Lincoln spent the next 100 days preparing the army and the nation for emancipation, while Democrats rallied their voters in the 1862 offyear elections by warning of the threat freed slaves posed to northern whites.

The Athenians were preparing to make reprisals, in spite of the advice of the Delphic oracle that they should desist from attacking Aegina for thirty years, and content themselves meanwhile with dedicating a precinct to Aeacus, when their projects were interrupted by the Spartan intrigues for the restoration of Hippias.

The large number of experiments exploring the physics and chemistry of these so-called " colloidal crystals " has emerged as a result of the relatively simple methods that have evolved in the last 20 years for preparing synthetic monodisperse colloids ( both polymer and mineral ) and, through various mechanisms, implementing and preserving their long-range order formation.

During the Yuan dynasty, Halal methods of slaughtering animals and preparing food was banned and forbidden by the Mongol Emperors, starting with Genghis Khan who banned Muslims and Jews from slaughtering their animals their own way, and making them follow the Mongol method.

The Whittier Narrows earthquake of 1987 showed the need for preparing citizens to take care of themselves and their loved ones after a disaster.

By the 12th to 13th centuries A. D., monks were preparing illuminated manuscripts on vellum and parchment in monasteries throughout Europe and were using lead styli to draw lines for their writings and for the outlines for their illuminations.

Most in the crowd believed they knew what would follow ; Constantine and Maxentius, the only adult sons of a reigning Emperor, men who had long been preparing to succeed their fathers, would be granted the title of Caesar.

This energised the crofters and separated them from the landlords, preparing them for their successful and violent challenge to the landlords in the 1880s through the Highland Land League.

After their first few encounters, she found that she enjoyed his company and spent the next few years getting to know him and preparing herself to be the Marchesa of Mantua.

Kola nuts ( genus Cola ) are notable for their high content of caffeine, and in past were commonly used for preparing of various cola drinks.

The Minotaur ( infamia di Creti, " infamy of Crete "), appears briefly in Dante's Inferno, in Canto 12 ( l. 12-13, 16-21 ), where Dante and Virgil find themselves picking their way among boulders dislodged on the slope, and preparing to enter into the Seventh Circle.

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German propaganda claimed the Red Army was preparing to attack them, and their own invasion was thus presented as pre-emptive.

With winter approaching, the Athenians were then forced to withdraw into their quarters, and they spent the winter gathering allies and preparing to destroy Syracuse.

In 218 BC, the Carthaginian navy was busy scouting the Sicilian waters and preparing for a surprise attack on their former key stronghold Lilybaeum on the western tip of the island.

And with over 40 distinct ethnic groups with each their own culture and even more languages, it doesn't come as a surprise that Thai cuisine, as a whole, is extremely varied and features many different ingredients and ways of preparing food.

While the family is preparing for the wedding of their eldest daughter, Denise, they are forced to prepare for the impending attack by converting their basement into a makeshift fallout shelter.

The Becketts hurry to their basement while the Kemps ( Jimmy's parents ) desperately rush to finish a shelter they were preparing out of mattresses, bags and doors.

Many artisan bakers produce their own yeast by preparing a growth culture that they then use in the making of bread.

The story opens with Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies, where the protagonists Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley have just completed their studies and are preparing to depart for Amelia's house in Russell Square.

While Belarus National Republic faced off with Litbel, foreign powers were preparing to reclaim what they saw as their territories: Polish forces were moving from the West, and Russians from the East.

This heightened media environment was important in preparing Estonians for their vanguard role in extending perestroika during the Gorbachev era.

In the final season of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1995 – 1996, Ali began preparing herself for her musical debut.

When Mischa Elman was preparing for his London debut, Auer traveled there to coach him.

[...] As a debut effort, though, Garlands makes its own curious mark, preparing the band for greater heights.

He was signed to Warner Music at the age of 16 and spent the next couple of years preparing his debut record.

He started as a rock singer and classical opera singer and is now preparing to launch his debut CD, " Jamal al-Roh " ( Beauty of the Soul ).

However, B & M was busy creating two stand-up coasters for Paramount Parks ( one at California's Great America and the other at Carowinds ) and preparing to debut its first inverted coaster, Batman: The Ride at Six Flags Great America.

After many problems acquiring equipment and preparing cars, the team made its Sprint Cup debut at Martinsville.

With the quintet re-formed as a sextet, Davis recorded Milestones, an album anticipating the new directions he was preparing to give to his music.

The band is preparing for an album release in October 2007 after the release of the EP Humanity.

She is currently preparing to release her second album, which she describes as " an independent effort ".

However, Erasure for the past two years have been writing and preparing work on their next album of original material, and have finally announced that they will be beginning recording and production in December 2010.

" Moore recorded three solo singles ( none of which charted ) for Atlantic over the next year and was preparing an album produced by King Curtis, which was shelved after Curtis was stabbed to death in 1971.

After the release of the last album, which was not strongly marketed by his company, even though appraised by the critics, Reiser was preparing new songs which he would have produced independently again, the completion of which was interrupted by his sudden and unexpected death.

As of February 2011, the band was preparing the release of a new album titled Rock & Roll Submarine, their first new material in sixteen years.

Prior to the release of their second album, a DVD titled Playin ' Around was released and featured several Play music videos, special " Making of " segments, footage from a live concert, and clips of the members from Play recording and preparing for their second album.

While preparing the show, Steinman and Meat Loaf, who were touring with the National Lampoon show, felt that three songs were " exceptional " and Steinman began to develop them as part of a seven-song set they wanted to record as an album.

The band is preparing to record a new album with this line-up, as well as release 3 new completed songs via a Century Media promo.

Lloyd ’ s album The Singing Sailor ( 1955 ) with Ewan MacColl was an early milestone, which made an impression on Stan Hugill when he was preparing his 1961 collection, particularly as the performance style it embodied was considered more appropriate than that of earlier commercial recordings.

After being dropped by Arista less than a month after the release of My So-Called Life, they went to work preparing for their third album.

Bilocate added a new drummer, Ahmad Kloob, in late 2006, and started preparing for a new album.

During 2008, Fabian was in Belgium preparing to record a French album with pianist Mark Herskowitz, who had composed and arranged the hidden instrumental track featured on the 2001 album Nue.

As Prism was preparing to record their follow up album, some changes happened to the lineup that would remain fixed for the next three years.

As the band was preparing to record their next album in the summer of 1981, Tabak was fired.

Whilst preparing the new album for release, Island made Volume 1 available worldwide for the first time in June 2002, distributed through Mercury Records.

In 2010, Tony was signed to Jive Records and is preparing his first full length album with productions from Swizz Beatz and T-Pain.

By the time the record reached # 1 on the US pop charts in April 1971, Kendricks had signed a solo deal with Motown's Tamla imprint and was preparing the release of his first solo album, All By Myself.

In September 2003 Shawn Lane was preparing for a new album with Hellborg and Ginger Baker.

In 1995, the band signed up to No Fashion Records and started preparing songs for a full-length album.

The fledgling trio also came to the attention of 1960s folk singer Barry McGuire, who had recently become a Christian and was preparing to record his first Christian music album, produced by Buck Herring.