* The Great Tontine Gamble, one of a series of articles by Burton J. Hendrick appearing in McClure's Magazine in 1906.

* A bust and plaque located at his last residence, in New York City at 309 W. 57th Street, inscribed: " The Great Hungarian Composer / Béla Bartók / ( 1881 – 1945 ) / Made His Home In This House / During the Last Year of His Life ".

From 1881 until 1962, Stow was served by Stow-on-the-Wold railway station which was on the Great Western Railway's Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway.

Morning of execution of streltsy by Tsar Peter the Great | Peter I in Red Square ( 1881, Vasily Ivanovich Surikov )

* 1881 International and Great Northern Railroad completes track from Austin to Laredo.

There have been seven Great Parliaments in modern Bulgarian history, in 1879, 1881, 1886, 1893, 1911, 1946 and 1990.

A notice appeared in the April 2, 1881 morning edition of the Austin Statesman: “ Du Pre – Spend Saturday, April 2, at Du Pre, on International and Great Northern Railroad, fourteen and a half miles from Austin.

His chief publications are his translation of the History of Herodotus ( in collaboration with Sir Henry Rawlinson and Sir John Gardiner Wilkinson ), 1858 – 60 ; The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, 1862 – 67 ; The Sixth Great Oriental Monarchy ( Parthian ), 1873 ; The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy ( Sassanian ), 1875 ; Manual of Ancient History, 1869 ; Historical Illustrations of the Old Testament, 1871 ; The Origin of Nations, 1877 ; History of Ancient Egypt, 1881 ; Egypt and Babylon, 1885 ; History of Phoenicia, 1889 ; Parthia, 1893 ; Memoir of Major-General Sir HC Rawlinson, 1898.

Dymock was served by the Hereford & Gloucester Canal, opened in 1845 ; this closed in 1881 and the section between Ledbury and Gloucester converted into a railway line, a branch line of the Great Western Railway, though a stretch between Dymock and Newent was by-passed as it was decided not to take the line through the 2, 192 yard Oxenhall Tunnel.

Barnum's Travelling World's Fair, Great Roman Hippodrome and Greatest Show On Earth ," and after an 1881 merger with James Bailey and James L. Hutchinson, " P. T.

This troublesome task was finally achieved in November 1880 by lead diver Alexander Lambert using Henry Fleuss ' new self contained breathing apparatus, but work in the area of the Great Spring was unable to continue until January 1881 when the Great Spring was temporarily sealed off.

The Great Powers decided in 1881 to cede Greece only Thessaly and the district of Arta.

The Great North of Scotland Railway took over the working of the line in 1863 and bought the company in 1881 following the Morayshire Railway's return to solvency from crippling debt.

* Distribution of the surname Thom in Great Britain, 1881

* George Thomas ( rugby ) ( 1881 – 1916 ), rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1900s and ' 10s for Pontnewydd ( RU ), Newport, Great Britain ( RL ), Wales, and Warrington

The Woudhuizen dissertation and the Morris paper identify Gaston Maspero as the first to use the term " peuples de la mer " in 1881 .</ ref >) of the sea " ( Egyptian ) in his Great Karnak Inscription.

Rotuma was governed as an integral part of the Colony of Fiji after cession to Great Britain in 1881.

A decade later, on June 8, 1881, the Great Quebec Fire destroyed many of his sketches, then owned by John S. Budden, who had lived with the artist for thirteen years.

The Order was without a ceremonial home until 1881 when arrangements were made to display banners, helms and hatchment plates ( the equivalent of stall plates, in the absence of stalls ) in the Great Hall of Dublin Castle.

Residents of the town and students at the two schools believe that the town received its name in honor of Alfred the Great, king of the Saxons, although the first documented occurrence of this connection was in 1881, 73 years after the first record of the name being used.

The Great Powers decided in 1881 to cede Greece Thessaly and the district of Arta.

The closest crossing to the bridge was the Bedlam Punt, which operated from 1829 through to 1881 between Punt Road in the present-day Gladesville and the Great North Road in present-day Abbotsford.

The largest roads, constructed at the same time as many of the great house sites ( between 1000 and 1125 CE ), are: the Great North Road, the South Road, the Coyote Canyon Road, the Chacra Face Road, Ahshislepah Road, Mexican Springs Road, the West Road and the shorter Pintado-Chaco Road.

304 – 232 BC ), commonly known as Ashoka and also as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from ca.

ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ, which is far more common in the sources than the variant form Abraxas, ΑΒΡΑΞΑΣ ) was a word of mystic meaning in the system of the Gnostic Basilides, being there applied to the “ Great Archon ” ( Gk., megas archōn ), the princeps of the 365 spheres ( Gk., ouranoi ).

To distinguish him from Ajax, son of Oileus ( Ajax the Lesser ), he is called " Telamonian Ajax ," " Greater Ajax ," or " Ajax the Great ".

* Ajax ( mythology ), son of Telamon, ruler of Salamis and a hero in the Trojan War, also known as " Ajax the Great "

( 1193 / 1206 – November 15, 1280 ), also known as Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, is a Catholic saint.

* Alexander the Great ( Alexander III of Macedon ), King of Macedon, 356 – 323 BC

* Alexander III of Macedon ( 356 BC – 323 BC ), also known as Alexander the Great

* Alexander IV of Macedon ( 323 BC – 309 BC ), son of Alexander the Great

Afonso I ( 25 June 1109, Guimarães or Viseu – 6 December 1185, Coimbra ), more commonly known as Afonso Henriques (), nicknamed " the Conqueror " (), " the Founder " () or " the Great " () by the Portuguese, and El-Bortukali (" the Portuguese ") and Ibn-Arrik (" son of Henry ", " Henriques ") by the Moors whom he fought, was the first King of Portugal.

* Alfred the Great ( 849 – 899 ), king of Wessex

* All Tomorrow's Parties ( music festival ), a music festival which takes place in Great Britain

Stemming from this, the Parliament of England decided that, to ensure the stability and future prosperity of Great Britain, full union of the two parliaments and nations was essential before Anne's death and used a combination of exclusionary legislation ( the Alien Act of 1705 ), politics, and bribery to achieve it within three years under the Act of Union 1707.

King Alfred's ( Alfred the Great ) translation of Orosius ' history of the world uses Angelcynn (- kin ) to describe England and the English people ; Bede used Angelfolc (- folk ); there are also such forms as Engel, Englan ( the people ), Englaland, and Englisc, all showing i-mutation.

King Alfred the Great and the chronicler Æthelweard identified this place with the district that is now called Angeln, in the province of Schleswig ( Slesvig ) ( though it may then have been of greater extent ), and this identification agrees with the indications given by Bede.

He also continued to make images in watercolour and bodycolour ( usually combined ), including a number of still lifes of meadow sections or animals, including his Young Hare ( 1502 ) and the Great Piece of Turf ( 1503, both also Albertina ).

Examples include Edward Elgar's Great is the Lord ( 1912 ) and Give unto the Lord ( 1914 ) ( both with orchestral accompaniment ), Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb ( 1943 ) ( a modern example of a multi-movement anthem and today heard mainly as a concert piece ), and, on a much smaller scale, Ralph Vaughan Williams ' O taste and see ( 1952 ) ( written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ).

Saint Adelaide of Italy ( 931 / 932 – 16 December 999 ), also called Adelaide of Burgundy, was the second wife of Otto the Great, Holy Roman Emperor.

Following evacuation in 1941 during the Great Patriotic War ( World War II ), he graduated in Aşgabat, in today's Turkmenistan.

Other famous victims are Philip II of Macedon ( 336 BC ), the father of Alexander the Great, and Roman consul Julius Caesar ( 44 BC ).

In his book America's Great Comic Strip Artists ( 1989 ), Marschall's analysis revealed a decidedly misanthropic subtext:

296-298 – d. 2 May 373 ), also referred to as St. Athanasius the Great, St. Athanasius I of Alexandria, St Athanasius the Confessor and ( primarily in the Coptic Orthodox Church ) St Athanasius the Apostolic, was the 20th bishop of Alexandria.

In 1740, Frederick II, known as Frederick the Great ( 1740 – 1786 ), came to power.

When Peter the Great went to Holland in 1716 ( he was in Holland before in 1697 to instruct himself in maritime affairs ), he also took lessons from Boerhaave.