In early 1798, the Directory, the oligarchy that was ruling revolutionary France, ordered its top general, Napoleon Bonaparte, to plan the invasion of England. Instead, Napoleon organized and carried out the invasion of Egypt, which became the first modern incursion by the West into the Middle East.
I've had versions of disability my whole life, first with my hearing and then when I couldn't walk for over a year.
Obama spent the first two years of his administration practicing political unilateral disarmament.
The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.
When I opened my first brew-pub, I did not include a checkbox on hiring applications that required applicants to disclose criminal convictions. And we were better for it.
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
First published in 1984 when I was nothing more than sticks of bone at seven, 'Dragons of Autumn Twilight' began what would be one of the icons of my grunge-stained disenchanted childhood.
Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.
I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey.
The notion that scientists are dispassionate - first of all, that's wrong. Scientists are extremely passionate.
Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
A celebrated and hugely popular actress in her native Iran, Ahangarani first landed on the radar of the Iranian authorities for her open support of opposition figure Mir-Hossein Mousavi, which led to her arrest in July 2009 in the aftermath of a disputed presidential election in Iran.
Because homecoming came first, and there was the homecoming court. The five guys on homecoming court were disqualified from being in the prom court. So being prom king was being sixth most popular.
The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.
My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.
First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.
Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons.
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
