Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

So far in history man has been too greatly over-occupied with projecting things into his environment rather than first creating the sort of person who can make the highest use of the things he has created.

the first use of the word `` rustler '' was as a synonym for `` hustler '', becomin' an established term for any person who was active, pushin', and bustlin' in any enterprise.

At first hardly a person in the audience moved, although some umbrellas were opened.

At first, Johnnie hadn't understood -- how could he, not being a religious person like me??

The President said the primary goal of his actions as president ( he used the first person pronoun and explicitly refers to his " official duty ") was preserving the Union:

Another candidate for one of the first scholars to carry out comparative ethnographic-type studies in person was the medieval Persian scholar Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī in the eleventh century, who wrote about the peoples, customs, and religions of the Indian subcontinent.

Two works by Mauss in particular proved to have enduring relevance: Essay on the Gift, a seminal analysis of exchange and reciprocity, and his Huxley lecture on the notion of the person, the first comparative study of notions of person and selfhood cross-culturally.

At first, the creators decided the positions of the necessary points to express the outline, eyes, nose, and so on of a certain person.

Affidavits may be written in the first or third person, depending on who drafted the document.

If in the first person, the document's component parts are:

The first three of these prizes are awarded for eminence in physical science, in chemistry and in medical science or physiology ; the fourth is for literary work " in an ideal direction " and the fifth prize is to be given to the person or society that renders the greatest service to the cause of international fraternity, in the suppression or reduction of standing armies, or in the establishment or furtherance of peace congresses.

* 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.

The first Sheriff, Mr Samuel Smart, was wounded during the robbery, and on 2 May 1838 one of the offenders, Michael Magee, became the first person to be hanged in South Australia.

If the replica had all the same experiences, traits, and physical appearances of the first person, we would all attribute the same identity to the second, according to Hick.

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly in space, reinforcing American fears about being left behind in a technological competition with the Soviet Union.

Paul Kolton was named as president of the exchange in 1971, making him the first person to be selected from within the exchange to serve as its leader, succeeding Ralph S. Saul, who announced his resignation in March 1971.

* 2008 – American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games.

* 1963 – American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

* 1875 – Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.

The works of this poetess are significant, because although they start out using the third person, they shift to the first person voice of the poet herself, and they mark a significant development in the use of cuneiform.

Then, in probably the most interesting part of the hymn, Enheduanna herself steps forward in the first person to recite her own past glories, establishing her credibility, and explaining her present plight.

Although the principle is more visually intuitive in the wave mechanics formalism, it was first derived and is more easily generalized in the matrix mechanics formalism.

Another way to view the statement, " Lightning causes thunder " is to see both lightning and thunder as two perceptions of the same event, viz., an electric discharge that we perceive first visually and then aurally.

Although there have been other currencies predating the euro that were specifically designed in similar ways ( different sizes, colours, and ridges ) to aid the visually impaired, the introduction of the euro constitutes the first time that authorities have consulted associations representing the blind and visually impaired before the release of a currency.

Historical ' firsts ' from this era, the world's earliest television crime drama Telecrime ( 1938 – 39 and 1946 ) or Pinwright's Progress ( 1946 – 47, the world's first regular situation comedy ), only remain visually as a handful of still photographs.

The first industrial artists experimented with noise and aesthetically controversial topics, musically and visually, such as fascism, serial killers and the occult.

Art Clokey also made a few highly experimental and visually inventive short clay animation films for adults, including his first student film Gumbasia ( 1955 ), the visually rich Mandala ( 1977 ) — described by Clokey as a metaphor for evolving human consciousness — and the equally bizarre The Clay Peacock ( 1963 ), an elaboration on the animated NBC logo of the time.

However, Word Canada still had labels, sleeves, and jackets from the first pressing so, not wanting to be wasteful, the disc was mastered to appear to have five tracks on side two by visually splitting " Horrendous Disc ".

Two assumptions underpinned the British approach to HAA fire ; first, aimed fire was the primary method and this was enabled by predicting gun data from visually tracking the target and having its height.

One of the first moves in that direction was the creation of the 1965 line of Ramblers, which split the Classic from the Ambassador visually, while still sharing a significant number of parts.

The first episode of the BBC television comedy Blackadder in part parodies the Olivier film, visually ( as in the crown motif ), Peter Cook's performance as a benevolent Richard, and by mangling Shakespearean text (" Now is the summer of our sweet content made o ' ercast winter by these Tudor clouds ...")

To do this, KGr 100 planes would attack as a small group first, dropping flares which other planes would then see and bomb visually.

Because most first person shooters utilize a respawn system, players who fall victim to a camper will have the opportunity to locate the camping spot, either visually or through the use of in game radar, and take the appropriate action to kill the player who is camping.

The Joy of Sex by Dr. Alex Comfort was the first visually explicit sex manual to be published by a mainstream publisher.

The aerodynamic features of the Sierra were developed from those first seen in the Escort Mark III — the " Aeroback " bootlid stump was proved to reduce the drag coefficient of the bodyshell significantly, which was a class leading Cd0. 34 at its launch, though not as good as the Cd0. 22 of the visually similar Ford Probe III concept car of the previous year, and also behind the contemporary third generation Audi 100 that was unveiled the same year-the first production car to get below the Cd0. 30 barrier with an impressive figure of Cd0. 28.

* In media-studies terminology, denotation is an example of the first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page.

After reviewing and conducting various studies, which found that blind and visually impaired people were consuming more television than ever but finding the activity problematic ( often relying on sighted family and friends to describe for them ), WGBH consulted more closely with Pfanstiehl and her husband, Cody, and then conducted its first tests of DVS in Boston in 1986.

Agents also have the ability to communicate with each other instantaneously and perceive what other humans wired into the Matrix do via a type of shared consciousness, represented visually via their earpieces ( when Agent Smith removes his earpiece during the first film, he is left unaware of the attack on his building ).

Chamberlain's wife herself was visually impaired, and he served on the first Board of Directors for the Agency.

However, demonstration events such as goalball and a 100 m sprint for the visually impaired allowed visually impaired competitors to participate for the first time.

At the 1976 games, amputees and visually impaired athletes competed for the first time ; previous editions of the Paralympic Games had included only wheelchair athletes.