No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

He had received both first and second anonymous notices, and each time he had accused his neighbors of writing them.

When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

For ten minutes they ran beneath the squall, raising their arms and, for the first time, shouting and capering.

He returned to Germany for the first time in 1953, where he has since conducted in Cologne, Frankfurt, and Berlin.

And for the first time a representative of the highest office in the land would have been liable to the charge that he had attempted to make it a successorship by inheritance.

Mother and son recognize each other and, in Mann's version of this legend, make a remarkable confession of guilt to each other, the confession of unconscious motive and unconscious knowledge of their true identities from the time they had first set eyes on each other.

Hearst saw his wife and child, sent a joyful message to his mother in California, and soon returned to Washington, where on April 22, for the first time, he opened his mouth in Congress.

`` We are menaced for the first time in the history of the Republic by the open and unblushing effort of a multi-millionaire to purchase the Presidential nomination.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

This was historic in its way, for it marked the first time an American Presidential aspirant had advertised his own virtues in his own string of newspapers spanning the land.

To consolidate what her Navy had won, the Czarina was fortunate that, for the first time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed absolute unity of command under her favorite Giaour.

Probably every visitor has a favorite time for his first sight of it.

The first time I went there he asked me to bring him water from Flagler's well -- water that reminded him of his first days in the mountains -- and before I came the next time I filled a five-gallon jug for him and brought it to the hospital.

In the eighteenth century there emerges for the first time the notion of a private tragedy ( or nearly for the first time, there having been a small number of Elizabethan domestic tragedies such as the famous Arden Of Feversham ).

With destructive tensions and pressures removed men have the vigor and energy to construct a new human life -- rebuilding entire cities, expanding facilities for entertainment, providing unlimited opportunities for education -- indeed, for the first time giving everyone the chance to employ his talents to the fullest.

The work as it stands is not the entire book that Malraux wrote at that time -- it is only the first section of a three-part novel called La Lutte avec l'Ange ; ;

An Italian poet had noticed plainclothes policemen lounging around the area of Quirinal Palace, the first time since the war.

Another optimistic sign, this one from the Labor Department, was the report that the long rise in unemployment compensation payments `` was interrupted for the first time in the week ending Feb. 25 ''.

He was granted lands by the crown, and built the first fortification of the city that evolved into modern-day Copenhagen.

The first known example of " modern style " graffiti survives in the ancient Greek city of Ephesus ( in modern-day Turkey ).

The first insurance company in the United States underwrote fire insurance and was formed in Charles Town ( modern-day Charleston ), South Carolina, in 1732.

Various saints such as the Celts Samson of Dol and Branwaldr ( Brelade ) were active in the region, although tradition has it that it was Saint Helier from Tongeren in modern-day Belgium who first brought Christianity to the Island in the 6th century, and Charlemagne sent his emissary to the island ( at that time called Angia, also spelt Agna )< ref >

At first the kingdom was little more than a loose collection of towns and cities captured during the crusade, but at its height in the mid-12th century the kingdom roughly encompassed the territory of modern-day Israel, Lebanon and Palestine.

Metal-coated glass mirrors are said to have been invented in Sidon ( modern-day Lebanon ) in the first century AD, and glass mirrors backed with gold leaf are mentioned by the Roman author Pliny in his Natural History, written in about 77 AD.

The first known inhabitants of the modern-day Pakistan region are believed to have been the Soanian ( Homo erectus ), who settled in the Soan Valley and Riwat 1. 9 million years ago.

The potato was first domesticated in the region of modern-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia between the 8000 and 5000 BCE.

Tyre, on the coast of modern-day Lebanon, was the last major Crusader city that was not captured by Muslim forces ( strategically, it would have made more sense for Saladin to capture Tyre before Jerusalem — however, Saladin chose to pursue Jerusalem first because of the importance of the city to Islam ).

In 751 AD, during the mid-Tang Dynasty, Huating County was established at modern-day Songjiang, the first county-level administration within modern-day Shanghai.

When the proto-Greeks ( peoples whose language would evolve into Greek proper ) first arrived in the Aegean and on the mainland of modern-day Greece early in the 2nd millennium BCE, they found localized nymphs and divinities already connected with every important feature of the landscape: mountain, cave, grove and spring all had their own locally venerated deity.

David C. Sutherland III created the modern-day wemic for a game product called Monster Cards Set 3, a first edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons supplement released in 1982 ; with the artwork for the original depiction being undertaken by Jim Roslof.

** Effective date of Canada's first modern-day treaty – The Nisga ' a Final Agreement

* 1075 – 1077: the Song Dynasty of China and the Lý Dynasty of Vietnam fight a border war, with Vietnamese forces striking first on land and with their navy, and afterwards Song armies advancing as far as modern-day Hanoi, the capital, but withdraw after Lý makes peace overtures ; in 1082, both sides exchange the territories that they had captured during the war, and later a border agreement is reached.

* In New Haven, Connecticut, U. S., Louis Lassen of Louis ' Lunch makes the first modern-day hamburger sandwich.

* 1822 – The first group of freed slaves from the USA arrive in modern-day Liberia and found Monrovia ( see History of Liberia ).

* Between July 19, 1566 and July 7, 1567 – The first bridge crossing the Neretva river at Mostar ( in modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina ) is completed by the Ottoman Empire.

* History of Liberia: The first group of freed slaves from the United States arrive in modern-day Liberia and found Monrovia.

* The Battle of the Camel between Ali and Aisha, part of the first civil war in Islam, takes place in modern-day Basra, Iraq.

According to Nicephorus ( Historia eccl., 2, 40 ), Matthias first preached the Gospel in Judaea, then in Aethiopia ( made out to be a synonym for the region of Colchis, now in modern-day Georgia ) and was crucified in Colchis.

The first modern-day hot air balloon to be built in the United Kingdom ( UK ) was the Bristol Belle in 1967.

Some 80 years later, around 1600, Don Pedro Sánchez de Tagle, the Marquis of Altamira, began mass-producing tequila at the first factory in the territory of modern-day Jalisco.

During the Neolithic era, the territory of modern-day Austria was home to the Linear pottery culture, one of the first agrarian cultures in Europe.

Jerusalem's first three rulers, Godfrey of Bouillon ( 1099 – 1100 ), his brother Baldwin I ( 1100 – 1118 ), and their cousin Baldwin II ( 1118 – 1131 ), expanded and secured the kingdom's borders, which encompassed roughly the same territory as modern-day Israel, Palestine, and Lebanon.