Two of the new hands, a Mexican named Jose Amado and a kid known only as Laredo, were picked for the first trick of riding night herd.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

( Would she have been able to had she known that the blanket belonged to a young ballet dancer Nicolas had found his first night in one of Walter's marked bars??

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

Previously known as Jefferson Arms, Kodiak has given this 11-shot hammerless job an exceptionally fine stock design, and the 260 is the first autoloader to handle

The first bridge known to have been covered wholly or in part, -- and perhaps the most interesting one, connected Newbury ( now Newburyport ) with Salisbury Point.

King Muhammad 5, was known to be most sympathetic to the formation of local self-government and made the first firm promise of elections on May Day, 1957.

The first was a list of fourteen manufacturing companies located in the state of Washington which were personally known to the research team to be active in defense work.

The first known telephone line in Manchester was established in July 1883 between Burr and Manley's store at Manchester Depot and the Kent and Root Marble Company in South Dorset.

If we consider a process in which the outcome of one stage is known before passage to the next, then the principle of optimality shows that the policy in subsequent stages should be optimal with respect to the outcome of the first.

The ship was a Waco biplane, one of the first two of its type to be fitted with the air cooled, 225/hp Wright radial engine known as the Whirlwind.

Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.

Rococo music -- a lot of it -- was played in Carnegie Recital Hall on Saturday night in the first of four concerts being sponsored this season by a new organization known as Globe Concert Arts.

He had known when he first helped her to meet the right people and work with them that she did not intend to marry him.

A life of gentility and principle such as Cousin Elec had lived had to be known at first hand.

Reluctant at first, Fernández was finally convinced to pose nude to create what today is known as the " Oscar ".

Many scholars consider modern anthropology as an outgrowth of the Age of Enlightenment, a period when Europeans attempted to study human behavior systematically, the known varieties of which had been increasing since the fifteenth century as a result of the first European colonization wave.

On the occasion of a pestilence in the 430s BCE, Apollo's first temple at Rome was established in the Flaminian fields, replacing an older cult site there known as the " Apollinare ".

Nevertheless, in spite of Rutherford's estimation that gold had a central charge of about 100 ( but was element Z = 79 on the periodic table ), a month after Rutherford's paper appeared, Antonius van den Broek first formally suggested that the central charge and number of electrons in an atom was exactly equal to its place in the periodic table ( also known as element number, atomic number, and symbolized Z ).

More advanced methods of locating objects in the sky include telescope mounts with setting circles, which assist with pointing telescopes to positions in the sky that are known to contain objects of interest, and GOTO telescopes, which are fully automated telescopes that are capable of locating objects on demand ( having first been calibrated ).

The first known references to mouth rinsing is in Ayurveda and Chinese medicine, about 2700 BC, for treatment of gingivitis.

Asteroids is also the first game to use Atari's " QuadraScan " vector-refresh system ; a full-color version known as " Color-QuadraScan " was later developed for games such as Space Duel and Tempest.

The oldest known name for Anatolia, " Land of the Hatti " was found for the first time on Mesopotamic cuneiform tablets from the period of the Akkadian dynasty ( 2350 – 2150 BC ).

Anatolia is known as the birthplace of minted coinage ( as opposed to unminted coinage, which first appears in Mesopotamia at a much earlier date ) as a medium of exchange, some time in the 7th century BC in Lydia.

Magdeburger Reiter, 1240, the first equestrian statue north of the Alps

* The Magdeburger Reiter (" Magdeburg equestrian ", 1240 ), the first equestrian sculpture north of the alps.

* Macrinus, of Mauritania, becomes the first equestrian Roman emperor.

His first, in 80 or 81 BCE, was technically illegal, reluctantly granted by a cowed and divided Senate when Pompey was aged only 24, a mere equestrian.

Ingres ' pupil Théodore Chassériau ( 1819 – 1856 ) had already achieved success with his nude The Toilette of Esther ( 1841, Louvre ) and equestrian portrait of Ali-Ben-Hamet, Caliph of Constantine and Chief of the Haractas, Followed by his Escort ( 1846 ) before he first visited the East, but in later decades the steamship made travel much easier and increasing numbers of artists traveled to the Middle East and beyond, painting a wide range of Oriental scenes.

Although the discipline has ancient roots in Europe, dressage was first recognized as an important equestrian pursuit during the Renaissance.

Women were first allowed to take part in 1964 ; equestrian sports are one of the few Olympic sports in which men and women compete against one another.

It was cast in 1453, and was the first full-size equestrian bronze cast since antiquity.

Completed in 1450 and placed in the square facing the Basilica of St. Anthony, his equestrian statue of Erasmo ( better known as the Gattamelata, or " Honey-Cat ") was the first example of such a monument since ancient times.

The Omaha were the first of the Northern Plains tribes to have adopted an equestrian culture.

In 2006, thanks in large part to the efforts of the Highland Equestrian Conservancy, Highland Township received official recognition by the State as Michigan's first designated equestrian community.

Although Niger was born into an old Italian equestrian family, around the year 135, he was the first member of his family to achieve the rank of Roman senator.

His first work may have been at the age of sixteen, an equestrian wooden statue for the funeral of Azzo Ubaldini.

At first, Ludovico defeated the French at the Battle of Fornovo in 1495 ( making weapons from 80 tons of bronze originally intended for Leonardo da Vinci's equestrian statue of the duke ).

Donatello became renowned as the greatest sculptor of the Early Renaissance, his masterpieces being his Humanist and unusually erotic statue of David, one of the icons of the Florentine republic, and his great monument to Gattamelata, the first large equestrian bronze to be created since Roman times.

In the very first example of his own attempts, he made an image of the Pont Neuf and the equestrian statue of Henry IV.

Donatello's Gattamelata is the first lifesize equestrian statue in bronze since antiquity ; other medieval examples are in stone or wood.

Titian's equestrian portrait of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor of 1548 led the way in applying the form to rulers, and Cosimo I de ' Medici by Giambologna in Florence ( completed 1598 ) is the first life-size statue to feature a ruler rather than a condotiere.

During the age of Absolutism, especially in France, equestrian statues were popular with rulers ; Louis XIV was typical in having one outside his Palace of Versailles, and the over life-size statue in the Place Vendôme in Paris by François Girardon ( 1699 ) is supposed to be the first large modern equestrian statue to be cast in a single piece ; it was destroyed in the French Revolution, though there is a small version in the Louvre.

In the United States, the first three full-scale equestrian sculptures were Clark Mills ' Andrew Jackson ( 1852 ), Henry Kirke Brown's George Washington ( 1856 ) for Union Square and Thomas Crawford's Washington in Richmond, Virginia ( 1858 ).

File: Isaak square. jpg | Monument to Nicholas I in St. Petersburg's Saint Isaac's Square, the first equestrian statue in the world with merely two support points

He produced his equestrian statue of Napoleon I in 1868, and of Louis d ' Orleans of 1869 ( at the Château de Pierrefonds ) and in 1874 the first equestrian statue of Joan of Arc, erected in the Place des Pyramides, Paris ; this he afterwards ( 1889 ) replaced with another version.