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So whenever the Romans finally withdrew from the island, the Saxon Shore disappeared in the first decade of the fifth century.
And yet, despite some disappointment with the performance of this first year of the new decade, 1960 has been a good year in many ways, with many overall measures of business having reached new peaks for the year as a whole.
In the area of private label competition, it is logical to expect a continuation of trends which have been under way during the first decade.
The first attempts to isolate TSH came a decade later, when Janssen and Loeser ( 1931 ) used trichloroacetic acid to separate the soluble TSH from insoluble impurities.
Under the most favorable assumptions for increase, the Bureau of the Census projects that the annual rate of household formations will rise from about 883,000 in the last two years of the Fifties to an annual rate of about 1,018,000 in the first five years of the Sixties, and to a slightly higher annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the decade.
The huge backlog of demand which was evident in the first decade and a half after the War was fed by liquid assets accumulated by the public during the War, and even more so by the easier and easier credit in the consumer loan and home loan fields.
The second productive period, the decade from 1910 to 1920, can be related to three events: the completion of The Dynasts in 1909, which left Hardy free of pressure for the first time in forty years ; ;
In the field of entertainment there is no spur to financial daring so effective as audience boredom, and the first decade of the new device was not over before audiences began staying away in large numbers from the simple-minded, one-minute shows.
If Barnett doesn't call a special session in 1961, it will be the first year in the last decade that the Legislature has not met in regular or special session.
Since then and during the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11 pm on the night of the awards.
To help pay for his campaigns, Alexios debased the currency during the first decade of his rule.
After showing its first growth since the communist era in 2000, Bulgaria s industrial sector has grown slowly but steadily in the early 2000s ( decade ).
Although bluetongue disease was already recognized in South Africa in the early 19th century, a comprehensive description of the disease was not published until the first decade of the 20th century.
After the glittering decade of the 1950s, the first tour of the 1960s proved not nearly as successful as previous ones.
Even though other clubs had taken part in the competition in the intervening decade, the team which got to this final was still the first English side to do so.
Having declined from more than one million speakers around 1950 to about 200, 000 in the first decade of the 21st century, of whom 61 % are more than 60 years old, Breton is classified as " severely endangered " by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.
Following its September 1921 release, Chaplin chose to return to England for the first time in almost a decade.
The working of the Cypriot state was fraught with difficulty from the very early days after independence in 1960, and intercommunal tension and occasionally violence was, regrettably, a feature of the first decade of Cypriot independence.
By the middle of the decade, some of the 1950s generation of American comedians, such as Jerry Lewis, went into decline, while Peter Sellers found success with international audiences in his first American film The Pink Panther.
By then Wilson was the last surviving member of Attlee's cabinet and the unveiling of the statue would be the last public appearance by Wilson, who was by then in the first stages of Alzheimer's Disease and who died in May 1995 after a decade of ill health.
It's a pleasure to be able to say to you: Welcome to Channel Four ", before heading into a montage of clips from its programmes set to the station's signature tune, " Fourscore ", written by Lord David Dundas, which would form the basis of the station's jingles for its first decade.
He continued to work with chromatography in the first decade of the 20th century, primarily for the separation of plant pigments such as chlorophyll, carotenes, and xanthophylls.
" During the first decade of the 21st century, a number of schools that were part of the Schechter network transformed themselves into non-affiliated community day schools.
Near the end of the first decade of the double-Bills ' guidance, the Cubs won the NL pennant in 1929 and then achieved the unusual feat of winning a pennant every three years, following up the 1929 flag with league titles in 1932, 1935, and 1938.
Apparently unaware of Smeaton's work, the same principle was identified by Louis Vicat in the first decade of the nineteenth century.

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It was while living in the countryside, having failed in his attempts to supplement his income as a farmer and struggling with tuberculosis, that Sterne began work on his most famous novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the first volumes of which were published in 1759.
Thus, Sterne lost his chances for clerical advancement but discovered his real talents ; until the completion of this first work, " he hardly knew that he could write at all, much less with humour so as to make his reader laugh ".
They published Kay Boyle's first book-length work, Short Stores, in 1929. and works by Hart Crane, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Archibald MacLeish, Ernest Hemingway, Laurence Sterne, and Eugene Jolas.
In 1922 he published his first book, Masques and Poems. This was followed by many other volumes, particularly his Four Portraits of 1945 ( studies of Boswell, Gibbon, Sterne, and Wilkes ), books on London and works on Baudelaire ( 1929 ), Byron ( 1934 – 35 ), Pope ( 1949 ), Ruskin ( 1949 ), Hogarth ( 1955 ), Shakespeare ( 1963 ), Proust ( 1971 ) and Dr Johnson ( 1972 ).
When Burns said: " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a ' that "; when Sterne, in Tristram Shandy, said, " Honours, like impressions upon coin, may give an ideal and local value to a bit of base metal, but gold and silver will pass all the world over without any other recommendation than their own weight ," what did these writers do but adopt — adopt without improving — Manly's fine saying to Freeman, in the first act: " I weigh the man, not his title ; ' tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better or heavier "?
The first was published anonymously in 1950 ; the second by Roger Lancelyn Green, Richard Lancelyn Green and Lotte Reiniger ( illustrator ), reissued in 1995, and the third by Emma Gelders Sterne, Barbara Lindsay, Gustaf Tenggren and Mary Pope Osborne, published 2002.
These letters, modelled after Irish-born Poet, Laurence Sterne ´ s Sentimental Journey, were first printed in the Moscow Journal, which he edited, but were later collected and issued in six volumes ( 1797 – 1801 ).
They published Kay Boyle's first book-length work, Short Stories, in 1929, and works by Hart Crane, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Archibald MacLeish, Ernest Hemingway, Laurence Sterne, and Eugene Jolas.
He was first appointed to the council in 1998 to replace the retiring Bobbie L. Sterne and was elected in 1999, and re-elected in 2001, 2003, and 2005.
The first volume, titled Le Manuscript de Nicodemus ( The Manuscript of Nicodemus ), was drawn by René Sterne who suddenly died on November 15, 2006, delaying the publication of the book.
Earlier precursors include Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne, often cited as the first postmodernist novel, and The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel by the Irish author Laurence Sterne, written and first published in 1768, as Sterne was facing death.
The concept of a book intended essentially for display over perusal was mentioned much earlier by Michel de Montaigne in his essay Upon Some Verses of Virgil, first published in 1580: " I am vexed that my Essays only serve the ladies for a common movable, a book to lay in the parlor window ..." Almost two centuries later, Laurence Sterne in his 1759 comic novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman advanced the more lighthearted view that " As my life and opinions are likely to make some noise in the world, and ... be no less read than the Pilgrim's Progress itself-and, in the end, prove the very thing Montaigne dreaded his Essays should turn out, that is, a book for a parlour window ..."
They published Kay Boyle's first book-length work, Short Stores, in 1929. and works by Hart Crane, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Archibald MacLeish, Ernest Hemingway, Laurence Sterne, and Eugene Jolas.
At first, influenced by West and Fuseli, he essayed high art, and his earliest important subject depicted Saul and the Witch of Endor ; but he soon discovered his true aptitude and became a painter of cabinet-pictures, dealing, not like those of David Wilkie, with the contemporary life that surrounded him, but with scenes from the great masters of fiction, from Shakespeare and Cervantes, Addison and Molière, Swift, Sterne, Fielding and Smollett.

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The family was one of the first to be recognized as a distinct group in Jacques Daleschamps 1586 Historia generalis plantarum.
With Robert Morison s 1672 Plantarum umbelilliferarum distribution nova it became the first group of plants for which a systematic study was published.
With curtailment of the MCC funding, the European Union may replace the US as Armenia s chief source of foreign aid for the first time since independence.
During the first 11 months of 2006, the volume of Armenia s trade with Russia was $ 376. 8 million or 13. 2 percent of the total commercial exchange.
The first such application was Sabine s groundbreaking work in architectural acoustics, and many others followed.
* According to a note of Isaac de Beausobre s, Jean Hardouin accepted the first three of these, taking the four others for the initials of the Greek anthrōpoussōzōn hagiōi xylōi, “ saving mankind by the holy cross .”
Vipsania Agrippina was Agrippa s first daughter and first child from his first marriage to Pomponia Caecilia Attica.
Vipsania Marcella was Agrippa s second child from his second marriage to Augustus first niece and the paternal cousin of Julia the Elder, Claudia Marcella Major.
Her mother s marriage to Agrippa was her second marriage, as Julia the Elder was widowed from her first marriage, to her paternal cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and they had no children.
Livia was the first Roman Empress and was Augustus third wife ( from Livia s first marriage to praetor Tiberius Nero, she had two sons: the emperor Tiberius and the general Nero Claudius Drusus.
After the Circus Games, Caligula ordered written evidence of the court cases from Tiberius treason trials to be brought to the Forum to be burnt, first being the cases of Agrippina and her two sons.
Germanicus father, Drusus the Elder, was the second son of the Empress Livia Drusilla by her first marriage to praetor Tiberius Nero, and was the Emperor Tiberius s younger brother and Augustus s stepson.
In the first years of Claudius reign, Claudius was married to the infamous Empress Valeria Messalina.
In the first months of Nero s reign Agrippina controlled her son and the Empire.
They were well received by the king, George III of Georgia, whose anonymous sister had probably been Andronikos first wife.
Early evidence of such practices appears as markings on bones and cave walls, which show that lunar cycles were being noted as early as 25, 000 years ago ; the first step towards recording the Moon s influence upon tides and rivers, and towards organizing a communal calendar.
A plant s first line of defense against abiotic stress is in its roots.

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