Upon reaching the desired speed, the automatic equipment would cut off the drive, and the silent but not empty vessel would hurl towards the star which was its journey's end.

Upon reaching Beijing, Chiang paid homage to Sun Yat-sen and had his body moved to the new capital of Nanjing to be enshrined in a grand mausoleum.

Upon reaching Salzburg, however, they found that he was not available and, disillusioned, returned to the United States after spending only 15 days of their planned three years in Europe.

Upon reaching his mother, who was now living with her new husband, he informed her of what had occurred with his uncle and his plans to make a life of his own, asking her for bread and some money to live in his misery.

Upon reaching the Cap Rock section of the park, they attempted to cremate Parsons ' corpse by pouring five gallons of gasoline into the open coffin and throwing a lit match inside.

Upon reaching the city in September 1895, the column bombarded the royal palace with heavy artillery, causing heavy casualties and leading Queen Ranavalona III to surrender.

Upon reaching a suitable density, energy generation is begun at the core using an exothermic nuclear fusion process that converts hydrogen into helium.

Upon reaching Mars, the upper stage would be jettisoned, with the Habitat Unit aerobraking into Mars orbit before soft-landing in proximity to the Earth Return Vehicle.

Upon reaching Asunción during his 1958 tour of Latin America, Vice President Richard Nixon praised Stroessner's Paraguay for opposing communism more strongly than any other nation in the world.

Upon reaching Earth, she demanded Earth's surrender and proclaimed herself Empress.

Upon reaching Sierra Leone, Clarkson and some of the Nova Scotian ' captains ' " despatched on shore to clear or make roadway for their landing ".

Upon reaching an area just south of the site, the superstitious Evenki hunters would go no further, fearing what they called the Valleymen.

Upon reaching the end of the bridge they will separate into separate routes to their destinations.

Upon its release, the song was extremely successful, reaching number one in the UK and featuring at number 31 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the ' 80s.

Upon reaching Vienna, Sobieski had planned to attack on 13 September, but with the Turkish close to breaching the walls he ordered a full attack on 12 September.

Upon reaching Bent's Fort, they turned to the northwest, reaching the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte on May 23.

Upon reaching the kingdom of Armorica, he defeated the king and killed thousands of inhabitants.

Upon reaching Eleusis, there was a day of fasting in commemoration of Demeter's fasting while searching for Persephone.

Upon discovering a growing listening audience, the band began to stretch out on stage, incorporating more time in their repertoire, some songs reaching jams of twenty minutes.

Upon reaching this resolution, the crowd of Falun Gong protesters dispersed.

Upon reaching the northern area, they split into two bands.

Upon their arrival on the Federation's flagship, they are attacked by battle droids and are forced to retreat to the planet, where they meet a clumsy Gungan named Jar Jar Binks ( Ahmed Best ), who assists the Jedi in reaching Queen Padmé Amidala ( Natalie Portman ).

Upon reaching Sierra Leone, Clarkson and some of the Nova Scotian ' captains ' " dispatched on shore to clear or make roadway for their landing ".

Upon reaching adulthood, Weygand was legally acknowledged as a son by Francois-Joseph Weygand, an accountant in the employ of M. Cohen de Léon, thereby granting him French citizenship.

Upon completion on July 31, 1935, the span Deception Pass Bridge connected Whidbey Island to the tiny Pass Island, and Pass Island to Fidalgo Island.

Upon independence in 1947, the government of India used the Johnson Line as the basis for its official boundary in the west, which included the Aksai Chin From the Karakoram Pass ( which is not under dispute ), the Indian claim line extends northeast of the Karakoram Mountains through the salt flats of the Aksai Chin, to set a boundary at the Kunlun Mountains, and incorporating part of the Karakash River and Yarkand River watersheds.

Upon Chen Shou's compilation on the unofficial works on Shu's history ( Shu had no official logs on its history ) in the Book of Shu, it only tells that Wei Yan wanted to spilt the force in two and meet at Tong Pass, not much detail was recorded due to fact that the position of Historian was banned by Zhuge Liang.

Upon reaching Route 156 near Hollister, the road expands to two lanes in each direction, and climbs and curves and through the mountains of the Diablo Range, crossing them through the Pacheco Pass into the San Joaquin Valley.

Upon hearing of his father and brothers ' deaths, Ma Chao becomes filled with rage and goes to war with Cao Cao to avenge his family, starting the Battle of Tong Pass.

Upon arrival, military personnel, family members and civilian employee need to get a ration control card from their local Pass and ID Office prior to shopping in an AAFES facility.

Upon approaching Ghulja he was surrounded on mountain road, his troops were partly annihilated, partly fled to Muzart Pass on Tianshan Mountains and through it to Southern Xinjiang near Aksu.

Upon the opening of the extension, a new Tuen Mun-Hung Hom Monthly Pass was introduced for unlimited rides of the whole West Rail line ( including the new extension ) for a cost of $ 470.

Upon hearing that Dou was approaching, he decided to advance east to take up defensive position at the key Hulao Pass in advance of Dou's arrival, leaving a relatively small Tang army, under the command of his brother Li Yuanji the Prince of Qi, at Luoyang.

Upon arriving at Summit Station at the crest of Cajon Pass in California, eastbound passengers were presented with orchid corsages ( for the ladies ) and engraved pigskin wallets ( for the men ).

Upon completion of the purging step, additional initiator appropriate for the molecular weight of the sample desired is added, and the system is then warmed to the polymerization temperature, at which the reaction is allowed to go to completion.

Upon arriving at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with `` Missouri and Illinois Territories ''.

Upon arriving at the rim of North Ray Crater, they were away from the LM.

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Upon his return at imperial behest to Vienna in 1780, he wrote one German singspiel Der Rauchfangkehrer or ( The Chimney Sweep ) which premiered in 1781.

Upon returning to the United States, he became a researcher and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he focused on individual differences in learning, especially the influences of culture, development, and genetics on intelligence and learning.

Upon the arrival of the Dutch, the trail soon became the main road through the island from Nieuw Amsterdam at the southern tip.

Upon learning of his mistress ' arrest, Pasternak telephoned Liuisa Popova and asked her to come at once to Gogol Boulevard.

Upon descending the plane on his wheelchair, he stood up and saluted the cheering crowd of supporters, including an army band playing his favorite military march tunes, which was awaiting him at the airport in Santiago.

Upon returning to New York on April 8, 1944, he married Dr. Myra Adele Logan, an intern at the Harlem Hospital.

Upon returning to South Africa in 1958, Barnard was appointed cardiothoracic surgeon at the Groote Schuur Hospital, establishing the hospital's first heart unit.

: Upon a certain Ascension Day King Arthur had come from Caerleon, and had held a very magnificent court at Camelot as was fitting on such a day.

Upon graduation he enrolled ( autumn 1880 ) at the University of Königsberg, the " Albertina ".

Upon arriving at Archduke Franz Ferdinand's country seat, château Konopiště, on a semi-official visit, they promptly proceeded to do away with one of the Austro-Hungarian heir presumptive's priceless golden pheasants, thereby almost causing an international incident.

Upon moving to become Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Munich in 1903, Kraepelin increasingly wrote on social policy issues.

The final entry of the Enchiridion, or Handbook, begins: " Upon all occasions we ought to have these maxims ready at hand ":

Upon hearing this, King, who had written a glowing review of the first film that helped it become an audience favorite at Cannes, called De Laurentiis and asked him to fund the film.

Upon returning from England, Hubble transformed himself from a middle-class mid-westerner into an affected faux-English dandy, took on a British accent, smoked a pipe, and sometimes wore knickers and a beret while observing at the big telescopes in California.

Upon the death of his father in 858, Emperor Montoku, he became Emperor at the age of 8, but the real power was held by his grandfather, Yoshifusa.

Upon his failure, he landed undetected at the southern point of the Rock from present-day Morocco in his quest for Spain.

" Upon realizing this, the Doctor and the Master worked together to send the Time Lords and Gallifrey back into the Time Lock, at the expense of the Master's disappearance.

Upon his father's death in October 1611, a sixteen-year-old Gustavus inherited the throne ( declared of age and able to reign himself at seventeen as of 16 December ), as well as an ongoing succession of occasionally belligerent dynastic disputes with his Polish cousin.

Upon their return to Atlanta, the couple take up residence in the bridal suite at the National Hotel while their new home on Peachtree Street is being constructed.

Upon the death of Navier in 1836, Coriolis succeeded him in in the chair of applied mechanics at the École des Ponts and Chaussées and to Navier's place in the Académie des Sciences.