On Crete, the local population, led by a young politician named Eleftherios Venizelos, declared Enosis, Union with Greece, provoking another crisis.

On the strength of a passage in The Illiad, it has been suggested that the palace was the site of a dancing-ground made for Ariadne by the craftsman Daedalus, where young men and women, of the age of those sent to Crete as prey for the Minotaur, would dance together.

On the other hand, Hansen notes that Polybius ' exposition of Crete supplied an extremely detailed account of ancient Crete.

On his arrival in Crete, Ariadne, King Minos ' daughter, fell in love with Theseus and, on the advice of Daedalus, gave him a ball of thread.

On November 11, 1858, he married Lucretia Rudolph, known as " Crete " to friends, and a former star Greek pupil of Garfield's.

On Thursday of the Fifth Week, the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete is chanted.

On the basis of the ceramic evidence and stratigraphy, Evans concluded that there was another civilization on Crete that had existed before those brought to light by the adventurer-archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann at Mycenae and Tiryns.

On the € 1 and € 2 coins, the island is shown to be directly east of mainland Greece ; on the 10 -, 20 -, and 50-cent coins, it appears directly below Crete.

On the other hand, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, many priests, monks and artists took refuge in Crete and reinforced the Byzantine religion and culture on the island.

On the island of Crete, the Jews historically played an important part in the transport trade.

On Minoan Crete, jasper was carved to produce seals circa 1800 BC, as evidenced by archaeological recoveries at the palace of Knossos.

On 30 April 1941, a New Zealand Army officer, Major-General Bernard Freyberg VC was appointed commander of the Allied forces on Crete.

On 25 April, Hitler signed Directive Number 28, ordering the invasion of Crete.

On April 23 the King and the government left the Greek mainland for Crete but after the German airborne attack on the island he was evacuated to Egypt.

On the pretext that Knossos was backing Mithradates, Marcus Antonius Creticus attacked Crete in 71 BC and was repelled.

On Crete they can be found in most mountainous areas, sometimes in groups of up to 20.

On 27 March, Vice-Admiral Pridham-Wippell — with the cruisers Ajax, Gloucester, Orion and Perth and a number of destroyers — sailed from Greek waters for a position south of Crete.

* Athanassios Athanassiou, On a Deinotherium ( Proboscidea ) finding in the Neogene of Crete: abstract

On September 22, 1659 during the war over Crete, the island was conquered by Venice and the castle was destroyed again, but the Ottomans were able to regain it again soon after.

On his way back to Tunis in 1518 he was captured by Spanish corsairs either near the island of Djerba or more probably near Crete.

" On 25 October JCS directed TG 20. 1, and escorts, to chop to ComSixthFleet as TG 60. 3 and proceed to join TG 60 south of Crete.

On 10 March 1905, the rebels gathered in Theriso and declared " the political union of Crete with Greece as a single free constitutional state "; the resolution was given to the Great Powers, where it was argued that the illegitimate provisional arrangement was preventing the island's economic growth and that the only logical solution to the " Cretan Question " was the unification with Greece.

On 1 October, in a regular session of the Parliament Venizelos announced the declaration of war to Turkey and accepting the Cretan deputies, thus closing the Cretan Question, with the declaration of the union of Crete with Greece.

On January 4, with the boys back at school and college, Mrs. Lewis wrote Harcourt to say that she was `` through, quite through ''.

On January 11 she paced a mile in 2:43.1--:38 ; ;

On this, she builds an `` egg compartment '' or `` egg cell '' which is filled with that famous pollen-and-nectar mixture called beebread.

On the anniversary of her father's death she poured out with agonized tears her feelings of guilt about not having attended his funeral.

On the other hand significant facts may be concealed -- she may mean I or everybody, as it did with the tense and irritable woman mentioned before, may refer to a specific person.

On May 11, she reached Iceland.

On the other side of the ledger is the fact that he did see his niece and the woman with whom she was staying.

On that first day, Blanche literally thought she was going to die, or, at the very least, go out of her mind.

On an impulse, she turned back and said good morning.

On the contrary, it would only weaken his position if he fumed, while she stayed calm and adamant.

On the other hand, if she didn't remove her own things, it would be difficult to explain to the parade of guests which traversed the apartment.

On August 16, 1837, Lincoln wrote Mary a letter suggesting he would not blame her if she ended the relationship.

On the pinnacle of that mountain, the words of the poem started to come to her, and she wrote them down upon returning to her hotel room at the original Antlers Hotel.

On a trip to the excavation site at Ur in 1930, she met her future husband, archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, a distinguished archaeologist, but her fame as an author far surpassed his fame in archaeology.

On the day that Agrippina married her uncle Claudius as her third husband / his fourth wife, she became an Empress and the most powerful woman in the Roman Empire.

On the other hand, she was inordinately jealous.

On the death of her father in 526, her son succeeded him, but she held the power as regent for her son.

On 23 January 1878 at the Basilica of Atocha in Madrid, Alfonso married his cousin, Princess Maria de las Mercedes, daughter of Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, but she died within six months of the marriage.

On her return to Haworth, she met William Weightman ( 1814 – 1842 ), her father's new curate, who started work in the parish in August 1839.

On her way to Burgundy to support her nephew Rudolf III against a rebellion, she died at Selz Abbey on December 16, 999, days short of the millennium she thought would bring the Second Coming of Christ.

On March 17, 1955, she married him at Quartzsite, Arizona, returning with Pole to live in California.

On 18 June 1959, she married actor Jacques Charrier, by whom she had her only child, a son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier ( born 11 January 1960 ).

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.