The Calendar of Saints states that her first husband was poisoned by the holder of real power, his successor, Berengar of Ivrea, who attempted to cement his political power by forcing her to marry his son, Adalbert ; when she refused and fled, she was tracked down and imprisoned for four months at Como.

In the US the first large scale use of cement was Rosendale cement a natural cement mined from a massive deposit of a large dolostone rock deposit discovered in the early 19th century near Rosendale, New York.

* Portland, New South Wales, a town with the first Australian cement works

According to the Bible the first king, Saul, was a Gibeonite, a tribe with its roots in Edom, and in order to unify the new kingdom and cement his own authority Saul promoted his own god, Yahweh, as god of the kingdom ; previously, each extended family or clan was the " people " of a particular god, but now the entire Israelite community became the " people of Yahweh ".

This cement was made at the Portland Cementfabrik Stern at Stettin, which was the first to utilize a Hoffman kiln.

It is thought that the first modern Portland cement was made there.

Thus, Seder participants recall the slavery that reigned during the first half of the night by eating matzo ( the " poor person's bread "), maror ( bitter herbs which symbolize the bitterness of slavery ), and charoset ( a sweet paste representing the mortar which the Jewish slaves used to cement bricks ).

The port is the first port cement manufacturer in France, linked to the treatment plants of the rollers of the valley of Paillon.

The via Appia is believed to have been the first Roman road to feature the use of lime cement.

Other research followed, with the first industrial application, a cement kiln built in Denmark, coming on line in 1975.

When quantities of Portland cement were first imported to the United States in the 1880s, its principal use was in the construction of sidewalks.

One such was the discovery, first recorded in 1784, of iron cement made from sal ammoniac, or ammonium chloride and iron filings, apparently discovered when Murdoch observed that these 2 components had accidentally mixed in his tool bag and formed a solid mass.

The roof above these beams had first a layer of reeds laid in great quantities of bitumen, over this two courses of baked brick bonded by cement, and as a third layer of covering of

His first construction was a boat made of cement which he tested on the lake at Besse-sur-Issole in 1848.

In 1995, Rosenborg qualified for the UEFA Champions League for the first time, a feat which helped secure the club's finances and further cement its dominance at the domestic level.

Binney's experimentation with industrial materials, including slate waste, cement, and talc, led to the invention of the first dustless white chalk, for which the company won a gold medal at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

At first, it was used to grind cement clinker.

Alabama Marble Company had already moved in this direction, having introduced its first Raymond Mill products for animal feed, insecticides, and joint cement materials in 1933.

Some of the products invented there include the first cement that was able to harden under water, the first carriage bolt cutting machine, the break-neck rat trap, and a new tinware process.

In 1815, the first granite quarried near the Manchester town line signaled the birth of an industry that would support Hallowell until 1908, when cement displaced stone as the construction material of choice.

Nonetheless, the area was only a village until Sweden's first cement works was established in 1871.

In his first term in the state house, Johnson did not ally with either the Democrats or the Whigs consistently, though he revered Jackson, the Democratic President.

Australian football has attracted more overall interest among Australians ( as measured by the Sweeney Sports report ) than any other football code, and, when compared with all sports throughout the nation, has consistently ranked first in the winter reports, and most recently third behind cricket and swimming in summer.

Throughout his first year in office, Clinton consistently supported ratification of the treaty by the U. S. Senate.

" Lomborg claims to have consistently supported the position that global warming exists, but cost benefit analyses, as calculated by the Copenhagen Consensus ranked climate mitigation initiatives low on a list of international development initiatives when first done in 2004.

The first phase of shooting was in the Gobi Desert where it would consistently rain.

In the 13th century, Saint Thomas Aquinas provided the first systematic Christology that consistently resolved a number of the existing issues.

But by first calling the final product Novum Instrumentum omne (" All of the New Teaching ") and later Novum Testamentum omne (" All of the New Testament ") he also indicated clearly that he considered a consistently parallelized version of both the Greek and the Latin texts as the essential dual core of the church's New Testament tradition.

Ancient Greeks were among the first civilizations to use symbols consistently in order to identify a warrior, clan or a state.

They're the ones who did the first real big arena concert shows, consistently selling out and playing stadiums without support.

The label was one of the first in Britain to consistently embrace and release artists that create and perform new forms of electronic dance music since the 1990s, notably hip hop and breakbeat.

The first three of these are consistently among the highest-rated shows on British television.

In the OECD's international assessment of student performance, PISA, Finland has consistently been among the highest scorers worldwide ; in 2003, Finnish 15-year-olds came first in reading literacy, science, and mathematics ; and second in problem solving, worldwide.

" The UCSF Medical Center is consistently ranked among the top 10 hospitals in the United States by U. S. News & World Report, who also ranked UCSF ’ s medical school specialty program in AIDS medical care first in the country.

In France " arabesque " first appears in 1546, and " was first applied in the latter part of the 17th century " to grotesque ornament, " despite the classical origin of the latter ", especially if without human figures in it-a distinction still often made, but not consistently observed,

It was in his 1753 Species Plantarum that he first began consistently using a one-word " trivial name " together with a generic name in a system of binomial nomenclature.

You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. Or this insight from Winston Churchill: Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities ... because it is the quality that guarantees all others.

This policy is not consistently followed ; for example, in the first season's " The Legend ," Briggs ' original plan is to personally shoot Nazi rallying-figure Martin Bormann, which is foiled by the discovery of a dummy and a tape recorder in the " man's " sick room.

V8 Supercar first adopted the leg-based qualifying system in 2001, although have not used it consistently.

The Spectator has consistently shown itself a friend of Germany, but it is a friend of freedom first.

They consistently place their first settlement in Aleppo, where they remained until, siding the sons of Ali and taking part in the Battle of Karbala, they were expelled by Yazid, the second of the Omayyad Caliphs, in 680 A. D. Thence they first to Kerman, and eventually to Sistan where they were hospitably received by Shams-ud-Din, ruler of that country.

Again, in 2001, she made the following statement: " As I have stated repeatedly, consistently and unequivocally since assuming the leadership of the Bermuda Progressive Labour Party, I shall state once again for the record – independence is not an issue that we will address in our first term and probably not in our second term .... We believe that there are a number of areas that need addressing before Bermuda heads down this road.

Nevertheless, their Playoff run ended on April 28, 2007 after they were swept in the first round by first seeded Detroit Pistons whose experience, veteran leadership and ability to consistently make the clutch basket proved far too much for the undermanned and overwhelmed Magic to overcome.