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seventeen and weeks
Anastasia was seventeen years, one month old at the time of the assassination, while her sister Maria was nineteen years, one month old and their brother Alexei was two weeks shy of his fourteenth birthday.
Anastasia was seventeen years and one month old at the time of the assassination, while her sister Maria was nineteen years, one month old and her brother Alexei was two weeks shy of his fourteenth birthday.
In 1851, there was at least one homicide a week for seventeen consecutive weeks.
At the age of seventeen, Henman toured South America for eight weeks.
The courses generally last from ten to seventeen weeks and include classroom instruction in military subjects, physical training, and leadership.
The pop hit " Near You " made in early 1947 was a monster, topping the charts for seventeen weeks and having a chart run of twenty-five weeks.
This record introduced their instrumental-unison vocal sound to a much wider audience, and the track stayed in the UK chart for seventeen weeks.
He toured widely throughout his life-in 1921 he gave seventeen concerts in Buenos Aires in less than three weeks.
The film was in wide release for seventeen weeks ( 115 days ), and was shown in 105 theaters.
Gaiman and McKean worked on the film concepts over the course of two weeks at Jim Henson's family's home, and actual production of the film took seventeen months.
It went to spent nine weeks in the ARIA Charts top ten, thirteen weeks in the top twenty and a total of seventeen weeks in the top fifty.
The song debuted at number fifty-four on the Swiss Singles Chart, but became successful there, peaking at number twenty-seven, and stayed in the charts for seventeen weeks in total.
The Battleground National Cemetery was established two weeks after the battle and is located nearby, at 6625 Georgia Avenue NW, containing the graves of forty Union soldiers killed in the battle ; seventeen Confederate soldiers are buried on the grounds of Grace Episcopal Church, slightly north of current downtown Silver Spring, Maryland at the intersection of Georgia Avenue and Grace Church Road.
The second novel, Death Sentence, states that Benjamin murdered seventeen people over five weeks.
Released in November 1984, the record reached number one in March 1985, taking seventeen weeks to get there.
After being taken from his home in Africa, Joe is an instant hit in the Hollywood nightclub " The Golden Safari " ( on opening night, he wins a tug-of-war with ten real-life strong men, including ex-boxer Primo Carnera, whom he throws into the audience ), but the novelty wears off and he is tired and homesick after seventeen weeks of performing.
In Australia, it debuted at number seventeen, peaking at number eight two weeks later.
Following the release of the remixes single on October 14, 1995, " My Prerogative " re-entered the UK charts at number seventeen, and stayed on the chart for two weeks.
after the siege had lasted for nearly seventeen weeks, on October 23 we decided, when all had returned to the camp, to enter the town at sword's point.
On the main album chart in the US, the Billboard 200, the album reached number fifty-seven on May 4, 2002, spending fourteen weeks on the chart and also managed to peak within the top 20 of the Top R & B / Hip-Hop Albums chart, at number seventeen, where the album spent twenty-four weeks.

seventeen and military
Sultan Ahmed III had become unpopular by reason of the excessive pomp and costly luxury in which he and his principal officers indulged ; on September 20, 1730, a mutinous riot of seventeen janissaries, led by the Albanian Patrona Halil, was aided by the citizens as well as the military until it swelled into an insurrection in front of which the Sultan was forced to give up the throne.
On May 25, 1997, a group of seventeen soldiers in the Sierra Leone army led by Corporal Tamba Gborie and loyal to the detained Major General Johnny Paul Koroma launched a military coup which sent President Kabbah into exile in Guinea and they established the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council ( AFRC ).
At seventeen, Gauguin signed on as a pilot's assistant in the merchant marine to fulfill his required military service.
For a time he could not make up his mind whether he wanted to be a naval officer or a priest, but at the age of seventeen, he decided on a military career and gained a commission as a second lieutenant in the French Army based at Navarre.
He is the author of seventeen books on military history and strategy, of which Command in War ( 1985 ), Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton ( 1977, 2nd edition 2004 ), The Transformation of War ( 1991 ), The Sword and the Olive ( 1998 ) and The Rise and Decline of the State ( 1999 ) are among the best known.
At seventeen, he volunteered for eight months of military service with the Austrian army.
This law required the government to clothe and equip Roman soldiers without deductions from their pay, shortened the term of military service, and forbade the draft of boys under the age of seventeen.
As a boy he was instructed in the military art by his father, an officer of the Corps de genie ( Engineer Corps ), and at the age of seventeen he entered the army, serving successively in the staff, the engineers and the prince de Lambesq's dragoons.
Raised as a Roman Catholic he was educated at the military College of Lyons, and at the age of seventeen he entered the body-guard of Louis XVI.
The 1912 law also obligated all white males between seventeen and sixty years of age to serve in the military, but this was not strictly enforced as there were a large number of volunteers.
Possessing the mind of a military strategist and the strength of a back-alley brawler, life in the ghetto hardened Gunn to the extent that his life became less important than the cause, resulting in him trading his soul for a truck in a deal with a demon named Jenoff when he was only seventeen, because he believed he had no future ( cf.
It said that some 2, 700 people were killed or disappeared by the military régime for seventeen years, from 1973 to 1990.
Johnston moved to Talladega, Alabama at the age of seventeen, and attended a military academy.
He began his artistic studies at age seventeen under the famous military painter Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier ; he had originally approached him to ask for an introduction to the renowned Alexandre Cabanel but Meissonier decided to teach Detaille himself.
There are seventeen exemptions, mostly for drivers qualified in the UK emergency services or military.
In February 2011, seventeen United States veterans filed suit against the Pentagon and defense secretary Robert Gates and former secretary Donald Rumsfield, alleging that they allowed a culture in the military where rape was unevenly reported and punished.
During a military operation against the New People's Army on February 10, 1987, seventeen civilians, including an elderly couple and several children, were killed in a cross fire between the NPA and the Alpha Company, 14th Infantry ( Avengers ) Battalion, of the Philippine Army.
Young Patterson joined the British Army at the age of seventeen, rose quickly through the ranks, and eventually attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Essex Yeomanry, retiring from the military in 1920.
Seventeen Paladins serve as public military council for the Exarch, Paladins answer directly to the Exarch himself and only him or her ; and addition to the seventeen Paladins the Gost Paladin a secretive position that entitles the operational control of the Republic of Sphere's Intelligence Service of the Republic branch.
Corporal Antonio Maria Lugo, after seventeen years of military service, received his discharge and was granted the Spanish concession Rancho San Antonio in 1810.

seventeen and front
The temple has seventeen Ionic columns on the long side, and six on the front.
At the time of the Marian Persecutions of 1555 – 1557, Lewes was the site of the execution of seventeen Protestant martyrs, who were burned at the stake in front of the Star Inn.
According to Wilson, Ballard's voice was so loud that she was made to stand up to seventeen feet away from her microphone during recording sessions, while the other two Supremes stood directly in front of their microphones.
They helped the formidable front four hold opposing teams without a 100-yard rusher for seventeen consecutive games in 1964 and 1965, and achieved American Football League championships in both those years.
He was a former front page feature writer for the Wall Street Journal producing front-page columns and articles about national and international topics ; he joined the Journal in 1971 and worked there for the next seventeen years.

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