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Thanks and coal

Thanks to its many entrepreneurs and engineers, and its large stock of easily mined coal, Scotland became a world centre for engineering, shipbuilding, and locomotive construction, with steel replacing iron after 1870.

Thanks and French

Thanks to this rescue, the French Navy was able to reuse the sphere of the bathyscaphe to construct the FNRS-3.

Thanks to his intervention, Napoleon, with a letter delivered to Gasparre Monge, scientist and commissary of the French Government for Science and Art, promised to guarantee and protect the independence of the Republic offering to extend its territory according to its needs.

Thanks to his older brother, Napoleon, Louis was given a commission in the French Military, and was promoted to Lieutenant in the 4th Artillery Regiment, and from there he was made Aide de Camp on Napoleon's staff.

" Thanks to Molière ," Anouilh said, " the true French theatre is the only one that is not gloomy, in which we laugh like men at war with out misery and our horror.

Thanks to the Swedish collector Rolf de Maré, Hill ’ s work become known in connection with the French avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s.

Thanks to his natural caution and reserve, Condillac's relations with unorthodox philosophers did not injure his career ; and he justified abundantly the choice of the French court in sending him to Parma to educate the orphan duke, then a child of seven years.

Thanks to Engels ' assistance, he again contacted the French workers ' movement from London, after it had started to regain ground lost with the reactionary repression under Adolphe Thiers during the first years of the Third Republic.

Thanks to the large population of francophones, both the Conseil scolaire de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest ( the French public board ) and the Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud ( the French Catholic board ) operate elementary and secondary schools in Welland.

Thanks Gianni, With Love was put together by French choreographer Maurice Béjart, for whom Versace designed many stage costumes.

* The French King's Thanks and Advice, & c

Thanks to the war with Iraq, Americans have finally found an appropriate means of regarding the French — as the butt of a joke.

Thanks to her linguistic skills, McCorkle translated lyrics of Brazilian, French, and Italian songs, notably those for her Brazilian album Sabia.

Thanks to their impulse, LVMH became a major agent in French patronage.

Thanks to Momo's guiding hand, Faudel soon built up his own repertoire and began performing as a support act with a number of top French music stars ( including MC Solaar, Idir, Jimmy Oihid and Rai mega-star Khaled ).

Thanks to the patronage of the " parti colonial ", Henri Gouraud pursued a career across French Africa for the next fifteen years, with postings in Niger, Chad and Mauritania.

Thanks to the intercession of the French ambassador, in 1586 Jeremias obtained the freedom from the exile in Rhodes and started his travel through Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth ( which included also Ukraine ) and the Tsardom of Russia to raise founds.

Thanks to his good French and German, he was able to come and go easily passing for a citizen of either side and it was here that he began to acquire his taste for adventure and politics.

Thanks to the intervention of one of the foremost of the French generals, the Italian G. G. Trivulzio, who was his connection by marriage, he was allowed to ransom himself for 6, 000 ducats.

Thanks to this rescue, the French Navy could use the bathyscaphe's sphere in creating the FNRS III.

Thanks to his marriage to the daughter of a prosperous French bourgeois, her dowry provided the backing which allowed him to open his own workshop.

Thanks to his mastery of the language, he was able to get a resident permit for five months, during which time he worked as a tourist guide, and later on with the French edition of the Moscow Journal, and finally at Mosfilm, where he directed film dubbing.

Thanks and word

In the PC game Team Fortress 2 the sniper, being of Australian descent, often uses the word in such taunts as " Thanks for standing still, wanker.

Thanks to word of mouth, the film generated higher revenue in the weeks following the first week, with the highest one being the fourth week of release, which made $ 20, 064, 790.

Thanks to his friendship with Hansgen, word quickly spread to the Ford Motor Company about the young driver.

In So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish, it is a Betelgeusian word used by Ford Prefect " when he knew he should say something but didn't know what it should be ".

The word " Sunkus " is a combination of the words " Sun " and the word " Thanks ", as it is pronounced with a Japanese accent.

Thanks to the strong word of mouth trailing her work, New York Tendaberry became her most commercially successful record, peaking at # 32 on the Billboard 200, formerly known as the Pop Albums chart.

Thanks to this the Constitutional Party was able to form a government with the support of Labour although this was not a coalition in the true sense of the word as Labour refused to assume any Ministerial portfolios.

Thanks largely to a growing Pacific Islander culture in New Zealand, this word has been adopted by other Pacific cultures.

Thanks and was

Thanks '', was her answer the next day.

Thanks to Lawrence's connection to the powerful Fairfax family, at age 17 in 1749, Washington was appointed official surveyor for Culpeper County, a well-paid position which enabled him to purchase land in the Shenandoah Valley, the first of his many land acquisitions in western Virginia.

* TFTH – ( Thanks For The Hunt or Hide or Hike ) It shares the same purpose as TFTC, but can also be used when the cache was not found.

Thanks to her father's important role on the estate, she was allowed access to the library of Arbury Hall, which greatly aided her self-education and breadth of learning.

Thanks to Thomas Symmes a new idea of how to sing hymns spread throughout the churches in which anyone would sing a hymn any way they felt led to ; this was opposed by the views of Symmes colleagues who felt it was " like Five Hundred different Tunes roared out at the same time.

Thanks to Schwitters ' lifelong patron and friend Katherine Dreier, his work was exhibited regularly in the US from 1920 onwards.

Thanks to the intelligent foresight of the queen Tanaquil however, the sons of Ancus were not chosen, but rather Tarquinius ' son-in-law Servius Tullius, husband of his daughter Tarquinia, was elected as his successor.

Thanks to the literary renditions of Ovid and Fulgentius it was a well-known myth through the Middle Ages, but emerged more prominently as a classicizing theme, with erotic overtones, in the Italian Renaissance.

Thanks to the persistence of the band's management, the album was eventually released in the US and the UK six months after its Australian release.

Thanks in part to these successes there was a high expectation that the 1970 budget would be a more generous one.

Thanks in large part to this particular Gatorade dunking, a tradition of sorts was formed that continues to this day.

Sondheim famously hated his mother ; he once wrote a thank-you note to close friend Mary Rodgers that read, " Dear Mary and Hank, Thanks for the plate, but where was my mother's head?

Thanks to this arrangement principal photography was completed 15 April 2008 on schedule.

Thanks to the success of The Jazz Singer, the studio was cash-rich.

Thanks to Spofforth who took 14 wickets in the match, Australia won by 7 runs and the legend of The Ashes was born immediately afterwards.

His only answer was " Thanks be to God!

Thanks to the betrayal of the Krakow townspeople and the help of the Franciscans ( who even hid him in their monastery ), Henry IV took the city and was recognized as High Duke.

Thanks to Anne's intervention, her widowed sister Mary received an annual pension of £ 100, and Mary's son, Henry Carey, was educated at a prestigious Cistercian monastery.

Thanks to its clear air and lovely golden sand, this romantic stretch of sand was voted the best place in the UK to watch the sun set ( Country Living magazine 2005 ) and one the top romantic spots in the country ( The Guardian 2007 ).

Thanks to his position commanding the only troops in the city and making gifts of money, Justin was able to secure election as emperor in 518.

Thanks to the money Paganini had given him after hearing Harold, Berlioz was able to pay off Harriet's and his own debts and suspend his work as a critic.

Thanks to coded messages transmitted over the BBC radio, each Maquis group was alerted of the impending D-Day by listening for seemingly meaningless messages such as " the crow will sing three times in the morning " or any other pre-arranged messages read in a continuous flow over the British airwaves.

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