The duke was forced to consent to a condemnation of the teaching of Osiander, and the climax came in 1566 when the Estates appealed to King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland, Albert's cousin, who sent a commission to Königsberg.

Algardi's first major commission came about in 1634, when Cardinal Ubaldini ( Medici ) contracted for a funeral monument for his great-uncle, Pope Leo XI, the third of the Medici popes, who had reigned for less than a month in 1605.

This notice came at a crucial moment in both Cook's career and the direction of British overseas exploration, and led to his commission in 1766 as commander of HM Bark Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages.

Some of the most famous of the criticisms, most of management, came from Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman, in his report that followed his appointment to the commission responsible for investigating the Challenger disaster.

One further modification of the genus classification system came when an IMC commission for the study of clouds put forward a refined and more restricted definition of the genus nimbus.

There were 65 members of this commission, and they came from all walks of life.

In the weeks following the second election defeat, Heath came under tremendous pressure to concede a review of the rules and agreed to establish a commission to propose changes and to seek re-election.

" The announcement came following rumours initiated by Bell that the network would not commission another series of episodes following the 30th series and their indecision regarding a possible one-off special.

In 1844, he met the noted artist Sir William Allan, who came to Russia with a commission to paint a history of the life of Peter the Great.

The commission in charge of the exhibition had held an international competition to design a building for the exhibition, but it rejected all submissions and came up with designs of its own ( reputedly by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Thomas Leverton Donaldson ) for a brick building in the rundbogenstil.

It was thus not a coincidence that his first important building commission, the Ospedale degli Innocenti, came from the guild to which he belonged.

First came a commission to produce an opera for Dresden, performed by Pietro Mingotti's troupe, to celebrate a royal double wedding that would unite the ruling families of Bavaria and Saxony.

His first major civil commission came when he won a competition to design the new Royal Manchester Institution ( 1824 – 35 ) for the promotion of Literature, Science & Arts ( now part of the Manchester Art Gallery ), in Greek revival style, the only public building by Barry in that style.

The second Marquess envisaged a sculpture gallery at the house, which never came to fruition ; four marbles by Joseph Nollekens were carried out to his commission, in expectation of the gallery ; the ' Diana, signed and dated 1778, is now at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Juno, Venus and Minerva, grouped with a Roman antique marble of Paris, are at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Any hopes he may have had of extending his rule right across North Africa were dashed, however, when a Roman commission headed by the elderly Marcus Porcius Cato ( Cato the Elder ) came to Africa about 155 BC to decide a territorial dispute between Masinissa and Carthage.

In 1957 he received his first composition award, from the European Cultural Foundation, and in 1958 the first official commission came through, from Service de Recherche of Radio-France.

On January 28 and January 29, he came before the commission appointed by Cardinal Pole, and was sentenced to death by Gardiner for heretically denying the Christian character of the Church of Rome and the real presence in the sacrament.

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Legislation was introduced in both houses of Congress early in January 1913 to approve the commission, but when it came to a vote, the legislation was defeated.

He went off to conduct the slaughtering every night and came back covered with blood .” Riboli also gave evidence to the Croatian war-crimes commission.

He was also in favour of strict economy coupled with the recovery of the royal domains which had fallen into the hands of the nobles, though his natural partiality for his fellow-peers came out clearly enough when in 1655 he was appointed a member of Charles X's land-recovery commission.

The commission eventually came up with a new design that replaced the battle flag in the canton with a circular array of twenty stars ( Mississippi is the 20th state ) on a blue background.

The Irish perspective was that this was intended to allow largely nationalist areas of Northern Ireland to join the Free State, and shortly after the establishment of the Free State this commission came into being.

In 1816 he was secretary of a commission charged with ascertaining the precise length of the second's or seconds pendulum ( the length of a pendulum whose period is exactly 2 seconds ), and in 1818 he became secretary to the Board of Longitude and superintendent of the HM Nautical Almanac Office.

The last tutor and Vice-Principal Richard Hewitt continued to live in his rooms without students until May 1816, when a commission declared Hertford College dissolved.

At this time the antiquarian world was much occupied with the vexed question of the merits of the Elgin marbles, and Flaxman was one of those whose evidence before the parliamentary commission had most weight in favour of the purchase which was ultimately effected in 1816.

Reading the Will, a commission from the king of Bavaria, now in the New Pinakothek at Munich, was completed in 1820 ; and two years later the great picture of Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Gazette of the Battle of Waterloo, commissioned by the Duke of Wellington in 1816, at a cost of 1200 guineas, was exhibited at the Royal Academy.

Roon entered the corps of cadets at Culm ( Chełmno ) in 1816, from where in 1818 he proceeded to the military school at Berlin, and in January 1821 received a commission in the 14th ( 3rd Pomeranian ) regiment quartered at Stargard in Pomerania.

George served under Castlereagh in the Irish Volunteers but, after being betrayed by Castlereagh, resigned his commission in disgrace in 1816.

He was on the canal commission for twenty-three years ( 1816 – 1839 ), fourteen of which he served as its president.

At the same time, from 1810 to 1816, he was a member of the Erie Canal Commission, a commission on inland navigation established in 1810 by the New York State Legislature to survey a canal route from the Hudson River to the Great Lakes.

He then obtained a commission in a hussar regiment, which he resigned in 1816.

In the following year he became president of the commission for the revision of criminal law, and he at the same time obtained an important office in the finance department, with the rank of counsellor of state ; but in 1816 he returned to Halle to occupy the chair of political economy.

in 1816 won the open competition for the new Dutch anthem with Wien Neêrlandsch bloed ( with lyrics by Hendrik Tollens ), leading to lots of commission from churches and other organizations.

In 1817 the Count of Blacas, who was ambassador of France to the Holy See, provided Ingres with his first official commission since 1814, for a painting of Christ Giving the Keys to Peter.

He resigned as Architect of the Capitol on November 20, 1817, and without this major commission, Latrobe faced difficulties and was forced into bankruptcy.

In 1817 he was appointed a member of the commission for organizing the Prussian provincial estates, and also a member of the department of justice in the (" State council "), and in 1819 he became a member of the supreme court of appeal for the Rhine Provinces.

He was one of the commission appointed to continue the Histoire littéraire de la France, and he contributed to the volumes of this series which appeared in 1814, 1817 and 1820.

Hogg's Jacobite Reliques is a collection of songs related to the Jacobite risings, compiled by James Hogg on commission from the Highland Society of London in 1817.

In 1817, the decision of a joint commission declared that Moose, Dudley, and Frederick Islands belong to United States, while Grand Manan and all other islands of the Passamoquoddy Bay belong to Canada, excepting small islands that are clearly American.

In 1817 he entered the service of King Ferdinand of Naples as lieutenant-general, with a commission to suppress the brigandage then rampant in Apulia.

** Aristaeus, god of gardens ( 1813 – 1817 ), An official commission for the Imperial palaces through Vivant-Denon, 7 December 1812 ; marble delivered to Bosio January 1813.