The museum ’ s first notable addition towards its collection of antiquities, since its foundation, was by Sir William Hamilton ( 1730 – 1803 ), British Ambassador to Naples, who sold his collection of Greek and Roman artefacts to the museum in 1784 together with a number of other antiquities and natural history specimens.

In June 2000, she donated $ 40 million to the Hamilton Community Foundation to be used largely in improvement of Hamilton-area health facilities, an act that represented one of the single largest charitable donations in Canadian history.

In October 2007, a team of scientists headed by DNA researcher Craig Venter and Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith announced that they plan to create the first artificial life form in history by creating a synthetic chromosome, which they plan to inject into the M. genitalium bacterium, with potential to result in an artificial species dubbed Mycoplasma laboratorium or Mycoplasma JCVI-1. 0 after the research centre in which it was created, the J. Craig Venter Institute in the United States.

Clarke and Hamilton pleaded the French scholars ' case and Hutchinson finally agreed that items such as natural history specimens would be the scholars ' private property.

The ambitious Scottish 18th century artist Gavin Hamilton found a solution to the problem of using modern dress, considered unheroic and inelegant, in history painting by using Middle Eastern settings with Europeans wearing local costume, as travellers were advised to do.

For the history of Hamilton County prior to 1816 see Montgomery County, New York

In December 1906, Chattanooga was in the national headlines as the United States Supreme Court, in its only criminal case in its history, ruled that Hamilton County Sheriff Joseph H. Shipp had violated Ed Johnson's civil rights when Shipp allowed a mob to enter the Hamilton County Jail and lynch Johnson on the Walnut Street Bridge in United States v. Shipp.

Noblesville's history dates back to 1818 when the land, which is now Hamilton County, was purchased by the government from Indians native to this area.

The history of Pennville began when Samuel Grisell and Moses Hamilton left their homes in Columbiana County, Ohio in the spring of 1834 to search for government land for a permanent home.

* Railroads of Cincinnati, include rail information and history of Hamilton

* Hamilton waterjet history

Fish wrote a short history of World War I and an autobiography, Hamilton Fish: Memoir of an American Patriot, published shortly after his death.

The 1989 Grey Cup is considered one of the finest games in Canadian football history: the Saskatchewan Roughriders defeated the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 43 – 40 in the highest scoring Grey Cup game of all-time.

The register of these processions allowed British diplomat and amateur naturalist Sir William Hamilton to document Vesuvius ' eruptions, one of the first few ' scientific ' studies of the eruptive history of a volcano.

In the first season of the CFL, the Ottawa Rough Riders and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats made history when they played the first regular season CFL game at Philadelphia's Franklin Field on August 23, 1958.

The Roughriders defeated the heavily favoured Eskimos 32-21 to advance to the Grey Cup where they would face the Hamilton Tiger-Cats for the third time in franchise history.

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* Early Hamilton history

The first ( only the second time in the history of the creation of the office in 1937 ) followed the death of Erskine Hamilton Childers.

Hamilton graduated from the Australian National University with a BA in history, psychology and pure mathematics in 1975 and completed a Bachelor of Economics with First Class Honours from the University of Sydney in 1979.

The eldest son of Lord Avondale ( killed 1513 ), Andrew Stewart, 2nd Lord Avondale, exchanged the Lordship of Avondale with Sir James Hamilton for that of Ochiltree ( see the Lord Ochiltree for further history of this title ) by an Act of Parliament in 1542, becoming Lord Stuart of Ochiltree.

For the next five years, they finished mid-table, flirting with relegation in 1988 – 89 ( at which time Mathias was sacked and previous manager Bryan Hamilton returned ) and 1989 – 90, until they were relegated for the first and only time in the club's League history in 1992 – 93.

At Lewis ' death in 1963, his estate went to his brother Major Warren Hamilton Lewis, a renowned scholar of French history.

He also died without issue and was succeeded by his distant relative Sir John Hamilton Dalrymple, 5th Baronet, of Killock, who became the eighth Earl of Stair ( see below for earlier history of the baronetcy ).

Not through fear of disobeying orders, as Eichmann kept trying to explain, but through a peculiar giddiness that began in a half-acceptance of the vicious absurdities contained in the Nazi interpretation of history and grew with each of Hitler's victories into a permanent light-mindedness and sense of magical rightness that was able to respond to any proposal, and the more outrageous the better, `` Well, let's try it ''.

Kern began reading a lot about the history and philosophy of Communism, but never felt there was anything he, as an individual, could do about it.

With this act of disobedience, and not with the inception of his individual existence, man began the downward circuit on the spiral of history, descending from the created capacity for immortality to an inescapable mortality.

As academic disciplines began to differentiate over the course of the nineteenth century, anthropology grew increasingly distinct from the biological approach of natural history, on the one hand, and from purely historical or literary fields such as Classics, on the other.

In the nineteenth century, Nicholas Stark und Peter Paul Dollinger began a collection based on local history.

With ancient and modern history he rendered himself well acquainted and he also began to acquire some of the continental languages.

The Atlanta Falcons franchise began on June 30, 1965 when NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle granted ownership to 41 year-old Rankin Smith Sr .. Smith an Executive Vice President of Life Insurance Company of Georgia at the time, paid $ 8. 5 million the highest price in NFL history at the time 1965 for an NFL franchise.

One of the earliest was Paul Prudhomme, who in 1984 began the introduction of his influential cookbook, Paul Prodhomme's Louisiana Kitchen, by describing the over 200 year history of Creole and Cajun cooking ; he aims to " preserve and expand the Louisiana tradition.

Steiner began using the word to refer to his philosophy in the early 1900s as an alternative to theosophy, the term for Madame Blavatsky's movement, itself from the Greek, with a longer history with a meaning of " divine wisdom ".

Soon thereafter he began to write the history of Bremen / Hamburg and of the northern lands in his Gesta.

After collecting much valuable information concerning the geography, geology, archaeology and natural history of Ethiopia, the brothers returned to France in 1848 and began to prepare their materials for publication.

The history of Aegina, as it has come down to us, is almost exclusively a history of its relations with the neighbouring state of Athens, which began to compete with the thalassocracy of Aegina at the beginning of the sixth century.

The comprehensive series, a reprinting of the entire 43-year history of Li ' l Abner spanning a projected 20 volumes, began on April 7, 2010.

But the biggest shift in company history came in 1953 ; the Burroughs Adding Machine Company was renamed the Burroughs Corporation and began moving into computer products, initially for banking institutions.

The predominance of natural history, books and manuscripts began to lessen when in 1772 the Museum acquired its first antiquities of note ; Sir William Hamilton's collection of Greek vases.

The state of New York, which also has a civil law history from its Dutch colonial days, also began a codification of its law in the 19th century.

ould it be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time, since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts attended with new propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations ; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end?

" An era of peaceful democracy in Costa Rica began in 1889 with elections considered the first truly free and honest ones in the country's history.

The history of discovery and use of the elements began with primitive human societies that found native elements like copper and gold, and extracted ( smelted ) iron and a few other metals from their ores.

According to Vincent Scramuzza and others, Claudius began work on a history of the Civil Wars that was either too truthful or too critical of Octavian.

It began its new history with five students, one of whom was later to become its dean.

In the early 1920s, dance studies ( dance practice, critical theory, Musical analysis and history ) began to be considered an academic discipline.

The history of education according to Dieter Lenzen, president of the Freie Universität Berlin 1994, " began either millions of years ago or at the end of 1770 ".

" Having unsuccessfully approached both the University of Oxford and Harvard University, Morris was able to talk his way into Princeton University, where he began studying the history of science, a topic in which he had " absolutely no background.