One evening he passed around the banquet table a crystal cup full of diamonds, requesting every female guest to select one as a souvenir.

One of the most beautiful buildings in Istanbul, it was constructed in the early years of the Seventeenth Century, with a huge central dome, two half domes that seem to cascade down from it, and smaller full domes around the gallery.

One simple method of measuring the expansion of the heart is to tie a thin rubber tube, filled with mercury, around the heart and record the change in resistance as the tube is stretched.

One fin is located every 120-degrees around the inside diameter of the wheel.

One of the hardest chores a detective has is hanging around on a city street, trying to make himself inconspicuous, keeping an eye on the entrance of an office building and waiting.

`` One of them banged the sash of the window nearest my bed around midnight in July and I leaped out of sleep and out of bed.

One is on Medny Island ( Commander Islands, Russia ), which was reduced by some 85 – 90 %, to around 90 animals, as a result of mange caused by an ear tick introduced by dogs in the 1970s.

One of the first international anti-globalization protests was organized in dozens of cities around the world on June 18, 1999, with those in London and Eugene, Oregon most often noted.

One of the earliest evidence of Hindu influence in Southeast Asia were stone pillars which bear inscriptions in the Pallava script found in Kutai along the Mahakam River in East Kalimantan, dating to around the second half of the 300s AD.

Tauranac, an engineer at heart, started to feel his Formula One budget of around £ 100, 000 was a gamble he could not afford to take on his own and began to look around for an experienced business partner.

One tradition tells of snakes coiling around their legs then turning into stone ; another that Hades feigned hospitality and prepared a feast inviting them to sit.

One way around this was to use a ' hybrid system ', most notably the Roland MC-8 Microcomposer, where a microprocessor-based system controls an analog synthesizer, released in 1978.

One shows Babylon on the Euphrates, surrounded by a circular landmass showing Assyria, Urartu and several cities, in turn surrounded by a " bitter river " ( Oceanus ), with seven islands arranged around it.

One account claims that the drink ( Spanish for Free Cuba ) was invented in Havana, Cuba around 1901 / 1902.

One is worn on a long chain around the neck ; the second on a much smaller chain attached to the first chain.

One scholar wrote about the detective novels of Tony Hillerman, set among the Native American population around New Mexico, " many American readers have probably gotten more insight into traditional Navajo culture from his detective stories than from any other recent books.

One can find technologically advanced designs such as folding knives rusted among the artifacts of many Second Iberian Iron Age cremation burials or in Roman Empire excavations all around Spain and the Mediterranean.

One would have been forced to hard boil the eggs that the chickens produced so as not to waste food, and for this reason the Spanish dish hornazo ( traditionally eaten on and around Easter ) contains hard-boiled eggs as a primary ingredient.

One way around this conclusion would be if time itself was altered — if clocks at different points had different rates.

One form of tagging known as " pissing " is the act of taking a refillable fire extinguisher and replacing the contents inside with paint, allowing for tags as high as around 20 feet.

One early example includes the anarcho-punk band Crass, who conducted a campaign of stenciling anti-war, anarchist, feminist and anti-consumerist messages around the London Underground system during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

One early Quaker convert, the Yorkshireman James Nayler, arose as a prominent preacher in London around 1655.

* One school, grouped around Jeremy Bentham, defends a quantitative approach.

One of the major states to emerge from the Mfecane was the Sotho Kingdom founded at Thaba Bosiu by Moshoeshoe I around 1821 to 1822.

One radio station, WZGX ( 1450 AM ), operates within the city ; it broadcasts Spanish language programming and music aimed at the growing Mexican population of Jefferson County, but continues a tradition established by previous owners of broadcasting high school football games on Friday nights ( in English ).

Gregory was a former co-host with radio personality Cathy Hughes, and is still a frequent morning guest, on WOL 1450 AM talk radio's " The Power ", the flagship station of Hughes ' Radio One.

One of the earliest civilizations to appear around Greece was the Minoan civilization in Crete, which lasted from about 2700 ( Early Minoan ) BC to 1450 BC, and the Early Helladic period on the Greek mainland from ca.

One of Chalkokondyles ' Italian pupils described his lectures at Perugia in 1450 and wrote:

One of Fouquet's most important paintings is " Melun Diptych " ( c. 1450 ), formerly in Melun cathedral.

One wrote: `` ( I am so hungry ) I could eat a rider off his horse & snap at the stirups ''.

One Federal soldier wrote: `` the docters is no aconte -- hell will be filde with do(c)ters and offersey when this war is over ''.

One way to explain much of the confusion concerning Ammonius is to assume that there were two people called Ammonius: Ammonius Saccas who taught Plotinus, and an Ammonius the Christian who wrote biblical texts.

One particular contribution towards formalizing these differences came from Noah Webster, who wrote the first American dictionary ( published 1828 ) with the intention of showing that people in the United States spoke a different dialect from Britain, much like a regional accent.

To promote the fellowship, Wilson and other members wrote the initially-titled book, Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism, from which AA drew its name.

One of the cookbooks that proliferated in the colonies was The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy written by Hannah Glasse, wrote of disdain for the French style of cookery, stating “ the blind folly of this age that would rather be imposed on by a French booby, than give encouragement to a good English cook !” Of the French recipes, she does add to the text she speaks out flagrantly against the dishes as she “… think it an odd jumble of trash .” Reinforcing the anti-French sentiment was the French and Indian War from 1754-1764.

One early example is that of Leonor López de Córdoba ( 1362 – 1420 ) who wrote what is supposed to be the first autobiography in Spanish.

" One of the few strips ever taken seriously by students of American culture ," wrote Professor Berger, " Li ' l Abner is worth studying ... because of Capp's imagination and artistry, and because of the strip's very obvious social relevance.

The Count of Mérode-Westerloo, commander of the Flemish troops in Tallard's army wrote – " One thing is certain: we delayed our march from Alsace for far too long and quite inexplicably.

One account suggests that his writings are a prophecy written in about 615 BC, just before the downfall of Assyria, while another account suggests that he wrote this passage as liturgy just after its downfall in 612 BC.

One account suggests that his writings are a prophecy written in about 615 BC, just before the downfall of Assyria, while another account suggests that he wrote this passage as liturgy just after its downfall in 612 BC.

One of the senior Polish commanders on the day, Duke Bogusław Radziwiłł, wrote that the Polish army had had 80, 000 soldiers.

One journalist wrote: " Nobody in the world but Charlie Chaplin could have done it.

One young Belgian officer wrote home: " Happily Gongo's men ate them up a few hours.

One explanation for the origin of obligatory celibacy is that it is based on Christ's example and on the writings of Paul, who wrote of the advantages celibacy allowed a man in serving the Lord, Celibacy was popularized by the early Christian theologian Origen and Augustine.

One such person wrote, " This is horrible.

Making a comparison to the Sun's planets, he wrote " And if the fixed stars are the centers of similar systems, they will all be constructed according to a similar design and subject to the dominion of One.

In " The Meaning of Relativity ," Einstein wrote, " One can give good reasons why reality cannot at all be represented by a continuous field.

One possible construction of the " internal evidence " states that the Beloved Disciple wrote an account of the life of Jesus.

One of his teachers wrote on his report card that he " concentrates too much on football " and that he would " never make a living at that ".

Sidney Parker is a British egoist individualist anarchist who wrote articles and edited anarchist journals from 1963 to 1993 such as Minus One, Egoist, and Ego.

One of the most widespread is the international organization Theatresports, which was founded by Keith Johnstone, an English director who wrote what many consider to be the seminal work on the relationship between status, story telling and improvisational acting, Impro.

One opponent wrote: " I am surprised that one would go looking for a Chinese architect in America to deal with the historic heart of the capital of France.

One ought always to be a soldier ,' wrote Michael-Goebbels.