Twelve men survived the sinking of the submarine: the crews of her two deck guns and those who had been on the conning tower.

* May 12 – Twelve young men in New York City publicly burn their draft cards to protest the war ; the first such act of war resistance.

Twelve Barbados men made up the Second Barbados Contingent of Volunteers for the Armed Forces.

Twelve ploeggs made up a " long " hundred, responsible for supplying a hundred armed men, four of which made a go ( cf.

Twelve deputies represented the départment of the Gironde in Paris ; six men hold the distinction of having sat in both the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention for this départment.

The first English monarch to be recorded as giving gifts of small silver coins to the poor is John who in 1213 gave 13 pence to each of 13 poor men at a ceremony in Rochester — the number being symbolic of the Twelve Apostles together with either Jesus or an angel.

Narcotics Anonymous ( NA ) describes itself as a " fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem " following the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Traditions developed by Alcoholics Anonymous, and it is the second-largest 12-step organization.

Twelve Canadian cities ( Calgary, Charlottetown, Edmonton, Halifax, Hamilton, Ottawa, Prince Rupert, Quebec City, Regina, Saint John, Saskatoon and Vancouver ) were earmarked for divisions of “ Half-Company ” strength, i. e. 50 men, all ranks.

The calling of President of the Twelve has been held by 25 men, 15 of whom have gone on to become President of the Church.

* Twelve Apostles, the twelve men chosen by Jesus Christ as his closest disciples and co-workers

Twelve men with this high calling constitute an administrative council in the work of the ministry.

Today twelve men with this same divine calling and ordination constitute the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Twelve miles of track had been completed by October of that year, entirely through volunteer labor by the men of Seattle.

Afterwards, Harris — along with Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer — ordained a " traveling High Council " of twelve men that eventually became the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Twelve men went up the Anadyr, walked for 20 days, found nothing and turned back.

On other occasions, the messenger indicated particular men to be ordained within the organization, including to its Quorum of Twelve Apostles.

Twelve men from no. 1 section were selected for the raid ; including the C. O.

In 1591 his Second Fruits, to be gathered of Twelve Trees, of divers but delightsome Tastes to the Tongues of Italian and English men appeared, to which was annexed the Garden of Recreation, yielding six thousand Italian Proverbs ( 4to ).

Twelve men were appointed by him for building the town.

Twelve of these (§§ 84, 85, 86, 114, 115, 127, 131, 139, 144, 145, 147, 148 ) concern women or the distinction between men and women.

Twelve nations competed in the men ’ s tournament and played a total of 48 matches.

Twelve of the IRA men were killed in fighting with members of the British Army at the nearby Clonmult Ambush, while four more were captured and later executed.

Convention has traditionally held the authors to have been two of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, John and Matthew, and two " apostolic men ," Mark and Luke:

On August 27, 1956, the Clinton Twelve attended classes at Clinton High School for the first time, becoming the first African-Americans to desegregate a state-supported public school in the Southeast.

The majority of what became the Quorum of the Twelve in 1835 attended Mormon conferences held in the center of the Cochranites in 1834 and 1835.

Twelve years later Shepstone attended the proclamation of Cetshwayo as king, the Zulu chief promising Shepstone to live at peace with his neighbors.

AA's Twelve Traditions were introduced in 1946 to help AA stabilize and grow.

Twelve more were killed, many of them as they attempted to aid the fallen.

This committee was headed by Anatolius, Patriarch of Constantinople, and was given five days to carefully study the matter ; Cyril's Twelve Chapters were to be used as the orthodox standard.

Twelve voting delegates were seated at the 1st National Congress in 1921, as well as at the 2nd ( in 1922 ), when they represented 195 party members.

The Vikings celebrated Yule, which later contributed to the Twelve Days of Christmas, or the " Daft Days " as they were sometimes called in Scotland.

Twelve thermonuclear warheads were exploded in all, one of which was deliberately disrupted when the PGM-17 Thor carrying it failed to launch scattering plutonium debris over the island.

Twelve people were actually on the island when the hurricane struck, part of a contracted USAF crew sent to the island to monitor groundwater contamination levels.

Twelve jazz tracks were created for Lemmon and another twelve were added.

Twelve boats, the majority of which were Italian, raced in the first-ever Grand Prix of the Sea.

Twelve commercials were created featuring the character.

Eusebius mentions that Quadratus and Ammia of Philadelphia were both prominent prophets following the age of the Twelve Apostles.

Twelve cities were part of the bidding process, which was scheduled to award two Super Bowls ( XXIII and XXIV ) The bidding cities included: Anaheim, Detroit, Houston, Jacksonville, Miami, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa, and Tempe.

The members of the new junta were Daniel Ortega ( FSLN ), Moisés Hassan ( FPN ), Sergio Ramírez ( the " Twelve "), Alfonso Robelo ( MDN ) and Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the widow of La Prensas director Pedro Joaquín Chamorro.

Originally proposed by Alcoholics Anonymous ( AA ) as a method of recovery from alcoholism, the Twelve Steps were first published in the book Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism in 1939.

Twelve nuns and employees of the Temple refused to answer questions by pleading the Fifth Amendment when they were subpoenaed to testify before Congress in 1997.

The most prolific writers there were collectively referred to as the Five Great Masters of the Northern School ( 北派五大家 ) -- Huanzhu Louzhu ( 還珠樓主 ), who wrote The Swordspeople from Shu Mountains ( 蜀山剑侠传 )); Bai Yu, who wrote Twelve Coin Darts ( 十二钱镖 ); Wang Dulu, who wrote The Crane-Iron Pentalogy ( 鹤铁五部作 ); Zheng Zhengyin ( 郑证因 ), who wrote The King of Eagle Claws ( 鹰爪王 ); and Zhu Zhenmu ( 朱贞木 ), who wrote The Seven-Killing Stele ( 七杀碑 ).

He was indeed released in August 1916, but twelve mostly prominent IWW activists, the so-called Sydney Twelve were arrested in NSW in September 1916 for arson and other offences.

Twelve years of campaigning on the Galician frontier were concluded in 1143 by the Treaty of Zamora, in which Afonso was recognized as independent of any other Iberian sovereign, although he promised to be a faithful vassal of the Pope and to pay him a yearly tribute of four ounces of gold.

Twelve Community Development Projects ( CDPs ) were set up in areas with high levels of deprivation to encourage self-help and participation by local residents in order to improve their communication and access to local government, together with improving the provision of local services.

Twelve days after the budget, the National Union of Seamen called a national strike and the problems facing Sterling were multiplied.

On board were the Twelve:

Twelve years later, in 1842, at the request of President José Antonio Páez, they were moved from Santa Marta to Caracas, where a monument was set up for his interment in the National Pantheon of Venezuela.

Twelve issues of the main French edition of journal Internationale Situationniste were published, each issue edited by a different individual or group, including: Guy Debord, Mohamed Dahoiu, Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio, Maurice Wyckaert, Constant Nieuwenhuys, Asger Jorn, Helmut Sturm, Attila Kotanyi, Jørgen Nash, Uwe Lausen, Raoul Vaneigem, Michèle Bernstein, Jeppesen Victor Martin, Jan Stijbosch, Alexander Trocchi, Théo Frey, Mustapha Khayati, Donald Nicholson-Smith, René Riesel, and René Viénet.

Twelve of the sixteen places were allocated to Europe, three to the Americas, and one to Africa or Asia ( including Turkey ).