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One of these is the famous work Saturn Devouring His Son ( known informally in some circles as Devoration or Saturn Eats His Child ), which displays a Greco-Roman mythological scene of the god Saturn consuming a child, possibly a reference to Spain's ongoing civil conflicts.
Gandhi became famous by fighting for the civil rights of Muslim and Hindu Indians in South Africa, using the new techniques of non-violent civil disobedience that he developed.
* François-Marie Arouet ( Voltaire ): French Enlightenment writer, poet, and philosopher famous for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and free trade.
)- 1475, he studied civil law at the university of Pavia, and later went to Ferrara ( 1475 1479 ), where he became the protégé of Prince d ' Este of Ferrara, was a pupil of Theodor Gaza and attended lectures by the famous Battista Guarino.
In fact, praetoric law was so defined by the famous Roman jurist Papinian ( Amilius Papinianus — died in 212 AD ): " Ius praetorium est quod praetores introduxerunt adiuvandi vel supplendi vel corrigendi iuris civilis gratia propter utilitatem publicam " (" praetoric law is that law introduced by praetors to supplement or correct civil law for public benefit ").
There followed the famous Year of Four Emperors, a brief period of civil war and instability, which was finally brought to an end by Vespasian, 9th Roman emperor, and founder of the Flavian dynasty.
She instigated profound social and civil reforms, as well as the construction of many of the buildings that still today constitute the pride of the city, like the Teatro alla Scala, inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and today one of the world's most famous opera houses.
Feeling that the primatial rights of the bishop of Rome were threatened, Leo appealed to the civil power for support, and obtained from Valentinian III the famous decree of 6 June 445, which recognized the primacy of the bishop of Rome based on the merits of Peter, the dignity of the city, and the legislation of the First Council of Nicaea ; and provided for the forcible extradition by provincial governors of any bishop who refused to answer a summons to Rome.
* 1985 On November 19, Pennzoil ( represented by famous Houston litigator Joe Jamail ) won a US $ 10. 53 billion verdict against Texaco in the largest civil verdict in US history ( Texaco established a signed contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Gordon Getty ).
It was founded in the mid-19th century and was famous for the Satartia Rifles, a civil war regiment and recruitment group.
Chambers and his founding partners, James E. Ferguson, II and Adam Stein, working with lawyers of the Legal Defense Fund, successfully litigated civil rights cases and helped shape the contours of civil rights law by winning landmark United States Supreme Court rulings in such cases as Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenburg Board of Education, 402 U. S. 1 ( 1971 ), the famous school busing decision, and Griggs v. Duke Power Co. 401 U. S. 424, 91 S. Ct.
The city was named after William Edward Milnor, the first telegrapher at the Milnor Station, and WM Milnor Roberts, a famous civil engineer.
After he lost a civil action to acquire Hellerau possession in Britain, Gurdjieff established the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man south of Paris at the Prieuré des Basses Loges in Fontainebleau-Avon near the famous Château de Fontainebleau.
Called a " sophisticated country lawyer ", he remains notable for his wit and agnosticism, which marked him as one of the most famous American lawyers and civil libertarians.
Hobbes wrote that civil war and situations identified with a state of nature and the famous motto Bellum omnium contra omnes (" the war of all against all ") could only be averted by strong central government.
The most famous ancient civil code, however, is the Corpus Juris Civilis, a codification of Roman law produced between 529-534 AD by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, which forms the basis of civil law legal systems.
In 1758 he gained the patronage of Madame de Pompadour, who obtained for him a place as a civil servant, and the management of the official journal Le Mercure, in which he had already begun the famous series of Contes moraux.
A new feature was brought into the case in November 1917, when Mr Balfour, with the authority of the War Cabinet, issued his famous declaration to the Zionists that Palestine ' should be the national home of the Jewish people, but that nothing should be done and this, of course, was a most important proviso to prejudice the civil and religious rights of the existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.
The most famous of these feudal families were the Yang and Wai clans, which later played a large role in the Shou and T ' u Lung civil war.
Among famous recipients of the civil class of the Pour le Mérite in the first group of awards in 1842 were Alexander von Humboldt, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Jakob Grimm, Felix Mendelssohn, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and August Wilhelm Schlegel.
: In fact, although these famous alumni are the most visible, the majority are largely unknown, lead quiet and useful careers in our civil service, and don't recognise themselves in the stereotyped images about our school.

famous and engineer
Stephenson became famous, and was offered the position of chief engineer for a wide variety of other railways.
Portland cement was used by the famous English engineer Marc Isambard Brunel several years later when constructing the Thames Tunnel.
During this period of French rule, the defences of the fortress were strengthened by the famous siege engineer Vauban.
During this siege, Vauban, the famous French military engineer, developed a new strategy in order to break down the strong fortifications surrounding Maastricht.
They were gifted engineers and the grandsons of famous French engineer Marc Seguin.
In the 22nd century, Dr Vannevar Morgan is a famous structural engineer who hopes to develop the ' space elevator ' from a theoretical concept to reality and enlists the resources of his employers to carry out experiments.
Born in Brechin, Angus, Scotland, Watson-Watt was a descendant of James Watt, the famous engineer and inventor of the practical steam engine.
* Su Song, famous Song Dynasty Chinese scientist and engineer ( d. 1101 )
* The artificial Kunming Lake is constructed as a reservoir for Dadu in Yuan Dynasty in China by famous engineer and astronomer Guo Shoujing.
Edinburgh's Telford College, one of Scotland's largest colleges, is named in the honour of the famous engineer.
* Harvey Seeley Mudd, famous mining engineer and founder of Cyprus Mines Corporation.
Airspeed Limited was established to build aeroplanes in 1931 in York, England, by A. H. Tiltman and Nevil Shute Norway ( the aeronautical engineer and famous writer, who used his forenames as his pen-name ).
Padua is also the birthplace of the famous architect Andrea Palladio, whose 16th century " ville " ( country-houses ) in the area of Padua, Venice, Vicenza and Treviso are among the most beautiful of Italy and they were often copied during the 18th and 19th centuries ; and of Giovanni Battista Belzoni, adventure-man, engineer and egyptologist.
He was a chemist, engineer and inventor who amassed a fortune during his lifetime, most of it from his 355 inventions of which dynamite is the most famous.
* Adrian Newey, famous Formula 1 engineer.
The famous railroad disaster which killed engineer Casey Jones took place in Yazoo County, just north of Vaughan, Mississippi, in 1900.
In addition, the famous robotics engineer Joseph F. Engelberger asserts that innovations require only three things: 1.
The town was named after the famous mining engineer Philip Deidesheimer, who designed and supervised the construction of the ore smelter around which the town originally formed.
During World War I, the original Marconi spark transmitter was replaced with an Alexanderson alternator, the invention of the famous General Electric engineer, with an output power of 200 kilowatts and looking like an ordinary power station generator.
The complex at Den Oever includes the Stevin lock ( named after Hendrik Stevin, a son of mathematician and engineer Simon Stevin ) and three series of five sluices for discharging the IJsselmeer into the Wadden Sea ; the other complex at Kornwerderzand is composed of the Lorentz locks ( named after Hendrik Lorentz, the famous physicist, who personally did the calculations of the tides that were crucial to the construction of the Afsluitdijk ) and two series of five sluices, making a total of 25 discharge sluices.
James of Saint George, a famous architect and engineer from Savoy, was probably responsible for the bulk of the construction work across the region.
James Hall Nasmyth ( sometimes spelled Naesmyth, Nasmith, or Nesmyth ) ( 19 August 1808 7 May 1890 ) was a Scottish engineer and inventor famous for his development of the steam hammer.
It was subsequently planned and led by Doolittle, a famous civilian aviator and aeronautical engineer before the war.
French aerodynamics engineer Robert Choulet ( École Centrale Paris ) is Deutsch's most famous disciple.

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