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Laozi's family name was Li, his given name Er; and he occupied the post of archivist at the Zhou court.

Personality of Minnie Guggenheimer, a distant cousin of Adolph Lewisohn, & has occupied the post of chairman of the Stadium Concerts committee ever since the opening of the Stadium.

At his funeral in Paris, Deneuve and the woman who was his last companion figured prominently At the Italian state funeral, however, Mastroianni's widow occupied the post of honor, a reward for decades of patience.

Even a few years ago, he says, when he occupied the post of professor of creative writing at Glasgow University, some people seemed surprised by the degree of his learning.

Pirlo, a footballer of real distinction, was missing from two of them and, for the other, occupied the post of deep-lying forward that has not been his since the initial phase of his career.

It is probable that Corelli also taught at the German Institute in Rome and certain that in 1700 he occupied the post of first violinist and conductor for the concerts of the Palazzo della Cancelleria.

He later entered civil government service and occupied the posts of governor general of Kiev (1715 19), senator (after 1719), and president of the Kamer-Kollegiya (Finance Ministry; 1719 22).

A series of Europeans occupied the posts of court conductor and court composer, beginning in the mid-1750s, among them Baldassare Galuppi, Tommaso Traetta, Domenico Cimarosa and Vicente Martín y Soler.

In 1653 Louis became the first Couperin to occupy the post of organist at the Church of Saint-Gervais, situacrosscross from Notre-Dame Cathedral. Notre-Dame Cathedral

"Of course, developing nations are within their rights in the medium term to occupy the post of either I.M.F. head or World Bank chief," Mrs. Merkel said, according to news reports.

"The Constitutional Council announces that the post of president is definitively vacant so we should refer to article 57 of the constitution, which states that the speaker of parliament occupies the post of president temporarily and calls for elections within a period of between 45 and 60 days," its president, Fathi Abd Ennather, said.