Apollo helped Admetus win Alcestis, the daughter of King Pelias and later convinced the Fates to let Admetus live past his time, if another took his place.

Alboin took as his first wife the Catholic Chlothsind, daughter of the Frankish King Chlothar.

The Aragonese took Ramiro out of a monastery and made him king, marrying him without papal dispensation to Agnes, sister of the Duke of Aquitaine, then betrothing their newborn daughter to Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, who was then named Ramiro's heir.

To propitiate Ares, Cadmus took as a bride Harmonia, daughter of Ares ' union with Aphrodite, thus harmonizing all strife and founding the city of Thebes.

In 1390, Bayezid took as a wife Princess Olivera Despina, the daughter of Prince Lazar of Serbia, who also lost his life in Kosovo.

As a follower of Artemis, Callisto, who Hesiod said was the daughter of Lycaon, king of Arcadia, took a vow to remain a virgin, as did all the nymphs of Artemis.

A vision of St. Dominic strengthened her, though, but her wish to join his Order was no comfort to Lapa, who took her daughter with her to the baths in Bagno Vignoni to improve her health.

" Esther 2: 7 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful ; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

He married Bertha, the Christian daughter of Charibert, king of the Franks, thus building an alliance with the most powerful state in contemporary Western Europe ; the marriage probably took place before Æthelberht came to the throne.

He took with him his sons and one of his wives, Princess Unonosarara, a daughter of Tenji.

During Hillary Clinton's campaign for election to the U. S. Senate, the couple's daughter Chelsea took over much of the First Lady's role.

The reader is told Scarlett O ' Hara, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Gerald and Ellen O ' Hara, " was not beautiful, but " had an effect on men, especially when she took notice of them.

He took over the premiership later in the year and turned his back on the Popular Party by announcing his engagement to the daughter of the Progressive Party leader, Shefqet Verlaci.

Left without male heirs, Henry took the unprecedented step of making his barons swear to accept his daughter Empress Matilda, widow of Henry V, the Holy Roman Emperor, as his heir.

After Isaac sent Jacob away to find a wife, Esau realized his own Canaanite wives were evil in his father's eyes and so he took a daughter of Isaac's half-brother, Ishmael, as another wife.

John took a close interest in Wales and knew the country well, visiting every year between 1204 and 1211 and marrying his illegitimate daughter, Joan, to the Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great.

Plaisance died in 1261, but as her son Hugh II was still underage, Cyprus passed to his cousin Hugh of Antioch-Lusignan, whose mother Isabella of Cyprus, Alice of Champagne and Hugh I of Cyprus ' daughter and Hugh II's aunt, took over the regency in Acre.

It took many months for his courtiers and advisors to convince him to remarry, but eventually he did, in 820, to Judith, daughter of Welf, count of Altdorf.

Beria's sexually predatory nature was well-known to the Politburo, and though Stalin took an indulgent viewpoint ( considering Beria's wartime importance ), he was fearful after learning that his daughter Svetlana was alone with Beria at his house.

In the apparently successful and bloodless coup d ' état, Abdallahi daughter, Amal Mint Cheikh Abdallahi said: " The security agents of the BASEP ( Presidential Security Battalion ) came to our home and took away my father.

In the apparently successful and bloodless coup d ' état, Abdallahi daughter, Amal Mint Cheikh Abdallahi said: " The security agents of the BASEP ( Presidential Security Battalion ) came to our home and took away my father.

Afterwards, Gustavus Adolphus often took his daughter with him to military reviews.

Then in 1202, disaffected patrons petitioned the French king to summon John to answer their charges in his capacity as John's feudal lord, and, when the English king refused to appear, Philip again took up the claims of Arthur, to whom he betrothed his six-year-old daughter, Marie.

Although her father was skeptical of her chances of success in a difficult profession, he took his daughter to New York in 1914, where he enrolled her in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

In North America those who continued to associate with Britain on the basis of the amended 1898 statement became known as the Amended Fellowship, in contrast to the Unamended Fellowship, who took their lead from the Christadelphian Advocate Magazine of Thomas Williams of Chicago.

They took on the vastly improved Chicago Blackhawks in the Conference Finals, winning in five games.

No one claimed him, so a carnival took his body, mummified it, and toured all over the South with him, calling him the “ The Famous Mummy Man .” McLean ’ s song inspired radio station WGN in Chicago to tell the story and give the song airplay in order to raise money for a headstone for Anderson McCrew ’ s grave.

At the University of Chicago, Hayek was not part of the economics department and did not influence the rebirth of neoclassical theory which took place there ( see Chicago school of economics ).

He also took anthropology classes at University of Chicago.

A group of students including Roger Brown, Gladys Nillson, Jim Nutt, and Barbara Rossi, and teachers at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, including Ray Yoshida and Whitney Halstead, took an interest in promoting his work.

After Rockne graduated from high school, he took a job as a mail dispatcher with the Chicago Post Office for four years.

In 1908 Bloomfield moved to the University of Chicago where he took courses in German and Indo-European philology with Frances A.

After Baum's newspaper failed in 1891, he, Maud and their four sons moved to Humboldt Park section of Chicago, where Baum took a job reporting for the Evening Post.

had a good supporting role in the Western Seven Men from Now ( 1956 ) and starred in The Missouri Traveler ( 1958 ) but it took over one hundred episodes as Chicago cop Frank Ballinger in the successful 1957-1960 television series M Squad to actually give him name recognition.

In 1994, he took the role of Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on CBS ' Chicago Hope for which he won an Emmy Award.

He also received a contract for the production of his new opera The Love for Three Oranges but, due to illness and the death of the director, the premiere was postponed and took place in Chicago on 30 September 1921.

On May 27, 1939, the first U. S. synchronized swimming competition took place at Wright Junior College between Wright and the Chicago Teachers ' College.

In 1990, the first National Poetry Slam took place in Fort Mason, San Francisco, involving a team from Chicago, a team from San Francisco, and an individual poet from New York.

New England took the quickest lead in Super Bowl history with Tony Franklin's 36-yard field goal 1: 19 into the first quarter after a Chicago fumble.

The Patriots took the second quickest lead in Super Bowl history after linebacker Larry McGrew recovered a fumble from Walter Payton at the Chicago 19-yard line on the second play of the game ( the Bears themselves would break this record in Super Bowl XLI when Devin Hester ran back the opening kickoff for a touchdown ).

On June 28, 1970, the first Gay Pride marches took place in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York commemorating the anniversary of the riots.

Gay Pride marches took place simultaneously in Los Angeles and Chicago.

In 1917, Elias acquired shares in the O-Zell jelly factory in Chicago and moved his family back to the city, where in the fall Disney began his freshman year at McKinley High School and took night courses at the Chicago Art Institute.

On these tours, Forbes allegedly received traveling perks and alcohol kickbacks, took a $ 5, 000 bribe in Chicago, and made a secret code to ensure $ 17 million in government construction hospital contracts with corrupt contractors.

The first Chicago performance of the opera took place at the Auditorium Building of Roosevelt University on 9 November 1891.

Bryan arrived quietly and took rooms at a modest hotel ; the Nebraskan later calculated that he spent less than $ 100 while in Chicago.

While at Chicago, he took a course under the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert A. Millikan, which exposed him to the old quantum theory.