It was with the assistance of one of the members of this expedition, Lauritz Esmarch, that Oersted succeeded in producing light by creating an electric discharge in mercury vapor through which an electric current was made to flow.

Aging but still precocious, French feline enfant terrible Francoisette Lagoon has succeeded in shocking jaded old Paris again, this time with a sexy ballet scenario called The Lascivious Interlude, the story of a nymphomaniac trip-hammer operator who falls hopelessly in love with a middle-aged steam shovel.

Alcohol ingestion succeeded in changing immobility to mobility quite strikingly in one pilot subject ( the only one with whom this technique was tried ).

The expedition that had discovered Ozagen had succeeded in correlating two thousand Siddo words with an equal number of American words.

He succeeded in crossing the Atlantic from Morocco to Barbados after a two-month voyage of 6, 100 km with Ra II in 1970, thus conclusively proving that boats such as the Ra could have sailed with the Canary Current across the Atlantic in prehistoric times.

The Angolan Armed Forces ( Portuguese: Forças Armadas Angolanas ) are the military in Angola that succeeded Forças Armadas de Libertação de Angola ( FAPLA ) following the abortive Bicesse Accord with UNITA in 1991.

" At the end, he succeeded in obtaining from Theodosius a promise that the sentence should be completely revoked, with the very natural consequence that thereafter the prospect of immunity thus afforded occasioned spoliations of synagogues all over the Empire.

Forced against his will into war with Russia, Ahmed III came nearer than any Ottoman sovereign before or since to breaking the power of his northern rival, whose armies his grand vizier Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Pasha succeeded in completely surrounding at the Pruth River Campaign in 1711.

Menelaus succeeded Tyndareus in Sparta, while Agamemnon, with his brother's assistance, drove out Aegisthus and Thyestes to recover his father's kingdom.

He succeeded his father as king in 272 BC, and continued the war which his father had begun with Antigonus II Gonatas, whom he succeeded in driving from the kingdom of Macedon.

On the death of Edgar in 1107 he succeeded to the Scottish crown ; but, in accordance with Edgar's instructions, their brother David was granted an appanage in southern Scotland.

As Caliph, Abu Bakr succeeded to the political and administrative functions previously exercised by Muhammad, since the religious function and authority of prophethood ended with Muhammad's death according to Islam.

In 1006 Ælfheah succeeded Ælfric as Archbishop of Canterbury, taking Swithun's head with him as a relic for the new location.

Upon Gassmann's death on 22 January, most likely due to complications from an accident with a carriage some years earlier, Salieri succeeded him as assistant director of the Italian opera in early 1774.

Senators Ted Kennedy – a Democrat – and Orrin Hatch – a Republican – teamed up with Hillary Rodham Clinton and her staff in 1997, and succeeded in passing legislation forming the State Children's Health Insurance Program ( SCHIP ), the largest ( successful ) health care reform in the years of the Clinton Presidency.

On 7 September 1940, Bulgaria succeeded in negotiating a recovery of Southern Dobruja with the Treaty of Craiova ( see Second Vienna Award ).

After the contract has been established, the play of the cards proceeds as in most trick-taking card games until all thirteen tricks have been played with the result that the declaring side has either succeeded or failed in fulfilling their part of the contract.

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.

Real estate developer James Keelty Jr. succeeded him as president with investment banker Joseph Iglehart the new board chairman.

Richards succeeded in stocking the franchise with a plethora of young talent which included Dave Nicholson, Pete Ward, Ron Hansen ( 1960 AL Rookie of the Year ), Milt Pappas, Jerry Adair, Steve Barber ( 20 wins in 1963 ), Boog Powell, Dave McNally and Brooks Robinson.

Swiftsure, Alexander and Franklin were all set alight by falling wreckage although in each case teams of sailors with water buckets succeeded in extinguishing the flames, despite a secondary explosion on Franklin.

The slightly higher northern plains have been farmed for centuries and saw a major change from the 13th century onwards during the Sukhothai Kingdom in the 13th and 14th centuries and the Ayutthaya Kingdom that succeeded it when rice-growing intensified with the introduction of floating rice, a much faster-growing strain of rice from Bengal.

Their action succeeded in causing the introduction of an Amending Bill, exempting some or all of Ulster from Home Rule.

In April 1883 he succeeded Timothy O. Howe ( 1816 – 1883 ) as Postmaster General in President Chester A. Arthur's cabinet, taking an active part in the suppression of the Louisiana Lottery, supervising the successful September, 1883 introduction of Postal Notes, and in September 1884 succeeded Charles J. Folger as United States Secretary of the Treasury.

The Runway bus was succeeded with the introduction of the PA-8800, which used the Itanium 2 bus.

If the Meroitic alphabet did continue in use by the Nubian kingdoms that succeeded the Kingdom of Meroë, it was replaced by the Coptic alphabet with the introduction of Christianity to Nubia in the sixth century CE.

By 1984, just a year after its introduction, the FP31 was being used by ABC, CBS, NBC, Turner Broadcasting System, and was later succeeded by the Shure FP33.

In 1912 he also succeeded where his predecessors had failed in the introduction of a series of anti-looting laws, before retiring in 1914.

The efforts to create a football league succeeded in 1911, with the introduction of the first Austrian football championship.

Kim was succeeded by Raymond " Ray " Plzak until the end of 2008.

She was in 1984 appointed as governor general by Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau, to replace Edward Richard Schreyer as vicereine, and she occupied the post until succeeded by Ray Hnatyshyn in 1990.

Shull succeeded Ray E. Ewing, who had served since 1994, and retired at the end of his term.

The original host was Robin Ray, later succeeded by Robert Robinson ( from 1967 ).

He was succeeded by Ray Mathias, who returned for his third stint as Wigan Athletic manager.

He was succeeded by Steve Lombardi and Dusty Wolfe and John Maloof, all of whom played the character temporarily after Osborne left the company until Ray Apollo was brought in as the permanent replacement.

She is believed by those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings to have succeeded the previous Chohan, the Master Jesus, on January 1, 1956, when she is said to have fully taken on the Office of Chohan of the Sixth Ray., thus advancing from the fifth to the sixth level of initiation.

Harriman was succeeded by Ray Long.

When the Surfer came to alert them that Thanos was approaching, he convinced Beta Ray Bill to end the group dream and save the planet using all of the dream weaver's power to trick Thanos into believing he had succeeded in destroying the planet.

Versions of " This Is My Song " have been recorded by Ronnie Aldrich, the Ray Charles Singers, Ray Conniff and the Singers ( from the This Is My Song album / 1967 ), James Darren, Percy Faith, Connie Francis ( live version ), Bobby Hendricks, Engelbert Humperdinck ( whose " Release Me " succeeded Clark's version of " This Is My Song " at # 1 UK and kept Secombe's version at # 2 ), Morgana King, The Lettermen, James Last, the Patrick Linder and Thilo Wolf Big Band, Mantovani, Lena Martell, Al Martino, Paul Mauriat, Jane McDonald, Jim Nabors, Frank Sinatra, Jerry Vale and Andy Williams.

In November 2011, Rick Ray succeeded Kontilai as CEO after Kontilai sold the company to Atalaya Capital Management, a private equity firm based out of NYC.

Thompson's national television debut was in 1954 when he succeeded Ray Scott as the voice of the NFL's Saturday night Game of the Week on the DuMont Television Network, as well as that year's NFL Championship Game.

Benedict resigned in 1963 and was succeeded by Ray Mertes, a great supporter of aviation education while with United Airlines.

Ray H. Neilsen, the third generation of the Neilsen family involved with the company, succeeded his father, serving as co-chairman with John Boushy, who also was promoted from president to CEO at the time of Craig H. Neilsen ’ s death.

He attended lectures by John Lindley ( botany ) and Robert Edmund Grant ( zoology ) — to whose post Edwin's eldest son E. Ray Lankester succeeded in 1875.