Through his mother Antonia Major, Domitius was a great nephew of Augustus, first cousin to Claudius, and second cousin to Agrippina and Caligula.

Through close contacts with the Arabian peninsula for more than one-thousand years, the Somali and Afar ethnic groups in this region became among the first on the African continent to adopt Islam.

The first two shots of Seen Through the Telescope ( 1900 ), with the telescope POV simulated by the circular mask.

Through an acting career that spanned 57 years, Wray attained international renown as an actress in horror movie roles, leading to many considering her as the first " scream queen ".

Through the friendly interposition of the Marquis Cavalli, his first opera, La cambiale di matrimonio ( The Marriage Contract ), was produced at Venice when he was a youth of 18 years.

Through meeting and falling in love with Maude, he discovers joy in living for the first time.

Through 2010, he was first in career home runs and RBIs ( ahead of Shawn Green ) and batting average ( ahead of Ryan Braun ), and fourth in hits ( behind Lou Boudreau ), among all-time Jewish major league baseball players.

A decade before the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the sequel Through the Looking Glass, Carroll wrote the first stanza to what would become " Jabberwocky " while in Croft on Tees, close to nearby Darlington, where he lived as a child,

Through 13 games in 2008, the Royals were 8 – 5 and in first place in the AL Central, a vast improvement over their start from the previous season.

Through the act of mating, the female releases an egg and is often fertilized on the first attempt.

John Chrysostom, a church father, writes that Noah ’ s behaviour is defensible: as the first human to taste wine, he would not know its aftereffects: “ Through ignorance and inexperience of the proper amount to drink, fell into a drunken stupor ”.

Through the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, Nijmegen grew steadily.

Through this period, the NBA continued to strengthen with the shift of the Minneapolis Lakers to Los Angeles, the Philadelphia Warriors to San Francisco, the Syracuse Nationals to Philadelphia to become the Philadelphia 76ers, and the St. Louis Hawks moving to Atlanta, as well as the addition of its first expansion franchises.

Through Ballantyne, Scott was able to publish his first works and his poetry then began to bring him to public attention.

In his 2005 interview in Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, he recalls seeing his first slam, at the Nuyorican Poets Café:

Through 2011, Super Bowl XX remains the last Super Bowl to feature two teams both making their first appearance in the game.

Through 2011, he was one of seven major leaguers to have had at least four 30-homer, 100-RBI seasons in their first five years, along with Chuck Klein, Joe DiMaggio, Ralph Kiner, Mark Teixeira, Albert Pujols, and Ryan Braun.

The themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May ( 4 May ), uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards ; the second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months later, on 4 November ( the day before Guy Fawkes Night ), uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess.

* January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of her novel Journey Through the Night ( Reis door de nacht ) set during World War II.

Through the first half of the 20th century, women wore underwear for three primary reasons: to alter their outward shape ( first with corsets and later with girdles or bras ), for hygienic reasons, or for modesty.

Through his affairs in Eastern Europe in 1000, Otto III was able to extend the influence of Christianity by supporting mission work in Poland and through the crowning of Stephen I as the first Christian king of Hungary.

Through a package of constitutional reforms agreed to with the Nationalist opposition, Malta became a republic on 13 December 1974, with the last Governor-General, Sir Anthony Mamo, as its first President.

In addition to replacing the first season opening and the ending logos with Zoot, the Vincent Price episode was edited to remove the song s " I'm Looking Through You " and " You've Got a Friend " ( the latter of which would be removed again when released on the first season DVD ) as well as a sketch with the talking houses, while the Alice Cooper episode removed Robin's performance of " Somewhere Over the Rainbow ".

Through his work in Vienna, he was given leave of absence for half the year in order to let him travel the world to collect musical information to include in his History of Music book.

Through the 19th and in the early half of the 20th century, Londoners used coal for heating their homes, which produced large amounts of smoke.

Through the then relatively new science of forensic ballistics, both weapons were determined to have been used in the massacre – and that one of Burke's Tommy guns had also been used to murder New York mobster Frankie Yale a year and a half earlier.

Through Raeder expressed some worry in the first half of 1939 over the prospect of a war with Britain when the Plan Z had barely began, he accepted and believed in the assurances of Hitler and the Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop that neither Britain nor France would go to war if the Reich attacked Poland.

Through the Roman Senate, Odoacer requested that he be named a Patrician by the Emperor Zeno, ruler of the eastern half of the Roman Empire.

Through the later half of the 18th century, the reputation of Emanuel Bach stood very high.

Through much of its history, wargames were only about half of the Avalon Hill line.

Through the sixteenth century, nearly half of all noble coats of arms in Poland had a field gules with one or more argent charges on them.

Through their debates regarding versification of the Russian language and tone of Russian literature, the writers in the first half of the 18th century were able to lay foundation for the more poignant, topical work of the late 18th century.

Through the latter half of the 19th century and first few decades of the 20th, Brashears business district ebbed and flowed as many farm communities are wont to do.

Through the second half of the 19th century, Johnstown made much of the nation's barbed wire.

Through the latter half of 1791, Lafayette's stature continued to decline.

Through the second half of the 20th century Flamingo consisted of the Flamingo Lodge ( open year-round ), a restaurant and cafe ( open only during the winter months ), a marina, a store, a gift shop ( open only during the winter months ), a few houses for park rangers and a campground.

Through the first half of the war, the Prussians continued victorious.

Through the right transept you can reach Saint John chapel where there is a splendid fresco of the second half of the fifteenth century representing the Annunciation.

Through the 1950s, over half the money Battelle spent developing electrophotography came from government contracts.

Through the long space of half a century ,—

Through the 1980s and into the 1990s, the two companies involved themselves in a complex company structure whereby they each owned about half of each other and, financed by huge borrowings, they acquired a portfolio of other companies.

Through the latter half of the 19th century and into the first decade of the 20th, the City of Berlin, Ontario, Canada, was a bustling industrial centre celebrating its German heritage ( see Kitchener, Ontario ).

Through the decade, Francia nationalised half the land in four stages.

Through a series of conflicts, primarily with the Fula-led Kingdom of Fouta Djallon, about half of the Mandinka population converted from indigenous beliefs to Islam.

Through a series of conflicts, primarily with the Fula-led Kingdom of Fouta Djallon and amongst sub-states of the Kaabu, about half of the Senegambian Mandinka were converted to Islam while as many as a third were sold into slavery to the Americas through capture in conflict.