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.

So she wound her line around her rod with the words: " Thanks be to him, to Njor, for this time.

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 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 a theological pamphlet attributed to him, Middleton is thought by some to have been a strong believer in Calvinism, among the dominant strains in the theology of the English church of his time, which rigidly divides humanity into the damned and the elect, which focuses on human sinfulness and inadequacy more than in the other denominations of Christianity.

Þökk ( Old Norse " Thanks ") is a giantess in Norse mythology, presumed to be Loki in disguise, who refuses to weep for the slain Baldr, thus forcing him to stay in Hel.

As Mark leaves, General Hawker says to him, " Thanks for the 95 seconds.

Thanks to him and other enthusiasts, as well as the work of the Finzi Trust and the Finzi Friends Finzi ’ s music enjoyed a great resurgence from the late twentieth century onwards.

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 a relationship with Hedda's old schoolmate Thea Elvsted ( who has left her husband for him ), Løvborg shows signs of rehabilitation and has just completed a bestseller in the same field as Tesman.

Thanks to the support of Monseigneur de Quélen, the Archbishop of Paris, who granted him a scholarship, he began studying at the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Issy in 1824 over the objections of his mother and friends.

Thanks to some negotiation, he finds his stay aboard the Race's ship rather entertaining as he is subjected to " experiments " which effectively give him a harem of women to mate with.

In the 2005 comedy film Waiting ... opens with Dean ( Justin Long ) saying " Thanks, Cochise " after he enters a house party and catches a beer tossed to him by Monty ( Ryan Reynolds ).

Thanks in part to him, Alfred D. Herger ( who became known as the biggest pandillero in Puerto Rico ) and Felix Santiesteban, the group became a teen favorite in the Caribbean island.

Thanks to the funds now available to him, through marriage, his mansion is set with numerous traps, so that the Assassins, who must always offer a sporting chance, cannot get close to him without suffering a severe mishap.

Thanks to a combination of Wanda's magic and Ms. Marvel's powers, they manage to get Starro's probe off of him.

Thanks to Xantcha's coaching and Ratepe's ability to hear Urza's Weakstone singing to him, Ratepe was able to help shock Urza out of his guilt.

Thanks to him the Polish delegation was successful.

") Thanks to this kind of distorted children's story, Hans becomes fascinated with Hitler as he and the rest of the younger members of the Hitler Youth give a portrait of him dressed as a knight the Hitler salute.

Thanks to him and Ružička, Zürich has become one of the most significant centers of modern organic chemistry.

Cutler's work on Peel's shows would introduce him to successive generations of fans, and in the early 1990s, Cutler said, " Thanks to Peel, I gained a whole new audience, to the amazement of my older fans, who find themselves among 16-to-35s in theatres, and wonder where they came from.

Thanks in the main to Sir Saxon Tate, and presumedly because he had succeeded as chairman ( until June 1978 ) of their subsidiary Tunnel Refineries, the family made him Tate & Lyle's first non-family chairman 1978 – 1983.

Thanks to her father, Elliot Trent, she is very well-off, although she does not get along with him.

( C ) 1983 Acorn Computers Ltd. Thanks are due to the following contributors to the development of the Electron ( among others too numerous to mention ):- Bob Austin, Astec, Harry Barman, Paul Bond, Allen Boothroyd, Ben Bridgewater, Cambridge, John Cox, Chris Curry, 6502 designers, Jeremy Dion, Tim Dobson, Joe Dunn, Ferranti, Steve Furber, David Gale, Andrew Gordon, Martyn Gilbert, Lawrence Hardwick, Hermann Hauser, John Herbert, Hitachi, Andy Hopper, Paul Jephcot, Brian Jones, Chris Jordan, Computer Laboratory, Tony Mann, Peter Miller, Trevor Morris, Steve Parsons, Robin Pain, Glyn Phillips, Brian Robertson, Peter Robinson, David Seal, Kim Spence-Jones, Graham Tebby, Jon Thackray, Topexpress, Chris Turner, Hugo Tyson, John Umney, Alex van Someren, Geoff Vincent, Adrian Warner, Robin Williamson, Roger Wilson.

Thanks to " eidetic intuition " ( or " essential intuition "), we are able to grasp the possibility, impossibility, necessity and contingency among concepts and among formal categories.

* October 23 – Award-winning composer and Hollywood songwriter Ralph Rainger (" Thanks for the Memory ") is among 12 people killed in the mid-air collision between an American Airlines DC-3 airliner and a U. S. Army bomber near Palm Springs, California.

Thanks to the success of " Twist Español " and " Florida Twist ", among others, the band had continued success in Mexico and Latin America over the next few years, selling many recordings of Spanish and Spanish-flavored material and simulated live performances ( overdubbed audience over studio recordings ) on the Orfeon label and its subsidiary, Dimsa.

Thanks to the stability of the Mexican economy and the growth in foreign investment, the Mexican peso is now among the 15 more traded currency units in recent years.

Thanks to Ibn Rushd ( Averroes ), Spain became a center of philosophical learning as is reflected by the explosion of philosophical inquiry among Jews, Muslims and Christians.

Thanks to its political and trading achievements, and also to its skilled seamen, Zadar played an important role among the cities on the east coast of the Adriatic.

Thanks to the professor, Olsen was briefly evolved into a super-intelligent being from one million A. D., given an elongated nose like the character Pinocchio, stricken with " flame-breath ", and cursed with an evil twin, among other calamities.

Thanks to its commitment to basic and applied research, the University is among the top institutions in the main national and international rankings.

Thanks to its habit of perching among the reeds, the Least Bittern can feed from the surface of water that would be too deep for the wading strategy of other herons.

Thanks to its activists, the party was able to collect two million signatures among the Italian population in support of these referenda, which are concerned with the abrogation of the so-called " legittimo impedimento " ( an Italian law which permits the Prime Minister to postpone potential trials if prosecuted by the judiciary ), the abrogation of a law allowing the construction of nuclear power plants in Italy and the abrogation of a law allowing the privatisation of water management.

Thanks to a fund-raising campaign among the population and the efforts of many volunteers, its efforts were successful.

Thanks to the regimental commander, Cadet Robertson ( class of 1949 ), a World War II Coast Guard veteran, greater understanding was promoted among his fellow veterans and the Corps continued to grow and flourish.

Thanks to the popularity of radio stations playing regional Mexican music, many norteño artists have become widely popular among the Mexican-American community.

Thanks to the popularity of this theory among fiction writers and for its dramatic nature, Gull shows up as the Ripper in a number of books and films ( including the 1988 TV film Jack the Ripper starring Michael Caine ; and the 2000 graphic novel, compiled from the comic book series that ran from 1991 to 1996, From Hell written by Alan Moore with art by Eddie Campbell, as well as its 2001 subsequent film adaptation ).

Thanks to the recent discovery and translations of the dominant schools of liberal thought in the Anglo-American world, as found in the works of Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls and Karl Popper, and an appreciation of older liberal traditions ( Kantian, Millian or Lockean ), a new trend of liberalism has appeared among the younger generation of Iranian intellectuals.

Thanks to the rising Chinese economy, Chinese is one of the largest growing languages among second or foreign language learners, and demand for such classes has typically followed suit.

Thanks to the experiences he shared with Zimmer, Gregson-Williams began mentoring several musicians such as Steve Jablonsky, Toby Chu, Stephen Barton, David Buckley and Marc Streitenfeld among others.

Thanks to his successes in both Fords and Holdens, Richards remains popular among fans of both brands.

Thanks to its robust rock sides with many uneven surfaces, todgha Gorge is popular among rock climbers.

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