A moment later, moving awkwardly because of the swimming fins, she picked up the gun, handed the knife to Poet, then rolled off the transom of the boat, back first.

Instinctively aware of the charged atmosphere, Poet raised his head slowly, looking first at Elaine.

Boogie Down and KRS retorted angrily with songs like The Bridge is Over and South Bronx, which started one of the first notable hip hop wars as MC Shan, Marley Marl, Roxanne Shanté and Blaq Poet all released songs featuring verses personally attacking KRS and Scott La Rock.

* 1812 – Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.

* 1341: Petrarch, the " Father of Humanism ", becomes the first Poet Laureate since antiquity.

Carol Ann Duffy the first Scottish Poet Laureate.

This period also saw the emergence of a new generation of Scottish poets that became leading figures on the UK stage, including Carol Ann Duffy, who was named as Poet Laureate in May 2009, the first woman, the first Scot and the first openly gay poet to take the post.

John Dryden ( a Tory ), the first Poet Laureate, produced in 1682 Mac Flecknoe, subtitled " A Satire on the True Blue Protestant Poet, T. S.

* Poet Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven ( 1873 – 1932, author of Die Stem van Suid-Afrika ) produced the first translation in Afrikaans.

* February 27 – Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.

( Ben Jonson received a royal pension of 100 marks in 1616, causing some historians to identify him as England's first Poet Laureate, even though John Fletcher was more popular ).

The first ever Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate was awarded to George Bowering in 2002.

The first holder of the title was Bill Manhire who held the post of Poet Laureate from 1998 – 99.

The title of Poet Laureate, as a royal office, was first conferred by letters patent on John Dryden in 1670, two years after Davenant's death.

The state of California under Governor Hiram Warren Johnson, established a state Poet Laureate and appointed Ina Donna Coolbrith as the first honorary Poet Laureate on June 30, 1915.

The first Poet Laureate was Carter Warner Wormeley ; he was appointed for life.

* Poeta en Nueva York ( written 1930-published posthumously in 1940, first translation into English as The Poet in New York 1940 )

The " Classic Gong " line-up retired from regular touring in 2001, but there were one-off reunions subsequently, most notably at the " Gong Family Unconvention " ( Uncon ), the first of which was held in 2004 in the Glastonbury Assembly rooms as a one day event and featured many ex members and Gong family bands including Here and Now, House of Thandoy, Thom the Poet, Invisible Opera, Andy Bole, Bubbledub and Joie Hinton.

He initiated an educational series in which a featured poet talked about his / her work with poet Kim Addonizio as his first Featured Poet selection.

Poet and painter Adrian Henri claimed to have organized the first happenings in England in Liverpool in 1962, taking place during the Merseyside Arts Festival.

He was the first Nobel Laureate to voluntarily decline the prize, and he had previously refused the Légion d ' honneur, in 1945.

Professor Pieczenik, a colleague of Nobel Laureate Merrifield, synthesized the first combinatorial library.

Not only was he the first at Berkeley to become a Nobel Laureate, he was also the first ever to be so honored while at a state-supported university.

He studied economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and was a student of the first Nobel Prize Laureate in economics Jan Tinbergen.

Amongst the graduates are included notable people in the fields of arts and sciences like Jonathan Swift, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett ( Nobel Laureate in Literature ), Ernest Walton ( Nobel Laureate in Physics ), Mairead Maguire ( Nobel Laureate in Peace ), three holders of the office of President of Ireland, and one Premier of New Zealand ( Edward Stafford ); including Jaja Wachuku ( first indigenous Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nigeria and first Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister ).

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.