After naval studies in England between 1871 and 1878, Togo's role as Chief Admiral of the Grand Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Russo-Japanese War made him a legend in Japanese military history, and earned him the nickname ' Nelson of the Orient ' in Britain.

Vostok 1 (, East 1 or Orient 1 ) was the first spaceflight in the Vostok program and the first human spaceflight in history.

** During a severe thunderstorm over Washington, a man calling himself D. B. Cooper parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he hijacked, with US $ 200, 000 in ransom money, and is never seen again ( as of March 2008, this case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in history ).

Throughout history, the East has also been used by Europeans in reference to the Orient and Asian societies.

The glamour and rich history of the Orient Express has frequently lent itself to the plot of books and films and as the subject of television documentaries.

Throughout the history of the changing sense of the term, " the Orient " was never equivalent to Asia as a whole.

He authored books covering themes such as Hermeticism, the metaphysics of war and of sex, Tantra, Buddhism, Taoism, mountaineering, the Holy Grail, the essence and history of civilisations, decadence and various philosophic and religious Traditions dealing with both the Classics and the Orient.

In 1921, when his 50th birthday was celebrated at a national level, Iorga published a large number of volumes, including a bibliographic study on the Wallachian uprising of 1821 and its leader Tudor Vladimirescu, an essay on political history ( Dezvoltarea aşezămintelor politice, " The Development of Political Institutions "), Secretul culturii franceze (" The Secret of French Culture "), Războiul nostru în note zilnice (" Our War as Depicted in Daily Records ") and the French-language Les Latins de l ' Orient (" The Oriental Latins ").

Throughout its long history, Orient produced and innovated, with milestones that included the " Dynamic " in 1956, " Grand Prix 100 " in 1964, and the " Tenbeat " in 1970.

Through its sixty-year history, the company has contributed several technological advances in watchmaking efficiency such as the development of power-reserve indicators and use of in-house movement production of watches in the hundred-dollar price range .. By 2004 had perfected their Caliber 88700 which was featured in the Royal Orient Brand.

In 1978, Orient reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup for the only time in their history, under the management of Jimmy Bloomfield, but were beaten 3 – 0 by Arsenal.

In the 1961 / 62 season Orient were promoted to the top tier of English football, the First Division ( now the FA Premier League ), for the only time in their history, after finishing second in Division Two under the management of Johnny Carey.

In 1972 Orient achieved one of the most famous results in their history – coming back from 2 – 0 down to beat Chelsea 3 – 2 in the FA Cup 5th round.

Its closest geographical Football League rivals are West Ham United and also Leyton Orient, a club associated with the Daggers ' own history.

Orient Thai Airlines and its now now-defunct wholly owned domestic carrier One-Two-GO Airlines are the only Thai airlines to bear a Royal Seal, made possible due to Udom ’ s close relationship with the King of Thailand based on Udom ’ s history of breaking traditional commercial barriers for Thailand.

Daily News publisher Joseph Medill Patterson wanted an adventure strip set in the mysterious Orient, what Patterson described as " the last outpost for adventure ," Knowing almost nothing about China, Caniff researched the nation's history and learned about families for whom piracy was a way of life passed down over the generations.

Midway between legend and history may be classified the Occitan Cansó d ' Antioca, a mere fragment of which, 700 verses-in extent, has been recovered in Madrid and published in Archives de l ' Orient latin, vol.

It was in the midst of this activity that Strzygowski published his first frankly polemical work, Orient oder Rom: Beiträge zur Geschichte der spätantiken und früchristlichen Kunst ( 1901 ) ( The Orient or Rome: contributions to the history of late antique and early Christian art ).

A description of " Haynsen " in the Kingdom of Georgia, its inhabitants and history is contained in " La Fleur des histoires de la terre d ' Orient " by Hetu'm of Corycos, written around 1307, translated into English in 1520, and later reproduced in the travellers ' tales of Samuel Purchas published in 1614.

He wrote Memoiren ( Leipzig, 1850 ); Der Nationalkrieg in Ungarn, & c. ( Leipzig, 1851 ); a history of the Crimean War, Der Krieg im Orient.

" Blood and Oil in the Orient " which Essad Bey claimed was an autobiography concerns the political history of Azerbaijan in the early 20th century.

Sections of this page have been adapted from a history of the Orient written by Belinda Lovett, member of the Bowdoin College class of 2002 and a former editor-in-chief of the paper.

), displaying the history of the whole of the nearer East from the beginnings to the conquest by Alexander ; a smaller Histoire des peuples de l ' Orient, 1 vol., of the same scope, which passed through six editions from 1875 to 1904 ; Etudes de mythologie et d ' archéologie égyptiennes ( Paris, 1893, etc.

The history is described in Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Jefferson Lines, Inc., 514 U. S. 175 ( 1995 ):

Bob Ley also began anchoring early in the show's history and still regularly appears on the Sunday morning SportsCenter in addition to hosting Outside the Lines.

It remains the worst year in history for aviation disasters: among the crashes were Japan Airlines Flight 123, killing 520 people ; Air India Flight 182, killing 329 ; Arrow Air Flight 1285, killing 256 ; Aeroflot Flight 7425, killing 200 ; Iberia Airlines Flight 610, killing 148 ; Delta Air Lines Flight 191, killing 137 ; Galaxy Airlines Flight 203, killing 70 ; and British Airtours Flight 28M, killing 55.

It will be the only fatal accident in the 23-year history of Bonanza Air Lines.

* April 6 – United Air Lines places orders for new aircraft worth $ US 750 million, the largest airliner purchase in history at the time.

The organization can trace its history back to the 19th-century streetcar systems of the region through the acquisition in 1970 of the Twin City Lines bus system from businessman Carl Pohlad.

* Sotetsu Lines history ( site for kids )

Known both inside and outside of the company as " pumpkin trucks ", they were originally painted Omaha orange and black after being leased to Allied Van Lines early in the history of the company.

See the Battle of Poltava ( 1709 ), the Battle of Bunker Hill ( 1775 ), the Battle of Yorktown ( 1781 ) where Alexander Hamilton led his only military command against a British redoubt, the Lines of Torres Vedras of the Peninsular War ( 1809 – 1810 ), the Harwich Redoubt ( 1809-1810 ), the Battle of Borodino ( 1812 ), the Charge of the Light Brigade ( 1854 ), the Railroad Redoubt of the Battle of Vicksburg ( 1863 ), the Battle of Plevna ( 1877-1878 ), the Battle of Rorke's Drift ( 1879 ), and during World War I the " National Redoubt of Antwerp " ( 1914 ) as well as the Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt ( 1916 ) and the Vercors plateau redoubt used by the Free French Forces in World War II, are examples where redoubts played a crucial role in military history.

Lines in the water: a history of Greenshell mussel farming in New Zealand.

* Global Van Lines history

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.