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twenty-two and major
At the approximate age of twenty-two, his earliest known major professional artistic work was created, a cover for a Kabuki playbook in 1775 that was published under a pseudonym, the gō of Toyoaki.
Around the age of twenty-two he became engrossed in the study of the Zohar ( a major work of the Kabbalah that had recently been printed for the first time ) and adopted the life of a recluse.
In all, he authored twenty-two major works: four in Turkish, one in Persian, two in Greek and fifteen in Albanian.
Samo went on to secure his throne by marriage into the major Wendish families, wedding at least twelve women and fathering twenty-two sons and fifteen daughters.
In the winter of 1941, twenty-two major industrial enterprises were evacuated to Tyumen from the European part of the Soviet Union.
The Battle of Shanghai, known in Chinese as Battle of Songhu, was the first of the twenty-two major engagements fought between the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China and the Imperial Japanese Army of the Empire of Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Engaging vastly superior forces of enemy bombers and warships on 9 and 12 December, Captain Elrod shot down two of a flight of twenty-two hostile planes and, executing repeated bombing and strafing runs at extremely low altitude and close range, succeeded in inflicting deadly damage upon a large Japanese vessel, thereby sinking the first major warship to be destroyed by small caliber bombs delivered from a fighter-type aircraft.
Irish American political leaders have played a major role in local and national politics since before the American Revolutionary War: eight Irish Americans signed the United States Declaration of Independence, and twenty-two American Presidents, from Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama, have been at least partly of Irish ancestry.
Republican Senator Charles Goodell who has sponsored forty-four major pieces of legislation in twenty-two months in the Senate.
The song was a major success in Australia where it also made the top ten, peaking at number seven and spent a total of twenty-two weeks in the top fifty.
It is said that Jumla had collected an army of twenty-two thousand men to face the Gorkhalis, a force far superior to anything the Gorkhalis could put in the field at that time In the first major military operation itself Bhakti Thapa had demonstrated his exceptionally brilliant skill in launching a very successful operation under the most adverse condition that was sure to astonish anyone.
He fought at the battles of Stones River and Chickamauga, in all, at over twenty-two major engagements.
The major producers of dimension stone include Brazil, China, India, Italy, and Spain, and each have annual production levels of nine to over twenty-two million tons.
In addition to indicating the letters and numbers printed around the track, the marble could also be used to select one of twenty-two major arcana cards of occult tarot supplied with the game.
She had a distinguished international career and made a variety of admired operatic recordings, and beginning in 1976 was additionally known for her work with the Metropolitan Opera, with over 270 performances spanning twenty-two major roles.

twenty-two and designated
According to the English-language brochure available at the shrine, in the 11th century, under Emperor Shirakawa, Hirota Shrine was designated as " one of the twenty-two honorable shrines in the nation " and given the title " Hirota Grand Shrine ".

twenty-two and special
By the time he died, he had amassed twenty-two citations and special commendations, nine of which were for bravery and two for extraordinary heroism in saving the lives of others.
His academic success was unprecedented ; a special law was passed by the Cortes to enable him to become a professor at the age of twenty-two.
Jerry Potts was buried at Fort Macleod with full honors in 1896 having served with the North-West Mounted Police for twenty-two years and being given the rank of special constable.

twenty-two and important
Tracy D. Terrell graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Ph. D. in linguistics and in a comparatively short career of twenty-two years became one of the most important American Hispanists and theoretical linguists.
That is because ten out of the twenty-two were destined as headpiece, tailpiece, or running commentary on some more important plate.
As a result of corruption scandals, the Liberal Party of Premier James Gardiner lost a significant share of its popular vote, but more important, lost twenty-two of the seats its had won in the 1925 election.

twenty-two and by
No less than twenty-two nations have already achieved independence since World War 2,, and the number is growing by the year.
Of the public transactions of this period there is only the scantiest of information, but, to judge by what is extant, those twenty-two years were not remarkably eventful in comparison to those before and after his reign.
Bordered by a steep escarpment on both the eastern and the western side, the valley reaches a maximum width of twenty-two kilometers at some points.
In 1967, Yoakum was discovered by the mainstream art community by John Hopgood, an instructor at the Chicago State College, who saw Yoakum's work hanging in his studio window and purchased twenty-two pictures.
Forty-two votes were necessary, and heated discussion prevailed for four months ; Giovanni Cardinal Conti was supported by twenty-two votes ; Cardinal Rospigliosi, nephew of the late Pope, had thirty, or, as some say, thirty-three, with two at the accesso, so that he needed only seven more votes to gain the tiara.
Like the English poll tax, the French capitation tax was assessed on rank – for taxation persons, French society was divided in twenty-two " classes ", with the Dauphin ( a class by himself ) paying 2, 000 livres, princes of the blood paying 1500 livres, and so on down to the lowest class, composed of day laborers and servants, who paid 1 livre each.
The series was produced by Filmation in association with Paramount Television and ran for two seasons from 1973 to 1974 on NBC, airing a total of twenty-two half-hour episodes.
Thereafter, the ministry lost a vote on a procedural motion by twenty-two votes.
Jesty did not publicise his findings, however, credit was assumed by Jenner who performed his first inoculation, twenty-two years later and publicised his findings.
Books seven, eleven, nineteen, twenty-two, twenty-six, and twenty-seven are narrated by abducted Earth women who are made slaves.
During this period, the Mongol troops led by Genghis carried out six rounds of attacks against Western Xia over a period of twenty-two years ( 1202, 1207, 1209 – 10, 1211 – 13, 1214 – 19, 1225 – 26 ).
Today Egyptologists generally agree that Hatshepsut assumed the position of pharaoh and the length of her reign usually is given as twenty-two years, since she was assigned a reign of twenty-one years and nine months by the third-century BCE historian, Manetho, who had access to many historical records that now are lost.
Hatshepsut was given a reign of about twenty-two years by ancient authors.
A 1913 Italian version, the twenty-two minute La bisbetica domata, was directed by Arrigo Frusta and starred Eleuterio Rodolfi and Gigetta Morano.
At the age of twenty-two he was left by his father to defend Syria against Ptolemy the son of Lagus ; he was defeated at the Battle of Gaza, but soon partially repaired his loss by a victory in the neighbourhood of Myus.
Clayton County has twenty-two elementary and five middle schools that have been deemed by the Georgia Department of Education as Distinguished Schools.
In 1707, Daniel Hayes, then aged twenty-two, was captured by the indigenous people and carried off to Canada.
In 1707, Daniel Hayes, then aged twenty-two, was captured by the indigenous people and carried off to Canada.
Initially appointed, Roby was elected to the position on April 11, 1944, In 1946, Roby was succeeded by A. C. Borland, who served for twenty-two years.
It includes an ornate oak frieze including sculptures of twenty-two angels playing music, carved by Johannes Kirchmayer ( 1860 – 1930 ), and two notable stained-glass windows, " Angel of Help ," and " Figure of Wisdom ," both by John LaFarge ( 1835 – 1910 ).
Appointed postmaster of the borough by President Lincoln in 1864, Pyle served twenty-two years.

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