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But the liaison successfully started in the last days of autumn was now languishing.
In spring and in autumn the run was made for a group of botanists which included an old friend of mine.
Although americium was likely produced in previous nuclear experiments, it was first intentionally synthesized, isolated and identified in late autumn 1944, at the University of California, Berkeley by Glenn T. Seaborg, Leon O. Morgan, Ralph A. James, and Albert Ghiorso.
:“ When in the autumn the English Eleven went to Australia it was said that they had come to Australia to “ fetch ” the ashes.
His wife joined him at Toruń in December, but in April 1712 a peremptory ukase ordered him off to the army in Pomerania, and in the autumn of the same year he was forced to accompany his father on a tour of inspection through Finland.
In the autumn of 2001, after the September 11 attacks, al Jazeera television broadcast a tape they claim was made by Omari.
Arnulf had in fact ruled Bavaria during the summer and autumn of 879 while his father arranged his succession and he himself was granted " Pannonia ," in the words of the Annales Fuldenses, or " Carantanum ," in the words of Regino of Prüm.
Conquering all of the territory north of the Po, he forced the surrender of Milan and then drove Guy out of Pavia, where he was crowned King of Italy, but went no further before Guy died suddenly in late autumn, and fever incapacitated his troops.
The word autumn comes from the Old French word autompne ( automne in modern French ), and was later normalised to the original Latin word autumnus.
In the Anglosphere, most notably in Anglo-America, autumn is also associated with the Halloween season ( which in turn was influenced by Samhain, a Celtic autumn festival ), and with it a widespread marketing campaign that promotes it, in the U. S. A.
The main composition work was done between autumn 1822 and the completion of the autograph in February 1824.
The sale was completed in November 1851, the price being £ 32, 000, and Prince Albert formally took possession the following autumn.
By the autumn of 1855, the royal apartments were ready, though the tower was still under construction and the servants had to be lodged in the old house.
In the autumn of 1918, as consolidation of the political situation of the republic continued, a move toward elimination of Uyezd -, Raion -, and Volost-level Chekas, as well as the institution of Extraordinary Commissions was considered.
The second census was taken in the autumn 2002.
" The decision to change the name Datsun to Nissan in the U. S. was announced in the autumn ( September / October ) of 1981.
The official birth of the term " stab-in-the-back " itself possibly can be dated to the autumn of 1919, when Ludendorff was dining with the head of the British Military Mission in Berlin, British general Sir Neill Malcolm.
In the autumn of 2001, at the age of four, Dolly developed arthritis and began to walk stiffly, but this was successfully treated with anti-inflammatory drugs.
By the autumn of 1537, Elizabeth was in the care of Blanche Herbert, Lady Troy who remained her Lady Mistress until her retirement in late 1545 or early 1546.
By the autumn of 1559 several foreign suitors were vying for Elizabeth's hand ; their impatient envoys engaged in ever more scandalous talk and reported that a marriage with her favourite was not welcome in England: " There is not a man who does not cry out on him and her with indignation ... she will marry none but the favoured Robert ".
The Foreign Legion's First Battalion ( Lieutenant-Colonel Donnier ) was sent to Tonkin in the autumn of 1883, during the period of undeclared hostilities that preceded the Sino – French War ( August 1884 to April 1885 ), and formed part of the attack column that stormed the western gate of Son Tay on 16 December.
Among the labour movement, a more marked consequence of autumn 1917 was the rise of the Worker's Guards.
The phrase was spray-painted by an admirer on a wall in an Islington Underground station in the autumn of 1967.

autumn and taken
The book had been offered to booksellers at Murray's autumn sale on Tuesday 22 November, and all available copies had been taken up immediately.
The conquest of Gwynedd was complete with the capture in June 1283 of Dafydd, who was taken to Shrewsbury and executed as a traitor the following autumn.
By the autumn of 1531, Cromwell had taken control of the supervision of the King's legal and parliamentary affairs, working closely with Thomas Audley, and had joined the inner circle of the Council.
In the autumn of 1533, various arrests were made in connection with the so-called revelations of the Holy Maid of Kent, Elizabeth Barton, but as Fisher was taken seriously ill in December, proceedings against him were postponed for a time.
The album's inside packaging included a poster, the lyrics to the songs, and a set of photographs taken by John Kelly during the autumn of 1968 that have themselves become iconic.
The first fruits of this arrangement, which was based on no firmer foundation than the forged " Donation of Constantine ", but destined to give to the papacy a position of independence towards both the Eastern and Western Empires, was the reduction in the autumn, with Norman aid, of Galeria, where the antipope had taken refuge, and the end of the subordination of the papacy to the Roman nobles.
It had taken U. S. 5th Army, in deteriorating weather as the torrential autumn rains broke, from the middle of October to early November to fight their way across difficult terrain and through skillful and determined rearguard defences from the Volturno Line positions to the Bernhardt Line.
Mostly spiders and insects are eaten in spring and summer, but seeds-including those of the thistle-nuts and berries are taken in autumn and winter.
The directive given to the Army Group, which assigned two panzer divisions the identical missions that they had received in the previous autumn, could have been taken for the real thing, even those German officers who were in the know, and most of them were kept in the dark, which even made it more believable.
Occasional vegetable matter is taken in the autumn.
One of the stages of this war was also the trip taken by Bolesław together with Bolesław V the Chaste and Leszek II the Black in the autumn of 1273 in order to visit Władysław of Opole, an ally of the Premyslid dynasty.
* 501: Crushed powdered quartz prepared by stuffing it into a horn of a cow and buried into the ground in spring and taken out in autumn.
* 489-In autumn Amon Rûdh is taken ; Túrin captured, but is rescued by Gwindor and Beleg, and slays the latter.
A commission was taken to decorate a room for the 1913 Ideal Home Exhibition, and an illustrated catalogue, including text written by Fry, was published in autumn 1914.
At the autumn 2009 Liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth, Davies made a speech in a debate about the MP expenses scandal, where he appeared to become very angry, exclaiming " I hate, I hate the dirty cheating bastards who have taken every opportunity to fill their private pockets with public money .. .. they should play no part in public life ".
The EP negotiators, Joseph Daul MEP ( chair of the Conference of Committee Chairs ) and Richard Corbett MEP ( rapporteur of the Constitutional Affairs Committee ), bargained with the Council for several months, following the initiative taken, at Corbett's behest, by the then UK Council presidency ( under a UK Labour government — Corbett is a Labour MEP ) in the autumn of 2005, to re-open the subject and seek an agreed solution with the Parliament.
Whitelocke was on a visit to the Earl of Sussex at Newhall, Essex in the autumn of 1608 when he was taken ill and died.
During the autumn of 1942, " Lucy " provided the Soviets with detailed information about Case Blue, the German operations against Stalingrad and the Caucasus ; during this period decisions taken in Berlin were arriving in Moscow on average within a ten-hour period ; on one occasion in just six hours, not much longer than it took to reach German front line units.
In the autumn of 1916, he was taken to a hospital in Constantinople, Hôpital de la paix, and then moved to Paris in 1919, where he died in a psychiatric clinic in Villejuif in 1935.
In the autumn of 1978, the British Royal College of Psychiatrists carried a resolution in which it reiterated its concern over the abuse of psychiatry for the suppression of dissent in the USSR and applauded the Soviet citizens, who had taken an open stance against such abuse, by expressing its admiration and support especially for Semyon Gluzman, Alexander Podrabinek, Alexander Voloshanovich, and Vladimir Moskalkov.
The first girls to be accepted in the modern era were taken in during autumn 1994.
They were taken over this time by Tarmo Rüütli ( who was replaced by caretaker Aivar Lillevere for two games ), who was appointed until autumn 2000, and seen the team through their qualifying group for the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
In the autumn of the same year he was taken into a lunatic asylum in Stockholm, and in February 1909 he was moved to the asylum of St. Lars in Lund, where he spent the rest of his life.

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