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 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.

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.

He wrote that " whether a Christian may not employ this Medicine ( let the matter of it be what it will ) and humbly give Thanks to God ’ s good Providence in discovering of it to a miserable World ; and humbly look up to His Good Providence ( as we do in the use of any other Medicine ) It may seem strange, that any wise Christian cannot answer it.

Thanks to the efforts of other like-minded individuals, the nihontō did not disappear, many swordsmiths continued the work begun by Masahide, and the old swordmaking techniques were rediscovered.

* Åland islands: Thanks to a law revision by the Government of Åland concerning " small electrically powered vehicles ", the Segway and all other, mainly aimed to be one person electrical vehicles, are in Åland classified as bicycles since 14 March 2012.

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.

Some other small bit parts and cameos were also accepted by Crisp, such as a pageant judge in 1995's To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar.

Thanks to these and many other attributes within its community, the overall economic outlook for the parish is promising.

Thanks to Yuuki, Sara and Sojirou later reunite and speak about what happened to their relationship and confess their existing love for each other, though admit that the relationship is, now, unsalvageable.

Thanks to Ward's genial partner Bill Scott ( who contributed to the scripts and voiced Bullwinkle and other characters ) and a corps of top comedy writers, puns were used often and shamelessly: in a " Fractured Fairy Tales " featuring Little Jack Horner, upon pulling out the plum, Jack announced, " Lord, what foods these morsels be!

The follow-up in May " Thanks for the Memory ( Wham Bam Thank You Mam )" fared slightly better, peaking at number seven in the UK and doing well in a number of other European countries.

Thanks to its natural defences and the supply route by sea, Harlech held out and as other fortresses fell, eventually became the last major stronghold still under Lancasterian control.

Thanks to her activities the hills were reforested, and the hill tribes changed from growing poppies to other crops.

Thanks to his confession, the other participants in the crime were discovered.

Thanks to educational opportunities made possible by commercial printing and the reinvigorated examination system, a massively larger literate population emerged who relied on poetry to express personal emotion and to engage with each other socially.

Thanks to back-room dealing and other intrigues, though, Japan walked away with a 5: 4 advantage in heavy cruisers, but this small gesture would not satisfy the populace of Japan which was gradually falling under the spell of the various ultra-nationalist groups spawning throughout the country.

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 sensitivity in the low-frequency band of the gravitational-wave spectrum, LISA will detect waves generated by binary stars within our galaxy ( the Milky Way ); by binary, supermassive black holes in other galaxies ; and by extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (" EMRIs "), in which a stellar-mass black hole is captured by a supermassive black hole.

Thanks to almost 500 years of Ottoman rule, Bosnian food is closely related to Turkish, Greek, and other former Ottoman and Mediterranean cuisines.

Thanks to electronic " jacks " implanted in their skulls, mechanics are remotely linked to the machinery as well as to each other, being able to experience battle through the machines and read the thoughts of other mechanics who are simultaneously jacked in.

Thanks to considerable fundraising and volunteer efforts, 4017 now resides with other pieces of railroad equipment in a climate-controlled shed at the museum in Green Bay.

Thanks to over twenty years ' worth of nightly instalments of Countdown as well as his work on the Yorkshire magazine programme Calendar and various other television projects, at the time of his death Whiteley was believed to have clocked more hours on British television screens — and more than 10, 000 appearances — than anyone else alive, apart from Carole Hersee, the young girl who appeared on the BBC's iconic Test Card F.

Thanks to the building's resemblance to a hunting lodge, Chi Psi was nicknamed " lodge ;" the nickname has spread to other houses of Chi Psi.

Thanks to the fact that his publisher, Aldon Music, was acquired by Screen Gems, two of his songs were recorded by The Monkees, and other hits in this period written by Sedaka included The Cyrkle's version of " We Had a Good Thing Goin '" and " Workin ' on a Groovy Thing ", a Top 40 R & B hit for Patti Drew in 1968, and a Top 20 pop hit for The 5th Dimension in 1969.