights, which blamed the major human rights abuses on the Sandinistas.

The women's suffrage movement gave women in many countries the right to vote, and securing the right to vote freely was a major goal of the American civil rights movement.

He gave a series of lectures on Dante at the Santo Stefano church in 1373 and these resulted in his final major work, the detailed Esposizioni sopra la Commedia di Dante.

The successful outcome of the Polish – Soviet War gave Poland a false sense of being a major and self-sufficient military power, and the government a justification for trying to resolve international problems through imposed unilateral solutions.

Bogart's contract gave him the right to have his own production company, but Jack Warner was reportedly furious at this, fearing that other stars would do the same and major studios would lose their power.

The abrupt disappearance of a major part of the European infrastructure gave rise to speculation and legends, which have kept the " Templar " name alive into the modern day.

The turmoil over the act split both the Democratic and Whig parties and gave rise to the Republican Party, which split the United States into two major political camps, North ( Republican ) and South ( Democratic ).

The invention of the compact cassette in the 1960s, followed by Sony's Walkman, gave a major boost to the mass distribution of music recordings, and the invention of digital recording and the compact disc in 1983 brought massive improvements in ruggedness and quality.

It is a site of numerous major historical events, including the Battle of the Neva in 1240 which gave Alexander Nevsky his name, the founding of Saint Petersburg in 1703, and the Siege of Leningrad by the German army during World War II.

Pythia, the oracle at Delphi, only gave prophecies the seventh day of each month, seven being the number most associated with Apollo, during the nine warmer months of the year ; thus, Delphi was not the major source of divination for the ancient Greeks.

A similar path was pursued by the Bee Gees, formed in Brisbane, but whose first album Bee Gees ' 1st ( 1967 ), recorded in London, gave them three major hit singles and contained folk, rock and psychedelic elements, heavily influenced by the Beatles.

By 1959, the death of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in a plane crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, the retirement of Little Richard to become a preacher, prosecutions of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, and the breaking of the payola scandal ( which implicated major figures, including Alan Freed, in bribery and corruption in promoting individual acts or songs ), gave a sense that the initial rock and roll era had come to an end.

In his books The Book Which Tells the Truth ( 1974 ) and Extraterrestrials Took Me to their Planet ( 1975 ), Vorilhon alleges that he had alien encounters with beings who gave him knowledge of the origins of all major religions.

" However, although England was a major part of his territories — particularly important in that it gave him a royal title with which to approach other kings as an equal — it faced no major internal or external threats during his reign, unlike his continental territories, and so did not require his constant presence there.

Shlomo Yitzhaki (), or in Latin Salomon Isaacides, and today generally known by the acronym Rashi (, RAbbi SHlomo Itzhaki ; February 22, 1040 – July 13, 1105 ), was a medieval French rabbi and long highly esteemed as a major contribution Ashkenazi Jewry gave to Torah study.

One of these gave rise to a mass movement of shack dwellers, Abahlali baseMjondolo that, despite major police suppression, continues to work for popular people's planning and against the creation of a market economy in land and housing.

Under the rules of the time, the Giants ' ownership of the Millers gave them priority rights to a major league team in the area.

Yugoslavia's communist ruler Joseph Broz Tito subdues the Croatian Spring movement and arrests its leaders, but does initiate major constitutional reform resulting in the 1974 Constitution which decentralized powers to the republics, gave them the official right to separate from Yugoslavia, and weakened the influence of Serbia ( Yugoslavia's largest and most populous constituent republic ) in the federation by granting significant powers to the Serbian autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina.

In Europe, the Protestant Reformation gave a major blow to the authority of the Papacy and the Roman Catholic Church.