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was and fortunate
It was a fortunate time in which to build, for the seventeenth century was a great period in Persian art.
The result was fortunate.
To consolidate what her Navy had won, the Czarina was fortunate that, for the first time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed absolute unity of command under her favorite Giaour.
He was fortunate, and proud.
There are, after all, fortunate souls who hear everything, but only know how to listen to what is good for them, and Stowey was, as things go, a fortunate man.
He was, however, fortunate in his contact with Prof. J. G. L. Manthey ( 1769-1842 ), teacher of chemistry, who, in addition to his academic chair, was also proprietor of the `` Lion Pharmacy '' in Copenhagen where Oersted assisted him.
Tommy Momoyama was one of these fortunate occasions.
Bates was more fortunate, as the song's popularity was well established by the time of her death in 1929.
Amasis reacted by cultivating closer ties with the Greek states to counter the future Persian invasion into Egypt but was fortunate to have died in 526 B. C. E.
This might have been fortunate timing for Abd al-Rahman, since he was still getting a solid foothold in al-Andalus.
" That was a fortunate coincidence, of course, that the name should pack a backwoods connotation.
Proving more fortunate was his choice to break with the French and seek friendly ties with Libyan president Qaddafi, taking away the rebels ' principal source of supplies.
" Euripides however was more fortunate than the other tragedians in the survival of a second edition of his work, compiled in alphabetical order as if from a set of his collect works, but without scholia attached.
Elizabeth was fortunate that many bishoprics were vacant at the time, including the Archbishopric of Canterbury.
" After listing the disasters of those 28 years, Bury concludes that Honorius " himself did nothing of note against the enemies who infested his realm, but personally he was extraordinarily fortunate in occupying the throne till he died a natural death and witnessing the destruction of the multitude of tyrants who rose up against him.
Bazille was generous with his wealth, and helped support his less fortunate associates by giving them space in his studio and materials to use.
Richard's younger brother John, who succeeded him, was not so fortunate ; he suffered the loss of Normandy and numerous other French territories following the disastrous Battle of Bouvines.
King Philip I, named by his Kievan mother with a typically Eastern European name, was no more fortunate than his predecessor although the kingdom did enjoy a modest recovery during his extraordinarily long reign ( 1060 – 1108 ).
Dr. Cardew, who, in a later letter to Davies Gilbert, said dryly: “ I could not discern the faculties by which he was afterwards so much distinguished .” Davy said himself: “ I consider it fortunate I was left much to myself as a child, and put upon no particular plan of study ... What I am I made myself .”

was and Vail
At about the time the Marsden enterprise was getting under way, the Vail Light and Lumber Company started construction of a chair stock factory on the site of the present Bennington Co-operative Creamery, intending to use its surplus power for generating electricity.
Windows Home Server 2011 code named ' Vail ' was released on 6 April 2011.
He went to great lengths to win a lawsuit for the right to be called " inventor of the telegraph ", and promoted himself as being an inventor, but Alfred Vail played an important role in the invention of the Morse Code, which was based on earlier codes for the electromagnetic telegraph.
The Morse / Vail telegraph was quickly deployed in the following two decades ; the overland telegraph connected the west coast of the continent to the east coast by 24 October 1861, bringing an end to the Pony Express.
* In 2010, rail and coach commuter service was proposed between Minturn and Dotsero, in 2012 from Leadville to Vail and Dotsero with intermediate stations at Minturn, Avon, Eagle and Gypsum.
Zipser founded the FreeFly Clowns as a two person competitive team with Mike Vail in 1992, and was joined by Omar Alhegelan, Charles Bryan, and Stefania Martinengo in 1994.
Vail was originally a station and water stop on the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Vail was named after pioneer rancher Edward Vail, who established a ranch in the area in the late 19th century.
It was named on the suggestion of Fred Vail Hotchkiss for his sister, Vesta Vail Hotchkiss.
The remaining land was formerly owned by the Government and called Camp Vail, a housing complex for families of Fort Monmouth employees.
Marcel Duchamp, whom she had known since the early 1920s, when she lived in Paris with her first husband Laurence Vail, had introduced Guggenheim to the art world ; it was through him that she met many artists during her frequent visits to Paris.
In the United States, the telegraph was developed by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail.
The Morse / Vail telegraph was quickly deployed in the following two decades.
The Go Team was a collaborative project started in 1985 based around the core duo of Johnson and Tobi Vail, later of Bikini Kill & Kill Rock Stars.
During the summer of 1992, the band The Frumpies was formed by Karren, Wilcox, Vail, and Molly Neuman of Bratmobile, and toured as late as the early 2000s along with a similar Italian punk rock band Dada Swing.
It was first demonstrated on the air on March 18, 1967, when “ ABC ’ s Wide World of Sports ” televised the “ World Series of Skiing ” from Vail, Colorado.
Eric Vail was the team's top goal scorer with 174 while Tom Lysiak led with 431 points.
Her first husband was James Vail Converse, a grandson of Theodore N. Vail, former president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company ( AT & T ).
Until 1985, this was also the only detachable quad in Colorado when Vail Ski Resort installed four Doppelmayr high speed quads.
The original grip was slightly modified later before the Vail quads were built.
In 1989, the old design was officially retired with the addition of the Avanti high speed quad at Vail, and a new design, called the UNI, was introduced.

was and plant
After all, Woodruff owned a competent printing plant and was the logical man for the job.
She had, she said, heard that the plant was closing.
Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.
During his presidency, the company's physical plant was enormously expanded, and the length and breadth of the Brown & Sharpe machine tool line became the greatest in the world.
With greater investments in plant facilities, with automation growing, you can't switch around, either in volume or in product design, as much as was formerly possible -- or at least not as economically.
The plant was located west of the Battenkill and south of the location of the former electric light plant.
The layout of the sewer lines was designed by Henry W. Taylor, who was the engineer for the Manchester Village disposal plant.
On June 14, 1900 the Manchester Journal reported that an electrical engineer was installing an electric light plant for Edward S. Isham at `` Ormsby Hill ''.
In November 1900 surveying was done under John Marsden on the east mountains to ascertain if it would be possible to get sufficient water and fall to operate an electric power plant.
The next step was construction by the Manchester Light and Power Company of a plant on the west bank of the Battenkill south of Union Street bridge.
For a time following the abandonment of the local plant, electric current for Manchester was brought in from the south with an emergency tie-in with the Vermont Marble Company system to the north.
The socialist environment, it was stated, had cross-fertilized these two extreme seeds and was about to produce a new plant and fruit.
The pilot plant was a circular lagoon 81 ft in diam at the surface and 65 ft in diam at the bottom, 4 ft below the surface, with a volume of 121,000 Aj.
The pilot plant was equipped with a 3-hp. turbine aerator ( Figure 2 ).
The sewage flow into the treatment plant was metered and continuously recorded on 24-hr. charts.
The bay laurel plant was used in expiatory sacrifices and in making the crown of victory at these games.
Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.
In 2008, it was discovered that the inactivation of only two genes in one species of annual plant leads to the conversion into a perennial plant.
Although most extant species of Asteraceae are herbaceous, the examination of the basal members in the family suggests that the common ancestor of the family was an arborescent plant, a tree or shrub, perhaps adapted to dry conditions, radiating from South America.
The name is derived from the type genus Apium, which was originally used by Pliny the Elder circa 50 AD for a celery-like plant.

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