Also on board was Ilan Ramon, a colonel in the Israeli air force who was the first citizen of his country to fly in space.
More so than in general elections, it is as if the election to become Ireland's first citizen allows the people and commentators a chance to audit the country, its values and where it wants to go.
Inaugurated in 2010, with major underwriting from the World Bank, the ANIM is the brainchild of Ahmad Sarmast, Afghanistan's first citizen to hold a doctorate in music, and his achievement is all the more remarkable in a nation where the overthrown Taliban regime had declared not just performing but even listening to music a crime against Islam.
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Chinese architect Wang Shu won the prize last year - the first Chinese citizen to do so.
Australia has made a Swedish diplomat who helped save tens of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust its first honorary citizen.
China celebrated another achievement last week, as Mo Yan became the first Chinese citizen to win a Nobel Prize for literature.
Britain elected its first Commonwealth citizen, an Indian national, in 1883.
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He became the first private citizen to address the United Nations Security Council and he briefed the then United States president, Jimmy Carter, on what he should do about South Africa.
The true business value of mobility will be unlocked only when organizations make mobile devices a first-class citizen in the enterprise workflow.
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My hope for this dynamic is that it will allow people to first play Star Citizen in a safer more single player open world style, but as they grow in confidence and want to test their mettle against other real players they can take the training wheels off and get into battles with real players.
Watch as McGregor gives his first TED talk on citizen journalism and teaching reporting skills as a way of job creation.
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Balkoski said he did not raise a fuss about the matter when Citizen Soldiers first came out because he assumed it was an isolated case.
Its Forest edition of The Citizen was first published last Wednesday and is set to be distributed to the Forest of Dean and Newent on the same day every week.
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In fact, Marutei Tsurunen is the first foreign-born Japanese citizen serving in the Japanese Diet.
It is the first killing of an American citizen in Lebanon in more than 10 years.
Both groups placed "Citizen Kane" first, which is fitting, because it is the Official Best Film of All Time.
Among the crisis's first fatalities was a British citizen who was killed Wednesday while traveling in the convoy to the airfield, Mr. Cameron said.
The Forester newspaper has been in publication since 1874, making it very slightly older than The Citizen which was first published under its current name in 1876.
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The year also saw the first recorded fatality of a 'citizen journalist.
More than 75 class actions were stopped or significantly hampered within its first year, according to Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization.
Santa Monica hopes to become the first American city to create a citizen well-being index, using economic vitality, social relationships, health, education and environmental factors to inform city policy decisions.
But out first duty is to the law-abiding citizen.
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For example, an illiterate Egyptian or Libyan, unschooled in the details of Islamic jurisprudence would understand this the way an American citizen would be familiar with the First Amendment but not necessarily with the historical and philosophical puzzle-pieces required to justify it.
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It looks at four areas - transport, local service boards, citizen engagement in school reorganisations and Communities First.
The man spoke in heavily accented English and told me that this would be his first Presidential election as a U.S. citizen.
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The first shots in the tobacco wars were fired by citizen activists.
"Travels with Carly" stars Carleton S. Fiorina, who in July became the first outsider ever brought in to run the venerable citizen of Silicon Valley.
"The Homeland Security Advisory System serves various audiences, notably state and local first preventers and first responders, numerous private sector entities and the American citizen and general public, " he said.
Karen Scharff of Citizen Action of New York says many legislators first get elected intending to work for their communities then learn they are in a system where money determines outcomes.
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