Osterman became secretary to Vice-Admiral Cornelis Kruse, who had a standing commission from Peter the Great to pick up promising young men, and soon thereafter entered the tsar's service.

It now became evident to La Chetardie that only a revolution would overthrow Osterman, and this he proposed to promote by elevating to the throne the tsesarevna Elizabeth, who hated the vice-chancellor because, though he owed everything to her father, he had systematically neglected her.

Still more energetic on the other side, the Russian minister, Andrei Osterman, became the treasurer as well as the counsellor of the Caps, and scattered the largesse of the Russian empress with a lavish hand ; and so lost to all feeling of patriotism were the Caps that they openly threatened all who ventured to vote against them with the Muscovite vengeance, and fixed Norrköping, instead of Stockholm, as the place of meeting for the Riksdag as being more accessible to the Russian fleet.

Intent on maintaining his power, Menshikov took the young boy under his wing, banishing his competitors including both Petar Zaitsev and Emil Vasilcin whom where related to Peter I to Siberia and, ultimately, betrothing Peter II to his daughter Maria Menshikova However, when Menshikov fell ill and had to leave court, Andrei Osterman and Alexis Dolgoruky ingratiated themselves into the young emperor ’ s graces, replacing Menshikov as Peter II ’ s premier advisers Both were nobles and members of the Supreme Privy Council and eventually had Menshikov tried and banished to Siberia on “ a charge of ‘ tyranny ’” Peter became, once again, engaged to a daughter of one of the Supreme Privy Council ’ s members ( this time it was Dolgoruky ’ s daughter, Catherine ) However, before the wedding took place, Peter died of smallpox before naming a successor, throwing the empire into another succession struggle.

On March 25, Osterman became the sixth NCAA Division I pitcher to strikeout 1, 300 batters.

Osterman was therefore the first and the most illustrious victim of the coup d ' état of December 6, 1741.

Mary Ann Smith is a former alderman of the 48th ward of the City of Chicago ; she was appointed in 1989 by Mayor Richard M. Daley to replace Kathy Osterman ; she was first elected in 1991.

Under Anna, he was a member of the first cabinet formed in Russia, but had less influence in affairs than Osterman and Munnich.

On February 15, 2006, Osterman was the first overall pick in the National Pro Fastpitch ( NPF ) softball league draft.

On August 18, Osterman pitched the first three innings of a five-inning 9-0 win over China, giving up a hit, a walk, and hitting a batter, while striking out three.

On August 20, Osterman earned a save — her first for Team USA since the Athens Olympics — in a nine-inning 4-1 win over Japan.

On August 21, Osterman pitched the first five innings of a 3-1 loss to Japan in the Gold Medal Match, ending Team USA's winning streak at 22 consecutive games and clinching the silver medal of the 2008 Summer Games.

Osterman gave up two runs on three hits while striking out nine batters ; the runs and the loss were the first in her Olympic career.

Osterman threw four more no-hitters, including another perfect game — on February 12, March 1, and March 20 — while setting new UT career records for wins ( 68 ), shutouts ( 35 ), strikeouts ( 1, 042 ), and opponents-batting-average (. 105 ).

Osterman redshirted from UT to participate with fellow college softball pitcher Jennie Finch in the Olympic Games in Athens.

The competence and professionalism he displayed made it at least possible for him to be considered as director of The Osterman Weekend.

Osterman was named the 2005 Sportswoman of the Year ( in the team category ) by the Women's Sports Foundation.

* 2009 – Dale Swenson, Kansas State Representative from Wichita switched January 12, 2009 moments after being sworn into office as Republican for eighth term In 2010, Swenson's Democratic opponent in 2008, Leslie Osterman, switched to Republican and defeated Swenson.

On July 11, Osterman threw a no-hitter in the 2003 Canada Cup, striking out 10 batters to defeat Team Canada 8-0 ; on July 12, Osterman pitched her second no-hitter of the 2003 Canada Cup, striking out 16 of 24 batters to defeat the Stratford Brakettes 5-0.

Osterman threw six more no-hitters including three more perfect games on February 16 ( perfect ), March 9 ( perfect ), March 11, May 12, May 20 and May 21 ( perfect ); she also struck out 20-or-more batters in four separate games on March 17 ( 23 in ten innings ), March 19 ( 21 in eight innings ), April 26 ( 24 in ten innings matching her career-high ), and May 27 ( 20 in nine innings ) in the process of leading the Longhorns to a third-place finish in the NCAA Softball World Series ( they lost to the UCLA Bruins, who in turn lost to the Michigan Wolverines ).

On June 12, Osterman picked up the win in Team USA's Gold-Medal 9-0 victory over Australia in the 2005 International Sports Invitational ; she gave up one hit and struck out ten batters over five innings.

He received accolades for his portrayal of Sydney Carton in a made for television version of A Tale of Two Cities ( 1980 ), co-starred with Dennis Hopper in The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ), which was based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name, and co-starred with Goldie Hawn in Protocol ( 1984 ).

He subsequently appeared in Rumble Fish ( 1983 ) and The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ), and received critical recognition for his work in Blue Velvet and Hoosiers, with the latter film garnering him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

His film credits include Flesh + Blood, Blind Fury, Blade Runner, The Hitcher, Nighthawks, Wedlock, Sin City, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Ladyhawke, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Osterman Weekend, The Blood of Heroes, Batman Begins, Hobo with a Shotgun, The Rite and he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for Escape from Sobibor.

In 1721 Osterman concluded the Peace of Nystad with Sweden, and was created a baron for his services.

Both Johan Karlsson and Kristoffer Osterman have expressed their love for role-playing games, especially Ars Magica and roguelikes.

These " Six Supreme dignataries " constituting the initial Supreme Privy Council, namely Alexander Menshikov, Fyodor Apraksin, Gavrila Golovkin, Andrey Osterman, Peter Tolstoy, and Dmitry Galitzine brought about the recognition of Russian Empress Anna Ivanovna for the succession of unfortunate young Tsar-Boy Peter II deceased in 1730 aged 15 and 3 years only as a Tsar, apparently dead from small-pox provided Anna agreed about the Counselling Powers of this so called Supreme Privy Council.

On March 9, Osterman struck out her 1, 200th batter to tie Lisa Ishikawa of Northwestern University for 10th place on the NCAA all-time strikeout list ; on March 11, she moved past Ishikawa and passed Jocelyn Forest of the University of California, Berkeley to take ninth place.

Osterman pitched five more no-hitters, including three more perfect games, in her 2006 season on February 10 ( perfect ), February 11, February 17 ( perfect ), March 8 ( perfect ) and April 15 ; she also struck out 20 batters in a seven-inning 5-1 win over the University of Texas at San Antonio on February 21, second most in NCAA history and her career best at Texas for a regulation game.

In 2007, Osterman appeared sparingly on ESPNU broadcasts as a color commentator for certain college softball games, including the game in which Monica Abbott surpassed Osterman's career strikeout record.

However, even though Osterman had been on their amateur roster for the five seasons prior to being drafted, she chose not to sign with them, making her officially a free agent on 30 September.

On 19 December 2006, the Rockford Thunder of the NPF announced that they signed Osterman to a contract for the 2007 season.

Osterman continued to pitch for USA Softball Women's National team in 2007.

Osterman struck out eight batters and allowed one hit, enabling the line-up to mount a comeback for an 8-1 win, Team's USA's 18th consecutive victory and Osterman's second of the 2008 Games.

Megan " Meg " Foster ( born May 10, 1948 ) is an American actress best known for her roles in the TV miniseries version of The Scarlet Letter, Ticket to Heaven, The Osterman Weekend, and They Live ( 1988 ).

He married Margaret R. Howell, May 30, 1930 ; children: James Newcomb, Carol, Marian ; married Mary Barnett Garfield, January 16, 1955 ; children: Sarah Newcomb, Emily Baldwin ; and married Barbara Floyd Osterman, February 8, 1986.

On February 25, Cat Osterman struck out six Fresno State batters in a 7-2 win and then proceeded to strike out seven batters in a 4-0 victory over the University of Nevada Lady Rebels, bringing her career strikeout total to 1, 774 to surpass Courtney Blades as the all-time NCAA Division I leader.

Though Bering seems to have been primarily interested in landing in North America, his recognised the importance of secondary objectives: the list of which expanded rapidly under the guidance of planners Nikolai Fedorovich Golovin ( head of the Admiralty ); Ivan Kirilov, a highly-ranked politician with an interest in geography, and Andrey Osterman, a close adviser of the new Empress, Anna Ivanovna.

The dispositions previously made by Osterman enabled him, however, to counter the blow, and all danger from Sweden was over when, early in September, Field-Marshal Lacy routed the Swedish general von Wrangel under the walls of the frontier-fortress of Lappeenranta, which was carried by assault.

At age 16, he was watching vaudeville, of which he had been a fan since the age of 10, and he witnessed Jack Osterman singing a song he, Sammy, had written.

Left to right: Dr. Thompson's Drugstore, Osterman and Elder Hardware Store which also housed the Post Office, M. J. Heney Grocery Store with a social hall above.

Tanner tells him that he knows that Osterman and his friends are Soviet agents, which Osterman dismisses as being ridiculous.

Catherine Leigh " Cat " Osterman ( born April 16, 1983 ), is an American athlete and was one of the pitchers on the USA Women's Softball Team which won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the silver medal in the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Nuveman-Deniz calls as good a game as any, scouting the opposing teams batters and working with her pitchers, a list which list includes Lisa Fernandez, Michele Smith, Lori Harrigan, Christa Williams, Cat Osterman, Jennie Finch, Amanda Freed, Monica Abbott, Keira Goerl and Courtney Dale.