He was gifted with animal magnetism and a potent allure for women of any race.

it was the clerks who caused the mischief and who made him say that the ruling passion of their race was covetousness and that in dealing with them he never knew whether he had to do with a Frenchman or with a devil.

On matters of race he was similarly inflexible: `` Most of the modern Latin races seem to have inherited the rigidity of the Roman mind ''.

To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.

The situation already was bad because the Legislature moved the governor's race forward a few months, causing the campaigning to get started earlier than usual.

How could the rich, for whom life was made so simple, ever understand the subterfuges, the lies, the frauds, the errors, sins and even crimes to which the poor were driven in their efforts to overcome the great advantages the rich had in the race of life??

He was happy enough to take the convertible and race up the hill to the Blevins', thinking that they might give him a drink.

Lou Gehrig was given the nickname Buster, and he ran Ruth a close race in home runs.

When the crowd was asked whether it wanted to wait one more term to make the race, it voted no -- and there were no dissents.

Since 1949, the only National League club that got off to a hot start and made a runaway of the race was the '55 Dodger team.

Emory University's Board of Trustees announced Friday that it was prepared to accept students of any race as soon as the state's tax laws made such a step possible.

And even as she, having indeed a husband, Adam, but being nevertheless as yet a virgin, having become disobedient, was made the cause of death, both to herself and to the entire human race ; ;

Though the reference to race was stricken by the association in 1950, being an agent of such `` detrimental '' influences still appears as the cardinal sin realtors see themselves committed to avoid.

A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

For example, Boas studied immigrant children to demonstrate that biological race was not immutable, and that human conduct and behavior resulted from nurture, rather than nature.

The first organized race was on April 28, 1887 by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède, Monsieur Fossier.

It was won by Georges Bouton of the De Dion-Bouton Company, in a car he had constructed with Albert, the Comte de Dion, but as he was the only competitor to show up it is rather difficult to call it a race.

" To fill out the schedule, most types of racing events were invented here, including the first hill climb ( Nice – La Turbie ) and a sprint that was, in spirit, the first drag race.

According to Gregory of Tours ' account, Alaric was intimidated by Clovis into surrendering Syagrius to Clovis ; Gregory then adds that " the Goths are a timorous race.

In 1839, Johnson entered the race for re-election to his House seat, initially as a Whig ; when another Whig entry arose, to enhance his position in the campaign, he ran as a Democrat and was elected to his second, non-consecutive term in the Tennessee House.

Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race ; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea ; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in Odyssey book 10 as Keeper of the Winds who gives Odysseus a tightly closed bag full of the captured winds so he could sail easily home to Ithaca on the gentle West Wind.

Is not the present world crisis a race between things we have created which can now destroy us and between populations of sufficient wisdom and character to forestall the tragedy.

" The black race of Africa are inferior to the white man in point of intellect – better calculated in physical structure to undergo drudgery and hardship – standing, as they do, many degrees lower in the scale of gradation that expresses the relative relation between God and all that he has created than the white man.

Therefore, the coordinating council of CUIC created a consultation on race and ministry while also choosing to partner with the Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference, a social justice organization involved in African American faith communities.

In earlier episodes, Davros is referred to ( albeit not by name ) twice: first in the episode " Dalek " by the Ninth Doctor, who explains that the Daleks were created by " a genius ... a man who was king of his own little world ", and again by the Tenth Doctor in the episode " Evolution of the Daleks ", where he refers to the Daleks ' creator as believing that " removing emotions made a race stronger ".

In Terry Brooks ' Shannara Series gnomes are an offshoot race created after the Great Wars.

The intelligent force behind this behavior is called simply " Planet " and, in the expansion, is revealed to be artificially created by an alien race.

During that episode, a new race of Daleks is created.

For instance, in Lovecraft's " At the Mountains of Madness " it is proposed that humankind was actually created as a slave race by the Old Ones.

He appointed a commission that set aside 3, 000, 000 acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of national parks and 2, 300, 000 acres of national forests ; advocated tax reduction for low-income Americans ( not enacted ); closed certain tax loopholes for the wealthy ; doubled the number of veterans ' hospital facilities ; negotiated a treaty on St. Lawrence Seaway ( which failed in the U. S. Senate ); wrote a Children's Charter that advocated protection of every child regardless of race or gender ; created an antitrust division in the Justice Department ; required air mail carriers to adopt stricter safety measures and improve service ; proposed federal loans for urban slum clearances ( not enacted ); organized the Federal Bureau of Prisons ; reorganized the Bureau of Indian Affairs ; instituted prison reform ; proposed a federal Department of Education ( not enacted ); advocated $ 50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 ( not enacted ); chaired White House conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership ; began construction of the Boulder Dam ( later renamed Hoover Dam ); and signed the Norris – La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labor disputes.

Quake III Arena ( 1999 ), the next title in the series, has minimal plot, but centers around the " Arena Eternal ", a gladiatorial setting created by an alien race known as the Vadrigar and populated by combatants plucked from various points in time and space.

* 1946 – Popular Canadian-American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race ; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.

According to Agassiz, the different races were created in different provinces, each race was indigenous to the province it was created in, he cited evidence from Egyptian monuments to prove that fixity of racial types had existed for at least five millennia.

Mars is shown as being previously inhabited by an ancient race of aliens who created a machine for producing a breathable atmosphere and later terraforming the planet.

These include: The Inhumans, another genetically unstable race ( like the Deviants, but in their case its due to their use of a substance called the ' Terrigen Mists ') that was created by a Kree experiment long ago ; The Subterraneans, a race of humanoids adapted to living below the surface, created by the Deviants ( some subterraneans were transformed into ' Lava Men ' by a demon ); and Homo mermanus, a humanoid race of water-breathers that lives in Earth's oceans.

In an apparent twist on the myth of the so-called Five Ages of Man found in Hesiod's Works and Days ( wherein Cronus and, later, Zeus created and destroyed five successive races of mortal men ), Prometheus asserts that Zeus had wanted to obliterate the human race, but that he somehow stopped him.

The Greek city of Panopeus had a cult statue that was supposed to honor Prometheus for having created the human race there.

Spanish colonists created caste systems in Latin American countries based on classification by race and race mixture.

The Patrouille des Glaciers race, created to test the abilities of soldiers, was created during the war.

In the August race at Michigan International Speedway, Earnhardt led laps late in the race and nearly pulled off his first win on a non-restrictor plate track since 1996.

On 1 February 1996, he won his first race, on Digpast, in the one-mile Ontario Amateur Riders Handicap at Lingfield.

* 1996 – Jeff Krosnoff, American race csr driver ( b. 1964 )

The 1996 report of the APA had comments on the ethics of research on race and intelligence.

In 1996, under new owner John Moores ( a software tycoon who purchased controlling ownership in the team in 1994 from Tom Werner, who subsequently formed a syndicate that purchased the Boston Red Sox ) and team president Larry Lucchino, and with a team managed by former Padres catcher Bruce Bochy ( a member of the 1984 NL championship squad ), the team won the NL West in an exciting race, sweeping the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in the final series of the regular season.

In the half century since Brown, the Court has extended the reach of the Equal Protection Clause to other historically disadvantaged groups, such as women and illegitimate children, although it has applied a somewhat less stringent standard than it has applied to governmental discrimination on the basis of race ( United States v. Virginia, 1996 ; Levy v. Louisiana, 1968 ).

Perot received eight percent of the popular vote in 1996, much less than in the 1992 race but still an unusually successful third-party showing by U. S. standards.

This race has taken place since 1986 and its winners list include four times Champ Car champion Sébastien Bourdais ( in 1996 ).

Luckily, Häkkinen recovered fully and was fit to race again in 1996, thus missing only one race.

The bitterly fought race saw Sanchez charge that Dornan was out of touch with his constituency, especially after a distracting run for the 1996 Republican Presidential nomination.

* The Governor's Cup – this race, started in 1996 with 15 yachts, runs a distance of 1700 miles between Simon's Town in South Africa and St. Helena Island in the South Atlantic.

* Clipper Round the World Yacht Race-established by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the first man to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe, the first Clipper race took place in 1996.

The distance was used in a race between 1996 Olympic champions, the 100 m gold medalist Donovan Bailey ( Canada ) and 200 m gold medalist Michael Johnson ( USA ).

Although he began the race with a full war-chest and tied for first place with Dole in the 1995 Iowa Straw Poll, his campaign was fatally wounded when in an upset he lost the Louisiana Caucus on February 7, 1996 to Pat Buchanan ( the final delegate count was 13-8 ).

After exiting the presidential race, Gramm defeated Victor Morales of Dallas in November 1996 to win his third and final term in the Senate.

Akira Kameyama has taken the GT-R to the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb race on three occasion winning in each Open Class for production cars he entered, one in 1993 with the R32, another in 1996 with the R33 and again in 1998.

* 1996: E. R. Shipp, New York Daily News, for her penetrating columns on race, welfare and other social issues.

She won a close race for the U. S. Senate in 1996 ; she was re-elected by increasing margins in competitive races in 2002 and 2008.

His first novel was The Fruit ' N Food ( 1996 ), winner of the Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction, a story about a loner who finds employment in a New York grocery ; major themes involve race relations and violence.

" Bob " Dole, the Kansas Republican who had been his party's vice presidential nominee in 1976 and who would be the presidential nominee in 1996, made a television commercial for Long in the race against Jenkins.

It won the 1996 Anisfield-Wolf Award for the best book of the year dealing with matters of race.

In the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip cycle " The Cybermen " ( 1994 – 1996 ), the cyborg race of Cybermen discover Silurians and Sea Devils living on their own planet Mondas during an unspecified time in the past ; in Doctor Who, Mondas is Earth's former " twin planet ".

Because of this it hosted the race again in 1996, but after complaints that no other countries were to get the race, the Nürburgring race was renamed the Luxembourg Grand Prix.