The approximately 88 passengers and 34 crew ( surviving records vary ) included government officials, circuit-court judges, Darwin residents taking their first furlough, and miners.

" Robber's Roost was the first business in the valley, other than the early trading that occurred among American Indians, cattle drivers, trappers, and miners.

The eight-hour movement's struggle finally led to the first law on the length of a working day, passed in 1833 in England, limiting miners to 12 hours, and children to 8 hours.

In 1567, Swiss physician Paracelsus suggested unidentified substance in mined ore ( identified as radon gas in modern times ) caused a wasting disease in miners, and in England, in 1761, John Hill made the first direct link of cancer to chemical substances by noting that excessive use of snuff may cause nasal cancer.

" Even though at first they were thought to be too weak or fragile to do this type of work, after the first few days on which Chinese were on the line, the decision was made to hire as many as could be found in California ( where most were independent gold miners or in service industries such as laundries and kitchens ).

As placer mining was gradually replaced by underground lode mining, the year 1863 brought the first attempt by hard rock miners to form a hard rock miners ' union.

On January 5, 1925, she became the first female governor in the history of the United States .. As governor she continued her late husband's policies, which called for tax cuts, government assistance for poor farmers, banking reform, and laws protecting children, women workers, and miners.

These first miners tended to be families in which everyone helped in the effort.

On their arrival, the British Royal Engineer tunnelling companies became actively engaged in offensive mining against German miners, first stopping the German underground advance and then developing a defensive strategy that prevented the Germans from gaining a tactical advance through their mining activities.

Chorzów is believed to be first mentioned as Zversov or Zuersov ( u and v were written similar in Middle Ages ) in a document of 1136 by Pope Innocent II as village with peasants, silver miners and two inns.

It was first settled by miners and stockmen in the early 1860s.

The flow wasn ’ t at first large enough to stop work, but experienced miners thought the water flow would increase, and it did.

The first extensive survey of the area was conducted by Gila Rangers who were pursuing Indians who had been raiding the Butterfield Overland Mail route and miners at Gila City.

As the miners left Sacramento traveling to the foothills in search of gold, way stations grew up along the first dirt trails, and later more formal roads, that took travelers east.

The first major tragedy occurred in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine near the city's railroad junction on June 28, 1896, when a massive cave-in killed 58 miners.

Finally on March 12 the body of Peter McLaughlin was recovered, the first of the miners to be found.

Experienced English and Welsh miners arrived first from their home lands.

The ordeal led the miners to name their forced camp “ Winter Quarters ” and this became one of the first commercial coal mines in the state.

Most the first miners at the Winter Quarters were Mormon converts from the coal districts of Wales, England and Scotland.

At first the gold may be washed from the sand and gravel by individual miners with little training, using a gold pan or similar simple instrument.

The first miners may at first build a simple arrastra to crush their ore ; later, they may build stamp mills to crush ore more quickly.

Greenhorn was first populated in the 1860s as miners prospected for gold in the area.

In August 1825, he passed entrance exams at Harvard University, though when the college requested payment of tuition fees for the first two years which he had successfully challenged by examination, he chose not to attend.

Discovering the first thing the wounded soldiers requested was a glass of cold milk, he arranged for movie starlets to meet them and pour the milk for them.

Wollheim made an offer for Jordan's first novel, Warriors of the Ataii, though he withdrew the offer when Jordan requested some minor changes to the contract.

When a key is requested, first the node checks the local data store.

" Under this principle, refugees who requested asylum in another country first, or who had the opportunity to do so would not subsequently be granted asylum in Malawi.

In 2001 on the popular game show Kaun Banega Crorepati's first season hosted by Amitabh Bachchan she won 50, 00, 000 that she donated for the welfare of Gujarat's earthquake victims. The show was aired on February 10 at 8 pm on Star Plus. Madhuri Dixit is also requested to the producers of KBC to send part of her winnings to an orphanage in Pune.

George Washington first claimed privilege when Congress requested to see Chief Justice John Jay's notes from an unpopular treaty negotiation with Great Britain.

Zeno pointed out that the Senate should rightfully have first requested that Julius Nepos take the throne once more ; but he nonetheless agreed to their requests.

In July 2003, on the occasion of the British Museum's 250th anniversary, Egypt first requested the return of the Rosetta Stone.

* 1795 – The first occupation by United Kingdom of Cape Colony, South Africa with the Battle of Hout Bay, after successive victories at the Battle of Muizenberg and Wynberg, after William V requested protection against revolutionary France's occupation of the Netherlands.

The first action plan of the CEPT Group GSM, approved in December 1982, requested " The services and facilities offered in the public switched telephone networks and public data networks ... should be available in the mobile system ".

Harding requested and obtained from the Congress authorization for the country's first formal budgeting process via the establishing of the Bureau of the Budget.

This reading is given further weight early in the first act when Estragon asks Vladimir what it is that he has requested from Godot:

* 1267 – Roger Bacon completes his work Opus Majus and sends it to Pope Clement IV, who had requested it be written ; the work contains wide-ranging discussion of mathematics, optics, alchemy, astronomy, astrology, and other topics, and includes what some believe to be the first description of a magnifying glass.

* Roger Bacon completes his work Opus Majus and sends it to Pope Clement IV, who had requested it be written ; the work contains wide-ranging discussion of mathematics, optics, alchemy, astronomy, astrology, and other topics, and includes what some believe to be the first description of a magnifying glass.

The first Halloween document, requested by senior vice-president James Allchin for the attention of senior vice-president Paul Maritz and written by Microsoft program manager Vinod Valloppillil, was leaked to Eric Raymond in October 1998, who immediately published an annotated version on his web site.

Later that same year, Psyche's history repeated itself when Gero Herrde from Synthetic Symphony / SPV requested that Psyche re-release their first two albums allowing for the chance to remaster the material, add historical early recordings, and update the design for the legendary " Insomnia Theatre " and " Unveiling The Secret " albums.

According to Kevin Benson, the 10th director of the school, " The first ' official ' reference to the School of Advanced Military Studies ( SAMS ) graduates as Jedi Knights was on 12 May 1992 during a meeting of the Committee on Armed Services Military Education Panel in Washington D. C ." Congressman Ike Skelton stated, " we all know that the real stamp of approval came when General Schwarzkopf requested SAMS graduates, sometimes referred to as ' Jedi Knights ," be sent to his headquarters in Riyadh to assist in developing the campaign plan.

The US was the first country from which Lumumba requested help.

Although every division commander requested two drops on the first day, Brereton's staff scheduled only one lift based on the need to prepare for the first drop by bombarding German flak positions for half a day and a weather forecast on the afternoon of 16 September ( which soon proved erroneous ) that the area would have clear conditions for four days, so allowing drops during them.

The court requested Yuan's return on 27 October, but he repeatedly declined offers from the Qing Court for his return, first as the Viceroy of Huguang, and then as Prime Minister of the Imperial Cabinet.

When a subject requests an operation on an object in an ACL-based security model the operating system first checks the ACL for an applicable entry to decide whether the requested operation is authorized.

Joan was buried, as requested in her will, at the Greyfriars, the site of the present hospital, in Stamford in Lincolnshire, beside her first husband.

Unlike in the first episode in which Hector refuses her offer of the cup, Priam accepts and is rewarded with the requested omen.