As regent from 1864 to 1873, Taewŏn-gun inaugurated a far-ranging reform program to strengthen the central administration; he modernized and increased its armies and rationalized the administration.
By this time, Jupiter had been surpassed in the role of front-line battleship by the new "all-big-gun" dreadnought battleships inaugurated by in 1906.
Charles Whitman, the sniper who killed people from the University of Texas at Austin clock tower, in 1966, and in some ways inaugurated the modern American gun massacre — whose chief note is the random slaughter of unknown people by a gunman gripped by a vague and nameless rage — was thought to have done something unimaginable at the time.
Building on a trajectory of deadly innovation inaugurated with the Civil War's Gatling gun, the machine gun joined rapid-fire, rifled artillery to augment the new lethality of the First World War battlefield.
In the first official weekly address since he was inaugurated for this second term, Obama targeted immigration reform, gun control, taxes for the wealthy and cracking down on Wall Street abuses as areas of concern.
So today, with less than two weeks before President-elect Obama is inaugurated as America's 44th President, where does the gun violence prevention movement stand?
Both ships saw limited duty during World War II, which was inaugurated by the firing of Schleswig-Holsteins main guns at the Polish fortress at Westerplatte.
As he notes, the Maxim machine gun "made its public debut at an exhibition in South Kensington, and was inaugurated in battle by the British in Sudan.
Led by Dashiell Hammett, the monthly's roster of cynical, hardboiled innovators inaugurated a golden age of American crime fiction, spilling into the pages of Dime Detective, Gun Molls, Spicy Detective, and dozens of other inexpensive publications.
Andrew Jackson was inaugurated.
It was inaugurated in 1912.
