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 him, Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein and Mischa Elman, among others, were able to come and study.

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.

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.

Thanks to a large amount of copper resources, progressive legislation and a healthy investment environment, Chile has become the copper mining capital of the world, producing over 1 / 3 of the global copper output.

Thanks to the consistent position of Austria during the meeting of EU foreign ministers, a long period of instability and the questioning of the determination of the Croatian government to surrender war criminals has ended successfully.

Thanks to Carmack's idea of extending video game life by adding unlimited expandability ( extensibility already played a big role in Doom ), an enormous Internet community of gamers and programmers alike has arisen and many modern multiplayer games are extensible in some form.

Thanks to CITES, this number has decreased substantially in recent years, but poaching continues, and red pandas are often sold to private collectors at exorbitant prices.

Thanks largely to the research of John Harley, knowledge of Byrd's biography has expanded in recent years.

" Thanks to Goll, he has killed his mother.

Thanks to this second hit he has now been able to release his Greatest Hits album.

Thanks much in part to its unique half-timbered architecture, Solvang has become a major California tourist attraction, with over one million visitors per year.

Thanks in large part to these shopping and entertainment destinations, Sunrise has become one of Florida ’ s top tourist draws.

Thanks to its surrounding nature preserves, Sag Harbor has a very rich fauna for its region.

Thanks to the Internet, the station has a worldwide listener base, and features programming consisting mostly of an eclectic blend of music styles ( e. g., singer-songwriter, folk, acoustic, alt-country, blues, Celtic, jazz, etc.

Thanks to tourist dollars, McAllen has the highest retail spending per capita in the state, says its Chamber of Commerce.

Thanks, in part, to these proceeds, which began flowing in 2004, the City has been able to purchase police cars and equipment, complete the Mildred Street streetscape project in 2007 adding sidewalks, curb, gutter and benches ; renovate and construct parks ; and renovate City Hall.

Thanks to his awkwardness, allergies, and hypochondria, Connor has a reputation as an oddball, but Sharon and his good friends know that there's way more to " the walking sneeze " than that.

Thanks to the huge size of the English-speaking North American media market, the United States has a large magazine industry with hundreds of magazines serving almost every interest, as can be determined by glancing at any newsstand in any large American city.

The enterprise has been awarded with 4 Orders of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution and Russian Federation President's Message of Thanks.

Thanks Giving Day has been held since Parliament decreed at the end of the English Civil War that there should be a day of celebration and prayer in Lyme to commemorate the end of the unsuccessful siege of Lyme by the Royalist forces, which was one of the longest sieges of the Civil War.

NOFX has a song titled " Kill Rock Stars " on their album So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes, written as a response to Kathleen Hanna labeling the band as misogynists.

In the trilogy's fourth book So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish, Marvin the Paranoid Android says of himself: " Every part of me has been replaced at least fifty times ...".

Thanks to dedicated health care professionals and the parents of children who vaccinated on schedule, polio has been eliminated in the U. S. since 1979.

Thanks to the Harlows ' assistance in cooperation with Masorti Olami, the Bnei Anusim of Lisbon have been able to return to the Jewish faith, and a new congregation ( Kehilat Beit Israel ) has been founded in Lisbon, namely the first non-orthodox synagogue in the history of Portugal.

She has appeared in films such as Wigstock: The Movie, Peoria Babylon, Starrbooty, and To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything!

Thanks to his yet-untold family heritage, Pistachio has a tendency to mock people at random, doing perfect but annoying and badly timed impersonations.