and a policeman asserted he had found a pair of brass knuckles in Art's pocket once when he had occasion to collar the Great First Baseman for some forgotten reason.

* 1931 – First edition of the Highway Code published in Great Britain.

First century BC mosaic of Alexander the Great bearing on his armor an image of the Gorgon as an aegis-Naples National Archaeological Museum

Following Napoleon Bonaparte's victories over the Austrian Empire in Northern Italy – helping to secure France victory in the War of the First Coalition in 1797 – Great Britain remained the only major European power still at war with the French Republic.

The developments that led to the First Balkan War did not go unnoticed by the Great Powers, but although there was an official consensus between the European Powers over the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire, which led to a stern warning to the Balkan states, unofficially each of them took a different diplomatic approach due to their conflicting interests in the area.

He is also known separately as the " Great Sage " ( 至聖 ), " First Teacher " ( 先師 ), and " Model Teacher for Ten Thousand Ages " ( 萬世師表 ).

Early Christendom would close at the end of imperial persecution of Christians after the ascension of Constantine the Great and the Edict of Milan in AD 313 and the First Council of Nicaea in 325.

The " European War " became known as " The Great War ", and it was not until 1920, in the book " The First World War 1914 – 1918 " by Charles à Court Repington, that the term " First World War " was used as the official name for the conflict.

During the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the city state was annexed by King Frederick the Great of the Kingdom of Prussia.

In the American colonies the First Great Awakening of the 1740s greatly expanded the movement ; it was based on revivals led by Congregationalist Jonathan Edwards and Methodist George Whitefield.

The outbreak of the First World War was precipitated by a series of struggles among the Great Powers.

Germany led the Central Powers in the First World War ( 1914 – 1918 ) against France, Great Britain, Russia and ( by 1917 ) the United States.

Spain, Naples, Great Britain, and the Netherlands joined Austria and Prussia in The First Coalition ( 1792 – 1797 ), the first major concerted effort of multiple European powers to contain Revolutionary France.

The Roman persecution of Christians ended in AD 313 under the reign of Constantine the Great, who in 325 prompted the First Council of Nicaea, the beginning of the period of the First seven Ecumenical Councils.

: Chancellor of the King of Egypt, Doctor, First in line after the King of Upper Egypt, Administrator of the Great Palace, Hereditary nobleman, High Priest of Heliopolis, Builder, Chief Carpenter, Chief Sculptor, and Maker of Vases in Chief.

* Warren Zimmermann, First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power ( New York, 2002 )

St-Laurent's government was modestly progressive and fiscally conservative, taking taxation surpluses no longer needed by the wartime military and paying back in full Canada's debts accrued during the First World War, the Great Depression and World War II.

At the end of the First World War, a class “ A ” Mandate for Palestine was entrusted to Great Britain by the League of Nations, pursuant to paragraph 4 of Article 22 of the Covenant ...

Examples are at,, and ( the middle track at Totnes is only used in summer, by First Great Western services between London Paddington and Newquay ).

Through vigorous missionary activity Methodism spread throughout the British Empire and, mostly through Whitefield's preaching during what historians call the First Great Awakening, colonial America.

The First Great Awakening was a religious movement among colonials in the 1730s and 1740s.

* The 200th Anniversary of Marbury v. Madison: The Supreme Court's First Great Case

It is traditionally believed that the Second Ecumenical Council held in Constantinople in 381 added the section that follows the words " We believe in the Holy Spirit " ( without the words " and the Son " relative to the procession of the Holy Spirit, which would become a point of contention in the Great Schism of Orthodoxy from Catholicism ); hence the name " Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed ", referring to the Creed as modified in the First Council of Constantinople.

The First Great Awakening had a major impact on the American Presbyterians.

Chronicling the First and Second Great Awakenings, Wolfe comes to describe the " Me decade as the " Third Great Awakening.

In the 17th century English Quakers and evangelical religious groups condemned slavery ( by then applied mostly to Africans ) as un-Christian ; in the 18th century, abolition was part of the message of the First Great Awakening in the Thirteen Colonies ; and in the same period, rationalist thinkers of the Enlightenment criticized it for violating the rights of man.

The First Great Awakening began in the 1730s and lasted to about 1750.

Joseph Tracy, the minister, historian, and preacher who gave this religious phenomenon its name in his influential 1842 book The Great Awakening, saw the First Great Awakening as a precursor to the American Revolution.

People at the time talked about the Awakening ; historians named the Second Great Awakening in the context of the First Great Awakening of the 1730s and ' 40s and of the Third Great Awakening of the late 1850s to early 1900s.

Conversions and congregations started with the First Great Awakening, resulting in Baptist and Methodist preachers being authorized among slaves and free blacks more than a decade before 1800.

* First Great Awakening

Edwards played a critical role in shaping the First Great Awakening, and oversaw some of the first revivals in 1733 – 35 at his church in Northampton, Massachusetts.

As explained in The Silmarillion, the First Age began with the Awakening of the Elves, and it ended with the final overthrow of Morgoth by the combined armies of Valinor and Beleriand.

* Samuel Davies came from Pennsylvania to lead and minister to religious dissenters in Hanover County, Virginia during the The First Great Awakening.

Voices Of The First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal dreamtime.

Sergeant was succeeded in this post by Jonathan Edwards, a notable Christian theologian associated with the First Great Awakening.

* 1750-Jonathan Edwards, preacher of the First Great Awakening, having been banished from his church at Northampton, Massachusetts goes as a missionary to the nearby Housatonic Indians.

* First Great Awakening

By the 1750s, several Congregational preachers were teaching the possibility of universal salvation, an issue that caused considerable conflict among its adherents on the one side and hard-line Calvinists and sympathizers of the First Great Awakening on the other.

A detachment of six men from the 701st Chemical Maintenance Company under First Lt. Howard D. Beckstrom went aboard, followed by Lt. Thomas H. Richardson, the Cargo Security Officer.

* 1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O ' Bannon.

* 1099 – First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces led by Al-Afdal Shahanshah.

The Whigs had gained control of the Tennessee legislature, and redrew Johnson's First District so as to ensure that House seat for their party, under the leadership of Gustavus Adolphus Henry, Sr .; the Nashville Union termed this " Henry-mandering ".

In 1873 Johnson contracted cholera during an epidemic but recovered ; that year he lost about half his assets, when the First National Bank went under.

Tank or " landship " development, originally conducted by the British Navy under the auspices of the Landships Committee was sponsored by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill and proceeded through a number of prototypes culminating in the Mark I tank prototype, named Mother.

However, when, under manager Jack Kirwan, the club got promoted to the top flight of Dutch football for the first time in 1911 ( then the Eerste Klasse or ' First Class ', later named the Eredivisie ), Ajax were forced to change their colours because Sparta Rotterdam already had exactly the same outfit.

First exile: under Emperor Constantine, for 2. 5 years Jul 335 – 22 Nov 337 ; in Trier ( Germany ).

The First Army, under general Vasil Kutinchev with 3 infantry divisions, was deployed to the south of Yambol, with direction of operations along the Tundzha river.

The Second Army, under general Nikola Ivanov, with 2 infantry divisions and 1 infantry brigade, was deployed west of the First and was assigned to capture the strong fortress of Adrianopel ( now Edirne ).

According to the plans, the Third Army, under general Radko Dimitriev, was deployed east of and behind the First, and was covered by the cavalry division hiding it from the Turkish view.

Later that season, under his captaincy, West Indies won the two match Test series against Sri Lanka 1 – 0 with Lara making a double century in the First Test.

The entire network was brought under government control during the First World War and a number of advantages of amalgamation and planning were revealed.

After decades in opposition the Whigs came to power under Grey in 1830 and carried the First Reform Act in 1832.

In response to a call for aid from Alexius, the First Crusade assembled at Constantinople in 1096, but declining to put itself under Byzantine command set out for Jerusalem on its own account.

Though the unified reign of the First Qin Emperor lasted only 12 years, he managed to subdue great parts of what constitutes the core of the Han Chinese homeland and to unite them under a tightly centralized Legalist government seated at Xianyang ( close to modern Xi ' an ).

The defeat by the British Empire in the First Opium War ( 1840 ) led to the Treaty of Nanjing ( 1842 ), under which Hong Kong was ceded and opium import was legitimized.

Civil liberties groups challenged the law under the First Amendment and in 1997 the Supreme Court ruled in their favor.

In 1952 the title of General Secretary became First Secretary and the Politburo became the Presidium before reverting to their former names under Leonid Brezhnev in 1966.

Although killing oneself is forbidden under normal Jewish law as being a denial of God's goodness in the world, under extreme circumstances when there has seemed no choice but to either be killed or forced to betray their religion, Jews have committed suicide or mass suicide ( see Masada, First French persecution of the Jews, and York Castle for examples ).

After the war a report of the battle was prepared by the Admiralty under First Sea Lord Wemyss.

During the First World War, he and his wife performed many services for the public of Leicestershire, including opening up their home first as a VAD Hospital under the 5th Northern General Hospital, and later as a hospital for Naval Personnel.

First, it does not explain why Mieszko I placed his state under the protection of the Pope.