the Low Countries, where the Middle Ages were to last for another two centuries and die out only when Charles the Bold of Burgundy met his first defeat in the fields and forests below the walls of Grandson.

Low seems to have supported Eden at first and then relented because things worked out differently, so there is no fire in his eye.

Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

Most brochs have scarcements ( ledges ) which would have allowed the construction of a very sturdy wooden first floor ( first spotted by the antiquary George Low in Shetland in 1774 ), and excavations at Loch na Berie on the Isle of Lewis show signs of a further, second floor ( e. g. stairs on the first floor, which head upwards ).

Low periods of the Nile during the 11th century continued to add to the landscape of Cairo ; a new island, known as Geziret al-Fil, first appeared in 1174, but eventually became connected to the mainland.

The majority of their ARIAs were awarded for their first two albums, Crowded House and Temple of Low Men.

He then confounded the expectations of both his record label and his American audiences by recording the minimalist album Low ( 1977 )— the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno over the next two years.

After completing Low and " Heroes ", Bowie spent much of 1978 on the Isolar II world tour, bringing the music of the first two Berlin Trilogy albums to almost a million people during 70 concerts in 12 countries.

This was the first book of Masses by a native composer: in the Italian states of his day, most composers of sacred music were from the Low Countries, France, Portugal, or Spain.

At first Germany's military moves were brilliantly successful, as in the " blitzkrieg " invasions of Poland ( 1939 ), Norway ( 1940 ), the Low Countries ( 1940 ), and above all the stunningly successful invasion and quick conquest of France in 1940.

The first is through VLF ( Very Low Frequency ) radio waves launched into the magnetosphere.

It concerns the correspondence of consonants in the older Indo-European, and Low Saxon and High German languages, and was first fully stated by Grimm in the second edition of the first part of his grammar.

In February 1948 with Ruth Adams, Harry Ayres and Mick Sullivan, Hillary made the first ascent of the South Ridge to the Low Peak In order to celebrate the life of Hillary the South Ridge was renamed as Hillary Ridge in August 2011.

Rodolphus Agricola ( Phrisius ) ( February 17, 1444 – October 27, 1485 ) was a pre-Erasmian humanist of the northern Low Countries, famous for his supple Latin and one of the first north of the Alps to know Greek well.

Externally, Columbia was the first orbiter in the fleet whose surface was mostly covered with High & Low Temperature Reusable Surface Insulation ( HRSI / LRSI ) tiles as its main thermal protection system ( TPS ), with white silicone rubber-painted Nomex — known as Felt Reusable Surface Insulation ( FRSI ) blankets — in some areas on the wings, fuselage and Payload Bay Doors.

Low commodity prices and economic difficulties in Uruguay's main export markets, first in Brazil with the devaluation of the real then in Argentina in 2002, caused a severe recession — the economy contracted by 11 %, unemployment climbed to 21 % and the percentage of Uruguayans in poverty rose to over 30 %.

* Rules for the Jane Naval War Game ( S. Low, Marston, 1898 )-The first published miniature wargame.

* June 29 – Manx Radio commences broadcasting from Douglas, Isle of Man after receiving its first Low power broadcast licence from the United Kingdom's General Post Office.

* In Ghent, first recorded instance of emission of life annuities by a town in the Low Countries, this event confirms a trend of consolidation of local public debt in north-western Europe initiated in 1218 by Rheims.

The emission by Rheims is the first evidence of a consolidation of public debt that is to become common in the Langue d ' Oïl, the Low Countries and Germany.

It was the first time Low Copy Number DNA was used in Northern Ireland.

Alfred Edwards, editor of Le Matin, who had taken particular interest in the incident, took Ravel on a seven-week canal trip on his yacht Aimée through the Low Countries in June and July 1905, the first time Ravel traveled abroad.

Boogie Down and KRS retorted angrily with songs like The Bridge is Over and South Bronx, which started one of the first notable hip hop wars as MC Shan, Marley Marl, Roxanne Shanté and Blaq Poet all released songs featuring verses personally attacking KRS and Scott La Rock.

For a while he " went native " in his own country, dressing like a tramp and making no concessions to middle-class mores and expectations ; he recorded his experiences of the low life for use in The Spike, his first published essay in English, and in the second half of his first book, Down and Out in Paris and London ( 1933 ).

At this time Jonathan Cape rejected A Scullion's Diary, the first version of Down and Out.

Because of the production difficulties with Birdman of Alcatraz, All Fall Down was actually released first.

Down the hill from the museum, visitors can wander among the Outer Kerameikos ruins, the Demosion Sema, the banks of the Eridanos where some water still flows, the remains of the Pompeion and the Dipylon Gate, and walk the first blocks of the Sacred Way towards Eleusis and of the Panethenaic Way towards the Acropolis.

In 1949 he provided film footage for, and appeared in, the first full-length comedy compilation, Down Memory Lane ( 1949 ), which was written and narrated by Steve Allen.

A subsequent single ( a re-worked version of " Down Under ") and their first album ( Business as Usual ) went to No. 1.

Intended to be the band's first " break-through " album, Caress of Steel sold below expectations and the promotional tour consisted of smaller venues, which led to the moniker the " Down the Tubes Tour ".

Some of the influential and popular directors from the 1980s to 2000s include James Cameron ( the first two Terminator films, Aliens, True Lies ); Andrew Davis ( Code of Silence, Above the Law, Under Siege ); John Woo ( Hong Kong action films such as Hard Boiled and US-made English-language films such as Hard Target, Broken Arrow and Face / Off ); John McTiernan ( the first and third Die Hard films, Predator, The Last Action Hero ); Ridley Scott ( Black Rain, Black Hawk Down ); The Wachowski Brothers ( The Matrix trilogy ), Andrzej Bartkowiak ( Romeo Must Die, Exit Wounds, Cradle 2 the Grave, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li ), Robert Rodriguez ( Mexico trilogy, From Dusk till Dawn, Machete ) and Michael Bay ( the first two Bad Boys films, The Rock, Transformers trilogy ); Louis Leterrier ( the first two Transporter films, Unleashed ).

" Although the band virtually had no support by television or by radio broadcasting in its first four years, Korn would go on to influence Pleymo, Adema, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Slipknot, Evanescence, P. O. D., Cold, Staind, System of a Down, Seether, One Minute Silence, Kittie, Endo, Taproot, Disturbed, Crazy Town, Otep, Hoobastank, Suicide Silence, Emmure, Impending Doom, Five Pointe O, Lacuna Coil, Chris Volz, Videodrone, Theory of a Deadman, Thousand Foot Krutch, Avenged Sevenfold, Breaking Benjamin, Bleed the Sky, Papa Roach, Godsmack, Shinedown, Coal Chamber, Three Days Grace, Flymore, Bring Me the Horizon, Trapt, Molotov and other bands.

Both Karen's Song and Down and Out in Beverly Hills were canceled by the start of the 1987 – 88 television season, the network's first fall launch, and were replaced by Second Chance and Women in Prison.

Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell ( Eric Blair ), published in 1933.

While contributing to various journals, he undertook investigative tramping expeditions in and around London, collecting material for use in " The Spike ", his first published essay, and the latter half of Down and Out in Paris and London.

Orwell's first version of Down and Out was called " A Scullion's Diary ".

Hipgnosis's first Genesis album cover was for The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, which featured a male model, credited simply as " Omar ", portraying the album's protagonist " Rael ".

The album was promoted by an HBO special, Olivia Down Under, and its first single, the title track, was written and produced by Elton John.

Matthews returned in late 2009 as the first recording artist to release albums simultaneously in both Welsh and English ( Paid Edrych I Lawr and Don't Look Down, respectively ).

Around the same time Lord and Sproxton made their first foray into adult animation with the shorts Down and Out and Confessions of a Foyer Girl, entries in the BBC's Animated Conversations series using real-life conversations as soundtracks.

She went on to make a series of films with Fox, Warner Bros. (" Gold Diggers of 1933 "), Universal, Paramount, and RKO Radio Pictures and, in her second RKO picture, Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ), she worked for the first time with Fred Astaire.

According to Astaire, when they were first teamed together in Flying Down to Rio, " Ginger had never danced with a partner before.

Typically clues appear outside the grid, divided into an Across list and a Down list ; the first cell of each entry contains a number referenced by the clue lists.