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On board was the botanist Philibert Commerçon, who named the flower Bougainvillea, and his valet, later unmasked by the ship's surgeon as Jeanne Baré, possibly Commerçon's mistress ; she would become the first woman known to circumnavigate the globe.
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On April 1, 1953, after some six months of full-time `` pioneering '', petitioner discontinued devoting 100 hours a month to preaching, but failed to so notify his local board.
On ‑ board communications are provided by public address systems and aircraft intercoms.
On June 3, 1864 Abersychan was constituted a local government district, governed by a local board.
On September 11, 2001, Nami arrived in Newark to board United Airlines Flight 93 along with Saeed al-Ghamdi, Ahmed al-Haznawi and Ziad Jarrah.
On September 11, 2001, Haznawi arrived at Newark International Airport to board Flight 93.
On April 22 of that year, the HMS Seahorse arrived from the West Indies carrying smallpox on board.
On April 17, 1999, just nine days after Compaq reported first-quarter profit being at half of what analysts had expected, the latest in a string of earnings disappointments, Pfeiffer was forced to resign as CEO in a coup led by board chairman Ben Rosen.
On 17 April he set sail with Diogo Pereira, leaving Goa on board the Santa Cruz for China.
On August 12, 2010 GM announced that Whitacre would relinquish the CEO position effective September 1, 2010 and that of Chairman of the Board at the end of the year, to be replaced in those functions by current board member Dan Akerson.
On 26 January 2006, HBC's board unanimously agreed to a bid of $ 15. 25 CAD / share from Jerry Zucker whose original bid was $ 14. 75 CAD / share, ending a prolonged fight between HBC and Zucker.
On board was the manager, three or four " pilgrims " and about twenty " cannibals " that were enlisted to crew the steamer.
On March 18, 2002, publicly elected At-Large Representative for North America board member Karl Auerbach sued ICANN in Superior Court in California to gain access to ICANN's accounting records without restriction.
On the Fourth of July, he delivered an anti-secessionist speech on board a ship near Boston.
On the insistence of senior officers, led by Rear Admiral Alan Gardner, in 1794 lemon juice was issued on board the Suffolk on a twenty-three week, non-stop voyage to India.
On arrival in Britain the passengers and mail were unloaded in Plymouth, but the Koh-i-noor stayed on board until the ship reached Portsmouth, from where Lawrence and Mansel took the diamond to the East India House in the City of London and passed it into the care of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the EIC.
On 19 May 2011, Cannes Film Festival's board of directors declared von Trier persona non grata for comments he made during a press conference for his film Melancholia the day before, an unprecedented move for the film festival.
On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
On Ensoniq sound boards, the controller provided several advantages compared to competitors without a CPU on board.
" On 10 February 1954 in Meherastana U. P., India, Meher Baba publicly and explicitly declared his Avatarhood for the first time, spelling out on his alphabet board " Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai.
On September 11, Hazmi board American Airlines Flight 77.
On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
On the same board, the hand 5 ♣ < font color = red > 5 ♦</ font > would be the second-nut hand, four of a kind fives ; the third-nut hand would be any pair of the remaining three aces, making a full house, aces full of fives.
* On 27 December 1831, set off from anchorage in the Barn Pool, under Mount Edgecumbe on the west side of Plymouth Sound, on her second survey voyage, captained by Robert FitzRoy with Charles Darwin on board.
According to Christian Wolmar, author of On the Wrong Line, the Railtrack board panicked in the wake of Hatfield.
On 13 September 2006, he also joined the board of directors of United Technologies Corporation.
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On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.
On the truck bed there was nothing smaller than a piece of rusty machinery ; ;
On his father's side he was of German descent, on his mother's he came of the old Swedish nobility.
On January 24 Paul Bang-Jensen, accompanied by Adolf Berle, was met by Dragoslav Protitch and Colonel Frank Begley, former Police Chief of Farmington, Conn., and now head of U.N. special police.
On the other hand, Molesworth was naturally assailed in the Tory press.
On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.
On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.
On the surface, the whole question was purely feudal.
On the basis of the long chronicle of military history Funston and his brethren assumed that the issue was insoluble and that anyone interested in a mission like Fosdick's was an impractical idealist or a do-gooder.
On matters of race he was similarly inflexible: `` Most of the modern Latin races seem to have inherited the rigidity of the Roman mind ''.
On January 4, with the boys back at school and college, Mrs. Lewis wrote Harcourt to say that she was `` through, quite through ''.
On the evening that they were to sail, Lewis himself gave a party, but he was too indisposed to appear at it.
On his desk was a slowly accumulating treatment and script of The Count Of Monte Cristo.
`` On trial in Jakarta for having flown for the Indonesian anti-Communist insurgents, U.S. pilot Alan Lawrence Pope boldly told the court that in supporting the freedom fighters, he was actually defending the sovereignty and independence of Indonesia.
On the other side of the church was a quiet, well-kept house with shutters and recently painted.
On these excursions, Papa instructed him on man's chief end, which was his duty to God and his own salvation.
On the contrary, he was pleased that his face showed a neglect of several days.
On this point there was fairly general agreement that assessors would like to do more than they are doing now.
On April 25, the White House reported that a total embargo of remaining U.S. trade with Cuba was being considered.
On November 13, 1952, he was classified in Class 1-a.
On May 11,330, A.D.,, its name was changed again, this time to Constantinople after its emperor, Constantine.
On November 26 of that year the bridge was completed and opened.
On the other hand, a similar attack might have been made on City B whose population was known to be lousy.
On Feb. 12, 1959, purified corticotropin ( ACTH Gel ), 20 units daily intramuscularly, was started but had to be discontinued 3 weeks later because of excessive fluid retention.
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