Absalon left a legacy as the foremost politician and churchfather of Denmark in the 12th century.

He left a widow and three surviving children, who were rescued from poverty by the generosity of their father's friends ; amongst the foremost of these friends were Sir Robert Peel, Count d ' Orsay, Mr. Justice Talfourd, and Lord Carlisle.

Khan is the foremost structural engineer of the 20th century who left an unprecedented and lasting influence on the profession, both nationally and internationally.

The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia's foremost museum, did not bid on any of Cope's sales due to bad blood between Cope and the museum's leaders ; as a result, many of Cope's major finds left the city.

Following Annibale Carracci's death in 1609, Annibale's Bolognese pupils, foremost Domenichino, Albani, Reni and Lanfranco, became the leading painters in Rome ( Caravaggio had left Rome in 1606 and his followers there did not compete successfully with the Bolognese for fresco or altarpiece commissions ).

The 3 foremost Nayanars with Manikkavacakar-collectively called the Nalvars: ( from left ) Sambandar, Appar, Sundarar, Manikkavacakar.

During this action, in which Lieutenant CAIRNS took a foremost part, he was attacked by a Japanese officer, who, with his sword, hacked off Lieutenant CAIRNS left arm.

The 4 foremost Nayanars with Manikkavacakar-collectively called the Nalvars: ( from left ) Sambandar, Appar, Sundarar, Manikkavacakar.

Then he left for Ootacamund, a hill town in the Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu popularly known as Ooty, where Swami Bodhananda, one of Narayana Guru's foremost disciples, had an Ashram.

Two of the more puzzling details of the painting are, one, the fact that the heads of Jesus and St. John seem to visually meld together in the upper left corner, and, two, the fact of the prominent presence, in the very center of the canvas and in foremost plane of the picture, of the arresting officer's highly polished, metal-clad arm.

The first and foremost agenda was on the reorganization of Katipunan in the town, following the instructions of the Commanding General of Central Luzon ( the limping body organized by Aguinaldo to supervise what was left of the revolutionary army ) as read by Kapatid Restituto Javier, with the nom-de-guerre Mapangahas, to “ promptly obtain the independence of our beloved country .” Other matters agreed upon were the formation of a special police body against traitors to “ the holy cause which we defend ” and for the provision of an efficient mailing system to be abreast with the system of communication.

Though the advent of new mechanical processes had rendered wood engraving almost a lost art and left practically no demand for the work of such craftsmen, Mr Cole was thus enabled to continue his work, and became one of the foremost contemporary masters of wood engraving.

A team of the world's foremost experts is able to build the android, even though they do not understand the components with which they are working — they are only able to follow the instructions, and install the parts, left by Vaslovik, who has disappeared.

In the film Ghatak depicts the great economic and socio-political crisis eating up the very entrails of the existence of Bengal from 1948 to 1962 ; how the crisis has first and foremost left one bereft of one's conscience, one's moral sense.

Among the observers of the 1946 tsunami at Hilo was Francis P. Shepard of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, one of the world's foremost marine geologists.

Heigo was academically gifted, but soon after failing to secure a place in Tokyo's foremost high school, he began to detach himself from the rest of the family, preferring to concentrate on his interest in foreign literature.

As for the foremost one in the matter of Islam and faith, it was Ali ibn Abi Talib '" Other Sunnis and all Shi ' a Muslims maintain that the second person to publicly accept Muhammed as the messenger of God was Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first being Muhammad's wife Khadija.

He was the foremost politician and churchfather of Denmark in the second half of the 12th century, and was the closest advisor of King Valdemar I of Denmark.

He was schooled traditionally, took a craftsman-like approach to his work, and desired academic recognition, although he was never accepted into Paris's foremost school of art.

He was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns.

Housman was counted one of the foremost classicists of his age, and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars of all time.

This was reinforced when their foremost interpreter and performer, Gervase Elwes ( who had initiated the music festivals at Brigg in Lincolnshire at which Percy Grainger and others had developed their collections of country music ) died in a horrific accident in 1921.

José Antonio Saco, one of Cuba's foremost thinkers, was expelled from Cuba.

Melbourne's Southern Cross Hotel was built and named in 1962 and was one of the city's foremost hotels during the decade.

Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt FRS ( 14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875 ) was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day.

The polyphonic organization of different melodies to sound at the same time was still a relatively new invention then, and it is understandable that the mathematical or physical relationships in frequency that give rise to the musical intervals as we hear them, should be foremost among the preoccupations of Medieval musicians.

" Although he ostensibly planned to become a physician, he was " first and foremost an ornithologist.

William Friedman, America's foremost cryptologist, was heavily influenced by Poe.

One of the foremost experts on electricity in the 18th century was Benjamin Franklin, who argued in favour of a one-fluid theory of electricity.

The new park, unlike Sun Life Stadium ( which was criticized in its baseball configuration for poor sight lines in some locations ), was designed foremost as a baseball park.

Among the gnostics, gnosis was first and foremost a matter of self-knowledge, which was considered the path leading to the goal of enlightenment as the hidden knowledge of the various pre-Judeo-Christian pagan Mystery-Religions.

Here, he was given his nickname “ Grien .” This name foremost comes from his preference to the color green, and secondly to distinguish him from the three other Hans ’ in the apprenticeship.

One such campaign claimed the life of the foremost Slavic druzhina leader, Svyatoslav I, who was renowned for having crushed the power of the Khazars on the Volga.

One of the foremost areas of concern is a lack of legal rights, for want of an independent judiciary, rule of law, and due process.

Dan-Air, one of Britain's foremost wholly private, independent airlines during the 1970s and 80s, eventually became the third-biggest operator at Tegel Airport, ahead of Air France.

As Jackie Salit noted in the Christian Science Monitor: " At its founding meeting in Kansas City in 1997, the 40 black delegates in the room, led by the country ’ s foremost African-American independent – Lenora Fulani – represented the first time in US history that African-Americans were present at the founding of a major national political party.

The merged entity eventually became Britain's foremost independent, international scheduled airline.

Rival charter airline Skyways, one of Britain's foremost independent airlines during the 1950s and early 1960s, had been taken over by Euravia in 1962.

British Caledonian ( BCal ), Britain's foremost wholly private, independent airline and the country's " second force " carrier as well as Laker Airways's neighbour at Gatwick, became the fiercest opponent.

And now it aids the Muslims in every place with financial help, building Islamic centres and masaajid, sending du ’ aat, printing books foremost amongst them-the Noble Qur ’ aan, opening centres of learning and Sharee ’ ah colleges, and also it rules by the Islamic Sharee ’ ah and has an independent body for enjoining good and forbidding evil in every town.

Gandhi's maternal grandfather was C. Rajagopalachari, free India's first Head of State, the first Indian Governor General of independent India and one of the foremost fighters for Indian independence.

Rainis, who became Latvia's foremost dramatist and the literary figure " inseparably linked to the birth of the independent Latvian nation and the struggle for freedom " Stranga, was also the leading figure in the New Current ).

The reason for this was that there was no provision in the original 1946 Bermuda agreement that would have allowed British Caledonian ( BCal ), then the UK's foremost wholly privately owned, independent international scheduled airline, to use the licences the UK Civil Aviation Authority ( CAA ) had awarded it in 1972 to begin daily scheduled services from its London Gatwick base to Houston and Atlanta.

How could the Kambojas who otherwise find so prominent a mention ( 1 ) as independent rulers of a great Mahajanapada per Buddhist texts of 500 BCE ; 2 ) as a very salient Kshatriya tribe in Pāṇini's Ashtadhyayi of 400 BCE ; ( 3 ) as an important self-ruling people in Arthashastra of Kautiliya (~ 300 BCE )– the prime minister of Chandragupta Maurya which authority also glorifies the war horses of the Kamboja to be the foremost among the best breed of the known horses while making no reference whatsoever to the Gandharas or their horses ; and ( 4 ) lastly but not the least, also being so importantly referred to the Shahbazgarhi and Mansehra Rock Edicts of Asoka (~ 250 BCE ) etc – fell out of limelight so abruptly and becoming virtually extinct so suddenly in the intervening period of Alexander's invasion ( 326 BCE ) just 50 – 60 years anterior to king Asoka's reign unless we equate them to same people as the Aspasioi and Assakenoi of the Greek writings?