Agrippina the Younger was thereafter supervised by her mother, her paternal grandmother Antonia Minor, and her great-grandmother, Livia, all of them notable, influential, and powerful figures from whom she learnt how to survive.

Leopold I had warned Eugene to act cautiously, but when the Imperial commander learnt of Sultan Mustafa II's march on Transylvania Eugene abandoned all ideas of a defensive campaign and moved to intercept the Turks as they crossed the River Tisza at Zenta on 11 September 1697.

: Undirected practice where the kendōka tries all that has been learnt during practice against an opponent.

" Cockney in the East End is now transforming itself into Multicultural London English, a new, melting-pot mixture of all those people living here who learnt English as a second language ", Prof Kerswill said.

" and had " gradually learnt to see that it is just as noble a conception of Deity, to believe that He created primal forms capable of self development into all forms needful pro tempore and pro loco, as to believe that He required a fresh act of intervention to supply the lacunas which He Himself had made ", asking " whether the former be not the loftier thought.

The education there was based on erudition, the eventual goal being that by sixth-form level the students have learnt " to vary one sentence diversely, to make a verse exactly, to endight an epistle eloquently and learnedly, to declaim of a theme simple, and last of all to attain some competent knowledge of the Greek tongue ".

Tovey again uses superlatives: " The thirty-first variation is an extremely rich outpouring of highly ornamented melody, which to Beethoven's contemporaries must have been hardly intelligible, but which we, who have learnt from Bach that a great artist's feeling is often more profound where his expression is most ornate, can recognize for one of the most impassioned utterances in all music.

Around this time, Jones also learnt how to speak Italian fluently and obtained an Italian copy of Andrea Palladio ’ s I quattro libri dell ' architettura ( first published in 1570 ): all indicating that Jones made his first formative trip to Italy between 1598 – 1603, possibly funded by Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland.

I had learnt all that before.

Louis Vassé denounced the attacks of Vesalius and Estienne, and affirmed the had learnt all they knew by Sylvius lessons.

Kūkai arrived back in Japan in 806 as the eighth Patriarch of Esoteric Buddhism, having learnt Sanskrit and its Siddham script, studied Indian Buddhism, as well as having studied the arts of Chinese calligraphy and poetry, all with recognized masters.

Finally, with all that completed, the cycle starts all over again, only this time incorporating the lessons learnt.

I must be informed that one of my great duties was to obey the priests in all things ; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.

When I learnt of all that was needed in the way of weapons, I wondered exactly what was the military value of the IRA.

When he was little more than a youth he went to Senegal, stayed there five or six years, observing, collecting, dissecting, describing and classifying ; and he summarized all this in a brief but eminently respectable natural history of the country, from which I learnt almost everything I know of the African flora and fauna.

The signals used four symbols not present in ordinary Morse code ( given the names alpha beta gamma and rho ), which caused some confusion until all those involved in interception learnt to recognise them and use a standardised way to write them.

At the age of 5, he was featured in the newspapers in the article " Enciklopedija u kratkim pantalonama " ( Encyclopaedia in shorts ) as he had learnt to read and write himself, knew the names of many mountains, rivers and capitals, nearly all notable football players and results of matches.

After Longinus had learnt all he could from Ammonius at Alexandria and the other philosophers whom he met in his travels, he returned to Athens.

The Times correspondent commented during the first Test: " There was some feeling about K. S. Ranjitsinhji's absence, but although the Indian Prince has learnt all his cricket in England he could scarcely, if the title of the match were to be adhered to, have been included in the English eleven ", but The Field supported his inclusion.

There would, therefore, have been no consumer detriment ; all would have been well at this point, had nothing further untoward occurred, and the incident was a credit to National Grid-although the incident was sure to be closely studied to see if lessons could be learnt.

But it will not necessarily be at all clear to an outside observer, or even to the speaker and hearer themselves, whether the form was already learnt and whether the rules were applied or not.

The ensuing fights between the two groups eventually lead to the involvement of almost all members of the 2 Sennin Worlds-Konron ( where Taikoubou originates ) and ( where Bunchuu learnt his arts ).

They all learnt the milling trade at his mill.

Hume had a good knowledge of some of the local aboriginal people, was always able to avoid conflicts with them, and appears to have learnt something of their speech.

He graduated at the local seminary where he learnt English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Greek and Old Slavonic.

During this time the smelting of iron was learnt from Cyprus and the Levant, exploited and improved upon, using local deposits of iron ore previously ignored by the Mycenaeans: edged weapons were now within reach of less elite warriors.

A report by Fran O ’ Sullivan in the New Zealand Herald said that Fonterra had learnt some heavy lessons from Sanlu and the company would have to have confidence in the safety of its milk supply chain in China before reinvesting significantly in the local production of dairy products.

Kewal had his early grounding in Hindi, and Indian culture and philosophy, in the local evening school of the locality ( called Baitka in Mauritian Hindu term ), where children of the Hindu community learnt the vernacular language and glimpses of the Hindu culture.

Cazaly learnt his football at the local state school, quickly becoming its first-choice ruckman and tried out for VFL side Carlton Football Club in 1910 but quit the club when he injured a shoulder in a reserves match but could not get the Carlton medical staff to treat it.

The councillors were soon won over when they learnt that the local traders in Skegness had seen an initial dip in custom after its construction followed by a rise as campers had visited the town and seasonal workers had come to spend their pay.

In every country Janos learnt local folk and academic music and arranged it to play during his performances.

It also includes the lyrics: " I'm a boozer / I'm a cruiser / Anarchist / Anarchist / An ' I kissed / A couple of local girls ", and " I've learnt two chords an ' I sing out of tune / If punk rock lasts I will make a fortune ".

Pastor Strehlow learnt the local Western Arrernte language and is credited with translating the Bible into the language.

Despite a rocky beginning ( the Fathers had learnt the wrong local language and only attracted 5 students in the first 18 months ), the school eventually became a success – a British official in 1927 said that is was the best school ( of only 5 ) in the north of Ghana.

The England Test cricketer and captain, Bob Willis, grew up in the village and learnt to play at several local village clubs, including Stoke d ' Abernon cricket club, before his professional career in the 1970s and 80s

Dom Diogo Rodrigues set up his base in Goa, learnt the local language, was commander of the construction for the fort of Goa and governor of the island of Salsette ( later Bombay, present Mumbai ) as it was leased to him from 25 October 1535 to 1548 after the Treaty of Bassein between the Portuguese viceroy Nuno da Cunha and Bahadur Shah of the Gujarat Sultanate that placed the islands into Portuguese possession from 1534.

were supported by a technical team many drawn from local radio and theatre who learnt television on the job.

Many Anglo-Indians in Burma never learnt to speak Burmese and managed to get by with Hindi or Urdu and this tended to alienate the local Burman people.

Tests with both hand-reared and wild birds suggests that the behaviour is innate, not learnt by observing other birds, and displayed once they associate eggs with food and have access to pebbles.

Gulls may fly some distance in order to find a suitable surface on which to drop shells, and there is apparently a learnt component to the task as older birds are more successful than younger ones.

By the age of nine, he had learnt the names of most birds and had written out an alphabetically arranged life-list.

They have an ability to accurately mimic alarm calls of other birds that are learnt through interactions in mixed-species flocks.

He learnt to keep careful records of the appearance, habits and voices of birds.

The 11th century Ramsund carving in Sweden depicts how Sigurd learnt the language of birds, in the Poetic Edda and the Völsunga saga

The 11th century Ramsund carving in Sweden depicts how Sigurd learnt the language of birds, in the Poetic Edda and the Völsunga saga.