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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.
", or the word " Copyright ", followed by the year of the first publication of the work and the name of the copyright holder — was part of U. S. statutory requirements.
The office originally granted the holder the ability to speak first at session on the topic presented by the presiding magistrate, but eventually gained the power to open and close the senate sessions, decide the agenda, decide where the session should take place, impose order and other rules of the session, meet in the name of the senate with embassies of foreign countries, and write in the name of the senate letters and dispatches.
The first was developed by the Badische Anilin-& Soda-Fabrik ( BASF ) and is based on the Wittig reaction with Wittig himself as patent holder:
The first holder of the title was John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough ( 1650 – 1722 ), the noted English general, and indeed an unqualified reference to the Duke of Marlborough in a historical text will almost certainly refer to him.
If a player is the first to build an improvement to the final level ( out-building the current holder of the metropolis ), they take the metropolis from its current holder.
* 1928 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D. C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.
The eight-day festival is marked by the kindling of lights — one on the first night, two on the second, and so on — using a special candle holder called a Chanukkiyah, or a Hanukkah menorah.
When Joseph Trenaman left the BBC's Further Education Unit to become the first holder of the Granada Research Fellowship in Television at Leeds University.
* En-hedu-ana, Akkadian 2285 BC-2250 BC was the first known holder of the title, " En Priestess.
* Robert L. Morris ( 1942 – 2004 ), first holder of the Koestler Chair of Parapsychology at the University of Edinburgh
When Wilson re-entered government in 1974 Jenkins returned to the Home Office, but, increasingly disenchanted by the swing to the left of the Labour Party, he chose to leave British politics in 1976 and was appointed President of the European Commission in 1977, serving until 1981: he was the first and to date only British holder of this office.
A black man named Anthony Johnson of Virginia first introduced permanent black slavery in the 1650s by becoming the first holder in America of permanent black slaves.
* February 25 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D. C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.
** Gyaltsab Je, first throne holder of the Gelug tradition of Buddhism ( d. 1432 )
The first continuous round of the Munros was completed by Hamish Brown in 1974, whilst the current holder of the record for the fastest continuous round is Stephen Pyke who completed his 2010 round in just under 40 days.
The office was instituted in 1189 with the first holder of the office being Henry Fitz-Ailwin de Londonestone.
Hazel O ' Leary, Bill Clinton's first Secretary of Energy, was first female and African-American holder, as well as the longest to hold the position.
From 1863, he was privatdozent in comparative anatomy and zoology ; from 1866 extraordinary professor ; and from 1873 to 1912 full professor, first holder of the chair in zoology and director of the zoological institute at Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg in Breisgau.
The first year the work was published follows the copyright symbol, and the name of the copyright holder thereafter.
Camilla, second wife of The Prince of Wales, legally holds the title " Princess of Wales ", but at the time that the engagement was announced, it was declared that she would be known by the title " Duchess of Cornwall " ( derived from one of the other titles her husband holds as heir apparent ) in deference, it has been reported, to public feelings about the title's previous holder, the Prince's first wife Diana.
The first holder of the title was Bill Manhire who held the post of Poet Laureate from 1998 – 99.

first and post
The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.
It seemed like a good time for officials to use a recently-passed law empowering the post office department to contract for the transport of first class mail by air.
* 1994 – Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
From there he waged an intermittent civil war against his grandfather, which first secured him recognition of his post as co-emperor, and ultimately led to the deposition of Andronikos II in 1328.
In 1810, John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company sent the Astor Expedition that founded Fort Astoria as its primary fur-trading post in the Northwest, and in fact the first permanent U. S. settlement on the Pacific coast.
It returns one Member of Parliament ( MP ) by the first past the post system.
Due to recorded predictions of the destruction of the temple, the Gospel of Mark is believed by many critical scholars to have been composed around or shortly after the fall of Jerusalem due to prophecies assumed to be ex post facto regarding the destruction of the temple, and both traditional and critical scholarly consensus maintains that it was the first written of the four canonical gospels.
The first post office in the village opened on 28 July 1884.
The first post office opened in 1872.
Attlee came first in both the first and second ballots, and subsequently retained the leadership, a post which he would keep until 1955.
The Presidency of the Council is not a single post, but is held by a member state's government ( Denmark for the first half of 2012 ).
The first official post was that of quaestor.
It elects one Member of Parliament ( MP ) by the first past the post system of election, and is part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects six MEPs using the d ' Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.
Rando, senior vice president and general manager of Compaq Services, who had been said to be the heir-apparent to Pfieffer ; his division had performed strongly as it had sales of $ 1. 6 billion for the first quarter compared to $ 113 million in 1998, which met expectations and was anticipated to post accelerated and profitable growth going forward.
The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle in present-day Delaware in the Middle region by establishing a trading post at Zwaanendael, near the site of Lewes in 1631.
Thompson mapped and established trading posts in Northwestern Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Western Canada ; including Kootenae House and Saleesh House ; the first trading post west of the Rockies in Montana extending North West Company fur trading territories.
* 1847 – Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post.
The AMS was originally designed to leverage Technicolor's DVD manufacturing and distribution arm but when the first feature came to post production too late for reproduction Technicolor leveraged the AMS removable hard disk drives to the transport the files.
Also in that year, she was made one of the visiting physicians of the East London Hospital for Children, becoming the first woman in Britain to be appointed to a medical post, but she found the duties of these two positions to be incompatible with her principal work in her private practice and the dispensary, as well as her role as a new mother, so she resigned from these posts by 1873.
The term first past the post ( abbreviated FPTP or FPP ) was coined as an analogy to horse racing, where the winner of the race is the first to pass a particular point ( the " post ") on the track ( in this case a plurality of votes ), after which all other runners automatically and completely lose ( that is, the payoff is " winner-takes-all ").
The first person to post a weekly FAQ was Jef Poskanzer to the Usenet net. graphics / comp. graphics newsgroups.

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