Although it is chronologically the 47th Mersenne prime to be discovered, it is less than the largest known that was the 45th to be discovered.

After winning the general election, Daley was inaugurated as Mayor of Chicago on April 24, 1989, his 47th birthday, at a ceremony in Orchestra Hall.

Thomas Edmund Dewey ( March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971 ) was the 47th Governor of New York ( 1943 – 1954 ).

The plan was to use tanks in support of infantry from the 47th ( 1 / 2nd London ) Division, but the wood was an impassable landscape of shattered stumps and shell holes, and only one tank managed to penetrate any distance.

Her district was renumbered the 47th District after the 2000 census.

Tsinghua was ranked the 47th worldwide by QS World University Rankings in 2011, 58th worldwide by Times Higher Education World University Rankings in 2010, 36th worldwide in Human Resources & Labor Review's Best World Universities 2010, 49th worldwide by US News and World Report ( USNEWS ), 13th worldwide in the category of engineering and IT by USNEWS, 2009, and ranked 151 – 200 Worldwide in the Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2010.

Just hours after Westmoreland was sworn in as Army Chief of Staff on July 7, 1968, his brother-in-law, LTC Frederick Van Deusen ( Commander of 2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment ), was killed when his helicopter was shot down in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam.

Morton was elected, as a Republican, to the 46th and 47th Congresses.

* Phillips Lee Goldsborough ( August 6, 1865 – October 22, 1946 ), a member of the United States Republican Party, was a United States Senator representing State of Maryland from 1929 to 1935, 47th Governor of Maryland from 1912 to 1916 and Comptroller of the Maryland Treasury from 1898 to 1900

On January 23, 1987, following the inactivation of the 47th Air Division at Fairchild, the 92nd Bombardment Wing was reassigned to the 57th Air Division at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota.

Algonquin Elementary School was formerly located on N. 47th Street.

In 2005, the Port was ranked as the 47th largest in the world by cargo tonnage.

47th Street was named Roethke Mews in his honor.

In 2011-12 United States was ranked 47th out of 179 countries, which was a setback from the preceding year.

However, the 767 was still a very new aircraft, having flown its maiden flight in September 1981. was the 47th Boeing 767 off the production line, delivered to Air Canada less than 4 months previously.

packets of essential medicine was delivered to the Heath Ministry of ST & P as a goodwill gesture In turn, the Republic of São Tomé and Principe has announced its support for India to be awarded a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council and is the 47th country of Africa to join the Government of India's Pan-African e-Network Project.

was a Japanese politician who served as the 47th Prime Minister of Japan from 10 March to 15 October 1948.

* In 2007, writer Stephen Hunter told the story in the book, The 47th Samurai, of the Muramasa Blade that became a military sword in WW2 then was the source of a great adventure for character Bob Lee Swagger.

Due to Stevens's long tenure and that of the state's sole congressman, Don Young, Alaska was considered to have clout in national politics well beyond its small population ( the state was long the smallest in population and is currently 47th, ahead of only Wyoming, North Dakota and Vermont ).

On May 11,330, A.D.,, its name was changed again, this time to Constantinople after its emperor, Constantine.

This one was set up here in 390 A.D. on a pedestal, the faces of which are carved with statues of the emperor and his family watching games in the Hippodrome, done so realistically that the obelisk itself is included in them.

Konstantinos Porphyrogennetos, the fourth emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire in the 9th century AD, referred to Asia Minor as East thema, " ανατολικόν θέμα " ( from the Greek words anatoli: east, thema: administrative division ), placing this region to the East of Byzantium, while Europe was lying to the West.

In three arduous campaigns, the first two of which were conducted by the emperor himself while the third was directed by Manuel Comnenos ( great-uncle of Emperor Manuel Comnenos ), the Turks were defeated in detail in 1070 and driven across the Euphrates.

In process of time the title abbot was extended to clerics who had no connection with the monastic system, as to the principal of a body of parochial clergy ; and under the Carolingians to the chief chaplain of the king,, or military chaplain of the emperor, It even came to be adopted by purely secular officials.

304 – 232 BC ), commonly known as Ashoka and also as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from ca.

However, during the time of Arianism's flowering in Constantinople, the Gothic convert Ulfilas ( later the subject of the letter of Auxentius cited above ) was sent as a missionary to the Gothic barbarians across the Danube, a mission favored for political reasons by emperor Constantius II.

Under instructions from the emperor, he undertook an invasion of southern Scotland, winning some significant victories, and constructing the Antonine Wall from the Firth of Forth to the Firth of Clyde, although it was soon abandoned for reasons that are still not quite clear.

In this, the emperor was assisted by five chief lawyers: L. Fulvius Aburnius Valens, an author of legal treatises ; L. Volusius Maecianus, chosen to conduct the legal studies of Marcus Aurelius, and author of a large work on Fidei Commissa ( Testamentary Trusts ); L. Ulpius Marcellus, a prolific writer ; and two others.

Rebuilt by the emperor Justin I after an earthquake in the 6th century, it became Justinopolis ( 525 ); but the old native name persisted, and when Thoros I, king of Lesser Armenia, made it his capital early in the 12th century, it was known as Anazarva.

In 392, after the death of Valentinian II and the acclamation of Eugenius, Ambrose supplicated the emperor for the pardon of those who had supported Eugenius after Theodosius was eventually victorious.

Carved in high relief from a single piece of agate, this extraordinary vase was most likely created in an imperial workshop for a Byzantine emperor.

Livia was the first Roman Empress and was Augustus ’ third wife ( from Livia ’ s first marriage to praetor Tiberius Nero, she had two sons: the emperor Tiberius and the general Nero Claudius Drusus.

In 39, Agrippina and Livilla, with their maternal cousin, Drusilla's widower Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, were involved in a failed plot to murder Caligula, a plot known as the Plot of the Three Daggers, which was to make Lepidus the new emperor.

After the death of her first husband, Agrippina tried to make shameless advances to the future emperor Galba, who showed no interest in her and was devoted to his wife Aemilia Lepida.

Although Agrippina was very influential, she kept a very low profile and stayed away from the imperial palace and the court of the emperor.

Pallas stated to the emperor that as Lucius was the grandson to Claudius's late brother Germanicus, by marrying Agrippina, Claudius would ally the two branches of the Claudian house and imperial family.

This was a part of Agrippina ’ s scheming plan to make Lucius the new emperor.

The Celtic King Caratacus assumed that she, along with Claudius, was the martial leader and bowed before her throne with the same homage and gratitude as he accorded the emperor.

Suggesting her marriage to Claudius was to a weak emperor who was, because of his hesitations and terrors, a threat to the imperial authority and government.

* The 3rd century emperor Aurelian ( Lucius Domitius Aurelianus ), was also a distant relative of the Ahenobarbus family

The main objective of the mission, however, was to secure the return of Edward ; but this failed, mainly because Henry III's relations with the Hungarians were strained, and the emperor was unable or unwilling to help Ealdred.