Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.

If the first item in the operand is omitted, the symbolic name IOCSIXF will be assigned.

( The common misconception that he was Dutch and that his first name was Hendrik stem from Dutch documents of his third voyage.

It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.

When he finally got the coughing under control, he realized that Pete ( all he gave was his first name ) was still waiting for an answer -- he didn't even seem to wink as he continued to stare.

She could have found out my first name, of course -- that wouldn't be difficult.

The first part of its name refers to Atlas of Greek mythology, making the Atlantic the " Sea of Atlas ".

The name was first used in the English language in 1768 by R. Edwin in a colorful description of a large snake found in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ), most likely a reticulated python, Python reticulatus.

The oldest known name for Anatolia, " Land of the Hatti " was found for the first time on Mesopotamic cuneiform tablets from the period of the Akkadian dynasty ( 2350 – 2150 BC ).

The Osmanli ruler Osman I was the first Turkish ruler who minted coins in his own name in 1320s, for it bears the legend " Minted by Osman son of Ertugul ".

The name " abjad " ( ) is derived from pronouncing the first letters of the Arabic alphabet in order.

The first element of the actinides, actinium gave the group its name, much as lanthanum had done for the lanthanides.

Ammonius asks Plutarch what he, being a Boeotian, has to say for Cadmus, the Phoenician who reputedly settled in Thebes and introduced the alphabet to Greece, placing alpha first because it is the Phoenician name for ox — which, unlike Hesiod, the Phoenicians considered not the second or third, but the first of all necessities.

Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

Minerva is also the first name of Professor McGonagall, Harry Potter's Head of House, and a very wise witch of Hogwarts, always concerned with the safety of her students.

* Åsa ( disambiguation ), female first name in Sweden

Aventinus, whose name was real name is Johann or Johannes Turmair ( Aventinus being the Latin name of his birthplace ) wrote the Annals of Bavaria, a valuable record of the early history of Germany and the first major written work on the subject.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.

Why, in the first place, call himself a liberal if he is against laissez-faire and favors an authoritarian central government with womb-to-tomb controls over everybody??

Life is further characterized, in antithesis to Piepsam, as animal: the image of a dog, which appears at several places, is first given as the criterion of amiable, irrelevant interest aroused by life considered simply as a spectacle: a dog in a wagon is `` admirable '', `` a pleasure to contemplate '' ; ;

In the first instance, `` mimesis '' is here used to mean the recalling of experience in terms of vivid images rather than in terms of abstract ideas or conventional designations.

This is the primary function of the imagination operating in the absence of the original experiential stimulus by which the images were first appropriated.

The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.

He is, first and foremost, a defender of public morals, a servant of society.

The first of two possible variations on this theme is symbolized by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.

Noting such evidence is the first step ; ;

So it is that we relive his opening statement in the first television address with the dramatic immediacy of the present.

and it is surely clear that the first of these is the result of the way in which the individual's command of language interacts with the other two.

The first thing to do is get her some money by a temporary but definite adjustment pending a final disposition of the case.

When I take over Taliesin, the first thing I'll do is fire you ''.

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

At this point a working definition of idea is in order, although our first definition will have to be qualified somewhat as we proceed.

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

We saw it frequently afterward, but our suggestion for the very first encounter is near sunset.

In countries such as Kenya-particularly in Nairobi and other cities where there is an expanding middle class-English is increasingly being used in the home as the first language, albeit with significant lexical influence from and secondary use of Swahili in a context of code-switching.

" The name Kwanzaa derives from the Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, meaning first fruits of the harvest.

The first language typically learned by a Tanzanian is that of his or her tribe, with Swahili and English learned thereafter.

Anthropologist David Graeber has noted that, historically, the first wage labor contracts we know about – whether in ancient Greece or Rome, or in the Malay or Swahili city states in the Indian ocean – were in fact contracts for the rental of chattel slaves ( usually the owner would receive a share of the money, and the slave, another, with which to maintain his or her living expenses.

With their help, Bananarama recorded their first demo " Aie a Mwana " ( a cover of a song by Black Blood, sung in Swahili ).

Daniel arap Moi is popularly known to Kenyans as " Nyayo ", a Swahili word for " footsteps ", as he was said to be following the footsteps of the first Kenyan President, Jomo Kenyatta.

Since Germans were the first colonialists to establish a solid educational program in East Africa, the word " shule " has been borrowed into the Swahili language, the lingua franca of East Africa.

The group formed in the Waterhouse district of Kingston in 1972, initially called simply " Uhuru " ( the Swahili word for freedom ), with a line-up of Derrick " Duckie " Gong Simpson, founder and CEO, Garth Dennis, and lastly Don Carlos Their first release was a cover version of Curtis Mayfield's " Romancing to the Folk Song ", which was followed by " Time is on Our Side "; Neither song was a success and they split up, with Carlos pursuing a solo career, as did Dennis, before joining The Wailing Souls.

The first taarab superstar, indeed the first Swahili superstar, was Siti bint Saad.

* In the first season of Benidorm the quiz at the Solana featured the question: " What is Swahili for no worries?

She was born in Mochudi, Botswana as Nia Tsholofelo Künzer ( her first name being Swahili for " aim " or " intention "), where her parents were on a two year's tour with a development aid organization.

In 1961 Radio Moscow for the first time spoke in three African languages: Amharic, Swahili and Hausa.

One of the first written accounts of Bao as played in the Swahili world is due to British orientalist Thomas Hyde, who saw it played in 1658 in Anjouan ( Comoros ).

The album dealt with the political plight of black South Africans under apartheid, and it was one of the first American albums to present traditional Zulu, Sotho and Swahili songs in an authentic setting.

He wrote his autobiography, which is the first example of this literary genre in Swahili.

Her first name means " brilliance " in Swahili and " work of art " in Arabic.

The Kangela is reputed to be an ancient Swahili Fertility Chant College of Science Handbook, 1973 first adopted by the RCSU in the middle 1950s as a War Cry on the occasion of Morphy Day.

Starting from due north and moving clockwise around so that the upper edge of the northeast rectangle is listed first, they are English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese and Russian.

Sheikh Al-Ami ibn Ali al-Mazruwi ( d. 1949 ) was the first of the region's ulama to author Islamic literature in Swahili.

* Jambo OpenOffice opensource software in Swahili: An extimated 100 million Swahili speakers in Africa have access to the first stage towards a full operating system in Swahili.

Only a small fraction of those who use Swahili are first language speakers and even fewer are ethnic Swahilis.