Thanks to the efforts of men like Hubert Walter, this trend towards improved record keeping continued into his reign.

Thanks to British counter-intelligence efforts, of which Philby's Iberian subsection formed a significant part, the project ( code-named Bodden ) never came to fruition.

Thanks to the former Soviet system of game preserves and the efforts of the Society for Nature Conservation and the Academy of Sciences, flora and fauna receive some protection in the republic ; however, " hard-currency hunts " by wealthy Western and Arab businesspeople already are depleting animals on preserves.

Thanks to Disney's efforts, Baskett won an honorary Oscar in 1948.

* Thanks to the efforts of Eumenes II of Pergamum while in Rome, the Romans declare war on Macedonia and send troops to Thessaly, thus beginning the Third Macedonian War.

Thanks to these efforts, Kassel celebrated an enormous cultural upturn.

Thanks largely to the efforts of Master Cheng Yen of the Buddhist charity Tzu Chi ( which utterly dominates philanthopic giving in Taiwan ), Taiwan's nuns nowadays probably receive more public respect and support than monks.

Thanks to the efforts by Stanisław Staszic Kielce became the centre of the newly-established Old-Polish Industrial Zone ( Staropolski Okręg Przemysłowy ).

Thanks to the efforts of Dr. Pope, Eufaula remained intact, its citizens unharmed.

Thanks to the efforts of Mayor Thelma Kindell and Board member Nancy Burger, Sandy Myers, John Seaman and Chris Rose and Cheri Thornton ( Treasurer ).

Thanks to the efforts of prominent members such as William Cecil and Gilbert Gerard, Gray's Inn became the largest of the four by number, with over 200 barristers recorded as members.

Thanks to the efforts of the Merseyside Police Department his collection of shirts, medals and awards was recovered, along with most of his valuables.

Thanks to the efforts of the 13th Autonomous, however, the Mars Zeons were defeated and the Olympus Cannon was destroyed.

Thanks to great efforts to decorate the park using loads of pine trees and thousands of Christmas lights in winter, " Winter Efteling " is growing more popular every year, reaching a climax during the holidays when thousands of people visit the park.

Thanks to conservation efforts its numbers increased.

Thanks to efforts made by local community groups such as the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative, East Village Community Coalition, Historic Districts Council, and Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, however, the proposed district now includes these worthy buildings.

Thanks to Charlotte's efforts, and with the assistance of the gluttonous rat Templeton, Wilbur not only lives, but goes to the county fair with Charlotte and wins a prize.

Thanks in part to his efforts, Hickel's debates with Congressional leaders led to enough initially hesitant Republicans voting in favor of the Alaska Statehood Act in 1958.

Thanks to the efforts of the Carlisle Indian School football program, which ended with the school's closure in 1918, there were numerous native Americans in the NFL through the 1920s, most famously Jim Thorpe.

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 our combined efforts, the Ottoman army is everywhere in full retreat ".

Thanks in part to his efforts as RMC Dean, the Royal Military College of Canada pipes and drums were equipped with most of their highland kit, including the Mackenzie tartan in 1965.

Thanks to his efforts, along with those of John Dickinson, Richard Bassett, and others, Delaware became the first state to approve the Constitution.

Thanks to the efforts of Oregon Populist Party State Representative William S. U ' Ren and his Direct Legislation League, voters in Oregon overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure in 1902 that created the initiative and referendum processes for citizens to directly introduce or approve proposed laws or amendments to the state constitution, making Oregon the first state to adopt such a system.

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.

* 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.

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.

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 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 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 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.