He was early exposed to the mechanical world, and in his youth often helped his father, David Brown, master clock and watchmaker, as he plied his trade.

The state of turmoil caused by these religious and political disputes was increased by the possibility of Albert's early death and the need, should that happen, to appoint a regent, as his only son, Albert Frederick was still a mere youth.

" This internal destruction can be found as early as the first chapter as Paul comments that, although all the boys are young, their youth has left them.

Abu al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī was born in Isfahan, Persia, but spent his youth and made his early studies in Baghdad, Iraq.

Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems ' wistful evocation of doomed youth in the English countryside, in spare language and distinctive imagery, appealed strongly to late Victorian and Edwardian taste, and to many early 20th century English composers ( beginning with Arthur Somervell ) both before and after the First World War.

Domitian's youth and early career were largely spent in the shadow of his brother Titus, who gained military renown during the First Jewish-Roman War.

Some researchers have taken up speculative views, such as Jerzy Strzelczyk, who assumed that in the light of contemporary concepts and habits of marriage of that time ( when as a rule marriages were contracted with teenage girls ) is assumed that Dobrawa had passed her early youth, so, it's probable that she was in her late teens or twenties.

He spent his early youth attending Public School 149 in East New York, Brooklyn, where he began entertaining his young classmates with songs and jokes, before moving to Thomas Jefferson High School, but he never graduated.

In addition, having been close to him in their youth, she now showed excessive affection towards her uncle – whilst many historians today dismiss this as familial affection ( noting their early friendship, and his similarity to her father and grandfather ), many of Eleanor's adversaries mistook the generous displays of affection between uncle and niece for an incestuous affair.

Robinson enlisted Ernest Thompson Seton, Daniel Carter Beard and other prominent leaders in the early youth movements.

Hal Ashby, the film's director, shared certain ideals with the era ’ s youth culture, and in this film he contrasts the doomed outlook of the alienated youth of the time with the hard-won optimism of those who endured the horrors of the early 20th century, contrasting nihilism with purpose.

After seven matches club management sacked Colomba in early October and replaced him with youth team coach ( and former Verona player ) Davide Pellegrini .< ref >

In early youth, Isaiah may have been moved by the invasion of Israel by the Assyrian monarch Tiglath-Pileser III (); and again, twenty years later, when he had already entered on his office, by the invasion of Tiglath-Pileser and his career of conquest.

The city has been traditionally quiet but in the late 1960s and early 1970s there were a series of mainly youth demonstrations confronted by the police.

Marsupials must develop a grasping forepaw during their early youth, making the transition from this limb into a hoof, wing, or flipper, as some groups of placental mammals have done, far more difficult.

Because of his youth, Duncan's early reign was apparently uneventful.

He was also attracted to socialist and democratic ideals early on in his youth.

The eldest son of Franz and Louise Dix, an iron foundry worker and a seamstress who had written poetry in her youth, he was exposed to art from an early age.

Smith opened " Ozzie's " restaurant and sports bar in 1988, started a youth sports academy in 1990, became an investor in a grocery store chain in 1999, and partnered with David Slay to open a restaurant in the early 2000s.

As of early 1994, there were thirty-three ministerial portfolios: commerce ; communications ; culture ; defence ; defence production ; education ; environment ; finance and economic affairs ; food and agriculture ; foreign affairs ; health ; housing ; information and broadcasting ; interior ; Kashmiri affairs and Northern Areas ; law and justice ; local government ; minority affairs ; narcotics control ; parliamentary affairs ; petroleum and natural resources production ; planning and development ; railways ; religious affairs ; science and technology ; social welfare ; special education ; sports ; state and frontier regions ; tourism ; water and power ; women's development ; and youth affairs.

In the early 1960s the use of LSD and other hallucinogens was advocated by proponents of the new " consciousness expansion ", such as Timothy Leary, Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley and Arthur Koestler, their writings profoundly influenced the thinking of the new generation of youth.

Benedetto never forgot his roots in Todi, later describing the city as " the dwelling place of his early youth ," the city which " nourished him while still of tender years ," and as a place where he " held lasting memories ".

In 1660 he was quoted as saying that " Nothing is of greater importance than the early instruction of youth.

As early as 1949, the youth wing of the African National Congress ( ANC ) advocated the abolishment of Apartheid and suggested fighting against racial segregation by various methods.

Kapuściński claimed, in response to a question posed by Adam Michnik, that his attitude to Communism changed early on, " the decisive moment having come in the year 1956 " ( presumably a reference to the events of Poznań June and the process of de-Stalinisation brought about by the Thaw of Gomułka, and the Hungarian Uprising ), although he remained a loyal member of the Party until December 1981 and never spoke out against it afterwards, including during the period of the Third Republic following the Party's self-dissolution in January 1990.

From the early 1960s onwards, Kapuściński published books of increasing literary craftsmanship characterized by sophisticated narrative technique, psychological portraits of characters, a wealth of stylization and metaphor and unusual imagery that serves as means of interpreting the perceived world.

Kapuściński did not think much of his early poetic output, on the other hand, dismissing it as " production-line Mayakovskyism " ( produkcyjna majakowszczyzna ) and later in life congratulating himself on having avoided publishing his collected juvenilia in book form.

However, in Autoportret reportera (" A Reporter's Self-portrait "; 2003 ), Kapuściński credits his early beginnings as a poet for his becoming a journalist in the end: " I wrote poems the early part of my life, but they were all very bad (...) ' occasional ' pieces (...) but it is precisely those poems that led me to journalism ".

Notwithstanding such self-judgements, it is untrue that all of Kapuściński's early verses were " very bad ": some of them ( to be sure, likewise not all ) reveal a level of prosodic finesse and a degree of genuinely poetic sensibility and conceptual sophistication of which a schoolboy could be rightfully proud ; the poem entitled " Uzdrowienie " ( Healing ), with its expertly codified trope of Christ, published in the periodical Dziś i jutro in August 1949 when Kapuściński was 17, could be cited as an example.

In the early eighteenth century this fantastic city, then the size of London, started to decline.

He started down the steps to meet the near-blind preacher, who had been one of the early Gospelers in Paris.

Another reason gymnastic study is valuable is that it can be started very early in life.

Rosburg had started early in the day, and by the time Palmer and Player were on the course -- separated, as they were destined to be for the rest of the weekend, by about half an hour -- they could see on the numerous scoreboards spotted around the course that Rosburg, who ended with a 73, was not having a good day.

Adelaide's early economy started to get on its feet in 1838 with the arrival of livestock from New South Wales and Tasmania.

Efforts to organize and standardize the market started early in the 20th century under Emanuel S. Mendels and Carl H. Pforzheimer.

ASROC started development as the Rocket Assisted Torpedo ( RAT ) program by the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake in the early 1950 to develop as surface warship ASW weapon counter to the new post-WWII submarines which ran quieter, at much higher speed and could attack from much longer range with high speed homing torpedoes.

BBS which had early roots from the Colossus BBS started by the author of the popular shareware communications program Qmodem.

As early as 1875, veterans returning from India started a club in Folkestone.

The symbols Kbit, Kbyte, Mbit and Mbyte started to be used as " binary units "—" bit " or " byte " with a multiplier that is a power of 1024 — in the early 1970s.

Interests in the balalaika first started after Andreyev's tour of North America in the early twentieth century.

In the early 2000s, BBC Two also started simulcasting the channel, although the weekend morning show Weekend 24 had been simulcast on the channel in the early days.

Firms started highlighting their ethical stature in the late 1980s and early 1990s, possibly trying to distance themselves from the business scandals of the day, such as the savings and loan crisis.

In the early 1980s, Tod Whittemore started the first Saturday dance in the Peterborough Town House, which remains one of the more popular regional dances.

However, when the Island re-opened in early December to tourists the cruise ships once more started to pour in, all intrigued to see the damage.

Franjo Tuđman's government started to lose popularity as it was criticized ( among other things ) for its involvement in suspicious privatization deals of the early 1990s as well as a partial international isolation.

Chicano rap is a unique style of hip hop music which started with Kid Frost, who saw some mainstream exposure in the early 1990s.

It was influenced not just by name of the poem, which was widely popular in the 1910s, but also because he tended to strike out frequently in his early career so fans and writers started calling him " strikeout Casey ".

Cessna started his aircraft ventures in Enid, Oklahoma, testing many of his early planes on the salt flats.

OpenCDE, an open source project to replicate CDE, was started in early 2010.

This started in April and would develop during the year and into early 2011.

Although the counter-demonstration attracted half a million participants, the movement for change started in 2000 was influential on King Mohammed VI, and he enacted a new Mudawana, or family law, in early 2004, meeting some of the demands of women's rights activists.

Lynch found this transitory early life relatively easy to adjust to, noting that he found it fairly easy to meet new friends whenever he started attending a new school.

Modern disc golf started in the early 1960s, when it seems to have been invented in many places and by many people independently.