It was probably in 401 that Alaric made his first invasion of Italy, Supernatural influences were not lacking to urge him to this great enterprise.

He tinformed Olga Carlisle that, at the end of The Blind Beauty, he wished to depict " the birth of an enlightened and affluent middle class, open to occidental influences, progressive, intelligent, artistic ..." However, Pasternak fell ill with terminal lung cancer before he could complete the first play of the trilogy.

Fakhr-al-Din was the first ruler in modern Lebanon to open the doors of his country to foreign Western influences.

Horror films ' income expansion is only the first sign of the influences of horror flicks.

Cultural influences from all points of the compass are visible in the Finnish archeological finds from the very first settlements onwards.

In contrast to the Northern Italian language, southern Italian dialects and languages were largely untouched by the Franco-Occitan influences introduced to Italy, mainly by bards from France, during the Middle Ages but, after the Norman conquest of southern Italy, Sicily became the first Italian land to adopt Occitan lyric moods ( and words ) in poetry.

The acid jazz flavours and ethnic influences of the first three albums continued with the release of Synkronized, and Jay Kay's interest in funk and disco music were shifting the band's directions towards such.

While admitting that Russia's rural " commune is the fulcrum of social regeneration in Russia ", Marx also warned that, in order for the mir to operate as a means for moving straight to the socialist stage without a preceding capitalist stage, it " would first be necessary to eliminate the deleterious influences which are assailing it ( the rural commune ) from all sides.

Dr. Jordan's work " The Romance in Your Name " was the first to provide a fairly comprehensive system for identifying key numerological influences in one's name and birth date and remains a seminal interpretive guide for practitioners today.

Frank Zappa and his group The Mothers of Invention began to incorporate psychedelic influences in their first two albums Freak Out!

When he first started writing songs for the Pixies, Francis says he was listening to nothing but Hüsker Dü, Captain Beefheart, and Iggy Pop ; Other influences associated with Francis include The Gun Club and The Cars.

It is, indeed, presented as the second part of the study of astronomy of which the Almagest was the first, concerned with the influences of the celestial bodies in the sublunar sphere.

The latter is inspired by several dark fantasy influences, notably that of H. P. Lovecraft ; most notably, Dimensional Shamblers appear as enemies, the " Spawn " enemies are called " Formless Spawn of Tsathoggua " in the manual, the end boss of the first episode is named Chthon, and the final boss is named Shub-Niggurath ( though actually resembling a Dark Young ).

Over the first few albums their style remained essentially hard rock, with heavy influences from The Who and Led Zeppelin but also became increasingly influenced by bands of the British progressive rock movement.

In the late 1940s, New Orleans musicians were especially receptive to Cuban influences precisely at the time when R & B was first forming.

Deriving from " post "- acid house, the term was first used by the British music media and press as a way to describe the more experimental variant of breakbeat which contained influences of soul, funk and jazz.

Some clothing and mens hairstyles had influences from the 1950s, especially in the first part of the decade.

Most of Stein's important works utilize this technique, including the novel The Makings of Americans ( 1906 – 08 ) Not only were they the first important patrons of Cubism, Gertrude Stein and her brother Leo were also important influences on Cubism as well.

Their culture in large part became identified with early Christianity during the first and second century after being previously regarded as pagans and polytheists during the earlier influences of Hellenism and Rome.

As their religious beliefs in the Gospel later deteriorated away from first and second century Christianity, the Goths would become identified again with occultism, paganism and the earlier beliefs associated with their classical spiritual influences.

The Town Hall ( converted first to an arts centre, then a bar, and now empty ) is a Victorian blend of Italian and Flemish influences set in a small market square.

This hybrid architecture was to remain almost unchanged for nearly a century, until Inigo Jones introduced strong classical influences from Italy to the London palaces of the first Stuart kings.

One of the first racially diverse American pop bands, their music reflected different influences, combining elements of rock and roll, garage rock, folk and psychedelia.

" The band Watchtower, who released their first album in 1985, blended the modern thrash metal sound with heavy progressive influences, and even Megadeth were often and still are often associated with progressive metal, as Dave Mustaine even once claimed that the band was billed as " jazz metal " in the early ' 80s.

* 1968 – James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U. S. Marine.

Du Bois ' Black Reconstruction, first published in 1935, historians have noted African American contributions during Reconstruction to founding what were often the first systems of public education and welfare institutions in the South, gave muted praise for Republican efforts to extend suffrage and provide other social institutions, and excoriated Johnson for opposing the extension of basic rights to freedmen.

* 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

A History of African Americans, by John Hope Franklin, Alfred Moss, McGraw-Hill Education 2001, standard work, first edition in 1947.

* 1975 – Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.

* Robert Upshaw, first African Canadian in the RCMP

* 1994 – South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote.

* 1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.

* 1972 – Abeid Karume, African political leader, first president of Zanzibar ( b. 1905 )

On their 1950 tour of New Zealand and Australia they also adopted the nickname British Lions, first used by British and South African journalists on the 1924 South African tour, after the lion emblem on their ties, the emblem on their jerseys having been dropped in favour of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions.

Herald photographer Stanley Forman received two Pulitzer Prizes consecutively in 1976 and 1977, the first being a dramatic shot of a young child falling in mid-air from her mother's arms on the upper stories of a burning apartment building to the waiting arms of firefighters below, and the latter ( known as " The soiling of Old Glory ") being of Ted Landsmark, an African American city official, being beaten with an American flag during Boston's school busing crisis.

The issue was resolved after the first Test of the series against the touring South African team.

Toni Morrison once described Bill Clinton as the first black president, because of his warm relations with African Americans, his poor upbringing and also because he is a jazz musician.

John Caesar, nicknamed " Black Caesar ", was one of the first people of recent African descent to arrive in Australia.

It was first proposed by South African Prime Minister J.

A series of four international conferences held first under Nigerian and then Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) sponsorship attempted to bring the Chadian factions together.

On 13 August 1960 the Central African Republic became an independent country and David Dacko became its first President.

Realizing that the grammatical structures of Bantu languages are quite different from those of European languages, he was one of the first African linguists of his time to abandon the Euro-centric approach to language description for a more locally grounded one.

Carl Friedrich Michael Meinhof ( July 23, 1857 – February 11, 1944 ) was a German linguist and one of the first linguists to study African languages.

These are among the first recordings made of traditional African music.

In, Cleveland broke another color barrier with the hiring of Frank Robinson as Major League Baseball's first African American manager.

Kenya is the first African country to produce a completely processed census within one year after census