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Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.
When Estragon declares that he is hungry, Vladimir provides a carrot, most of which, and without much relish, the former eats.
The VVD provides three of twelve Queen's Commissioners, former party-leader Ed Nijpels is Queen's Commissioner in Friesland.
" Article 15 of the Law on Bulgarian Citizenship provides that an individual " of Bulgarian origin " ( ethnicity ) may be naturalized without any waiting period and without having to show a source of income, knowledge of the Bulgarian language, or renunciation of his former citizenship.
*: Finnish law provides a right of return to ethnic Finns from the former Soviet Union, including Ingrians.
On radio stations WBNS-FM ( flagship ), WBNS and WWCD, and 26 other affiliates in Ohio, George Matthews provides play-by-play coverage, with analysis provided by former Syracuse Crunch radio broadcaster Bob McElligott.
The Riverside County Sheriff's Department provides police services to the entire Perris Valley area ( including the nearby towns / areas of Mead Valley, Quail Valley and Glen Valley, and the Cities of Canyon Lake and newly-incorporated Menifee ) from its regional station on 4th Street ( in the former headquarters of the now-disbanded Perris Police Department ).
The famed Echo Trail ( Saint Louis County Road 116 ), is a former logging road that runs north and west out of Ely and provides the primary access to the lakes of the western Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness ( BWCAW ).
The event provides subtle continuity to the heritage of former warden Robert Thistlethwayte, who fled England in 1739 after a homosexual scandal prompting the limerick:
This Home Rule form of government provides the Municipality with greater powers of governance than the former Borough form of government.
The Pasco School District's renovated Edgar Brown Memorial Stadium, constructed in a former gravel pit used in the construction of the Blue Bridge, provides a unique venue for outdoor athletic events.
* JWRecovery Magazine-An ex-JW community contributed magazine / journal which provides information and support assistance to former Jehovah's Witnesses.
California Senator Barbara Boxer in December 2006 withdrew a " certificate of accomplishment " originally given to former CAIR official Basim Elkarra after Boxer's staff looked into CAIR, and she became concerned about some of CAIR's past statements and actions, and statements by some law enforcement officials that it provides aid to international terrorist groups.
The R665 road connects Mitchelstown to Clonmel, while the former N8 now redesignated as the R639 provides an alternative route from Mitchelstown to Cork, Fermoy and Cahir.
" Ring 10, a non-profit organization that helps impoverished former fighters, provides McClellan with a monthly food credit and raises funds to assist in payment of other necessities.
* Joule Physics Laboratory provides a suite of new, purpose-built physics teaching laboratories and is named after James Prescott Joule, whose former home is situated opposite the Peel Building.
The Union Pacific Railroad, which took over the C & NW, operates today in Clinton on former C & NW tracks and on a remnant of the former Milwaukee Road west to Beloit, where it provides a rail connection to Fairbanks-Morse.
The so-called " Terror Files " ( Portuguese: " Arquivos do Terror ") – a whole set of 60, 000 documents, weighting 4 tons and making 593, 000 microfilmed pages which were discovered by a former Paraguayan political prisoner Marti Almada, in Lambare, Paraguay, in 1992 – provides even higher numbers: the total result of Southern Cone Operation Condor had left up to 50, 000 killed, 30, 000 missing and 400, 000 arrested.
Metra's Electric Line, located on the former Illinois Central, has several stops in Hyde Park and provides service to downtown by way of Millennium Station.
* Accenture SAP Solutions provides SAP computer software to clients, created with former Coritel BPM SAP resources.
1 Enoch, dating from the period between the Old and New Testaments, separates the dead into the righteous and the wicked, and provides the former with a spring, perhaps signifying that these are the " living " ( i. e. a spring ) waters of life.
The Birmingham Civic Society provides for a blue plaque scheme in and around Birmingham, there are currently in excess of 80 plaques commemorating notable former Birmingham residents and historical places of interest.
This webcast series provides a never-before-seen look at the Company and Cunningham ’ s teaching technique with video of advanced technique class, Company rehearsal, archival footage, and interviews with current and former Company members, choreographers, and collaborators.

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Data on the former are scanty, but there can be little doubt that the latter is sometimes born at a length greater than that of any of the others, thereby lending support to the belief that the anaconda does, indeed, attain the greatest length.
In 1989, the death of former general secretary Hu Yaobang helped to spark the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, during which students and others campaigned for several months, speaking out against corruption and in favour of greater political reform, including democratic rights and freedom of speech.
Proposed settlements could offer some groups ( such as former customers ) much greater benefits than others.
Therefore, the terminology fugue state may carry a slight linguistic distinction from Dissociative Fugue, the former implying a greater degree of motion.
Northeastern Gaul became subject to even greater Frankish influence, while a treaty signed in 418 granted to the Visigoths southwestern Gaul, the former Gallia Aquitania.
In 1977, a former Miss America contestant and orange juice spokesperson, Anita Bryant, began a campaign " Save Our Children ", in Dade County, Florida ( greater Miami ), which proved to be a major set-back in the Gay Liberation movement.
Although Egypt did not have its former grasp on Canaan, there was a strong presence into the twelfth century, and Philistia took greater control of the southern coastal plain then also ( mentions the Philistines ).
With Hulsius, Jacob entered into a polemical discussion of the verse in the Book of Haggai: " The latter splendor of this house shall be greater than the former " ( 2: 9 ), which Hulsius attempted to prove was a reference to the Church.
In 1947 Jomo Kenyatta, former president of the moderate Kikuyu Central Association, became president of the more aggressive KAU to demand a greater political voice for Africans.
The second group of mandates, or Class B mandates, were all former Schutzgebiete ( German territories ) in West and Central Africa which were deemed to require a greater level of control by the mandatory power: "... the Mandatory must be responsible for the administration of the territory under conditions which will guarantee freedom of conscience and religion.
While at Wharton, Milken was influenced by credit studies authored by W. Braddock Hickman, a former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, who noted that a portfolio of non-investment grade bonds offered " risk-adjusted " returns greater than that of an investment grade portfolio.
Given that a far greater proportion of species and individual organisms became extinct during the former, doubt is cast on the significance of a meteor impact in creating the latter.
The terms psychedelic rock and acid rock are often used interchangeably, but some commentators have distinguished the former, which generally evoked the effects of psychedelic drugs, and acid rock, which can be seen as a more extreme sub-genre that focused more directly on LSD, was often louder, made greater use of distortion and often consisted of long, improvised jams.
Geologically, the island consists of gneiss and argillaceous schists, with no trace of fossils, showing that the island is, like the Falkland Islands, a surviving fragment of some greater land-mass now vanished, most probably indicating a former extension of the Andean system.
The ethnic groups of the coastal region, particularly the Ewes ( about 21 % of the population ), constitute the bulk of the civil servants, professionals, and merchants, due in part to the former colonial administrations which provided greater infrastructure development in the south.
Most recently, on 1 March 2009, a U. N. tribunal to investigate and prosecute suspects in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri opened in the former headquarters of the Netherlands General Intelligence Agency in Leidschendam, a town within the greater The Hague area.
One of the magistrates present for the banquet, Quintus Brittius, secretly mouths the word Tri-mal-chio to Ampliatus's former master, Lucius Popidius Secundus, one of the aediles of Pompeii, to their greater amusement.
For this reason, homegrown terrorism has started to be seen as a greater threat, as stated by former CIA Director Michael Hayden.
A linguistic definition of Westphalia ( see Westphalian language ) includes the former Prussian Province of Westphalia ( except Siegen-Wittgenstein ), Lippe, the region around Osnabrück and the greater area of the Emsland.
* The ethnic tensions and violence in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s create a greater sense of ethnic identity of the nations in the new countries, especially involving increased popularity of nationalism.
It had destroyed what were the two former foremost military powers, the Sassanid Empire, which it absorbed completely, and the greater part of the Byzantine Empire, including Syria, Armenia and North Africa, although Leo the Isaurian stemmed the tide when he defeated the Umayyads at the Battle of Akroinon ( 739 ), their final campaign in Anatolia.
Such a grant can be given when someone who already holds the rank of archbishop is transferred to a see that, though its present-day importance may be greater than the person's former see, is not archiepiscopal.
The Regierungsbezirk encompassed the former districts of Uckermark, the Mark of Priegnitz, and the greater part of the Middle March.
Greater progressivity was introduced in the tax system, with greater emphasis on direct ( income-based ) as opposed to indirect ( typically expenditure-based ) taxation as a means of raising revenue, with the amount raised by the former increasing twice as much as that of the latter.

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