It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

Due to the low level of investment in cross-border railway projects, the city has preserved a slot within the Thalys high-speed train network which uses existing tracks on its last 70 km from Belgium to Cologne.

* 1968 – The last steam hauled train runs on British railways

He was one of the last silversmiths in America to train apprentices to carry out designs in hand-wrought silver.

* Colonial ( PRR train ), a Pennsylvania Railroad ran between Washington, DC and New York City, and was last operated in 1973 by Amtrak.

Obi-Wan Kenobi ( Alec Guinness ) explains that the Galactic Empire had all but exterminated the Jedi some twenty years before the events of the film, and seeks to train Luke Skywalker ( Mark Hamill ) to be the Order's last hope.

Inside the last tunnel, about 500 m long, closest to the former San Marino station, some of the train coaches once used are still being preserved.

* 1944 – Holocaust: diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.

After talking with Elijah in the back room of his studio, David shakes his hand and discovers to his horror that Elijah had orchestrated many of the fatal disasters he had mentioned, causing hundreds of deaths, the last being David's train accident.

Khalid al-Masri and Mohamedou Ould Slahi convinced them at the last minute to travel instead to Afghanistan to meet with Osama bin Laden and train for terrorist attacks.

** The Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving 3 days later.

* August 11 – The last steam passenger train service runs in Britain.

* May 12 – New York's Third Avenue Elevated runs its last train between Chathem Square in Manhattan and East 149th Street in the Bronx, thus ending elevated train service in Manhattan.

The last train left the area in the 1930s, the train station was razed and the tracks were torn up through Provincetown.

Known for its independence, the D & RGW operated the last private intercity passenger train in the United States, the Rio Grande Zephyr.

" All rides and the minirail were shut down by 3: 50 p. m., and the Expo grounds closed at 4: 00 p. m., with the last Expo Express train leaving for Place d ' Accueil at that time.

The new line was officially opened in late 2010, for which the town held a celebratory day for the last commercial passenger train to pass through the town center.

During this tree period that may last two years, young bears train their inner claw outward, allowing an opposable grip.

A group of terrorists led by computer genius Travis Dane and mercenary leader Penn hijack the train, cutting its phone lines and taking the passengers as well as the staff hostage, herding them into the last two train cars.

Ryback informs the Pentagon that the passengers are safe, as he previously detached the last two cars from the rest of the train.

The last moments of the series depict Elric on board a train on his way to meet Oberth, determined to study rocketry with him.

The last Southern Pacific passenger train to Santa Cruz left Los Gatos in March 1940.

He ran his string of successful conversions this season to 13 straight before one went astray last Saturday night in the 41-8 slaughter of Washington State.

He arrived at the Terminal A at 7: 40am, ran to Gate 17, and was the last passenger to board, taking seat 4D, next to passenger Tom Burnett.

As they ran past the control tower, Sniper 3 took one last opportunity to eliminate Issa, which would have left the group leaderless.

On the day of the general election, The Sun ran an " infamous " front page featuring Kinnock ( headline: ' If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights ') that he blamed in his resignation speech for losing Labour the election.

Although successful in terms of uniting the Welsh against their oppressors, the uprising eventually ran out of pace due to key home ground lost whilst chasing the English army towards London — Glyndŵr was last seen in 1412 and was never captured nor tempted by royal pardons and never betrayed.

All through the teens and twenties, he built the Publix Theatres Corporation, a mighty chain of nearly 2, 000 screens, ran two production studios, and became an early investor in radio, taking a 50 % interest in the new Columbia Broadcasting System in 1928 ( selling it within a few years ; this would not be the last time Paramount and CBS crossed paths, as time proved ).

Nurmi ran for the last time on 18 February 1966 at the Madison Square Garden, invited by the New York Athletic Club.

With Milošević's second and last legal term as Serbian President expiring in 1997, he ran for, and was elected President of Yugoslavia in 1997.

The United States presidential election of 1820 was the third and last presidential election in United States history in which a candidate ran effectively unopposed.

The last version, 3. 3, was released in early 1995, by which time it ran not only on the Motorola 68000 family processors used in NeXT computers, but also Intel x86, Sun SPARC, and HP PA-RISC-based systems.

The Royal Horse Artillery sounded a 21-gun salute and the last runner in the Torch Relay ran a lap of the track – created with cinders from the domestic coal fires of Leicester – and climbed the steps to the Olympic cauldron.

His last play, A House Not Meant To Stand was produced in Chicago in 1982 and, despite largely positive reviews, ran for only 40 performances.

He estimated the invasion force would last only 4 to 5 days in England before it ran out of provisions.

The last French Grand Prix held at the circuit was in 1990 ; the event then moved to Magny-Cours where it ran until 2008.

He continued the series of successful raids against France throughout the mid 9th century, and fought numerous civil wars in Denmark, until his luck ran out at last in Britain.

The last Olympic Games that included the long, or " classic ", three-day format was the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, while Rolex Kentucky, the Badminton Horse Trials, and Burghley Horse Trials ran their last long format three-day in 2005.

The original Looney Tunes theatrical series ran from 1930 to 1969 ( the last short being Bugged By A Bee, by Robert McKimson ).

He ran as the Socialist Party's candidate for the presidency in 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920, the last time from his prison cell.

As in the rest of the country, the automobile usurped the streetcar and the last trolley ran in 1945.

In between engagements Leveridge ran a coffee shop in Tavistock Street near Covent Garden, but enjoyed good health and reduced his performances only in the last few seasons before retiring in 1751.

Hollywood Squares ran for one more year in syndication ; this last year of shows was taped at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Although the syndicated Match Game was not a direct cause of the ratings problems Love of Life facedthe 4: 00 PM timeslot, the last network daytime slot, had been a problem for CBS, NBC, and ABC for years and Love of Life had seen a precipitous drop in ratings since the April 1979 move to the late afternoon many stations ran the syndicated series against the veteran soap opera and, in the case of some CBS affiliates and owned-and-operated stations, preempted Love of Life in favor of the new Match Game.

In October 2004 Li ran in the December 11 legislative election as a non-partisan candidate in the South Taipei constituency, for which he was subsequently elected in the last winning place.