Thunderbird eventually succeeded in lifting Whale out of the ocean, carrying it high into the air and then dropping it.

He faced huge social problems, but succeeded in carrying out many reforms, although opposition from the middle and upper classes, the landlords and officers of the army remained powerful.

On January 26, 1108 Alberic died and was soon succeeded by Stephen Harding, the man responsible for carrying the order into its crucial phase.

The brothers succeeded in launching the first manned ascent, carrying Étienne into the sky.

Julius Caesar as consul in 59 BC succeeded in carrying out the establishment of a Roman colony under the name Julia Felix in connection with his agrarian law, and 20, 000 Roman citizens were settled in this territory.

In 1792-93 he succeeded in carrying a Roman Catholic Relief Act conferring the franchise on Catholics ; in 1794 in conjunction with William Ponsonby, he introduced a reform bill which was even less democratic than Flood's bill of 1783.

Hanna hoped to prevent the President's selection on the first ballot, but the Twelve Apostles succeeded in carrying Harrison to victory.

Isabella was already known to be carrying their first child – Maria of Montferrat, who later succeeded her mother as queen regnant ( see the Old French Continuation of William of Tyre, the Brevis Regni Hierosolymitani Historia in the Annals of Genoa, and the Muslim chronicler Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani ).

Three times Montrose entered Aberdeen, where he succeeded in his object, on the second occasion carrying off the head of the Gordons, the Marquess of Huntly, as a prisoner to Edinburgh ( though in so doing, for the first and last time in his life, he violated a safe-conduct ).

Bismarck succeeded in entering the Atlantic through the Strait, but damage sustained in the battle prevented it from carrying out its intended destruction of British convoys.

The continuation to the Shannon then continued under the leadership of John Killaly, who succeeded in crossing another bog by carrying out drainage works for several years before construction.

This last note was duly followed by the landing of 25, 000 Greek troops at Rodosto and corresponding military preparations for the carrying out of the proposed coup, according to a plan elaborated by General Hatzianestis, who had succeeded General Papoulas as commander-in-chief of the Greek armies.

By 1823, moreover, he had succeeded in carrying out the reorganization of his army on European lines, the turbulent Turkish and Albanian elements being replaced by Sudanese and fellahin.

Odo was succeeded by his son Hunald, who after carrying on a war against the Franks under Pippin the Short, retired to a convent, leaving both the kingdom and the conflict to Waiter, or Guaifer.

They succeeded in carrying away two of the captured guns, and spiked two more, leaving them on the ground due to their lack of the ability to move them.

In 1825 he succeeded in carrying stores and reinforcements into Missolonghi, when it was besieged for the second time, though he could not avert its fall.

They were among the most heavily armed bank robbers in history, carrying semi-automatic firearms, handguns, and improvised explosive devices, and succeeded not only in stopping several patrol cars but forcing a San Bernardino police helicopter to give up pursuit.

Sardar-i-Riyasat 1956 to 1965 ( succeeded on the death of his father as Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, 1961, no longer carrying any hereditary power ), next Governor of the Indian constitutive State of Jammu and Kashmir 1965 to 1967.

President McLaughlin succeeded in carrying out an ambitious agenda for Dartmouth, striving to keep it in the forefront of liberal education.

Derek Charles Moore-Brabazon, 2nd Baron Brabazon of Tara CBE ( 24 December 1910-11 December 1974 ) succeeded the title Baron Brabazon of Tara in 1964 with the death of his father, John Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, carrying it for just ten years until his death in 1974.

At once the second-in-command of the scaling party ( Henry James Raby ), another seaman ( John Taylor ) and Boatswain's Mate Curtis left the shelter of their battery works and ran forward a distance of 70 yards, across open ground, through heavy gunfire and succeeded in carrying the wounded man to safety.

When his platoon was forced back by a counterattack he succeeded in carrying a message which involved swimming a river and crossing an area swept by machine-gun fire.

There have been cases, however, where foreign terrorists have used South Africa as a staging post and later attempted to or succeeded in carrying out attacks abroad.

Later on in the year, in response to a request that representatives of the colony should be sent to a conference on colonial affairs in London, Higinbotham moved and succeeded in carrying five resolutions declining to send representatives, and repeating his views that the internal affairs of a colony are its own concern and that the colonial office should only look after matters that effect the whole empire.

He succeeded, however, in carrying a resolution in 1825 that the House should consider the laws concerning Roman Catholics.

In March 37, Tiberius died and Agrippina ’ s remaining son Caligula succeeded as emperor.

But the charge succeeded and with their cavalry in headlong flight, the remaining nine French infantry battalions fought with desperate valour, trying to form square.

Manning's Colts defeated the Chargers in 1998 and 1999, but in 2004 with Leaf long gone from the game the revamped Chargers behind Drew Brees erupted into playoff contention ; on December 26 with both teams at 11-3 the Colts hosted the Chargers with Manning close to matching Dan Marino's touchdown record ; the Chargers stormed to a 31-16 lead, but Dominic Rhodes ' kickoff return put the Colts within eight points, then with one minute remaining Manning rifled a 21-yard touchdown to Brandon Stokley, breaking Marino's record ; the two-point try succeeded, then after Brees was intercepted the game went to overtime and the Colts won 34-31 on a field goal.

At this point, both Harold's remaining brothers in England were earls in their own right, Harold was himself king and in control of Wessex, and he had married the sister of Earl Edwin of Mercia and Morcar, Earl of Northumbria ( who had succeeded his brother Tostig ).

During the Angevin dominion the city succeeded in remaining autonomous.

* January 1919 Law becomes Lord Privy Seal, remaining Leader of the House of Commons, and is succeeded as Chancellor of the Exchequer by Chamberlain ; both remaining in the War Cabinet.

While the government of the ROC considered itself the remaining holdout of the legitimate government of a country overrun by what it thought of as Communist rebels, the PRC claimed to have succeeded the ROC in the Chinese Civil War.

He was succeeded by his remaining brother Philip, former Archbishop of Lyon.

The cell was succeeded by a monastery in 715, but nothing remaining of it has been identified.

Basil, as the sole remaining emperor ( Basiliskianos had been killed at the same time as Michael ), automatically succeeded as the ruling basileus.

He was succeeded in 2000 as publisher and CEO by Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr., with Graham remaining as chairman.

Lord Burlington was succeeded in the earldom of Cork and the other remaining titles by his third cousin John Boyle, 5th Earl of Orrery, who became the fifth Earl of Cork as well ( he was descended from the third son of the first Earl of Cork, and had also inherited the titles of Baron Broghill and Baron Boyle of Marston in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, thus a seat in the British House of Lords until 1999 ( see the Earl of Orrery for earlier history of this branch of the family ).

In 142 BCE Jonathan was assassinated by Diodotus Tryphon, a pretender to the Seleucid throne, and was succeeded by Simon Maccabee, the last remaining son of Mattathias.

He succeeded his brother Demetrius III Eucaerus as separatist ruler of the southern parts of the last remaining Seleucid realms, basically Damascus and its surroundings.

The land program succeeded also because the Kuomintang were mostly from the mainland and had few ties to the remaining indigenous landowners.

Although elected, Jenkins resigned the SDP leadership and Owen succeeded to it without a contest among the 6 remaining SDP MPs.

In 1974 he replaced Dave Liebman in Miles Davis's ensemble, remaining until spring 1975, when he was succeeded by Sam Morrison.

Coleman succeeded Dean Barkley, who had been appointed by Ventura to serve the remaining two months of Wellstone's term.

The remaining members of Omega, meanwhile, succeeded in achieving stardom in Germany, and remained very popular for a time.

However, once back in open space, the Poles were able again to take advantage of their heavy cavalry, and that part of the remaining troops which managed to retain a measure of order and discipline succeeded in crossing back into Poland-despite Stephen's last effort to engage the remnants of the king's army in a battle of annihilation when they were trying to ford the Prut river at Cernăuţi.

He was succeeded in the remaining titles by his second cousin the second Earl of Nottingham, who became the seventh Earl of Winchilsea as well ( see below for earlier history of this branch of the family ).

* The remaining three first class cars and matching van would go on to be refurbished 22 years later for the former Northerner Express trains that succeeded Trains 626 and 227.

Atholl died in 1764 and was succeeded in the dukedom and remaining titles by his nephew, John, the third Duke.

It has succeeded in remaining one of the two major French union confederations, while the Communist Party has declined severely.