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His mother had previously been married to Ataulf of the Visigoths, and had borne a son, Theodosius, in Barcelona in 414 ; but the child had died early in the following year, thus eliminating an opportunity for a Romano-Visigothic line.
During his four year reign Majorian reconquered most of Hispania and southern Gaul, meanwhile reducing the Visigoths, Burgundians and Suevi to federate status.
With the death of Ataulf and his successor Segeric, that same year Constantius signed a treaty with the new Visigothic king Wallia: in exchange of 600, 000 bushels of wheat and the territory of the region of Aquitaine, from the Pyrenees to the Garonne, the Visigoths pledged to fight on behalf of the Romans, as allies official or vassal state of the Empire ( foederati ), the Vandals, Alans and Suebi who in 407 had crossed the Rhine River and were stationed in the provinces of Hispania.
In 439 he became Praetorian prefect of Gaul ; in that same year he renewed the friendship treaty with the Visigoths.
In 451 AD, Attila the Hun was defeated only with help of the foederati ( who included the Visigoths and Alans ), and the foederati would deliver the fatal blow to the dying nominal Western Roman Empire in 476 AD, when their commander Odoacer deposed the usurper Western Emperor, Romulus Augustulus, and sent the imperial insignia back to Constantinople with the Senate's request that the 81 year old West / East sub-division of the empire be abolished.
She had an older, maternal half-brother by the first marriage of Placidia to king Ataulf of the Visigoths, Theodosius, who was born in 414 but died early in the following year.
In the year 470, the Western Emperor Anthemius began a campaign against Euric, king of the Visigoths who were campaigning outside their territory in Gaul.
A first destruction of the city in the year 410 by the Visigoths under Alaric I is testified.
In that same year, King Reccared I of the Visigoths sent embassies to both Childebert and Guntram, the former accepting them and consolidating an alliance and the latter refusing to see them for some reason or another.
During the siege of Rome by the Visigoths the following year, Serena was falsely accused of conspiring with the Goths, and was executed with Galla Placidia's consent.

year and most
After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.
1960 promises to be the most prosperous year in our history.
Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.
Like most Democratic spokesmen, Carvey predicts 1962 will be a tremendously `` partisan year ''.
All this was unknown to me, and yet I had dared to ask her out for the most important night of the year!!
As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.
April 15 is usually the final date for filing income tax returns for most people because they use the calendar year ending on December 31.
While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.
One year I simply set the plants in the remains of a compost pile, to which a little sand had been added, and I had the most beautiful pansies in my, or any of my neighbors' experience.
Inspect the site in the field during the time of the year when the area will be most heavily used for recreation.
It is true that most architectural schools have five year courses, some even have six or more.
One or two of the schools have a five year curriculum, but the usual pattern of American education has limited most of them to the four-year plan which seems to be the minimum in acceptable institutions.
In most places, there are two generations a year, a second brood of adults appearing late in the summer.
Aside from the fact that business was slow this time of year and his one salesgirl was not the most enterprising, Mr. Phillips had no worries at all, and he said as much to Gun Matson, who sat across from him in civilian clothes, on a Jiffy-Couch-a-Bed, mauve velour, $79.89 nothing-down special!!
The year will probably start out with segregation still the most troublesome issue.
Any adjustments which are made, Mr. Grenier said earlier this month, will appear on the balance of the tax bill since most of the town's taxpayers take the option of paying quarterly with the balance due next year.
The most famous work of Algerian cinema is probably that of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Chronicle of the Years of Fire, which won the palme d ' Or at the Cannes film festival in the year 1975.
Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states, " A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragoust.
For most of the year, aardwolves spend time in shared territories consisting of up to a dozen dens, which are occupied for six weeks at a time.
Among the people of the Arctic the Norwegians have the easiest climate, with most ports in North Norway remaining ice-free all the year as a result of the Gulf Stream.
Many desert annuals are therophytes, because their seed-to-seed life cycle is only weeks and they spend most of the year as seeds to survive dry conditions.
Lists of these " year names " henceforth became a calendrical system used in most independent Mesopotamian city-states.
In the twentieth year of the Buddha's ministry, he became the Buddha's personal attendant, accompanying him on most of his wanderings and taking the part of interlocutor in many of the recorded dialogues.
All land in the ACT is held on 99 year leases from the national government, although most leases are now administered by the Territory government.
And in the year 2010, Forbes listed Ann Arbor as one of the most liveable cities in the United States of America.

year and famous
Between that year and the buying out of Mr. Darling's interest in 1892, a large portion of the company's precision tool business was carried out under the name of Darling, Brown & Sharpe, and to this day many old precision tools are in use still bearing that famous trademark.
In the South of the city you can find Aachen's biggest tennis club " TC Grün Weiss ", which hosts the famous ATP Tournament once a year.
Algardi died in Rome within a year of completing his famous relief, which was admired by contemporaries.
Construction on what would in time become the world famous Great Mosque of Córdoba was started circa the year 786.
Managed by Harry Wright, Cincinnati adopted a uniform with white knickers and red stockings, and earned the famous nickname, a year or two before hiring the first fully professional team in 1869.
Later that year, Bartholomew County was organized by an act of the State Legislature and named to honor the famous Hoosier militiaman, General Joseph Bartholomew.
The most famous of these sites is La Hougue Bie, a 6, 000 year old neolithic site that sits inside a large mound ; later a chapel was built on the top of the mound.
Edward Bellamy ( March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898 ) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winkle-like tale set in the distant future of the year 2000.
Euripides first competed in the City Dionysia, the famous Athenian dramatic festival, in 455 BC, one year after the death of Aeschylus, and it was not until 441 BC that he won a first prize.
Another milestone came a decade later in 1915, when Wacław Sierpiński constructed his famous triangle then, one year later, his carpet.
Parachutes were well-developed by 1918 having previously been used by balloonists, and were adopted by the German flying services during the course of that year ( the famous " Red Baron " was wearing one when he was killed ), but the allied command continued to oppose their use on various grounds.
In 1988, Enzo Ferrari oversaw the launch of the Ferrari F40, the last new Ferrari to be launched before his death later that year, and arguably one of the most famous supercars ever made.
* Canon 21, the famous " Omnis utriusque sexus ", which commands every Christian who has reached the years of discretion to confess all his, or her, sins at least once a year to his, or her, own ( i. e. parish ) priest.
That same year, Hackman appeared in what became one of his most famous comedic roles as the blind hermit in Young Frankenstein.
In 1928, Charles Lindbergh was the world's most famous person and Wings was one of the most popular films of the year.
Historians agree that Hippocrates was born around the year 460 BC on the Greek island of Kos ( Cos ), and became a famous ambassador for medicine against the strong opposing infrastructure of Greece.
His most famous blunder occurred when he altered 12 year old student William Figueroa's correct spelling of " potato " to " potatoe " at the Munoz Rivera Elementary School spelling bee in Trenton, New Jersey, on June 15, 1992.
He became captain of the side in 1960, and a year later led his team to a famous 9-3 victory over Scotland at Wembley, ( considered to be one of his finest performances ).
Muhammad Salih Tahtawi of Sindh headed the task of creating a massive, seamless celestial globe using a secret wax casting method in the Mughal Empire, the famous celestial globe of Muhammad Salih Tahtawi is inscribed with Arabic and Persian language | Persian inscriptions and was completed in the year 1631 during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir.
The same year, Brabham entered the famous Indianapolis 500 oval race for the first time in a modified version of the Formula One Cooper.
One of the most famous and complete hominid skeletons ever discovered was the 1. 6 million year old Homo erectus known as the Turkana Boy which was found by Kamoya Kimeu in 1984 on an excavation led by Richard Leakey.
A famous example of this situation was The Revd Sir Derek Pattinson, who was ordained just a year after he was appointed Knight Bachelor, apparently somewhat to the consternation of officials at Buckingham Palace.
The next year, Otomo began work on a manga which would become his most acclaimed and famous work: Akira.
In April 1937, he signed a long-term contract with Warner Bros., and the same year composed the famous fanfare which introduced pictures produced by the studio, although this is no longer in use ( curiously, this was never used for the studio's television productions ).

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