Its value as a precious metal was long considered second only to gold.

He was the franchise's all time leading scorer until Mats Sundin passed him in 2007.

It was demolished in 1920, but its height was not surpassed until almost 90 years after its construction.

Yes, truly blessed for having surpassed the priest (Zechariah).

Without your help, I couldn't have ridden out that crisis.

Louis Stanislas did impregnate his wife in 1774, having conquered his aversion.

The Lords Spiritual, as members of the clergy with seats in the House of Lords were known, were for the first time outnumbered by the Lords Temporal.

Later, it would be surpassed by goalkeeper Fabián Carini and also by striker Diego Forlán.

At its peak in 1988, it was the largest producer and second largest exporter of crude oil, surpassed only by Saudi Arabia.

The fact is so striking that in 1931, the town of Ilópolis had already exceeded that of Itapuca, which is not located at the roadside.

The Liberal Party was one of the two dominant parties (along with the Conservatives) from its founding until the 1920s, when it rapidly declined and was supplanted on the left by the Labour Party, which was founded in 1900 and formed its first government in 1924.

Their championship tally is surpassed only by the Green Bay Packers (13) and Chicago Bears (9).

In the pass, the phalanx would have been very difficult to assault for the more lightly armed Persian infantry.

The Niger is the third longest river in Africa, exceeded only by the Nile and the Congo River.

LA finished the 2009 season top of the Western Conference, and runners up in the MLS Supporters' Shield, qualifying for the 2009 MLS Cup.

The fact is that we simply don't know when the warming that we create will be utterly overwhelmed by feedback loops.

Yingluck may have survived a no confidence vote in parliament but the tension in the capital is far from over.

The ticks or 'beats' should be at precisely equally spaced intervals to give a sound of, tick...tock...tick...tock if they are not, and have the sound tick tock...tick tock... the clock is out of beat and needs to be leveled.

Less than a year after it opened to the public on May 27, 1930, the Chrysler Building was surpassed in height by the Empire State Building, but the Chrysler Building is still the world's tallest steel supported brick building.

The goal ended Arsenal's 30 match unbeaten run, and also made Rooney the youngest goalscorer in Premier League history, a record that has since been surpassed twice, by James Milner and James Vaughan.

By total area (including its waters), Canada is the second largest country in the world, after Russia.

In politics, the rare candidate who is serious, like Adlai Stevenson, is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn, like Eisenhower.

It was a decent chip for workstations, but for server applications it was almost always outperformed by the older Cascades cores with a 2 MB L2 cache and AMD's Athlon MP.

It is the most populous U.S. state, home to one out of eight people who live in the U.S., with a total of 38 million people, and it is the third largest state by area (after Alaska and Texas).

While agriculture accounted for 56 of the economy in 1986, with coffee as its main export, it has now been surpassed by the services sector, which accounted for 52 of GDP in 2007.

At the time he became the youngest player ever to play in an NBA game (18 years, 72 days a record since broken by Jermaine O'Neal and Andrew Bynum), and also became the youngest NBA starter ever (18 years, 158 days).

After negotiating tough ice corries, you will be welcomed by the lichenous tundra of the Krkonoše s highest ridges.

Standardised SEPA payment schemes will make this obstacle easier to overcome and companies will benefit from end to end STP .

Feminist theory typically characterizes patriarchy as a social construction, which can be overcome by revealing and critically analyzing its manifestations.

By the late 1890s, wild rubber had far surpassed ivory as the main source of revenue from the Congo Free State.

Ultimately, Henry remained committed to an idiosyncratic mixture of Catholicism and Protestantism the reactionary mood which had gained ground following the fall of Cromwell had neither eliminated his Protestant streak nor been overcome by it.

In 2012, the current ranking of the IFFHS shows that the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A is the second best football league in the world, surpassed only by the Liga BBVA.

59.53 ( ) of it comes under the jurisdiction of Switzerland (cantons of Vaud, Geneva, and Valais), and 40.47 () under France (department of Haute Savoie).

The second Figueras government had to face the attempt of proclamation of the Estat Català inside the Spanish Federal Republic on 9 March which was overcome by a series of telegraphic contacts between the government and the Catalan leaders.

Latin America In a speech before the Organization of American States in November 2013, Kerry remarked that the era of the Monroe Doctrine was over.

Over the course of the Baroque era the lute was increasingly relegated to the continuo accompaniment, and was eventually superseded in that role by keyboard instruments.

They also saw an economy that, since reconstruction began after World War II, had significantly outperformed the expected growth of European economies.

By this time, Led Zeppelin were the world's number one rock attraction, having outsold most bands of the time, including the Rolling Stones.

In February 2001, phpBB 2.0.x began development entirely from scratch the developer's ambitions for phpBB had outgrown the original codebase.

The American psychologist and counterculture figure Timothy Leary contends that the LP gave a voice to the feeling that the old ways were over ... it came along at the right time and stressed the need for cultural change based on a peaceful agenda.

The debate on sexism has escalated to such a height of publicity so quickly, primarily because it exposes the ongoing existence of a cultural phenomenon believed to have been long since overcome.

After Brasília became the Brazilian capital in 1960, the hotel underwent a period of slow decline and was surpassed by the more modern hotels which were built in the 1970s.

Del2del writes that Rabani must have overcome big temptations to return the money, since he estimates the amount of money would equal 166 years of a street sweeper's salary.

Aulë is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, who is primarily discussed in The Silmarillion , but appears also in Tolkien's other works.

The Tietê Bus Terminal () is the largest bus terminal in Latin America, and the second largest in the world, after the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City.