Besides its frequent revision, DDC's main advantage over its chief American rival, the Library of Congress Classification system developed shortly afterward, is its simplicity.

Nevertheless, Agadja was unable to defeat the neighbouring kingdom of Oyo, Dahomey's chief rival in the slave trade.

Glenn Curtiss, the chief rival of the Wright brothers, was the first to design a flying car.

Mzura made a pact with the Portuguese to establish a 4, 000-man army to attack the Shona in return for aid in defeating his rival Lundi, a chief of the Zimba.

Ironically, it was at this time that the Hosokawa lords were also the patrons of Musashi's chief rival, Sasaki Kojirō.

Mata ' afa Iosefo ( 1832-1912 ) paramount chief & rival for the kingship of Samoa

After forcibly removing Edward VI to Windsor Castle, with the intention of keeping him hostage, Somerset was removed from power by members of the council, led by his chief rival, John Dudley, the first Earl of Warwick, who created himself Duke of Northumberland shortly after his rise.

Daley's chief rival in that race was Alderman Danny K. Davis, a black politician from the West Side who himself did not pose an especially forceful challenge.

He had removed his chief rival, the ponlop of Paro, and installed a supporter and relative, a member of the pro-British Dorji family, in his place.

He was soon expelled from the Katsukawa school by Shunkō, the chief disciple of Shunshō, possibly due to studies at the rival Kanō school.

According to historian Robert Nisbet Bain, it was one of Elizabeth ’ s “ chief glories that, so far as she was able, she put a stop to that mischievous contention of rival ambitions at Court, which had disgraced the reigns of Peter II, Anne and Ivan VI, and enabled foreign powers to freely interfere in the domestic affairs of Russia .” She was also deeply religious, passing several pieces of legislation that undid much of the work her father had done to limit the power of the church.

In 1974, after a period as Information Minister, he was appointed Minister of Defense in the Yitzhak Rabin government, having been Rabin's chief rival for the post of Prime Minister after Golda Meir resigned in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War.

He devoted his reign mainly to extending his power at the expense of his smaller neighbours, and in conflicts with his chief rival the king of Granada.

The chief contemporary authority for the life of Photios is his bitter enemy, Nicetas the Paphlagonian, the biographer of his rival Ignatios.

Jones writes that though he was " less of a boor " than his chief rival for election to the imperial throne, " he was of a violent and brutal temper, and not only uncultivated himself, but hostile to cultivated persons ", as Ammianus tells us, ' he hated the well-dressed and educated and wealthy and well-born '.

Capua eclipsed Benevento thereafter and became the chief rival of Salerno.

Like Keokuk, Black Hawk was not a civil chief, but he became Keokuk's primary rival for influence within the tribe.

He became chief factor of the Lake Huron district for the Hudson's Bay Company after the merger of the rival companies.

Vitter polled 1, 145 votes ( 41 percent ) compared to 881 ballots ( 32 percent ) for his chief Democratic rival, Congressman Christopher John of Crowley, the seat of Acadia Parish.

The chief rebel in East Anglia was Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk a rival to William d ' Aubigny, who seized Norwich Castle during the rebellion.

Nicknamed the Bulldogs, Coleman College ’ s chief athletic rival was the Grambling College Tigers.

Their teams compete in the South Coast Conference, and their chief rival is Old Rochester Regional High School in Mattapoisett.

But after 1974's The Towering Inferno, co-starring with his long-time personal friend and chief professional rival Paul Newman and reuniting him with Dunaway, became a tremendous box-office success, McQueen all but disappeared from Hollywood and the public eye, preferring to focus on motorcycle racing and traveling around the country in a motorhome and on one of his vintage Indian motorcycles.

While Michael was asserting his authority, his rival Yury of Moscow ingratiated himself into the favor of Uzbeg so that he appointed him chief of the Rus ' princes, and gave him his sister, Konchak, in marriage.

Indira Gandhi's Congress ( I ) party supported Bhindranwale in a bid to split the Sikh votes and weaken the Akali Dal, its chief rival in Punjab.

According to the Buddha every Buddha in the past and to come will have two chief disciples and one attendant during his ministry.

Smith led expeditions to explore the regions surrounding Jamestown, and it was during one of these that the chief of the Powhatan Native Americans captured Smith.

Between 1861 and 1871, the Tanzimat reforms which began during the reign of his brother Abdülmecid I were continued under the leadership of his chief ministers, Keçecizade Mehmet Fuat Pasha and Mehmed Emin Aali Pasha.

The bridge was swept away during a flood, and later repaired by Puspagupta, the chief architect of emperor Chandragupta I.

Herald-Traveler Corp. operated for years under temporary authority from the Federal Communications Commission stemming from controversy over luncheon meetings the newspaper's chief executive had with an FCC commissioner during the original licensing process ( Some Boston broadcast historians accuse the Boston Globe of being covertly behind the proceeding.

Since its inception Beechcraft has resided in Wichita, Kansas, also the home of chief competitor Cessna, the birthplace of Learjet and of Stearman, whose trainers were used in large numbers during WW2.

Bethlehem's chief economic sector is tourism which peaks during the Christmas season when Christian pilgrims throng to the Church of the Nativity.

The Bolsheviks came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and founded the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic which would later in 1922 become the chief constituent of the Soviet Union.

He was a prominent person during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as co-founder and chief editor of and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d ' Alembert.

Beatty was strongly commended by Captain E. H. Bayley, who had been his commander during the siege, and by the commander in chief.

( A chargé d ' affaires ad interim also heads the mission during the interim between the end of one chief of mission's term and the beginning of another ).

After the merger, with all operations under the management of Sir George Simpson ( 1826 – 1860 ), the company had a corps of commissioned officers, 25 chief factors and 28 chief traders, who shared in the profits of the company during the monopoly years.

Also during this time, the Mayors of the Palace, originally the chief advisor to the kings, would become the real power in the Frankish lands ; the Merovingian kings themselves would be reduced to little more than figureheads.

The most extensive Babylonian medical text, however, is the Diagnostic Handbook written by the ummânū, or chief scholar, Esagil-kin-apli of Borsippa, during the reign of the Babylonian king Adad-apla-iddina ( 1069-1046 BC ).

Of the icon painting tradition that developed in Byzantium, with Constantinople as the chief city, we have only a few icons from the 11th century and none preceding them, in part because of the Iconoclastic reforms during which many were destroyed, and also because of plundering by Venetians in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade, and finally the taking of the city by the Islamic Turks in 1453.

Adams is regarded as one of the greatest diplomats in American history, and during his tenure as Secretary of State, he was the chief designer of the Monroe Doctrine.

Davis was still in Mississippi during the Black Hawk War of 1832 but, at its conclusion, his colonel Zachary Taylor assigned him to escort the chief Black Hawk to prison.

Sartre portrayed his own pre-war situation in the character Mathieu, chief protagonist in The Age of Reason, which was completed during Sartre's first year as a soldier in the Second World War.

Jellicoe served as chief of staff to Vice Admiral Sir E. H. Seymour during the Seymour expedition to relieve the legations at Peking in June 1900.

Jones next served as director, Expeditionary Warfare Division ( N85 ), Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, during 1996, then as the deputy chief of staff for plans, policies, and operations, Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C.

The chief engineer during the construction of Sarkel was Petronas Kamateros ( Πετρωνᾶς Καματηρός ) who later became the governor of Cherson.

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (; ; 29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953 ) was a Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus ( NKVD ) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and Deputy Premier in the postwar years ( 1946 – 1953 ).

Prior to and during the war, Beria directed his chief bodyguard, Colonel R. S.