But stupidity was no consolation when it had rank.

It is worth mentioning that the Nepōhualtzintzin amounted to the rank from 10 to the 18 in floating point, which calculated stellar as well as infinitesimal amounts with absolute precision, meant that no round off was allowed, when translated into modern computer arithmetic.

He received a brevet promotion to lieutenant colonel in the regular army for his actions at Antietam and was promoted in March 1863 to major general of volunteers, to rank from November 29, 1862.

This rank and power was, however, often used most beneficially.

For instance, we read of Whiting, the last abbot of Glastonbury, judicially murdered by Henry VIII, that his house was a kind of well-ordered court, where as many as 300 sons of noblemen and gentlemen, who had been sent to him for virtuous education, had been brought up, besides others of a lesser rank, whom he fitted for the universities.

The lay abbot took his recognized rank in the feudal hierarchy, and was free to dispose of his fief as in the case of any other.

The real reason that Joab killed Abner was that he became a threat to his rank of general.

Her father was a man of consular rank ; her grandfather's name was Catulus.

His campaigns were successful and, on 25 July 1139, he obtained an overwhelming victory in the Battle of Ourique, and straight after was unanimously proclaimed King of the Portuguese by his soldiers, establishing his equality in rank to the other realms of the Peninsula.

The face of the allegorical representation of France calling forth her people on this last was used as the belt buckle for the honorary rank of Marshal of France.

The taxon Branchiopoda was erected by Pierre André Latreille in 1817, initially at the rank of order.

In January 1926 having been promoted to major in 1925, he was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at the Staff College, Camberley in the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel, a position he held until January 1929 by which time he had been made a ( brevet lieutenant-colonel ).

On completion of his tour of duty in India, Montgomery returned to Britain in June 1937 where he became commanding officer of the 9th Infantry Brigade with the temporary rank of brigadier, but that year saw great tragedy when his wife was bitten by an insect while on holiday in Burnham-on-Sea.

He was confirmed in the permanent rank of lieutenant-general in mid October.

The most notable alteration is the shortening of most feasts from nine to three lessons at Matins, keeping only the Scripture readings ( the former lesson i, then lessons ii and iii together ), followed by either the first part of the patristic reading ( lesson vii ) or, for most feasts, a condensed version of the former second Nocturn, which was formerly used when a feast was reduced in rank and commemorated.

During World War I, Attlee was given the rank of captain and served with the South Lancashire Regiment in the Gallipoli Campaign in Turkey.

He was also promoted to the rank of Major.

It was designed for men of senatorial rank.

Scramuzza, in his biography, suggests that Silius may have convinced Messalina that Claudius was doomed, and the union was her only hope of retaining rank and protecting her children.

This punishment and the degradation to the rank of an aerarian were originally the same ; but when in the course of time a distinction was made between the rural or rustic tribes and the urban tribes, the motio e tribu transferred a person from the rustic tribes to the less respectable city tribes, and if the further degradation to the rank of an aerarian was combined with the motio e tribu, it was always expressly stated.

According to Edward Gibbon in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, during the shifting of offices that took place at the beginning of the new reigns, Alaric apparently hoped he would be promoted from a mere commander to the rank of general in one of the regular armies.

Livy gives no clue as to what such men were doing on the field in the first place and, though finding Cocles ' feats incredible, apparently sees no contradiction between the rank, experience and character of the generals and their supposed behavior on the field.

The remains of two men of apparently aristocratic rank were accompanied by over 100 objects including arrowheads, copper knives and the earliest worked gold in the country.

The Life – Star order was reversed in 1924, apparently because the five-pointed star of the Star Scout insignia could be associated with the five merit badges required to earn the rank immediately following First Class Scout.

The leading representatives of the Confederacy to the Dominion, called " Thots " ( apparently similar in rank to generals ), such as Thot Gor and Thot Pran, were given more powers, much to the bitterness of Legate Damar, the leader of Cardassia, another major Alpha Quadrant power that had earlier joined the Dominion.

In the Taíno culture, the cacique rank was apparently established through democratic means.

The Dales and their friends ( and Captain, Mrs Freeman's cat, apparently named after her late husband's rank when he fell in the First World War ) got along in almost perfect harmony.

Other photo evidence shows Leung at Yip Man's funeral with an armband that apparently denotes a rank other than first generation ( i. e., an armband that indicates that Leung was considered to be a grandstudent of Ip Man's rather than a direct student.

He retired, but apparently that retirement took him to Harsh Realm, where he holds the rank of General in the Republican Guard and is working from his Santiago City headquarters to take over the United States, with a United States of Santiago.

Inexplicably, the list did not differentiate among the ranks of the families included therein ( although they were apparently listed in descending order of rank ).

Only eight officers in a fully officered legion outranked the Primus Pilus: The legate ( legatus legionis ), commanding the legion ; the senior tribune ( tribunus laticlavus ), second-in-command of the legion ; the Camp Prefect ( praefectus castrorum ); and the five other tribunes ( tribuni angusticlavii ) who apparently served as senior staff officers to the legate with a rank roughly equivalent to a modern colonel.

Meade returned to active duty during the Civil War and was given the rank of Commander, apparently backdated to September 1855.

Promoted to Captain ( in 1864, with the date of rank again apparently backdated, this time to July 1862 ), he was Commanding Officer of the steam frigate San Jacinto until she was wrecked in the Bahamas at the beginning of 1865.

First raised to the rank of Monsignor on September 5, 1949, he was also the Secretary of the Central Committee for the 1950 Holy Year, on which he commented, " This year's great discovery is that in a world apparently skeptical and indifferent, there's a vigorous current of faith ".

Liang Ji, apparently unsatisfied with his nearly limitless position, took a number of actions that were directly analogous to what Wang Mang did prior to his usurpation of the Han throne — including ordering officials to recommend to Emperor Huan to enlarge his march to be as large as the Duke of Zhou ; to grant him special dispensation, unprecedented since Xiao He, to walk slowly into the imperial meeting hall ( by Han regulations, officials were required to trot into the imperial meeting hall ), to carry his sword into the meeting hall, to keep his shoes on, and to have the master of ceremonies refer to him only by rank and title, not by name ; to grant him rewards as great as those granted to Huo Guang ; and for him to be seated above all other imperial officials.

On 15 May 1857, he bought the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Grenadier Guards.

On 16 January 1790 he bought the rank of lieutenant and later that year he raised his own company of men.

In February 1925, " Major " ( his ' rank ' was given by the Aero Club and not the military ) Lambert bought the field and added hangars and a passenger terminal.

In 1823, he quelled the slave rebellion in Demerara, and two years later bought himself a major's rank.

Scottish Barons rank below Lords of Parliament, and, while noble, are not conventionally considered peerage titles ; unlike others, the title can be bought and sold.

Commissioned an officer on the battlefield, he overcomes class in an army where an officer's rank is usually bought.

He was born to, an ashigaru of the Akashi Domain, who had bought the rank of gokenin ( a low-ranking retainer directly serving the Tokugawa shogun ).

In May 1617 Bruntál was bought by the last Lord of Vrbno John IV of Vrbno, who joined the Uprising of the Estates and gained a rank of the Director in 1619.

Farquhar was awarded the rank of Major General, and retired to Perth, Scotland, in 1829, where he bought two large recently completed Georgian houses ( one for his brother, a naval Captain ) and built a billiard hall for the entertainment of his many friends.

He was born in Tosa to the gōshi Okada Gihei, who had been a peasant but had bought the gōshi rank.

Jefferson Levy's uncle Uriah P. Levy, the first Jewish commodore ( highest rank at the time ) of the US Navy, had bought Monticello and some related property in 1834.